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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: Narrative text in Judaeo-Arabic. Relays a dialogue between Dāniyāl (al-Qūmisī?) and Yūsuf involving Qaraites. Verso: Two lines in Arabic script. Perhaps ʿUmar b. Yūsuf. …
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Receipt (for tax?) in Arabic script with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note at the top. The date is given but is difficult to read—46[.](?).
Small fragment including the beginning of a deferential Judaeo-Arabic letter. Dating: ca. 13th century or later (paleographic dating). May mention "the Qaraites" (...ואלקראין אלזאהרה(?)...)
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Shevat 1341 Seleucid, which is 1030 CE. Written by Bishr b. Yefet ha-Ḥazzan b. David ha-Ḥazzan. Validated by Shemuel ha-Kohen …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ketubba, beautifully illuminated, from Cairo, dated 16 April 1821 CE (14 Nisan 5581 AM) for (Benyamīn) Ḥayy Dayyān b. David Dayyān and Mazal Ṭov bt. …
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List of legal works, including Saʿadya’s Sefer ha-ʿEdot ve-ha-Sheṭarot. The verso probably has part of the name of the author or the owner of the …
Bill of release, issued by Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Maṣliaḥ al-Ghazzī to Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi. Signed by Yefet b. Menashshe, ʿOvadya b. […], and …
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Legal document: acknowledgment (iqrār) in the name of Zayn al-Dīn Shaʿbān b. something, with two witnesses' signatures, late Mamluk or early Ottoman? Item 6 in …
A, b, and c of this folded piece of paper contain List. 'Distribution of money and clothing,' superscribed 'The rest through Abu'l-Bayan' (the parnas). Since …
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Original use: remnant of a state document (fiscal register?). Very little is preserved apart from a date: the end of Dhū l-Ḥijja 546(?) AH, which …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to multiple people, perhaps the community of Alexandria as a collective. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Concerning a …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Yiṣḥaq to Shmuel the teacher. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 18th century. About a cantor, R. Shelomo Kohen, who doesn't know Hebrew …
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official.
Petition (formula: al-mamlūk yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya), 1106H (?)
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a biblical tale, mentions the "قول شمويل".
Legal queries, one of them apparently concerned with sharing in partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script. Headed "thabat...." It is a list of names accompanied by sums of money, e.g., "al-Rūmī: 4 dirhams." Perhaps an alms list. …
P1: f. 1r: description of a dream dated "the night after Shavuʿot 529 AH" (= 22 May 1135 CE plus or minus a day or …
Informal note addressed to "Rabbenu" asking him to pay Abū l-Faḍl the maintenance payments (mezonot) for the Shabbat of parshat Toldot.
Mainly literary text. Late. There is also a page of sums in western Arabic numerals.
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Large legal document (drafts?) at least partially in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq. Dated: Thursday, 1 Tammuz 4940 AM = 26 June …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …
Letter addressed to Abu al-Faraj, son of Daniel the teacher, in the “habs Bunan” neighborhood. The writer describes that the wife of his son is …
Letter sent by the community of Fustat to a place in the Egyptian Rif, asking to help a Palestinian named Daniel, as the local people …
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 29 Kislev 1448 Seleucid = 25 November 1136 CE. The testator is owed 2/3 dinars …
Letter addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq by way of Binyamin ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Repeating a request that a cantor leave the capital for the writer's village …
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script, in a chancery-esque hand. Opens with expressions of longing. The sender 'reports' that he continually asks after the …
Copy of an ornate Hebrew letter, mentioning R. ʿImmanuel Yoel. Late. From the same volume as Bodl. MS heb. f 105/17, but it is not …
One side: lower left corner of a deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: Ramaḍān [...]. The other side: upper left corner of a letter …
Instructions in Avraham Maimonides' hand to R. Eliyyahu to give them bread for Sabbath. Also: List of contributors (in the judge's hand) and names of …
Minute fragment of a legal document or formulary in a Spanish hand (...כטופסי דשטרי אלא כחומר...). This fragment also contains a separate text in a …
Legal document: testimony in the name of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad. Four signatures, one in Kufic script (!). Item 10 in DPUL; unclear what current folio …
Memorial list. "The first 31 lines list dead notables, l. 32 recto - l. 7 verso add blessings for their living decendants, the last nine …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic headed by two Bible verses. The first ~10 lines are blessings for the addressee, evidently a communal official close to the head …
A miscellany. On recto there are very elaborate praises for God in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are three different keys to Hebrew ciphers. The first …
Legal or administrative document in Arabic script. Mentions 12 dinars to be paid every month. Also mentions the possibility of a court summons (iḥḍār) in …
Page 2 is a calligraphic letter in Hebrew to the elders of Alexandria, dated 5458 AM = 1697/98 CE, signed by three men, on behalf …
Birth record. Late. "My son ʿOvadya, may God preserve him, was born on Sunday..."
Three fragments with unidentified Arabic, potentially related to the fragments in the next shelfmark.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, from 1080s. Natan sends his regards to Avraham b. R. Yaʿaqov Darʿi. …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלאסכנדריה גד ראש השנה אעאדה אללה
עלי מולאי סנין כתירה ועל…
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List of names and numbers. Mentions Hilāl and al-Maṣmūdī.
Order of payment in dirhams. The addressee (al-shaykh) is to pay the bearer 53 wariq dirhams and 50(?) nuqra dirhams. Verso contains Arabic jottings including …
Minute fragment of writing exercises in Hebrew script, or perhaps a document in an very inexperienced medieval-era scribal hand. The word היום is visible on …
Letter signed by Shelomo, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, asking him to purchase something for the writer (perhaps some sort of covering (ghiṭāʾ)) and …
Late proclamation, on vellum, ornate, in flowery Hebrew, with remnants of a black and red illumination at the top of the page. It opens with …
Fol. 1: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as al-Qādī Abū l-Ṭāhir; Umm ʿImād; al-Faqīh (or maybe bayt al-faqīh); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; …
Autograph fragments of Maimonides' epitomes of Galen’s περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων (De locis affectis), from the second and third treatises, in Judaeo-Arabic, in Maimonides’ own …