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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Almost too damaged to identify. Probably Talmudic or halakhic.
אין רשומות קשורות
Foretelling the fortunes of the coming year based on the day of the week of the Copts' Feast of the Cross (ʿīd al-ṣalīb) (17 Thout).
Gives the auspicious days for such activities as "demanding rights," "imḍā' al-dīwān" (?), and going to the bathhouse. ASE
Addressed to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen. Consists solely of poetry and poetic praises.
Syriac alphabet exercises and Psalms 1:6–2:3. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."
Letter, calligraphic, written in alternating Hebrew and Arabic. Dealing with political machinations and silencing enemies.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Account in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand listing debts (mentioning, for example, Umm Muhammad). ENA 2615.1-3 all belong together
Netanʾel ha-Levi sent to Elʿazar al-Qasabi. Addendum to India Book IV. AA
There are two references to a merchant of purple textiles (al-Urjuwānī); a shop; and [...] b. Muḥsin.
On verso in Judaeo-Arabic, "the account of al-[...]."
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval era. The identifier "Yahūdīya" appears in line two and the name Muḥammad Rikā__ī[?]
Accounts mostly in Coptic alphanumerals with some Arabic text on recto. The verso is in a different scribal hand mentioning the name الشيخ عبدالكافي.
Small receipt or order. For Sayf al-Dawla. Sum (at upper left): 67 3/4. Dated: 6 Dhū l-Hijja.
Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.
Verso: Legal document involving al-Rayyis Abū l-Bayān (Moshe) b. Mevorakh. Many names are mentioned.
דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham al-Muʿṭī and Yosef b. Ezra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi.
Listing many goods and their values. Many but not all are fabrics and garments (mandīl, miʾzar, miqnaʿa, ghalāla, maṭraḥ).
Verso: Letter fragment from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī(?) addressed to a certain Amir. Only the first few lines are preserved.
Mentions "expenditures" (maṣrūf) multiple times. Mentions al-ṣabiyy and "Bū Manṣur his son"
Lists, grids, sums, writing exercises, jottings. All in Hebrew script and eastern Arabic numerals.
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, a few partial words are visible alongside the names Menashshe and Sulaymān. Medieval-era, based on the paleography..
Contains poetic Hebrew lines about the ingathering of exiles, then a blessings for Abū ʿAlī (last line).
Verso l. 1 refers to the amir Sayf al-Khilāfa.
Some lines read as "inna-nī law sirtu ʿalā".
A dense list of names along with numbers, perhaps pledges to charity. Organized by parshiyot.
Mūsā and something with Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-QRṬ[...] (Qurṭubī? Qirṭāsī?).
Mentions barberries, brazilwood, rose, cucumber, endive, gum (ʿilk), aloe, cardamom.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions aloeswood, lac, pepper, among other items. Written on a small and narrow slip of paper.
Taqiyya(?) and Sitthum bt. Sitt al-Ahl.
Regards are sent to Abū l-ʿAlā and Abū Isḥāq.
Verso is accounts in a different hand, where the word רסם recurs ın almost every entry.
Legal document in Arabic script. "min al-wariq" and "wa l-mablagh min l-wariq" can be readable.
Prayer in Arabic script. Contains Quran allusions such as قل هو الله احد (r1) and ولا الاه الا الله.
The second one mentions the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn).
The petitioner renews the taqbīl, "al-mamlūk yujaddid ta[qbīl]."
Document in Arabic script involving Nissim al-Yahūdī. Dated: 3 [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 1240 AH = 1824/25 CE.
Verso indicates the beginning of a new chapter or section "al-bāb".
Recto:Probably some rescript or pen trials. An ʿalāma towards the end. Needs examination.
Letter from Muslim b. [...] al-ʿAṭṭār to Nahray b. Nissim. In Arabic script.
Nissim, the arrival of the Kohen, and [Isḥā?]q al-Qābisī.
Accounts of purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
On verso the writer mentions 'the tax' (? al-mās) and 'your promise'—perhaps he is requesting charity.
Letter fragment addressed to a certain ḥaver in al-Maḥalla. The surviving piece of the letter itself is in elegant Hebrew, and the address is in rudimentary Judaeo-Arabic.
Two line items appear to include the word al-Muslimīn.
A small piece from a letter mentioning the elder Abū l-Ḥasan al-Levi, written in the hand of Hananel b. Shmuel.
Verso (secondary use): Fragment from the Alphabet of Ben Sira. Written on the back of an Ikhshīdid letter, in a hand consistent with a tenth-century date.
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū Sahl al-Ṣāyigh. Very little of the subject matter is discernible without a join.
Involves the wife of Abū l-Maḥāsin al-ʿAṭṭār.
Two legal documents (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān makes a declaration. Needs examination.
Daniel b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn al-Baqra(?)."