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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: A table of Psalms. Verso: The same note as on the preceding shelfmark, for Abū l-Najm the Parnas to give bread to the bearer. …
No Scholarship Records
Two sides of a magical text with talismanic and occultic symbols throughout the page. Probably invocations or talismans for various purposes like keeping road bandits …
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Accounts, dated October 1230 CE, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, referring to a cellar (maṭmūra) in his father’s house with 117 jugs of …
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12 pages of an Arabic literary work, mentioning marriage and sex and childbirth. Merits further examination.
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Calligraphic. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 417 AH, which is April/May 1026 CE. Many intricate details about transactions. The main …
Letter from a certain Hibatallāh to the physician al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Abū l-Faḍl in the Fayyum. Since this person is independently greeted in the body of …
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Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. Shelomo, requesting his help in countering a decree …
צד ימין
צד שמאל
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Letter from Ṭayyib b. Mūsā (or Ibn Majjānī according to Sabih Aodeh), possibly in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl …
Fragment of a letter either addressed to or mentioning 'al-ḥakīm al-ajall' (the esteemed physician).
Bottom part of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century based on the paleography. Very faded and damaged. Document of release after someone …
Verso: note possibly in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel. Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to …
List of names and books that mentions Rabbi Yiṣḥaq Berab (החכם יצחק בירב), Avraham Ashkenazi, Avraham b. Alashqar. The paleography of this source helps to …
Recto (probably secondary use): accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals
Letter to Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Spain and dating to the 12th century (based on layout, handwriting, style, and names—an Ibn …
Drafts of legal documents, one involving a certain Mordekhay b. Manṣūr and a sum of 5 peraḥīm (Venetian gold ducats or a similar coinage type). …
Masora.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic with usage of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals throughout. Medieval-era. Mentions Naṣr b. [...]; Abū l-Riḍā; "the house/wife of my paternal uncle"; Naʿīm; …
Decree (manshūr) issued by the caliph al-Hafiz on 21 Rajab 528/1133 to stop two cases of malpractice which were adversely affecting the Delta province of …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Likely a prayer. There are various marginalia in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic, including כתאבי and ב at the top of …
Rhymed opening of letter to "the great cantor Hillel." Excellent script, large space between the lines, obscure vocabulary. JP
Document in Latin script. Needs examination.
Account, maybe of a loan broker.
Likely a fiscal account. Needs examination.
minute fragments. One small fragment with few Arabic words.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Difficult handwriting, with downsloping lines. Mentions various numbers and sums of money. Reused for jotted accounts on …
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
A fragment of a letter. Only a few words are preserved on each side. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. This is the recto of folio 3; the other five pages are literary. Looks like the hand …
Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter from a father, unknown location, to his son Abū l-Barakāt Shemuel, in Fustat. The father rebukes the son for failing to write and informs …
Letter from Mūsā Mosseri. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Avraham Hakohen b. Shlomo. The bride is Esther known as 'Aziza d. Shmuel Halevi. AA
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. May even belong with the neighboring shelfmarks. Many names are mentioned, including Pinto.
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Either the buyer or the seller is named …
Lease of a ruin belonging to the Great Synagogue of Ramla, ca. 1038. The "people of the Great Synagogue," i.e. the representatives of the congregation …
(1-2) Record of the testimony given before us, we the Court and the witnesses, who have signed at the bottom of this deed. This happened to p…
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Letter fragment in Hebrew addressed to ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Little of the content remains. Refers to seafarers (עולי ים).
Letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the …
[...]ב אמארה כל
[...]לה וגרם אלף וכמס מאיה
דרהם ומן גהה אלעבד מבארך פשעיה פי אסכנדריא
ואכדה אלמחתסב בלאש מא סלם פיה שי וגרם…
Legal record (#41b). Loan contract. Abū l-Faḍl b. Yūsuf is granted the right to repay his debt of 10 dinars to Abū Isḥāq al-ʿAṭṭār b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions a jandār (a military officer?) and an amir.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Same payer: T-S Ar.34.224, T-S Ar.34.282 (where …
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer expresses his regret at the addressee's departure, and his distress at what the addressee will soon learn from ʿAfīf …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century. Addressed to Meir "the great Prince." Trying to arrange a meeting in Fustat. On verso the name Abū …
List of parshiyot, holidays, and dates, each followed by a number.
IB II, 39. One of two copies of a poem by Avraham ben Yiju, praising Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies. Aden. T-S 8J16.23 (PGPID 5403) …
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Writing exercises
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tuesday, Rabīʿ I or Rabīʿ II 915 AH = June–August 1509 CE (a more precise date may be legible). It …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Expenses like couriers (raqqāṣīn) and trash disposal; mentions Mūsā al-ṢB[...]