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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
There may be a remnant of an Arabic document on the verso but the text in is almost completely lost to damage. Requires further examination.
No Scholarship Records
The months Ramaḍān, Dhū l-Ḥijja, and Rabīʿ al-Ākhar are mentioned. On verso there is piyyuṭ.
List of names of contributors and amounts of their contributions in figures, mentioning approximately 50 proper names, headed by the Nagid and including Manṣūr Ibn al-Lebdī. See Med Soc II, App C, 41. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
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Recto (secondary use): Genealogies of two families, it seems of the husband and the father of a woman called the daugher of Nafīs al-Sharābī (cf. Mann, Jews, II, 320). 7 generations in the first column, eight in the second.
Two pages are in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning aṣḥāb al-dār and a qāḍī. One page is a list in Judaeo-Arabic of the clothing belonging to someone, mentioning a woman, her brother, and her sister, perhaps for legal purposes.
Yiṣḥaq; Yefet b. Shelomo Ibn al-Sukkarī; Moshe.
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Mentions the Muslim name ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Ḥassūn b. ʿUthmān. On recto there is the opening of the ʿamida prayer, translated word-for-word into Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions a sum of money (al-mablagh). Needs further examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ or prayer.
A page from a volume of the Mishneh Torah, with a note of sale (intaqala bi-ḥukm al-ibtiyāʿ. . .). The buyer is Binyamin b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen (the rubbed out part of his name is legible in the mirror image imprint on T-S NS 211.17).
Refers to the "market fees" and specifically mentions that these pertain to the "(Dīwān) al-Ishrāf."
Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note about an expenditure of 550 dirhams for tearing down (naqḍ) the walls of something.
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and 504 AH = 1109/10 CE and 1110/11 CE.
Mentions several names, including ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, and figures in the hundreds and thousands (unclear what unit).
Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre to Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj of Jerusalem. Dating: mid-11th century.
Avraham . .. a dinar. . . since he said qadish in the synagogue. . . and he demands to be. . . " Pasted to another sheet of paper and reused for the opening page of an epistle on ophthalmology by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī and other jottings.
Mentions someone named David Ibn al-Khayr as well as the goods אפלמור (lime or linden?)
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Letter/petition in Arabic script from Isḥāq al-Qāriʾ. In Arabic script. Reporting that he is engaged in Hebrew studies and asking for material support.
Mentions a caravan; meeting with Ibn al-Ghardīs (there was a judge by this name in Fez in the late 11th century) and Ibn Wāsīlan(?)
Mentions "that which I sent in partnership with (פי כלטה) my master the elder Abū ʿAlī."
Contains an ownership note on the verso: "property of al-faqir(!) Eliyya Fayrūz." For an instance of this name in the Cairo Geniza post-1627 CE, see: Yevr.
(עלם מביע קמח) for the year 5589 AM which is 1828/29 CE (התקפט). Although the year is clearly rendered the disorderly scribal hand makes the nature of the list's purpose uncertain.
Receipt for the price of sugar collected from a certain ʿAbdūn by the messenger Aḥmad al-Ḥawlī. The document is dated Tuesday, 13th RabīʿII 859 H.
Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the judge.
Letter from Perahya Yiju to his brother Shemuel. Written probably in al-Mahalla around the seventies or eighties of the twelfth century.
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Customers include ʿAbdallāh, al-Mujāhid, Muhannā, and the Muʿallaqa (presumably the church).
Gotein's note reads in part, "Calligraphic (Torah script) to Yosef Rosh Kalla ve-Aluf (=Ibn ʿAwkal) [...] Thanks and שנתחדשה הצרה זאת.
Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the Arabic alphabet. This Arabic-script letter is dated 29 Rajab 1187 AH, which is 1773 CE.
Letter from Sibāʿ, unknown location, to the cantor Abū Naṣr known as Al-Damghar(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting as T-S AS 152.67.
Court record, probably a bill of release between a woman named Turfa and a man named Sayyid al-Kull. Signed by [...] b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen and Natan b.
Parts of three lines from the left side; second line reads "in shā allāh taʿālā." Wide line-spacing. Between lines 2 and 3 there is mirror-writing, presumably the imprint from another text or from the right side of this one.
In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the bottom.
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Receipt issued at a wakala in Būlāq for a transaction connected to rice and a shipping vessel from Dimyāt whose captain is named Muḥammad al-ʿAdāwī. Dated: 28 Ramaḍān 1243 AH which is 1828 CE.
Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.
Yosef (the nephew of Avraham Ibn Yijū), to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the address and the upper right corner of recto are preserved.
A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that this is a Karaite ketubah: e.g החתן הבחור החשוב, ואליו תשוקתו and more.
وحب الله بالعافية); Ghālib and his father; a complaint about a lack of letters; Ṣahrajt; and Abū ʿAlī. Needs further examination.
Rāsī(??) b. Yiṣḥaq, Sūq al-Ṣarf, the 24 portions of a house, "to my husband Suqayr."
Involving Abū Saʿīd Makhlūf ('al-Neʾeman'), [...] b. Moshe ha-Zaqen, and ʿAmram b. [...].
Addressed to a judge (mawlāy al-shofeṭ). In the greetings section mentions Abu l-Karam Rosh ha-Qahal; Ṣedaqa b.
Dealing with flax, clove, frankincense, aloe vera, cassia fistula. Mentions interesting Greek and possibly Italian names like גורגי דג'ראדי (D'Giradi?)
The accounting style is very terse, mostly relying on Hebrew alphanumerals. The recto contains an extensive halakhic text in Ladino according to FGP.
This appears to be a rental contract for a portion of a store betwen Binyamin Romano and Faraj Allāh b. Shelomo. There are no witness signatures.
Opens with greetings to the mother. Mentions Naṣr al-Dīn. The address on verso is written in a different hand: to be delivered to Abū l-Riḍā.
Location: Cairo is just barely visible along the lower tear of the document: מ]צרים].
A few partial gravesite entries are visible alongside an illustration of three trees. This fragment may be related to BL Or. 10578P.20 (PGPID 40638).
Each entry mentions an Anno Mundi month, there may be an alphanumerical year listed somewhere. Requires further examination.
Involving Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-Munā known as Ibn Naṭira, Yefet al-Zajjāj, and Shemuel. May be a betrothal: למא סהל [אלכאלק יִתעלה שמו אסבאב אלוצלה]
The list is itemized each beginning with "ʿalā" indicating the dues of each person listed.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. M[...] appears at the top of recto. Mentions prior correspondence several times.
Signed by Yiṣḥaq Shelomo al__[?] and Ḥayyīm Camtonino[?]. MCD.