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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded and damaged.
No Scholarship Records
Small fragments, very faded, of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.
Late literary fragment in orange/faded red ink.
Appears to be 4 pages of rabbinic literature. Very faded.
Very faded bifolium in Hebrew script, probably literary.
Lists of calculations, very faded and in eastern Arabic numerals.
In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded.
In Hebrew. Late. Small/faded fragment.
Damaged/faded fragment in Arabic script, maybe a prayer.
Faded accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Document in Arabic script. Faded/damaged. Needs examination.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Damaged and faded. Legal?
Verso: Unidentified text in faded Arabic, may be documentary.
Letter fragment. Very faded. Requesting that something be sent.
Much faded and rubbed. Seems like liturgical instructions?
Much damaged letter, most of it too faded to decipher.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Damaged and faded.
Very faded text in Arabic script, maybe documentary.
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Faded/damaged.
Top of a document in Arabic script, very faded/damaged.
Likely a letter in Arabic script. Very faded/damaged.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very faded.
Document in Arabic script. Very faded. Needs examination.
Faded accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone's ghulām.
Minute fragment from an opening of a letter. Much faded
Much damaged and faded small fragment from a letter
Faded and damaged letter written by Yefet b, Menashshe
Fragment with text in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.
Letter in Arabic script. Damaged and faded. Needs examination.
Extremely faded tax receipt(s)? Needs examination.
The document is torn away at the top and on the right side. The script is faded and effaced, but on the whole legible. 15 lines. […] The profit of 60 dinars is also claimed by the claimant as due him. Five signatures are preserved and it might be assumed that there were even more.
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Dated: Wednesday, 15 Elul 1648 Seleucid = Muharram 738 AH = 13 August 1337 CE. Ṣafiyy b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazzān accepts a 10 year contract to serve as communal slaughterer (specifically for fowls) and as cantor in the Dār Ben Sameaḥ / Ibn Samīḥ (=Dār Simḥa) Qaraite synagogue for a salary of 5 dirhams nuqra a month. […] Yosef ha-Kohen; someone whose name is too faded to read; Yisraʾel b. Eliyyahu b. Yisraʾel ha-Kohen; and Moshe b. […] This may be the earliest dated document pertaining to the Dar Simḥa synagogue. Identified by Alan Elbaum in 2020.
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Instructions of some kind in very faded Judaeo-Arabic.
Judaeo-Arabic, too faded to identify (FGP). Yemeni hand.
Natan ha-Kohen. Extremely faded.
Recto is a prayer in Arabic script. Verso is faded and difficult to read.
Mentions R. Nissim. Very faded.
Legal document in Hebrew, in a square book hand. Very faded.
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Very faded fragment with Arabic text, probably Ottoman-era.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic text, very faded. Probably literary.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Too faded to read.
Fragment with Hebrew text. Too faded to read. Looks literary.
"This siddur(?) belongs to Faḍā'il b. Mordekhay."
Likely a faded letter containing blessings for the addressee.
Small fragment with Judaeo-Arabic and a small doodle on it. Very faded.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very faded.
In Arabic script. Very faded. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script on verso. Very faded.