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LetterT-S 28.10
Letter to a Nagid, informing him of various matters in the community, and complaining about the general state of its decline. Mentions individuals such as …
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LetterENA NS I.62
Recto: Letter of appeal from a woman who "is among the captives from Palestine." Dating: both Goitein and Gil date this document to the early …
- כה אמר ייי שמרו משפט ועשו [צדקה
- כי קרובה ישועתי לבוא וצדקתי להגלות
- אשרי שומרי משפט עשה צדקה ב ע
- אעלם אלגמאעה אלמקדסה זאד אלל[ה
- פי גלאלתהא אנני אמ[…
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LetterT-S 13J23.2
Letter from Efrayim b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1070 CE. The writer owns several apartments in Alexandria and …
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וצל כתאב מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה נטרוהי מן שמיא וגברוהי למזלי ווקפת עליה ושכרת אללה
גל אסמה עלי מא תצמנה מן עלם סלאמתה וסאלתה אדאמתה…
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List or tableAIU XII.34
Enigmatic table with entries in Arabic. Needs further examination.
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Legal documentT-S 8J6.15
Legal document in which a paternal cousin of a man’s wife renounces his inheritance rights on one-fourth of a house belonging to her against ten …
- שהדת מע ר יוסף יום אלא כאמס טבת
- שנת אתקנד עלי אלשיך אבו נצר אלעטאר
- ידיע באבן כלף חואגב אנה אן תופית זוגתה
- בנת אלמצן פי עצמתה יכון ללשיך אלמכרם
- אלכהן…
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List or tableT-S NS J564
Accounts (or grocery list or recipe) in Arabic script. Mentions items such as gum (ṣamgh), salt, and pepper, and their quantities underneath. Reused for Hebrew …
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LetterT-S 6J4.23
Letter referring to a courtier, ‘the honoured Sar’. Neatly and closely written. Mentions Abū Khayr Efrayim b. Yeshaʿyahu. The letter is written both in the …
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Legal documentT-S AS 153.429
Legal document, probably relating to a marriage, mentioning a menora and dinars. (Information from CUDL)
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LetterJRL SERIES B 2878
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes …
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Unknown typeENA NS 76.282
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Unknown typeENA NS 76.594
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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State documentMoss. VIII,350.3-4
State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla.
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List or tableT-S 8J5.14
A, b, and c of this folded piece of paper contain List. 'Distribution of money and clothing,' superscribed 'The rest through Abu'l-Bayan' (the parnas). Since …
TS 8 J 5, f. 14a 1183
- אבו אלמגד אללבאן מקדר
- סרב אלמעתוקה גוכאניה
- ארמלה אבו אלימן גוכאניה
- בית בן אלרקוקי מקדר מחפוט
- מכארם בן סהלאן גוכאניה
- הבה בן פינ…
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Paraliterary textT-S NS 306.32
Recipes in Arabic script, maybe alchemical.
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LetterMoss. VII,188.3
Fragment of a begging letter addressed to Avraham Maimonides in the name of a poor, sick man.
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LetterT-S AS 224.165 + T-S AS 205.53 + T-S AS 205.64
See T-S AS 205.53.
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Legal documentT-S AS 162.148
On recto a legal deed written by Efraim b. Shemarya regarding Avraham b. Shemuel affair (see Goitein, Med. Soc. III, 293-295). Published by Bareket, The …
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Unknown typeENA NS 77.176
Fragment, 4 lines, very faded, only a few letters legible.
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State documentT-S NS 297.171
Receipt for the capitation tax for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb in Fustat. Dated: Looks like 551 AH, which would be 1156/57 CE if correct. See ENA …
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LetterENA 1822a.64
Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or New Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتابي الى الولد العزيز
- اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
- ونعماه ومن حسن التوفيق
- لا اخلاه وجمعنا واياه
- עלי אסר חאל במנה
- וכרמה וא…
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LetterT-S AS 39.271
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic. Verso: unidentified text, possibly in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.27
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to pay the bearer, Nissim the teacher, 6 dirhams for 6 weeks of …
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List or tableT-S NS 264.96
Possibly a fiscal account in Arabic script, reused for a Judaeo-Arabic list of items and quantities written between the lines.
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LetterENA NS I.6
Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had previously sent a …
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List or tableT-S NS 236.73
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions ʿAlī al-Qāhirī. Most of the text on this fragment is Hebrew piyyuṭ.
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Legal documentENA 2123.5
See PGP 15814
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List or tableT-S Ar.35.165
Table in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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List or tableAIU XII.59
Arabic writing exercises, probably the word "fī" hundreds of times.
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LetterT-S 13J24.8
Letter from Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Dating: 1141 CE. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ reports on quarrels and intrigues within the Alexandrian …
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- בשמ
- תאכדת אשואקי למולאי וסיידי אטאל
- אללה פי אלנעמה בקאה ואדאם עלוה
- וארתקאה וחבאה ווקאה ותאכרת
- אכבארה ען מנתצרהא גמע אללה בה
- עלי אלמרגוב אנה א…
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List or tableCUL Or.1081 J48
List of names (memorial list?)
- אברהם השר היקר החכם והנבון והנכבד הח(סיד)
- ושלשת חמודיו כקג מרור יעקב השר
- ואחיו אברהם השר היקר הקרוי אלקירואני
- ואחיו כגק מר יוסף הרב המובהק החסיד הח(…
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Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J142 + T-S Misc.25.53
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (1172 CE). Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū …
- תבת מא כלפה אלשיך אבו אלרצא אלטביב אלוי ואחתיט
- עליה ליתימה עמראן באמר הדרה אדוננו משה הרב
- הגדול יהי שמו לעולם יום אלכמיס אל יז מן ניסן אתפג
- ג סתור ד…
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List or tableBL OR 10126(1).15
Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic that express figures in western Arabic numerals. Dated 19 Kislev [54]97 or less likely 55[97]– so 1736CE or 1836CE. Some …
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LetterMoss. V,334.2
Fragment from the beginning of a petition written on behalf of a woman to a notable. Same hand as (but probably not a join with) …
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1415
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to two unknown addressees. Dated: Elul 1524 Seleucid = August/September 1213 CE. The writer requests a rapid response "to that which was …
- יחצר ויכרג ממא ילזמה פלתגתהדו
- פי דלך ותפעלו פיה חסב אלמשהור
- מן מרותכם ואלמעלום מן עטים
- נכותכם וירד גואבכם אלינא במא יחצל
- מן גואב אלמשאר אליה ובמא ית…
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Unknown typeENA NS 77.196
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Literary textT-S Ar.50.213
Story of Hārūn al-Rashīd. (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
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Legal documentT-S 16.221
Opening lines of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 1 Shevaṭ 4746 AM = 1297 Seleucid = 14 January 986. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Shelomo b. …
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LetterMoss. II,195
Letter. A Maghribi Karaite asks his wife in the most humble terms to come back to him in Cairo. Otherwise, he would marry a girl …
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- בשמ' רחמ'
- ישא ברכה מאת יי וג' שלום רב לאהבי תורתך
- חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלרייס אלאכמל
- אלפאצל אלבארע אלנביל אלסדיד פצל בן כלף
- אעזה…
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In Your name, oh Allmerciful.
He will receive blessing from the Lord [and vindication from the God of his salvation]. Plenty of peace have tho…
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List or tableT-S Ar.34.206
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Arranged in an extremely neat table on notebook paper. Dating: Late, probably 19th century.
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Legal documentT-S AS 153.347
Much damaged fragment from a ketubah.
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List or tableT-S AS 152.219
Accounts in an awkward script, mentioning amounts of currency (dinars) and names such as Yosef and Yesha'yahu. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal documentENA 3958.5
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 16 Rabīʿ I 911 AH, which is August 1505 CE. Starts with a basmala, authorizing a trade (bayʿ) of …
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List or tableT-S Ar.51.75
Inventory of the items from a dead man's estate that are in Alexandria, mainly books (two pages) and various household items (last page). In Judaeo-Arabic …
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List or tableT-S AS 181.248
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, late.
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List or tableT-S AS 184.160
Account, unclear if private or official. Written on a tall, very narrow sheet of paper, which became standard practice around the Ayyubid period. May mention …
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LetterENA 4011.10
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender cites his debts in Fustat as an excuse for his delay. Refers to Abū Zikrī ha-Kohen (perhaps the well-known trader …
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State documentT-S NS 297.301
One side has the beginning of a letter written in Arabic script in a hasty scrawl. The other side has, in large letters in a …
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J5
Letter sent by a physician from Qalyub, who had opened an office in Fustat, inviting his wife (who is his paternal cousin) to join him …
- בה
- אללה הו אלעאלם אן קלבי מתאלם למא אסמע
- ען מרץ עיניך פהו אלשאהד לו אמכנני
- אלחצור אליך לאנצר אחואל עיניך לכנת אפעל
- אלא אן הו אלעאלם קדר מא נחן פיה מ…
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Legal documentT-S 6J2.28 + T-S 10J5.18
Legal document concerning a dispute over a book given as a deposit. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Written in Fusṭāṭ but also mentions …
- חסיד בד[ורו] מנחותו כבוד אנהי אל|ינא חאל עמראן בן מ יוסף אלברקי נע אנה
- מאוף אלעקל פקיר לא חאל לה וצל | [. . . .] אלאסכנדריה מצחף ודיעה ענד מ נסים
- בר…
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List or tableJRL SERIES C 12
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: 18th or 19th century. Written across four column on a large sheet of paper. There is a …
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