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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Fragment of a Ladino letter (left half).
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Letter from David b. Moshe Bonfat (בונפט) ha-Sefaradi to Avraham ha-Sefaradi. In Hebrew. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century. The sender reports that he …
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Fragment of a business letter. May be late. Text in the margin written at 180 degrees. (Information from CUDL)
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: …
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The beginning of a letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the judge to Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār, in Alexandria. Five short lines preface the …
IB VII, 36. Letter from Alexandria to a merchant in Fustat (Gil) or from Fusṭāṭ to Aden (Goitein). Dating: 1065 (Gil) or c. 1100 (Goitein). …
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Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recipes (alchemical?) mainly in Hebrew with many Romance words mixed in (mercury, sal natri). Late.
Account. Late. Mentions Yūsuf; ʿUthmān; Shemarya.
End of a letter in Hebrew. Apparently from Yisraʾel ha-Kohen and carried by Faraḥ, though it's not clear where this is written. Very faded. Dated: …
Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Fragment from the end of a legal document. In Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: Probably 11th century if not earlier. Involves Yefet b. Shel[omo] and a …
Legal document. Record of release. Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Daniʾel ha-Kohen releases ʿAbdallāh aka ʿOvadya b. Meshullam al-Ṣūrī from their partnership in weaving. The terms …
מעשה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין דחתימין לתחתא חצר אלינא אברהם הכהן ביר דניאל
//ועובדיה// ועבד אללה בן משלם אלצורי בעד מגלס אן תקדמ[ו אליה]א [.…
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From a volume of piyyuṭim for Yom Kippur. The title page gives the name of the author or owner twice: Aharon b. [...]. There are …
Legal record (#32). Bill of sale, outline. Stating that a bill of sale (ʿuhda) shall be written for the sale of the slave wailing woman …
Small fragment with Arabic script. There is a significant amount of faded/damaged text that may become legible through Hierax digital restoration.
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed, contains only part of the date: 14 [...] '36. AA
Letter from the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva reporting on the increased participation in services – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 49) – in Arabic. (information …
Official receipt(s). Needs examination. On verso there is a fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic to someone important, possibly a draft as …
Letter from a man to his wife. In Judaeo-Arabic. Oddly, the sender refers to himself in the third person most of the time. The address …
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic paramedical treatise on the virtues of various kinds of animal substances. ¶ . . . grind it …
Verso: Statement in Judaeo-Arabic that a list of two, apparently newly acquired books should be "recorded on a memorandum (tunqal ilā tadhkira)" and brought to …
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Calendar in tabular format. Dating: late, ca. 17th–19th century. At the bottom of Moss. III,129 there are several signatures including Moshe שורונון(?), Raḥamin Zawi (רחמן …
Legal document in Arabic script. In which two people testify (wa-ashhadā ʿalā anfusahimā fī ṣiḥḥa . . . ). Mentions the "aṣḥāb arbāʿ" (pl. of …
Court record mentioning Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Menaḥem and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. Dated: Thursday, 18 Av 1536 Seleucid = 20 July 1225 CE, under the authority of Avraham …
A list of medicinal items in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This shelfmark's full ENA 1984 series are …
Accounts in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. Late. There is also the beginning of a legal deed (zikhron ʿedut) concerning a rental.
Letter fragment (upper right corner). Opening with blessings in Hebrew for a certain Shel[omo]. The body of the letter begins in l. 6 and is …
Probably a letter, mentions the leader Abū Saʿd. Signs of having been used for a book binding. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Little of the substance is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Arabic, literary. Aphorisms?
List of transportation expenses by Nahray b. Nissim, around 1045. Includes details about shipment from Fustat to the ship in Alexandria. Similar to T-S Arabic …
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Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1060. The writer tells Nahray b. Nissim about the news in Alexandria and …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמאה מן אל
אסכנדריה בעד וצול כתאבה אעזה אללה ידכר סלאמתה אדאמהא אללה ברחמתה …
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Letter from a cantor or teacher to his boss in Cairo. The cantor had been “accused of having assembled a group of young men and …
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Script for a number of theatrical characters – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 278) – in Yiddish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Some of the section headings are for days of the week. Reused for various jottings including …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender insistently urges the addressee to act according to his request, "because the muqaddam thinks he is like an angel …
Legal document(s). Probably a draft. Small and damaged fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Includes part of a partnership …
Letter from Naṣrallāh al-Khāzin, in Jerusalem, to Shemuel al-Qayyim, Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Waliyy; 60 dinars; a woman (Ḥājja Khātūn) who …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions people such as 'the woman' (al-sitt); …
Copy of the Megillat Miṣrayim (an account of attacks on the Jews of Fusṭāṭ in 1011-1012 CE). (Information from CUDL.)
Letter sent to a Nasi, possibly named Yishay, possibly in Acre. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th century, based on the mention of the judge Peraḥya …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentioning Ḥusayn or Ḥassūn. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic on recto. Requires further examination.
Hebrew medical treatise, including Chapter 18 on the development of the embryo.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning many Muslim names. Dated 1206 AH in many entries (1791/1792 CE). Requires further examination.
Bifolio of personal accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many entries crossed out.
Recto: A recipe in Arabic script. Verso: Three more lines in Arabic script, significance unclear. Underneath, in large letters, is written "bismillāh aṭāl allāh."
Recto: Formularies of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic letters to the great rabbi, the Nagid, the Mordekhay of the age "so-and-so." Verso: Wine poem in the hand …