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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Folio of an alchemical work. The present fragment mentions the usage of mercury, and lead, and some discovery attributed to Hermes.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
mas), and Yosef ha-Kohen al-Segula (in the address (or reuse?)).
Mentions ʿUmayr; Yeshuʿa; mawlāy al-qāḍī(?); bales and buhārs of indigo.
Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably alchemical, but possibly medical. Magnesia (מגניסיא) is mentioned.
Regards to [Sitt] Naʿīm and her husband Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan.
1 نسخ
Involves a man and woman and sustenance/alimony payments (mezonot).
On parchment. The word "al-awwal" appears. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Alphabetical exercises in Hebrew and Arabic script. The student may have been using red ink on the recto in addition to black ink.
Mentions ʿImrān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Iskandarānī.
שרי אלעצפר ה קנאטיר מן סער
כט דינר כל קנטאר אלתמן קמה דינר
וכרג ענה אנטאע ותליס וחבל וכיט
ושדאדין ח דנא ודרהמין וברטיל
וחמ…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Mentions the title Sharaf al-Umarāʾ and ما هو مشروح.
Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb and [...]b al-Ḥakīm. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably mercantile, sent from al-Mahdiyya. The addressee is Abū l-Surūr [...] b.
Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.
In blocky handwriting. One side mentions "al-bāqī... wa-l-dīwān nafadha dhālika."
There is a section on tashwīsh al-qawlanj, which includes jaundice of the face.
Rental receipt, for 6 dinars, in Arabic script. "al-bāqī li-ṣaḥib l-dār". Dated probably 504 H.
Mentions a strong vow "bi-akhaṣṣ al-yamīn".
Probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions al-Muʿallim Nāṣir and a quantity of raṭls of taro.
Long list of commodities and prices, mostly foodstuff like almonds, plums, and apples. Needs examination.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Part or all of it looks like poetry. Ruling regarding bathing according to Islamic jurisprudence on verso.
Refers to someone in distress and to a nākhūdha (ship-owner) named Hilāl al-Iskandarā[nī]
Thābit for his dwelling in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat). Needs further examination.
Receipt for Abū l-[...] al-Ṭabīb. In Arabic script. For the month of Ramaḍān.
Fragmentary and handwriting not very legible. Mentions "al-Qāḍī" atleast two times. Needs examination.
Literary: The Polemic of Nestor the Priest (Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf), in Judaeo-Arabic. See the book of the same name by Lasker and Stroumsa.
Nissim, in Fustat, to Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī. Very damaged. Needs examination.
Legal document concerning a female slave, witnessed by a judge Muḥammad Mūsā, dated 28 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 810/1407.
Iqrār dated 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 902 H. (?) [1497]. [Described in the dealer's description as dated 702 H. [1302]].
ʿAzarya (ZL) the head of the yeshiva (raʾs al-mathība). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī in Būṣīr to Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Andalūsī (c. 1061 CE).
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך מן בוצ[יר]
יא בקין מן אדר ראשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמ…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Abu Nasr al-Halabi. Aden, ca. 1130-50.
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
At the bottom there is a line stating that "this notebook belongs to (or: is by) Yiṣḥaq b. Ibrāhīm al-Sīrajī."
Yosef. mentioning dates, quantities, and names, including Nissim b. Hārūn and Yaʿaqov al-Kohen.
Dating: Looks somewhat late, perhaps 14th or 15th century (with names like al-muʿallim Farajallāh).
Mentioning the government/sulṭān and the ancestors and the synagogue and the Torah... it is difficult to see how it all ties together.
The document was drawn in the name of Shamṭar (probably Coptic) al-ʿAmūdī. Needs examination.
Listing amounts owed by various people (e.g., Yaʿqūb, Waliyy al-Dawla).
Letter draft from Faraj Allāh to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late.
Literary, Arabic script. Tale concerning Hārūn al-Rashīd and Jaʿfar ibn Barmak. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
The lessee is a Christian (al-Naṣrānī). On verso there is a faṣl/note probably related to the deed.
Astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning India and Ṭabaristān and other lands as well as a report in the name of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib.
Siddur, on verso a colophon with the names Bu al-Faraj b. Ibrahim, in two different hands, and some pen trials.
Recto: Literary anecdotes in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script involving Abū Nuwās (=Ibn Hānī) and Hārūn al-Rashīd.
Verso: Two fragmentary lines from a state document in Arabic, including the word "al-ḥaḍra." Recto contains Hebrew blessings.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic ("... al-nabawiyya..."). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter, but almost nothing preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Someone named [...] b. Dawud al-[...] is named on verso. ASE.
Mentions pearls; a gold needle; and [...] al-Ṣāʾigh. (Information in part from CUDL)