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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Probably a literary (narrative) text in Arabic script. "... they opened the door... and said to him... I saw in my dream..."
No Scholarship Records
List of names and numbers, perhaps a donation list. Dating: probably ca. 1100 CE; this can be further verified by identifying other documents with the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dealing with the book trade. In a slightly crude hand with some orthographic features more usual for later Classical Judaeo-Arabic letter writing, …
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Written to the judge Hananel b. Shemuel, this letter mentions the son of the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides, his son-in-law) and a certain R. Menahem. The …
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Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to his partner Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. ʿEli ha-Kohen Fāsī, Fustat, ca. 1052. This was Avraham's first sojourn …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The addressee is greeted as ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-raʾīs al-jalīl. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥusayn told …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval era. The verso mentions "the sister of Um ʿAbdallah" (اخت ام عبدفالله). (VMR)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing names and sums. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century, may be much later. Currency: fulūs. Mentions names such as R. …
Memorial list for people from a prominent kohanim family. Shemuʾel/Yisrael ha-kohen starts the list. Then his son Meshullam and then Netanel. The next entry is …
Sermon or exegetical treatise. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1000–38). Published by Yehudah Ratzhabi, "A Fragment from an Exegetical Treatise by …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 4 folios. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir; al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Rubāʿī(?); Abū Yiṣḥaq; …
Part of a responsum explaining a case of inheritance, mentioning Qayrawan. (Information from CUDL)
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf. CUL …
End of a legal document signed by Shlomo b. Yishay the Nasi (mid-13th century) and probably written by him. One of the parties is [...] …
Letter from Yosef b. Nadiv the cantor, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu b. Zekharya the Judge in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly about business in wheat. The …
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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Fragment of a document of sale in which Nahray b. Nissim, the well-known banker and communal lender (d. 1096), buys from his brother-in-law and the …
Fragment from a trousseau list, mentioning a ketubba and the bridal gift, and typical trousseau items such as a head scarf and several sums of …
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having …
The slave
Tāhir ibn Isḥāq
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty and sublime presence, the most g…
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Legal fragment. Looks like the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Concerning Barhūn b. [...] al-Tāhartī; the estate of Moshe b. ʿAllūsh al-Gharbī in Egypt or …
Letter from Abu Nasr b. Ibrahim, Alexandria, to his partner Abu Ishaq the nāʾib (deputy). Dating: 11 May 1141. The first page of the letter …
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Very dark and torn list of names followed by numbers, probably written by Solomon b. Elya. Among the names we can find al-Maghrebi al-Nafusi, Baqa …
Legal document. Dated: Sunday, 23 Av 1402 Sel. (10 August 1091). Testimony confirming that a freedwoman named Mubāraka, originally from the lands of Rūm (Byzantium), …
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Bifolio of astrological writing. One of the pages contains a prayer for the late Yefet b. Shela, apparently a great scholar with many titles: אלרב …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Business letter stating that Umm Bayān, who is dragged to court every day by her creditors, opened her husband’s storage crate …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Yefet's …
Legal document in Arabic script written on paper, nearly complete. Starts with the formula ا]شهدني]. Involves Sulaymān b. Dāʾūd (?) known as Ibn ʿIzza (?) …
Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf. T-S AS 111.37). The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "al-mutaqaddim min jihat …
Formula of a 'pesuka de-gita' - bill of divorce (get) by proxy, written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). This formula is unique as …
Testimony regarding bridal consent to marriage. Two manuscripts that deal with the marriage of a bride named Karam. The two manuscripts contain the bride's consent …
Letter, probably, or a question to a jurisconsult. The writer complains about a debt he owes to the people of a town (qariya). The last …
Confirmation by witness of the divorce of Raisa b. Kathir, who wanted to marry Yosef. Written by Yefet ha-Hazan b. David. (information from Goitein's index …
Recto: one line from the superscription of a ketubba. Verso: probably an Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Refers to "the agreement that was between me and you" and …
Letter mentioning al-Ramlī. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 5004 AM, which is December 1243 CE. Certificate of the purity of 180 moulds of cheese …
Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. Discussing the halakha of legal witnesses and testimony, including the table of contents. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script mentioning sums of money, with interlinear Hebrew scribbling. On recto there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment with few words from a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Possibly related to the shelfmark T-S NS 226.84 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably late.
Note in Hebrew from Yaʿaqov to ʿOvadya. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Requesting that the addressee send him something (עסל אריזל??).
Bifolium written in Arabic script in black and red ink, with diacritics. Contains a version of the famous ḥadīth in which the true jihad is …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed, with many names of people and goods. Mentions: the ṣināʿa; Hārūn al-Kohen who agrees on a payment plan; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, whose …
Likely a sermon about repentance, in Judaeo-Arabic. "... aʿmāluh wa-yuṣliḥ mā yarā fīhā min al-fasād... wa-ilā qubūl amrih wa-nahyih fa-innahu moḥel ʿavonot... wa-yantabah qabla ḥulūl …
From a diwan of Arabic poetry dating from 1847/48 CE.
Too little text remains to identify, possibly part of a letter, belonging with T-S AS 47.177 (one of the minute fragments in row 2, no. …