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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Verso: Fragment of an Arabic document, perhaps accounts. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
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P19: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unidentified sender and addressee. Fragment (horizontal section from the middle). Mentions: Khiyār; someone who said in his letters that he would …
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Entry in court notebook (#54). Prescription. Recipe for preparation of an ointment consisting of powdered litharge (martak masḥūq); calf suet (shaḥm kulā ʿijl); aged, fine …
[[יוכד שחם אלכלי]]
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Legal testimony. Dated: Wednesday the 6th of Ḥeshvan, which Goitein identified as October 1231 CE, based on the surmise that this document belongs together with …
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Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late. Dated: 6 Elul possibly with a year, but it is unclear: [5]305(?) AM. Requires further examination.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions dirhams and the phrase "fa-lam yataḥaṣṣal."
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. Declaration made by Peraḥya b. Natan for Ḥiyya b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen concerning potential claims of the latter against the orphan son of the …
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Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 52[.] AH = …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded/damaged, but several sums of money can be read.
Arabo-Hebrew. At least some of it consists of phrases from Psalms, or the beginnings of specific Psalms, probably for liturgical use. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late. Needs examination.
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe legal. Verso: list of names in Hebrew script, including [...] b. Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Naḥum b. [...].
Accounts.
Testimony or narrative about events in Florence (פירנצה). Dated: 17 Tevet 5609 AM (January 1849). A man who was known as an impious alcoholic fell …
Account for Shevat and Adar 1495 sel. ca. 1184. This is a single leaf from the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya, written in two columns. …
The accounting of the collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān for the two months, Shevat and Adar,
corresponding to Shawwāl and Dhūʾl-qaʿd…
Hebrew letter consisting almost entirely of a panegyric poem, written by the cantor Aharon b. Efrayim for a man named Shelomo. (Information from Bareket, Shafrir …
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Letter from (or to?) Minyat Zifta in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (ha-Gevir?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning various community affairs and expressing concern about the …
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Fragmentary document(s) in Arabic script. One text block appears to be legal (two witness signatures preserved), another literary (at 180 degrees), and another is a …
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official-looking. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Reused in the margins and on recto for writing exercises.
Copy of a will of Mahara bat Avraham ha-Kohen that had been made and dated in Alexandria in January 1143, issued at the request of …
Letter from a certain Abū l-Faḍl to his maternal cousin in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. He urges her to make a pilgrimage to the Land of …
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Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the names Hibatallāh and Shams. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century.
Detailed account of monthly sales of products from the east in Sicily, especially spices and flax, covering the period from August 1064 to October 1065, …
אוביע בעד אקלאע אלמראכב פי אל[ ] מן אלול פי אלתאריך
עטיה בן אלעלאש נג רטלא נ דינ [ ] אלנפוסי כו רטלא ונצ ה דנא
צאחבה יג רטל ור…
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Four fragments probably all from the same original page. Unclear if it is literary or legal. Dating: ca. 13th–16th century based on paleography. Mentions the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of recto). Mentions "the people of Fustat/Egypt... the day I departed... my livelihood...." On verso, the continuation of the …
Minute fragment in a poetic Hebrew. Probably from a letter (ויזכו לחזות רבים . . . סביבתם ושלום . . . ). AA/ASE
Letter from an unknown man, in Damietta, to his mother, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 13th–15th century. …
Letter, possibly a draft, from a certain Avraham to an addressee whose name is not preserved. The content is not clear, but the Pasha and …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 dinars. Dated …
Jottings of business accounts
Large bifolio of accounts headed "Ḥisāb al-Shaykh Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm...." Recto is all Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Also mentions "waṣl bi-rasm mablagh". Verso is …
Business letter. Mainly in Hebrew, with scattered words in Judaeo-Arabic and perhaps other languages. Late. Dealing with flax, clove, frankincense, aloe vera, cassia fistula. Mentions …
Letter by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī from Alexandria containing details about shipments of flax including. List of expenditures. (Information from M. Gil, Kingdom, Vol. III, …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ואתם נעמתה עליך מן אלאסכנדריה נצף מן איר ען סלאמה ונעמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמ…
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Accounts, detailed and well-preserved. Merits further examination.
Business letter from Ṭayyib b. Majjānī to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAwda. In Arabic script. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Sabih …
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there.Reused for piyyuṭ. This one reads: 2/3 + 1/4 dinars; [In the …
Small fragment of fiscal accounting, probably. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Only the bottom of the leaf is preserved, possibly a poetic letter or panegyric. Refers to Nathaniel ha-Sar (the 12th-century Gaʾon Nathaniel b. Moses?). (Information …
Bottom of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Yaʿaqov. Bride: Nasāba bt. Hiba, a virgin. There …
Maimonides, responsa
Responsum (lengthy) by the judge Yeḥiel b. Eliyaqim regarding the invocation of the 'reshut' -- the authority of the Head of the Jews -- in …
Legal document. Hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Location: Fustat. Involves [Abū l-]Karam(?) known as Ibn al-Shavuy and [...] b. ʿAdiyya ha-Zaqen and a debt of …
Small strip consisting of three separate sheets, at least one of them a letter, stuck or glued together. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mainly words of patronage in a high register of Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably mercantile. The name Mūsā appears in the address.