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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Accounts, perhaps 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of jadīd and Spanish corona coinage. Requires further examination.
Note from Yūsuf to "al-Rayyis Rabbi Eliyya" (= Eliyyahu the Judge). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Giving instructions or making a request …
Recto: Unusual Aramaic-Hebrew legal document, or rather an addendum to a legal document, perhaps describing irregularities in certain words? Each entry refers to a portion …
Letters (or letterbook?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter on verso is dated Heshvan 5548 AM and the letter on recto is dated 1 Tevet 5548 AM, …
State document, probably. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines, 9 lines preserved. On verso there is Hebrew literary text. Very faded. One phrase …
Notes for a marriage contract between Abu al-Karim Shabbetay b. Avraham and the divorcee Mudallala bat Yehuda ha-Levi involving a dowry of 102 dinars plus …
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Unidentified text in Arabic script. Likely a prayer. There are various marginalia in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic, including כתאבי and ב at the top of …
List of commercial items. In Judaeo-Arabic. Arranged as tables of monthly expenses. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century. Mentions people such as Ibn al-Qatāʾif and the …
Fragment with Hebrew text, in a late hand. Probably literary but requires identification.
A manuscript of the pentatuech, only the last pages of it survive, including several colophons. The first, by the copyist, dates its completion to "the …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Tinnīs. He wants to borrow from “the Great Rav” (a Tunisian rabbi in Egypt) his copy of the …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138). Fragment (bottom only). Concerning a woman whose husband has traveled. This document evidently asserts some …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on Abū ʿImrān b. Abū l-[...] who stole six good orange trees (uṣūl nāranj min khiyār al-uṣūl) from a ruined …
Fragment of a business letter from Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Busir, probably to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, mentioning bales of flax being prepared …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אלל[ה בקאך וצרף אלאסוא]
ענך ברחמתה מן בוציר יו[ם ]
באחסן כאתמה ען סלאמה וע[אפיה ]
בכיר…
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Small fragments from an Arabic state document, containing the grand titles of the addressee ([...] al-mulūk [...] al-dawla [...] al-mujāhidīn sayf amīr al-muʾminīn) and blessings …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Written in a beautiful hand, in a somewhat elevated register. Unusual format, with overflow text in both the left and …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic asking politely for some [water?] to drink. Written on a reused Arabic legal document (upper right corner only). There are also pen …
Printed. Ḥumash with Ladino translation and commentary.
Letter sent from the Egyptian capital by a man to his brother in the countryside, reporting that their mother is well and praying for him …
Document in Hebrew. Late. Possibly a legal formulary.
Accounts in Ladino. On a bifolium, arranged in columns. Needs further examination.
Letter fragment from Isḥāq b. Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to David b. Shaʿya, probably in Fustat. Around 1060. Mentions the arrival of Byzantine and Andalusī …
תוכלת עלי אללה
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עיך ותאיידך וסעאדתך ונעמך
[מן] אלמסתקר מסתהל שהר אלול ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנ…
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List of commercial goods. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of ashrafīs which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Bottom of a ketubba. The groom is named Efrayim ha-Levi. Several witness signatures are preserved, including Menashshe(?) b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib the cantor, …
Bifolio of accounts. Organized by day of the week. Mentions al-Dajājī.
Formulary or draft of a get-well-soon card. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Very florid.
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Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Three distinct entries, probably. (1) Mentions accounting of various sums; someone collected 2; 1 remains; someone …
Draft of a letter from Yefet b. Shekhanya, from Fustat, to Daniel b. Azarya, around 1053. Daniel did not reply to Yefet's requests to supervise …
Letter to a dignitary, probably Abū Yefet Yosef b. Abū Sahl. In Hebrew and vocalized. Quite faded; the continuation on verso is almost too faded …
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Expenditure of 427 1/2 bakhaya dirhams on clothing for communal officials, on payment of a balance due for the distribution of wheat and other items. …
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1040 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the …
Letter of condolence (possibly a copy) to a public figure. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Quotes Jeremiah 15:2. The name Faḍl appears in l. 1, [Abū …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions names such as Abū Muḥammad (owes 21 raṭls), Abū ʿAbdallāh (owed 149.25), Yūsuf al-Munādī (20-some raṭls)
A list of Judaeo-Arabic roots, purpose unclear.
Bottom part of a letter to ... b. Iṣḥaq, possibly from Hayye Gaon, congratulating the recipient on his being appointed rosh kalla. The recipient is …
Accounts, mentioning some interesting commodities (e.g., kibrīt ʿirāqī, sweet pomegranate, quince, jasmine, salt, meat, breat).
Long strip from the right side of a letter written and signed by Yosef b. Arah.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The names are missing, except part of the sender's name at upper right. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing a variety of individuals and corresponding monetary sums in silver kuruş which helps to estimate the dating of the document as …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Two fragments from the upper left side. Mentions: female dyers …
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Saʿadya Raʾs [...]. Cut and probably used for a book binding.
List of materia medica. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding trading in iron and coins, especially Byzantine dinar-quarters. …
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Poem for(?) Yehuda b. Shemuel mentioning Alexandria. On the back are drafts in a cursive hand, perhaps of poetry.
Recto: fragment of a recommendation letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli ha-Ḥaver b. Amram, Fustat. The name of the person who is recommended is …