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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Probably a formulary for writing Hebrew letters to important people. Fragment.
No Scholarship Records
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Join: Amir Ashur. Recto: Document referring to a woman whose husband traveled to …
Legal document mentioning [...] ha-Levi the elder. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document, probably. Small fragment. Looks like the hand of Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Mentions a deposit.
Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Might join with PGPID 16507.
State document of some kind. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid = October 1126 CE. This was before the …
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Legal document. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel? Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Banhā. Dated: [14]61 Seleucid, which is 1149/50 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel …
Astronomical or astrological work. In Arabic script.
First page of "The Book of Hidden Treasures in the Art of Medicine and Surgery" (kitāb al-dhakhāʾir al-maknūna fī ʿilm al-ṭibb wa-l-jirāḥa). Late.
Prescription or recipe. In Arabic script. The first words read, "gum arabic and tragacanth and dragons' blood" (ṣamgh ʿarabī wa-kathīrā' wa-dam akhawayn).
Unidentified notations. Small fragment.
Accounts in an orderly scribal hand on a bifolium whose folding and size is suggestive of the existence of a broader ledger (from which there …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. [NB volume number in shelfmark is roman numeral I, not Arabic numeral …
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Informal note in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 13th century. Asking for "a good jar" (of wine?) from Makīn or from somebody else. On recto there …
Medical recipes. In Arabic script. On verso there are jottings in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals as well as a few lines in Hebrew script.
Note from a bookseller stating that he had kept a volume but the interested future buyer had not paid money, and he could not let …
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Recto: part of a letter in Arabic script. One of the words looks like 'al-dawla.' Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances, of Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated: appears …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand. Small fragment. Dating: Perhaps 15th or 16th century, but that is a guess. Mentions Christians, Venice, an ounce of …
Small receipt, unclear for what. In Arabic script.
Literary text in Ladino and Hebrew. Probably a sermon.
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Discussing theological matters. Might be literary, but not necessarily.
Recto: Qaraite betrothal (erusin) document. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 11 Kislev 1360 = 20 November 1048 CE. Groom: Maḥfūẓ b. Menaḥem. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Avraham …
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Verso: Letter addressed to ha-Kohen ha-Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a recommendation letter or a request to help the bearer, a young man from Damascus. …
Official looking accounts in Arabic script. Listing names and quantities, presumably of money.
Legal record (#147) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 49v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 17 Tevet 5330 …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya to Nahray b. Nissim.
לאדוני ורבי אבו יחיא נהוראי בן נסים נ"ע, ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתו ואת עזרתו לו. מנסים בן כלפון נ"נ בן בנאיה.
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Fragment of a will (upper left corner). Testator: Abū l-Faraj Wahb al-Muʿallim (aka the teacher and ḥaver Natan b. Avraham). No details preserved. (Information from …
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Recipe and book-list. See Isaacs, Medical, p. 35.
- needs examination. Image not available?
Probably a halakhic work.
Some sort of legal or state receipt, maybe after a sale. Needs examination.
Beautiful sermon in the name of the late Rabbi Pinhas, emphasizing that the Sabbath is the ideal time for joy in God's vicinity and therefore …
Memorial list, or a dirge, not mentioning the dead by name, but by title or profession, e.g. ‘the Damascene doctor' or ‘the Babylonian baker'. Included …
Will of a dyer, before going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar, 4975 AM = 1526 Seleucid, which …
Accounts in Hebrew script. Very faded.
Small fragment reading only "al-qāḍī al-muwaffaq fī l-Daqahliyya wa-mā yajib ʿalayhi."
Bottom half of a receipt for 1¾ dirham. Dated by the day of the week and month only.
Receipt or order of payment. The name ʿAbdallāh b. Musāfir appears.
P23: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a house, Avraham, and his mother.
..................................................] זקן ביר ......
] ממא יוסקט אלי אלדאר אלמדכורה ולא אדעא פיהא
]לאדה בעדה ומ…
Letter, probably. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "his small baby girl." Needs examination.
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
Responsum (FGP)
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Location: Fustat. Involves Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Kathīr b. ʿImrān. There is a …