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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter fragment.
No Scholarship Records
Legal document(s), probably. In Arabic script. Late. Needs further examination.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains. The writer mentions the addressee's forgiving nature; his own good intentions; a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla). …
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Summary of the extraction and medicinal uses of myrrh gum (from "a type of tree in Yemen"). In Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-Ahl, a pair of bracelets or armlets …
Kabbalistic menora surrounded by floral motifs composed of micrography. Visually arresting. Also massive: 51.5 x 37 cm and missing at least ⅓ from the top.
Letter, probably, comprised of a small scrap with faint remnants of a few words in Hebrew script.
Four sides of a medical text in a beautiful calligraphic hand with diacritical marks. Needs examination for identifying the work.
Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.
Translation/paraphrase of the book of Job into Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 18th or 19th century.
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 …
Copious jottings in Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and other symbols (all Greek/Coptic numerals?). Some phrases from Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī. One of the Judaeo-Arabic …
Magic recipe.
Karaite enactment on the gifts permitted to give in happy occasions and mourning.
Letter fragment, probably. In Arabic script.
Letter from a ḥaver of the Jerusalem yeshiva, identified by Frenkel as probably Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the leader of the community of Aleppo, probably in …
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Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. 11th or 12th century. None of the substance remains. Mentions sending something.
Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions grains (ḥubūb) in the header, and the arrival of a miller (ṭaḥḥān). Needs examination.
Minute fragment.
Jottings including drafts of phrases from letters in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic.
Letter to a woman (possibly from her son in law, as it mentions her daughter), and the instruction to come quickly if she wants to …
Legal document listing funds from the estate of a deceased man. Dated 9 Av 5523 AM (1763 CE). The estate is connected to the income …
Legal fragment. Dated: 1[.]64 Seleucid, probably 1364 = 1052/53 or 1464 = 1162/63. Mentions someone called Ibn Abī קויס or קוים (Quwayyis? Quwaym? Qawīm).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary text in Arabic script. There are grids of red ink filled with eastern Arabic numerals.
Fragment of a personal letter – 10 September 1917 – Museum of Islamic Art – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. There is one name in Hebrew script (אלמהראני); the addressee is called "my son" (yā waladī); and the writer mentions …
Possibly a responsum. Legal discussion, but doesn't seem to be a legal deed.
Business letter from Abū l-Khayr(?) Yeshuʿa b. [...] to Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa. Dating: 11th century. Mentions various ships including אלמכרב אללובי (the Libyan …
Letter from Ibrahīm b. Yosef al-Ṣabbāgh (Fustat) to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī (Alexandria), ca. 1050. Avraham b. Yosef al-Ṣabbāgh, one of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. …
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Letter from Ismāʿīl b. al-Ḥasan(?) b. Muḥammad, unknown location, to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlī al-Ṭūbī(?), in Fustat. In Arabic script. Only the basmala on …
Four lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the amīr Shihāb al-Dīn (last line). Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic halakhic discussion.
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Letter in Ladino. The sender has an unskilled hand and sometimes makes numerous attempts to spell a word correctly (e.g., אין[[בייידו]] [[בייאדו]] ביאדו). Mentions R. …
Business accounts written by ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions names such as al-Dimyāṭī, al-Ḥalabī, Abū Naṣr, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal.
Letter from a father to a son. On vellum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This fragment opens with updates on the health of various …
Verso: state document. Legible words: on line 1, مـ]ـستخدمين في الدواوين]; on line 2: ان شا الله. (MR)
Possibly just jottings in Arabic script. There may be the remains of a letter on verso.
Note addressed to Abū l-ʿIzz, asking him for 2 dirhams of the money which his brother owes.
Magical fragment. Written in Hebrew and either Judaeo-Greek or Greek words that had simply become magical words.
Minute fragment, probably from a Magical text. AA
Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1474 Seleucid, which is 1162/63 CE, under the authority of Netanel ha-Levi. Quittance or agreement …
Receipt for Bū l-Majd b. [...].
Tax receipt or commercial account or receipt.
Verso: Document in Arabic script. Perhaps a letter. Remnants of four lines.
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ramla. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in Palermo, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt known as Ṭāriq, in Fustat. Abū Saʿīd reports that he had fled the unrest …
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Letter from Mordekhai ha-Levi b. Shemuel, Moshe Levi b. Shemuel, and the Qaraite community of Jerusalem to Shelomo Kohen, his son Yosef Kohen, Aharon Levi, …
Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1058. The person it was written to is unknown. Regarding payments and money tranfers. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, …