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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved. Recommends the bearer for charity and probably asks the addressee to intervene on his behalf …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fatimid-era rent receipt of 10 dirhams for a shop. The renter is Abī al-Naṣr and the property owner is Jamāl al-Dīn al-Malik al-ʾAʿaz. The property …
Two legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–1138 CE). Verso: end of a court record regarding the marriage of Qaraite woman …
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Renderings of modern amulets.
IB V, 37, folio 7r. Note in Arabic script. "Send us. . . lemon. . . ḥalāwa. . . obtain for me pomegranate syrup."
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Calligraphic texts and scribal exercises in Hebrew script. The dating is likely 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The scribe does not leave any …
Literary text in Hebrew.
Technical treatise in Arabic script, likely medical.
Al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda (‘stories of deliverance after hardship’). The story of the captive girl. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Names: [...] b. Natan and …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Small receipt or order for 3 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Legal record (#13) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 11-13) Folio 4r
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Literary - recommend suppress
Letter fragment, partly written in Arabic and mostly in written in a Hebrew-script (Judaeo-Arabic) cipher composed of the letters alef through ṭet. A single dot …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Tishrei [5]605 AM (1844 CE). The main heading mentions that the entries are a "list of expenses for the procurement …
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid (1089–1188 CE). The day of the month was left blank, so this is presumably a draft. In the hand of …
Memorial list. Merovrakh ha-Dayyan, Natan ha-Dayyan...
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. Discusses the matter of the 18 dinars owed to the poor of …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). The names of husband and/or wife may be preserved in the first two lines, which are difficult to read. Location and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic giving people's names and various goods, including garments and many "khawātim" (seals) such as khātim Fāṭimah and [...] min al-ʿayn. Needs further …
Possibly the address of a letter to [Ḥal]fon ha-Levi b. M[...] from [...] b. Yiṣḥaq Sijilmāsī.
Much damaged. Seems like a legal deed reagrding marriage, probably a ketubah. The word לאינתו is readable. AA
Long fragment of a letter mentioning dignitaries and members of the Yeshiva.
Letter from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo to Kẖawaja Elli Abimalor and Kẖawaja Shlomo Lijar requesting that they not give away any of the contents …
Accounts of a textile dealer mentioning names such as Murhaf al-Dawla, [...] al-Dawla, and Sibāʿ. Entries include a jūkāniyya (spelled shūkāniyya here), the making of …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Fragment (thin vertical strip). Writing on both recto and verso. Location: Fustat. It is …
Recto: Upper right piece of a letter to a 'brother' in Arabic script. Conveys various pieces of news, including about the sale of a shop. …
Letter from Yosef b. ʿEzra to 'my brother' Avraham b. ʿAṭāʾ (probably the same one as in Bodl. MS heb. d 66/36). In Judaeo-Arabic. Few …
Small fragment from a list of legal documents. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). One of the entries refers to a document dated …
Letter from the cantor Ḥalfon b. David (aka Khalaf al-Lādhiqī), in Jerusalem, to the elders (sādatī wa-mawālayya jamāʿat al-shuyūkh al-miṣriyyīn), in Fusṭāṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic, in …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated: Tuesday, 2 Heshvan 5324 AM = 19 October 1563 CE. Doña Masʿūda (the same Doña Masʿūda as …
Small fragment of a letter addressed to Cairo. In the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211).
Letter, late, writtenb by Yom Tov Qashtiel, with a Hebrew signature stamp. Addressed on verso "to the hand of the dear modest Masʿūda מב׳׳ת, to …
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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Writing exercises. Mainly in Hebrew, but with at least two lines in Italian, mentioning a sig[nore] Manor(?).
Top part of a ketubba. Dated: Thursday, 25 Adar 1770 Seleucid = 1 March 1459 CE. Location: Cairo. Two lines of the reshut formula are …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary, so difficult to figure out the details. Sets out provisions for the care of a minor boy until he comes …
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
Beginning of an engagement document for Shelomo b. Raḥamīm Khamīṣ/Ḥamīṣ(?) and the orphan Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf. Undated, but pre-1830/1831 CE based on Sarah's later …
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. Including for a human bite, for scrofula (khanāzīr), for colic (qawlanj), and for hemorrhoids (bawāsīr).
Document in Arabic script with traces of burning. Probably literary. Different hands on recto and verso.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions payments of dinars.
Bifolio. Recto, lefthand page (fol. 1r): Judaeo-Arabic amorous poetry. Phonetic spellings. Verso, righthand page (fol. 1v): Continuation of previous page. Underneath there is a new …
Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic, including blessings for Jerusalem. Reads like a translation of standard Hebrew liturgy -- the source may be identifiable.