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Deed in which Abū Isḥāq Abzārī gives the Nagid Avraham Maimonides the right to buy back the burj, a tower in the ancient Byzantine fortress …
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Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū l-Khayr, Bū l-Fakhr. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).
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Draft of a letter/petition, in Arabic script. Addressed to Huṣām al-Dawla. The sender asks that 'you rescue me from this man' (bi-an tukhalliṣ ʿabdak min …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Wednesday, 11 Elul 1423 Seleucid = 4 September 1112 CE. In which the widower Abū …
Receipt for 24 dirhams.
No Scholarship Records
Probably literary.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 27 Kislev 1560 Seleucid = 14 December 1248 CE. Husband: Shela b. Yefet ("known as [...]"). NB: …
Letter addressed to Sitt al-Khayr. It seems that the writer had learned that Sitt al-Khayr's daughter was going to get married and expresses her expectation …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15 Adar II [...], under the authority of the Nagid Avraham (Maimonides). The year is difficult to read but Avraham …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat, ca. 1060
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Partnership agreement. 17th century (no date is written)
Legal record (#22) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 1 …
:Left side of bifolio 3r (Documents 22-23)
Talisman for safe journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Oded Zinger adds (January 2025): the verso text labels the talisman as being about "the passing …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably early 13th century. The writer complains that the Rayyis does not trust him to deliver letters for him, thus he …
Names of people and items- list of contribution to the poor?. Dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. There are a variety …
Lower fragment: Legal document. Location: Tinnīs ("the island of Ḥanes"). Dated: Tuesday, 8 Ṭevet 4861 AM, which is 11 December 1100 CE. Ṭayyib b. Faraj …
Letter fragment, probably. Only the address is preserved. Addressed to Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen ha-Ḥazzan b. Ḥesed. The blank space on the fragment is entirely filled with …
Letter from Abū l-Khayr to [...] b. Shemuel(?) (based on the address on verso). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 13th century. The addressee is greeted …
Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Karīma, known as al-Wuḥsha al-Dallāla (l. 18), releases Sitt al-Ḥusn (l. 21) …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including a book list, including al-Faṣīḥ fī l-Lugha, Masāʾīl Ṭibbiyya, and Leviticus in Arabic. Verso: Draft or copy of a legal …
Letter in Hebrew written on an irregular piece of vellum from prison. David appeals to Avraham ha-Sar to try to bring about his release from …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Names of planets in Judaeo-Arabic, scribbled out. Verso: Geomancy markings.
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq (Tripoli al-Gharb) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), August 1051. Written a short time after the sinking of the ship of …
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Opening of a legal query, perhaps addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon ('rosh yeshivat Ga'on Yaʿaqov'). In Judaeo-Arabic. On recto there is a text in Aramaic.
Letter fragment from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's wife, in Fustat, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel, probably in Bahnasa (based on T-S 13J21.18). In …
Possibly accounts. Late medieval? Mentions the son of the Qāʾid, porters, and "my paternal uncle Yosef."
Subsequent use: Letter from Ḥassūn b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā, to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. [...]. Mentions people such as Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa. …
Prenuptial agreement of a previously divorced couple (a husband who re-accepts his divorcée). Eight lines survive on this fragment, probably in the hand of Natan …
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Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has traced over every word.
Awaiting description
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Fragment from the top of a large ketubba with an ornate heading of geometrical designs, blessings for the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300 CE), …
Outline of a marriage document and/or dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Groom: Levi b. אמר(?). Bride: Ittifāq, a freedwoman. Marriage payments: 1+ 10. The dowry follows; the …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left piece of recto). There are many expressions of longing. Mentions: dinars; Maḥāsin; a note (ruqʿa) in the hand of …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with western Arabic numerals and Hebrew alphanumerals. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography and layout. A variety of individuals …
Literary text in Arabic script. Possibly medical.
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb al-Miṣrī, in Malīj, to Abū l-ʿAlā' Yūsuf b. Dāwud b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. The writer complains about the behavior of …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך מן מליג מסתהל רגב ען
סלאמה ללה אלחמד עלי דאלך סדרת כתבי אלי מולאי ארגו וצולה<א>
אליה ווקופה עליהא וקד שרח…
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Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Damietta; someone's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Surūr who is in Fustat; speaking to 'the Nazir' (Heb.); and …
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Minute fragment. Dating: 1100–38. Someone will not sue someone. There is a remaining debt of …
Awaiting description (but see description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52, PGPID 33686).
Recto: a mainly grammatical commentary on Ruth 3:15–4:8. In the following colophon, the text is referred to as Alfāẓ Megillat Rut and the scribe’s name …
Account. Late
State document in Arabic script, with extensive diacritics and vowels. Dating: ca. 11th–13th century. Praising a ruler and emphasizing the tranquility and the security in …
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel (identification provided by Amir Ashur). It looks like there are portions of at least three …
Original document: Letter from [...] b. Shemuel to Abū Naṣr Mufarrij b. Ḥusayn b. Shuʿayb. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (for the …
Damaged fragment from a formula of a legal deed.