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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Much damaged and faded small fragment from a letter
No Scholarship Records
Late accounts in Arabic, possibly a bifolio from a broader defter. One of the account headings on the verso mentions al-ṣarrāf. Merits further examination.
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1188–93 CE based on the Seleucid …
List, badly damaged with some text legible. Medieval era. Below the line partition the entry is dated Sunday (יום א) and below that a name …
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a beautiful hand, different from recto. The sender seems to be in Akhmīm in Upper Egypt and to be upset …
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Tax receipt. From the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Join: Alan Elbaum.
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Deathbed will of Khalaf b. Yeshu'a, the envoy of the lepers in Tiberias (and a leper himself), Elul 1345/August 1034.
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Shabbetay b. Yosef. Listing various household furnishings and half of a …
List of payments made by tenants of the Qodesh, ca. 1059. Revenue from rent written in the awkward hand of the parnas Eli ha-Kohen b. …
The room of the ḥājj, (from) tenants during the half of Rabīʿ akhīr,
paid 7 1⁄2. The Jewish stores, for
(3-4) 1 month, 6, the room of …
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
Bifolio with accounts in a disorderly scribal hand throughout the recto and verso. Dating: ca. 12th-14th century. Organized by parshiyot. Mentions silk and nuqra dirhams. …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Fiscal account?
Literary - recommend suppress
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī …
فـ[ـسطاط مصر بزقاق بني نكير بحافة جلنار يعرف بالقاضي السد[يد
]ـها …. في موضعها ومن حقوق كلية العبد كوم كان منها قديما صفية(؟) مرقل(؟)
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Court notebook, probably. Bifolium. Entries in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably pertaining to the Qaraite court that convened in the Dar Simḥa synagogue (here called Dār Ibn Sameaḥ). …
Placeholder [ASE]
Recto: Ladino accounts of sales involving Ḥayyim Alarcon b. Ḥayyim Yūsufī. Verso: Ladino accounts mentioning "the deceased" several times and 6 June 1788 (1 Sivan …
Upper left fragment: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The document is probably written for a recent convert to Islam from Samṭā (on the Nile delta). …
Letter or letters in Judaeo-Arabic. At the top of recto, probably requesting letters from the addressee, which are "as if I saw your face." The …
Letter from Elʿazar b. Shelomo b. Yehosef Gaʾon son of Gaʾon. In Hebrew. Dating: first part of the 12th-century, based on the sender's known genealogy …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Several pages of accounts in Ladino. Needs examination.
Minute fragment. Few words, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Accounts in copious Coptic numerals and some Arabic.
Bifolium of magical recipes for diverse problems, many medical. E.g., against fever: recite Psalm 34 over olive oil and anoint yourself ("effective if God wills").
Letter in which a physician, probably named Abū l-Baqā', writes from somewhere outside of the capital to his son-in-law (?) Abū ʿImrān, probably in Fustat, …
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Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm from Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad, son of the sincere commander Crescent of the Dynasty (Hilāl al-Dawla), the elder Treasure …
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Legal document, in an elegant hand, concerning a property transaction. In Arabic script. A woman named اخيوه bt. Saʿīd, the Rabbanite Jewish woman, who is …
List of recipients of charity (bread) in the same hand, headed 'Friday the 4th (week of the liturgical year), 550 Pounds,' specifying about 140 households …
Friday the 4th
five and 1/2 qinṭārs (550 pounds)
Abū Kathīr 6 the woman from Sicily 2
R. Menaḥem 5 the o[rph]ans…
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Difficult to discern anything of substance. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan the descendant of [...]; Mūsā b. [...]; children; someone (Simḥa?) who concerns …
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1050 …
Hebrew poetry. The name Ḥalfon b. Ḥiyya appears underneath (ownership note?).
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. Fragment from the lower right corner, with the beginnings of 7 lines preserved. Mentions a sugar refinery (maṭbakh), a …
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 …
Document in Arabic script, an official receipt for expenses in the name of the ship captain Raʾīs Muḥammad Barakāt. Dated 28 Rajab 1237 AH which …
Rental sublease agreement carried by widows from a polygamous marriage. In Hebrew. Location: Rashīd. Dated: Thursday, 1 Nisan 5442 AM, which is 1682 CE. The …
Recipes for several musk-based medicines including "the great musk paste," which has a sweet variant and a bitter variant. The recipe on verso states it …
Poem of praise addressed to Yefet ha-Kohen. In Hebrew. Perhaps the introduction to a letter.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Very faded. Mentions Jerusalem and commercial goods.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably a deed of sale for one half of a house (no prices …
Fragment of a bifolium of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the year 946 AH (1539/1540 CE) on the verso. For similar usage of the letter …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tevet 1744 Seleucid = November/December 1432 CE. Husband: Shemuel b. [...] b. Shemuel. Wife: Sarah bt. [...]. The …
State document, in Arabic script, probably a report or a petition, but most likely the former. Not a lot of text is preserved, but it …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions sending something with someone. Needs examination.
A few words in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. From a literary text discussing the 9 celestial spheres and their movement (CUDL).\
Text in Hebrew, probably a letter. Written on parchment. Describing a man who was robbed on the road. The robbers even took the document/letter (הכתב) …
Small receipt or order.
Small fragment from a letter, with a line of text deleted, and extensive marginalia on one side. Dated: 1431 Seleucid = 1119/20 CE. (Information in …
Legal document. Dated: 1529 Seleucid, which is 1217/18 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. In which Abū al-Barakāt/Berakhot al-Sukkarī releases his maternal aunt Sitt …