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"
Non-Geniza. Letter from Avraham b. Simḥa, in Kukeziv (Ukraine), to Sar Shalom b. Simḥa, in Novgorod. 1719 CE. Information from NLI.
No Scholarship Records
Legal record (#80) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 27v-28r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Av 5325 …
1 Transcription
Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks how the capitation tax (al-jāliya) promises to be this coming year. The sender seems to …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Hebrew and eastern Arabic numerals, probably communal. Dated in multiple entries, for example: 1 Nisan 5557 AM (1797 CE). Very neat handwriting. The …
Bill of divorce. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Elul 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Location: Cairo. Husband: Elʿazar b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq.
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38). Involves Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd, [...] al-ʿAdanī "his partner in the …
Recto: Bifolio with a state-related document (draft or archival copy?). The main text block on the right states that there is an urgent need (al-ḥāja …
Probably a fragment from a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Legal fragment in what looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions [...] b. Bishāra, Abū l-Ḥusayn, and [...] b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen. Recto: …
Letter or letters. Recto: Lengthy laudatory preamble in rhyming Hebrew, followed by the body of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic starting three lines from the bottom …
Inventory of a private library. 65 books are listed; most are bible and commentaries. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, as the latest work mentioned …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in the same hand as the nearby fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century. This is the lower right corner. …
List of alphanumerical entries, likely accounts. Dating is perhaps late medieval up to 17th-century but there is very little paleography to confirm a clear estimate. …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Small fragment. Medical recipe (based on the term masḥūq)? Needs further examination.
Fragment containing some Arabic script in the margin, which is difficult to read. There is also a Hebrew literary text involving marriage payments.
Verso (original use): Fragment (lower left corner) of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script. Ends with ṣalwala and ḥasbala. Needs examination.
Fragment with mysterious writing on it. It might be mirror-image Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Hebrew poetry copied in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. The handwriting of T-S NS 108.78 was identified by Amir Ashur and the joins were …
IB VII, 14. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Ṣāfī b. Yakhin appoints [Yaʿ]aqov(?) b. Yiṣḥaq(?) al-Sijilmāsī as his …
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Minute blank fragment
Probably the beginning of a letter in Arabic (salām allāh . . . )
Letter from Mūsā (or Musallaḥ?) b. Ṣāliḥ to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew and in Arabic script. Appealing for help from the addressee. (Cf. Geoffrey …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Booklet of jewelers' accounts, probably belonging to members of the Romano family in Cairo. The binding is still intact. Dated in the eighth image as …
Recto: Acknowledgement of the payment of rent. Dated: 3 Rabīʿ I 607 AH, which is 25 August 1210 CE. Aḥmad b. al-Shaykh ʿAlī Ibn al-Akhḍar …
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.]
Aḥmad [ … ] ibn al-Shaykh ʿAlī ibn al-Akhḍar acknowledged
with a legal acknowledgemen…
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. The sender's name appears in the upper left corner but is very faded (Khalfūn?). He mentions having left …
Possibly a receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent). Dated: 568 AH (=1172/73 CE). Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note …
Letter, copy, from the Palestinian Yeshiva to the people of Babylonia regarding the Ben Meir controversy. Published Description from PGPID 33687: Epistle regarding the calendar …
שלום מעניף ע[ ] מרומים ומצליל עד יצוק הדומים
סובב ומקיף סב[ ]ים אפוד חן עטוף רחמים ממתיק
טעם כמו לרחו[ ] כסוחים כאיתן בא בימים כאהוב
1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions
Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā Safāquṣī (Māzar) to Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, 1064. This letter is a follow-up from the letter in Halper 389 …
3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Multiple layers of Arabic text on verso, some of which may be documentary. Medieval-era. Further examination required.
4 pages from a late Hebrew medical treatise, including the introduction on general physiology and ontology of illness.
Fragment of a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic.
Torn fragments from a court record regarding a dispute over an inheritance of 31 dinars from a brother named Ḥasūn, between Ḥasūna and her cousin …
Legal record (#119) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 39r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo. Dated: Av …
Letter from חזהו(?) b. Avṭalyon, in Amadiya, to Yona, in Mosul. Mainly in Hebrew with some words in another language (neo-Aramaic?). There are also a …
Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Might concern a group of people who haven't received …
Accounting in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Listing various debts owed, as well as several entries involving books. One mentions a …
Letter from the congregation of Malta addressed to Moshe Levi b. Zakkār. (Same addressee as in T-S NS 31.2.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 15th century, …
Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting and spelling addressed to 'my mother' (yā sittī) Sitt Ghazal. After the blessings, the writer says he/she received …
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment, only the end is preserved. He says he will come visit the coming Shabbat. He sends …
Tadhkira (memorandum, bill of lading) drawn up by Nahray b. Nissim for Yehuda b. Khalfa. Complete and well preserved. Needs to be edited.
Letter of condolence. Might be a template or a eulogy, unclear if any specifics are present. Late.
Letter addressed to Sālim b. Yaḥyā. Yemeni. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 19th century. Needs examination.
Recto: Investment partnership between [Yaʿa]qov Raṣon, Avraham Yuʿbaṣ, and Shabbetay Skandarī and possibly one other person. The bottom is missing, along with the date. The …
Long deed of sale involving many members of the Karaite community in Cairo. Line 13 mentions the communal waqf (qodesh) and much of the document …
Note or end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sending regards to somebody and telling the addressee not to forget to write. (Information in part from …
Minute fragment of Commercial list in Judeo Arabic and Arabic - needs examination. Mentions names such as Hilāl, al-Shammās, Ibrāhīm, Munā, and Ṭayyib.
Beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. The acknowledgment is made by "each of" Abū Manṣūr b. Abū l-Riḍā b. …