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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Tax receipt?
אין רשומות קשורות
Important business letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat by a Maghribi merchant named Nissim who, coming from al-Mahdiyya, had arrived in Alexandria at time of …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dating: No earlier than 12th century, based on the preserved words from the reshut formula (...הגדול יהי שמו לעולם). …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Portions of three lines are preserved. Legible words: اخبارها . . . على انفاذ . . .
Probably a fiscal account.
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Jottings in the hand of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder, including his own name several times.
דיון אחד
Letter fragment from Abū Saʿd to his cousin (ibn ʿamm), in New Cairo. (Or possibly Abū Saʿd is the addressee.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a girl …
Verso (original use): Seems to be a legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. May involve Pinḥas: ועוד אמר פנחס דנן דעו רבותי וחיי . . …
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Qiṣṣat Yūsuf? There is a colorful frame around the text and a crown(?) in the upper margin.
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. …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Ayyash b. Sadaqa in Busir. Probably ca. 1050.
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Recto: Inventory of a doctor's dispensary, mostly white, green, yellow, red, or black pots, glasses, and other receptacles. Verso: Notes about the sale of books …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Apparently a partnership agreement in a business involving a "large furnace" (al-kur al-kabīr) …
Small fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe legal or a letter. The words "Torah" and "b. Abū Saʿd" are preserved.
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Two fragments comprising the left half of both recto and verso. (The other fragments might be identifiable in part based on …
Fragment with several different text blocks. The upper part of recto reads like a riddle and/or utterances in the mouth of God. The bottom part …
תעתוק אחד
Letter requesting financial support for a poor member of the community. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079. Preserves the full name of the groom, Thābit b. ʿEli, and a notable phrase for the promise of …
Draft of a deed of mutual release between Ibrāhīm b. Ṣalḥūn (same as in T-S 10J17.8?) and another person, perhaps Bū Thābit al-Jazzār. In Arabic. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Refers to receiving money or goods ([tasa]llamahū) from al-Rayyis. Few other …
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 …
Note in Arabic script. Mentions a maqṭaʿ cloth, but maybe also materia medica such as tamarind. Needs further examination. Information in part from Goitein's note …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Much of it seems to be an apology. Mentions coming to Cairo and a qāḍī. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Upper fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. Involves Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. [...], Aharon …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Beginning only. Dated: 20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid = 29 November 1238 CE. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Goitein's index card suggests that the …
Receipt or similar sort of document. Headed by the glyph. Landscape layout, which suggests Ayyubid-era dating. Mentions a person's name and has numerals at the …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with pepper, clove, and lac. Instructing the addressee to sell goods in Fustat. Possibly in the handwriting of Avraham …
Legal fragment with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Abū Zikrī and Berakhot. They might …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 AM = 15 June 1152 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Witnesses: …
Legal document. In Aramaic. Dated: Nisan 1488 Seleucid, which is 1177 CE. Involves a woman named Sāda, her husband, and something to do with land …
Upper part of a letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He says he is doing well and thanks …
Deed of sale of one half of a house in the al-Musasa quarter in Fustat, in which one owner sells his half to the other …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Accounts in Arabic, probably state-issued. Medieval-era. There are many well-preserved entries on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.