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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Alchemical or medical recipe containing both organic and metal substances, followed by a short history of the Umayyad caliphate in Damascus written in Judaeo-Persian. Both …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: mentions the end of Dhū l-Qaʿda 563 AH = 1168 CE. Seems to be a commercial contract involving a …
אין רשומות קשורות
Ketubba that has been badly damaged yet a portion of the dowry is still visible as "עשר אלף מיידיס כסף..." (10,000+ silver medin). The mention …
Recto: Deed of sale of a house bought by Mufaddal, left side only. The description of the boundaries of the house is inserted in Judaeo-Arabic …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Very faded bill of release from Bū Isḥāq b. Bū l-Karam Ibn al-Dayyān, for Bū l-Maʿānī (or Bū l-Maʿālī) and Bū Naṣr the sons of …
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Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 9 Shevat 5530 AM, which is 1770 CE. Groom: Ḥayyim b. Eliyyahu ha-Rofe b. Elishaʿ ha-Rofe. Bride: Raḥel …
Legal fragment. No names preserved. Refers to collecting rent.
Recto: Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. The cantor ʿEli ha-Kohen pays …
Bill of divorce (get). All names and dates are missing. Verso: A note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a debt of 13[...] somethings. The handwriting and format …
Liturgy for the marriage ceremony, along with part of a copy of a Karaite ketubba for Muʾammala bat Ḥayyim. Dated: 1324 Sel. (= 1012-13 CE). …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a quittance document (שטר אביזארי). Written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Ṭevet 4837 AM = 14 December 1076 CE. …
דיון אחד
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Dating: ca. 14th–16th centuries, based on handwriting. A previous description referred to this as a deed of sale, but there …
Recto: Beginning of a legal deed written by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (dated documents: 1128–64). Location: Fustat. Dated: 145[.] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1138–48 …
Verso (probably original use): Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script dated 524. There are five witness signatures underneath. Recto (probably secondary use): Fragment …
Fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release from a wife to her husband Abū Sahl Menashshe. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Verso: Legal formularies. In the margins of a literary text containing blessings.
Legal document in Arabic script. May be a deed of sale (hādhā mā ishtarā....). One of the parties is Jewish. Reused in the upper margins …
Beautifully preserved legal document dated 21 September 1621 CE. The opening line identifies the court as having been held at the gate of the Qawṣūn …
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 20 Tevet 1771 Seleucid, which is 1459 CE. (1) Shemuel Faraj'el b. (2) Ḥananyahu Avraham b. (3) Shelomo …
Court record written by Shemuel b. Avṭalyon (active in Fustat ca. 1007–55). Dealing with a dispute between Yeshuʿa b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen and Yoshiyya b. Maymūn. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Bill of divorce from a betrothal (erusin). Very faded. No signatures. Dated: Looks like [4]903 AM, which would be 1142/43 CE.
Recto: legal query concerning robbery, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Looks like the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Verso: part of an official document in Arabic: …
Bifolio of Hebrew legal formularies, including the cover page with the title מעשה בית דין and an ownership note for Ṣadoq b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ ha-Yerushalmi …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: refers to a period of time beginning in Nisan 1424 Seleucid, which is …
Notes for a marriage contract between Abu al-Karim Shabbetay b. Avraham and the divorcee Mudallala bat Yehuda ha-Levi involving a dowry of 102 dinars plus …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. B, fol.2 - Bill or receipt of sale, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Verso (original use) is a fragment of a deed of sale for a compound (dār). Recto (secondary use) is probably …
Karaite pre-nuptial agreement. Dated Monday 17th Sivan 5524 AM (1764 CE). Location: probably Cairo, in the home of Naḥūm Kohen Gabbay. The groom is Shelomo …
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Probably a betrothal (erusin/qiddushin) agreement. Dated: 19 Sivan 1432 Seleucid, which is …
Loan contract, Qaraite. Dated: Sunday night, 24 Shevat 5499 AM, which is 1739 CE. Shemuel nin Yeshuʿa known as Berakha attests that he has received …
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), …
Document of release concerning Avraham b. Shemuel and Saʿdān b. Saʿīd, witnessed by Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also BL OR 5550.1 …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Sahar. One of the parties …
Part of a ketubba, with no details preserved. Various jottings are added between the lines of recto and on verso. Ca. 13th century. Contains a …
Legal document, a few lines of what was probably a draft, mentioning a woman selling something and a sum of 5 dinars. All the people …
Debt acknowledgment. Dated 4 Nisan 5408 AM (1648 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography and surnames mentioned. The partners Avraham Levi Qudsi b. …
Two fragment of a bill of divorce, from Fustat, from Tishrei [1]331 sel. (1019 CE), signed by Ya'aqov b. Yosef beit-din and Shelomo b. [...]. …
Marriage document. Damaged and creased document. Contains list of items, commonly found in dowry lists included or attached to a ketubah. Here, not as usual, …
Small fragment of a legal note in the hand of ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involves [...]ān b. M[...] and includes phrases such as בחכם אן …
Karaite betrothal document, with some water/liquid damage toward across middle lines. Date: 15 Heshvan 5485 AM (1724 CE). Due to discoloration/damage, parts of the document …
Outline of a story probably intended to be written up as a court record. Describing an inheritance dispute concerning two brothers and two sisters. One …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Referring to two possible outcomes of a legal …
Marriage contract from Tyre, dated Tuesday, 19 Av, fifth year the sabbatical cycle (ca. 1054). Somebody with a nisba from the town of 'Ibillin is …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Ketubba, Metropolis, probably 927/8 or 1027/8. Friedman reads "Metropolis" as a general term for a city, rather a specific place: "instead of medina for 'city,' …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to the author's sister Sabaqīya (סבקייא), probably from one of the three siblings mentioned on the verso legal document (Gentīl, …