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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi's vision of hell; see Perry, M. J. (2017). Jewish heaven, Christian hell: Rabbi Joshua ben Levi’s vision of the afterlife. Journal …
אין רשומות קשורות
Verso: Syriac translation of Romans 16:25–26 and 1 Corinthians 13:12–13. The text is written in a distinctive western Syriac hand with most letters of the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Magical recipe. To make X love Y? Mixture of Hebrew and Arabic characters (FGP)
Letter/petition from a 'foreign' widow (marʾa armala gharība) to a notable. Appealing for charity for herself and her three girls during this cold spell, in …
תעתוק אחד
Medical recipe in a beautiful hand, from a literary text. Mentions antidote (tiryāq) and wheat flour (daqīq al-ḥinṭa).
Either legal notes or accounts. Mentions Ḥalfon b. [...] and Bū l-Faḍl(?) b. Barakāt.
Letter from Hilāl, in Alexandria, to al-Shaykh al-Najīb b. Mufaḍḍal b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat, to the shop of Ibn al-ʿŪdī, Sūq al-‘Attārīn. In Judaeo-Arabic with …
Documentary per FGP, but all fragments look literary. There are dozens of sub-shelfmarks, some Maimonides, ha-Rif and Rashi
IB VI, 13. Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text …
Late accounts. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Of the minimal text available the name Muṣtafa is legible.
Capitation tax receipt. For Abū l-Riḍā(?) b. [...]. Dated: 590 AH (or 569?). Needs examination.
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Letter addressed to a Nagid. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Ketubba fragment for Dalāl bt. Yosef and Shelomo b. Natan. Date and location not preserved. Witnessed by Yeshuʿa b. Shabbat (שבאת), Aharon b. Efr[ayim], Ḥalfon …
דיון אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning the transfer(?) of money (300 dinars) and Peraḥya and Mevasser. (Information …
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArus b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; alum; barley; Saʿīd; and the term dār several times.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerned with the sale of ambergris. Dating: 12th century. Polite request to the addressee to sell 1.5 bayʿa of ambergris, sent to …
Upper left corner of a document, referring to someone titled Majd al-Khilāfa ʿIzz al-Mulk....
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography helps to estimate the dating of this fragment as sixteenth- or seventeenth- century.
Fragment of a petition/letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Written on behalf of a woman (al-mamlūka, l. 5). Addressed to a notable …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Decree fragment, probably. Two lines partially preserved: ليكونوا على اشغالهم(؟) بها متوفرين و . . . مجتهدين . . . Reused on verso for Birkat …
Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b. Namir concerning money owed from the ketubba. Signed by Moshe b. Yehuda …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Petition (draft) from […] Mukhliṣ, in Minyat Ghamr, to an Ayyubid dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner complains about the young son of a neighbor …
[ ] Mukhliṣ, inhabitant of Minyat Ghamr.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
(The slave) reports to the seat …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dating: 1066–1108 CE, but this range can be narrowed further …
Main Points of the Will
of Wuḥsha, the Broker.
To my brother shall be given one hundred dinars
from the objects given to me as securi…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Very faded and damaged Hebrew letter addressed to a community. Most of the text preserved contains poetic Hebrew verses. On verso only part of the …
Probably a family letter, consisting mainly of greetings. May mentions Fayrūz.
Letter from Hayya Gaon to Elhanan b. Shemarya, Fustat. February 7, 1018. The Gaon writes after he has been asked to write to Fustat on …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
A few words from the end of a line of a state document in large Arabic script. On verso there is a rabbinic discussion. (Information …
Legal deed In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tammuz 5353 AM = Shawāl 1001 AH = July 1593 CE. It seems to be the copy of a reconciliation …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of the prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs.
Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (d. 1355), or at least by the same person as PER H 129 (PGPID 9391), which Goitein identified …
Letter. In Hebrew. Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס), in Syracuse (שראקוסה), writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, …
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment (upper left corner). The addressee is greeted with many respectful titles. Mentions Abū l-Bayān al-Ṭabīb (the physician). AA. …
Fragment from the ketubba of [...] Ṭayyib ha-Levi (groom) and ʿAwz bat [...] (bride). Location: Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL.)
Fragment of a (marriage-related?) legal document in Arabic script. There is a portion of a trousseau list and the name Yaʿqūb b. Bābār. Needs further …
Qaraite bill of divorce formulary. Dated: 1347 Seleucid (1035/36 CE).
This is the Egyptian bill of divorce for the Karaites.
This is the Bill of Divorce which N. M. the son of N. M. has wri…
2 תרגומים
Letter fragment in Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. M[...] appears at the top of recto. Mentions prior correspondence several times. On verso …
Recto: legal query signed by Nahray b. Nissim and Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq (the signatures are copied by the scribe who wrote the document). Location: Fustat. …
Verso, with the address on recto: Letter in Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Extremely difficult handwriting. Seems to be about business, reporting on …
Personal letter from Jerusalem to Cairo – 28 May 1930 – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 212) in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Medical text in Arabic, seemingly about the use of animal products.
Bifolio from an official-looking (fiscal?) account in Arabic. Distinct layout, neatly written but very difficult tor read. Merits examination.
Communal list of payments toward the kosher meat tax (gabela). Dating: c. 1785–1825 CE, based on the active dates and mention of the scribe/judge Meʾīr …