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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter to Shemuel ha-Hazzan with a long Hebrew poem and a few lines of Judaeo-Arabic containing a request for the Kitāb al-ʿAnṣara by Ibn Ghiyāth. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Trousseau list. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Mentioned in Med Soc. IV, section IX, B, 2, notes 465, 472, 486–88.
Testator: Abū l-Faraj Wahb al-Muʿallim (aka the teacher and ḥaver Natan b.
דיון אחד
Nahoum, probably from Tyre, to Abu al-Khair Efrayim ca. 1085, which continues on verso.
תעתוק אחד
The case is referred to the office of the chamber of al-Ẓāfir. Dating: mid-12th century. (Information from CUDL)
[Praise be to God] alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, the prophet, and save (him).
The two servants of our master, the praises o…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Ṣemaḥ collected [...] two dinars from the money owed to him by Ṭayyib al-Kohen."
אין רשומות קשורות
Containing various questions; the first is attributed to Amīr al-Mu'minīn and mentions Muʿāwiya. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poetry.
It seems that the sender is urgently ordering medicinal powder for dysentery (safūf al-zaḥīr) and other materia medica "for we need them."
One of the parties is a Jew (al-Isrāʾīlī). A certain Ibrāhīm b. Salāma is mentioned.
The debtor agrees to repay the debt or submit to tarsīm (house arrest), taḥbīs (imprisonment), or be summoned in front of a judge (ḥuḍūr ilā majlis al-quḍāt).
Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the ashrafī which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year.
P3 recto mentions a certain Abū l-Ḵayr al-Ṭabīb.. Arabic, in various handwritings (FGP)
Mentions names such as al-Ḥājj [...]; Umm Mūsā; the sister of Najīb; Umm Yūsuf.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī the Jew in Fustat for the year 557 AH = 1161/62 CE if read correctly.
Mentioning a deceased person (al-marḥūm), various numbers, and sales. On recto there is part of a rabbinic text in Hebrew.
יקרת צפירת ... בישראל יחיהו .... Almost none of the letter itself is preserved except an intriguing mention of the name Hyrcanus (הורקנוס).
Verso: Astrological fragment listing the symbols for the "lords of the triplicities" (arbāb al-muthallathāt), i.e., the three planets that rule over each of the elements (here labeled in Arabic "fire, earth, air, water")
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.
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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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.
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.
Medieval-era. Headed Abū [...] al-Qaṣṣār(?). The paper was reused for writing exercises in Hebrew-script and many ink dots.
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.
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.