Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Memorandum by the merchant Faraḥ b. ʿAyyāsh, it seems addressed to his agent "my master the Parnas," explaining the details of a lawsuit which the …
תעתוק אחד
Verso, fol. 2: Fragment of a decree or petition, probably provisional because of the semi-professional hand. Requires further examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
List of commodities and amounts - needs examination.
None
Business letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj (Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb?) Ibn ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. This document appears to have been overlooked by past Ibn ʿAwkal scholars. …
Letter from Yeshuʿa [...]. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 16th–18th century. Mentions the currency גורושוש; Yiṣḥaq ben Ḥabīb; regards to Yeshuʿa Azulay in the margin. …
Pledges for ransom of captives. A pledge-drive (pesiqa) for the man from Antioch for the ransom of his children. In four columns divided further into …
...]א
2 תעתוקים
Document containing a list of blessings for a benefactor, Moshe ha-Kohen Ḥemdat ha-Sarim Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim Neʾeman ha-Soḥarim ʿAyn ha-ʿEda Ner Yisraʾel ve-Yehuda (Delight of the …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter. The hand and style resemble those of Abū Zikrī the son of Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic, high register, rhymed prose. The contents are …
List or accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Items include three garments; twenty of something "with (or owed to) al-Saqqāq"; dates; hazelnut; shoes; and …
Colophon for a copy of masekhet Berakhot. Dedicated to Yeshuʿa b. [...] ha-Melammed. This is crossed out. Underneath, there is a note of a sale: …
דיון אחד
Judaeo-Arabic tafsīr on Job 3:4 – 9; 18 – 23 (identification from FGP). There are numerous joins. Refers to a 'jilwāz' (chamberlain, officer).
Document(s) in Arabic, well-preserved on verso with some text visible on recto. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal document mentioning [Abū] Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Avraham, possibly in the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Might be setting out conditions for a partnership. Includes …
Credit instrument (?). Needs examination.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, first five …
Talisman for safe journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Oded Zinger adds (January 2025): the verso text labels the talisman as being about "the passing …
Small fragment from an official document, most probably a petition. The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: probably 1039 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Possibly the beginning of a letter to a notable (שרנו ונרנו...)
Verso: probably a legal document, mentioning Yefet Sar [...] and Abū l-M[...]. Reused on recto for a Hebrew prayer. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Recto: Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Perhaps a rental contract for Abū Muḥammad b. Abī l-ʿIzz. Appears to be dated 694 AH, which …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the left side). In which a wife releases her husband from …
List of incoming payments with the heading "[sic?]עלם אלחאסאל". Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The currency mentioned throughout is mashṭ (משט)– …
Fragment of an incomplete legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–1138 CE). There are two lines, mentioning the late Abū l-Faraj …
Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. An instruction to a cantor to warn a woman that her husband had submitted …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many names listed.
Legal document. Written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1540 Seleucid = 19 April 1229 CE. Also signed by Ṣadaqa b. …
Long ‘letter’ of apology and appeal (the writer is trying to justify himself), possibly addressed to Mar Yosef, with reference to the story of ʿAkhan …
Recto (secondary use): Panegyric for (the Rav?) Yehuda b. Yosef "the Nasi of God" who "judged the daughters of Fez upon their rebellion(?) and exiled …
Likely a letter fragment, in Hebrew script. Too faded to read. Somewhat widened line spacing.
Fragment (left side) of an illuminated ketubba from Cairo with an elaborate floral design that was rendered with watercolor paint inside a predrawn grid. The …
Bible fragment, possibly from the Book of Leviticus based on related fragments from the same codex. See ENA NS 79.235.3 (PGPID 14035). MCD.
Letter in Hebrew. Per the identification data on FGP, one of the letters mentions "אגריפון," probably Negroponte (Euboea), and one (folio 17) mentions "קדיאה," probably …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Yūsuf b. [...]. Needs examination for details.
Letter from Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, probably in the Levant, to his son Shemuel b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Catalogued as 15th …