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  1. 1LetterJRL Gaster ar. 317

    Informal note in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] Manṣūr. Contains the glyph. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. The sender gives various instructions, including not …

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  2. 2Paraliterary textJRL Gaster ar. 425

    Recipe or prescription. In Arabic script. Mentions the names of several foods. Needs examination.

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  3. 3State documentCUL Or.1080 9.11

    Verso (original use): Draft of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script, containing conventional praises and blessings for a powerful person. Recto: Draft …

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  4. 4LetterENA 3946.6

    Informal note in Arabic script. Has the glyph. The handwriting is relatively straightforward but the subject matter is difficult to figure out. Needs examination.

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  5. 5LetterT-S NS J547

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side only). Dating: 12th or early 13th century. Mentions Waliyy al-Dawla, Fustat, and a shop.

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  6. 6Unknown typeT-S NS 238.93

    One line (plus the glyph) in Arabic script.

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  7. 7List or tableT-S Ar.34.14

    List of ingredients (or rather commercial goods?) with their weights. In Arabic script. Headed: "suyyira ʿalā yad Zaghlūl" (sent with Zaghlūl). (Information in part from …

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  8. 8Paraliterary textT-S AS 176.494

    Recipe written on a spare piece of parchment. Simples included are for example Roman bole and horned poppy. Not a continuation of a letter. Has …

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  9. 9List or tableT-S Ar.34.311

    Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One side begins with a basmala, the other side with the glyph.

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  10. 10State documentT-S NS 306.242

    Administrative document of some kind. There are Greek/Coptic numerals at upper right specifying a sum in the hundreds. The phrase al-qāḍī al-ajall appears. Dated: 15 …

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S NS 264.35

    Legal note. The first part is in Arabic script: "What remains (owed) to al-Shaykh Abu l-Faraj...." The sum is 25 wariq dirhams. Dated: Shaʿbān 539 …

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  12. 12State documentT-S NS 305.147

    Tax receipt? Mentions: ...al-yahūdī... bi-ḥudūr...

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  13. 13LetterENA 2727.38

    Letter addressed to Avraham ha-Talmid. Small fragment (upper left corner).

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  14. 14LetterMoss. II,165.2

    Note in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Excerpts: קד תקדם אלקול . . . . פי . . . . פי אן . . . . אדאם …

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  15. 15Credit instrument or private receiptCUL Or.1080 9.11

    Recto (secondary use): Draft of an order of payment, probably. In Arabic script. Headed by the glyph.

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  16. 16Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 297.95

    Document in Arabic script. May be a receipt (tasallama....). The last line mentions the name of a qāḍī.

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  17. 17Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 597

    Legal or official document (ṣaḥḥā bi-ism...). Perhaps involving the inheritance or heirs (ورثة؟) of Abū Isḥāq. Dated: 617 AH, which is 1220/21 CE. Needs further …

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  18. 18LetterJRL Gaster ar. 381

    Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Arabic script. Has the glyph. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The first 4 lines are completely preserved and …

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  19. 19List or tableT-S NS 320.14

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script: الذي عند الشيخ بو ال . . .

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  20. 20LetterT-S Ar.34.226

    Informal note addressed to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Andalusi hand. Asking him to "give the bearer everything that is mentioned in this letter." The sender …

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  21. 21Legal documentENA NS 62.23

    Legal records. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av and Elul 1527 Seleucid = 1216 CE. Headed by the glyph. Verso, doc. 1: Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskāf acknowledges …

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  22. 22Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 837

    Order of payment. Mainly in Arabic script, with an אמת in Hebrew in the upper margin. Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay the bearer 10 …

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  23. 23State documentT-S Misc.29.4

    Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. Looks complete. The first line is the glyph, then Abū Sahl, then Abū l-Faḍl al-Raʾīs. Needs …

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  24. 24LetterT-S Ar.35.131

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. The glyph appears at the top. The hand is skilled and the margins are large, and there is a taqbīl …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. وصلت رقعة مولاي اطال الله بقاه

    3. ادام تائيدها ونعماها ومن حسن توفيقه

    4. لا اخلاها وقراتها وفهمت مضمونها وشكرت

    5. الله تعالى …

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  25. 25LetterENA NS 45.15

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. Concerning business in saffron and ambergris. Mentions Baqāʾ.

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  26. 26Unknown typeT-S NS 209.31

    One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is …

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  27. 27List or tableT-S AS 204.220

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Probably medieval.

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  28. 28Paraliterary textT-S Ar.38.110

    Verso: Compound prescription/recipe (ṣifa murakkab). In Arabic script. Contains the glyph. Ingredients include oak gall, gum, vitriol, Andarānī salt, lapis lazuli, saffron, and camphor. Needs …

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  29. 29LetterMoss. VII,171.2

    Short note in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (active late 12th and early 13th century). Reporting that he has sent 7.5 of a certain item …

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    1. אלדי אערף בה [
    2. אן קד וצל אליך [צחבה
    3. אבו אלמפצל ז //ונ[צף]// ק . [
    4. ארבעה כבאר וג צ[גאר
    5. ערפתך דלך ולא תקטע [כתבך
    6. ענא ושלום

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  30. 30State documentENA 3942.12

    Fragment of an official-looking account. Verso may contain the glyph. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart. Needs examination for content.

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  31. 31LetterT-S NS 305.114

    Letter of gratitude. In Arabic script. Full of expressions of patronage and no specific details. The sender's name may be Zayn and the addressee's name …

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  32. 32Paraliterary textBL OR 5566D.25

    Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Ingredients include: "Indian"; borage; pistachio kernels; sugar. Diet: boiled young chickens (farrūj maṣlūq).

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  33. 33Paraliterary textENA NS 48.24

    Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  34. 34LetterENA NS 54.5

    Letter from Yeshuʿa the bookseller to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century, but this is a guess. The writer has been endeavoring …

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    1. لے
    2. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ וינהי אנה מא
    3. בקא מגהוד פי אמר אלנסכה אלדי לסיידנא
    4. ואלדי כאן קד תקרר אנה יאכדהא עאד ען
    5. אכדהא וקד עדת אערצתהא עלי גירה
    6. ומא…

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  35. 35Paraliterary textT-S NS 305.76

    Medical prescription in Arabic script.

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  36. 36LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/6

    Informal note. In the name of the wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī. Instructing Abū l-ʿAlāʾ to meet with Eliyyahu the Judge and deal with the sale …

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  37. 37Credit instrument or private receiptNLI 577.1/67

    Receipt or proof of purchase. Contains the glyph meaning "addā" here.

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  38. 38Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3966.3

    Rent receipt (? اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. Dated: …

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  39. 39Legal documentT-S NS 305.115

    Three drafts of a testimony concerning the qualifications and good conduct of the physician Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm (=Yedutun ha-Levi?). The witnesses …

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    1. شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا

    2. جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة

    3. صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون

    4. حاله…

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    1. The people whose names occur at the end of this court record, they being free,  

    2. honourable and good Muslim men, testified,  

    3. together …

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  40. 40LetterENA NS 52.9

    Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yefet to two brothers, to the dukkān of Bāb al-Futūḥ, which means this was probably sent to New Cairo rather than …

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  41. 41List or tableT-S Ar.30.18

    Accounts in Arabic script for three types of indigo. See Goitein's index card for further information.

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  42. 42List or tableENA 3925.13 + ENA 3925.14

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Contains the glyph. Mentions many names. Pinholes for binding, especially on verso, the part with the perforations has …

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  43. 43Literary textT-S K25.3

    Poems and drafts in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. One of the poems is by Avraham Ibn ʿEzra. One of the drafts is …

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  44. 44LetterJRL SERIES B 4525

    Petition addressed to four brothers (?), the elders Abu al-Baqa, Abu al-Baha, Abu al-Faraj and Abu al-Karam, requesting charity. The supplicant, Harun, writes that he …

    1. בם
    2. ............]ואלאעיאן אלפצלא מן אטאל אללה בק[אהם
    3. ......]מהם ונעמאהם ומכן סעאדתהם ואחיא[הם
    4. ונגאהם מן נואיב אלזמאן ומן כרוב אלאחיאן אלשיך אבו
    5. אלבקא…

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  45. 45State documentT-S Ar.39.245

    Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …

    1. نزل(؟)
    2. والمبلغ اثنين وعشرين
    3. درهما
    4. الحمد لله على نعمه
    5. نزل(؟) ذلك
    6. والمبلغ اثنين وعشرين
    7. الحمد لله على احسانه
    8. لے
    9. اقام فرج الله ابن ابو الثنا ابن ابو سعي…

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  46. 46LetterAIU XII.104

    Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …

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  47. 47State documentENA 3971.23

    Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …

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  48. 48List or tableT-S Misc.8.19

    List of recipients of charity (bread) along with the khuddām al-kanīs (the list begins with three parnasim). This list fills three pages of the bifolium. …

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  49. 49List or tableENA 1822a.66

    India Book III,20: Accounts, perhaps in the hand of one of Ibn Yijū’s workers; not his handwriting. Similar to India Book III,19 (CUL Or.1080 J95, …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי לה פ[י]ליה כולמי
    3. תסעה ותלתין פילי כול[מי]
    1. א //ען סבעה ונצף ותמן//
    2. ופנמין קבץ מן דלך
    3. זבדה עשרה פיליה
    4. וקבץ זנגפר וברמה
    5. צפר כמסה ע…

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  50. 50Legal documentENA 4011.4

    Verso: Cheque written and signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Dated: Tishrei 1454 Seleucid, which is 1142 CE. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār is to pay the price …

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