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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Order of payment? Ṣuḥḥa li-l-shaykh al-ajall Abū l-Ḥajjāj yadfaʿ l-muwaṣṣilihā...
No Scholarship Records
The Arabic script may refer to "bayt Muḥsin al-Bazzāz"
Expenses like couriers (raqqāṣīn) and trash disposal; mentions Mūsā al-ṢB[...]
The first is a version of "يأيها المعشوقُ بالله مَن" by Tamīm al-Fāṭimī (d. 985) (compare https://www.aldiwan.net/poem50895.html).
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Late. Involving David al-Granati (אלגראנאטי) a resident of Rhodes (תושב רודוס); a sum of reals (ריאליס); an orphan; and a sister.
Addressed to a wazīr ("mawlāy al-wazīr"). The document was pruned and stuck at the bottom.
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The beginnings of 2 lines are preserved: fī kull shahr... ḥisāban fī al-[...]... Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Refers to the lions' den and to the king summoning "the viziers and patriarchs" (אלוזרא ואלבטארקה). Join: Alan Elbaum
From Abū Zikrī Kohen to al-Shaykh Khalīl (or Khalaf?).
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Book list written by Yosef Rosh Haseder. See Alloni, The Jewish Library, no. 100 (the shelf mark given there is TS NS 298.3, and should be corrected)
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At upper left: "min dār...." Begins: "ʿalā X..." Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic commercial accounts.
Mentions a house, Abū Isḥāq, Sitt al-Nās, and her husband.
Refers to witnesses going to somebody's house, and lists numerous valuable items. Mentions Barakāt al-Katnānī (? אלכתנאני).
Draft of a court record involving Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yeshuʿa b. Yefet (Information from CUDL).
Little of the content remains; mentions household items (ḥawā'ij al-bayt) and the writer's shame.
The bride is Esther known as Sit al-Bayt d. Ya'aqov. AA
Letter from an unknown man to Umm ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, filled with business matters and greetings.
Identification by Matthew Dudley and Alan Elbaum.
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Husband: Nissim b. [...] al-Miṣrī.
Fragment (upper right piece) of a partnership agreement in Hebrew between Avraham al-Akhṭar and a certain Shem Tov. Dating: probably 16th century (the hand is known).
Disorganized writings in Hebrew, Arabic, and Judaeo-Arabic, in all different directions. There are two lines from an official-looking calligraphic Arabic document.
Ketubba for Yūsuf b. ʿIwaḍ al-Kohen and Ḥāliya bt. Yaḥyā Kohen. No earlier than late 17th century (perhaps 1696 CE = 2008 Seleucid).
Mentions several obscure terms; sour grapes (ḥiṣrim); sugar; tutty; al-ḥakīm; jars of wine
Letter addressed to Shelomo ha-Sar known Saniyy al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā. Consists solely of flattery and praises, perhaps a letter of gratitude for some benefaction.
Letter from Yosef and Nahum, sons of Sahl al-Baradānī, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
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Mentions a payment of 9 wariq dirhams a day for the month Ramaḍān al-muʿaẓẓam, for a total of 270 dirhams. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Dating: First half of the 11th century. Mentions Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn. Edited by Elinoar Bareket. Awaiting fuller description.
Ṣāʿid; 370 dirhams; and "the balance" (al-bāqī). Dating: ca. 1200 based on recto.
Asking him for more money ("the peraḥ that you sent has already run out"). Dating: Probably late.
One piece of paper stuck on to another piece of paper, containing a message in Hebrew referring to 'this Jew who brings my letter all (sic) the holy congregations....'
Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum. On verso there is a piyyut (in beautiful handwriting and vocalized).
, ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
Writing exercises in which the instructor provided the atbash Hebrew alphabet in model handwriting for the student ____[?]
SOme interesting names: Musāfir, Murhaf, Humām, al-Hudhud ("the hoopoe").
One side is headed "Shihāb al-Dīn [amīr(?)] Dīwān [...]." Needs examination.
Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
Informal note/order addressed to Abū Saʿīd (al-ʿAfṣī?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving him an instruction concerning the cup/jug (kūz) of mercury that is with the bearer of the note.
Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Mentions al-muʿallim Saʿīd b. [...]. Needs examination.
Mentions Yosef b. Yehuda al-Kohen and at least one other name.
Verso: Remnants of a few words in Arabic, along with two lines giving a sum of money in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bishr, and a purchase that the writer made in al-Maḥalla.
Refers to a rescript from the government (tawqīʿ al-sulṭān, verso l. 3).
Needs examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.
The new chapter/section is written in red ink, part of it is preserved and reads as "al-muṭbiqa". Needs examination.
Could be a folio from the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ. Needs examination.
Saʿīd b. Ibrahīm pays ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd. Dated 14(?) Dhū l-Qaʿda 700(?). Needs examination.
Printed page from the beginning of "Introduzione alla grammatica del Puoti" (1865). With inky fingerprints and writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script written over it.
Dating: Possibly 11th century. The word ʿalā is abbreviated as an ʿayin with a dot over it (ע̇ אחסן חאל).