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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
List of items including 'Iraqi purple (dye)'.
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Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment of accounts, probably in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions small items; cups; and a chest.
Bifolio of Hebrew literary text; there is an Arabic prayer written on the left page on verso.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mostly dealing with commercial activities of Ḥayyīm and Moshe Bibas. Dated halfway down the recto as Shaʿbān 1193 AH which is 1779 …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ownership note on a prayerbook or book of piyyuṭim. "Belongs to the cantor Ghālib b. Ḥalfon."
Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Few words preserved. The groom is Yosef b. Neḥemya (נחמיא). On paper, so possibly a draft. The …
Legal formulary. For a deed of sale. In the lower margin of verso, there is an unidentified text block in a different hand (magical?). (Information …
Beginning of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Court record, calligraphically written, from a lawsuit about changing the configuration of the main hall of a house. During the dispute a Muslim judge was …
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Legal document. Small fragment. Perhaps a marriage contract (...tosefta ve-nedunya...).
Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: …
Letter of appeal from a woman whose husband had abandoned her with Muslims. "In this fragmentary letter a woman bitterly describes her marital misfortunes. Her …
[...] the sick [...] of the bereavement and the illness
[...] news. Joseph was there
[...] told me, “Cut your hair and ransom yourself”…
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Official letter. Small fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic (partially vocalized). Wide space between the lines. Refers to a man who was appointed as judge and …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts.
Legal document. Location: ציק/צידן? (Sidon?). Dated: Iyyar 5465 AM, which is 1705 CE. Involves Mordekhay ha-Kohen, Mordekhay Ben-Baez/Viaz(?) (ן׳ ביאז) and a sum of 133 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a small bifolio. The usage of Ottoman kurush makes it possible to estimate the dating as 18th- or 19th-century. The entries …
Magical spell(s), one involving love (? معطفه) for fulāna bt. fulāna, ending "quickly quickly quickly."
Letter from an unknown writer, in Jerusalem, to his in-law (גיס) Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: Thursday 28th Maṭmonim (=the Omer), which is …
Ketubba. Dated: Friday, 19 Adar 2203 Seleucid = 18 March 1892 CE. Location: Al-Maḥābisha in northwest Yemen, also known as Quzayyiz, near the lake or …
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca.1040. The upper part of a leaf, writtten by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, …
dinars …. that I collected for the month of Ṣafar of that year
from Dār b. Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh: The room of Sahlān, 9 dir.
The room of Waḥ…
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Safed, to Mordekhay Ibn ʿAjla, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Greets numerous …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions something valued at 150 dinars. No other details preserved. (Information in …
Arabic text in a scribal hand. Late. Written in the margins of a Hebrew/Aramaic literary text. الله تعالى . . . شرف الدين شرف العلامة …
Judaeo-Persian seliḥot, with some Hebrew mixed in. ASE
Nearly complete letter from Muḥammad al-Jamāʿī(?) to Muḥammad ʿĀbidīn. Late. Needs examination.
Possibly a court record. Containing a list of names. (Information from CUDL.) Needs examination.
Small fragment of a Hebrew document (literary? genealogical?) mentioning several names: "Shimʿon his son," "Hananya," "Shemaʿya."
Legal document. Record of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Second third of Elul 1482 Seleucid, which is August 1171 CE. The mutual release of the metal …
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Legal document regarding the settlement of the dispute between Zayn al-Dār and her (?) mother Ḥusn (?) bt. Sulaymān. The substance of the dispute was …
Legal document written in Damietta Tishrei 1448 (late September 1136) and validated in Fustat in the court of the synagogue of the Palestinians, under the …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Barely legible. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions names such as R. Ḥananya, Sitt Ṭāwūs, and Ibn Ḥaffāẓ (Information …
Commercial letter in Arabic script. Long and damaged. Dating: likely 16th century, as it mentions the ashrafī (used from 1425 onward but replaced by other …
IB IV, 22 (ח30). Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn Barukh, in Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dated: Sunday, 29 Tammuz 4898 AM = 10 July …
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Small legal or official document. Written on a small, narrow slip, with annotations in the upper margin. In some ways more resembles an order of …
Letter in difficult Latin script, possibly Portuguese. The address on verso is in Hebrew: to David Ṣarfati, from R. Yiṣḥaq Alpa[...], from צאפט to Fustat.
Letter addressed to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī ("the gallnut merchant") al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The addressee is known …
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Report from a man called only "al-nāʾib" (the deputy), in Malīj, to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (in office 1140–59), in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a join with the neighboring shelfmark, but it is not clear how.
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dating: Of the original date, only Wednesday the first of [...], [..]70 Seleucid is preserved. The certificate is for Abū …
Fragment of a legal document (or documents). Dated: 1546 Seleucid = 1234/35 CE. The document on recto is granting someone permission to live in a …
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Perhaps a letter.
Two lines from an official letter in Arabic script. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63?).