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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Note in Arabic script beginning "yā mawlānā." Everything is crossed out but might still be legible.
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham to Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Ibn Bunyām failed to deliver the large jar (zīr) which the …
דיון אחד
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. This is a long, dense, and well-preserved family/mercantile letter. Mentions grains and produce in large quantities: 400 irdab wheat, and …
Arabic script (VMR)
Summary of a power of attorney. Levi b. Ibrāhīm appointed Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh to obtain for him the implements of a silk weaving workshop …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Karaite betrothal agreement draft in a less-experienced scribal hand than is normally the case for this document type. The document was abandoned in line 8 …
תעתוק אחד
Very damaged list of items, mostly textiles.
Recto: Letter consisting of ten lines of honorific titles given to R. Yeḥiel and his student, R. Ḥananel. (Information from Goitein's index card.). Verso: A …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Might be a tax receipt. Quite damaged.
Responsum dealing with the collection of debts, the marriage contract and dowry. (Information from CUDL)
Business letter, first half of the 16th century. The subject matter is a dispute between merchants who dealth in skins, pepper, and tin. An Avraham …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in …
Letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva, probably Fusṭāṭ, to the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Damsīs. Much of the letter has to do with Avraham …
Court record, probably regarding a debt, between Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa and the banker (ha-shulḥani) Abū l-Ṭāhir Mevorakh b. Shela (appears also in ENA …
Two orders of payment in Arabic script, and perhaps a remnant of a third. The first one: yadfaʿ al-shaykh al-ajall li-muwaṣṣilihā dīnārayn wa-nuṣr wa-thumn.
Legal fragment. Preserving the date 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, and little else.
Letter from Efrayim b. Nissim, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. The writer tried to get money from Abu Mansur …
דרהם תרגע תסוא נצף [ ]
כנת קבצת מן יוסף אלצורי דינ גיר קירט מן קבל
פתיאן פאן כנת קבצתה תערפני דלד ואמא
אבו מנצור אלדסתרי מא קדרת עליה …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Heshvan, 5562 AM = October/November 1801 CE. Meʾir Ben-Naʿim invests 100 reales (1 real = 90 …
Small fragment in Hebrew. Late. Containing legal phrases בפנינו אנו . . חתומי מטה יודעים ומעידים עדות . . .
Document in Arabic script, probably legal.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Very faded. Mentions Jerusalem and commercial goods.
Documents in difficult Arabic script, possibly Ottoman Turkish. The fragment on the right features an ink stamp: "قايم في ...٣٠٣", which may indicate the year …
A damaged Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Saadya b. Shmeul b. Saadya. The bride name is Esther.
IB VI, 40. Letter in what Goitein identifies as the handwriting and style of well-known India trader Abu Nasr Avraham informing recipient about events, apparently …
3 תעתוקים
Official report in Arabic script. Small fragment. Mentions the caliph (… ين الله), probably al-Ẓāhir (li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh), al-Ḥāfiẓ (li-Dīn Allāh), or al-ʿĀḍid (li-Dīn Allāh). …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Peraḥya. Fragment (upper left corner). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Yefet …
Fragment of a fiscal account. Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Abū l-Faraj Natan b. Shelomo the beadle is marrying the daughter of …
2 דיונים
Upper left piece of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. Needs examination.
Fiscal document/receipt in Arabic script Dated: 5 Muḥarram 735 AH = 5 September 1334 CE. For the capitation taxes of the Jews in Damascus(!?) (bi-l-Shām …
Letter from a member of the nasi family of Mosul addressed to Shelomo b. Yishay. Dating: the events described in the letter likely took place …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is mostly extended expressions of deference and flattery. Starting about halfway through verso, it appears that the sender is asking for …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender describes how someone came to him after a financial loss. Needs further examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid-era, probably addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.
خرجت الاوامر المطاعة بعملها من المتاخرين
ورجال الاوامر الخـ[ـدمـ]ـة(؟) فقد(؟) عملت(؟)
الى الباب العالي المولوي الملكي العادلي
خلد الله سلطا…
Jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The top line names a dead person and 'his sister Fākhira.' The next …