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  1. 1List or tableENA 3268.4 + ENA 3268.5

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. Fiscal? Mentions a sixth of a stable (اصطبل); a sixth of a small compound (duwayra), Ismāʿīl, and maybe an …

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  2. 2Legal documentT-S 10J4.5

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . מוחסן . . . . . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] מא…
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  3. 3Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 29

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    Arabic

    Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Dating: maybe ca. 1150–1250. Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh al-Najīb and discusses book copying (al-mujallad... bi-an yuṣliḥ al-nuskha...) and may …

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  4. 4Legal documentT-S 18J1.26

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …

    1. שהדותא דהוות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף [שטרא
    2. דנן בתרי בשבה דהוא שית עשר יומין לירח סיון שנת אלפא וארבע מאה
    3. ושבעין וחד שנין לשטרות למניינא…
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  5. 5Paraliterary textJRL Genizah Ar. 291

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    Fragment in Arabic script. Possibly astronomical/calendrical (mawḍiʿ al-shams...) describing different positions of the Sun in the sky, especially its ascension. Needs examination.

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  6. 6LetterT-S 16.295

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    Hebrew

    Esther writes to her parents in law after having returned from Safed to Cairo, describing how she learned certain needle work and expressing thanks to …

    1. בה
    2. שלומות רבות לאלפים ורבבות מלפני שוכן ערבות
    3. כולם יחולו על ראש //אדוני// מי תיא/ו/ה כתר ועטרה לראשי
    4. ועל ראש אדונתי עטרה לראשי ממני אסתר כלתכם
    5. הנני …
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  7. 7Literary textT-S NS 275.189

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    Calendrical text and/or poetry in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi.

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  8. 8Unknown typeT-S NS 105.13e

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    Possibly a document in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved, very faded. There is a high concentration of recycled fiber emerging from …

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  9. 9State documentCUL Or. 1080 5.2

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    Arabic

    Petition, in Arabic script. Dated: 12th C Ayyubid period. A group of poor workers (ṣunnāʿ) petition the Caliph and remind him of his promise of …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. المماليك يقبلو الارض بالمجلس [الكريم وينهون ان … ؟]

    3. واهلك اعاديه وحساده  [

    4. من جملة صناع مقامه الكريم و[

    5. بانه ل…

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  10. 10Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.53

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    Arabic

    Small scrap with ~2 words of Arabic script. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly …

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S AS 151.300

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    Aramaic

    Fragment from the top part of a ketubba. Dating: 12th century. Looks like the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan.

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  12. 12Literary textT-S K6.6

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    Hebrew

    Bifolio of piyyuṭ in a beautiful hand, with an ownership or authorship note: Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen.

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  13. 13LetterENA 1157.8

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Maghribī mercantile letter. Dating: Probably 11th century. From Ibrāhīm b. [...], likely in Tripoli (Libya), to an unidentified addressee, likely in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The …

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  14. 14List or tableT-S NS 304.9

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions several names, including ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, and figures in the hundreds and thousands (unclear what unit). On verso …

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  15. 15LetterENA NS 47.4

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    Hebrew

    Letter from Abū l-Majd to two distinguished addressees. 17 lines of Hebrew blessings are preserved. The lower part, containing the body of the letter, is …

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  16. 16List or tableT-S AS 153.102

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Accounts. Probably late. Mentioning Yiṣḥaq, Avraham b. Sīd, Yaʿaqov, Shemuel. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  17. 17Unknown typeENA NS 76.405

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  18. 18Legal documentJRL B 8320

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    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions "I, Yefet" and a sum of "an eighth of the total" and a certain quantity …

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  19. 19LetterCUL Or.1080 J16

    Letter from Avraham Ibn Sughmār, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Nahray traveled to Alexandria and the writer is sorry that he did not …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן אל

    2. תופיק אלחסן לא אכלאך ראש חדש כסליו געלה אללה עליך ועלינא

    3. אימן אלשהור ואברכהא ואסעדה…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך
    2. ואל ימנע ממך את מיטב ההצלחה, בראש חודש כסלו, ישימו אלוהים לך ולנו
    3. המוצל…
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  20. 20Legal documentT-S 16.11

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. Record of release. This document describes the termination of a partnership and a release from Efrayim b. Ḥalfon Ibn Zaffān, upon the apparent …

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    1. .. ארבעין [........................................................]
    2. דידיע באבן זפאן אד כאן [................] ואלאן אשהדו עלי ואקנו [........…

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    1. … forty […]
    2. who is known as Ibn Zaffān since he was […] and now, “Testify before me and perform a qinyan […]
    3. using all the appropriate legal form…

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  21. 21State documentT-S NS 305.19

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    Arabic

    Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …

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    1. ولمولاي الامير الجـ[ليل
    2. فيما يامر به الـ[ـالراي الاعلى
    3. والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله[على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم تسليما]
    4. [وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل]

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S NS 309.13

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto (original use): Copy of a legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment made by a woman, whose physical description is partially preserved in l. 1. …

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    1. . . . .]معتدلة القامة رقيقة السمرة الحمرة واضحة الجبهة
    2. . . . عينا وبه شهد بتاريخه وفيها رسم شهادة شاهدين
    3. وهما القاضي العفيف ابو علي الحسن بن ج…
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  23. 23Unknown typeENA NS 76.620

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  24. 24Literary textJRL B 7585

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    Spanish

    Literary text in Spanish.

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  25. 25Legal documentT-S NS 226.39

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    Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)

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  26. 26LetterT-S NS J312 + T-S 6J6.16

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    Letter addressed to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Containing elaborate expressions …

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  27. 27LetterT-S Misc.10.129

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Verso (original use): Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (he signs Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān) to al-shaykh al-rashīd Abū l-Faḍl. In Arabic script, with the last line …

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  28. 28Legal query or responsumBL OR 5536.3

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    Leaf from a dossier containing later (maybe 14th-15th c) copies of rescripts or responsa from Muslim and Jewish authorities concerning a scholar who allegedly had …

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  29. 29LetterT-S Ar.18(1).164

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Abū l-Faraj b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramlī, announcing to him that five boats had arrived from Suwaydiyya, the port …

    1. בשמך רחמנך (!)
    2. אסאל חצרת מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה
    3. בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמתה וכבד (!) בדול (!) אלמהין
    4. חסדתה ואעדאה אסאל אללה תעאלי קרב אלאגתימאע
    5. ביננא…
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  30. 30Legal documentT-S K15.111

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal records. Dating: ca. 1100? (I) Trousseau list. Bride: Malīḥa bt. Moshe. Groom: Ṣedaqa b. Sason ha-Kohen. Payments: 20 + 5. Total: 95. (II) Another …

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  31. 31Legal documentAIU XII.90

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    Arabic

    Legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved, e.g., ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh and Bū Bakr [...] b. ʿAbdallāh. Verso: love poetry also …

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  32. 32Legal documentT-S 8.136

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    Aramaic

    Small scrap of parchment containing the closing line of a marriage contract and its signatures. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 374) EMS

    1. [... וי]צליח[ו] א[קוליתוס]
    2. [...]ב הכהן עד ננ סהל בר רבוי עד [...]
    3. [... ב]ן רגא נ''נ עד עלי בן צלח עד [...]
    4. [...]ל הלוי נ''נ עד טוביה הלוי ב'ר' עלי ה…
    1. [... and] prosper. [In good] o[rder.]  
    2. [...] b. ha-Kohen, witness (whose) s(oul is at) r(est). Sahl b. Rabawi, witness.
    3. [... b.] Rajā (whose) s(oul…

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  33. 33Literary textMIAC 173

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    Hebrew

    Exegesis and religious commentary – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 173) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …

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  34. 34LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1464

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother' Hārūn Fayrūz in Cairo. This letter contains an update on her stomach illness …

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  35. 35Unknown typeENA NS 79.69

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  36. 36LetterT-S NS 321.17

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    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. Wide space between the lines, like an official document, but it appears to be about business. Mentions Ibn …

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  37. 37Unknown typeENA NS 85.1142.6

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  38. 38LetterENA NS 31.13

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 15th century (no earlier thah 1415 CE), as it mentions the currency niṣṣ/nuṣṣ/half (i.e., the muʾayyadī). Also mentions the …

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  39. 39State documentUU 886

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    Arabic

    State document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid-era, probably addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.

    1. خرجت الاوامر المطاعة بعملها من المتاخرين 

    2. ورجال الاوامر الخـ[ـدمـ]ـة(؟) فقد(؟) عملت(؟)

    3. الى الباب العالي المولوي الملكي العادلي

    4. خلد الله سلطان…

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  40. 40List or tableMoss. II,47.2

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Account in Arabic script, including items such as zayt ṭayyib and waraq. Needs further examination.

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  41. 41Legal documentT-S AS 146.37

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Draft of the beginning of a legal document, mentioning a certain Abū ʿAlī known as בן אלמכבה. The scribe appears to have written אלטחין in …

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  42. 42State documentMoss. II,158.3

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    Arabic

    Decree fragment, one line, in Arabic script. "سعد من وحولها".

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  43. 43Literary textENA 2896.30

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    Hebrew

    Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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  44. 44Paraliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 1864/5b

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Colophon. "I copied this, Yosef Rosh ha-Seder b. Yaʿaqov Rosh Bei Rabanan (ZL), from the copy of the author (ZL), for myself, and I did …

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  45. 45LetterT-S 18J4.11

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Congratulation letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b, Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, Cairo, approximately 1055.

    1. שלום מוסיף שורש למטה ועושה פרי למעלה משליח קציר לים
    2. ויונקות עד נהר מגזיע עד תהום ומעניף עד רום מכסה בצילו
    3. הרים ובענפיו אילי ארזים הוליך אל דרום וסוב…
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  46. 46Unknown typeENA NS 85.938

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  47. 47Unknown typeENA NS 78.23

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  48. 48LetterT-S AS 153.336

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    Minute fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  49. 49Literary textAIU XII.151

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Bifolio from an Arabic medical treatise.

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  50. 50Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

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    Hebrew

    Legal record (#115) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Tammuz 5326 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 37v

    1. בפ]ני עדים חתומים מטה איך בא כ׳׳ר יצחק ב׳כ׳ר׳ משה ידיע
    2. מ]גרבי(?) הקראי נ׳׳ע והעיד עליו ברצונו [[בלי]] כי קבל מיד כ׳׳ר מ…
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