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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
One line of Arabic text from an official letter or document, mentioning al-jāmiʿ ("the mosque"). Reused for piyyuṭim, one of which is ascribed to Isaac b.
אין רשומות קשורות
Original use: Probably a letter from [...] al-Dayyān to Abū Ṭāḥir b. Avraham. Secondary use: Drafts of a deed of sale of a property, specifying its borders.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Mentions Ibn al-Jashshāsh (maker and/or seller of pounded boiled wheat, cf.
Business letter from Elʿazar b. Yosef. Mentions Ibn al-Ḥusayn and various transactions, including the receipt of nutmeg.
Mentions 5 dirhams for 3 daftars, the first being [...], the second the book of Genesis with tafsīr, and the third a daftar containing Kitāb al-Sharāʾiʿ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Fragment of a letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Mentions business with pearls and the coming travel of two people to Ladikya.
] אללה יכתב סלאמה אלגמיע [ ] ברקלואת יאכי לו כאנת קד
] אלסוק פי אול וסקה ואמא אלסעה מא טלב פי ברקלו ול אלי ח[ל]
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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay to the leader (‘al-raʾīs’) 2 dinars. Circa 1141 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Opening lines of a petition with a blessing on al-Hāfiẓ. On verso there is additional Arabic text in a different hand, possibly a response to the petition.
תעתוק אחד
Mentions greetings to various people including Sayyid al-Ahl. (Information in part from CUDL)
With a negative tone, talking about losses and how someone can ינקל אלף נקלה whatever that means, and how the addressee shouldn't pay anything to [...] al-Dawla.
Menashshe and his wife; his sister al-Turfa bt. Menashshe and their mother; a certain Ṭoviyya; and Efrayim or [... b.]
Small receipt for payment made by Abū l-Najm on behalf of 'the poor Jews' (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment for Jumādā I.
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer Bū l-Khayr.
Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto. Continues on verso, mentioning more names and ending with a ḥamdala.
Informal note to Bū ʿAlī beginning "يا مولاي الشيخ بو علي قد طلقت. . . ."
Referring to the sugar shops in the Sūq al-Naqqālīn (verso) and the two sugar shops (ḥānutayn sukkar) of Abū l-Faraj.
It is possible that these are intended to spell out words (other documents are known that use Coptic numerals as an alphabetic cipher) but it may simply be sums for accounting.
Refers to "the acquaintance of Maʿālī al-Sukkarī." This shelfmark was likely issued by the same scribe as the neighboring fragment T-S AS 185.281.
Joins: Oded Zinger (the first five pieces) and Alan Elbaum (T-S AS 210.186). Needs examination.
Likely a release of a debt for Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. AA
Small fragment from a legal deed relating to Abū l-Faraj al-Jubayli, and his trip to Yemen. Written by Halfon b.
Dream vision of Mawhūb al-Muʿallim. In Judaeo-Arabic (introduction) and Hebrew (vision).
Book list including several talmudic tractates, commentaries on them by Moses ha-Kohen and Saʿd b. Hillel, and Shaykh al-Yahūd, a work by Judah b. Ḥalfon. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: In a different hand, apparently alchemical recipes -- or at least they use many toxic minerals.
Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. Mentions transferring money.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Benaya to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Involves Abū Saʿd; a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ; and someone's maternal grandmother. Probably a deed of gift or sale.
One of them refers to Dāʾūd b. [...] Ṣamṣām al-Dawla. Needs further examination.
Names include Nāṣir, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibrāhīm, "a Jew" (yahūdī), ʿAlam(?), Hiba, Manṣūr, Ṣafiyy.
Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the back for a Judaeo-Arabic prayer of praise for God.
Maʿālī and Mūsā the brother of al-Sh[...]. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
Involves Shemuel ha-Levi and Sitt al-Kafāʾa and a quarter-house in Fustat that she had previously sold to Shemuel.
Letter from al-Shaykh Manṣūr(?) to his son. In Arabic script.
At least one name is preserved in the opening line [...] b. Manṣūr b. Sālim(?) al-[...]. Needs examination.
Monograph; beginning of a work on kashrut, written at the request of a correspondent; the author states that he has already written a longer work on this subject. On verso a colophon by Yehuda the Elder b.
On recto the two columns ʿalayhi (debits) and lahū (credits). Dated: Shawwāl 538 AH = April May 1144 CE.
Legal document from al-Mahalla mentioning ha-zaqen b. R. Pinhas. (F.
The document mentions "al-ishāʿa fī l-funduq."
דיון אחד
Letter from a woman named Harja, in Jerusalem, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Firrouz, in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic.
The writer mentions that he had already sent 7 letters on this matter. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Legal fragment involving Halil (?) al-Shayzari ha-Bursi and Yishaq and various sums of money.
Dated: Muḥarram-Rabīʿa al-Awwal 1182 AH which is May-July. The receipt is signed and stamped by Muṣtafa Jalabī (Çelebi) and issued to Muʿallam Liyahu.
The house where the writer lives with all his family is collapsing around them. There are several interesting spellings in this letter, e.g., אלצצֿירה for الصغيرة.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Ibn al-Nagid is mentioned. There is one line in Arabic script at the bottom.
Horoscopes in the name of Ilyās al-Ḥakīm, including prospects for currying favor with government and the effectiveness of medicines.
His family members are all sick, and he has no money even for a medicinal syrup.
Account of a pharmacist listing household goods and other commodities (e.g., fiber tow (mushāq)). Mentions Khalaf Ibn al-Ṭunnāmilī and Fuḍayl. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 585)
Includes a section on ophthalmology mentioning the properties of "al-ʿinabiyya" (= the grape-like layer = the uvea).
; "swords" (suyūf); and almond. Goitein suggests that this is an inventory of items for a wedding.
Nissim mentioning Yusuf and Abu al-Ḥasan. The city of Tarablus (Tripoli) is referred to twice.