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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
In Judaeo-Arabic. Large but very faded.
No Scholarship Records
Fragment, 4 lines, very faded, only a few letters legible.
Small fragment with very faded text on the recto, possibly in Hebrew script.
Document in Arabic script. Very faded. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Late fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded, at least partially accounts.
Wide space between the lines. Extremely faded.
Literary text, faded. Mentions "qalb", "ʿawīl" and "aʿḍāʾ". Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Very faded. Involves various sums/transfers of money.
Possibly a letter or legal document. Faded and damaged.
Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite faded.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. גהת אל . . . תכון תמנהם...
Possibly a letter. Faded script underneath the top one - needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Yosef b. Ṣadaqa.
In Arabic script. Extremely faded. (Information from CUDL)
The whole folio is preserved but the text is too faded to read.
Badly rubbed and faded fragment, probably a document. (Information from CUDL.)
Very damaged and faded. Hardly legible, but seems to contain a dowry list.
Much faded, but seems to be from the bottom part of a legal deed.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very faded. Mentions a malḥafa.
Much faded and barely legible. Seems to be a short letter in poetic Hebrew.
Probably a letter; most of the script is faded and illegible. (Information from CUDL)
Small and much faded. Dinars are mentioned, seems to be from a legal deed.
Probably a letter. Very faded. Looks late. (Information from CUDL)
Much damaged and faded, might be from a court record, but the identification is uncertain.
Bottom of a legal query, possibly with responsum underneath (but too faded to read).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Very little substance preserved.
Extremely faded letter mentioning the Nagid. On verso there is a note about an oath.
Much damaged and faded letter by Yefet b. Menashshe, Halfon's brother.
Much damaged and faded, barely legible, but probably from a legal document.
Verso: Letter, faded and damaged, in a Maghrebi hand. Bilbays is mentioned.
Badly faded and damaged minute fragment contains list of items such as cloves.
Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.
Minute fragment, very faded and only few words are hardly visible.
Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef? Faded and damaged.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment, very faded.
Small and faded fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
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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The whole folio is preserved, but the text is too faded to read.
Faded text, lists some sums or commodities in halves "niṣf".
Faded text in Hebrew, some sort of first-person narrative, likely literary.
Likely a legal document. Faded. Needs examination.
Bottom part of what was probably a huge document. Very faded.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions a jandār (a military officer?) and an amir.
Letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Sayyidnā. Needs examination for content.
, with widened line spacing, largely in Aramaic. Faded. Needs examination.
Unidentified Arabic document. Two lines preserved, faded and very difficult to read.
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Requires further examination.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Very faded. The sender reports that he is sick.
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs. Very faded/fragmentary.