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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Magical fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a crude hand. Probably an order for numerous materia medica (including one cryptically called "the beauty of Joseph / ḥusn …
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Small fragment of text(s) in Hebrew script on the recto and verso. The vellum is extremely damaged and wrinkled. Requires further examination.
Piyyutim.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Thursday, 13 Heshvan 5311 AM, which is October 1550 CE. Witnesses: Seʿadya b. Yehuda קוננטיני and Yosef …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 9 Adar 1373 Seleucid = 21 February 1062 CE (this appears on verso). Involving Hiba b. Avraham and his …
Late accounts, mentioning Aḥmad, Yaḥyā, Nūraddin, Abū Nāṣir and Muḥammad. The botanical term שמשאר from Persian is mentioned on the recto, possibly materia medica (Steingass: …
Legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan 4813 AM, which is 1052 CE. The witness names may be legible ([...] b. Shemuel and Dāʾūd b. [...]). Probably very …
Document in Arabic script, in a calligraphic hand, without wide space between the lines. Likely a letter. Five lines are preserved, but they are very …
Letter from Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably in Jerusalem or Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: 13 Kislev [4803 AM] = 29 November …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment with names in Arabic script. Part of the address of a letter? Yaʿqūb b. Nissim and Ismāʿīl.
Probably a fragment of a court register including notes of marriage documents. A few names are preserved: Avraham b. Bū l-Faraj; Majdiyya; Sitt al-[...] bt. …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening greetings are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: probably 1039 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
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Accounts.
List of names and numbers, perhaps a donations list. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Includes surnames such as Mosseri and ʿUraybi.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Reused on recto for a text discussing the calendar and liturgical additions.
One side: Receipt for rent. Bū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf paid Maḥfūẓ 6 dirhams. The other side: Fragmentary note mentioning sugarcane and silk (yaḥtāj ilā firqat?... fī …
Fragment from the end of a letter. With elaborate blessings in both Judaeo-Arabic (ואללה תעלי יעלי קדר מולאי ויטיל עמרה ויצחבה אלסלאמה וילחפה אלכראמה בעזתה) …
Fragments of citations from al-Mutanabbī in Judeo-Arabic. (Information from Cecilia Palombo)
Literary text in Ladino. Many pages. At least part has to do with the 'woman of valor.'
Medical prescription in Arabic script. Some phrases: 'manzūʿ al-ʿajam' (l-4), 'muṣaffā ʿalā'' (l-5), and fī niṣf mithqāl' (l-6). Diet: chicken. Recto is blank.
Small vertical slip containing some words in Hebrew script.
Verso (original use): Three verses of (Judaeo-)Arabic poetry on homesickness written by Shemuel b. Elʿazar Ibn [...]sh, a physician from Alexandria who lived in Qūṣ. …
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IB IV, 53a (ח53). Letter from al-Andalus, sender and recipient not preserved. Apart from a request to know the recipient's travel plans, the letter contains …
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Letter in Hebrew, calligraphic. Not much remains beyond the poetic praises ("our master, you have distanced your glory from us. . . .") except "you …
Literary? Late and very faded
Letter addressed to Yedidya Shelomo Yisrael. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Also mentions a R. Navon. The writer mentions wishing to copy a manuscript from a …
Petition from the wife of Ṭayyib b. Musallam al-ʿIblānī, a Khaybarī Jew, to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94), seeking the restitution of money taken from …
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves a man named Namir known as al-Ḥakham(?) …
Part of a document in Arabic script. Chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Words from 3 lines are preserved. On verso there is piyyuṭ. …
Small fragment from a letter or legal document, mentioning Yefet b. Daniel(?), other names with honorifics, and a woman (גברת)
State document in Arabic, the left side of three lines is preserved. Medieval-era. This fragment may be related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S AS 186.212. …
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue list of numbers. AA
Fragment from a Babylonian ketubah. No further information is available. AA
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 140 (or [.]40) dirhams and asking the addressee to deal with payments and collecting sums of money. Mentions Malīj at …
Court ledger. Document regarding claims made at court. Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Ibn Hadida and Abū ʿAlāʾ al-Halabi and in the body …
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Legal document from the high court of the nasi (David b. Daniel) recording testimony of Yefet b. Levi (?) b. Menashshe, acting as power of …
Secondary use: Two fragments from a list of male persons, mostly craftsmen or foreigners (Goitein surmises that they are people for whom the capitation tax …
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Verso (original use): Petition in an elegant Arabic hand. The sender's name probably appears at the end of the tarjama, but it difficult to read. …
Letter (fragment) of which only the bottom section of the body and marginal portion of the text remains. In l. 15r one S[eñor] Curiel is …
Letter in Arabic. Dated 5 Shawwal 1214 AH (March 1800 CE). Verso is blank apart from a jotting which may be an acknowledgement of receipt. …
Calendrical text containing algorithms and mnemonics and instructions for calculation. Dating: No earlier than 1255 CE, as the maḥzor is given as 265.
Trousseau list. Entries include a copper vessel, a bath tub, and a female slave named Warda born into slavery (muwalladat al-jins). (Information from Goitein’s index …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Mūsā, someone idle (baṭṭāl), the sender's perplexity (wa-anā ḥāʾir), a living, and the sender's difficulties "with no house (=wife?) and …