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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Accounts in Hebrew alphanumerals in a unique scribal hand, many entries are crossed out.
No Scholarship Records
The name Abū l-Barakāt appears, and perhaps the phrase "ḥaqq al-bayʿ" and perhaps the names of different streets.
The writer refers to someone, perhaps al-Ḥasan Abu Sahl (?), taking an oath in the Palestinian synagogue.
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From Yefet b. Menashshe (Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, early 12th century). The addressee's name seems to contains Yaʿaqov in it.
Recto contains the upper portion of a legal testimony, possibly a record of a purchase, in the name of Hibat Allāh b. Abū l-Riḍā. Verso contains another portion of a legal testimony.
Refers to the presence of the shekhina when people gather to study, all the more so when they gather for prayer in the synagogue.
Mentions lamps (qanādīl), the phrase "wa-anta ʿalā ʿayn [mā tarā]" (cf. T-S 10J20.12), and a bit of quince mucilage.
Groom: Yehuda ha-Rofeʾ. Bride: Sitt al-Nās. AA
Bill of sale for property. Dated: Jumādā al-Ūlā 394 [Feb.-March 1004]. Parchment ; 16 lines ; 250 x 300 mm.
Religious text mentioning the name of Saʻīd ibn Ḥasan al-Talimsānī. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "Poeme religieux d'un poëte inconnu" ; on a separate small piece of paper : "Poems of an unknown poet" ; [next line, in red] : "religious"].
Possibly in the hand of Yehuda b. Aharon al-ʿAmmānī. (Information in part from CUDL.)
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Mentions Abū l-Munā and Ibn al-Dihqān. (Information in part from CUDL.)
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Original use: Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba or at least a marriage-related document: "... and they will act in accordance with the traditions of the Qaraites... and they will not resort to Muslim courts...." Bride: [Sitt] al-Ahl bt. Yosef. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
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Inventory of the Sarcocolla (‘anzarut), a medicinal resin, in the possession of Abu al-Khayr Sedeqa, recording the numbers of ratls that have been taken out and how many remain.
Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fiancee: Sitt al-Banāt the daughter of Mubāraka bt. Yefet. Fiancé: [...] b.
Refers to the amīr Rifʿat? al-Dawla; a dīwān; and includes a raʾy clause. Dating: no later than 1045 CE due to reuse on recto.
وعبده يسل انعامه[
ثبوته على يد الامير رفعة الدولة ادام الله عزه
ا]ستخراج رافعها في سورة الديوان
]بيده الراي //الاعلى// في الانعام علي فيما سا…
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Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in letters from Ismail.
Fragment conveying good wishes for the holidays and reporting on the sale of indigo (nil) in al-Mahalla which had been successful but which had been unsuccessful in Minyat Ghamr.
Formularies for letters addressed to notables in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a few verses of Judaeo-Arabic poetry.
Faraj as agent for the wife of Abu l-Ḥasan al-Ṣayrafi, who was oppressed by her husband. (Information from CUDL)
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Remnants of address in Arabic at the back. Reads as "al-Fusṭāṭ".
Hoshana, Jerusalem, to Shemarya b. al-Hanan, the leader of the Babylonian Jewish community in Fustat ca. 1010.
Shemarya, referring to Abū Saʿd and Abū Ibrahim al-Andalusī, with three lines of a piyyuṭ composed by Sahlān b.
Wine is recommended as an alternative for a sharab (a potion). The verso contains an unrelated Arabic document.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Opens with the phrase "(al-mamlūku) yakhdumu majlisa mawlānā wa-sayyidinā...."
ا[لمملوك]
يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا ادام الله ايامه ويسل انعامه
ان يتفضل باحسانه ان يرسل صحبة الشيخ ابو الحسن جامكية
المملوك في …
Wahb, in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 4 Jumādā I 404. Measurements: 10.4 × 8 cm.
Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm (see PGPID 20611). The tax receipt is dated 28 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404.
Recto, with address on verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to al-muʿallim Yehuda KR[...]. Verso and margins of recto: Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, involving the sale of a house.
Tax receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b.
Registration mark on right
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, a government employee (al-mustakhdam). Dated: 17 Rajab 531(?) AH = 10 April 1137 CE if read correctly.
Mentioning the name Ibn al-ʿŪdī.
Mentions something to do with a caravan (nuzūl al-sayyāra). On recto (secondary use) there is some Aramaic literary text.
(Data from FGP by Abrahan David.) Join: Alan Elbaum.
The writer is named Ibrahim al[...]. With the partial names and the distinctive handwriting, the writer should be identifiable.
Little preserved apart from the word [...] al-Sijilmāsī. Many of the surrounding fragments are in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen; this may be from his dossier as well.
Reused on verso for a literary text in Hebrew. Joins: Alan Elbaum and CUDL.
Fragment (lower right corner). Mentioning Abū ʿAlī coming to the sender's location and an ʿarḍī garment and something that sold.
Fragment of a legal document; concerning alimony and other marital matters between spouses; [...]
Recto contains the beginning of a document and mentions al-Maghrib. Verso contains some crossed out text; portions of names; the words bayt din, istiḥqāq, a quarter and an eighth, and a guardian (אפטרופא).
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably literary, from the introduction to a work by al-Fārābī. Less likely a letter, though the layout (with blank verso) often suggests documentary rather than literary.
Fragment from a letter, mentioning Mesar or Muyassar (מיסר) ha-Kohen who met with someone important, "and he is a very good person," then ʿAmram and Elʿazar and Yeshuʿa al-Iskandarānī. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
There is an 'emet' header and the letter addresses itself to "the community" (al-jamāʿa). The subject matter is unclear. This is a small fragment from the upper right corner.
The language is very reminiscent of a petition (yujaddid ʿahd khidmatihī lil-majlis al-sāmī....) however the addressee is the sender's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-[...].
Mentions a community 'raising' something to a certain Dīwān al-Kh[āṣṣ?]: حاله الى ان يرفع الجماعة الى ديوان الخـ[اص(؟) . . .
State document in Arabic script. 7 lines are partially preserved. Mentions a rescript (al-tawqīʿ) and probably a year in the 5th century AH (4[..]).
Mentions various people's names (e.g., Fakhr al-Dīn and Shelomo), quantities of 'sieved' (mugharbal) wheat, and expenses for milling and winnowing.
List of alphanumerical entries, likely accounts. Dating is perhaps late medieval up to 17th-century but there is very little paleography to confirm a clear estimate.
Greetings to the teacher Sulaymān, to Yūsuf, to Bū ʿAlī, and to the sender's wife and a girl. On verso (and bottom of recto) there is Hebrew piyyut.
Including medical, magical and alchemical recipes, e.g. for making a woman love her husband, for producing gold , for removing an arrow, and for a toothache.