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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably accounts. Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment from the beginning of a petition or a letter to a dignitary (... khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn adāma allāh ẓillahū wa-ayyada niʿmatahū...).
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Letter or state document? Handwriting very cramped in places. Needs examination.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī in Fustat. Cf. T-S AS 50.99 (PGPID 39028).
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions "the son and the wife mentioned in the will"; ʿImād b. Muḥammad recognizing the validity of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew alphanumerals. Possibly dated in the first line of the recto, left side: ס׳ סגץ (s[anat] 963 AH), but the preceding …
Letter addressed to Hodaya b. Yishai the Exilarch from Damascus who visited Egypt in the 1230s to solicit money from the communities there and overstayed …
1 Transcription
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) asking the holy congregation of Egypt to pay the tax to the Muslim Amir. …
Geonic responsa, quoting R. Ḥananel. (Information from CUDL)
List of names, possibly a communal register fragment. Dated 5536 AM (1775/76 CE). Many of the names feature the Ben-____ construction surname. Some of the …
Fragment of a list of recipients of bread (twelve out of 22 receive 2 loaves each). Ca. 1107 (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 465, …
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...]יה טיב ד
...]. ועמה ב
..]כלה א
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....]אני ג
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......]ן ד
אלבעלבכי ג
אבן אלסקא ב
חמאה עיאש ג
אם הלאלה ב
צריר ב
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Ottoman-era. Mentions an agha and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hilālī. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Mentions having Abū l-Ḥasan intervene with the ʿāmil to take …
Court record of a legal agreement between a husband, Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Menashshe, and his wife, Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā, in which he …
Testimony that took place before us, we the undersigned, as follows: when the Creator, exalted be His invocation
and sanctified be His name…
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Page from a Hebrew medical treatise.
Calligraphic letter sent to a notable, possibly the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya, asking him to help Natan ha-Kohen, the legal representative of the writer's family, …
Letter addressed to Abū l-Makārim Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat, in Qaysāriyyat al-ʿAṭṭārīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender purchased עוד רטב from the addressee and took it …
Probably the end of a legal document, with signatures by Saʿadya b. Nathan, ʿAmram b. Yefet and Isaac ‘the pauper’ b. Abraham. (Information from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Jotted accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Literary/religious text, probably. In Arabic script. Mentioning ʿUmar.
Legal jottings. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Account of what is left from or has been done with a ketubba. …
Marriage document, parchment, middle fragment only. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Letter fragment (right side) in Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. Refers to the elders; many people crying out; the ḥaver R. Yos[ef]; and people telling …
Mysterious late fragment containing lists of words in Hebrew script, but not all looking like Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic.
Lists of goods and sums of money. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Likely related to T-S AS 145.241 (PGPID 18215).
Letter in the hand of the judge Shela b. Mevasser on behalf of the community of Alexandria addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in …
Marriage contract (ketubba) in the Palestinian style, probably from Tyre, ca. 1089–99. Mann notes that the Greek term אקוליתוס (ἀκωλύτως), "without hindrance," appears in the …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dated Heshvan 5568 AM (1807 CE), from Shelomo Cesana Konpanya to Karo & Frances & Company (numerous letters to the same …
Business accounts in Arabic script. Mentions many names, such as Mūsā b. Khalaf and Khalaf b. ʿAlī.
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār and Abū [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), to the Jewish community in Cairo. He is ordering them to pay back to …
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הנה אל ישועתי וכולי
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Accounts in Arabic on a bifolio that was probably part of a broader ledger. Dated Muharram 1237-1238 AH which is 1821-1822 CE. Based on the …
Recto: Possibly the top of an official letter in Arabic script. Reused for jottings all over the margins in Arabic and Hebrew script. Verso: Bottom …
Fragment of accounts in Arabic, badly damaged and crossed out. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (right side only). Apparently a deathbed will. No names are preserved. …
Literary. Fragment of a haggada.
Communal letter in Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. Mentions [...] b. ʿAmram.
Monetary agreement between a newly married couple. Yehuda b. Simha married Sarah d. Elzafan, and her father took upon himself to pay her dowry in …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks medieval. Mentions "al-shahr" and "ṣuḥbatakum." Faded.
Qurʾān 2:255 in large calligraphic script. Described in Connolly and Posegay, "'An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand.'"
Legal deed written by Avraham b. Natan Av (or rather Hillel b. ʿEli?). Probably a bill of release. Unsigned. On recto there is a piyyut …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Rabbenu Meshullam, congratulating him on the holidays, and it seems begging for help with travel expenses. The …
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2 bifolia (8 pages), each containing a table corresponding to one of the stones of the Urim ve-Tumim, each one intended to be used for …
Part of a letter written by a Samaritan carpenter, Joseph b. Ismaʿīl, asserting his devotion to the Law and seeking employment for the writer. It …
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
This polemical letter, in a manuscript of which only one sheet has been preserved (T-S 8K6), shares features in common with Letters 1 and 2 …
Torah.