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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter from an unknown writer, unknown location, to his brother-in-law al-Shaykh al-Fakhr al-Khāzin and his wife (the writer's sister), in Jerusalem. The addressees are asked …
אין רשומות קשורות
Recto: draft of a lengthy panegyric for Yehuda b. Menashshe he-Ḥasid, with his name in acrostic. The poet continues writing what may be a draft …
State document or letter in huge Arabic script. A portion of one line is preserved: ʿalayka wa-hādha maʿdūd(?)... Reused for piyyuṭ.
Verso (probably original use): fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small vertical strip from the left side. Mentions [Avraha]m b. Yiṣḥaq and a niṣāfī (a …
Private account of Yisrael b.Natan. Around 1045. Regarding is business with Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #410) VMR
שרח מא קבצת מן ספתגה
כתבהא בן אלאסכ<נד>ראני עלי
אבי אלפרג ישועה
מן דנאניר אלנפוסי עליה
עח דינ אלא קירטין
דפע מה דינ אל…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Accounts.
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Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Legal record (#48) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 12v-13r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 47-48) Folio 12v
תעתוק אחד
Fiscal account?
Fol. 1: small fragment of a bill of divorce drawn up in Amadiya (כאן [עמ[דיא]) Fol. 8: End of a legal document. Location: Kirkuk (כרכוך). …
Letter from a certain Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Abū Saʿīd known as al-Yatīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother has been sick. The addressee has …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Power of attorney written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First decade of Elul 1447 of the Seleucid Era (= July/August 1136 CE). Also …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE), concerning a business partnership between Natan ha-Kohen and the doctor Mevorakh b. ʿOvadya …
Fragment of a letter from Natan b. Nahray. Regarding trades, especially of silk, and complains about the situation in Mahdiyya, that he has heard about …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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.
List of alphabetized names with Greek/Coptic numerals spanning four columns. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, 14th- or 15th-century based on the paleography. The son of a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning various fabrics and garments, including several Shāmī and several Hurmuzī.
Legal document, or letter with legal content. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Reporting to a group of people (ישמרכם צור …
List of belongings of the deceased Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Raqqī, which were left behind and sent (probably from the Maghrib) to Alexandria with Abū l-Surūr …
Legal document concerning an inheritance. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Much of the date is broken off, but mentions a number of names …
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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Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …
Family letter. Likely the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan (Yedutun) and Mūsā/Moshe, who departed when he was sick. (Information in …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Apparently nearly complete, with only the first few lines missing. Dated: Wednesday, [..] Rajab 1163 AH = June/July 1750 …
Copious jottings in various hands in both Arabic script and Hebrew script. Most of the text on these fragments is scribal practice of biblical verses …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urgently asking the addressee to send the volume of Bereshit that the writer had purchased from him in al-Maḥalla in the shop …
Possibly from a historical chronicle. Headed, "One of the governors (ʿāmil min ʿummāl) of Homs wrote to ʿUmayr(?) ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz(?). . . ." This is …
Small receipt or order for 5 raṭls of something.
מעשה בית-דין אודות קידושי מחזיר גרושתו. את השטר כתב חלפון בן מנשה הלוי (תעודות מידו מן השנים 1100–1138), וחתום עליו נתן הכהן בן שלמה (1125 …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter possibly in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (per Goitein) to an unidentified person. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother and sister were involved in …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Not recorded, but somewhere outside of Fustat. Dated: First decade of Adar 1453 Seleucid, which is 1142 CE. Shemarya b. …
Placeholder [ASE]
Calandar for the year 1153/54 CE. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Arabic script. 6 lines preserved from the middle. The sender says things are going well and mentions something about a yellow 'ḥujra' …
Two un-conserved letters, with no folio shelf mark allocated yet. One is a tiny note written on vellum, on which is a short note of …
Bottom of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. On verso, torn and reused for a miniature receipt. Needs examination.
Fol. 2v (upper section): Letter to a ḥaver in Judaeo-Arabic. The text is faded and the phrases are quite vague—needs further examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Needs examination for content. Phrases: الحضرة . . . لا شك انك مثلي في قلبك . . . …
Small fragment, literary