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  1. 1Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#63) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Nisan 5324 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 21v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאחד כ׳׳ה פי שהר ניסן המכו׳
    2. שנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ד׳ ליצירה חצ'רו בין איאדי אלמולי אלאגל אד׳…

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  2. 2State documentENA 3970.25

    Tax or provisional receipt. Mention of silver (waraq) and the month Jumād al-Awwāl on verso.

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  3. 3Legal documentT-S 12.799

    Question to Muslim jurisconsults. In Arabic script. Concerning a case of inheritance. The last two lines contain the names of two apparently deceased people: Isḥāq …

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  4. 4List or tableENA 3614.6

    Writing exercises in which the student practiced Judaeo-Romance words and names on at least one occasion in both Hebrew and Arabic script: פארין בן שביליינה …

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  5. 5Legal documentENA 2808.67

    Legal deed, draft of a bill of authorization written by Efrayim b. Shemarya and Yefet b. David

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  6. 6State documentT-S 12.359

    State document, in Arabic script. Probably a petition from an unemployed person, "baṭṭāl bilā ʿamal". Mentions the amīr Fāris al-Dawla. The amīr Fāris al-Dawla was …

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  7. 7Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Genizah Ar. 142

    Rental receipt, for 6 dinars, in Arabic script. "al-bāqī li-ṣaḥib l-dār". Dated probably 504 H.

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  8. 8Legal documentENA 2727.9b

    Recto: Bill of divorce. Wife: [...]fiyya bt. Levi. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1088 CE. Verso: remains of another legal deed, maybe connected to the bill …

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  9. 9LetterT-S 16.121

    Letter from the head of the Spanish community in Egypt to the Rosh ha-Ḥakhamim, discussing schisms between the Tripolitan (אלטראבלסיין), Tunisian (התונסיין) and Maghrebi (מערביים) …

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    1. . . . [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] תפט [
    2. ע[די]ן . . . . ובעודם [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .הדב]ר הזה היו כל הר[
    3. ברשותם הן בענין המסכ[…

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  10. 10Unknown typeENA NS 76.359

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 11List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 404

    Accounts, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.

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  12. 12Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.14

    Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer 600 nuqra dirhams. Same cluster: T-S AS 183.14, …

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  13. 13Paraliterary textT-S Ar.46.137

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Advice on how to succeed against enemies, on a journey, etc. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. ירידו. גמך ומתלך מ/ת/ל באב מגלוק ואלנגאר
    2. קאעד יצלחה ואנת תרי אנך רגל באזל ולאכן
    3. אחדר אעדאך לאנהם אקוא מנך ואדעו אללה
    4. יכפיך מונתהם ויכלצך מן כל שרהם …

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  14. 14List or tableT-S AS 200.152

    Fragment of a commercial account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Listing items and prices. Mentions goods such as coral, silk (or possibly …

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  15. 15Unknown typeENA NS 76.462

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  16. 16List or tableAIU XII.159

    Three unrelated fragments. Pages 1 and 2: A private account in (quite legible) Arabic, naming Yūsuf al-Yahūdī, Makārim al-Yahūdī, al-Qazzāz Abū l-Qāsim, and others. Written …

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  17. 17List or tableT-S K3.46

    Book list including several talmudic tractates, commentaries on them by Moses ha-Kohen and Saʿd b. Hillel, and Shaykh al-Yahūd, a work by Judah b. Ḥalfon. …

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  18. 18Legal documentT-S 16.141

    Bill of release from any claim granted by Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam Ibn Ḥirbish to Musāfir b. Shemuel in relation to the will of …

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  19. 19Legal documentT-S NS J414

    Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Dating: ca. 1200 CE. Lists clothing and jewelry, but no prices. On verso a note in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. (Information …

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  20. 20LetterT-S 10J7.16

    Letter from Yefet to Abū l-Barakāt the physician, in Fustat (bāb qaṣr al-shamʿ). which the writer alludes to some bad news ("ever since I heard …

    1. בש רח
    2. אעלם חצרה מולאי אלשיך
    3. אדאם אללה סלאמתה אנני
    4. מד סמעת אלכבר מא
    5. אפטרת בנהאר ולזמת
    6. אלפראש וחב מן תפצלך
    7. אן תנפד תעלמני גואב
    8. הדה אלרק{ע}ה סרעה ואנא

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  21. 21Unknown typeENA NS 85.1215

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S Ar.41.11

    Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dated: first decade of Jumādā II. The year is difficult to read, maybe …

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  23. 23LetterT-S J3.45

    39 lines of praises for a dignitary titled Gaʾon. Goitein calls it "late," but it could be 13th century. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  24. 24List or tableENA NS 76.302.2

    Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  25. 25List or tableBL OR 5535.3

    Memorial list for several families in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, including one person who was martyred and at least four who died young. …

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  26. 26Unknown typeT-S Ar.34.288

    Document in Arabic script. State? Refers to al-Qāḍī al-Ajall. Needs examination.

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  27. 27LetterT-S AS 146.196

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: "half of the jizya" and the desired arrival of [...] b. Natan;. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  28. 28Unknown typeENA NS 85.846

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  29. 29LetterENA 3745.17

    Lower fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Ibn al-Muʿallim Yaʿqūb.

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  30. 30Legal documentT-S Misc.34.60

    Legal testimony. Small fragment.

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  31. 31LetterT-S Ar.42.128

    Business letter from Ṭāhir b. Sālim to Abū Saʿd b. Hiba, in Damietta. In Arabic script. Concerning the textile and garment trade. Greetings to people …

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  32. 32List or tableT-S NS 124.24

    Piyyuṭ in Hebrew. On one side the margin was reused for private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  33. 33State documentENA NS 64.9

    Verso: Fragment with 4 lines of a state document in a chancery hand regarding issues pertaining to agriculture "an qad zaraʿ fī l-kufr l-madhkūr thalatha …

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  34. 34Paraliterary textT-S NS 83.28

    Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical …

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  35. 35List or tableT-S NS J474

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Dating: 11th or 12th century. One of the goods mentioned is sandarac resin (sandarūs, here spelled …

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  36. 36Legal documentMoss. VII,31.1

    Get (bill of divorce) dated October/November 1041 CE (Kislev 4802), from Dam[sīs]. Yosef b. Sūq[..] divorces Sutayt bt. Aharon. Signed by Shemuel b. Avraham and …

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  37. 37Legal documentT-S 12.520

    Fragment of a marriage contract, most likely. Sets out conditions including a menstrual purity clause and therefore probably dating to no earlier than the late …

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  38. 38Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#35) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Sivan 5320 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 13v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאתנין כ׳׳ה שהר סיון סנת ה׳ש׳כ׳ ליצירה
    2. חצ'ר יוסף אבן [[יוסף]] ע׳אלחק וחצל תואפק …

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  39. 39List or tableT-S NS J359

    Inventory or accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists items such as a large turban for 60 (dirhams); a white bordered ʿarḍī; a tailored nuṣfiyya; …

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  40. 40LetterJRL B 2652

    Fragment of a late document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter. Mentions sesame and the price of 110 gurush per ardab. The mention of the Ottoman …

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  41. 41LetterAIU XII.115

    Letter in Arabic addressed to al-Muʿallam ___ Ghālī. Dated [12]53 AH which is 1837/38 CE. Needs further examination.

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  42. 42LetterT-S Misc.20.153

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …

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  43. 43LetterENA NS I.59

    Business letter from (or possibly to) Yehuda Ibn Sughmār. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed "tadhkira muwajjaha(?) = "memorandum sent(?)." The sender expresses his longing for the addressee, …

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  44. 44Legal documentT-S 20.124 + Halper 339

    Lower part of a marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Avraham b. Shabbetay. Groom: Yefet b. Nissim. Bride: Sitt al-Dār bt. Yiṣḥaq. Location: Fustat. …

    1. כניסתה לחופה וא[ש]תיר עלוהי עשרה דינרין דדהבא מאוחרין ואלין מה
    2. דהנעילת עלוהי נדוניא שויא [עש]רין דינרין טאבי מ[ע]ליא(!) והוי כלל כתובתא
    3. דא מהרא ותוס…

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  45. 45Literary textT-S AS 150.118

    Literary text in Hebrew. Small fragment.

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  46. 46LetterT-S AS 152.360

    Recto: Letter in Hebrew. Dating: early 13th century, based on the mention of the Judge Anaṭoli in the penultimate line. The sender is apparently a …

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    1. לה [ ]ר למה הינח?[ ]ישר[ ]

    2. והלכ[ה] אחרי אלי נכר ענתה ואמרה

    3. לי גרם המזלי הביאני עד הנה

    4. ואני אמרתי לה תחזור לייחוד השם

    5. אמרה לי וא…

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  47. 47Unknown typeCUL Or.1080 11.14

    Fragment with an elaborate illustration, perhaps for the frontispiece of a book. Above it there is a line in Aramaic from the beginning of a …

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  48. 48LetterENA 2591.1

    Sheet folded so as to form a booklet of 4 pages. But only one page, headed by the superscription 'In your name' (which indicates the …

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    1. על שמך
    2. ר' חנין ג דנא[ניר
    3. טיבאן
    4. סלי[מ]אן הכהן ג ד[נאניר
    5. ה]רון אלזגאג דינ[אר
    6. אלשיך אבו א[ל]סרור
    7. פרח אלגהבד
    8. אלשיך אבו אלכיר אלצירפי
    9. פרג בן נחום
    10. ש…

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  49. 49LetterT-S 13J9.14

    Business letter dating to around 1800 CE (12 Adar [no year]). The opening salutation may contain the recipient's entire name, but its meaning is not …

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  50. 50Legal documentT-S NS 225.25q

    Minute fragment from the bottom pf a legal deed. Only part of the signatures are preserved: [...] b. Avraham, [...] b. Aharon

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