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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Lists of names in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium. Dating: Probably 13th or 14th century. Note that this fragment is named UPenn RAR MS 82.313.1.17 on FGP but UPenn RAR MS 82.313.17 on the OPenn website.
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Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday 26 Iyyar 5306 AM = 28 April 1546 CE. Currency: Peraḥim (Venetian ducats or another gold coin of similar value/weight).
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Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.
Maimonides, Epistle to Yemen
Literary text in Judaeo-Persian: "The Tale of the Stonecutter" (حکایت سنگ تراش). Dating: Late, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This poem is a masnavi that …
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
Copy of a letter from an as-yet-unidentified Nagid, describing inter alia his appointment by the caliph. The interpretation of this document has been controversial ever since its original publication by Elkan Nathan Adler (with numerous errors) in "The Installation of the Egyptian Nagid" JQR (1897), 717–20.
Probably from Mivḥar b. Yefet to the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The scribe is identified based on handwriting as well as the unusual phrase יגיע אלי which introduces the address here and in T-S 6J5.21 (PGPID 7613).
Responsa. Avkat Rochel no. 2-4. Published by Glick, Seridey Teshuvot, pp. 32-47. AA
This fragment also contains the end of the letter from ENA 2634.2 (dated: 7 Av, 5656 AM, which is 1896 CE). Written in Hebrew, by a professional Ashkenazi scribe.
The letter continues onto the upper part of ENA 2634.1. Dated: 7 Av, 5656 AM, which is 1896 CE. Written in Hebrew, by a professional Ashkenazi scribe. […] He also seems to instruct the addressee to name the newborn son Mordekhai after him. He asks again for money, for he and his son Yiṣḥaq are in difficult straits.
Official document of some kind. In Persian? There are eleven different seal imprints. Dated: 1201 AH = 1786/87 CE according to the last line of …
Responsa by RADBAZ, II, no. 839: 1. Resurrections of the dead 2. Regarding a Rabbi who excommunicated his student. Published by Glick, Sridei Teshuvot, 243-256
Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. Although the verso was not reused in this case, the shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of …
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. Fiscal? Mentions a sixth of a stable (اصطبل); a sixth of a small compound (duwayra), Ismāʿīl, and maybe an …
Responsum written in a late hand.
Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.
Responsa collection
Accounts in Hebrew script. In Judaeo-Persian? Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century.
State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …
To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.
Praise be to God alone, God bless our …
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Letter by a father to his son, complaining about the son's failure to visit the family, urging him to visit, and requesting a blanket and a box.
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Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mainly love poetry. One of them has a blazon of the beloved along with references to a garden, musical instruments, and a virgin female slave.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Late. Among many other entries: soap: 1/4... fennel: 1/2 raṭl... cumin: 1 qadaḥ. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
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Two responsa: 1. Regarding a liturgy in shemini azereth. 2. Regarding a person who bought a stolen book, and the person whom the book was …
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder, dated in the final line of recto to 1207 CE (Shevat 1518 Seleucid אתקיח).
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Halakhic works of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. דף טיוטות # יוסף בן יעקב ראש הסדר, נספחות לחיבור # טיוטות של חיבורי הלכה שונים צד …
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Letter with a long rhymed Hebrew opening and later a section in Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was sent to Yaaqov he-haver b. Yosef Av bet din …
On recto, Hebrew piyyuṭ. All around it and on verso, Arabic jottings and pen trials.
The last page of a Judaeo-Arabic transcription of Ṣāliḥ b. Naṣrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī's Arabic translation of Paracelsian works ("The New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus" + Crollius' Basilica Chymica). […] This precise passage is quoted and translated in Natalia Bachour's 2019 article "Die Rezeption der Waffensalbe und des sympathetischen Pulvers im Osmanischen Reich des 17.
Mentions specifically Moshe Melammed Fayrūz, Binyamin Nasi, and Eliyyahu Nasi. Dating: 17th century, per Avraham David.
Literary, or, if a letter, a literary one. Judaeo-Arabic on one side and poetic Hebrew on the other.
Qaraite exegesis - mentions of the rivers of Egypt and Babylon
Qaraite exegesis
Recipe, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Very late.
Literary? Late and very faded