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  1. 1

    LetterT-S Ar.39.57

    Petition from a certain Manṣūr to an unidentified addressee (though Goitein assumed that "Sayyidnā" meant "the Nagid"). In Arabic script. The sender is a poor …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. المملوك
    3. منصور
    4. يقبل الارض وينهي انه رجل صعلوك
    5. وهو في شدة من العايل والقلة والدين
    6. وانا في ستر في هذه الوقت ووصل السكين
    7. للعظم وم…

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    Legal documentT-S AS 202.364

    Unidentified, the text is rubbed and only few words can be read. It opens with a date, but the year is unclear. At the bottom …

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    LetterT-S NS J84

    Alexandria; Probably about 1143-1145 ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq sends Ḥalfon a short greeting for Purim. Abu Al-Ma'ali wanted to help Abu Al-Fakhr, the son of Ḥalfon’s …

    1. שאכר תפצלהא
    2. עמרם ביר'
    3. בשמך רחמ יצחק ̇נ̇ע
    4. אללה ̇ת̇ע למען שמו יגעל הדא
    5. אלפורים ישועה ונסים עלי
    6. הדרת יקרת תפארת כבוד ג̇ד
    7. ק̇ד מ̇ר̇נ ור̇ב̇נ חלפון השר

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  4. 4

    Unknown typeYevr. II K 37

    Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The text is too faded

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    Unknown typeENA NS 79.28

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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    Paraliterary textT-S K1.140

    Amulet to protect Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen gaʾon b. Shelomo gaʾon (1127–39 CE), destroy his political enemies, and succeed before the government. (Information from CUDL)

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    LetterCUL Or.1080 J82

    Document in Arabic script, in a calligraphic hand, without wide space between the lines. Likely a letter. Five lines are preserved, but they are very …

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    LetterT-S AS 200.374

    Business letter from [...] b. Yeḥezqel. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions indigo (nīl) and bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and a merchant named Yiṣḥaq.

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    Legal documentENA 2087.13

    On recto a commentary responsa to Bavli Zevahim 118a. On verso a responsa on Bavli Nedarim 32b. Probably Geonic. AA

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    List or tableT-S AS 209.269

    Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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    List or tableT-S NS 34.154

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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    Legal documentJRL SERIES B 2078

    Fragment of an illuminated late marriage document.

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    LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1143

    Letter draft from an unknown man in Egypt to Marzūq Chelebi (? גלבי) in Damascus. Both writer and addressee are Qaraites. The latter is greeted …

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    List or tableENA 3729.7

    List, commercial (FGP)

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    Legal documentT-S AS 152.109

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). Probably a debt contract. (Information in part from CUDL)

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    LetterT-S NS J426

    Mercantile letter, possibly sent from Aden to India. Reports that Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥalābū(?) was in a shipwreck at Dahlak, near ʿAydhāb, and that …

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    1. ] . . . . אלבראה אן שא אללה . . . . אקי צחבה . . . .
    2. ] ולא תאכד עלי עבדהא פי תאכרהם פוחק דין ישראל אן
    3. אד וצלני אלכתאב לם אלבת בל תאני יום וצול…

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    Unknown typeENA NS 83.32

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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    Paraliterary textT-S 8J34.3

    Copy of the Megillat Miṣrayim (an account of attacks on the Jews of Fusṭāṭ in 1011-1012 CE). (Information from CUDL.)

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    List or tableMoss. IV,49.1

    Notes about business or debts. Names Khallūf b. Yaʿaqov; then the agent (wakīl) Isḥāq b. Sha'ul and the one who appointed him as agent (muwakkil) …

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    List or tableT-S NS 264.54

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, giving names and how much each person owes. The naems include Ḥannā b. Najjār, Manṣūr al-ʿAbasni (?), ʿAlī al-Anṭālī (?), and Abū …

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  21. 21

    Unknown typeENA NS 85.243

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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    Legal documentT-S NS 305.207

    Torn legal document in Arabic - needs examination.

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    Legal documentT-S 8J20.33

    Legal document concerning financial matters, signed by Joseph Benjamin, and mentioning Judah Bunan and Joseph’s son Nissim. Dated 5579 of the Era of Creation (= …

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    List or tableCUL Or.1080 J190

    Page of the account book of ʿArūs b. Yosef, containing accounts and a note about the beginning of a pregnancy, birth and weaning. (Information from …

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    1. כאנת טהרת אלחמל אלמבארך
    2. ד איאם מצת מן כסליו
    3. ערפנא אללה ברכתה
    4. וכאן אלמילאד יום אלתלאתה ליב
    5. מצת מן רגב או אלול וכאן
    6. אתפקת באכד . .ל. .
    7. חומר ט…

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    Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. IV,58.1

    Order of payment in dirhams. Verso contains Arabic jottings. (Information from CUDL)

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    Legal documentT-S Ar.42.140

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. أقر بو سعد بن هبة الله الاسرائلي التاجـ[ـر (؟) واشهد على نفسه في صحة منه وجواز امر من] 
    3. غير قهر ولا جـ[ـبر ولا اكراه ول…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
    2. Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh the Jewish trad[er] acknowledged [and testified, in sound health an…

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    Legal documentT-S NS 99.11

    Probably a fragment of a legal testimony. "The shaykh also came. . . and declared. . ." something to do with the Palestinian Synagogue and …

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    State documentT-S AS 177.199

    Original use: One line probably from a state document (decree?): ليجري على عادته من ذلك بالطريق ال . . . .

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    Unknown typeENA NS 85.282

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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    Literary textENA 3961.1

    Opening of a medical treatise. In Arabic.

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    Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J186

    Remarriage contract of a bride who had been both widowed and divorced in which she receives a house, but no trousseau. Dated 1180-1191. (Information from …

    1. תשלום עשרה דינארי דדהבא מ[. . .] טאבי מעל[יי
    2. אלתי בפסטאט מצר בקצר אלשמע אלמקאבלה ללכביצה [
    3. ותוספתא ונדוניא עשרה דינארי דדהבא . . . . . .[
    4. דמגבא לה מ…

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    LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/21

    Letter from a mother in Aden to her son in Egypt.

    1. בעד
    2. מן אלואלדה אלעזיזה תכץ חצרה אלולד אלעזיז אלמופק ופקה אלל : תע
    3. ואנא בטול בקאה וסהל סרעה לקאה עלי אסר חאל ואנעם
    4. באל במנה וכרמה ותנהי וצול כטך אלכר…

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    LetterBL OR 4856.1

    Recto: Hebrew letter of appeal from the old, poor man Yosef b. Elazar ha-Kohen to Avraham ha-Sar b. Elazar. The body of the letter occupies …

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    Unknown typeENA NS 85.510

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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    Legal documentMIAC 147

    Bill – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 147) – in English. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / …

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    LetterENA NS 58.4

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The story is interesting but very fragmented. Refers to a girl (ṣabiyya), probably the sender's sister-in-law, who behaves erratically …

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    List or tableNLI 577.5/21

    List of garments and textiles, probably unrelated to recto, also in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu who signs his name at the bottom. The …

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    Literary textT-S AS 169.145

    Query and answer about capital punishment.

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    LetterT-S AS 146.125

    End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Seeking guidance from a higher authority. (Information in part from CUDL)

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    Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 27/87

    Legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: last decade of Elul 5500 = September 1740 CE. Involving the division of profits between the three partners Avraham Serrano, …

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    Legal documentT-S 10J2.7

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 16 Sivan 1430 Seleucid, which is 28 May 1119 CE. …

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    List or tableENA 1822a.42

    Account probably concerning an inheritance or a dowry. (Information from Goitein's index cards

    1. א . .אאלפצה אלע[. .]. . .ה פ נצף
    2. [[ עצאבה דהב [. .]ע.ר ז פי דינר]]
    3. כירץ דהב כב[א]ר פי יצצוף דינאר
    4. [[ נארנס דהבי [ל]כורץ נצף]]
    5. פרד אשפ[א]ר נצף
    6. . . . …

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    Literary textYevr. II A 2852

    A long text, probably contains moral guidance.

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    Legal documentYevr. II K 10

    A Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Aharon b. Binyamin Halevi and the bride is Esther b. Avraham the physician. AA

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    Paraliterary textBL OR 5544.10

    Document containing phrases of praise. No orderly arrangement. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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    LetterT-S 13J9.18

    Letter from a woman named Raḥla Naʿmīṣ, dated Shevaṭ 162 (= 5562) of the Era of Creation (= 1802 CE). (Information from CUDL)

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    Legal documentJRL SERIES A 889

    Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic …

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    Unknown typeJRL SERIES C 138

    Awaiting description. (This folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.)

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    Legal documentT-S NS 172.15

    Legal document draft. The undersigned witnesses attest to the appearance of a certain Yahuda ha-Kohen before a rabbinic court. The draft was left incomplete in …

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    State documentT-S Ar.35.55

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Same …

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