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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Reused for a Hebrew-script legal document on verso (see separate entry).
No Scholarship Records
Letter in Ladino. Fragment from the end of the letter. Mentions Damietta, and includes well wishes for numerous contacts and family members.
Small fragment from the end of a ketubba, referring to the bride’s immersion (טבילה).
For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
1 Transcription
Three court record entries, two dated Tevet 1339/December 1027 and one Shevat 1339/January 1028.
יהודי אנדלוסי תובע שבית דין של שלושה שנקבע לעיין בדינו יתכנס. אסיפת
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Natan Sholal, the penultimate Nagid of Egypt. Dating: end of the 15th century.
Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef). Cf. ENA NS 48.14 (PGPID 40760).
Fragment from the end of a ketuba. Signed by Moshe b. Sai'd, Yeshua b.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This is the end of the letter. The writer invokes the 'covenant of salt' (brit melaḥ) between him and addressee.
Asking the addressee to enlighten the sender about various talmudic passages.
Recto (secondary use): Fragment from the end of a letter regarding the postponement of a meeting.
Esther בייס is mentioned in one of the entries on the verso. (Information from CUDL)
Seems like a legal deed in a very crude hand, involving Ḥalfon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Ends with אנשאללה.
Small fragment. Bifolio with entries headed by dates and lists of names (e.g. Abu l-Faḍl).
Accounts, with Hebrew and Coptic numerals. Entries include saqqāʾ; ṣāniʿīn; wakāla; ḥammāl; mismār.
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. One of the entries refers to "four bowls of western make" (اربع صحون عمل الغرب).
Also refers to a period of time ending on the 10th of [...].
End of a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Underneath there is a scrawled Arabic note headed by a basmala and perhaps beginning "Min kitāb. . ."
The surname Gevali (גבאלי) is mentioned at least once in the first line of entries.
Recto is a halakhic discussion mentioniong witnesses and engagement (qiddushin). Verso is a business account in Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions "the shamash" in one of the entries (אלשמאש). Requires further examination.
List in Arabic, perhaps accounts but not well-preserved. Some entries are crossed out. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Almost the entirety of what is preserved consists of flattery and blessings.
Document in Arabic script. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Small handwriting.
A few words from the end of a decree: واعـ[ـلم هذا] واعمل عليه وبحسبه وو . . . .
Report or petition, probably. The ends of two lines are preserved: مراسمها وكملت ...
Likely the prayers for the caliph and his ancestors from the end of a state document.
A booklet contains mostly literary texts. On p. 28 to the end- the letter from Yosef king of the Khazaes to Ibn Shiprut
Entry in court notebook (#53). List of expenditures.
Abraham as her representative to sue her husband. This short entry is followed by another entry recording an unrelated appointment of a representative. The next entry in the court notebook, however, records that on the very same day, a cantor who was one of the witnesses of the first appointment came to the court with two parnasim from the community. The three men declared to the court that they had made the symbolic purchase from Malīḥa confirming that she relinquished the entirety of her meʿuḥar and was willing to take an oath over her claims regarding the dowry.
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Legal agreement regarding the Rabbanite Jewish communal pious endowment of Cairo (al-Qāhira al-Maḥrūsa) and Old Cairo/Fustat (Miṣr al-ʿAtīqa). […] This term was not simply a convenient Arabic synonym for the halakhic endowment known in Hebrew as heqdesh. By the late fourteenth century, all Jewish pious endowments were established in Muslim courts as waqf. […] As for the endowed properties themselves, the document does not specify where in Cairo and in Fusṭāṭ they are located."
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The [lit., ‘its’] witnesses [to the case] testified on behalf of Raʾīs Ibrāhīm, called…
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Late enigmatic document in Hebrew dealing with the praises of virtuous women, excerpting Talmudic discussions, and perhaps giving blessings to a specific woman.
Literary text, most probably a prayer copied in the 11th-12th C based on paleography and a Fatimid ḥamdala and taṣliya toward the end.
Tables for divination, late, entitled Urim ve-Tumim, each headed with a different question (e.g.
Refers to "al-niẓām al-ḥamīd." Ends with a ḥamdala and a ḥasbala. Needs examination.
Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Likely belongs with ENA 3755.6.
Possibly related to the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3953.6. Requires further examination.
Possibly related to the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3953.5. Requires further examination.
Detailed account in Judaeo-Arabic, much of it for expenses entailed in the dyeing of silk. Mentions ʿImrān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Iskandarānī.
שרי אלעצפר ה קנאטיר מן סער
כט דינר כל קנטאר אלתמן קמה דינר
וכרג ענה אנטאע ותליס וחבל וכיט
ושדאדין ח דנא ודרהמין וברטיל
וחמ…
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Late. Some of the entries repeat the mysterious term קיסטרומל or perhaps קוסטרומל(?).
Two minute fragments from the end of a legal deed. Signed by Yosef Hakohen b.
Refers to an amīr, the width and height of something, and ends "wa-l-salām."
Fragment from the end of a legal document, signed by Avraham ha-Levi b.
Eli, probably in Tripoli, Lebanon, approximately 1030. Verso: End of the address.
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יהי אלהנו עזרו וצל סתרו
Verso (original use): End of a letter in Arabic script. With many formal blessings and phrases of deference for the addressee.
End of a ketubba in a large hand. Signed by Nathan [ha-Levi] b.
See description under Yevr. III B 1131, and see ENA 4011.74.
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Describing a dispute and ending with a a raʾy clause. Needs further examination.
Deed regarding the endowment of a small house in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Babylonian synagogue.
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient His blessings be upon his servants, whom he has cho…