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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Ledger of accounts, late, of a Venetian merchant.
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand. Small fragment. Dating: Perhaps 15th or 16th century, but that is a guess. Mentions Christians, Venice, an ounce of …
Business letter in Hebrew. Dating: likely 16th century. On verso there is a note reading "copy of the letters which I wrote to Venice to …
Late family/business letter in Hebrew signed by Yehuda Duran, mentioning goods sent from Fustat/Cairo to Venice, and discussing several female family members. The writer asks …
Legal: partnership agreement. Dated: Thursday, 10 Kislev 5319 AM (חושה), which is 1558/59 CE.The partners Yehuda Castro and Namir Viryuti (? וריוטי) enter into a …
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Dated inscription of an owner's name in a book ('if the book gets lost, and you don't know who owns it, return it to me'). …
Recto: Excerpts from Ecclesiastes. Verso: A list of books that the writer was asked to prepare (or obtain?) for somebody. The Talmud, printed in Salonica …
Letter from Rachel b. Avraham Zussman, in Jerusalem, to Yaʿaqov Katz, in Venice. In Yiddish. Dated: 16 Heshvan 5327 AM, which is October 1566 CE. …
Legal document dated Av (5)276, written ארע״ה (ie, 1+200+70+5), of Creation (= 1516 CE). The document concerns a trading partnership, and refers to trade in …
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Frontispiece of the Torah printed in Venice by Giovanni Colleoni, 1627 CE. Contains an ownership note on the verso: "property of al-faqir(!) Eliyya Fayrūz." For …
Multi-fragment shelmark. The first page is a letter in Italian from Venice, dated 4 May 1755 CE, mentioning Cairo and several names. The subsequent 8 …
Account register of Yiṣḥaq b. Yeḥiel, a dealer in carpets (tappeti = טפיטי, טאפיטי) as well as numerous other luxury commodities (nuts, drugs/perfumes, sugar from …
Legal record (#52) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Tishrei 5323 …
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Birth records. In Italian and Hebrew. Location: Venice. Probably non-Geniza. First document: Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 5536 AM, which is to 19 May 1776 CE. …
Letter, fragment (lower left corner), from Shalom b. Sīd. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. The writer reports on business progress to …
Late letter that begins in Hebrew and transitions into Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified merchant to Yosef Muḥibb. He writes that he traveled this year to …