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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Document in Arabic on recto, possibly. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
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Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. Avraham (or possibly ʿArabiyya) stood security for …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified jottings in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Letter from Makhlūf b. ʿIwāḍ the judge, maybe somewhere in Ifrīqiyya, to his brother Ṣedaqa b. ʿIwāḍ the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some …
Beginning of a letter to an unidentified scholar. On the verso there is some writing in large Arabic script, but unrelated to text on verso.
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תעתוק אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Avr[aham] and there is probably enough text here to determine the genre …
Verso: Petition from Muḥammad b. [...]. Small fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on the hand. Striking calligraphy.
Legal document, in Arabic script, dated 18 Dhū l-Qaʿda 950 AH = 12 February 1544 CE. An agreement between two parties with witnesses, probably rental, …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom only). The sender apologizes profusely for an unspecified failing and goes on at length about his …
مه…[ ]سمى لو كان[ ]غير
مولاي الشيخ وارجو الا يتجرد منه كتاب في شي منك هذا فوالله
ان كنت الا على النار والله ما اردت الا احرق راسي ك…
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Shimʿon Frances, probably in Cairo (למצ[ר), from Nissim Masos(?) or Mshish(?). Mentions Shelomo Barūkh, Yaʿaqov Portas, and Eliyyahu Ben-Ṣahal. Requires …
Legal record (#11). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn Makḥūl and Abū ʿAlī b. Abū Saʿd attest that Sibāʿ …
Recto: Two legal queries addressed to a certain Efrayim. In the first, Reuven claims that Shimon owes him money but that he has lost the …
Letter from Moshe b. Peraḥya, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr, to a prominent scholar in the capital. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 1230s–40s (the last years …
Recto: Legal record in a court notebook. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 18 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid = 22 April 1098 CE. Regarding a financial claim made by …
Letter from Abū al-Riḍa, in Qūṣ, to Abū Zikrī, in Fustat, c/o the sugar factory (maṭbakh) of Abū al-Maʿānī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
דיון אחד
Small and damaged fragment from a legal deed. Refers to Monday, the 19th or 29th of a month. The name Maḥāsin is preserved. Might also …
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script in two different hands, late. The first one seems a literary text mentioning death 'al-mawt'. The second mentions the …
Minute fragment, contains mostly rhymed sentences, might be from a letter or a poem to honor a certain Halfon, but too little text remained. AA …
Letter by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī from Alexandria containing details about shipments of flax including. List of expenditures. (Information from M. Gil, Kingdom, Vol. III, …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ואתם נעמתה עליך מן אלאסכנדריה נצף מן איר ען סלאמה ונעמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאל…
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Blessings in Hebrew, likely from the top of a letter of appeal for assistance.
Small fragment of a petition/letter of appeal for help. In Arabic script. There is a wide space between lines 2 and 3 presumably for the …
Legal query or responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently concerning a brother whose two sisters each own a share of a house, and he swore that he …
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Apparently granting property rights, mentioning a deceased father; Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel; …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Deed of lease. In difficult Arabic script. The lessee is [...] b. ʿĪsā b. ʿĀzif(?), a government employee (al-mustakhdam). Dated: 17 Rajab 531(?) AH = …
Recto with address on verso (secondary use): Letter probably in the hand of of Abū Zikrī b. Eliyyahu. Opens with expressions of longing. Then conveys …
Small fragment from a literary piece with colophon from 1351 CE (Tammuz 1662 Seleucid). In a Yemeni hand. The text itself also mentions a date …
Communal register, 34 pages of donations collected on various Shabbats, including for the year 1814/15 (5575). Moshe Bibas appears throughout.
Two lines from a ketubba of a bride, Malīḥa bt. Ṣed[aqa], divorced from a prior betrothal. AA
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two names "al-Adab al-madhkura bt...." and "... b. Abī l-Ḥūsayn al-madhkūr". Contains a fragmentary date [X]25. Acknowledgement clause in …
letter to a R. Shabbetai, from R. Abraham from Narbona.
IB VI, 55. Letter from a certain Yosef, in Aden, to Yosef Ibn Shanju, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Early 16th century, based on the …
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Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Medical treatise, in Arabic script. On anatomy dealing with the vena cava (al-ʿirq al-ajwaf). Contains rubrication (use of red and black inks).
A dowry list of the couple Yefet b. Binyamin and Sirwa bt. Khalaf. On verso an Arabic letter or document. AA. {It is not clear …
Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. Although the verso was not reused in this case, the shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 14th century.
Verso: Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1156/57 CE, based on the date of the document on recto. Begins, "Thus claimed Abū l-Faraj Amīn al-Dawla …
Accounts. Arabic script on recto, Judaeo-Arabic on verso. Late. Currency: fulūs.
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1187 CE, based on the mention of the Nāṣirī dirham. Addressed to a community …