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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Bifolio. Three of the four pages contain Hebrew liturgical jottings. The righthand page of verso consists of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, with several entries crossed out.
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Accounts of a druggist or merchant. In Arabic script. Listing dozens of different kinds of materia medica and other godos.
List of names and outstanding loans. There are small marks in the text resembling a '<' standing for the fraction 1/2. (Information from Goitein's index …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions ambergris (ʿanbar) and brazilwood. Mentions Khalaf.
On verso Arabic: jottings, including some names
Accounts in Arabic on recto. Requires further examination.
Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.
A dense list of names along with numbers, perhaps pledges to charity. Organized by parshiyot. Resembles T-S NS 338.40 (PGPID 25929).
Unidentified list in Arabic script. Also possibly a column of Coptic numerals on the left. Needs examination.
Construction accounts. Mentions brick (ṭūb) and clay (ṭīn) and workers. In Arabic script.
Accounts listing food products and commercial commodities in two columns. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions "in the ship of al-Dawwāma(?)." Travel provisions? …
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Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Verso: Beginning of accounts of expenses for building operations. For recto, see separate record. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
Arabic script (VMR)
Commercial accounts, perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography and names listed. Some of the entries are crossed out. The names listed include: (recto) Shelomo ʿUraybī, …
Account register, in Judaeo-Arabic. There are 9 bifolia, very well preserved. Currencies used include ashrafī and fils. Some people are titled khwaja. The European names …
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Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto there is Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Ottoman-era.
Fragmentary list of sums received and final expenditures, including a Passover gift. Hand of Yefet b. David.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (including li-ʿAbbās adāma llāhu ʿizzahu). Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Headed (recto left page) "the account of my …
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the entries is for Shabbat expenses, including two chickens (farrūjayn).
Account of a Parnas ca. 1200. Upper part of a leaf in very deteriorated condition. It contains notes made by a parnas, recording the collection …
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List of food and other items with values in Greek/Coptic numerals underneath. E.g., sesame oil, linseed oil, olive oil, soap, lemon, onion, chickpea, leek, mastic, …
Verso: a long list of names, in a different hand than recto, among them Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yosef, ʿEli b. Shemarya; Shemarya and Ṣedaqa …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts, it seems a list of loans granted by a broker of the 14th century. Information from Goitein's note card.
Accounts, probably late. (Information from CUDL)
List of names of poor persons, without numbers. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 456.) On the smaller piece (T-S AS 146.218), names include Abū …
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Accounts in Arabic script for the sale of cotton. Dated 9 R[amaḍan] [..]90 AH, omitting the first two digits. Given the mention of the ق …
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: uncertain, the handwriting and style are quite atypical and not clearly early or late (but late seems more likely). Mentions quantities …
Memorial list. On verso calendar for the year 1047
Accounts or inventories in Judaeo-Arabic organized in entries associated with days of the week. Based on the handwriting this fragment is likely from the 16th-19th …
Accounts (?) divided by horizontal lines. 11th c (?), written on parchment, thus Sicilian? Mentions silver ingots (fiḍḍa sabāʾik). Several of the entries begins "wa-qia …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly materia medica: sharāb (syrup); ṭabāshīr; samgh (=ṣamgh, gum); sabr (=ṣabr) soqoṭrī (=Socotrene aloe). Also mentions [...] b. al-Rūmiyya ('the son of …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic in a difficult cursive hand. Several names appear in the right column: al-muaʿllam Muwwafaq, Saʿīd Qa...(?), ʿAbd al-Daʾīm Nīṣī...(?), Yosef Delano(?), …
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. One of the entries refers to "four bowls of western make" (اربع صحون عمل الغرب).
List of communal collection and expenses. Looks like a 13th century hand.
Accounts. Late. Istanbul is possibly mentioned in the final row of entries on the recto: אצטנבולו. (MCD with information from CUDL)
Nine entries, names of recipients of alms, on vellum in huge calligraphic letters, such as 'two freed women, two persons from Hijaz, two from Sahrajt …
Late accounts, mentioning the month Shaʿbān. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: List of people who have died and notes about prayers for them (?). Verso: Document in Arabic script, perhaps accounts.
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 1150–1250.
Verso: draft of a register of shipments of goods by Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1050. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #353) VMR
לנא פי מרכב בן אלבר קפתין קזדיר פיהא ל לסאן כלטה יעקוב ונסים אולאד בן בניא //וקבץ בן אלבר כרא אלקפתין דינארין וקיראטין// מא פצל מן אלקזדיר ה …
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List, probably of donors to charity and other communal expenses, only two lines preserved; mentions a ratl of oil (probably a contribution to the synagogue). …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Naming several materia medica. Recto: Unidentified, intriguing text in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Possibly a prayer …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated: Rabīʿ II 958 AH, which is 1551 CE. Commodities include: flax. People include: Muḥammad, Ghazāwī, Jamūsī.
Probably a communal account for wheat distribution. Mainly in Arabic script, with some interspersed Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Several women are named. …
Two bifolios from a ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Multiple entries begin אסתכרת אללה …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand is that of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions tartar; Yaḥyā; Yosef; a purse