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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Lists in Arabic of unclear significance, needs examination. All four pages of the bifolium are filled. Likely a fiscal account. Many names appear, e.g., Qusṭanṭīn, Ibn al-Asyūṭī, Manṣūr.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Yaʿīsh among others. Written by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kohen. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Containing many details about a house in Alexandria. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
People mentioned: Bū l-Karam Ibn Maṭrūḥ. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.
1 مناقشة
Eliyyahu to Abū l-Faraj al-Shaykh al-Makīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper part only).
Recto: Receipt dated 19 Shawwāl 517 AH (December 1123 CE) for 350 irdabbs of wheat from ʿAlī b. Saʿīd from al-Gharbiyya. Needs further examination.
The first item is hiera picra (ايارج فيقرا). Also uses pulp of colocynth (shaḥm ḥanẓal). There are 3 lines in the same hand in the middle of verso.
Written and signed by [Davi]d b. Shekhanya, also signed by Shelomo b. Avraham
Containing many prescriptions, including one "for the womb and hemorrhoids" and another attributed to the book of Isḥāq b. ʿImrān. There are also intriguing designs in red ink in the margins.
On the back (written in a different hand), a name is mentioned twice: Yefet al-Sharābi (preceded by the greeting ḥayyāk Allāh).
Letter from Ḥananel b. Shemuel to al-Raṣuy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Short but complete. The content is vague and allusive, but it seems that the writer is complaining about the addressee treating him like a stranger.
Magical text, likely in the hand of the cantor Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). See also T-S Misc.11.91, ENA 3211.1 + ENA 3211.2, T-S K1.47
Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: two fragments. Aden, 1134. See also T-S AS 173.380 (PGPID 38566).
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Possibly a letter, or possibly a magical text related to verso: wa-yaʿ[..] al-baḥr li-dhālika wa-hāja wa-lā yastaṭīʿ aḥad ʿalayhi. . . .
Mentions people such as al-Ḥazzān al-Gharbī and Abū Saʿīd.
Mentions the phrase "taḥlil al-mizāj"; refers to al-Dimashqī; and Abū Isḥāq b.
In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is also a maxim: "Indeed the world is a market, containing . . . merchants who gain profit and those who are idle."
Small fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a sum of 10 dinars and furnishings. Also mentions sums of 2 dinars and 11 dinars. On verso there are the remnants of a couple words in Arabic.
Describes the location of a property relative to the alley of the poor (zuqāq al-masākīn), the mosque, and the Byzantine church or synagogue (it is not entirely clear if it reads kanīs or kanīsa).
Account of collections and distribution ('alladhi tahsul... alladhi yufarri[q]'), with the name of '[our] lord],' probably the head of the Jews, on verso.
1 نسخ
Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] al-Amshāṭī and [...] al-Barqī.
A Shalom b. Yehudah Boṭon is also mentioned.
Contains greetings and may mention the Kārim, but the context is missing. Also mentions a consignment of R. Yehuda.
Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century. The title al-Shaykh al-Makīn appears beneath. On verso there is a blessing for the holiday of Shavuʿot.
Dating: Late, perhaps 14th or 15th century. Alexandria is mentioned at the bottom, but it is not immediately clear if that is the writer ot the addressee's location.
Involves Khibāʾ bt. Menashshe (known also from ENA NS I.11 (PGPID 11204) and ENA 3765.2 (PGPID 34325)).
State-issued receipt related to silk processing in Alexandria. In Arabic script. Dated: 12 Jumād[a] 1236 AH (1821 CE).
There may be a partial name in the second line after the basmala: [ʿAf]īf(?) al-ʿAṣṣār. (Information from Yusuf Umrethwala, Alan Elbaum, and Naïm Vanthieghem.)
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo.
It is entitled as "the names of the earthly kings" (asmāʾ al-mulūk al-arḍiyya). The page is torn and mutilated, and parts of the text are illegible.
Fragment from the introduction and beginning of Yehuda b. David Ḥayyūj's Kitab al-Afʿāl Dhawāt Ḥurūf al-Līn ('The Book of Verbs Containing Weak Letters').
No image available on FGP. See also PGPID 35336 and PGPID 30851.
Verso is in a different hand and may also be legal.
(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)
Legal document concerning claims of the wife of Abu al-Makarim b. Da’ud al-Muḥ[aṣṣil?] against him.
Recto: Letter in which a prominent person (al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Yeshaʿya) is politely asked to pay his debt.
In which the sender asks the addressee to send him a quarter raṭl of agaricum (ghārīqūn) that ‘the perfumer’ owes him, also sending greetings to Rabbenu Peraḥya.
Petition from Yusuf requesting help from the addressee, Natan, for a woman who has weak vision and a blind daughter. The sender also enquires after another woman. Mentions Sunbāṭ.
Fragment of a letter mentioning proudly the writer's two sons and reporting the affairs of two men (perhaps brothers or traveling companions). Mentions al-Rayyis al-Gadol and Abū l-Munajjā.
Letter from Masliah b. Yehuda of Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in which he asks for help retrieving some money that his associates in Fustat still owed him.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter (copy) from pietist disciples in Alexandria to Avraham Maimonides, complaining about persecutions by their co-religionists, who prevented them from practising their prayer rites.
Fragment of a letter from Avraham b. Farah from Alexandria, to an unknown person. Mentions shipments of linen, silk, and cotton.
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[ ] אן ינ[ ] אלי פי תאני אלסוק
[ ] וסערה [ ] ענדי וקד
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Draft of a legal document dated 1213 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides (notably without the title Nagid), involving Abu Isḥāq b. Sayyid al-Ahl al-Miṣrī.
Memorandum of testimony concerning the legacy of a certain Isma'il al-'Azazi al-Halabi, who died in Acre, written in Fustat, Kislev 1411/November 1099.
There are two lines of very large calligraphic text, including the name of a woman, Zaynab bt. Rashīq al-Ḥākimī known as al-ḤM[...].
Mentions the Nile flooding "wafā al-Nīl al-mubārak", and begins with a Quranic verse (32:27).
Commodities include pepper and brazilwood. There is also the draft of the first few lines of a letter in Arabic script.
List of contributions in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On verso there are also accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals (unclear if/how related).
List of contributors to charity during the time of Abu Ya'qub al-hakim, headed by Mahfuz al-Suri, ca. 1095 (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, App.
recto, right hand page
Letter from Ismā'īl al-Tāhartī, Ifrīqiya, to Abū l-Bishr Yaʿaqov b. […] Mentions "the remnants of an illness" (athar al-ʿilla, l. 4.