Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Syriac alphabet exercises and Psalms 8:1a. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."
No Scholarship Records
Folio from a late treatise containing alchemical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, including for "water of lead" that will dissolve anything.
Among others one reads the words šayʾ, ḍāʿaf Allāh
Published by Amir Ashur in Qoves al Yad 21 (2012), 1-24
Petition formulary (?) mentions al-Ḥākim but is written as a literary text. Needs further examination.
State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
1 Transcription
Ya'aqov Rosh ha-Seder. Published by Allony, the Jewish LIbrary p. 396
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Shemarya? There is an "al-Ghazzī" in the address.
Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Abu al-Surur Farah, Fustat, ca. 1060.
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Letter from [ʿAll?]ūsh b. Yūsuf to Efrayim b. Yefet. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Calendrical text containing algorithms and mnemonics and instructions for calculation.
Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script.
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval era. The verso mentions "the sister of Um ʿAbdallah" (اخت ام عبدفالله).
Or maybe a petition—the second block opens with "yuqabbil al-arḍ wa-yunhī." Needs examination.
Mentions antidote (tiryāq) and wheat flour (daqīq al-ḥinṭa).
Tax receipt for jizya in the name of Bū Naṣr al-Yahūdī for the year 514. Trigger: addā. Contains a registration mark.
Mentions something done "by the captain of a ship" (ʿalā yad rayyis markab).
Verso mentions the receipt of banana leaves (wusūl waraq al-mawz).
Including prescriptions for hair loss and instructions for a recipe based on almond oil.
Small fragment from the beginning: ...saʿādatahu wa-salāmatahu wa-niʿmatahu ʿalā....
Only a few words preserved (...bi-idhn Allāh...). Reused for Hebrew text.
Addressed to a cousin (ibn al-ʿamm). Draft. Dating: late.
In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed "al-maqbūḍ" and listing names and numbers (Coptic numerals).
Badly damaged fragment, with one line of very faint text in Hebrew script along the upper edge of the recto and verso.
List of names, including Yaʿaqov, Yosef, Hibatallāh b. al-[...], Sulaymān. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
The phrase "wa-l-ḥāl salāma" ("all is well") is legible.
Mentions three days and (in the margin) news about the collector (al-jābī).
List of collections, all crossed out. Recto contains a letter requesting payment or distribution of bread to various young women?
שוליים: ומן אלרנע אלכביר תכון אל…
Subject matter is unclear; mentions bad etiquette (sū' al-adab).
Includes remedies for illnesses and mentions the disease of the fox (dāʾ al-thaʿlab).
Letter from Faraj, the emancipated slave of Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Awkal and his two sons.
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion
Letter to Abu al-Faraj who is addressed with many honorific titles and is informed about the delivery of his letter to the sender.
Letter from Yosef b. Sahl al-Baradānī in Tripoli, Lebanon, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1060.
טראבלס ליד
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Exposition of a halakhic point (taʿlīq ʿal sefer Nezaqim) which the writer says he heard from Avraham Maimonides.
The bride's name is Sitt-al-Bayt. Part of the dowry list is preserved. AA
1 Discussion
Letter to Shemuʾel al-Jibālī from his cousin. Dating: ca. 15th or 16th century.
Receipt for the ḍamān (or rent?) of a shop in Minyat al-Ghamr(?) for Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm in the year 516 H.
Distribution of wheat to Byzantines (thabat al-Rūm). Belongs with T-S K15.113. Dating: ca. 1100–40 CE.
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala.
the Yeshiva, the countryside, and the capitation tax (al-jāliya). (Information from CUDL)
Testimony from the wife of Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabī, the daughter of Abū l-Majd(?). (Information in part from CUDL)
Memorial list ('bayt al-sofer'). The part containing the names is torn off.
Fragment of a letter mentioning [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
Circular addressed to 'all the congregations of our brothers of Israel who live in [...],' old and young and parnasim.
The names Yefet and Sitt al-[...] may appear in the bottom line.
Mentions ‘the Christian’ al-Mubāshar and ‘the house of the judge’. Coptic numerals.