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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Adar (אדר הנהדר) 1810 Seleucid = 20 February 1499 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Natan …
דיון אחד
Accounts (?) divided by horizontal lines. 11th c (?), written on parchment, thus Sicilian? Mentions silver ingots (fiḍḍa sabāʾik). Several of the entries begins "wa-qia …
אין רשומות קשורות
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions an iqṭāʿ and kharāj. Dating: most likely Ayyubid due to the mention of "ṭawāshī", most probably meaning a military …
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, the script may be Yemenite. Line 4 uses the common honorific יצ׳׳ו. Requires further examination
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting and spelling. Small fragment (upper left corner). The sender wishes to be united with their son (or father, since this …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū Zikrī and [Abū l-]Faḍl b. Abū l-Najm. Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century. On verso there is a …
Letter from a man to his father-in-law. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. He offers an update on mercantile transactions, mainly in garments, each transaction on the order …
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Three fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably from Mivḥar b. Yefet to the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The scribe is identified based on handwriting …
Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man seeking employment in the caliph’s service. Draft, opening only. Dating: ca. 427–87/1036–94. On the other pages is …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings be upon our master and lord
the imām al-Must…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Karaite Ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Nahum Halevi b. Aharon. The deflowered bride is Esther Dona d. Elya Halevi.
Recto (secondary use): Draft of an order of payment, probably. In Arabic script. Headed by the glyph.
State document in Arabic script. Dated: 1247 AH, which is 1831/32 CE.
List of men's names, possibly recipients of alms. Hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya? Names include: [Sal]āma b. [...]; Muslim b. Ḥarbash; Moshe b. …
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 16th century. The parties are Shemuel and Siman Ṭov. Mentions a sum of 20 medins.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand known from many similar fragments.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Maybe some sort of receipt. Dated: Jumādā I 723 AH, which is 1323 CE if read correctly.
Fol. 19: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. This is the sole fragment under this shelfmark that does not include an Abū Zikrī Kohen …
2 תעתוקים
Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Official report (or just a letter). Probably a draft. Written in 4 columns on a bifolio, with many lines crossed out and some of the …
Late accounts in Arabic.
Informal note in Arabic, or maybe a credit instrument. Headed "[...] Dar al-Jawhar," the house of gems, an institution associated with Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. The …
Legal fragment (upper right piece). On parchment. Location: Cairo. Involves Muʿazzaza bt. Petaḥya(?); Ibrāhīm; Abū l-Munā; a house near the synagogue; eventualities including the price …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed from the year [144]5 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of Masliah Gaon, and written …
Minute fragment, few words in Arabic and Hebrew - needs examination. The Arabic reads as "bāb aqṭaʿ al-riʿā[.
Fragment of a letter to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), likely from one of the Geonim of Palestine, possibly sent in the name of …
Fragment with a few damaged lines of text Arabic script, probably documentary. Medieval-era. At least two fragments are fused together in this shelfmark.
IB VII, 11. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). David b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Ṣafaṭ (? אלצפט) acknowledges receipt of …
תעתוק אחד
Probably two fragments from the same document, but too dark to read. Seems like a letter. AA
Letter from Avraham b. Seʿadya the Hebronite, in Bilbays, to Moshe ha-Kohen b. Ghulayb, in Fustat. Dating: beginning of the twelfth century. Recto 1-15: Flowery …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Large bifolio of Judaeo-Arabic accounts. Late.
Legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Small vertical strip from the left side. On parchment. Possibly concerning the manumission and …
IB VII, 24. Letter concerning a girl who had been regarded as being a Muslim and when she appeared before the Qāḍī, declared she was …
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Recto: letter in Arabic script. May refer to black silk (al-ḥarīr al-aswad). Reused on verso for probably a liturgical text with Judaeo-Arabic instruction יקול. (Information …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Av[raham?] Aghion, in Alexandria. Dating: Probably 19th century.
Private accounts of al-Shaykh Bū Ḥasan in Arabic script starting with a basmala and heading "ḥisāb al-Shaykh Bū l-Ḥasan". An example of the accounts includes., …
Fragment of a partnership document (per FGP), involving R. Shemuel, Abū l-Faraj al-Yatom, Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan, Abū l-Bishr. Written by Mevorakh b. Natan, during the reign …