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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Piyyuṭim. With a colophon/dedication to Yehuda ha-Talmid. Dated: Tuesday, 18 Ḥeshvan 4878 AM = 1429 Seleucid = 16 October 1117 CE.
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Bottom of a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: late, probably 16th century or later. Signed by Yosef Qasṭīl (יוסף קסטיל).
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Order of payment or receipt in Arabic script: li-yatasallam al-muʿallim ʿAlī.... It is not clear what is being paid or handed over. 11 qadaḥs of …
Fragment of a petition (upper right corner). Preserved text: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم خلد الله ايام الحضرة السامية . . . الجلالية ناصرة ال . …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faraj and al-Naṣrānī (‘the Christian’). In the hand of the scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs. (Information in part from …
Recto: Deed of sale for a female slave (the term waṣifa appears in ll. 2 and 6). In Arabic script. Dating: probably 11th or 12th …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Elul 1648 Seleucid = Muharram 738 AH = 13 August 1337 CE. Ṣafiyy b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazzān accepts a …
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Deathbed will of Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last third of Tammuz [1469] Seleucid = June 1158 CE. (The year in l. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Sulaymān al-Kohen, unknown location, to his mother and brothers Faraj Allāh, Yaʿaqov, and Yiṣḥaq, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier …
Letter from an unknown sender to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, ca. 1060. The sender confirms receiving a pouch of dinars and writes about his …
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A few lines in Arabic script, very faded. The rest of the bifolium is occupied with Hebrew literary text of various kinds.
Letter from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish communities of Qayrawān and al-Mahdiyya, specifically addressing Elḥanan b. Ḥushiel and the Nagid Yaʿaqov b. …
Minute fragment. On Recto an opening of a marriage document which might be connected to the verso. On verso an opening of a betrothal deed. …
The writer addressing his first cousin, a woman, who probably was his in-law, expresses the wish that the extended family may be reunited in one …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. List of dates (no years) and amounts in Arabic, recycled to make a bifolio.
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride is a virgin. Marriage payments: 5 + 10. Dated: 1453 Seleucid, which is 1141/42 CE, under the authority of …
Receipt. The next dozen or more shelfmarks are all very similar, should be studied together.
Literary work in the form of question and answer. Yemeni hand.
Accounts, probably. Needs examination.
Letter, probably. Looks like a draft of a letter of appeal in Hebrew, with only formulaic phrases. In the margins and all over verso, there …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the top. Dated: 12 Av 14[..] Seleucid, under the reshut of M[aṣliaḥ? Mevorakh?]. The groom may be Yeshuʿa b. …
Letter addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ajal al-Raʾis Abū ʿĪmrān Mūsā (Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdāwī in al-Mahdiyya) from his business associate (Peraḥya b. Yosef in Fusṭāṭ) regarding …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الريس ابو
عمران موسى اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك ونعماك
ومن حسن التوفي…
Large but extremely faded letter that refers to "our master Hayya Gaon" (recto, line 2). Hayya's name is not followed by ז״ל, so perhaps this …
Calendar in Hebrew script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. In the hand of the prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly materia medica: sharāb (syrup); ṭabāshīr; samgh (=ṣamgh, gum); sabr (=ṣabr) soqoṭrī (=Socotrene aloe). Also mentions [...] b. al-Rūmiyya ('the son of …
Letter from the Mosul Nasi whom Gil refers to as Jalāl al-Dawla. Dated: Ḥannuka 1548 Seleucid = 1237 CE. Concerns in part a negotiation between …
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Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and …
Lament in Hebrew. This document consists entirely of expressions of grief in eloquent Hebrew. Possibly it was intended as part of a letter of condolence.
Small bifolium. On each side there is one page in Arabic and one page in Judaeo-Arabic. The Judaeo-Arabic is an account or a list, including …
Likely a deathbed will. Shemuel b. Yosef grants executorship of his estate to his brother Yehuda. Location: Damascus. Rivlin says date is 1003 CE (but …
Legal document, draft of the opening, giving only the (difficult-to-read) date. At the top is named Abdallāh the son of the brother of the Nagid …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his brother Abū Zikrī b. Eliyyahu. Dating: early 13th century. Almost entirely formulaic. The main substance appears to be …
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a …
Recto: Probably Arabic poetry. Verso: Bottom of a document in Arabic script. Concludes (l. 2) with in shāʾa allāh followed by a taṣliya. Underneath there …
List of commodities and their amounts. Mentions materia medica like sandarac and tutty. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Shemuel b. Sīd. In Hebrew. Dating: 1600–35 CE, based on Avraham David's assessment. It is unclear whether Shemuel wrote this letter while still …
Ledger of communal accounts and lists. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: late 18th- or early 19th-century; the precise date must be written somewhere. …
Legal entries in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Entry at upper right: mentions the 17th of Jumādā, the name of a witness …
Ladino letter from one woman to another; the writer lives in the Holy Land and asks for the recipient's charity. Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.
Memorial list for several families in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (he-Ḥaver or ha-Kohen?). Including one person who was martyred and at least four …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: ca. 1337 CE, since the same witnesses appear on T-S 13J2.18 from that year. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Avraham b. Shelomo. Bride: …
Verso: Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic book list, consisting of names of tractates and other titles. On recto there is classical Arabic poetry (not a letter). Dating: …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer wants the addressee to meet with somebody. The writer may be a teacher. He describes what a certain mother …
Lower left corner of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Tells he addressee not to worry about something; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan and two volumes; a request to …
Likely a fiscal account. Needs examination.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Two registration marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi l-muwaffiq li-ḥamdihi' and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.