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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
List of names from different families, probably a memorial list. E.g., bayt al-Rav (Shemuʾel, his son Yiṣḥaq, his son Yosef, and his son or brother …
No Scholarship Records
Possibly accounts. Late. Very faded and damaged.
Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on verso. The paper was rused for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are …
Mirror image imprint of a document, possibly accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a bag (khīsha). The original use of the fragment was probably an Arabic document, …
Bifolio of accounts. Faded and smudged.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The lower section of writing on the verso may be the remnant of a letter address or a draft: "from Rīshd(!) …
Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. People named include ʿAlī al-Kohen al-Gharīb and Abū l-[F]araj; ʿAlī b. Ṭāhir.
List of items in Arabic script, each with Greek/Coptic numerals after, and the grand total at the bottom. Reused on recto for pen trials (tajribat …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dated: Rabīʿ I 8[.]2 AH, perhaps 822, which would be 1419 CE. Many of the sums are in …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning "the diwan" numerous times, perhaps dated 1139 AH which is 1726/27 CE.
Jottings of business accounts
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Minute fragment from a list. Only partial names survived. AA
Trousseau list in connection with a marriage document. Mentions Tinnisian cloth, Dabīqī linen, quantities of dinars, dyed wool, a menora, and an oil amphora. On …
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions a druggist and a maṭbakh.
Substantial fragment of an elaborate, calligraphic calendar, in Hebrew, giving corespondences between the Hebrew and Islamic calendars. A year does not appear anywhere, but it …
Two small folios of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Several of the entires specify a market, a person's name, a commodity, and a number, e.g., Sūq Wardān …
Business accounts. Recto includes a long note explaining something. Verso has one line in Hebrew script (possibly unrelated).
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Names include Ismāʿīl and Yaʿaqov. EMS
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Book list. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Many or all of the items are attributed to Yosef Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov b. Yaʿaqov Rosh Bei Rabanan.
Late accounts (?), possibly having to do with riding animals (jimal, dawabb).
Accounts in Arabic script with Indian numerals, reused for pen trials in calligraphic Hebrew script. Both fragments have the usual holes in the margin, but …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Memorial lists with many names. Recto of the larger fragment is for the descendants of the early 11th-century Gaʾon Yoshiyyahu (here titled Rosh Yeshivat Geʾon …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating; 11th century. Seems to be a list of debts (duyūn). The sums are quite large: - Yeshuʿa, in Damsīs: 36 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There …
Accounts.
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mostly a list of names with numbers. Names include: Sibāʿ b. Mubārak; [...] b. Hilāl; Sālim b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. A variety of names and locations are mentioned, such as: Sūq al-Darra(?) (אלדרה) and …
Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.
Accounts of purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Narrow column of writing in the middle of the page. Might list names, e.g. [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is known, and there are probably joins. Dating: ca. 16th–17th century. Mentions taro (qulqās) and honey and possibly swords, unless …
Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions: a feminine(? nisāʾī) robe; "a robe for me"; "a robe for" someone else; the tailor; mats; …
Book list. Books lent by the writer to Natan b. Yeshu'a, first half 11th century. (Data from Allony, the Jewish Library, p. 279 where it …
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Writing exercises and alphabetical practice in list format with a wide a variety of subject matter. The student practiced Hebrew letters, Jewish legal formularies, and …
List of sundry expenditures made for the Nagid, mentioning items for his kitchen and marking prices using Coptic numerals. Dated to the early 13th century. …
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Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Nājiya(?); Yaʿaqov. Ḥasan and al-Ramlī; al-Manūfī; the in-law of Mubārak; ṣāḥib al-ʿūd;
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060. A draft that was copied later. Mentions goods as textile and cloths. Seems like mentions debts …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Accounts of a merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very neat. Listing dozens of turbans and other items of clothing and their value and other details.
Calendar in grid layout. Decorated with red crescents. In Hebrew. Late.
IB IV, 1 (ח22). Account of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, written for Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Bharuch, and the only account that survived in the …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Various names are mentioned, e.g., Makhlūf and Ibn al-Kannāsh.
Numbered list of halakhot, mainly regarding the butchery of poultry, with the same titles as Maimonides’ but arranged in a different order. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: list of names in Judaeo-Arabic such as Qurrat al-ʿAyn, ʿUthmān Dhū l-Nūrayn ("the possessor of two lights," an epithet for ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān), Zubayr, …
Small fragment from the middle part of a bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj; and the daughter of someone.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions the cost of shipping from al-Mahdiyya to Qayrawān.