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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Late letter in Hebrew signed by ha-ṣāʿir Meʾir [...]. Written in an elevated register with many expressions of self abasement and flattery. Needs further examination.
No Scholarship Records
Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. Very damaged. Only some signatures preserved: […] ha-Levi b. Avraham, Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe. Reused for …
IB III, 12. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in India, probably from 1146. Corrected copy of IB III,13-14 (T-S …
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Account or some other kind of table written in a fiscal or accounting hand. Two line items appear to include the word al-Muslimīn.
Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document.
Treatise in Judaeo-Arabic (Abraham Maimonides per FGP, but probably has no connection with him for the hand is 11th century). In fact an interesting theological …
Recto: short letter or note to Yosef ha-Sar the doctor. The writer had tried to visit Yosef several times but didn’t find him in and …
Probably a letter. Very damaged. (Information from CUDL)
List in Judaeo-Arabic, mentions Badr al-Dīn in the heading. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography.
Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active 1125–50). Quite damaged. Mentions a document in the handwriting …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: end of the 10th or beginning of the 11th century. From Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Abitur, in Spain (either Merida …
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Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography helps to estimate the dating of this fragment as sixteenth- or seventeenth- century.
Letter mentioning a certain Joseph. (Information from CUDL)
Contract of sale between ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra and Bahja (?) bnt. ... b. Mubārak in Uqlūl. Dated Jumādā I 415. The two witnesses are …
Accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if state or private. Mentions someone al-ʿAjamī. One of the headings is "ʿamāla." Reused on the same side for a …
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
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Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 15 dirhams to R. Yiftaḥ as 6 weeks …
Recto: Letter/petition fragment in Arabic script: بسم [الله الرحمن الرحيم] يقبل الارض . . . . مولاي وسيدي وسندي الريس . . . . العامل …
Pen trials in Arabic script. Notable for the excellent calligraphy. Possibly an exemplar of the Arabic alphabet for students.
Recto: Legal record. Referring to payments and the loaning of a siddur, mentioning Abū Saʿīd and Netanʾel. Verso: Legal record Mentions Netanʾel b. Yefet. Dated …
Testimony, in Arabic script, on parchment, written in paragraphs of two lines which is a common feature of some marriage documents. Begins هذا ما شهد …
Letter from Daniel ha-Levi, in Damascus, to someone important named Natan. Late. In Hebrew. The letter has to do with a man named Binyamin Fā'ina …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of names with Hebrew numerals. Dating: no earlier than 13th century. Names include the son of the Syracusan (בן הסריקוסי;) the kohen Naṣrallāh al-Ghazzāwī; …
Verso: Recycled Arabic document that may be related to T-S AS 187.115 (PGPID 39974). Requires further examination.
Letter from Moshe Bibas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The port city Rashid is mentioned at the opening of line 20. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Nagid and iṣlāḥ al-umūr and al-ḥāḍirīn... ilā l-ghā'ibīn.
Lists of people and numbers, likely a contributors list. Numbers underneath the names mostly range from 2-5. Names include: Ibrāhīm al-[...]; Ṣafiyy b. Barakāt; Bū …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. A, fol.2 - Accounts, in Arabic script.
Letter from Yosef b. Khalfa from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. Regarding a large deal of pearls, which the writer has a …
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(a) Draft of a dirge for a noble woman. (b) List of names ending with "the tailor and his travel companion." Including: Yosef b. Shemuel, …
Fragment of damaged text in Hebrew script. Mentions the night of the 14th of Nisan. Medieval-era and possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Will of Yaʿaqov b. Dunash b. Yehuda Resh Sidra, dealing mainly with expenses for his burial in Jerusalem. He appoints his brother-in-law Natan b. Shelomo …
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Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …
Bifolium of legal records, one of which is dated 1519 CE (Sivan 1830 Seleucid).
Document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew jottings (names of cantillation marks). Needs examination.
List of parshiyot and dates in a calligraphic hand with artistic markings.
Written to the judge Hananel b. Shemuel, this letter mentions the son of the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides, his son-in-law) and a certain R. Menahem. The …
Deposition made in court, under duress. Dating: ca. 1130s–40s CE. The issue concerns a house worth 300 dinars; 150 were paid. Then it was estimated …
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Recto: Bottom of a legal deed, it seems. Reconciliation of some sort. A person declares that if they oppress someone else (אן כנת טלמתך), may …
Letter fragment (upper right corner). In Hebrew. Addressed to some dignitary: ha-Sar ha-Gadol Rabbenu [...]. The sender explains that he has come from a far-away …
Account statement – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 172) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on kosher and unkosher meat, including instructions for how to cook meat.
Accounts. (Information from CUDL.) Late, sephardic hand.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Badly damaged text in Hebrew script. Requires further examination.
Official letter of the Mamlūk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "une lettre de l'epoque des mamelucks caucasiens (?)" ; on a separate small …