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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
List of materia medica with quantities, in a crude hand. May in fact be a prescription/recipe or instructions: בעד דאלך תאכד . . .
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IB V, 37, folio 2. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl …
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Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman era. Mentions mainly Christian names: ʿAbd al-Masiḥ b. Yūshaʿ(?); Ṣalīb(?) the son of …
Legal fragment. In Aramaic. Portions of five lines are preserved, with abbreviations, indicating that this is a draft or formulary. On verso there are geomancy …
Multi-fragment shelfmark, with at least 4 different texts stuck together. Requires further examination.
Verso: Legal document (unfinished draft) concerning a financial agreement between Ibrahim b. Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information in part from CUDL.) …
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Letter to David Ben-Naim in Alexandria from his father Meir Ben-Naim in Cairo. Dated 26 Heshvan [5]580 AM (תף) which is 1819 CE.
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe some sort of formalized accounts. There are four distinct entries each beginning "wa-waṣala lahū." Reused on recto for …
Letter in Arabic script, beautifully written. Fragment (right side of the page, only the beginnings of the lines are preserved). Addressed to Fusṭāṭ. Little of …
Genealogical list of Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.
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Unidentified Arabic text, unclear if literary or documentary. Mentions Mount Sinai (على طور سينا).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan Aʿraj (the lame) and ʿAllān the son of the sister of ʿA[rūs]. This is probably the India trader ʿAllān …
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there.Reused for piyyuṭ. This one reads: 2/3 + 1/4 dinars; [In the …
Legal document, minute fragment. Dark (presumably burned) and nearly illegible. Includes the phrase "אם חס ושלום" and mentions Sicily or Palermo (אלסקליה). AA. ASE.
Letter addressed to a dignitary, possibly the Nagid. Possibly a preface to an appeal for charity.
List of people receiving charitable support from the community. The list includes various people described as Rūmī (ie, from Byzantium). According to Goitein (Med Soc …
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Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Draft. Late. There appears to be an Ottoman-era seal. Groom: Moshe b. Yehuda. Bride: Saʿādat bt. Avraham Dukkān (or Dakkān?), virgin. The …
Marriage contract in which the bridegroom promises to feed and clothe the son of his future wife, a divorcee, to let him learn a craft, …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. Late. Fragment: upper right corner. Involves [...]ya ha-Kohen and Avraham.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged.
Copy of a responsum of R. Semah Dayyana de-Baba (Judge of the Gate, active ca. 870 CE). The transcription below begins on line 14 of …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: פי הדא אלאסבוע . . . . חתי יגי אכוה . . …
Literary fragment of Qaraite interest. "We have completed . . . [Binyamin] b. Moshe Nahāwandī."
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Small fragment. Mentions Saʿīd; Qudsī; Yahūdī; "Fulayfil"; and gold. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
State document, in Arabic script. 2-3 words in a chancery script. Needs examination.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Rabīʿ I 404. Written one day after …
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Report or petition draft, but most like the a report due to the verb "فاعلمته" (I inform) followed by the raʾyy clause.
Fragment #1: From a letter to Avraham ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad ha-Mefo'ar ba-Soharim. Fragment #2: Printed text in Greek, perhaps the Lord's prayer. Probably not Geniza.
Table of monetary values, two columns are listed "silver" and "pure" (נוקר). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Possibly related to communal …
Recto: ʿAmida for the additional service on Rosh ha-Shana. Verso: Possibly an ownership note for Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Verso: Legal document: agreement with the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1160. An agreement is concluded between a certain Ṣubḥ and his wife, and the qodesh, represented …
There were present (in court) Ṣubḥ and his wife and it was legally acquired from both of them that
they relinquish any claim to the 9 qīrā…
Large list of names and sums of money (probably donations) dated Passover [Nisan 15-22] 5555 AM (April 1795 CE). The right column lists 43 full …
Letter of condolence in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mubārak b. [ʿIyad?]. On the death of a woman in his family (אלאשה …
Invitation for attending a gathering at Abu al-Sabāʿ Street in Cairo, and on the page there is a letter between friends in Hebrew – July …
Legal document. Dating: mentions Av 1346 Seleucid = July/August 1035 CE. Concerning Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov, who had disregarded the ruling of the court in Qayrawān. …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a certain Yiṣḥaq, who is asked to convey the note (ruqʿa) to the judge, "for the shaykh has killed …
State document, probably Fatimid. Closing formula of a decree, possibly, or another state document written in a thick pen. The preserved text is a ṣalwala …
Accounts.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad b. Jamīl b. Mūsā. Missing two edges but otherwise legible, needs examination.
Bifolio containing calendrical jottings in Hebrew script for the years 1454–1501 Seleucid = 1142–90 CE. There is also the beginning of a birth record in …
Arabic script (VMR)
List of names and sums. On the back, list of names and weights of a commodity. Names on recto include Sulaymān; Yefet; Manṣūr al-Raqqāq; [...] …
Booklet of divinations with introduction. These fragments come from at least two different booklets in the hand of the same scribe, as there is some …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. About business matters. The sender's tone is agitated. Hard to figure out any specifics: אלא ממלוכה וחק אלשריעה אן מן וקת . …
Deed of sale for a house (Wissem Gueddich FGP). Needs examination
26 pages of a Ladino & Hebrew manual on divination, using astrology and geomancy and perhaps some casting of lots (see pp. 21–22, where there …
Letter from Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated 3 Rajab [12]48 AH = 26 November 1832 CE. The name "Maʿtūq" suggests that he might be …
A long letter from Yosef b. Moshe
Letter from Avraham Baronito to a communal dignitary. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The sender is known from ENA NS 49.20 (a legal …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.