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  1. 1State documentT-S AS 180.120

    Fiscal account, probably.

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  2. 2LetterT-S AS 149.142

    Letter addressed to Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue. This is a well known figure mentioned in documents from ca. 1180–91; …

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  3. 3LetterT-S AS 146.361

    Letter, of which only the address is preserved: "to Moshe the judge" (אלי מושב הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרנו ורבנו משה הדיין המופלא). (Information mainly …

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  4. 4List or tableT-S Ar.30.269

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks old, maybe 11th century.

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  5. 5Legal documentT-S 16.23 + T-S AS 166.95

    Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. These two fragments are part of single document containing a …

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    1. בין בדיני ישראל בין בנימוסי אומות העולם אד לם יבק לנא ענדה ולא פי גהת[ה ...]
    2. פי גמיע מא סלף בינה ובין מר ור שלה מורתנא נע חק מן גמיע…

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    1. whether in Jewish law or gentile law, since nothing remains for us with him, nor to [his] credit […]
    2. in all that which proceeded bet…

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  6. 6LetterT-S 13J21.5

    Letter from Avraham b. Rav Shelomo the Yemeni, in Jerusalem, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Written not long after T-S 8J16.3 (same sender, same …

    1. תקתי באללה וחדה אלממלוך אלא/צ/גר אברהם
    2. בירבי שלמה הרב זצל
    3. יוקבל ידיי אלמולי אלרייס אלסייד אלפאצל אלעאלם
    4. אלורע אלאדיב אללביב אדאם אללה מעאליה ושרף
    5. מס…

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  7. 7Legal documentJRL SERIES B 4143

    Bottom of a deed of release written and signed by [Mevor]akh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (1150–81). Also signed by Shela b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Unclear if any …

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  8. 8LetterT-S 13J9.15

    Letter from eight paupers, in debtors' prison, to Shemuel ben Sīd. Dating: ca. 16th century. The senders are Yosef Malili, David Maymūn, Ṣemaḥ הבהב, ʿEzer …

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  9. 9LetterENA NS 71.13

    Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …

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    1. ….يبيعها له في صور

    2. وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة 

    3. الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض 

    4. ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري

    5. عن ثمن سكر…

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  10. 10Legal documentENA 3971.12

    Verso (original use): Small fragment of a letter or official document in Arabic: "min sāʾir al-amākin... yakhruj min ṭawāḥī[n?]...." Recto (secondary use): Order for something …

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  11. 11LetterENA 4046.3

    Letter in the hand of Daniel b. Azarya (Gil) to ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Daniel b. Azarya refers to notebooks of responsa (including some by Samuel …

    1. ושלום [זקננו] ואדירנו וחשובנו כג[ק מר ור עלי ינצרהו ייי
    2. וישמרהו ביר עמרם זכרו לברכה [
    3. אטאל אללה [ב]ק[א]ה ואדאם עזה [ותאיידה
    4. וקד נפדת כתבי אליה גואבא…

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  12. 12Legal documentT-S AS 153.74

    Legal document dated to the month Marḥeshvan (year lost), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)

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  13. 13LetterT-S NS 327.47

    Small fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. A letter? Mentions Abū Mūsā Hārūn. Very faded.

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  14. 14List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 28/57

    Details of estate for an orphan girl and her mother (possibly with other accounts?). Contains information about persons who owed debts to her father. The …

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  15. 15Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 176.458

    Receipt.

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  16. 16Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1551

    Karaite prenuptial agreement. Date: 28 Heshvan 5506 AM (1746 CE). The groom is listed solely as Yosef, therefore one of the witnesses' names may contain …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצ'רו בעץ' (מן אל קהל) ברו׳ יהי׳ תם חצר אחי׳ ואהו׳ יוסף אלחתן
    2. פי מנזלו ואמלך על הנע׳ נחמה הבתולה בת אפרים בן כה׳׳ר ראובן צ'…

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  17. 17Legal documentT-S 16.76

    Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …

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  18. 18List or tableJRL SERIES A 878

    A list of 10 of the books of the Mishneh Torah with a note underneath: [...] min ghayr al-khaṭṭ.

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  19. 19List or tableT-S Ar.30.259

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded.

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  20. 20LetterT-S NS J316

    Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions a woman named Sutayta, a woman named Esther, a man who seems to …

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  21. 21Legal documentL-G Glass 42

    Partnership contract. Dated: Tammuz 1460 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Tamīm b. Natan receives from Abū …

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S AS 145.254

    Legal document, small fragment. Ketubba? Involves [...]a b. Shabbat.

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  23. 23Legal documentBL OR 10653.20

    Ketubba fragment preserving the name [...] b. Ḥalfon.

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  24. 24State documentT-S AS 180.143

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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  25. 25List or tableJRL SERIES B 2032

    List of parshiyot and dates in a calligraphic hand with artistic markings.

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  26. 26Literary textT-S AS 162.55

    Poem in Judaeo-Arabic, rhyming in li-. Introduced as a 'sīra' by [...], apparently a renowned Muslim poet and astrologer (. . . שערי אלמלה אלאסלאמיה …

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  27. 27Legal documentT-S 20.116

    List of trousseau written by Hillel b. Eli. (Weiss MA dissertation)

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  28. 28LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1865/19a

    Letter or petition in Arabic script. Damaged. Legible words include 'al-mamlūk' and غلمانه. Needs examination.

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  29. 29Unknown typeJRL Gaster ar. 721

    Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Minute fragment.

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  30. 30Paraliterary textT-S Ar. 38.15 + T-S Ar. 38.9 + T-S Ar. 38.40

    Booklet of medical recipes.

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  31. 31List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 772

    Accounts, probably, in Arabic script.

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  32. 32LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/93

    Letter from Avraham b. Natan, in Fustat, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. Yeshuʿa is in Alexandria probably to welcome a …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי ואדאם עזה ותאיידה
    2. וסמוה וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה
    3. ושוק אליה שדיד גמע אללה ביננא סריעא עלי אסר חאל
    4. במנה וכרמ…

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  33. 33Legal documentT-S AS 145.32

    Investment partnership between Hayyim b. Shelomo Hazaq and his wife, approving the receiving of a sum of 63000 m[edin] k[esif] as a payment for his …

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  34. 34State documentT-S AS 178.139

    Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.

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  35. 35LetterT-S 6J3.3 + T-S Ar.7.26

    Letter of appeal for help, mentioning a recent death, apparently of a husband, leaving the writer (the widow) without livelihood and unable to live with …

    T-S 6J3.3 (Edited by Goitein)

    1. מולאי מא ענדנא מן שוגל
    2. אלקלב וממן תופי פי הדה אלאשהר
    3. אללה תעאלי יעוצהא ומא לי לא עיש
    4. ולא קראר מע אלכבירה והי כל
    5. יום תט…

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  36. 36Legal documentT-S 12.397 + T-S G1.5a + T-S AS 155.329

    Legal query with the autograph responsum of Yehuda ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Seder b. Yosef (aka "the Rav"). Yehuda b. Yosef was a student of Rabbenu Nissim …

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. קראת רקעה סידי אלחבר ישמ צו ווקפת עלי מצמונהא ולולא מוצעה
    3. אלגליל ענדי לכנת ממסך ען אלגואב ענהא לעלמי באן הדא הו אלדי
    4. יואפק בעץ אלנאס ולכן ל…

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  37. 37LetterAIU VII.E.92

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company, from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez. Dated 29 Elul [5]569 AM Information from Wagner, Linguistic …

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  38. 38List or tableT-S AS 204.288 + T-S AS 204.289

    Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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  39. 39Legal documentT-S NS 297.249

    Arabic legal deed - needs examination.

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  40. 40List or tableT-S NS 292.57

    Bifolio from an accounts ledger of a merchant. Mentions Alexandria, Abū Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī, Yosef b. Yeshuʿa. Sums in the tens and hundreds of dinars. AA

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  41. 41LetterT-S AS 167.24

    Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-[...], unknown location, to Abū ʿAlī b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Isrāʾīlī, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address …

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  42. 42LetterT-S AS 147.10

    Letter from the lepers of Tiberias to Furayj b. Ḥasan. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Asking for donations be given to the emissaries from Tiberias collecting …

    1. ונחך ד' תמיד והשביע בצחצחות נפשך ועצמתיך וג
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] מרנא [ . . . . . . . . . ] המשובח
    3. במעשיו הטובים ובדר…

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  43. 43LetterT-S 10J16.19

    Letter from Sa'dan b. Thabit al-Baghdadi from Tripoli to a colleague in Cairo asking him to take care of his son, whom he had sent …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ורפעתה ותמכינה וכבת באלדל חסדתה ואעדאה מן אלמסתקר טראבלס אל[ג…

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  44. 44Unknown typeENA 3972.31

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  45. 45Literary textJRL SERIES B 3639

    Some sort of index arranged by Hebrew roots, alongside other very damaged text.

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  46. 46Literary textJRL SERIES B 6976

    Medico-philosophical riddle. "The proof that the pupil (thaqb al-ʿinabiyya) is filled with spirit (rūḥ): when a person dies, the e[y]es sink. This is the answer." …

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  47. 47Legal documentENA NS 49.23

    Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 22 Adar II 5456 AM = 26 March1696 CE. Currency: muayyadi/medin. The first few lines are lost/damaged. …

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  48. 48Unknown typeDK M75 (alt: 123/i)

    Perhaps a letter. Gotein's note reads in part, "Calligraphic (Torah script) to Yosef Rosh Kalla ve-Aluf (=Ibn ʿAwkal) [...] Thanks and שנתחדשה הצרה זאת. Scheiber, …

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  49. 49LetterMoss. IV,36.3

    Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā Safāquṣī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1062. Contains information on the movement of ships, and on a significant …

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    1. סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך ומן חסן אל[תופיק לא אכלאך מן אל]

    2. אסכנדרייה יום אלה אלתאל[ת ען ]חאל סלאמה [ ]

    3. אלמזיד מן אלכ…

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  50. 50Unknown typeENA NS 79.166

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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