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LetterENA 2555.1
Letter in Hebrew narrating the trouble caused by Ben Meir including quoting at length a letter sent by the elders. Entered in Geniza collection as …
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Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 102/37
Literary work on the calendar, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Bodl. MS heb. f 102/36 and Bodl. MS heb. f 102/38–39 may …
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View document detailsList or tableAIU VIII.E.11–12
16 pages of calendrical writing with molad calculations for years in the 19th century.
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View document detailsList or tableBL OR 10126(1).2
Calendar for maḥzors 258 (starting 1122 CE) through maḥzor 261 (ending 1199 CE). Will be a useful resource for dating the handful of Geniza documents …
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View document detailsList or tableAIU VIII.E.13
12 pages of calendrical writing, with molad calculations and Islamic calendar conversions, for the first decade of the 19th century.
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View document detailsLetterMoss. II,153.3
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Reused on recto for a text discussing the calendar and liturgical additions.
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View document detailsLiterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110a/22
Essay on the intercalation of the calendar: אדא ארדנא אלוקוף עלי עלם אלחיבור. The hand is familiar, perhaps 13th century.
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View document detailsList or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1774/9
Calendar. Late. Colorful floral illustrations, with the text in circular medallions. The surrounding fragments are either from the same calendar or very similar ones.
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View document detailsLetterT-S AS 83.258
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
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Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.47
A brief narrative of the calendar controversy of 921/2 appears within a treatise or manual in Judaeo-Arabic on the Jewish calendar, which was composed and …
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View document detailsLetterStras. 4038/1–6
Geonic responsum about the calendar controversy of Ben Meir, dated 994–95 CE. It is attributed to Hayye Gaon. Preserved here is the second of two …
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Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.17
Calendar for years 4756–4757 of the Era of Creation (= 995-996 to 996-997 CE) and 4760-4761 of the Era of Creation (= 999-1000 to 1000-1001 …
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Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.37
Recto: calendrical text discussing the months of Marḥešvan and Kislev. Verso: jottings.
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View document detailsList or tableAIU VIII.E.52 + BL OR 5565B.7
Consecutive bifolia on the calendar in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi spanning the years 1204-07 and 1209–09 respectively.
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Literary textT-S NS 98.51
Calendrical or astrological work mentioning the months of January (יונאריס) and February (פבראריס) and the calends (קלנדס). Information from FGP.
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Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.63
Calendrical calculations and jottings in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
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Paraliterary textT-S AS 146.92
Calendrical. Mentions the names of months and days, a leap year and cycles. CUDL
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Literary textT-S NS 194.92 + T-S 8K4
Two folios of this 12-folio manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how …
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Literary textENA 2555.1 + T-S 10K3 + T-S NS 175.57 + ENA 2556.1
Manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to calculate the calendar year …
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LetterT-S AS 160.96
This text is preserved in one very fragmentary folio, T-S AS 160.96. What survives indicates that it is about the midday calendar limit, whereby the …
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LetterBodl. MS Heb. d.74/31 + T-S 13K2.4 + T-S 13K2.5 + Bodl. MS Heb. d.74/30
Collection of letters relating to the calendar controversy of 921–22. This is part of what Sacha Stern (2020) calls the Letters Miscellany: Letter 4 of …
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LetterT-S 10J32.1 + Lévi 1900b + T-S NS 98.18 + Bodl. MS heb. d 74/27
Letter 1 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letters 1 and 2 are pro-Babylonian. Both …
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View document detailsLiterary textT-S 10K4
Latest, most formal, and most perfected, copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on …
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View document detailsLiterary textT-S 8K5
This manuscript is the earliest copy we have of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia …
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View document detailsLiterary textT-S NS 219.29
New discovery of a copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to …
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View document detailsLetterT-S 6Ja1
Partially preserved 11th century copy of one of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. …
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Legal documentT-S J3.47
Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …
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Literary textT-S NS 262.17 + T-S AS 155.112
This recently discovered document presents a detailed account of the calendar controversy from the perspective of a Qaraite. It is also the only source confirming …
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LetterT-S 13K2.3 + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/29
Letter 2 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 2, of which only one folio …
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LetterT-S 13K2.1 + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/28 + T-S 13K2.2 + T-S NS 309.68b
Letter 3 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 3 responds to a letter from …
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View document detailsLetterBL OR 4856.1
Recto: Hebrew letter of appeal from the old, poor man Yosef b. Elazar ha-Kohen to Avraham ha-Sar b. Elazar. The body of the letter occupies …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Ar.29.101
Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …
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LetterT-S 8G7.1
Letter from the head of the Gola concerning the calendar. Describes his opinion about the need to shorten two months (to 29 days) and explains …
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- דליהו כולן וכל יש אגודה [אחת ב]חדשים
- ובכל מועדים וְבָהדִין מנהגא ק[א הוו] מִדברין [[א]]
- אבהתן ומתיבאתא עד הינא והי[א] שתא דהיה
- שנת אלפא ומאה …
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LetterT-S 6Ja1 + Halper 332 + Bodl. MS heb. f 56/83
Partially preserved 11th century copy of second of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. …
- וכה הסכים ראש הגולה
- וראשי הישיבות וכל האלופים
- וכל החכמים מבין עם תלמיד
- והכריזו מרחשון וכסלו שלמין
- והפסח בשלישי בשבת
- גם אנכי כתבתי עם אגרות…
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List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 54/21
Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.
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List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 54/22
Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.
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LetterJRL SERIES C 85
Recto: Letter from David b. Naʿim to Meir b. Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Elul 5580, which is 1820 CE. On verso there is a …
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Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.290
Recipe for a certain kind of wine ("al-nabīdh al-mudabbir"). On verso there are calendrical calculations mentioning Tishrei 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111 CE.
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Paraliterary textENA 4010.35 + ENA 4196.15
A Karaite (specifically Tustari) post festum calendar listing the dates of the new moons (by observation) for the years 1357–59 Seleucid, corresponding to 1045–48 CE. …
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View document detailsList or tableT-S NS 338.72
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script, listing years in the 12th century CE …
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Paraliterary textENA NS 63.18
Literary work containing Hebrew poetry and a section on the calendar including for the years 5923–78 AM, which corresponds to 1142–1218 CE. The hand is …
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Literary textBodl. MS heb. d 36/13–16bis
This is the famous epistle/sermon generally attributed to Daniel al-Qūmisī, in Jerusalem, to his "brethren" the Qaraites, urging them to come to Jerusalem (along with …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.29.129
This manuscript, T-S Ar 29.129, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1. It provides as much information as is needed for an individual …
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S Ar.29.33
Document in Arabic script, probably legal. Approximately 7 lines from the middle section are preserved. Mentions ḍamān and daʿwa, and maybe a partnership (shirka). Needs …
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List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 103/13
Two legal notes, amidst sundry other jottings, mostly calendrical (including the names of months in both Hebrew and Romance—perhaps Ladino). The first note states that …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar. 29.190 fol.9
This manuscript, T-S Ar. 29.190 fol. 9, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1, of which the other text witness is T-S Ar. …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S NS J609
Recto: Karaite calendar giving the dates of the new moon by observation for a portion of the year 1362 Seleucid (1050/51 CE). Edited by Gil …
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View document detailsLiterary textT-S Ar.29.56
Calendrical text. Dated: 1241 Sel. (929–30 CE). This copy: late 10th/11th c. Part of a longer calendrical work; the passage preserved on this fragment sets …
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Paraliterary textT-S 12.320
Calendar written by Ibn Yiju for the year September 1149-September 1150, which seems to indicate that, as before in India and later in Egypt, he …
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- סנה אתסא תאמנא ללמחזור חסירין ומעוברת ראש השנה
- אלבג צום גדליה יום אל ארבעה כיפור אלארבעה סוכה אלב
- שמיני עצרת אלכאתנין [[תשרי אלב שמיני עצרת …
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Paraliterary textT-S 10K20.1
Calendar for September 1153-September 1156 for Avraham Ibn Yiju's private synagogue.
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- אלזית אלתמיד אלשיך אבו סעד ואל[שיךֹ]
- אבו עלי צהרי מרחשון אלשיך אבו עלי
- בן צדקה בכסליו אלשיך אבו אלחסן בן חשיש
- בת וחנוכה אלשיך אבו אלרצא שבט …
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