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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Accounts. Three pages. See also ENA 3770.8. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Letter to a brother in Fustat. Fragment from the top. Little is preserved apart from the formulaic opening and complaint about lack of letters.
No Scholarship Records
Arabic, literary. Poetry.
Document in Arabic script. Accounts? Needs conservation and needs examination.
Trousseau list, written and signed by Yefet ha-Levi b. M[anasseh]. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from a letter, possibly mentioning a deed(?) and the Talmud. Approximately 5 lines are preserved. Wide space between the lines. It is not clear …
Two fragments from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a cursive Spanish (Andalusī) hand. Excerpts: אכתארך(?) חאלי(?) אן תפצלה . . . מא …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Technical recipe in Arabic script, likely medical, written on one page of a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Fiscal account. Needs examination.
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
Letter to Ḥalfon b. Berakhot (?). In a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very long, but the substance seems quite short, occupying …
Accounts. Many names are listed. Mentions irdabbs of grain.
Fragments of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dating: mentions [14]44 Seleucid and Jumādā II 527 AH = …
needs examination. Image not available?
Legal document. In Hebrew. A release/quitclaim given by ʿAmram b. Shelomo. (Information from FGP.)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of the court clerk Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The letter opens with condolences for the addressee's loss. …
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The documentary portion of this shelfmark is the marginal note on the lower fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. "On Sunday morning, I had 2 …
Letter from a certain Peraḥya to the Nasi Shelomo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that he had intended to pay him a visit on the …
Recto: Accounts in Ladino in muayyadis, naming Shelomo, Hakham Moshe, Yizhaq M[...?], Shemuel Ḥarran, Reuven, and amounts owed to and received from different parties. On …
Four columns from Deuteronomy.
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb and [...]b al-Ḥakīm. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Letter from Yeshu'a b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim.
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Four responsa of Gershom b. Judah (the Ragma), on the subject of borrowing money from gentiles, selling property, interest on a loan, and business deals …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower left corner). Sends regards to various people. Mentions that someone's son has "become a man" (l. 3). On verso …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: List of names. In Judaeo-Arabic, followed by quantities of grain in waybāt. Very faded. Names include Abū l-Surūr; Abū Zikrī b. Moshe; Abū ʿImrān; …
List of commodities and amounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Items include saffron and pepper. Information in part from Penn catalog.
Letter in Arabic script. The addressee is asked to send something (dirhams?) with the bearer. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Beginning and address only. Addressed to Abū l-Munā Shelomo b. [Ḥayyim] ha-Sheviʿi (known from other documents from the 1120s CE, …
Legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Eliyya b. Yehuda ha-Kohen; an amīr; and the term "al-mutawalliyīn." Likely an indirect join with T-S AS 168.223 (PGPID 38193).
Accounts, late, at least partially in Hebrew in and Ashkenazi(?) scribal hand. Also has words such as קארטה. Detailed but difficult to understand -- needs …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Legal testimony, or perhaps a letter. Written in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolium. The document contains a blow-by-blow account of what various messengers said about the …
List, with each line starting with the name of a judge or other distinguished person bearing titles ending in al-Dīn (so probably 12th century or …
Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. In Hebrew. Contains a rich account of communal controversy and highly unflattering …
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Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: 7 Shevat 5480 AM, which is 1720 CE. Groom: Nissim b. ʿAmram b. Shemuel. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Yeshuʿa b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (righthand side). The sender may be Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (from the Arabic-script address). Mentions the congregation; controversy; Hiba b. Faraj; Abū …
Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Friday, 20 Kislev 1457 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed by Ṣedaqa …
Order of payment by Abu al-Majd, ordering Abu al-Fadl the cantor and money changer to pay Surur the olive oil dealer the balance owed him. …
Letter addressed to Sar Shalom, written by a man whose wife and son had been in captivity by Edom (Christians) and who had lost all …
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Letter from Benaya b. Mūsā to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. The purpose of the letter is to explain why the writer never …
Accounts mentioning spikenard, cloves (קורונפל), hyacinth (סונבול), and probably other botanical items. (MCD with Information from CUDL.) Late.
Recto: Deed of sale for a female slave (the term waṣifa appears in ll. 2 and 6). In Arabic script. Dating: probably 11th or 12th …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. The addressee is Tamīm al-Ṣay[rafī?]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Court record. Dated: Middle decade of Tammuz 1565 Seleucid = June/July 1254 CE . Conducted under the authority of Rabbenu Moshe the judge. Hilāl or …
Responsum draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the division of property. Several phrases have been crossed through. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
A brief narrative of the calendar controversy of 921/2 appears within a treatise or manual in Judaeo-Arabic on the Jewish calendar, which was composed and …
Fragment in Judaeo-Arabic listing several names (e.g. Hilāl, Yūsuf, al-Skandarānī) and perhaps including names of witnesses. Needs examination.