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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letters, perhaps, copied into a literary work. There seem to be long strings of titles. In Hebrew.
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Fragment of a medieval-era document, unclear which genre given the extent of damage. Only a partial name is visible [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi, who is …
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning sugar and glass.
Recto (secondary use): Letter of appeal for charity from Asʿad b. al-Ḥājj Ḥusām. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. He says that "I have nothing …
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Fragmentary and only partly legible. The fragment is labeled "L20" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts. OH
Fragment of a document, might be legal. It repeats twice al-tārīkh and mentions once al-tārīkh al-madhkūr (first line on the right). Needs examination.
Verso: Legal agreement in which Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī the banker agrees to pay Ḥalfon b. Efrayim 8.5 dinars every month on a debt of 15 …
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Bifolio of neatly written Judaeo-Arabic business accounts. Dating: likely 16th-century based on the paleography. At first glance, the accounts appear to be dated "in 962 …
The main text is in Ladino and Hebrew, perhaps a sermon or exegetical work. Verso also contains: the draft of the beginning of a Ladino …
Legal query to [... ha-Rav] ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel concerning a mercantile transaction. Mentions the Dār al-Wakāla; a deal betwen two merchants; and how the merchandise was …
Long business letter mainly in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era. At the top of recto there is a summary of accounts with R. Avraham during …
State document, fragmentary. Three and a half lines preserved, difficult to glean context, mentions taking permission, "لانه حين اذن". Reused for a Hebrew text, on …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 23 Shevaṭ 1393 Seleucid (= 1082 CE). Location: Probably Cairo. Groom: the nasi and head of the Jews David b. Daniel …
. . . the twenty-third day of the month of Shevat, in the year 1393 [1082 CE] in the [Era of Documents] . . . its locati…
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List of some sort in Arabic. Materia medica (e.g. ḥabb [...])? Or inventory of a shop (e.g. qadaḥ)?
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya.
Dedication inscription, draft: "He dedicated this case with the book inside it, to the memory of his brother, Elazar [b. ?] Netanel, year 1528 Seleucid …
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, draft. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon. …
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, mentioning a realease valid in both Muslim and Jewish courts. A third person is asked …
Letter with greetings for the holidays, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. There appears to be a genealogy in a different …
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Capitation tax receipt in Arabic script. Does not have the usual endorsements at the top (unless they were much higher up and torn away). Has …
Letter of thanks from a son to his father thanking him for his assistance and understanding and his cousins for assisting their aunt – 1947CE …
Letter from Safed, Palestine, written by a man from Cairo to his cousin (ibn ʿamm). He had traveled to Safed, mainly, it seems, to settle …
Get (bill of divorce). Location: Damsīs. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevat 4810 AM = 16 January 1050 CE. Husband: Menahem b. Yefet. Wife: Riḍā bt. Avraham. …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy Khalila in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1060-1075 (Udovitch) or ca. 1050 (Gil). Mūsā b. Abī …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף
אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה ליד בקין מן תמוז ען חאל סלאמה
ונעמה…
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Kabbalistic illustration of a schematic face filled in with text. Four circles labeled left ear, left eye, right eye, right ear. Forehead above, peʾot to …
State document in Arabic script, the ends of three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Settlement between the two brothers Muhadhdhab b. Shemuel (appears also in T-S 8.112 (PGPID 7086)) and Amīn al-Dawla after a long litigation. Muhadhdhab ultimately agrees …
Multifragments of texts in Hebrew script. This shelfmark is intriguing on a material level, based on the extent of compression it must have taken for …
Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.
Letter of recommendation in German for Rabbi Barukh Löb Alpern, mid-19th-century. The place name appears to be Agram, which turns out to be the German …
Quittance for Saʿadya b. Avraham ha-Levi on 4 dinars he had owed. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1489 Seleucid = May 1178 …
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Bill of divorce (get) from Rashid, for Shemuel b. Avraham and Diamante bt. Yosef, dated 6 September 1751 CE (16 Elul 5511 AM).
Partnership contract. Dated: Tammuz 1460 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Tamīm b. Natan receives from Abū …
Letter fragment from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060, the 17th of Tamuz. Mentions Ramla. (Information from Ed. Gil, …
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Legal document, an iqrār, beginning with "aqarr", in Arabic script. An unrelated faded document in Arabic script on verso. Needs examination.
Small fragment of an official document, maybe a decree: الخراجية على نص من نسخ . . .
List of debts. In the first line Abū Saʿīd al-Dimyāṭī (= Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi) is mentioned as owing a debt of 20 dinars. Should …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: January 1207. Location: Fustat. This document records a six-month partnership between Abū al-Fakhr b. Abū al-Futūḥ ha-Levi al-Shammā‘ (who invested …
Legal document dealing with a loan granted by Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Karmī Ibn Shabīb to Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar Ibn Zabqala. Dated: Tammuz 1543 Seleucid, …
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Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter mentioning Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn and Abū Ibrā[hīm]. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Hārūn b. Yaʿqūb, in Tiberias, possibly addressed to Mūsā b. Ismāʿīl b. Sahl. Dating: Likely 11th century. Dealing with the indigo trade. Needs …
T-S AS 167.65 is a Judaeo-Arabic version of Judas's betrayal of Jesus and Jesus's humiliation (e.g., אלהואן אלצאיל) and his imprisonment, mentioning "those who were …
Business letter. The hand may be known. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Ismāʿīl and indigo. The sender urges the addressee to make inquires …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Recto is very faded and difficult to read. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Resolution of a dispute between Abū l-Surūr and someone else in a …
Accounts.
An early legal document, in Hebrew rather than Judaeo-Arabic. Location: al-Banā, near Fāqūs in the Nile Delta. Dated: Tishrei 4759 AM = 1309 Seleucid = …