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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Almost poetic letter of a Gaon, perhaps Shelomo b. Yehuda. This bifolio was possibly bound as part of posthumous(?) collection of letters. A woman deserted …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal record (#45). Alimony owed. Dated: Thursday, 24 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Location: Cairo in the moshav/majlis of the Nagid (the other items in this notebook …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of an unidentified treatise, written on a pair of conjugate leaves. It includes the beginning of the nineteenth faṣl, on the anatomy of the …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
2 תעתוקים
Fragment of a business letter from Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Busir, probably to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, mentioning bales of flax being prepared …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אלל[ה בקאך וצרף אלאסוא]
ענך ברחמתה מן בוציר יו[ם ]
באחסן כאתמה ען סלאמה וע[אפיה ]
בכי…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Mentions a covering of silver; Sālim; Abū l-Munā;al-Malījī; Eliyya; Abū l-Khayr.
Letter fragment sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer tried 2 or 3 times to travel, but it was impossible owing to the …
Letter addressed to the Jewish community of Tilimsān (Tlemcen). In Judaeo-Arabic. The upper part is in a very stylized (Spanish or North African) script, and …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Date: missing. Husband: Elʿazar b. Shela ha-Levi (maybe the same as in Halper 391 and JRL Gaster heb. ms …
Late accounts in Arabic, resembles AIU VII.F.57 but the writing is neater. Dated 1237 AH which is 1821/22 CE.
Bill of release. Location: Damīra. The city is referred to as עיר דמירה הקטנה in Hebrew ("the city of little Damīra"). The release is granted …
Arabic, literary.
Recto (secondary use): Letter from an unknown writer to the brothers Mevorakh b. Saadya (in office 1078-1082 and 1094-1111) and Yehuda b. Saadya (in office …
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An ethical treatise, in a personal tone (yā akhī...), about fulfilling the religious duties
Letter sent by a certain Shelomo, mentioning the Nagid [...] b. David, Moses, Egypt and Cairo. (Information from CUDL.) Same sender: T-S 8J24.16 (PGPID 3702).
תעתוק אחד
IB III, 17. Deed of manumission for Ashū, an enslaved woman (shifḥa) in the Tuḷu region of the Malabar coast. Avraham Ibn Yijū wrote this …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to "entering" (can refer to a marriage) …
Fragment from the top part of a ketubba from Cairo ([al-Qāhira] al-Muʿizziyya). Invokes the authority of the Nagid titled [Mordekhay] ha-Zeman. The groom may be …
Letter from Ṣedaqa b. ʿAyyāsh, in Alexandria, to Abū Naṣr al-Faḍl b. Sahl al-Tustarī (aka Ḥesed b. Yashar), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1023 (Bareket and …
4 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Verso: Autograph note from Moshe Maimonides to al-Shaykh al-Wathīq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
List of names, with some numbers. Unclear purpose. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions Abū Bishr Ibn al-Kohen; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. [...]; Moshe al-Ṣayrafī; Yaʿaqov Ibn …
Bottom right corner of a 14th C legal contract, probably a contract, dated 27th Muḥarram 723 AH.
Bifolio from a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Shevat/Av 5443 AM, which is 1683 CE. The …
:(Documents 1-3) Right side of bifolio
Arabic script (VMR)
Jottings and basmalas.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, including part of the address on verso. NB: this must be describing a different fragment.
Recto: Account of Abū l-Faraj the physician upon his arrival from Damietta. Dating: ca. 1130 CE (based on the dating of verso). In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic …
Letter to the elder Yosef b. Abū l-Karīm. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Nissim b. Isḥāq b. al-Sahl, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf, in al-Maḥalla. Dating: 11th century. For the sender, see also …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably mercantile, sent from al-Mahdiyya. The addressee is Abū l-Surūr [...] b. Natan.
Book list. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
דיון אחד
Recipe or prescription. In Arabic script. Mentions the names of several foods. Partial transcription: دقيق حمص ودقيق فول ودقيق . . . من كل واحد …
Medical text in Arabic script written on the back of a page of Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the entries is about choking (ikhtināq).
Trousseau list. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Fiancé: Seʿadya b. [Avraham]. Fiancée: Jawhara bt. Seʿ[adya known as Abū l-Yumn Ibn al-Baṣal]. This is …
Badly damaged letter in Ottoman Turkish concerning shipments of firewood. Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman …
[ ] peder-i ʿazīzim //el-Ḥāc Muḥammed// ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-i şerīflerine
[ ] selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñr…
[ ] To my most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father //al-Ḥājj Muḥammad//,
[ ] ...after offering greetings and sincere p…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?) b. Ismaʿīl who was arrested by Sayyid al-Ahl, Riḍwān, and al-Muẓaffar …
Private commercial accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Tall bifolio. The upper left entry of recto may refer to "the kārdār" in which case this …
Letter describing a sea voyage from Tripoli to Sicily (CUDL). “Of another Jew we read in a Hebrew letter that in a large ship, in …
Probably a fragment of a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to Sayyidnā and contains blessings and prayers and some biblical verses. Reused on recto for a …