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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
16 pages of calendrical writing with molad calculations for years in the 19th century.
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12 pages of calendrical writing, with molad calculations and Islamic calendar conversions, for the first decade of the 19th century.
Consecutive bifolia on the calendar in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi spanning the years 1204-07 and 1209–09 respectively.
Recto: Hebrew letter of appeal from the old, poor man Yosef b. Elazar ha-Kohen to Avraham ha-Sar b. Elazar. The body of the letter occupies …
Calendar for maḥzors 258 (starting 1122 CE) through maḥzor 261 (ending 1199 CE). Will be a useful resource for dating the handful of Geniza documents …
Literary work on the calendar, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Bodl. MS heb. f 102/36 and Bodl. MS heb. f 102/38–39 may …
Letter in Hebrew narrating the trouble caused by Ben Meir including quoting at length a letter sent by the elders. Entered in Geniza collection as …
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Manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to calculate the calendar year …
Calendar for the year 5574 AM (1813/14 CE) with Jewish holidays and some notes about corresponding dates within the Hijrī calendar and the constellations (Cancer, …
Calendar. In Hebrew script.
Calendar in Hebrew, 3 folios with many details of holidays. No specific year appears but it may be possible to ascertain its occurrence because many …
Calendar in Hebrew, badly damaged. The year 5581 AM is barely visible in the upper right corner (1820/21 CE).
Calendar in Hebrew for 5582 AM. The calendar retains a reference to the calendrical correspondence of Rabīʿ I 1243 AH which is 1827 CE.
Fragment of a calendar mentioning the year 5555 AM (1794/1795 CE). A variety of equivalent years are provided for the Hijrī , Gregorian, and Coptic …
Calendar. Late. Colorful floral illustrations, with the text in circular medallions. The surrounding fragments are either from the same calendar or very similar ones.
Essay on the intercalation of the calendar: אדא ארדנא אלוקוף עלי עלם אלחיבור. The hand is familiar, perhaps 13th century.
Literary. Astronomical or calendrical work in an unusual mixture of Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Reused on recto for a text discussing the calendar and liturgical additions.
Geonic responsum about the calendar controversy of Ben Meir, dated 994–95 CE. It is attributed to Hayye Gaon. Preserved here is the second of two …
Letter from the head of the Gola concerning the calendar. Describes his opinion about the need to shorten two months (to 29 days) and explains …
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This manuscript is the earliest copy we have of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia …
Letter 1 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letters 1 and 2 are pro-Babylonian. Both …
ישראל עוד כתב כי על כל המעשה נאמ' לא תסיג גבול רעך ולא התבונן
בתוך הפסוק שכת' בו אשר גבלו ראשונים והגבולות האלה המתוחמים בארבעה
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Latest, most formal, and most perfected, copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on …
Letter 2 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 2, of which only one folio …
… from where it stops, it starts. And from which place does it stop? From
Tuesday noon. Open
your eyes, col…
Collection of letters relating to the calendar controversy of 921–22. This is part of what Sacha Stern (2020) calls the Letters Miscellany: Letter 4 of …
Letter 3 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 3 responds to a letter from …
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
This text is preserved in one very fragmentary folio, T-S AS 160.96. What survives indicates that it is about the midday calendar limit, whereby the …
Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …
Calendar for years 4756–4757 of the Era of Creation (= 995-996 to 996-997 CE) and 4760-4761 of the Era of Creation (= 999-1000 to 1000-1001 …
Recto: calendrical text discussing the months of Marḥešvan and Kislev. Verso: jottings.
A brief narrative of the calendar controversy of 921/2 appears within a treatise or manual in Judaeo-Arabic on the Jewish calendar, which was composed and …
Calendrical or astrological work mentioning the months of January (יונאריס) and February (פבראריס) and the calends (קלנדס). Information from FGP.
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Calendrical calculations and jottings in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Two folios of this 12-folio manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how …
New discovery of a copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to …
This recently discovered document presents a detailed account of the calendar controversy from the perspective of a Qaraite. It is also the only source confirming …
Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.
Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.
This is the famous epistle/sermon generally attributed to Daniel al-Qūmisī, in Jerusalem, to his "brethren" the Qaraites, urging them to come to Jerusalem (along with …
Two legal notes, amidst sundry other jottings, mostly calendrical (including the names of months in both Hebrew and Romance—perhaps Ladino). The first note states that …
A Qaraite (specifically Tustari) post festum calendar listing the dates of the new moons by observation for the years 1357–59 Seleucid, corresponding to 1045–48 CE. …
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Calendar for the year 5424 AM in Hebrew (1663/64 CE). The month of Sivan (May-June) includes reference to the onset of the yearly Nile floods …
Literary work containing Hebrew poetry and a section on the calendar including for the years 4923–78 AM, which corresponds to 1162–1218 CE. The hand is …
Recto: Letter from David b. Naʿim to Meir b. Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Elul 5580, which is 1820 CE. On verso there is a …
This manuscript, T-S Ar. 29.190 fol. 9, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1, of which the other text witness is T-S Ar. …
Legal document in Arabic script. The bottom ~7 lines are preserved. Mentions ḍamān and daʿwa, and maybe a partnership (shirka). The parties include Mūsā b. …
Calendrical text. Dated: 1241 Sel. (929–30 CE). This copy: late 10th/11th c. according to Stern and Vidro, but may join with a cluster of reused …
Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …
This manuscript, T-S Ar 29.129, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1. It provides as much information as is needed for an individual …