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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: Letter, in Arabic script. Mentions qamḥ (wheat), and probably an inquiry related to its price. Contains the glyph. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a perfume/drug business in Qalyūb. A Seleucid Era date and the …
Business account or letter, mentioning several names including some with the title al-haj - needs examination. (FGP)
Verso: Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Ḥalfon and his wife Maḥfūẓa bt. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Or possibly a letter on behalf of a woman ([al]-mamlūka). Probably her …
Recto: Letter fragment to a distinguished person named Abū l-Barakāt b. [...], titled Sar Menuḥa and Sar Shalom. Contains profuse well-wishes for the addressee's recovery …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Claim on money (one dinar), though other property is also mentioned, and an acknowledgement of debt. The document has witness signatures in a different …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: note from Khalīfa Ḥasan. Verso: letter by Meʿir Ben-Naʿīm (fl. 1785-1825 CE) to Khalīfa Ḥasan concerning business matters. 18th-19th century. (MCD with information from …
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Beginning of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment. Legal?
Small fragment of a letter. Judaeo-Arabic on recto, Arabic jottings on verso.
Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon and people from Fustat to Shelomo b. Yehuda
Recto (original use): Two fragments of a Qaraite betrothal deed. Dated Elul (year not preserved) in Egypt. Bride: Naʿama bt. Nissi b. Yaʿaqov. Groom: Barakāt …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Part of a letter with holiday greetings; writer describes his illness and explains that he is spending the holiday in the house of his brother’s …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Damsis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. The writer deals with cloths and scarves for Nahray. Also mentions …
לאדוני אבו יחיא נהוראי בן נסים נ"נ, יתמיד אלוהים את שלומו ואת חסדיו לו; נסים בן כלפון נ"נ בן בנאיה.
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Legal document. In Arabic script. Perhaps a deed of sale. Mentions (l. 6) the mound known as Kawm Dīnār in the vicinity of Birkat Ramīs …
Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The bride is not a virgin. Dowry apparently of little value. (Information …
דיון אחד
Practice signatures of the name Yoʾel b. Yehuda ha-Levi the teacher. In the blank space on a bifolio of Hebrew poetry.
Letter, in Arabic script. Written by a Muslim, as he begins and ends with prayers for Muḥammad. He refers to himself as "the slave" (al-mamlūk), …
Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in …
Au nom de Dieu clément et miséricordieux.
Je fais savoir (au qâ'id Mu'izz), Dieu le protège et l'ait sous sa garde et en son amitié et ne
Fragment of a Hebrew legal document from Cairo dated 1771/2 CE ([5]532 AM) certifying that Yaʿaqov Katāḥ (?) b. Avraham ______[lacuna] and Me'ir Saporte/Saporti(?) b. …
Legal document, bottom part only, plus qiyyum/validation. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]38 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Witnesses: Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaon; …
Recto (secondary use): Promissory note (IOU) -- "I owe Abū ʿAlī . . . ." Verso (original use): Very damaged letter in Arabic script.
Business letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen Sijilmāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Wafiyy al-Dawla, Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Farrāsh; Abū l-Maʿālī; the addressee's …
Glossary of Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-Romance in the hand of Maimonides. Originally published by Shivtiel, "Judaeo-Romance and Judaeo-Arabic Word-list from the Genizah" (2007). Identification of the …
Record and validation of a deposition regarding a compound partly dedicated to the synagogues. The document bears two dates, 4 Iyyar [1]358 Sel. and 2 …
The witnesses named in this deed testify that they know that the compound
which is in the blind alley known as the Lane of the Poor in …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a couple practice signatures of David Ben-Naʿīm, whose dated documents are from the first half of the nineteenth century. …
List of names with corresponding sums of money. Likely contributors to charity. Dating: First half of the 11th century (or late 10th century), per Goitein …
Minute Bible fragment, with part of Genesis 1:28 visible on the recto and Genesis 2:10 on the verso.
Letter from Ovadiah in the inn to Abu 'Amran in rhymed prose. On verso is an address in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from Goitein's index cards and …
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Fiscal account in Arabic script. One section is headed "māl al-jawālī" (revenue from the capitation tax). Reused for Hebrew jottings.
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner of recto).
Letter from Al-Mubārak b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Sabra to his "father" (paternal uncle?) Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra. He reports that Ibn Siman Ṭov …
Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
A letter to Shmuel b. Aharon
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer wants the addressee to meet with somebody. The writer may be a teacher. He describes what a certain mother …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Asks to be sent something and refers to "shughl al-ṣulṭān," government work.