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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
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Fol. 2v (lower section): Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. The sender refers to someone who was delayed in Rashīd (Rosetta). Also mentions …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: A Monday in the last decade of Tammuz 1[4]34 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. In …
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The upper part of recto is a Hebrew panegyric in praise of a scholar named Yiṣḥaq. The other text blocks are all drafts of a …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century, based on handwriting. Mentions red sulfur (kibrīt aḥmar), the estate of the addressee's dead brother, and perhaps …
תעתוק אחד
fragment of a letter - needs examination. Image not available
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract on recto. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5567 AM (התקסז), which is 1806 CE. Groom: Moshe Ẓvi. Bride: Simḥa bt. Barukh. Verso is a …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for "the lofty rescript" (التوقيع العالي زاده الله شرفا وعلوا) apparently concerning a certain Abū Saʿd, "sitting …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from the head of the Spanish community in Egypt to the Rosh ha-Ḥakhamim, discussing schisms between the Tripolitan (אלטראבלסיין), Tunisian (התונסיין) and Maghrebi (מערביים) …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Document - needs examination.
Letter of condolence from from al-Mubārak, Hiba, Faḍl, and Isḥāq, the sons of Yeshuʿa b. Samḥūn, to the ḥaver Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllun b. Meʾir upon …
דיון אחד
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script.
Verso: Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. "O Ibrahim! I found with your son Fāḍil (may God gladden him) one and a quarter dirhams, and I took …
Bill of divorce. Dated: 1331 Seleucid, which is 1019/20 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Seʿadya. Written and signed by [Davi]d b. Shekhanya, also signed by Shelomo …
Arabic text on astrology (ṣifat burūj al-[...]).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Two leaves of badly damaged accounts, some of which may be charitable/communal. Late, but probably pre-16th-century based on the paleography. The heading on the right …
Verso: Beginning of accounts of expenses for building operations. For recto, see separate record. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
Letter of Efrayim b. Shemarya to the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051 CE), containing a question about butchering animals and also discussing the status …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Small receipt or order probably.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Written in a hasty scrawl, difficult to read.
Literary text in Arabic script.
Business accounts in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Listing various items (including marble, a mantle, a mat, a mill, and rulers) which were …
Letter in Arabic addressed to Ibrahim ʿAdda/ʿĀdāh in Cairo, from Yūsuf and Fransīs Zakkār. Dated 14 December 1802 (18 Sha'ban 1217). See AIU XII.82, another …
To his excellency, our dear friend, the most noble Muʿallim Ibrāhīm ʿĀdāh the revered, may God the exalted preserve and keep him.
After …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning the arrival of a letter from the addressee. Probably a draft. Starting to complain about ill treatment by …
Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿaadya. Small fragment containing the opening and part of the address. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting …
Recommendation letter for charity for Yeshuʿa Ibn al-Miṣrī al-Ṣunbāṭī. His difficulties include something to do with his son and the jizya. He either did 'uncover …
Verso: Text in Arabic script, probably a personal letter (kharajtu. . . ummī), but could be poetry. Recto: Several lines in Hebrew script, probably poetry.
Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. Dating: mid-12th century. Refers to a sum of 20 dinars as part of the marriage payments and refers …
Letter from Shemuel he-Ḥaver b. Moshe, Tyre, to Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver b. Yosef, Aleppo, ca. 1025.
Order of payment. In Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abū l-Karam is asked to pay the bearer 13 dirhams. At the bottom: …
Small fragment of accounts.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With substandard orthography (CUDL), "in a known script with known atrocious spelling" (Goitein), mentioning people including Avraham and Abū l-Ḥusayn. Mentions arriving …
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Reused for piyyuṭ.
List with many different sums of money throughout the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Barakāt b. Ziz al-Tujjār and Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe ha-Kohen addressed to R. Avraham (possibly Avraham Maimonides). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …
Bill of divorce (geṭ) from a betrothal (erusin). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 17 Iyar 4846 AM, which is 4 May 1086 CE. Fiancé: ʿAmram b. …