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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Small fragment from a legal document. Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl owes money to his nephew Moshe and gets another 4 weeks for installments on …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed signed by Shelomo b. Aharon ha-Kohen and David [...]. On parchment. AA
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: פי הדא אלאסבוע . . . . חתי יגי אכוה . . …
Literary text in Arabic. Looks medical/pharmaceutical.
Letter to Abū ʿAlī. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Only the beginning is preserved.
Long document in Ladino (and some Hebrew). Needs further examination. May be related to the next two shelfmarks, also long documents in Ladino which pertain …
Letter. Mentions a broker or brokerage (דלאלה). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Mentions something or someone small (הקטנה) and possibly a name. Hard to discern any specific details of the case. Mentions the year 146[.] …
Recto looks like a calendrical discussion in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is a Hebrew lament on the death of a "great leader" (ʿal nefilat sar gadol. . …
Petition. In Arabic script, in a beautiful chancery hand. Portions of 4 lines are preserved. Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in …
Legal notes, possibly for a dowry list. Name: Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abū l-Munā. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Might be …
Letter from a father to his son, a young man who had entered government service recently, advising him concerning some officials whose friendship should be …
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Magic Recipes (info by Gidi Bohak FGP)
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
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From a glossary (or table of contents?) for a treatise on a subject that remains obscure. The headings are various operations conducted on an ״עם״ …
Folio probably from the Arabic version of Yosippon, containing part of the speech against suicide at the siege of Yodfat. Mentions Vespasian (اسبيانوس). ASE
Legal document. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: 13 Iyyar 1[...] Seleucid. involving Sittāna bt. [...] the wife of Mevasser b. [...]. Signed by: Shelomo b. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing amounts owed by various people (e.g., Yaʿqūb, Waliyy al-Dawla).
Verso: Engagement agreement in Hebrew. Date: 8 Kislev 5459 AM (November 1698 CE). The recto contains accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from the first of Tūt of …
Four lines in Arabic script, perhaps a recipe or prescription. The words nāfiʿ . . . inshāllah are legible, then wa-l-yudlak fī. . . . …
Recto: letter from the 16th century, mentioning the names Abraham Ibn Ṣūr, Reuben the Babylonian, Abraham Nuniʾel (נוניאל), Faraj Allah the proselyte, and Yequtiʾel. Verso: …
Account of the qodesh, ca. 1165. A double leaf from a notebook. The draft of an accoutning occupies only one half of the leaf, and …
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Latin-script list, difficult medieval paleography. Dated perhaps in the upper lines of the recto: anno/annum[?] xx__[?]. The list continues on the verso but is extremely …
Legal record(s) in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (right side of recto). Partial translation: "When our master the qāḍī purchased …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Arabic script (VMR)
Verso: Jotted accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Portions of 10 lines are preserved. Quite damaged.
Business letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part). Faded. "By that which I believe of the Holy Law (al-sharīʿa al-muqaddasa)! I didn't receive anything from …
Family letter from Natan b. Yehuda (Alexandria, ca. 1160) to Moshe b. Ṣemaḥ and his brother (Fustat), the writer’s cousins-in-law. Natan b. Yehuda reports that …
Accounts in Arabic script for three types of indigo. See Goitein's index card for further information.
Accounts, probably for charitable purposes, with entries such as "widows"; "the niece of Ṭāhir the beadle"; "the wife of Abū Isḥāq the cantor"; "the children …
Book list in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli, including piyyuṭim and midrashim. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early 13th century. Looks similar to the handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, and refers to family members like Zekharya (his …
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer deals with selling goods that arrived from the Maghreb. …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך נצף תמוז ואלחאל סלאמה
ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך וצלני כתאבך ולם ארא מנך כתאב סו…
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Recto: Letter from a man of Qayrawān, perhaps in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is an eloquent letter of appeal for charity. He says he has …
Draft of a Karaite betrothal contract, probably a formulary or model document from a bound collection. (the key operative word on the verso, l. 15, …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Damaged Karaite ketubah. Only part od the names preserved: The groom is Hayyim and tyhe bride's name is Esther. 18th century
Accounts in Arabic, dated in the lower left section 5 Ṣafar [1]257 which is 1841 CE. Requires further examination for content. MCD.
Two small fragments. One probably came from a Judaeo-Arabic letter, of which hardly anything remains.
Mercantile letter. On parchment. Dating: Early 11th century. The address is only partially legible and written in a confusing way. The sender appears to be …
List of contributors. Dating: From the time of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Four pages of names, largely identical with those in contemporary lists, with …
Recto: Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The first includes ingredients such as Indian salt, anise, and chicory water. The second (for headaches and for excessive moisture …
Power of attorney. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. Ḥayyim b. Yisra'el Moshe ha-Levi appoints his son Yisra'el ha-Levi as his representative in all of his …
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Seems to be warning the addressees about a man who might trick them.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yefet b. David? Mentions several partial dates.
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Mentions two bales; a chest (ṣafaṭ); requesting something from the addressee; Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd; 5 dinars.
Recipe in Arabic script. Likely a medical prescription: لسان تور شامي وعرق سوس . . . من كل واحد . . . . . . …