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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: injunction issued by the vizier of al-Fāʾiz (Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ruzzīk) ordering Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Kāmil b. ʿAbd al-Karīm to execute all of his …
[ al-Fāʾiz bi-Na]sr Allāh, commander of the faithful, the benedictions of God be upon him and upon his p…
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Account in Judaeo-Arabic with alphanumerical figures and itemized labels such as "milk/ ḥalīb" that may date from the 16th-18th centuries (based on the paleography). On …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists many calendar dates, but possibly not the year. A ḥamām is mentioned in the third entry on …
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq (Tripoli al-Gharb) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), August 1051. Written a short time after the sinking of the ship of …
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Accounts of a perfumer; list of purchasers of ʿabīr perfume, musk, and salūkha (probably identical with salīkha, an aromatic bark resembling cassia). Names seem mostly …
1 مناقشة
Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolio from a larger ledger. Mentions numerous goods, weights, names, and transactions. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. In the hand …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Mentions Rabbenu Hillel ha-M[...]; yearning for the addressee; greetings to the addressee's mother; and the sale of …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Accounts.
Legal document. Quittance or bill of release (barāʾa) from Almeria, in al-Andalus, confirmed in Egypt. Individuals mentioned include […] b. al-Naḡara, Ḥalfon ha-Levi, Yiṣḥaq b. …
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Accounts listing 72 names with (low) Greek/Coptic numerals. In Arabic script, with an occasional name written in Hebrew script. Most of the names are Jewish. …
Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions 525 AH and [144]2 Seleucid, corresponding to 1130/31 CE. Mentions …
Letter addressed to Abū l-Riḍā b. Hilāl, the secretary (kātib) in "the compound of al-Ḥāfiẓ" (al-rabʿ al-Ḥāfiẓī al-saʿīd) at Bāb Zuwayla in Cairo. The sender's …
Letter from an unidentified Nagid to R. Abraham regarding an insubordinate cantor. Given this shelfmark's prior identification as late and Dotan Arad's attribution of the …
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Official-looking account reporting revenue.
Recto: Legal record of a sale of an upper-story apartment made by Surūra bt. Shelomo ha-Rofeʾ to Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham al-Qābisī. In the margin mentions …
Bill of release. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE. On parchment. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli, who signed the document together with Yiṣḥaq …
Recto: List of items and quantities, such as saffron, aṭrāf ṭīb. potash (ushnān). Verso: Order of payment. Maḥfūẓ is asked to pay 7 of something …
Verso contains the beginning of a petition. The tarjama appears at the right. The petition begins "yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya al-mawlawiyya al-ajalliyya. . ." Recto contains …
End of a medical treatise regarding different kinds of food and drinks, their tastes and their influences on the body depending on the time and …
Copies of letter to the Karaite community of Qal'a from Istanbul regarding communal matters
Legal deed. Release given to Ṣedaqa ha-Levi by his divorcee. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel, Elul 1145 CE. Cosigned David ha-Paliṭ b. Yosef …
Very damaged small fragment from a list or account. Mentions Abū ʿAlī, Abū l-Faḍl, and al-Ḥakīm.
Aramaic text. Vocalized. Yemeni hand. Resembles Targum Onqelos on the making of the Menora (Exodus 25 and 37), but there are also significant variations.
Legal document. The case involves a house worth 75 dinars and an orphan boy who has yet to come of age. People named include Mevorakh …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Fiscal account. Needs examination.
Literary, talmudic discussion. Might be in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Secondary use: Inventory of possessions in Judaeo-Arabic, for legal purposes. The lists are arranged in columns on each side. Mentions "with his deceased brother." On …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Maybe draft or writing practice.
Verso, lefthand page: End of a legal query and responsum from "our rabbi the Rav" (Friedman suggests this is R. Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen) concerning …
Letter from Nissim b. Avraham to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Dating: ca. 1050s. About a consignment of silk that was about to reach Fustat, owned …
Note in Arabic, possibly a prescription. Opens with ijjāṣ (plum or pear) and ʿunnāb (jujube).
Letter from Yefet to Abū l-Barakāt the physician, in Fustat (bāb qaṣr al-shamʿ). which the writer alludes to some bad news ("ever since I heard …
Letter by a man to his friend inquiring about the cessation of correspondence and emphasizing that 'brothers' may sometimes be angry with each other, but …
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 48[..] AM = 1039–1139 CE. Involves [...] b. Yaḥyā and ʿEli. Also mentions Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
(Part of an) Ismāʿīlī text on creed. The preserved text establishes the genealogy of Ismaʿīlī Imāms from Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to al-Mustanṣir with their full names …
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions people such as Muhannā and his brother, and Yūsuf. The sender then gives an account of his travels: …
Verso: Official letter/order from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with motto/ʿalāma at the top. Similarly concerns the releasing a vow between …
Verso: Dedication and ownership notes. "Saʿadya b. Aharon wrote this for Yosef b. Berakha. . ."; "Refuʿa ha-Levi b. [...] purchased. . ."
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, 25 August 1056 (Gil). Mentions that Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ (here called Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣāʾigh) …
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Small receipt or similar type of document.