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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Communal letter addressed to the congregation of Alexandria. Probably from the office of the Nagid. Dating: Probably last quarter of the 15th century.
No Scholarship Records
People mentioned: Bū l-Ḥasan. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.
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Fragment of a letter, probably 14th century or later. greetings to shaykh al-Asʿad Abū [...] and shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn. The sender or scribe is Hārūn.
Mysterious page with various jottings in Hebrew script in a late hand (possibly including ownership or purchase notes with names). There are also a few Latin characters (m, ma, mua).
Ḥaḍara baʿd ijtimāʿī bi-haḍrat mawlāy al-Shaykh al-ajall.... Needs examination. On verso there is Hebrew literary text in a rudimentary hand.
Document with several lines of Arabic script. The fragment also contains a red grid with a calendrical table in Hebrew, listing years such as 5230–44 AM (=1469–84 CE).
Some names and numbers are faintly legible: Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ḥājj, Ramaḍān, 101; Shelomo Eliyya Maḥbūb.
Manuscript, well-preserved, of Taqwīm al-Adyān by Daniel ibn al-Māshiṭa, of the generation of Avraham Maimonides.
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The word גאמכיה (jāmikiyya, government salary) also appears several times.
Written and signed by Shelomo b. [...] ha-Levi. Also signed by [...] b. Moshe and Tiqva b. ʿUlla ha-Levi.
May be related to the next two shelfmarks, also long documents in Ladino which pertain to Daniel Bonfil.
On the other side there is what looks like an address of a letter in Arabic script, mentioning al-Muʿizziyya (=Cairo) and Ḥārat al-Zuwayla.
Mentions Abū l-Barakāt and paying something on behalf of other people. There are also a couple Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
The bottom line is in Arabic script, mentioning a carpet (bisāṭ). There is also a line in Arabic on verso.
and the proslyte was imersed. Also mentioned Yehuda ha-sar ha-gadol
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Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-Lebdī and the ship of the amir (markab al-amīr).
Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). There is also a document in Arabic script on the other side.
The recipient is addressed in line 1 as "mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl." Requires further examination.
Only a few words are preserved from very widely spaced lines ("...ʿalā l-ḥukm ʿalā..."). The text on the other side is unidentified.
About a woman who received payment to do something but didn't. Also mentions: her sister and two mithqāls of gold;
Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Including: al-Ḥakīm Aharon; Elazar b. Shela ha-Levi; and Sitt al-Yumn bt.
Mentions weapons (...shayʾ min ālātal-ḥarb...).
Receipt of payment, in the name of Dāʾūd al-Yahūdī al-Quḍāʿī for renting two floors in a caravanserai (wikāla).
Beginning of sections are written in red ink and one reads as "ʿilāj al-nawʿ al-thānī".
The addressee, Abū l-Qasam(?) Sayyid al-Ahl al-Ṣayrafī is asked to give something (the opening cipher is يدفع) to the bearer for something involving the Ṣināʿa.
State document, probably Fatimid, fragmentary. In Arabic script. "Al-mustakhdam bi l-ṣaʿīd(?)". The name of the official could be Munjiz al-Dawla.
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter or official report in Arabic script: wa-yunhī baʿd [...] al-adʿiya al-ṣāliḥa wa-l-[...] lillāh taʿālā bi-[...].
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Sharaf (סת אלשרף). The part preserved here consists mainly of the dowry list. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum
Ṣedaqa who is a government employee (al-mustaʿmal) and Sayyid al-Ahl.
Recto, right side, continuing onto verso, left side: Probably a legal query addressed to the Nagid (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira). Needs examination.
Partnership agreement, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, involving a certain [...] b. Sulaymān known as al-Ashyāfī (seller of ophthalmics) and Faraj Allāh b.
Drafts of blessings for David ha-Nagid, intended as decoration for the top of a ketubba. (There are also blessings for the bride). The first line is repeated again underneath followed by the first lines of Genesis.
Deed of sale for Wahab b. Asʿad b. Naʿīm al-Naṣrānī, in Arabic script. Dated: 18th Rajab al-Aṣab (...).
The same hand continues on verso, though there are also small additional texts in Hebrew and Arabic script (Information from CUDL)
Daniel, in which the writer informs him that he has arrived in Alexandria. Verso: jottings in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL.)
Verso: In a different hand and ink, a basmala, then: "from the words of our master, amīr al-mu'minīn, ʿAlī."
Containing the testator's profession of faith in Islam. See also T-S NS 297.58 (PGPID 35099). Both of these wills are torn before they get to the substance.
Business account in Arabic script, lengthy, ca. 1055, with a list of bankers and money changers and their locations. Also contains a list of pharmaceutical items, spices, and herbs from Fustat.
Fragment of a legal document from Alexandria (נא אמו]ן דעל כיף ימא רבא מותבה)). In the list of validated corrections, mentions an iron bucket (צטל חדיד).
Probably a power of attorney involving Elʿazar b. [...], valid in "all the countries and cities" (al-buldān wa-l-amṣār wa-l-[...]).
Mentioning the merchants who traverse the provinces (al-tujjār al-mujtāzīn bi-l-rīf). (Information in part from CUDL)
Account in Judaeo-Arabic, headed with the name Ibn Shaʿyā, mentioning garments (fūṭ) and "al-Sharīf al-Qābiṣ[ī]" and 30 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning the alley known as al-Azraq; the synagogue; oil; Bishāra; a Kohen; the ruin of a house; and social service officers (farānisa).
Opening few words of a letter and part of the address: to mawlāy al-ḥazzan (my master the cantor) al-[...] from ואדה ושאכרה (the one who loves and thanks him).
Formal letter from Yūsuf to someone he titles Sayyidnā al-Rayyis [...]. Mainly the address (in Arabic script) is preserved, along with a few words in Hebrew from the opening.
Moderately wide line spacing. The addressee ([al-ḥaḍra] al-ajalliyya) is asked to investigate the sender's situation (yanẓur fī umūrī...).
Mentions the names Avraham Naḥmias, ʿAbd aḷ-Raḥman al-Maṣ..nī, and others. Requires further examination.
The seller is probably al-Ḥusna or al-Ḥasana bt. Yoshiyya and the buyer is either Mevorakh or [...] b.
Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large fragment but almostall is formulaic. (Information in part from CUDL)