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  1. 1LetterT-S 13J27.19

    Letter mentioning Damascus and possibly Ramla (though Goitein subsequently read this word differently). Very faded. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)

    1. יא סידי יא מול[אי] . . . . . . . . . . . . . אדאם עזך
    2. ותאידך מן אללה . . . . . . . . שר . . . . סלאמה
    3. ועאפיה . . . . . . . . .
    4. אללה עז וגל . . . . .…

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  2. 2Legal documentT-S AS 152.269 + T-S AS 152.236

    Recto: Hebrew document, probably in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. (Information from CUDL.)

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  3. 3List or tableT-S NS J221

    Communal records, perhaps defective, consisting in payments to specified persons (all in promissory notes, ruq'a), to three officials, for bread, and for the transport of …

    1. ומן אלשיך אלתקה בחצרה סיידנא ירום הודו
    2. יום אלג' אלתאלת עשר מן תשרי אתקלא לש' והו רגב
    3. כח ור
    4. אלמצרוף חמל גריד ביד אלשמש לעטיה
    5. ג דרא'
    6. לאלמאירקי ברקעה
    7. ג…

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  4. 4Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.1v–2r

    Legal record (#1). Partnership dispute. Involving the partners Abū l-Ḥasan Nānū al-Tājir and Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm. Abū l-Ḥasan presented a document stating that Yaʿqūb owes …

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  5. 5List or tableT-S AS 181.197

    Accounts.

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  6. 6Unknown typeENA NS 79.71

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  7. 7Unknown typeENA NS 77.15

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  8. 8LetterENA NS 83.337.1

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The whole folio is preserved, but the text is too faded to read.

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  9. 9LetterT-S AS 146.331

    Letter fragment (part of the right of recto, part of the right of verso). The remaining text on recto is almost all formulaic. On verso, …

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  10. 10Legal documentT-S AS 146.22

    Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Some legible bits: ḥaḍrat sayyidnā al-sharīf(?) al-[...] al-mukhliṣ [...] al-mulk; someone renting something from someone; New Cairo; trade (tijāra); …

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  11. 11InscriptionS 727d

    Wooden fragment of a panel that once decorated the interior of the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Translation: "...[I will bow down] toward Your holy Sanctuary in …

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  12. 12Unknown typeENA NS 76.354

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  13. 13Unknown typeT-S NS 34.86

    Accounts or a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions thawbs and sending things. Small fragment.

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  14. 14LetterT-S 13J17.3

    Letter from Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl al-Jawharī, Alexandria, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal.

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    1. כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם איאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ליומין בקין
    2. מן א'י'א'ר' כתמה אללה עלי מולאי אלשיך באחסן כאתמה ואסעדה פי סאי…

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    1. מכתבי אליך, אדוני הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את ימי שלומך ואושרך, בכ׳׳ח
    2. באייר, יחתום אותו אלוהים לך אדוני במיטב חותמו וייתן לך…

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  15. 15Legal documentT-S AS 151.298

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Elul 1437 Seleucid = August/September 1126 CE. (The signing of the document was delayed by …

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  16. 16Unknown typeENA NS 79.232

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  17. 17LetterMoss. II,155.1

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Nissim, the arrival of the Kohen, and [Isḥā?]q al-Qābisī.

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  18. 18State documentT-S AS 176.138

    Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] in Fustat.

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  19. 19Literary textT-S NS 133.24

    Hebrew composition(s) in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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  20. 20Unknown typeENA NS 79.225

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  21. 21LetterT-S 16.186

    In the form of a legal document (see lines 3-4), a fragment of a petition to a Nagid from a small town, signed by twenty-six …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . נא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]פה טאע[ . . . . . . ] דא [ . . . . . . . .…

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  22. 22LetterT-S 13J27.21

    Recto: letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. He asks the addressee to a sell …

    1. וצל כתאבכם תבת אללה סעדכם
    2. ולא עדמני תפצלכם ואלדי
    3. תרידו עלמה אני עלי גמלה
    4. אלסלאמה ואלעאפיה ל[א] אעד[ם]
    5. גיר נצרכם פאללה לא יכליני
    6. מנכם ואמא גיר דא פאע…

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  23. 23LetterT-S AS 201.348

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand, probably late. Mentions the arrival of a ship. The sender is preoccupied about a lock.

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  24. 24LetterT-S AS 145.373

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions items the sender found in the house but was afraid to 'come up' (probably to Fustat) with them. Then mentions "I/she …

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  25. 25Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1572

    Long Karaite agreement regarding dwelling, probably following divorce. The top right side of the document is torn. Dated 5439 Era of creation (1679)

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  26. 26Legal documentT-S NS J284

    Will. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. "No wailing women; and of garments in which I shall be buried, no more than these: two …

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  27. 27LetterT-S NS 163.48

    Recto: Fragment from the beginning of a personal letter in Arabic script. Crossed out. Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "O you whose slave I am: …

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  28. 28Unknown typeENA NS 85.1292

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  29. 29Unknown typeENA NS 79.35

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  30. 30Literary textENA 3496.9

    Prayer, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic/blocky hand.

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  31. 31List or tableENA 1822a.83a + ENA NS 39.2 + ENA 1822a.82 + ENA 1822a.83 + ENA NS 27.7

    ENA 1822a.83a: Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated in one recto entry as 8 Tevet [54]92 or 6 January 1732CE. On the recto …

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  32. 32Paraliterary textBodl. MS heb. b 12/21

    Colophon of a book or scroll. Includes a detailed ownership/acquisition note in Judaeo-Arabic, and underneath in a different hand a dedication to the waqf of …

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  33. 33Literary textT-S Ar.39.258

    Arabic poetry and/or sayings. Includes "ليس المقام بدار الذل من شيمي ولا معاشرة الأنذال من هممي," which can also be found in T-S Ar.30.134 and …

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  34. 34List or tableT-S NS 324.95

    Late list of payment

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S AS 209.357

    A narrow strip probably from a dowry list in a ketubah.

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  36. 36List or tableT-S AS 207.23

    Writing exercises in both Hebrew and Arabic script, with a fascinating array of drafts and calligraphic practice across both languages. The ink and penstrokes appear …

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  37. 37Literary textJRL SERIES B 2673

    Genesis.

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  38. 38Paraliterary textT-S Ar.30.45

    The remnants of 8 pages of magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic; only the parts closes to the central crease/binding have survived. ASE.

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  39. 39State documentJRL SERIES A 346

    State document, one isolated line with abusive ligatures, in Arabic script. Reused in Hebrew on recto and verso.

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  40. 40Legal documentENA 2557.148

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Kislev 1390 Seleucid = 26 November 1078 CE. Ghālib b. Avraham comes before the court with a power …

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  41. 41List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1696/1

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century.

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  42. 42Paraliterary textMoss. Ia,26.2

    India Book III, 59: Magical text copied by Ibn Yiju, probably in Yemen around 1135. The text begins with a magical square (cf. sudoku) of …

    III, 59

    [ח] [א] [ו]

    1. [ג] [ה] ז
    2. ד ט ב
    3. [הוציאה מ[מסגר נפשי להודות את שמיך בי יכתירו [צדיקים כי תגמול עלי]
    4. אחר לעינא בישתא בשם אל חולים ויסיר מן [פ'ב'פ'…

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  43. 43Legal documentT-S NS 320.141

    Recto: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 17 [...] 1359 Seleucid, which is 1047/48 CE. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Certifying that [...] b. Khalaf ha-Levi has …

    T-S NS 320.141 recto

    1. ]ליומין ארבעה דר'
    2. ]ייה מן ענדהא אצלאה
    3. ]לם וגירה סתה ד[ר]
    4. ]ופתחת דוכאן יעראפו
    5. ] חק נגאר ארבעה דר' ונצף
    6. ]ק //ונגאר\\ דר' ורבע ומא…

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    1. …for two days, 4 dir. 

    2. …. from him, originally 

    3. .... and other (things), 6 dir. 

    4. …. and (she) opened a shop, they are known 

    5. …. owed …

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  44. 44State documentT-S AS 177.262

    State document, in Arabic script. Original use: Decree, of which only the phrase "amīr al-muʾminīn is preserved." The document is reused for a internal state …

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  45. 45Legal documentT-S AS 146.129

    Document regarding a house and piece of land. Dating: ca. 1590s. Names: Yosef Mushodo b. Ya'aqov, Yosef Sulti, Mas'ud. Signed by Moshe Ajiman. AA

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  46. 46List or tableT-S AS 145.37

    Recto: inventory of books "belonging to me in Qalyūb." Refers to the compositions of Rabbenu Moshe, so dating to no earlier than 1204 CE. Verso: …

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  47. 47Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1051

    Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …

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  48. 48Legal documentENA 2738.11 + ENA 2738.4

    Recto (secondary use): Power of attorney (שטר אורכתא) in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. A certain Yaʿaqov appoints Abū Saʿd b. Zandabūr(?) ... al-ʿAmmānī …

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  49. 49LetterT-S 13J9.1

    Letter from Yehizkiyahu b. David, the Head of the Exile, to an unknown person. Dated: Tammuz 1347 Seleucid = June/July 1036 CE. The sender asks …

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    1. [                                                                          שאו שלום] גדול ממנו ומן דויד חמודנר [ומראשי]
    2. [שתי] הישיבות [ומ]כל ה…

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  50. 50Literary textT-S AS 183.131

    Folio from a book of astrological prognostications in Arabic script. Mentioning things such as Palestinian oil and soap, lightning, and the Byzantine emperor.

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