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  1. 1LetterENA 2730.2

    Letter from Dawud son of the haver to a certain dayyan. It seems some dramatic event has taken place off-scene (maybe in Palestine?) and here …

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  2. 2LetterENA 2735.3

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to "my child Ibrahim" . After the usual greetings we read: "I have no instruction to you except that do not let …

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  3. 3LetterENA 2808.29

    Letter from Mūsā, in Ṣandafā, to his brother, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Written in a lovely …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה[בקאך ואדאם עזך

    2. וסלאמתך מן סנדפא ען חאל סלאמה ועא[פיה

    3. אגתמע עלי אחסן חאל במנה ופצלה וס[

    4. אעלמך יאכי אני וצלת צאלם אלי ס…

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  4. 4LetterENA 4020.22

    Letter from the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ Ibn al-ʿAmmānī to Yeḥiʾel ha-Rav (b. Elyaqim?). In Hebrew. The year is given but is hard to …

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  5. 5LetterT-S 13J26.21

    Petition from the early Ayyubid period from Yehuda ha-Kohen to Eliyyahu requesting a meeting with the head of a government office regarding taxes for the …

    1. אלכאדם
    2. יהודה הכהן
    3. שלום רב לאהבי
    4. עבד הדרת כגק מרנא ור אליהו השר
    5. הנכבד האדיר בישראל החשוב הרפא(!)
    6. הנבון יברכו שומר ישראל וימציאו
    7. חן ושכל טוב בעיני המל…

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  6. 6List or tableT-S AS 153.257

    List, probably of tax or rent revenue. It describes the houses and apartments in a particular street darb al-Sadu[...], mentioning the house of the company …

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  7. 7LetterT-S Misc.28.131

    Lower part of a letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. He describes his great distress (poverty, dependents, …

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  8. 8LetterAIU VII.E.2

    Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …

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  9. 9State documentAIU XII.49

    Fatimid tax receipt dated 528H (1133–34). Five different hands: at top, 2 requests for registration, 2 confirmations of registration; lower part is receipt itself. (MR)

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  10. 10LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/38

    Letter from Shemuel b. Moshe to Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf (Yehosef), in Malīj. The addressee is the tax farmer of the local market and the judge …

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  11. 11LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/38

    Letter from Hārūn to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. The sender reminds Moshe that it is his custom …

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  12. 12Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 102/43 + Bodl. MS heb. e 101/13

    Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …

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    1. נקול מן אתבת כטה אכר הדא אלמסטור אנה למא כ[אן פי יום
    2. שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין ותרתי שנין לשטרות [
    3. מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו נגידי…

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  13. 13Legal query or responsumENA 2558.30c

    Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a group of people who share an underground(?) storage room of wheat in …

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  14. 14LetterENA NS 22.2

    Letter from a father who had undertaken to pay the capitation tax for his son but was robbed. Asks the recipient to pay the tax …

    1. אכד קדמי חתי נאולוני אלוטא מן אלבאב
    2. ורחת אלי אלדיואן לקית אלממלוך קאעד
    3. קאל לה אלשיך שעיא אלגאליה ענד
    4. הדה אליהודי להא תלת שהור ונחן מא
    5. מא נקדר עליה ק…

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  15. 15LetterENA NS I.6

    Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had previously sent a …

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  16. 16LetterENA NS I.16

    Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) asking the holy congregation of Egypt to pay the tax to the Muslim Amir. …

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  17. 17State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 348

    Tax receipt(s). There are distinct documents on recto and verso. Needs examination.

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  18. 18LetterMoss. II,196.2

    Fragment from the opening of a deferential letter. On verso the writer mentions 'the tax' (? al-mās) and 'your promise'—perhaps he is requesting charity.

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  19. 19LetterMoss. VII,173.3

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the sender's unfortunate dealings with a government bureau (דיואן). Apparently Ibn al-Farārījī tried to shake him down for money, claiming …

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  20. 20LetterMoss. VII,196.1

    Letter of appeal in Hebrew, probably 14th century or later, including lengthy praises for the addressee and then a request to help with the [poll?] …

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  21. 21LetterNLI 577.3/10

    Letter from Shelomo b. Aharon to Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Opens with a cryptic mention of the writer's departure for the sake of paying the …

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  22. 22LetterT-S 8J21.6

    Letter to Efrayim b. Shemariah from his friend Yiṣḥaq, who asks for money to pay the tax-collector and so prevent his being imprisoned. Dating from …

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    1. שלום לך ושלום לעזרך וג'
    2. אלי אח וריע וגדל דיע אהוב וחביב וקשור נפש בנפש
    3. וחקוק בלב הוא אדירי וכבירי ועין ימיני וזרוע עזי
    4. כבוד גדו קדו מרי ורבי…

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    1. "And peace with you and peace with Him who support you," etc. (1 Chronicles 12:19). 
    2. To brother and friend, / great in knowledge, / beloved an…

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  23. 23LetterT-S 10J16.14

    Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since …

    1. מן ענד מנצור רביבה
    2. . . . ]תצטירהא אלי אלאך אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
    3. ואדאם עזה ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה
    4. גמע אלשמל בה קריב גיר בעיד וינהי אלי אלאך אלכרים

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  24. 24LetterT-S 12.533

    Letter from a mother, probably near or in Qayrawān, to her merchant son, in Fustat. Dating: ca. early 11th century. Includes some information about the …

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    1. ] בקאך [אל]לה יאבני אני פי שגל קלב מן שוקך [ 
    2. ] וכאן מ[א] צדרה אלי וקת מגי אלמראכב פכאן עלי דלך [ 
    3. אד לם תגי אנת בסלאמתך מעהם וקת סמעת במסירך …

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    1. …ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים, בני, יש לי עוגמת נפש מרוב געגועים אליך… 
    2. …לא שלח אותו עד הזמן של בוא האוניות, והיה על זאת…
    3. כי לא באת אתה, כפי שאמ…

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  25. 25Legal documentT-S 13J3.12

    Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu l-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …

    1. למא כאן יום אלאתנין אלתאסע מחדש כסליו שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין לשטרות
    2. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרי…

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  26. 26State documentT-S Ar.38.140

    Recto: two documents. The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant …

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  27. 27LetterT-S Ar.41.109

    Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الي اخي ومولاي وتاجي واعتمادي اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
    3. ونعماه ومن حسن توفيقه لا اخلاه وعن حال سلامة وعافية
    4. وشوق …

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  28. 28LetterT-S AS 145.396 + T-S AS 145.393

    Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century. Begging a dignitary for help interceding with the king and tax administrators concerning the burden of tax being …

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  29. 29Legal documentT-S AS 149.13

    Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …

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    1. שהדנא עלי אלשיך בקא בן אבו אלסרור תא[גר אלניל
    2. אן ענדה לתמים צאמן אלברקאניה ארבעה אלדר
    3. פי כל שהר טאלמא הוא צאמן וטאלמא צמ[ן
    4. קליוב פי צמאנהם אול…

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    1. A testimony that the elder Baqā b. Abū l-Surūr [the indigo] me[rchant]
    2. owes Tamīm, ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya, 4 dirhams
    3. per month, as long as (th…

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  30. 30LetterT-S AS 152.8

    Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks how the capitation tax (al-jāliya) promises to be this coming year. The sender seems to …

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  31. 31List or tableT-S AS 153.287

    Communal accounts, probably from the early 13th century. Mentions the terms 'jibāya' (collection) and "jābī' (collector) several times. Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), …

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  32. 32State documentT-S AS 176.257

    Verso (as conserved; original inscription): fragment of what appears to be an account. Under the heading nāḥiya, it mentions the fourteenth day of an unnamed …

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  33. 33State documentT-S NS 297.193

    State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …

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  34. 34Legal documentT-S NS J138

    Contract between Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and Abū l-Maʿālī regarding tax-farming in the town of Būsh and its environs. Dated Elul 1460 Seleucid = August/September 1149 …

    1. בוש וגמי[ע
    2. אלמדכור מן אין [אש]תרי אל . [
    3. .[.]גד ואלא פילזמך תודי(?) לה מכס מא[
    4. אבו אלחסן אלצאמן אלמדכור נזל ען טלב [
    5. יסתחק בעד סנה אדא צמאנה והו תשר…

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    1. Būsh and all ...
    2. the aforementioned, from wherever he has bought the ...
    3. ... or not, and you will be obligated to convey to him the tax ...
    4. Ab…

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S NS J297b

    Legal document: dissolution of a partnership, concerning a tax farm in al-Maṭariyya. Dated: with multiple entries in Marheshvan 1601 Seleucid (1289 CE).

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  36. 36Legal documentAIU VII.E.232

    Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …

    1.                         קניית הגאבילה
    2. ...]בץ נ.[...] גמורה [שרירה(?) וק]יימה כדין וכהלכה מ...[....] הטוב וה[...] ..[...
    3. ...] הגאבילה הנהוגה בע[יר] מ…

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  37. 37List or tableBL OR 5549.8

    List of prisoners imprisoned for nonpayment of the capitation tax. Fragmentary. twenty-four names preserved, with sums representing the amounts still due, to be provided by …

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  38. 38LetterBL OR 5566C.5

    Letter from Ṣadaqa to the Abū l-Najm the Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") …

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  39. 39Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 56/13–19

    Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …

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    1. פראית אלצביה עלי אפעאל אבוהא (!) 
    2. אלצום ואלצלוה ואלצדקה פאעתרץ' 
    3. עליהא אלזיגה פאמתנעת וקאלת
    4. מא אגיר מא אנא פיה לאן אלזיגה
    5. תשגלני ען הדה אלאשיא…

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  40. 40LetterCUL Or.1080 J88

    Letter at one point thought to have been sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor …

    1. . . .] כגק מר ור אלישע [. . . . . . . .
    2. הלויים הירא שמים הנדיב יברכו צורו
    3. ויעזרו ויגן בעדו ויזכהו לראות
    4. שמחת חמודו ותורתו ואריכות ימיו
    5. אמן סלה     מ…
    1. [To the honorable Abū] Naṣr, son of his honor,] greatness and holiness. our master and teacher Elisha, Pride 
    2. of the Levites, the pious and noble, m…

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  41. 41LetterDK 123f

    Letter from Avraham b. Shelomo b. Yehuda perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Complains about a Coptic kātib (הסופר הערל, lit. "the uncircumcised scribe") …

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  42. 42State documentENA 2747.16

    Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …

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    1. [... الوقـ]ـت الذي جرى الرسم باستفتاح الخراج فيه قدم استخراج  
    2. …[نجـ]ـم من نجوم هذه السنة وما لعلّه يتاخر من مال الابواب في وقته وجمـ[ـيع الـ …

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    1. [ …(if ... at the tim]e when the levying comes at the beginning of the kharāj (cycle, i.e., the fiscal year), the collection is moved forward …

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  43. 43LetterENA NS 52.13

    Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …

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    1. [.........................] אדונ[י....................] ב׳׳ה
    2. [...] בשמו יתעלה אחר אשר יגמר הענין לטובה ב׳׳ה
    3. [...]ן ביאת אדוני למצרים צריך היות…

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  44. 44LetterENA NS 68.6

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). …

    1. כ]אן פי אלכתאב אלמ[דכור

    2. ]כרג לעאמל אלמוארית בכמסה ועשר[ין דינארא ברסם

    3. אבו אלמפצ̇ל ואכדת אלעלאמה עליהם וסל[מת] אלבר[אה אלי אבו]

    4. אלמפצ̇ל וקבצ̇…

    1. [...] in the af[orementioned] document [...]

    2. it came out to 25 [dīnārs] to the administrator of estates [for]

    3. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. I obtained the r…

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  45. 45Legal documentENA NS 77.254

    Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …

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  46. 46State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 262

    Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.

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  47. 47LetterJTS MS 8254.12

    Recto: Letter fragment, probably in the hand of the judge Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq, addressed to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the arrival …

    1. [                                             ] תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדוננו נגידנו
    2. [                                      מרד]כי הזמן…
    1. [. . .] תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדוננו נגידנו
    2. [. . . מרד]כי הזמן ועם קדושים נאמן אור עולם ופלאו ממזרח
    3. [שמש עד מבואו עבדו מנשק את] רגליו …

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  48. 48State documentL-G Ar. II.79

    Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by …

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  49. 49LetterMoss. Ia,12.1

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (in the hand of his son Avraham) to Egypt. Mentions oppressive laws and heavy taxes and punishments and requests …

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    1. ומו[
    2. זוכרי[ם
    3. עם ב[
    4. שכינת עו[לם
    5. ישמרו צורנ[ו
    6. אשר עלינו וטוב [
    7. אוכלים אותנו ח[יים
    8. עליהם חוקים חקו[קים
    9. תחלה המס הכבד אש[ר
    10. והעונש אשר לשום ל[
    11. העיר …

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  50. 50LetterMoss. IV,14.3

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Interesting format: the opening praises are written in large blocky Hebrew, with the remaining content in …

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