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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 23 Shevat, 1208 CE. …
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Letter to 'our master' (sayyidnā). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Probably asking for financial support. The sender is a butcher and hardly make …
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Verso: tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the …
On recto an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination. On verso a Bible citation possibly written by Natan b. Avraham Av. At …
Small fragment from a late list, might belong to a dowry (the word מהר can be read)
IB IV, 53c (*ח53). Letter from an unknown correspondent to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: ca. 1128 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq b. ʿEzra asks to Ḥalfon …
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Small and damaged fragment. On verso a book list. On recto a piyyut.
Lower part of twin list of contributors, the first with, the second without sums. Folded down the middle, hence a bifolium that once belonged to …
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Letters in Hebrew. Narrow vertical strip. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Recto: Mentions Sar ha-S[arim]. Verso: Communal letter, written in a different …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Nagid ha-Gola, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Yemen. (Information in part from …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment: left side only. Reporting that the writer has sent 3 dinars and urging the rapid sending of something (a horse? …
Judaeo-Greek and Coptic language exercises. Dating: circa 11th century CE, though the Coptic script may be older or newer. First identified as alphabetic by Bohak. …
Fragmentary court record. A certain person appears in court with a bill of appointment, probably signed, or connected to 'Our Master R. Shlomo'. (This might …
On verso small fragment of an Arabic letter or official report. The beginning of four lines are preserved. Phrases: ويصالحون(؟) الخدمة وكتاب . . . …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. Dated Tuesday 20 Dhū l-Qaʿda 919 AH, (1514 CE).
Four un-conserved small fragments. One is a remain from a letter to Eli b. Amram. The other 3 are still to be identified. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Mentions Nahray. Dating: Probably 11th century.
Five notes on tiny pieces of vellum, ordering the addressee to hand over small sums or certain quantities of oil, soap, wood, vegetables, lemon, or …
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Recto: piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Folio from a fiscal accounting ledger. Four different entries, each with its own set of ʿalāʾim. The one on verso is dated [13 Dhū l-Ḥijja?] …
Accounts with European numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.
Four pages from a table of contents for a late, large (>300 pages), literary work in Hebrew. The chapters are organized around themes and the …
Large letter from [...] b. Mevorakh addressed to Nahray b. Nissim (called 'Nahray ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq'). The sender's name is faded. The letter opens with large …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Interpretation and religious commentaries – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 176) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq …
Letter to the sender’s mother, in Cairo (yaṣil ilā maḥrūsat al-qāhira). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Not a great deal of the …
Bottom of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. Only signatures are preserved: [...]ram ha-Shofeṭ; …
This shelfmark includes 3 unrelated fragments. Upper right fragment, recto: Bottom left corner of a letter in Hebrew sent from the community of Aleppo (צובה) …
Letter of appeal for charity. Draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is also a maxim: "Indeed the world is a market, containing . . . …
State document, in a chancery hand, fragmentary. Some words read as "bi injāz l-kabīr al-m[" and "yakūn hādhā kulluhu". Document is too fragmentary to glean …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. People include: Abū l-ʿAlā'; the Amir Bayraq Najā(?) (bayraq seems to be a Turkic word for a battle …
Recto: Letter addressed to Yefet b. Ḥayy the Judge (bet din ha-qavuaʿ). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. 5 lines and part of the marginal text are …
Upper part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to 'the brother R. Avraham.' The sender is in difficult straits. Mentions wheat on the roof.
Recto: lower part of a ketubba. Verso: writing exercises of biblical verses in various hands. (Information from CUDL)
Notice of oath written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. He states that on Monday of the week of Beshalaḥ, he took an oath that he will …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand. This is the second or final page of what was originally a longer letter. There is an unusual …
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Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi b. Moshe (active 1171–95 CE) and his deputy Shelomo. In Hebrew. The sender is …
Collection of Geonic responsa, in the same hand as T-S 16.99, T-S G2.29, T-S 12.169, and T-S 16.310. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment from Ḥananʾel instructing Abu Naṣr to pay the bearer 33 wariq dirhams.
Witness clauses from the bottom of a legal deed. A portion of the date may also be preserved in the bottom line: Muḥarram [..]1 AH. …
Text in Judaeo-Arabic detailing the rising of a celestial body (al-maṭlaʿ al-saʿīd. . . .). Dated: Iyyar 1540 Seleucid = April/May 1229 CE.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. On verso there are calendrical notes.
Order to a pastry chef: "To the elder Abī Saʿd, may God preserve him: please take two copper coins as a deposit, and give the …
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Small fragment of a petition for charity in Arabic script.