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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal document, mentioning Yehoshuaʿ the Parnas, a dispute between siblings over an inheritance, and Ḥalfon. Signed by Berakhot b. Peraḥya, Shela b. Yefet and Yiṣḥaq …
אין רשומות קשורות
Pen trials and jottings in Arabic and Hebrew.
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Verso: Two damaged lines of text in Arabic, perhaps documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, conveying gratitude to various people, the ships of the westerners (? marākib al-gharbiyya), and 100 dinars. …
Letter sent from a village to the capital asking for news and discussing shipments as well as what appear to be seasonal laborers. Probably from …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Amulet or talisman, in Arabic script. The handwriting looks childish, but the Bodl. catalag suggests it originates from West Africa.
Letter from a teacher to a certain Moshe informing him that his son, Abū Saʿīd, read his Torah portion with a translation (tafsīr; likely refers …
Mercantile letter addressed to Abū ʿUmar al-Arjawānī, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Mentions purple (arjawān) textiles. Reused for Hebrew writing exercises. Needs further examination.
Minute fragment of a legal document: שטרי . . . דלא כאסמכתא. . .
Legal document, minute fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Letter to the elder Yosef b. Abū l-Karīm. (Information from CUDL)
Two lines from an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the people of Giza, and the making of tawābīt, probably a reference to coffins? Reused …
Legal document in Arabic script, iqrār (acknowledgment) of a debt. "Aqarra Yūsuf b. Yaḥyā b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī al-rabbān al-ṣāniʿ ʿurifa bi-l-Qudsī iqrāran sharʿīyan" Later in …
Legal document concerning a dispute over a book given as a deposit. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Written in Fusṭāṭ …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
תעתוק אחד
Poems, probably. In Arabic script. There are also a couple lines of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to 'Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef, in Fustat. Gil identifies the author of the letter by his handwriting. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Account of what Abū Saʿīd has collected. Rudimentary handwriting.
Business letter sent from Tripoli, Lebanon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions terrible economic depression in the Levant and asks the addressee to send …
Recto: Incomplete legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides, with the title "Nagid," thus post-1213 CE. concerning a partnership in a moneychanging shop. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand …
Fragment of a Torah codex. In the space between columns at the binding, the name Hillel b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal Resh Kalla appears.
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: ʿAmmār b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Surūr bt. Yefet. A sum of 12.5 dinars is mentioned. The dowry is valued at …
דיון אחד
Letter from Farah b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl, in Fustat. Dating: October 1056 CE. The letter has another fragment (T-S …
IB III, 12. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in India, probably from 1146. Corrected copy of IB III,13-14 (T-S …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal opinion of Eli ha-haver b. 'Amram regarding the estate of Shelomo b. Yefet. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 255, 483, 280.) See also …
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions 20,000 irdab of wheat. A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the …
Lower fragment: Possibly an address of a letter. To Yehuda b. Peraḥya (Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva Rosh ha-Nedivim) b. Ḥalfon. On the other side, there is a …
Recto: End of a letter in Arabic script (this text is from the right margin, with some of the beginnings of the lines of the …
Letter addressed to two people. In Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. The names should be legible, …
Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) …
Karaite agreement regarding a partnership in rural cheese production (אלגבן אלריפי) mentioning the specific type(s) "אלכשכבאן אלכזין". Dated 22 Heshvan 5515 AM (1754 CE). The …
Minute fragment from the top of a ketubba. Only a few words from the ornamental header have survived. There are also jottings in small Arabic …
Fragment of a private letter reporting the death of an individual named Najm al-Dawla (probably a state official based on the title), followed by conventional …
Legal document, fragment. Dating: ca. 1020 CE. Muʾammala bt. Shemuel b. Menashshe b. Avraham al-Qazzaz releases her sister Mulūk and other relatives (probably her sister's …
Magical spell involving a scorpion, somebody's hair, and the invocation "Ehye Asher Ehye."
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. The glyph appears at the top. The hand is skilled and the margins are large, and there is a taqbīl …
Two different letters in Arabic script, one on recto and on verso. The one on verso may be a petition. Needs examination for content.
Accounts in Ladino, highly detailed. "France" is possibly mentioned at the top of the left column on the recto. Requires further examination.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-third and …
Secondary use: Rabbinica; discussion of various topics relevant to BT Bava Batra, ch. 9; with extensive Judaeo-Arabic marginalia, citing Hai Gaon. (Information in part from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in several locations according to the Islamic calendar, probably in the year 968 AH (חסץ) but this alphanumerical designation is backwards …
Probably a medical recipe or prescription in Arabic (yuʾkhadh. . . )
Small fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.