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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Small fragment of an account or list. Mentions the number 1700.
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The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. …
IB IV, 57 (ח64). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria, ten days after his previous …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿAruṣ b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Some of the pages are crossed out with vertical lines.
Probably a legal document on parchment. Extremely damaged and fragmentary. The first line could read as 514 H.
Recto: fragment of a fiscal account in a Fatimid chancery hand, including amounts in dīnārs. In l. 7, mentions something al-mubāraka ilā mawlāy (or mawlāhā). …
Small fragment - needs examination.
Small receipt or order. In lieu of a name: wuṣūluhū yudfaʿ. Sum: 70 + 1/2 + something (dirhams). Dated Dhū l-Hijja.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer Bū l-Khayr. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID …
Azharot for Shavuʿot by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol. There is a marginal note (p.18) giving a date for this copy: 1484 Seleucid, which is 1172/73 CE.
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, the Karaite, Jerusalem, to one of the Karaite notables in Fustat, around 1040. He reports having received one dinar that …
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Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out two ūqiyyas of lemon and one ūqiyya (of lemon) …
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Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on the verso in the upper left corner Shawwal 1012 AH (March 1604 CE). The alphanumerical designation relies on …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a certain Yiṣḥaq, who is asked to convey the note (ruqʿa) to the judge, "for the shaykh has killed …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Dowry list. Bride: Jamīla bt. Meʾir. Groom: Netanʾel b. Moshe. The early marriage gift is 10 dinars. Dated: 1169 CE(?).
Bifolio from a medical textbook, notable for being written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.
List of payments made on a Thursday. In addition to the usual expenditure for bread, salaries, and extras, the official twice paid 3/4 dirhams to …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a very cursive hand (that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?). Items purchased include 10 sheets of Baghdādī paper; the books of, …
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Bifolium from a printed book. Retelling of Megillat Esther in Ladino poetry, in stanzas of eight verses each with an ABBAACCA rhyme scheme.
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Avraham, in Ifrīqiyya, to his uncle, Moshe b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mid-11th century. A moving letter, …
Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Unidentified text with Arabic and interspersed Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe a glossary of some kind. In one place it says עצם (bone) in Judaeo-Arabic followed by the …
Possibly a contribution or distribution list. Many names are listed.
Order instructing al-Shaykh al-Asʿad to pay a certain sum to the bearer Abū l-Karam. Dating: ca. 12th or 13th century. There follow unusually detailed instructions …
Legal document regarding the transfer of marital payments and trousseau items between David known as Naqāsh, father of the bride ʿAzīza, and the groom Shalom …
Small fragment of a letter of recommendation for a poor teacher who has lost his living and now needs charity.
Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.
Official-looking document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left may contain a date (Rabīʿ something?); the next line refers to al-taʾrīkh al-madhkūr; there are …
Extensive mathematical calculations in Indo-Arabic and Arabic numerals, some of which may comprise specific accounts. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. There are …
Two pages are recipes or technical instructions in Arabic script, and the other two pages may be drafts of phrases from letters in Arabic script. …
Muslim marriage contract. In Arabic script. Dating: Unknown. Written in a calligraphic hand, in pairs of two lines separated by moderately wide spaces. For other …
Account of the qodesh, ca. probably 1158. Fragment of an accounting between the qodesh and, apparently, its partner in the ownership of a compound, known …
To his credit, for ḥikr of 1/8 of the compound which …
known as Dār Hiba al-Abzārī,
beginning Kislev 1461, ending…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Arabic script. The lower ~10 lines are preserved. Faded in places. Some phrases: "...if he is still alive..." (l. 4); "going up to …
Legal document. Dated: Wednesday, 30 Nisan 1456 Seleucid = 25 April 1145 CE. The document describes how ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar the widow of Abū l-Khayr …
Legal proceedings that took place before us, the court and those undersigned with us on this deed:
In the month of Nissan, year 1456 AG (=…
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Astronomical or astrological treatise; deals with movement of celestial bodies. CUDL
Letter fragment addressed to a Rayyis. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ashmūn. The scribe is named Ibn al-Miṣrī: הבאה בירושלים . . . ומולאי אלרייס אל . …
Informal note/petition addressed to Avraham Maimonides, here with the title "Nagid" (thus, post-1213 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks when Avraham will spend Shabbat in …
State document in Arabic, the left side of three lines is preserved. Medieval-era. This fragment may be related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S AS 186.212. …
Legal document(s). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid = December 1080/January 1081 CE. (The first deposition is from 10 Ṭevet, the second is from 21 …
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Letter from Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, seeking to mollify him, possibly for Toviyya's failure to reimburse him in …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions routine groceries such as olive oil, sesame oil, linseed oil, soap, …
Damaged fragment from a ketubah. The groom named Yosef.
Bill of lading by Nahray b. Nissim specifying goods sent from the Maghreb and Sicily to Egypt, mainly textiles and silk. (Information from Gil)
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Astrology or astronomy, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic in a blocky hand and slightly unusual spellings.