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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Possibly a fragment from a fiscal register. Mentions a kharājī year. Very large script. Reused for the morning benedictions for weekday services.
אין רשומות קשורות
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his handwriting (should be …
Fragment of text in Hebrew, possibly legal. There is a small table on the verso in Hebrew with western Arabic numerals. Requires further examination.
Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.
Letter from a father to his son. "I heard that you are diligent with your teacher and honoring your mother... My son, you are no …
תעתוק אחד
Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, perhaps 13th or …
Bifolium from a notebook. One and a half pages are filled with a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with …
Recto: Notes for a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions: the wife's brothers' son: Khalaf b. Abū Sahl; her brother Dāʾūd …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. كتابي اليك ياخي والعزيز علين . . . . In the top margin: . . . ـىة بن اسحاق ان …
Petition from Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī to a dignitary whose name is torn off. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan, who may be a kātib. (Information in part …
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
Letter sent from Sandūr (in Kurdistan) to Yaʿaqov Binyamin, in Jerusalem. Late and non-Geniza. Dated: 5462 AM = 1701/02 CE. The sender devotes a lot …
Very damaged fragment, probably contains letter
Fragment of torn and damaged vellum, contains Geonic responsa. Published in Teshuvot ha-Hageonim Marmorstein, p. 2-3. On recto the end of a responsum on debt. …
Exposition of a halakhic point (taʿlīq ʿal sefer Nezaqim) which the writer says he heard from Avraham Maimonides.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Riḍā, Abū l-Faraj(?), and …
Verso: A few lines from the end of a letter in Arabic script. Very damaged and faded. Underneath, in a different hand, there is a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Neatly written and detailed. Repeatedly refers to ʿUmayr (or ʿAmid?) and Dāʾūd. Also mentions a qāḍī. Dating: …
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Letter from Berakhot b. Shemuel in which he suggests to the recipient that he buy from him a book and defer the payment of 12 …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to pay the bearer one dirham, "because the need for it …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from Abū l-Khayr to [...] b. Shemuel(?) (based on the address on verso). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 13th century. The addressee is greeted …
Mamlūk-era tax (kharāj) register for the town of Minyat Khamīs. The document is probably dated 11 Jumādā l-Ākhar 706 H. Mentions names of some state …
Qaraite court record(s) regarding an agreement that followed two cases of theft (סרקה/سرقة) committed by a certain Yaʿaqov Feyrūz. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5547 AM = …
Narrative literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Or less likely a long letter written in the format of a literary text. Dating: Probably 17th–19th century. Conveying a …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yefet to two brothers, to the dukkān of Bāb al-Futūḥ, which means this was probably sent to New Cairo rather than …
Fol. 2: Private letter in Arabic script, chancery-esque script. Dating: Probably late Ayyubid or Mamlūk based on paleographical grounds. Contains the glyph "لى" in place …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Mūsā, someone idle (baṭṭāl), the sender's perplexity (wa-anā ḥāʾir), a living, and the sender's difficulties "with no house (=wife?) and …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. Mentioning sending things with different people, including cheese. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a mercantile letter, probably. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century. Some of the text on verso has the layout of an account, but …
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
דיון אחד
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Could be a receipt.
Torn fragment of fiscal accounts, probably. Mentions either "dyeing" (al-ṣibāgh) or "the villages" (al-ḍiyāʿ), likely the latter, "fī bāb rasm al-ḍiyāʿ" and a sum of …
]ـاهما في باب رسم الضياع
]ـي كنت قبضته لست و خمس ماية دينار
]ـع من المزارعين ذلك وعاد وبقيت
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions items including an herb or hashish (ḥashīsha), a chest, indigo, silk, a ḥawwāla, something from al-Muʿaẓẓamī, the …
Partnership release. Dated: 1091. Location: Fustat. Verso: Avraham b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen irreversibly releases Abū l-Faḍl/Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Yefet from any obligations concerning a partnership. …
Medical prescription in Arabic script (e.g. "wa-yuṣaffā ʿalā ūqīyyatayn sharāb"). The diet recommended at the end is something boiled and seasoned with sweet almond oil. …
Recto: accounts submitted by Abū l-Barakāt Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Talmid Abu l-Faraj, headed by مملوكه שלמה אמת. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The …
Verso (probably secondary use): Receipt, probably. In Arabic script. For 3 dinars received from Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥājj for Jumādā II. Seems to mention the term …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Probably accounts, listing names and numbers, mostly crossed out. Mentions Jamāl al-ʿAṭṭār.
Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Accounts, probably for charitable purposes, with entries such as "widows"; "the niece of Ṭāhir the beadle"; "the wife of Abū Isḥāq the cantor"; "the children …
Account of the public bread distribution spread over two sheets. In the late style of the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1100–40 CE, based …
Literary narrative in Arabic script. 1001 nights? Mentions a baker and a salesman, then the narrator stumbles on a hidden treasure with a magical sapphire, …