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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Drafts of letters on a strip of parchment. In one, a teacher is reminded to send Abū l-Ḥasan quickly (בשמ רחמ ינעם מולי אלמלמד עלי …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era.
Alms distribution list. Headed 'by the order of our master' (ʿan amr sayyidnā), presumably the head of the Jews. The next line mentions New Cairo. …
Possibly Arabic letter or a document . Barely visible
Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, perhaps involving a muqaddam and a communal dispute. But needs further examination. Verso: Complete but very faded Judaeo-Arabic letter. …
Probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, but too faded to read. Phrases: פי אלסבת . . . עלי הדה אלמדינה . . . פלמא . . …
Recto: draft of a letter or petition, with numerous honorifics in both Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew or Aramaic: רבאנו אלמולא . . . אלאמין אלצדר אלריש …
Damaged Karaite ketubah. Only part od the names preserved: The groom is Hayyim and tyhe bride's name is Esther. 18th century
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic on recto. Medieval-era.
Document in Arabic script, possibly accounts or a receipt (VMR). Possibly related to the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3953.6. Requires further examination.
Recto: recipes for a woman who loses a lot of blood and to make a husband love his wife (she washes her breasts and has …
Letter addressed to the amir Muḥammad b. Baghdād. In Arabic script. Dating: late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Begins, "baʿd al-taḥiyya wa-l-taslīm wa-l-ʿizz wa-l-takrīm bi-l-jināb al-karīm...." There …
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Late accounts on the recto and verso mentioning Avraham Ibn Shanjī (or Ben-Shanjī?) in the main heading. Dating: probably late-fifteenth or sixteenth-century based on the …
Unidentified document (letter?) in Arabic script. Mentions going to Damietta (يوجه الى دمياط).
Recto: two alchemical recipes. The first recipe (ll. 1-8) is aimed at producing ‘the work’ (אלצנעה), a word commonly used for indicating the production of …
IB II, 11a. Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138) to Avraham b. Bundār. Location: Fustat. Dating: Early 12th century. Ornate thank you letter and …
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Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥasan, the Jewish druggist, bought four shares of a house in Minyat Ghamr, consisting of a …
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Unidentified document or text in Arabic script. Might be a prayer. The first 10 lines are preserved. Needs examination.
Minutes of court proceedings, recto dated Kislev 1454 sel. (December 1142), written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Verso a different recording, related to the …
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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 …
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Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Concerning rental arrangements. On verso there is Hebrew piyyut.
Letter addressed to some dignitary ('ha-Sar'). Contains only the opening blessings in Hebrew.
Account of the qodesh, ca. 1165. A double leaf from a notebook. The draft of an accoutning occupies only one half of the leaf, and …
Verso: Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham, in Minyat Zifta, to the judge Zakkay b. Moshe, perhaps in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Zakkay was in al-Maḥalla in …
IB VII, 64. Enthusiastic letter by Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿyahu ha-Kohen, a leader of the Jews of Yemen, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, congratulating him on his …
Letter in Ladino to Yehuda Gatenio, from a business partner in Alexandria, dated 10 August 1823 (3 Elul 5583 AM). Deals entirely with business transactions; …
Original use: Fragments of two lines from a state document, perhaps a decree or report. Includes the phrase "they desisted and returned to their fiefs" …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a release. Someone, possibly an orphan, agrees to release his paternal uncle from any claims. Mentions a sum of either …
Fragment of an 11th-century Maghribī mercantile letter, or account, or letter containing an account. Mentions Ismāʿīl b. Jabbār, al-Mahdiyya, and a barqalū (a mid-size bale).
Legal notes. A list of the complaints brought by the wife of the Rayyis against her sister the wife of Ṣāʿid. There are numerous claims. …
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Draft of the opening sentence of a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or possibly Hillel b. ʿEli. Stating that Yehuda ha-Kohen …
Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Possibly a fragment of a late letter in Hebrew, and maybe some Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "woolen clothing", possibly being sent aboard "a ship of Venice" but …
Affidavit of a loan by Berakhot b. Yosef to Peraḥyah b. Adayah signed by Judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. Peraḥyah owes Berakhot 480 dirhams, to be …
Recto: bottom of a legal document Verso: bottom of a legal document dated 913AH - needs examination.
Bill of divorce (get) fragment from Fustat, dated 26 Elul 1633 Seleucid which is 1322CE. Despite the document's damage, the husband's name is legible as …
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State document, in Arabic script. Five faded lines on a small paper fragment. Mentions the state official Fakhr al-Mulk. A Fatimid state official by the …
A testimony of a person who received 47.5 harf (each of them equal to 40 baqsha silver coins) for selling his part of a house …
Fatimid state document. Needs examination. Reused for a memorial list (see PGPID 19130).
IB IV, 53 (ח33). Letter previously thought to be from Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Najera, somewhere in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, likely in Lucena. Dating: …
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Minute fragment of text in Hebrew, with the tetragrammaton in line 2 and mention of "ביום ששי" in line 3.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq to Avraham Krispin. In Ladino. Mentions Yiṣḥaq de Curiel. Needs examination
Poorly preserved letter containing biblical verses and a request by Abu Mansur for assistance from Saniyy al-Dawla, the supporter of every troubled person. (Information from …
Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: …
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There are 32 folios sharing this shelfmark. See individual PGPIDs for more information. Most of it consists of a notebook, probably belonging to a Byzantine …
Recto: Letter, unfinished, or blessings addressed to Shemuel ha-Sar ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel (probably the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya). It is headed by בשמ רח, and breaks …
On verso beginning of a draft of a poetical letter of appeal for charity addressed to a certain ʿAmram. In Hebrew with a few words …