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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Looks like a draft of a letter of appeal in Hebrew, with only formulaic phrases. In the margins and all over verso, there are medical and dental prescriptions/recipes.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
A few words from an official document in Arabic script. Mentions "muʿāmalat al-Shām." At least two different sizes of writing.
Order of payment? Ṣuḥḥa li-l-shaykh al-ajall Abū l-Ḥajjāj yadfaʿ l-muwaṣṣilihā...
The Arabic script may refer to "bayt Muḥsin al-Bazzāz"
Expenses like couriers (raqqāṣīn) and trash disposal; mentions Mūsā al-ṢB[...]
The first is a version of "يأيها المعشوقُ بالله مَن" by Tamīm al-Fāṭimī (d. 985) (compare https://www.aldiwan.net/poem50895.html).
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Late. Involving David al-Granati (אלגראנאטי) a resident of Rhodes (תושב רודוס); a sum of reals (ריאליס); an orphan; and a sister.
Addressed to a wazīr ("mawlāy al-wazīr"). The document was pruned and stuck at the bottom.
1 نسخ
The beginnings of 2 lines are preserved: fī kull shahr... ḥisāban fī al-[...]... Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Refers to the lions' den and to the king summoning "the viziers and patriarchs" (אלוזרא ואלבטארקה). Join: Alan Elbaum
From Abū Zikrī Kohen to al-Shaykh Khalīl (or Khalaf?).
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Book list written by Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. See Allony, The Jewish Library, no. 100 (the shelfmark given there is TS NS 298.3, and should be corrected)
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
At upper left: "min dār...." Begins: "ʿalā X..." Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic commercial accounts.
Mentions a house, Abū Isḥāq, Sitt al-Nās, and her husband.
Refers to witnesses going to somebody's house, and lists numerous valuable items. Mentions Barakāt al-Katnānī (? אלכתנאני).
Mentions fuwwa, measures in arṭāl, and a person named Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Iskandarānī. Needs examination.
Draft of a court record involving Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yeshuʿa b. Yefet (Information from CUDL).
Little of the content remains; mentions household items (ḥawā'ij al-bayt) and the writer's shame.
The bride is Esther known as Sit al-Bayt d. Ya'aqov. AA
Letter from an unknown man to Umm ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, filled with business matters and greetings.
Identification by Matthew Dudley and Alan Elbaum.
1 مناقشة
Husband: Nissim b. [...] al-Miṣrī.
Fragment (upper right piece) of a partnership agreement in Hebrew between Avraham al-Akhṭar and a certain Shem Tov. Dating: probably 16th century (the hand is known).
Disorganized writings in Hebrew, Arabic, and Judaeo-Arabic, in all different directions. There are two lines from an official-looking calligraphic Arabic document.
Ketubba for Yūsuf b. ʿIwaḍ al-Kohen and Ḥāliya bt. Yaḥyā Kohen. No earlier than late 17th century (perhaps 1696 CE = 2008 Seleucid).
Mentions several obscure terms; sour grapes (ḥiṣrim); sugar; tutty; al-ḥakīm; jars of wine
Letter addressed to Shelomo ha-Sar known Saniyy al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā. Consists solely of flattery and praises, perhaps a letter of gratitude for some benefaction.
Letter from Yosef and Nahum, sons of Sahl al-Baradānī, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
2 نسخين
Mentions a payment of 9 wariq dirhams a day for the month Ramaḍān al-muʿaẓẓam, for a total of 270 dirhams. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Dating: First half of the 11th century. Mentions Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn. Edited by Elinoar Bareket. Awaiting fuller description.
Ṣāʿid; 370 dirhams; and "the balance" (al-bāqī). Dating: ca. 1200 based on recto.
Asking him for more money ("the peraḥ that you sent has already run out"). Dating: Probably late.
One piece of paper stuck on to another piece of paper, containing a message in Hebrew referring to 'this Jew who brings my letter all (sic) the holy congregations....'
Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum. On verso there is a piyyut (in beautiful handwriting and vocalized).
, ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
SOme interesting names: Musāfir, Murhaf, Humām, al-Hudhud ("the hoopoe").
Mentions people such as Abū l-Ḥasan; Bū Muḥammad; al-Faqīh; Mufaḍḍal; Bū l-Faraj. Many numbers and sums in dirhams as well.
One side is headed "Shihāb al-Dīn [amīr(?)] Dīwān [...]." Needs examination.
Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
Informal note/order addressed to Abū Saʿīd (al-ʿAfṣī?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving him an instruction concerning the cup/jug (kūz) of mercury that is with the bearer of the note.
Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Mentions al-muʿallim Saʿīd b. [...]. Needs examination.
Mentions Yosef b. Yehuda al-Kohen and at least one other name.
Verso: Remnants of a few words in Arabic, along with two lines giving a sum of money in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bishr, and a purchase that the writer made in al-Maḥalla.
Refers to a rescript from the government (tawqīʿ al-sulṭān, verso l. 3).
Needs examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.
The new chapter/section is written in red ink, part of it is preserved and reads as "al-muṭbiqa". Needs examination.
Could be a folio from the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ. Needs examination.