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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Hannanel b. Samuel ספר המצוות, autograph. AA
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Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Qiṣṣat Yūsuf? There is a colorful frame around the text and a crown(?) in the upper margin.
Letter fragment (top only) from Yisra'el b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yisra'el tells Nahray to add the dinars to the money he …
Letter/petition from an unknown writer to the Head of the Jews. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman …
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Lists in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. One of the entries on the recto lists the weight of a specific good. The list on …
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions the year '44, probably [4]44 AH, which would be 1052. The decree seems to be issued in response …
المحل بظاهر الرس(؟) يوم الاثنين لعشر بقين في رجب
سنة اربع واربعين وقد استتب هذين في سلوك
نهج الطاعة والولاء واستبصروا شدي في انخراط
List of recipients of charity (bread) along with the khuddām al-kanīs (the list begins with three parnasim). This list fills three pages of the bifolium. …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are four distinct text blocks. The document on recto is extremely long and begins with announcing someone's death "baʿd …
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions revenue from sugarcane (qand), the capital (raʾsmāl) of Abū l-Surūr, and al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.
Two fragments of a deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Last decade of Iyyar 1431 Seleucid, which is 1120 CE. In …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th century. From Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar (see T-S NS 304.1 (PGPID 24958)). Mentions a tarsīm, matters of money, and someone named …
Most of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Minyat Ghamr (last line of recto) to Fustat (verso). The addressee is named Baqāʾ. Concerning …
Late letter in Hebrew from Natan Hefez to Aharon Beirav. Further information available on FGP in Avraham David's transcription and notes.
Autograph poems by someone named Aharon ha-Kohen, possibly a poetic letter, as it says at upper left "from the one who loves him, Aharon ha-Kohen."
Recto and verso: Last leaf of a letter from a woman to Sitt Khuṣrawān. In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing deep regret that the addresse, whom she revered …
Apparently an invitation to a hesped. Information (and transcription) from Goitein's notes attached to BL OR 10578C.1 (PGPID 6310).
State or legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With crude handwriting and spellings. The addressee is called 'my son' and rebuked for his obstinacy and urged …
List in Judaeo-Arabic of at least seven of the "blemishes" (ʿuyūb) a woman can have, such as a bad odor, a propensity to sweat, a …
Petition, draft, from an ex-government servant asking for work, presumably from a government official. From the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly …
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Address of a letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. None of the body of the letter remains on this fragment. The address is followed by the …
Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …
Recipe against worms. In Hebrew. Late. Written in the margin of a literary text (commentary on Exodus).
Official looking accounts in Arabic script. Listing names and quantities, presumably of money.
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. [...]. Wife: [...] bt. Shelomo. No documentation of receipt on verso (unless it has been torn away).
IB I, 41. Partnership record. Dated: [Tish]rei 1551 Sel. (1239). Location: Fustat. The brothers Abū al-Faḍl and Abū al-Riḍā Yosef b. Berakhot, owners of a …
[נקול] נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנ[א פי אכר הדא אלמסטור אן למא כאן פי … חדש]
[תש]רי שנת אתקנ''א לשטרות בפסטאט [... חצרו אלינא אלשיך]
[אב]ו…
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Fragment of a deed of sale. In Arabic script. Unclear if any details are preserved or if it is all boilerplate. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a letter, in Arabic script. Mentions Saturday and "Mawlāya al-Shaykh". Damaged and faded to glean any content. Phrases: من يوم السبت . . …
Letter from Bū Manṣūr b. Abū Saʿd Shemuel to Avraham al-Maḥallī al-Talmid (the student/scholar). Addressed to Fustat, the synagogue of the Palestinians, situated in Zuqāq …
Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. An instruction to a cantor to warn a woman that her husband had submitted …
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Account for Shevat and Adar 1495 sel. ca. 1184. This is a single leaf from the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya, written in two columns. …
The accounting of the collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān for the two months, Shevat and Adar,
corresponding to Shawwāl and Dhūʾl-qaʿd…
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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Around 1061. The writer writes about purchasing wheat before Passover. (Information from …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה וסעאדתה
ונעמאה מן רשיד יום אלאחד בעד משקה אן עצימה אן ללה
אלחמד אלדי כאנת אלעאקבה ללכ…
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Accounts, in Arabic script.
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, a Qaraite in Jerusalem, to the brothers Yiṣḥaq and Binyamin b. Yosef in Warjalan, July 1039.
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Business letter in Hebrew. Dated Friday 13th [...]. Dating: second half of the 16th century, according to Avraham David. Mentions Shemuʾel, Yaʿaqov and Yiṣḥaq. Reports …
"The three fragments known as JRL SERIES A 1053, JRL SERIES B 2699, and JRL SERIES B 2977 are from three copies of another invitation, …
Unidentified text in Hebrew, probably literary: הני נשיר גנכם פ שבעליהן נתלין ודרך המלך להפקיר בית ונשיהם ופסקיה מעברא פ הנהר הפסקו שהיתה ספינת המע …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew, containing praises for an exilarch: ונסיך . . . הוצק חן . . . אומר על ברי . . …
Marriage contract. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: late tenth century. Two pieces are preserved. A long elaborate poem recited on Passover (for dew) was written on …
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Letter to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a crude hand. Mentioning the currency nuṣṣ (= nuṣf, which generally refers to the muʾayyadi first coined …
Declaration of support for a Gaʾon, written by at least three different scribes, and containing the signatures and names of approximately a dozen communal notables …
Testimony concerning a tarika (inheritance) of two women recorded at the court of Avraham b. Ishaq, Ab 1389/July 1078, Fustat.
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Court record. Dating: probably 11th century. Yiṣḥaq he-Ḥaver and Sahl arrived in Fustat around the same time. Somebody testifies that somebody desecrated the Sabbath somewhere …
Very little text remains; possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
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. …
Verso: draft of the beginning of a letter with blessings and wishes for good luck and prosperity. Recto: list of the first lines of piyyuṭim. …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1395 Seleucid, which is 9 May 1084 CE. Husband: Kathīr b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Mawʿā bt. Moshe. …
Legal deed, draft of a bill of authorization written by Efrayim b. Shemarya and Yefet b. David
List of names and numerical figures on recto, with accounts continued on the verso in a more concise format. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender seems to be imploring the addressee to resume his correspondence, for "I used to be like a son to …