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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Fragment from a beginning of a letter to a notable (ha-sar ha-adir...). No details.
No Scholarship Records
Tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf. Needs further examination for the details.
Pen trials.
Still un-conserved, and the pages stick together. Contains at list two letters, one in Arabic and one in Judeo-Arabic. According to the catalogue it is …
Magical text written in a striking melange of Hebrew script, Arabic script, and nonsense script. The main instructions are in Judaeo-Arabic. The practitioner is to …
Record of a birth, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic (in two different hands) and Arabic script. The date is given according to multiple calendars, including 13 Iyyar …
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Draft of sale contract for 12 out of 20 shares (the whole house constituted 24 shares) in the Qadi Badr alley of the al-Mamsusa quarter, …
Legal document from Cairo, dated March 1802 CE (Adar II 5562 AM). Me'ir ben Naʿim had borrowed 150 reals from the old woman Raḥel known …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business matters, mentioning sums of dinars. Also mentions "the calamity of the old woman (nūbat al-ʿajūz). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the Ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-Ṣayrafī Abū l-Ḥusayn; al-Qaṭṭān; al-Qāhira; Yaʿaqov the brother (or ṣabiyy?) of Yeshuʿa; Maʿālī; brazilwood.
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Verso is rich in details of commodities and …
Geomancy.
Business letter in Hebrew and Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan Binyamin requesting the dispatch of merchandise to Qalyub, including medical supplies, via a ghulām, and …
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Both recto and verso appear to be receipts for the capitation tax in Fustat and Cairo for the year 630 AH = 1232/33 CE. Recto …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Headed Thursday the 8th of Rabīʿ I. SOme interesting names: Musāfir, Murhaf, Humām, al-Hudhud ("the hoopoe").
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early Ottoman-era.
Arabic love poetry and aphorisms and maybe some prayers. Large. Needs further examination. On verso there is a piyyut in Hebrew for Simḥat Torah.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
A leaf from a work on sexual medicine & aphrodisiacs in Arabic.
Elaborate accounts. Names and amounts expressed in Hebrew alphanumerals. Ottoman-era.
Document tied to finances that according to FGP could be connected to state procedures. Dating: Ottoman-era. On the verso, the first few lines mention the …
Judaeo-Persian
List of names of poor persons, without numbers. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 456.) On the smaller piece (T-S AS 146.218), names include Abū …
Accounts and other jottings in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Right side of recto: calculations in Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left of recto: list …
Accounts and calculations in Arabic with Indo-Arabic numerals. Early modern. The verso has an entry "in the hand of al-Sayyid Aḥmad". Requires further examination.
Deed of sale in Arabic script. A Rabbanite Jew sells to a Qaraite Jew a house in Cairo in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood, in a …
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List of names and corresponding monetary values for payments in medin and silver kuruş (the latter is written as a "ق" interjected occasionally in the …
Receipt for Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Ḥamza for 7 dinars.
Recto (original use): Bottom of a formal petition, or most likely a report due to state related affairs discussed, in Arabic script, mentioning "al-thaghr" (=Alexandria?) …
Fragment of a communal letter in Hebrew. Moderately wide spacing between the lines. Contains praises for a distinguished scholar and addresses 'our brothers, the holy …
Letter in elegant Arabic script and style. The continuation seems to be praising the eloquence of the addressee, and it cites two lines of poetry …
Recipes, in Arabic script. Among several recipes is a recipe for making iron gall ink. Some of the ingredients mentioned are vitriol, mastic, sesame oil, …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Left upper part. Dated: Nisan 1380 Seleucid = March/April 1069 CE. Bride: Dora bt. Saʿīd. Marriage payments: (10 +) 20 = 30. …
Legal document in which a loan of 200 ‘black coins’ is made by a school teacher, to be repaid in monthly instalments of 40 coins. …
Letter to Abu al-Faraj Nissim b. 'Ayyash from an unidentified sender in Alexandria concerning the payment of 43 dirhams. Reference is made to a woman …
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyub, to family members in Fustat. He inquires briefly about commercial dealings before insisting that there is no …
Receipt for rent of for house for a period of one year, Ramaḍān through Shaʿbān. The tenant is Manṣūr al-Dajājī (same as in Bodl. MS …
Letter from the Gaon Shemuel b. Yosef ha-Kohen perhaps to Shemarya b. Elḥanan. (Gil revised his guess as to the letter's writer after Menahem Ben-Sasson …
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Engagement agreement from 1184. The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document …
Hardly readable.
Legal document. A late bill of release between 3 partners in a shop. The bottom part is missing. One of the parties, יעקב נהרדעא בכר …
Possibly a minute fragment from a legal deed.
IB VII, 48. Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " …
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …
….يبيعها له في صور
وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة
الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض
ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري
عن ثمن سكر…
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and western Arabic numerals. Late. Currency: cedid. The Arabic script reads: "he has flour from the mill of the …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions a woman named Sutayta, a woman named Esther, a man who seems to …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (long vertical strip from the middle of the document). Dating: ca. 1135 …
Debt contract. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Surūr b. ʿUlla owes 6 2/3 dinars to Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ṣedaqa and agrees to a schedule of repayments.