Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Interesting accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, partly in the first person ("Friday: baṭṭāl. Sunday: I went out. . . "). Mentions 'ghilmān al-ṣāḥib', provender for a donkey …
אין רשומות קשורות
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much is preserved apart from greetings. Mentions the parnas Yiṣḥaq and Musallam ha-Kohen.
Official receipt in Arabic script. On verso, personal accounts? Needs examination.
Mercantile account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. "Notice of what I copied for al-Mahdiyya with [...] with Maʿālī as agent for Abū Saʿīd …
None
Document(s) in Arabic, mostly accounts with a longer entry on the verso that may represent a separate document type. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Literary copy of an epistle in Aramaic. The Judaeo-Arabic header states "from R. Yosef (or Yehosef) ha-Ṣadiq to R. כל..." The preserved content is only …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …
Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Deed (draft?) regarding a family legal dispute involving real estate under lien and trustworthiness. The wife of Ishaq is mentioned.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Giving instructions and sending regards. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā; Abū l-Munā; his brother Abū Sahl; a …
Accounts in Arabic script. On verso, in Hebrew script, the name Mūsā b. Ibrāhim al-Kohen.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic, listing mainly materia medica. Mentions barberries, brazilwood, rose, cucumber, endive, gum (ʿilk), aloe, cardamom.
Letter fragment from a group of Byzantine Jewish captives being held for ransom in Egypt (probably Alexandria), to the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew. …
דיון אחד
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Late.
Letter fragment mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Minyat Zifta; blessings that God rescue someone from their enemies; the sender spending Shabbat in Malīj; and the news …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Legal document from Cairo involving Saadya ha-Kohen Me'ili (?) and Hayyim Luki (?) a resident of Alexandria, possibly dated Tammuz 1788 CE (תצמיח i.e. …
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 …
First-person report about a discussion, possibly a polemic between the writer and other people. This fragment begins in Arabic script, switches to Judaeo-Arabic for the …
Verso (original use): State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a Fatimid Caliph, probably al-Mustanṣir based on the reuse on recto. Only the beginning and …
…من تدبيره(؟) والمطالعة به…….في
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين
وابنائه الائمة المنتجبين الراي العالي في الامر بالوقوف
على خدم…
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū Isḥāq probably relating to a marriage agreement. The monogamy clause is included. The bride was probably …
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script mentioning "thick" (? ghalīẓ) chebulic myrobalan (2/3 pound), nutmeg, Indian indigo (10 ounces), and cinnabar (5 pounds)
Address of a letter from Nahray b. Natan to his cousin (ibn ʿamma) Nahray b. Nissim. On recto: Court record in Arabic script, maybe a …
Letter in the hand of Shemu’el he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle b. Moshe he-Ḥaver, in Tyre, to Efrayim he-Ḥaver b. Shemarya he-Ḥasid, in Fusṭāṭ. In Hebrew. Dating: approximately …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
The address on a letter from Zekharya b. Berakhel to Shemuel b. Eli gaʾon. Seems like this fragment held several letters. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, …
Fatimid decree (sijill) of investiture, Judaeo-Arabic copy. Renews the appointment of a Jewish physician "to the headship of all the Israelite denominations: the Rabbanites, Qaraites, …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Genealogical list of Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.
Document in Arabic script, probably a private or official account. Reused on recto for a Hebrew text written with very poor spelling (phonetic). Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Specifying that instructions were carried out (ka-mā awṣā bihī).
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī. The letter is addressed to someone who is younger than the writer (he calls him “my son”). Mentions …
[ ] קלבי פי הדה אלאיאם אללה יאתי [
[ ] ומא בקי לאני אנא אלי אלאן מא נערף מא [
[ ] אללה פי נפס…
Secondary use: Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96. Dealing with numerous business matters. He reports that Shemuel dropped a vessel …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Sibāʿ b. Surūr to Avraham b. Shemaʿya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. All that is preserved here is formulaic blessings and the standard complaint …
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …
Letter mentioning a certain Yosef and commodities such as sugar. (Information from CUDL)
Commercial document, mentioning a bale of lac and other items and numbers. Needs further examination.
Accounts. Note in the volume at JTS says these two fragments were detached from one another in 1965.
Letter fragment (right side of recto, right side of verso), probably from Alexandria to Fustat. Extremely faded. Legible phrases include: "Send to Alexand[ria]" and "he …
Monumental letter of condolence in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Addressed to a dignitary (השר המתאונן) and his mother (ולגברת מהללים הגבירה היקרה יולדתו …
Decree, in Arabic script. 6 lines of a chancery document chopped into pieces and then reused to form quires. The line on fol. 19a has …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים