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"
Legal testimony written by a Muslim notary on paper. Dating: Ottoman period. At least one witness's attestation has been preserved: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-? Later …
No Scholarship Records
Literary text. Discussion of atonement and excommunication. Author refers to Saadiah and cites באב אלכאפרה of the same work; probably an autograph(?). (Information from Baker/Polliack …
Small fragment. Both verso and recto containing legal documents, each written by a different scribe. On recto marriage and betrothal are mentioned, but only little …
Upper fragment: Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto, left side: Mentions paying a bribe for coral (וכנת וזנת עלי אלמרגן …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The sender has been sick. Not much else is preserved.
Marriage contract, upper right portion, between Yosef b. Mawhūb and Sittān bt. Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa, written in Tyre, dated (not completely legibly) from the destruction …
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed
Letter from Ḥasan b. Yiṣḥaq al-Khawlānī(?), probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1015. The writer informs Ibn ʿAwkal about …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Prosbol document (registration of a loan at the court, thereby exempting it from automatic cancellation in the Sabbatical year). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 27 Elul …
בה' בשבת בא אלינו
חוסין ברב' משה
ויאמר לנו [שמעו] אתם בית דין הנה מסרתי דברי
לכם והודעתי…
27 of the month of Elu'l Fust'a't'
On Thursday
There came to us
H'usayn son of R. Moses
and said to us, Hear ye! You are the court. I…
Recto: Draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after March 1066 CE. In which Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov, acting as agent for Moshe and Shelomo …
Letter from the members of the Jerusalem academy to Yiṣḥaq Sholal (d. 1524). (Information from Avraham David via FGP.)
List, in Judaeo-Persian, mentioning Yiṣḥaq parnas, a social welfare official. Has Coptic numerals, e.g. no. 5, and perhaps the Hebrew tq (= 500?). Handwriting, too, …
1 Transcription
Table with entries in Arabic script. Business accounts organized by date and day of the week. Mentions names such as Barakāt, Ibrāhīm, and Hārūn. Needs …
Accounts. Probably late. Mentioning Yiṣḥaq, Avraham b. Sīd, Yaʿaqov, Shemuel. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bottom of a responsum or letter from a legal authority providing instructions for how to conduct the ḥaliṣa ceremony, including waiting a certain number of …
Fiscal document, or accounts in Arabic script. Contains atleast two ʿalāmas. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era. Some of the entries begin "ghilmān."
Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Mentions "jumlat al-waraq" in the first …
Capitation tax receipt. Needs examination.
Letter from Shemaryahu ha-Kohen b. Aharon. In Hebrew with the address (to Fustat, to mawlāy al-jalīl) in Arabic script. The letter proper ends with a …
Letter from Yeshu'a b. Isma'il to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1065 per Gil, and ca. 1045-1096 per Udovitch.
אתם אלסלם ולו חלפת לה באגל ימין אן שק עלי פרקתהם פי מתל הדא אלשהר אכתר []
ור אברהם ואולאדה וכל מן סאל עני ואגתמם לי [אתם] אלסלם וגמיע מן תש…
3 Transcriptions 1 Translation
Letter fragment (part of the right side of recto and verso). Asking the addressee to enlighten the sender about various talmudic passages.
Probably part of a letter; some of the lines are crossed out. (Information from CUDL)
List of names. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on the hand and typical names. Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]; …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Monday, 7 Jumādā I 1243 AH = 26 November 1827 CE. Involves payment rendered by Mūsā al-Ṣarrāf (probably Mūsā …
Letter(s) or official document(s) in Arabic script. Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines …
Letter from Allush ('Lamb') b. Makhlūf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Yaʿaqov. Dating: 1130s or 1140s. Business letter concerning payments involving and owed to various merchants, …
Letter in Ladino or possibly an epistolary writing exercise. Purple ink. Dating is 18th-19th century based on the paleography. Two specific phrases point to the …
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. From three merchants. Opens with blessings for the caliph. None of the substance is preserved. The formula "ضاعف …
Legal query addressed to Maimonides, whose autograph responsum is written underneath the query. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active …
Minute fragment of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. Cursive hand. Mentions the name David as well as a collective reference to rabbis and possibly their sons: החכמ[ים] השלמים …
Upper part of a late letter in very colloquial Judaeo-Arabic. Dated "16 Shevat" with Arabic numerals. The addressee seems to be Yizhaq al-M[...] and the …
List in Arabic script mentioning materia medica such as violet (banafsaj). On recto there is Leviticus 2:2-3. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Der'i to Mevorakh b. Saadya. A new governor arrives at the city and is received by the leaders of the …
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, containing formulaic blessings. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Verso: Beginning of a literary treatise on 'the secrets of incantations' (asrār al-nīranjāt). On recto there is an unidentified text in Hebrew script.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Mentions Barhūn and al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī. From the Maghreb? (Information from Goitein's note card.) Possibly a join: T-S 13J35.11 …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later (based on handwriting, names, and linguistic features). Greetings to ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and …
Legal documents in Arabic script. Main document on recto and a faṣl on verso. Very difficult to read. The faṣl may be dated Ramaḍān 940 …
Poetic work in Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.113-114 is part of the same work.
IB I, 14. Letter from Yosef Lebdi to Ḥasan b. Bundar, 'the representative of the merchants' in Aden, written in the hand of Hillel b. …
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyub, to family members in Fustat. He inquires briefly about commercial dealings before insisting that there is no …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (נאצר אנא האדא שגלי קד צגת מענ …
Legal deed, draft of a bill of authorization written by Efrayim b. Shemarya and Yefet b. David
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic, Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. A variety of quantities are listed with the unit of weight raṭl. The Hebrew …
List of names and amounts of money. Rudimentary hand. Mentions Sulaymān and Ṣedaqa