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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Unidentified text in Arabic. Late, probably Ottoman era. May be magical. On both recto and verso contains the phrase "hurry hurry hurry."
אין רשומות קשורות
Accounts with names such as Barakāt and [Abū l]-Faḍl al-Parnas and al-Peʾer, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter draft from Yiṣḥaq Maslati (מסלאתי) to R. Mordekhay. In Hebrew. Dating: Possibly 16th century. Asking him to send 1,500 new Venetian peraḥim (= ducats). …
תעתוק אחד
Legal or official document, probably some sort of a receipt, in Arabic script. Baqā b. Bū l-Fakhr owes some sums to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. …
Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Jottings of names in Hebrew. Late. Of documentary interest only because the scribe signs his name "I am Moshe b. Salāma."
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and …
And it affects their order and makes it difficult for them
to adhere to their tenets of faith and demobilizes
their congregations. They seek f…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
وصول
لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
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Small fragment of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions a qāʿa. Likely a deed of sale related to real estate.
A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts?. Late 18th or early 19th century based on the names mentioned and the …
Small fragment from a bill of divorce. The husband is Natan ha-Kohen. The wife's name might be [...] bt. Moshe. AA/ASE
Letter from ʿAwaḍ b. Hanan'el in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, in which the writer complains of hardships he has endured, and asks …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Instructions or mnemonics for calendrical calculations. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the year 1521 Seleucid = 1209/10 CE.
A Hebrew maqāma. Mentioned in the literature (Schirmann, Fleischer).
Letter, probably, or a question to a jurisconsult. The writer complains about a debt he owes to the people of a town (qariya). The last …
Guide to the angelic hosts, with headers in Arabic script and the names of the angels in Hebrew script.
Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1769 Seleucid, which is 1458 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Yehosef. Location: Cairo. ʿAbd …
בש` רח` וחנ`
Letter from the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-yahūdī) Mūsā b. Nāṣir the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār), unknown location, to an unkown addressee, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script.
Lower fragment: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Rabbenu David ha-Ḥakham. Dealing mainly with business matters and also raising money for the capitation tax. Mentions …
Accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if state or private. Mentions someone al-ʿAjamī. One of the headings is "ʿamāla." Reused on the same side for a …
Accounts in Arabic.
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning sugar and glass.
Legal document mentioning ʿImrān al-Nafūsī and Moshe the elder and a partnership (commenda) contract (sheṭar al-muḍāraba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …
List of communal accounts, some of which are dated Pesaḥ 5554 AM (April 1794 CE) on the recto. Requires further examination. MCD.
IB V, 37, folio 10v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer lemon and …
2 תעתוקים
Karaite debt acknowledgment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 9 Kislev 5516 AM (1755 CE). Location: the home of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen aka Shāmī (presumably in Cairo …
Probably a legal query and responsum mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with business matters. Almost all the names are anonymized ("fulān"). Mentions counterfeit promissory notes (wa-l-ḥujaj …
Small fragment of Arabic document, maybe official.
Upper end of a large deed of sale in Arabic script, in which a Christian, Yuḥannas b. Andūna b. Qusṭanṭīn b. Basnada(?), sells 1 and …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Fustat, to his cousin Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen, in a smaller town, in which the writer refers to the …
Receipt of payment beginning with a basmala. Needs examination.
Small scrap with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic: אלמוצע . . . ען אליתומ[ים] . . . תלמוד. Probably literary but could be documentary.
Fragment of a bifolio containing a letter or legal declaration in Judaeo-Arabic. It has to do with asserting the rights of a muqaddam (Jewish communal …
Receipt of rent. In Arabic script. A receipt of rent for a warehouse or shop (ḥānūt) paid by Badr al-Dīn al-Jābī to Faraj Allāh al-Yahūdī …
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Khafar bt. Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (סת אלכפר). Groom: [...] b. Avraham. Dated 14[.]8 (= 11[.]6–7 CE). Location: Fusṭāṭ. In the …
דיון אחד
BL OR 5563D.17 and BL OR 5563D.18 consist of three pages from a treatise on shehitah, probably in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. …
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). One of the parties is Abu Sa'd.
Very damaged fragment of a legal document