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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
One line is a list of the Coptic months, and another is a list of the letters of the alphabet. The last line may be a proverb.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
The muqirr: Ibrāhīm b. Siwār b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz acknowledges that he owes wheat. Needs examination.
Mentions sending a legal query to al-Rav Rabbenu Shemuel, shares in a house, and people who are distressing the writer.
1 نسخ
Request to Avraham to summon ʿAbd al-Karīm to the court (apparently he ignored the first order).
Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)
The ink is quite smudged in places. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Order of payment from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. In Arabic script. The addressee is to give the bearer, the sender's trusted agent, the red silk which was agreed upon.
Possibly a deed of sale, since the word "al-mushtarī" appears in l. 4.
(Information from Khan, ALAD, pp. 20, 45) Verso: Hebrew liturgy and jottings - needs examination.
1 مناقشة
(FGP describes it as a letter or document mentioning a Jew (al-yahudi), but this does not seem accurate.)
Mention a sum of X-hundred dinars and the phrase "...which are mine, and that..." (allatī lī fa-tilka).
Legal document or account in Arabic script, referring to "every month in the name ʿAbd al-Raḥīm" and payments. On verso there is piyyut.
Addressed to 'sayyidnā al-rayyis.' Reused on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew.
Each entry is for a shuqqa (type of garment). Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL)
Items include ʿanzarūt, sandarūs, shurb. All crossed out with vertical lines. Handwriting of Abū Zikrī Kohen?
The bride's name is Sitt al-Thanāʾ ben(!) Elʿazar. Part of the monogamy clause is preserved.
Bifolio of accounts, mentioning quantities of dirhams and names such as Ibrahim al-Kohen and Abū l-Ḥasan. Very crude hand. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Mentions a package (ruzma) and a cotton worker (al-qaṭṭān). (Information in part from CUDL)
Ṭahor and "[...] the physician the hsuband of Sitt al-[...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Mentions a quantity of vessels for wine (ṭamāwiyya) and greetings to ʿImrān and Sitt al-Gharb. (Information in part from CUDL)
Order for a quantity of apple syrup from al-Asʿad. Possibly in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.
Mentions the elder Abū ʿAlī b. Ṣ[...], Yeshuʿa, and Abū Manṣūr. (Information in part from CUDL)
Only a few phrases are preserved, including "the deliverance of the girl" (khalāṣ al-ṣabiyya), a phrase which often refers to childbirth.
Accounts with Hebrew and Coptic numerals, mentioning different quantities of dinars, expenses for craftsmen, and the title ṣāḥib al-baḥr (‘master of the sea’). (Information from CUDL)
Business letter, referring to the purchase of commodities and their prices, e.g. almonds and top quality Qifṭī sugar, mentioning Yaʿaqov b.
In the Arabic-script portion it seems he is referred to as 'rayyis al-yahūd Sulaymān.'
Refers to an illness (fī l-maraḍ) and an agent (al-wakīl). Needs further examination.
Involving a deceased father. Mentions the "majlis al-ḥukm" of "our master [...]." Needs further examination.
Commercial/dār receipt for ʿArūs al-Urjuwānī. Both sides are filled with various entries.
Manṣūr, Ḥajjāj, and Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
The addressee is asked to report to the 'funduq al-yahūd' for some reason that is probably explained in the bottom line.
Rent receipt for Bū l-Munā b. Faraj and Bū ʿAlī "for their dwelling in the shop" for the month of Ramaḍān.
It refers to a woman named Sitt al-Naẓar bt. [...] and then "his brother Shela."
Verso contains a mirror imprint of a similar document, but with an ʿalāma at the upper right.
Ibrāhīm the Jewish garment mender (al-raffāʾ) in Fustat for the year 567 AH = 1171/72 CE (if read correctly).
Verso is headed by the glyph and begins "al-bāqī ʿind. . . ." Mentions pepper.
The header may be "katabahū" and the next line may say "ʿalā ʿadl lāk" (for a bale of lac). This is followed by a number, possibly a date.
Recto: List of names on the back of a recycled document in Arabic, such as: Yahuda al-Rūmī, Yaʿacov b. Ṣadaqa, and others. Medieval-era.
Mentions Bū l-Khayr; Mufaḍḍal; Manṣūr; Bū Riḍā (? ברצא); Ṭāhir; al-Qūṣī; Umm Baqāʾ; ʿAzīza.
Mentions "yā akhī" and "qalb al-kull ʿindak."
Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod to pay to the bearer 3 ūqiyyas of [...] and 3 ūqiyyas of lemon (syrup?).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning al-Maḥallī, loans from Ibrāhīm and Bū l-Maʿānī, trash collection, a carpenter, an apartment.
From [...] to Abū l-Khayr(?) al-Mubārak b. Dāʾūd. The upper part of the front and the address on the back are preserved.
On the right page of verso there is a basmala followed by three lines of accounting (e.g. min al-ʿayn dīnār wāḥid) in Arabic.
Yosef. Mentions Sulaymān, al-Kohen, Yūsuf, Saʿīd, Khiyār.
Mentioning [...] b. Abī Saʿīd al-Isrāʾīlī. Needs examination.
Only a few words are preserved here (...ʿalā ikhtilāf...). Reused for a dirge by Yosef Ibn Abitur.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Mentions Sūq al-Ḥilwānī and the name Muḥammad among many other entries.
In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Many or all of the items are attributed to Yosef Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov b.
Fragment of a state document, fragmentary lines preserved. The word "al-Nawāḥī" is visible. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic fragment. .