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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Literary text with a colophon. "I, Yehuda b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi in Egypt/Fustat, wrote this for the mighty prince Efrayim ha-Levi Ḥakham ha-Yeshiva."
No Scholarship Records
Accounts.
Arabic, literary. Hadith? Pinholes at the margin ~4–5mm apart.
Damaged list containing names, items and prices or amounts written in Coptic numerals.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Little of the substance remains. Signs of having been used in a bookbinding.
Fragment from the top-right of a ketubah. The bride's name is Sitt-al-Bayt. Part of the dowry list is preserved. AA
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Accounts(?) in Arabic script.
Miniature receipt or order of some kind.
Accounts in Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. The paper was reused for writing exercises in Hebrew-script. Requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Large, but faded and damaged. Refers repeatedly to excommunicating certain people; also mentions a fatwā related to …
Verso: A note concerning the legal case on recto written several months later by a Muslim qāḍī, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdūn. Dated: …
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Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Hajji Ali Bek.
Inventory of the Sarcocolla (‘anzarut), a medicinal resin, in the possession of Abu al-Khayr Sedeqa, recording the numbers of ratls that have been taken out …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Dhabbāḥ probably to his sister in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo. He begs forgiveness for not yet having sent his brothers 27.5 qirsh …
Accounts in Arabic dated on the verso's heading as Jumada I[ or perhaps II?] of the year 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. The structure …
Letter from a son to his father Mubārak b. [...], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. With rudimentary handwriting and spellings. …
State or legal document beginning with a basmala, then احضر ابو ياسر(؟) احد المزارعين بال . . . . . من جملة ال . . …
Small fragment with both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. One of the Judaeo-Arabic sections lists the names al-Shaykh al-Makīn and Abū l-Munā, which are familiar from …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning names such as Avraham b. Hilāl and Abū l-Faḍl; mentioning …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions soap; Ḥassūn; al-wakīl; Umm Wāfī; madder and almond; lead; a ṭārma (cabin on Nile …
Incomplete Karaite bill of sale for six shares in a house. Dated Friday 1 Nisan 5405 AM (1645 CE). Involving the buyer Yaʿaqov b. Avraham …
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Report concerning the death of a Jew named Hiba b. Wafā (or Yehuda?), who drowned in the Nile in the last tenth of Ṣafar, AH …
Literary. Few words in Arabic. Needs examination
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning various garments, several of silk. Dating: probably 11th century.
Letter by Yisrael [b. Shemuel b. Hofni?]. See Mann, Texts and Studies, I, 165–66. Date is given, possibly Elul [1]315 = 1004 CE. Information from …
Recto: Bottom of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to a more important person, begging him to do some sort of favor ("wa-yubayyiḍ al-mawlā wajh al-shafāʿa fī dhālik") …
Recto: Legal fragment involving Halil (?) al-Shayzari ha-Bursi and Yishaq and various sums of money. Verso: possibly a Judaeo-Arabic draft of a sermon (?); words …
Non-Geniza. Prayer for the health of Nicholas I and his family (19th c).
Arabic script (VMR)
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions paying the prices of different medicinal syrups (shurba... murammal...). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in …
Trousseau list. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1140 CE or, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when Natan …
Inventories of goods and their values. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several subsections: (1) the thabāt(?) of the orphans/heqdesh; (2) a claim against the wife of …
Fragment from the top of a ketubah, from the month of Elul. The bride is Jamila d. Yosef. AA
Recto: Fragment of a letter in a chancery hand; official correspondence? May mention al-faqiḥ al-wakīl ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn. Verso: Fragment of a …
Small fragment of a legal document, probably.
Recto: Letter or note in Arabic script, ending with the ʿalāma "al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi shukran." Likely a draft considering that some words are stricken out. The …
Address of a letter sent to al-Maḥalla, to Abū l-M[...].
Upper part of list, in the hand of judge Shemuel b. Saadya (see Bodl. f56.43c), on the reverse side of a document issued on the …
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter. Rudimentary handwriting and orthography. Sings the praises of a Coptic sage in Alexandria. This sage is versed …
Fragment (left side) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "goods" (spelled חויג) and the cold. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dates: 1100–38 CE). Fragment (long vertical strip from the right side). Bill of release issued by …
Letter with legal content in Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Aharon b. Avraham and Avraham b. Mevorakh. Probably addressed to the Nagid (al-ḥaḍra al-rayyisiyya, raʾs al-mathība). It …
Informal note from ʿAbd al-Karīm to R. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps Mamluk-era; Yemeni hand? The sender asks the addressee to urgently send his grandmother …
Legal document. In which Yeshuʿa b. Avraham enumerates before the court the items that he has in his possession from the estate of the late …
A damaged fragment. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Verso (original use): Letter. Beginning lines only, mostly honorifics, very faded. Wide line-spacing, grand layout of the type that became more common starting in the …
Responsa. A query whether milk milked on the Sabbath may be sold. Almost identical with T-S 13J9.10. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Amulets or magical recipes, at least partially for curing various physical ailments, in Arabic.
Official-looking document in Arabic script, maybe a petition. Mentions a man named Muḥammad and possibly legal problems. Phrases: وقد . . . الرجل وهو محمد …