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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Fragment of a capitation tax receipt, probably. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Small bifolio with an unusual poem or popular song in vocalized Judaeo-Arabic, with the line "you've taken me to Istanbul," and dealing with themes of …
List of books, possibly from a physician's library. The books include Al-Majūsī, Al-kāmil fī al-ṣinā‘a; a commentary on Megillat Esther; a Pentateuch; a prayer-book; a …
Receipt in Arabic. Dated 7 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1227 AH (1812 CE). This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.
Verso: Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, who served as the muqaddam of Bilbays. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Adar II 1529 …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerned with the sale of ambergris. Dating: 12th century. Polite request to the addressee to sell 1.5 bayʿa of ambergris, sent to …
דיון אחד
Verso (original use): Arabic letter or state document. Wide line spacing. الى ما يخصني من اثاث وقشة(؟) لاخذه(؟) لها مثل . . . . . …
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138). Fragment (bottom only). Concerning a woman whose husband has traveled. This document evidently asserts some …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). …
כ]אן פי אלכתאב אלמ[דכור
]כרג לעאמל אלמוארית בכמסה ועשר[ין דינארא ברסם
אבו אלמפצ̇ל ואכדת אלעלאמה עליהם וסל[מת] אלבר[אה אלי אבו]
אלמפצ̇ל וקבצ…
[...] in the af[orementioned] document [...]
it came out to 25 [dīnārs] to the administrator of estates [for]
Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. I obtained the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Approximately 8 lines of unidentified Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a book list since the last two lines seem to begin with the word "tafsīr."
Legal document. Debt contract. Tamīm b. Berakhot known as Wafāʾ al-Sabbāk acknowledges owing a sum owed to Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen.
Small fragment from a Fatimid decree, containing only the phrase "[some verb from the root kharaja/'issue'] the decree/rescript to the Dīwān of [...]."
Letter or perhaps some other kind of document, very damaged with a difficult calligraphic signature (perhaps: יצחק בכ׳׳ר אברהם). Dating is perhaps 16th-century or later …
Fragment from the book of legal formulae, no. 23 (divorce deed). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Legal document. Partnership settlement. Dated: October 1143. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Nathan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The recto records the settlement of a …
Note by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ (in the note) or Abū l-Barakāt (in the address on verso). Accompanying payment for rose marmalade. …
My patron the elder Abu'l-Rabi', may
God on high preserve you (forever). Collect from the bearer
the charges for the rose marmalade. I a…
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era (13th–15th century). Mentions al-Ṣāliḥiyya; the army (al-ʿaskar); the justice of the sulṭān (ومولانا السلطان عادل); …
Legal record (#61). Settlement of debt. Dated: End of Av, 1467 Seleucid. Makārim al-Abzārī b. Avraham owes 112 dirhams of overdue rent for his dwelling …
Letter drafts or writing exercises in an elegant Judaeo-Arabic scribal hand. Dating: 17th-century or later based on the paleography. Some of these formulaic letters may …
Fragment of a legal document involving a marital dispute. On parchment.
Right side of an informal note or order of payment in Arabic script. Its content is not preserved, only the opening phrases and the phrase …
A notary's draft concerning three houses and two ruins forming the object of a settlement. Among the most detailed description of houses in Cairo. Description …
Her name is both Sitt al-Rutab and Sitt al-Fakhr. He releases Sitt [al-Rutab] from all claims and concedes to he…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Statute (‘taqqana’) about the conduct of two slaughterhouses, one at the Great Bazaar and one at the Bath of the Mice, issued by a committee …
. . . and those who gathered with them in the Palestinian synagogue in Fustāt, recognized as its parnasim and the represent…
Verso: Betrothal deed between Nathan ha-Levi b. Isaac and Sitt al-Bayt bat Nathan ha-Parnas from Cairo. Dated: 7 Marḥešvan 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Upper part of a rental contract. The lessee is a Jewish man named Bū l-Faraj b. Ḥayyūn.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter to Eliyyahu the judge from a female(?) relative in Alexandria, complaining about his treatment of her family. Early 13th century. (Information from CUDL)
I wish to inform the august elder, the chief, R. Elijah, may his glory be exalted and his honor increase, that
we received your letter. Im…
Accounts in Ladino. Mentioning gold and silver and R. Shelomo in the heading on the verso: "kedo en poder de R. Shelomo 600 sidres[?] de …
Letter of plea from the wife of Abū l-Faraj to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, in the Muṣāsa area of Fustat. In Arabic script. The wife is desperately …
يصـ]ـل الى مصر الى المصاصة حوحـ(؟) . . الجناوي(؟) المعروف بالعجمي(؟) ابن ال . . . . . .
] . . . العطار ا(؟) يسلم لاولاد(؟؟) المعلم معلم …
תעתוק אחד
Fragment of a book of cosmetics written on parchment. It deals with the hair (the fall of the hair, curled hair, half-curled hair, and straight …
2 דיונים
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower piece). Mentions paying someone 10 dinars; [Abū] l-Ḥasan and Qalyūb; the sender being weary of something (קד קלת נהצתי …
Verso: Note in bad handwriting headed עת לעשות וגו׳. In the right margin the name Abū Saʿd appears; this might be the sender, or it …
Deed of lease (istiʾjar). An Iqrār. In Arabic. Mentions a date in the body of the text: 12 Dhū l-Qaʿda 531 AH = 1 August …
Recto: Unidentified writings in Arabic script, maybe accounts or scribal practice. Verso: Fragment of a legal deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), involving a debt. The beginnings …
Letter of recommendation on behalf of a poor man, addressed (probably) to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel haSefardi (information from Cohen, Voice of the Poor, p. 28).
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Abu Zikri the physician (in Jerusalem?) to his father Eliyyahu the judge in Fustat. Abu Zikri is terribly worried that he will die …
See PGPID 15879
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Sūsa, to his younger brother Abū Zekharya Yehuda b. Moshe, in Fustat. Dating: August 1056 (Gil). This …
על שמך
כתבת יאכי וסידי ועזיז נפסי ועדיל רוחי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וחסן עקבאך וע[ ] לקא [ ]
מן סוסה לו כלון מן אלול ערפך אל…
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). The scribe has distinctive nun sofits and qofs that hook to the left at a 90 degree angle. The …
Court record in the hand of R. Daniel b. Azarya ha-Nasi. Hayyim b. Harun announces his intention to marry a woman in Sahrajt, but people …
3 תעתוקים
Letter in Judaeo--Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th or early 12th century. The sender congratulates the addressee(s) on the holidays and reminds them of a promise …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Accounts written by a government official indicating sums owed by someone, probably for Abū l-[...] al-ʿAfṣī, on various dates, arranged in two columns. Needs further …
Recto (original use): Deed of sale of a house. Dated 15 Ramaḍān 5[..] H (1107-1203 CE). In Arabic script. Verso (secondary use): Legal document in …
Legal document written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (dated documents 1150–81). Names mentioned: Barakāt b. Abū l-Banīn and Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī. Signed by …