Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 …
1 Discussion
State document, administrative accounts. The right halves of 14 lines are preserved. Mentions someone's servants (wa-ghilmānuhū), half of something, and installments (aqsāṭ). The months Ramaḍān, …
No Scholarship Records
Legal document, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Involves Sason b. Efrayim.
Letter from [ʿAll?]ūsh b. Yūsuf to Efrayim b. Yefet. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer for charity.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from an India trader, possibly in Aden, to an associate, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. mid-12th-century. Two fragments of the letter are …
1 Transcription
Letter from Egypt, late, to Moshe Franko in Jerusalem, written in beautiful Hebrew. The writer mentions that he had left Saloniki. The recipient's wife, Dona …
Fragment from a decorated Ketubbah of Menaḥem b. [...] (groom) and Rayna b. [...] (bride). Dated 21st Iyyar 5372 (= 1612 CE). AA
Text on parchment, primarily in Hebrew, invoking God with various epithets. There is diagonal marginal text (resembling the format of a letter) which contains some …
Letter in Arabic script. The basmala and first two lines are preserved, along with a few words in Arabic script on verso. Reused for Hebrew …
Legal record (#95) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is the end of the letter. Greetings to Abū l-Faraj b. al-Daqqāq (or possibly al-Raqqāq). Very squiggly descenders.
Placeholder [ASE]
Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. On recto, from Menashshe ben Naʿim to [...] ben Naʿim. Dated: (5400 +) 182 = 5582 AM, which is 1821/22 CE. Mostly …
Tax receipt for Makārim b. Isḥāq al-Ṭabīb, who is known from several other documents (see tag). Dating: ca. first half of the 13th century.
Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic. Ingredients include: probably 2 oz. grainy concentrated lemon syrup (sharāb laymūn murammal), 1/2 oz. sugar candy (sukkar nabāt), something weighing 3 …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Involving a man and his wife Sitt al-A[...]; her giving up her right to something (אנהא נזלת ענה); and periods …
Business letter addressed to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning business in sugar candy (qand). The sender is dispirited about the market …
time of the sugar........... This (is all) I (have to) tell you (about this matter). I
intend to send my candy and exhibit it in Cairo. As …
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Deposition in the Jewish Court of Tyre, ca. 1028. The rent of a compound in Aleppo has been dedicated by its owner, Hilla b. Joseph, …
To the mighty of the country and its dukes. The ones chosen of that which is the Choice, and mingled in It. The troops of Gaba and Its redeem…
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer needs help paying the capitation tax (jāliya). The addressee had previously said something about talking to …
Letter from Avraham b. Natan, possibly in Tyre, to a tenant of his, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Gil identified the sender based on his handwriting. …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions
Recto: Upper part of a letter to a dignitary referred to as Sar ha-Teʿuda. The preserved portion (~33 lines) consists entirely of panegyric poems in …
Minute fragment, a few incomplete words, but from what is preserved we can tell it is a ketubbah, contains the dowry section and probably written …
Most of a long, very distressed letter from Menaḥem, writing in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo, to a business associate, whose family lives in Fustāṭ/Cairo and who has traveled. …
Accounts, on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Small piece of a marriage-related legal document, mentioning gifts and "Naẓar the mother of this bride." (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: An ʿalāma, possibly from a larger state document, or practice. "Al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi li-man lahū al-ḥamd." On recto there is unidentified text both in Judaeo-Arabic …
Marriage document. Small fragment. In Aramaic. Dated: [...]3. Involving [... b.] She'erit ha-Kohen.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand listing debts (mentioning several times al-hijaziyya). ENA 2615.1-3 all belong together
Letter/petition to a certain Net[an'el]. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains; mentions household items (ḥawā'ij al-bayt) and the writer's shame.
Legal resolution by the Karaite community regarding the issue of marriage before the completion of the betrothal period. Dated: 18 Adar I 5398 AM (1638 …
Legal document concerning business matters, particularly the price of wax (thaman al-sham’), and citing various sums of money. Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Fasi, Ibn Ishaq al-Andalusi, …
Letter to Nahray b. Nissim in which the writer mentions a letter received from Nahray from his brother, and that Nahray had visited Caesarea. He …
וסעאדתה
Letter of recommendation. Late. In Hebrew, with some Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic. The bearer Saʿīd b. Manṣūr the Yemeni is from a good family and has …
Letter in Arabic addressed to Ibrahim ʿAdda/ʿĀdāh in Cairo, from Yūsuf and Fransīs Zakkār. Dated 14 December 1802 (18 Sha'ban 1217). See AIU XII.82, another …
To his excellency, our dear friend, the most noble Muʿallim Ibrāhīm ʿĀdāh the revered, may God the exalted preserve and keep him.
After […
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Some sort of receipt or legal documentation in Arabic. Dating: 1248 AH = 1832/33 CE. Mentions a building and various sums of money and bears …
Original use: State document in Arabic script. Secondary use: Responsa or halakhic discussion in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya discussing laws of purity of …
Miniature receipt, unclear for what.
Certificate of study for a student in eighth grade – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 107) – in Hebrew and Arabic. (information …
Accounts in Arabic, a date may appear in line two in connection with the month Ramaḍān. (VMR)
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. People include: Moshe Dammuhi and Moshe Abudarham. The currency cedid may appear.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto: Acknowledgment made by Najm b. Naḥrīr the 'mawlā' of Suʿadāʾ(?) bt. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-ʿAlawī(?) b. al-ʿAbbāsī(?) and Hilāl …
] قي وهو زوج حمل ابنة نحرير مولا سعدا ابنة الحسين بن محمد العلون الـ[
]......اقرت انه قبض لزوجته حمل المسماة معه في ظهر هذه الرقعة [
ال…
Mysterious document in Arabic script. Begins with the glyph, then two sections, separated by a horizontal line. Underneath and on verso there is piyyut. (1) …
Mercantile account. Dating: probably 11th century. Faded. Needs further examination.
Minute fragment in Arabic script on the recto, probably documentary. The verso contains a text in Hebrew script.
Accounts in Hebrew, mentioning silk and olives among other goods.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions debts owed to various women, including [...] bt. ʿImrān someone's mother-in-law and Umm ʿAzīz the mother-in-law of Manṣūr b. Furayj (this …