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  1. 1Literary textBL OR 5563H.37

    Magical instructions and diagrams in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  2. 2Legal documentBL OR 12299.19

    Bill of divorce for Bayān b. Abu l-[...] and [...] bt. Sedaqa. Dated: 145[.] Seleucid = 1138–48 CE. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver and Mevorakh …

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  3. 3LetterT-S AS 153.138

    End of a letter from 'your brother Avraham Perdonel.' Late. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  4. 4LetterJRL B 8330

    Recto is probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is accounts in a different hand, where the word רסם recurs ın almost every entry.

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  5. 5LetterT-S NS 320.53

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The first line includes a name: Abū Yaʿqūb [...]. The second line is a basmala, and …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحـ[ـيم
    2. اسل حضرة مولاي الحزان ايد الله نعماه[
    3. لنا الله عزه وهو حجة بثمن النصف من الجـ[ـملة
    4. اربعة وخمسين دينارا وربع و سبعة و…

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  6. 6List or tableT-S NS 324.127

    List of commodities and quantities. Mainly textiles and jewelry. Part of a dowry evaluation? (Information in part from FGP.)

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  7. 7Legal documentT-S 16.2

    Ketubba for Mubāraka bt. Binyamin (מבארכה) and [...] b. Aharon. Witnessed by Yosef b. Shemuel, Shelomo b. Yosef, Avraham b. Menaḥem, ʿEli b. David, Yehuyda …

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  8. 8List or tableT-S AS 171.127

    Fragment of a business account, or possibly letter, mentioning a partnership between an amīr and Yeshuʿa. Mentions the term barqalū (mid-sized bale).

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  9. 9LetterENA 2739.16

    Letter from Khalfa to his 'brother' (brother-in-law?) Mūsā b. Sāmiḥ, in Cairo. Concerning various family matters. (1) No answer to letters. (2) Abū l-Faḍl came …

    In [Your name!]

    Just is the Lord in all his ways, etc. (Psalms 145:17)

    The righteous man has gone, etc. (Isaiah 57:1)

    Comfort, comfort my people, etc…

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  10. 10Unknown typeENA NS 85.1476

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S Ar.49.35

    Legal fragment (lower right corner). Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves a man named Namir known as al-Ḥakham(?) …

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  12. 12LetterJTS MS 8254.14

    Letter by Moshe Maimonides. A copy. Following the responsum, there is a copy of Maimonides' letter to Pineḥas ha-Dayyan of Alexandria. (Information from Amir Ashur …

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  13. 13List or tableT-S AS 186.97

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Crude hand. Mentions MKRM; Asʿad; a khirqa; a garment. Cf. T-S AS 186.97 (PGPID 39928).

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  14. 14LetterT-S 8J7.1

    Short letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva ("the head of the (Palestinian) Academy") to an unknown recipient (called only Rabbenu). In Judaeo-Arabic. Acknowledging the …

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  15. 15Legal documentCUL Add.3124a

    Ketubba according to the Egyptian rite. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Nisan 1606 Seleucid = 31 March 1295 CE. Groom: Elʿazar b. Avraham (s't). Bride: Sara …

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  16. 16LetterT-S NS 190.131

    Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very damaged. Mentions kohl.

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  17. 17Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. V,337.1

    An order for various amounts of bread, oil, wood, lemon and cheese. On a small piece of parchment. (Information from CUDL.)

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  18. 18Legal documentT-S Ar.38.98

    Deed of release. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th century. Abū Naṣr b. ʿAṭiyya the Jew, formerly a broker dealing with drugs in Fustat (see …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى
    2. اقر ابو نصر بن عطية اليهودى الدلال على العطر كان بمصر وهو يومئذ غلام امرد لا …
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone, he  is sufficient, and peace be upon his servants, whom he has chosen. …

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  19. 19Literary textJRL B 2391 + JRL B 2394

    Late literary fragment in orange/faded red ink.

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  20. 20LetterMoss. IV,31.1

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 12th or early 13th century. The sender asks the addressee's forgiveness. Mentions his father. On verso …

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S 8J11.21

    Legal document concerning inheritance issues of the late Jamīla al-Musulmāniyya, mother of Avraham and Eliyyahu Levi, who had converted to Islam and married Ḥasan al-Sharqāwī …

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    1. אן נחן אלאצ'עין אסמאנא פי .אדנה(?) נשהד ונתערפ בכ'צוץ אל
    2. מתוופי כ'דר פאלומבה זוג אלמתוופייא גמילה אל מסלמאנייה
    3. ואלדת אלמע׳ אב׳ אלצראפ [[אנהו ה…

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  22. 22LetterT-S 8.11

    Letter from the muqaddam of Malij, congratulating R. Aharon ha-Qarawi (or: "who is called") Abu l-Ḥasan on God's miracles and Aharon's deliverance from wicked people. …

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  23. 23List or tableT-S AS 147.248

    Trousseau list in connection with a ketubba, mentioning items such as kerchiefs (mandīl) and cushions (makhādd) and quantities of dinar. Seems to be written by …

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  24. 24State documentT-S NS 243.75a

    Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there.Reused for piyyuṭ. This one reads: 2/3 + 1/4 dinars; [In the …

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    1. ثلثان وربع دينار
    2. برمهات
    3. ثلثة دنا[نير
    4. وسدس
    5. من ذلك

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  25. 25LetterT-S NS 164.174

    Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of recommendation for charity in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides.

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  26. 26LetterT-S 6J3.14

    Letter containing good wishes. Written with the layout of an official/communal letter: narrow page, moderately wide space between the lines, and an ʿalāma (motto) at …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . ב]ריתו
    2. ע]מו בקרוב ואנחנו שמיחים
    3. ש]לום לכבוד גדולת קדושת מרנא
    4. חלפון הנדיב סגולת הנשיאות ראש הקהל יברכהו וישמרהו
    5. ויתן שלום לכבוד ג…

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  27. 27LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/7

    Letter addressed to Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's letter arrived concerning the litigation involving Maʿālī b. Natan. The next part of …

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  28. 28Legal documentT-S AS 150.235

    Damaged and torn, only a few words remain, but seems to be from a ketubbah. AA

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  29. 29State documentT-S NS 136.22

    Fragment of an Arabic (fiscal?) document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides.

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  30. 30LetterT-S AS 177.599

    Informal note from Abū l-Faraj. In Arabic script. He complains about his illness and inability to go out (on account of the jāliya?). He asks …

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  31. 31LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/20

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Berakhot (b. Shemuel). Expressing thanks to the poet Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo for his “sweet poems and …

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  32. 32LetterT-S J3.3

    Pages from a manual of writing letters.

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  33. 33LetterT-S NS 322.101

    Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. See neighboring fragments. T-S NS 322.101–17 all …

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  34. 34Literary textENA NS 83.33

    Arabic, literary. Poetry.

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  35. 35LetterJRL B 3688

    Fragment of a letter to a Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. Mentioning something that arrived from Damascus; something the writer sent with Yaʿqūb; Rabbenu …

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    1. ] . . י אלמולוי אלדאוודי . . [
    2. ] פי הדה אלאיאם פאללה תעא
    3. ]ן כדמתה וואצלנא הדה
    4. ]רה מן דמשק וקד סירתהא
    5. ] ואלמזונות קד ס[. . . .]א
    6. ע]לי יד יעקוב …

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  36. 36List or tableT-S AS 185.201

    Large cluster of writing exercises, probably from a student's notebook. 7 folios. Dating is probably 18th or 19th-century based on the paleography of the model …

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  37. 37State documentENA 2878.4

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Probably fiscal, concerning amounts of produce (e.g., بان عنده ستين اربد غلة four lines from the bottom). Dating: likely Fatimid, …

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  38. 38Legal documentT-S AS 155.197

    Recto: legal document mentioning [Abū?] Ṭayyib. Verso: possibly a letter, written in a different hand. Very faded. (Information mainly from CUDL)

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  39. 39List or tableJRL B 2465

    Recto: Probably a fragment of an account in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Hebrew jottings.

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  40. 40Legal documentJRL A 916

    Legal document, a שטר סילוק (bill of release of a debt) per FGP, involving Avraham Malkhi (מלכי) and his (ex?)-wife Esther. Mentioning שעבוד כתובה Hebrew. …

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  41. 41Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 184.184

    Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, maybe an order or receipt. At upper right a number appears. The text begins with the name …

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  42. 42List or tableJRL C 89 + JRL C 74

    Accounts in Ladino with a wide variety of detailed entries, which based on the numerical flow may be monetary gains and some expenses. At the …

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  43. 43Legal documentENA 972.6

    Bill of divorce. Dated: 7th Tishrei 1421 Seleucid, which is September 1109 CE. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. Husband: Ḥasan b. …

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  44. 44LetterENA NS 28.22

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Needs examination.

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  45. 45Unknown typeENA NS 85.269

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  46. 46Paraliterary textENA 2556.13

    Ownership note on a codex - the name is Ḥasan b. Mūsā.

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  47. 47Unknown typeENA NS 85.236

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  48. 48Unknown typeENA NS 78.92

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  49. 49List or tableJRL C 42

    Accounts in Arabic dated on the verso's heading as Jumada I[ or perhaps II?] of the year 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. The structure …

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  50. 50LetterMIAC 131

    Group letter occasionally explaining commercial conditions – 1923CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 131) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …

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