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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Accounts, on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Mentions Abū l-Bishr and his son; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Menaḥem b. Majd; Abū Isḥāq b. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Small fragment from the opening of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions ‘[...] the dear elder’ and someone inheriting something from his wife. (Information in …
Letter from [...] Sulaymān Kohen to [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Raḍiyy; the purchase of an ʿarḍī cloth from Fustat; 'the prices of …
A Hebrew note from a bookseller to a potential buyer, listing several books and giving final prices for them (in qurūsh). The books include "Zutah" …
Legal document. A damaged legal document, probably a bill of release. Involves Ahuv, sums of 55 dinars, 44 dinars, 13 dinars, and half of a …
Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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The physician Menahem writes to his colleague, the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, about happenings when he traveled to the village Ṭanān (in the Qalyubiyya district near …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Wheat distribution list in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Dozens of names are mentioned, including some with illness and/or disabilities …
Letter from Moshe b. Yequtiʾel, Jerusalem, to someone from his circle in Fustat, approximately 1040.
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Letter or petition, probably. Small fragment. The text on verso is in a different hand and is written at 90 degrees and might be a …
Jottings/drafts of an order of payment addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan. The year is written at least once but is difficult to read.
Recto: fragment from a Karaite ketubba for Ghāliyya bt. Yosef b. Abraham and Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. The bride’s father acts as her agent. Dating: ca. …
Recto: ketubba of [...] b. Nissim (groom) and Jins (bride), a divorcee. Locaiton: Fusṭāṭ. Verso: title page for laments for the 9th of Av. In …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Beginning only. Dated: 20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid = 29 November 1238 CE. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Goitein's index card suggests that the …
דיון אחד
Chancery document. 6 lines preserved from the bottom (including ḥamdala and ṣalwala: والحمد لله وحده وصاواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه المصطفى والد الطاهرين وسلم تسليما). …
Small fragment of a state document, or draft of one. Three different hands. Pious phrases and an ʿalāma, but the upper right text might be …
Detailed postscript to a letter sent one month before this one with someone who had gotten stranded while traveling on the sultan's ship. This second …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. …
Lists of detailed expenses with many names. Dated Safar 1234 AH on recto which is 1818 CE. This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century …
List in a unique early modern scribal hand, relies on Indo-Arabic numerals. The exact meaning of the labels on the far left column is not …
Laws of ketubah from Cairo - needs examination. No image
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions having sent something with Yūsuf b. [...], and 5 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yehuda b. Shelomo, the cantor of Damsīs, to an unidentified addressee, who is asked to …
Fiscal order requesting the registration of an expenditure (?) in the Fatimid dīwān al-majlis (privy council). Written in five (?) different hands, reflecting a complex …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Minute fragment of a text in Hebrew script, possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Recto: Small fragment of a state document. The ends of four or five lines are preserved, very damaged. Reused on verso for faded Hebrew characters, …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower right corner). Concerning a divorce. Mentions something (the bill of divorce? the ketubba payment?) …
Goitein's index card refers to a fragment containing a draft of a letter of appeal for charity to the Nagid, who has two sons. This …
Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Cairo, to Shelomo b. Yishai the Mosul Nasi, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1240 CE. The writer had sent …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter in the hand of Shemu’el he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle b. Moshe he-Ḥaver, in Tyre, to Efrayim he-Ḥaver b. Shemarya he-Ḥasid, in Fusṭāṭ. In Hebrew. Dating: approximately …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Mentions names including Abū l-Faraj, Ibn Ḥamīd, Abu ʿUthmān and Yosef, and government officials (al-amīr, al-sulṭān, al-dāʿī). …
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: First decade of Rabīʿ I 486 AH = April 1093 CE. Apparently concerning some confusion over shipments of produce …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. The text in the margin reads as "miḥrāb".
Bifolio containing eclectic jottings including an account for the year 1466 Seleucid = 1154/55 CE and a crossed out draft or summary of a legal …
Possibly a letter - needs examination.
Legal agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 4754 AM, which is 993/94 CE. Two cantors, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī and Palṭiel b. Efrayim, divide up liturgical and …
Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …
2 תעתוקים
Unidentified state document in Arabic script. Recto: The two lines near the top refer to [al-juy?]ūsh al-manṣūra wa-l-majlis al-[...]. There are several further text blocks …
Receipt (?) dated 1908 (in Arabic numerals). Written on graph paper. MR
Letter from Yosef b. Moshe ha-Levi the Jerusalemite to Yefet ha-Neʾeman b. Elʿazar, the representative of the community of al-Maḥalla. Dating: late 11th or early …