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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
New chapters written in red ink, sneeze "al-ʿiṭās".
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Both hands use Coptic alphanumerals to express numbers.
Mysterious late fragment containing lists of words in Hebrew script, but not all looking like Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions a couple of names, including Musā al-Yahūdī. Needs examination.
Commentary. Several text blocks, all of which seem to be commentaries on the name and character of Avraham.
Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1065.
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Verso: Letter in Arabic script to al-shaykh Banīn. Dealing with various small business transactions.
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Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and to his sons Hillel and Benyamin.
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Late letter to Abd al-Karim Kashani dealing with orders for goods.
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū ʿAlī b. Faraj(?) a Jewish goldsmith (ṣāʾigh) in Fustat for the year [50?]
Mentions various sections of the Talmud as well as al-Ḥāwī.
Mentions Abū l-Fakhr b. Mardūkh al-Ṣayrafī.
Business account or letter, mentioning several names including some with the title al-haj - needs examination. (FGP)
Arabic document of sale, consisting of an acknowledgement (`iqrar), dated 633 AH (Khan, ALAD, pp.19, 46)
Bifolium from a notebook, with all four pges filled. Needs examination.
Looks legal and Mamluk-era. There is an ʿalāma or witness statement in the upper corner. Needs examination.
Document, entitled ‘list of registers’ (ṯabt al-dafātir), followed by names, such as Ibn Ḥātim.
Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, part of the right of verso). Essentially all the remaining phrases are formulaic. ASE.
Fragment from a document, mentioning names such as Sitt al-Ahl and Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL.)
Accounts, mentioning names such as ha-Levi, [Abū l-]Maʿānī, Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning an elder, Abū Yaʿqūb the parnas and Ibn al-Qaḥṭ[ānī?]. (Information from CUDL)
On recto, the name Abū ʿAlī appears. (Information in part from CUDL)
Inventory (thabat) of a certain Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn’s possessions (?). Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
Legal document written in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning ha-Levi b. [...] and the elder Abū ʿAlī. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment, possibly from a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning a cantor and an inheritance. But almost nothing is preserved.
Accounts with names, such as Moshe Ibn al-Danwār, Yisḥaq, Hiba and Ḥasan, and ʿImrān, and numerals.
Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions an apostate (al-posheaʿ). (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of the siddur (prayerbook) of R. Natan al-Sijilmāsī. Shows evidence of having been preserved in a book binding (?)
Fragment from the top of an unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly mentioning the caliph al-Mustanṣir. Needs examination.
Mentions a drowned person (al-gharīq) and a quantity of manns of cinnabar (zunjufr).
Letter/petition from a certain ʿĪsā to [...] al-Khawlī. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era.
Torn and damage.d There is an ʿalāma on the left. Mentions a sum of 500 (dinars) and a dīwān.
Two lines of Arabic script, the top of which reads "Dīwān al-Ishrāf."
Rent receipt for Bū Isḥāq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated: 726 AH = 1325/26 CE.
Mentions Muẓaffar b. Hilāl b. Ḥusām al-Dawla and the town of Dahrūṭ.
Mentions "dafātirī" and "al-qirṭās." Needs examination.
Verso: Beginning of a literary treatise on 'the secrets of incantations' (asrār al-nīranjāt). On recto there is an unidentified text in Hebrew script.
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, headed by basmala and ṣalwala, then al-mamlūk [...]. Potentially a petition.
Might mention someone [...] b. ʿAlī and a gift.
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, with an ʿalāma at the top and reference to tax farming (ḍamān or ḍummān).
Bottom part of a receipt written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 10 Ramaḍān 405.
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Bifolio of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, extensive and well-preserved. Medieval-era.
Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Mentions a landlord (ṣāḥib al-dār) and a garment (shuqqa muthallath).
Mystical vision of Shelomo Alqabeẓ ha-Levi, or perhaps a group somehow connected to him.
Bifolium from a book of alchemy. Same hand as numerous other fragments: start with BL OR 5565G.23–26.
Mentions Abū Yiṣḥaq; Abū Saʿd; Ibn al-Ḥarīrī.
Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions ʿAllān and Abū Yaʿaqov and different types of wood.
Possibly amounts owed by (ʿalayhi) and to (lahū) various people.