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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Verso: Small fragment of an Arabic document. The beginnings of 2 lines are preserved: fī kull shahr... ḥisāban fī al-[...]... Reused for Hebrew literary text.
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Copy of a Gaon’s responsum (possibly R. Hayya Gaon) that includes details about the house of Bustenai and an answer regarding the status of the …
Fragments of a state document, probably an internal correspondence addressed to a Fatimid caliph. In an Arabic chancery script. Has remnants of a ray clause …
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to his father Mūsā b. Barhūn, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055. Mentions the capitation tax (jizya); Yosef b. …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וריס[י ותא]ג ראסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצ[רף]
אלאסוא ענך במנה וצל כתאבך ווק[פת עלי] מא דכר[תה] וגמיע מא ד…
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Accounts, many detailing transactions with money orders (called here רקעה). The elder Abū l-Khayr frequently appears. Also Abū ʿImrān; Abū ʿAlī; Marwān al-Kurdī; Abū Manṣūr. …
Short note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, ordering a medicinal syrup (sharāb) from al-Shaykh al-Nafīs.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, with address inverted on verso; fragment. Dating: ca. 1025-1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Sulayman b. Mahfuz frees Mufarrij b. Ya'ish and his wife from all obligations regarding an inheritance. Dated Sivan 1395/1084 (date in document) or 1375.1064 (date …
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Bill of divorce given by Ya'ir b. David, known as Ibn Sulimān, to his wife Sitt al-Naẓar bnt. Moshe. Fusṭāṭ, Monday 5th of Shevat 1456 …
Lower part of twin list of contributors, the first with, the second without sums. Folded down the middle, hence a bifolium that once belonged to …
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אל]שיך אבו אסחק בן אלמסמודי 1 אלשיך אבו זכרי טביב
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List of the members of "House of Yehuda" and then "House of al-Umm?"
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Reuven [Najjar y Feliz?] to Moshe Najjar y Feliz, probably his brother, dated 4 Settembre '56. It deals …
Legal query concerning a Jew living nearby a gentile.
Accounts
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Tripoli.
Literary. Fragment of a haggada.
Recto: possibly a letter in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary (ha-Sar ha-Adir) mentioning 60 'sheqalim.' Verso: legal document, mentioning Ḥiba b. Sulaymān. (Information in part …
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot. Each list is designated by individual contributors and specific weeks of the liturgical calender …
A letter to Hacham Binyamin
Torn account, probably by 'ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic with alphanumerical figures and itemized labels such as "milk/ ḥalīb" that may date from the 16th-18th centuries (based on the paleography). On …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on the verso in the upper left corner Shawwal 1012 AH (March 1604 CE). The alphanumerical designation relies on …
Detailed letter sent by Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq Av, written in between the lines and on the remaining blank spaces of a letter he …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a daughter, expressing longing. Dating: likely no earlier than 14th century.
Order in Arabic script. Ṣadaqa is to give the bearer two raṭls of meat. Cf. T-S As 177.466.
Ketubba, probably. Small fragment from the lower right corner. Bride: [...] bt. Peraḥya. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. [...].
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Two fragments in Judaeo-Arabic, both mercantile, either accidentally stuck together or intentionally folded together. Both hands look familiar from the 12th-century India Books documents. The …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions sal ammoniac (nushādir, here spelled nushaḍir / נשאצ̇ר).
Literary. F. 1r: halakhic discussion on animals, idol worship and divorce. Ff. 2r-v: halakhic work on the laws of kosher butchering (sheḥiịta), written in a …
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Two autograph instructions written by Moshe Maimonides on the blank space of a literary fragment about the laws of blessings. The first instruction is that …
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Legal document headed "memorandum of testimony" (tadhkirat shahāda). The court convened in the synagogue; present were Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Wathīq and Sulaymān al-Ṣāʾigh, who negotiated …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. A - Accounts, in Arabic script.
A combination of exegetical responsa and criticism of an earlier commentator. Polemical remarks about the ignorance in Hebrew and Arabic of a halakhic scholar in …
List of materia medica, including simples such as Convolvulus scammonia, mastic, amber, liquorice, and camphor. (Information from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Somehow pertaining to Nahray b. Nissim, according to Goitein's note card. See also ENA NS 22.18.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, including a declaration that a woman (someone's wife?) is 'trustworthy' (neʾemenet). Recto: additional notes in …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1392 Seleucid, which is 1081 CE. Husband: Ṣedaqa b. Avraham. Wife: Rashīda bt. Yeshuʿa. Witnesses: Mevorakh …
Bottom of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to one of his brothers.
Letter in Hebrew. Moderately wide space between the lines. Very faded. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Mentions [...] he-Ḥaver b. Yeḥezqel ha-Ḥazzan. Reused on recto …
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Trapani, Sicily (Gil prefers to read אטראבנש in line 2 over Goitein's and Ben-Sasson's אטראבלש), to Nahray b. …
[כתאבי] יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך ונעמאך] וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
אטראבנש לה כלון מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה לל…
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions 'the fairness of his honor our prince' (inṣāf ḥaḍrat sarenu). On verso there is a text in Hebrew.
Fragment from a letter, contains mostly blessings, including for the addressee to see Jerusalem. Only formulaic content is preserved.
Literary. Eshkol ha-Kofer by Yehuda Hadasi. Dating: Possibly 15th or 16th c. Information from NLI.
Letter from Aryana (? אריינה) to her sister Shurbilliya (? שורבלייא), the wife of Avraham al-Ḥadīb. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, plausibly 16th century, which is …
Letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions preparations for the holiday. Reports that Abū l-Murajjā is healthy; wishes health to the shaykh Abū l-Bayān; …
Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the same hand as T-S NS J376 (PGPID 8776). There is an address: to [...] al-Dawla Moshe ha-Zaqen …
Responsa. One query on the Meaning of the words תשבץ and שש. The answer did not survived. On recto a discussion on the difference between …
Literary. Guide to geomancy in Judaeo-Arabic.