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  1. 4951LetterT-S 12.337

    IB III, 41. Letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Fustat, to his brother, Yosef, in Mazara, Sicily. Dating: September 1153 (Goitein) or 1152 (Friedman). It …

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    1. בש רח
    2. כתאבי אלי אכי וסיידי אל עזיז עלי אל את[יר …]
    3. אטאל אללה בקאה וצאנה ווקאה קרב אללה אלאגתמאע
    4. בה עלי אפצל אחואל ואסר אמאל במנה ופצלה לאנה
    5. על…

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    1. In Your name, O Merciful.
    2. This is my letter to you, my dear, nob[le] brother and lord [. . .],
    3. may God prolong your life and preserve you and …

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  2. 4952LetterT-S 10J9.5

    Letter from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1050. Information about shipments of goods and about the account of …

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    1. כתאב[י יאכי ו]אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה

    2. לט (?) כלת מן מרחשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אחי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויחמיר את שלומך ואת אושרך ויסלק ממך כל רע, ברחמיו,
    2. בט' במרחשון; שלומי טוב ואני מאושר, אבל…

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  3. 4953List or tableT-S AS 153.20

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (verso). Dating: Likely 13th century. On recto, mentions Abū Naṣr al-Ṣayrafī, [al-Shaykh] al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan, …

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  4. 4954Legal documentENA NS 77.221

    Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Either the buyer or the seller is named …

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  5. 4955Literary textENA NS 8.48

    Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. AA

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  6. 4956Legal documentT-S AS 153.281

    Possibly a legal document. Very faded. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl al-Maghribī, something ʿarabī (a hijrī date?), and possibly someone named Ḥananya.

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  7. 4957List or tableAIU VII.F.4

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic from the middle of the 11th century. Abū Manṣūr Tustarī is named on verso, possibly the brother of Abū Naṣr …

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  8. 4958LetterENA 2971.12

    Fragment from the beginning of a letter. Mentions (addresses?) the Nagid and [...]ya ha-Dayyan.

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  9. 4959State documentT-S NS 204.65

    A few words in Arabic script likely from a decree. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

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  10. 4960Legal documentT-S AS 207.192

    Legal document in Arabic script. Calligraphically written. Five lines preserved. Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions an amīr(?) Yūsuf, summoning somebody (to …

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  11. 4961LetterT-S 13J22.28

    Letter from Abū Ibrāhīm b. Ṭībān to his brother-in-law(?) Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 11th century. Shortly after these two parted …

    1. קד עלם אללה שדה שוקי אלי מולאי
    2. אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. [ע]זה ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק
    4. אליה שדיד אסל אללה קרב אלאגתמאע
    5. בה עלי אפצל אלמחאב במנה וגוד…

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  12. 4962Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/44

    Betrothal (erusin) contract, Karaite. Fragment (upper right corner). Groom: Yehuda b. Khalaf(?). Bride: Miriam bt. Shelomo, a widow. Miriam has a paqid (representative), Faraj b. …

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    1. בשם א[ל ע]ולם     הצליחו האלהים     ביי' יצדקו וית'      שוש אשיש
    2. הגדיל יי לעש[ות      שמ]חו את ירושל'     כי ניחם יי' ציון ני'      קול ששון …

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    1. In the name of the Everlasting [God]. God made him prosper (II Chron. 26: 5). In the Lord they shall be justified and praised (Is. 45: 25). I …

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  13. 4963Legal documentENA 4020.62

    This shelfmark includes 3 unrelated fragments. Bottom fragment: Validation of a legal document. Signed by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (also signed BL OR 5551.1), Ḥiyya b. …

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  14. 4964List or tableT-S K3.6

    List of 57 names, in some cases indicating their profession (many are physicians, also common are pharmacists, silk merchants, and silk weavers and dyers), beginning …

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  15. 4965LetterENA NS 48.25

    Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. On a narrow sliver of paper. Dating: probably 13th century. Recto: Letter addressed to Elʿazar, complaining about the addressee's delay in copying …

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    1. אעלם ר אלעזר שצ
    2. באני משתגל פי
    3. אלכראריס והם אן שא
    4. אללה ינתגזו סרעה
    5. וקד סירת לך אוקיה
    6. חבר וקד סירת אבו
    7. אלפרג ומעה אלדאבה
    8. פתכליהם יגו מעה
    9. סרעה וי…

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  16. 4966State documentT-S NS 327.76

    Fiscal account in Arabic script. Dated: 559 AH = 1163/64 CE (last line). Mentions a dīwān and a nāzir. Needs examination.

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  17. 4967List or tableT-S AS 156.201

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions a shop; al-Qāhirī; a guarantee (ḍamān) for Abū ʿAlī.

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  18. 4968Legal documentT-S NS 264.21

    Legal document. The main text is in Hebrew. Involves Shemuel ha-Levi and Sitt al-Kafāʾa and a quarter-house in Fustat that she had previously sold to …

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  19. 4969Legal documentT-S H5.214

    Fol. 1v: Muslim marriage contract. In Arabic script. Groom: Zayd b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn. 1.5 (dinars) are mentioned. May be dated. Fol. 2v: Fragment of …

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    1. بسم اللـه الرحمن [الرحيم]
    2. هذا ما اصدق جعفر [بن                                    فلانة ابنت]
    3. زيد بن علي بن الحسـ[ـين الحسيني وبه تزوجها اصدقه…

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    1. Au nom de Dieu, le Clément, [le Miséricordieux].
    2. Voici ce que Jaʿfar [b. …] a apporté en dot à [Untelle fille] de
    3. Zayd b. ʿAl…

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  20. 4970Literary textAIU VIII.B.27

    Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise with some corrections in a different hand.

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  21. 4971Paraliterary textT-S K5.21

    T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …

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  22. 4972Legal documentT-S NS 321.75

    Fragment from a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)

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  23. 4973Legal documentMoss. VII,72

    Prosbol document (registration of a loan at the court, thereby exempting it from automatic cancellation in the Sabbatical year). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 27 Elul …

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    1. כ'ז' לחדש אלול     פוסטאט
    2. בה' בשבת       בא אלינו

    3.             חוסין ברב' משה

    4. ויאמר לנו [שמעו] אתם בית דין הנה מסרתי דברי

    5. לכם    והודעתי…

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    1. 27 of the month of Elu'l Fust'a't'

    2. On Thursday

    3. There came to us

    4. H'usayn son of R. Moses

    5. and said to us, Hear ye! You are the court. I…

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  24. 4974Legal documentT-S 12.95

    Fragment of a marriage contract stipulating a total of 20 dinars as a marriage gift at the conclusion of the contract in the event of …

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    1. ] ועונה מהוללה ושמ[חה
    2. )א שבעה יומי בירח כסלו (
    3. )ורבנא מבורך (חתנא) בריה דמ(
    4. )ינתו (כדת משה וישראל) ואנא אפלח ואיקר וא(
    5. )ו ויהב לה מן דיליה …

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  25. 4975Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 74

    Legal document, in Arabic script, late. Receipt for al-Khwājā Ibrāhīm Joshua for the house he rented in Ḥarat al-Yahūd in Darb al-Ḥamṣānī which is an …

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  26. 4976Legal documentYevr. III B 164

    Ketubba fragment (marriage contract). Location: Damascus. Dated: 1[.]01 Seleucid = [10]89/90 or [11]89/9 CE.

    1. [...].חתן וכלה יבנו ויצליחו............[...]
    2. [...מ]אה וחדא שנין לשטרות בדמשיק מדינתא דעל נהרי אמנה ופרפר מותבה רשותיה דאדוננ[ו...]
    3. [...]ראש ישיבת גא…

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  27. 4977State documentENA NS 83.190

    End of an official document (letter? petition?). Likely a date in the penultimate line: 4[..] AH.

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  28. 4978Literary textT-S 8J22.27

    Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic …

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    1. אכברך מן לאך אלהוא בעגיב מן צביח
    2. לאחת בכף כציב פקלת להא באלבדר
    3. עיסא תטלעי סננצר נור צאטע ועגיב
    4. פאבדת תחדתני תחלפני וקאלת דלני
    5. מן אין די…

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  29. 4979Unknown typeENA NS 85.415

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 4980LetterENA 2739.9

    Mercantile letter, probably by a Maghribī trader of the 11th century, probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mawhūb b. ʿAmmār was present with …

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  31. 4981Legal documentT-S 16.195

    Legal document. Record of release. Dating: 1150-1181. Written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Nathan. In this document, Abū al-Makārim Nadiv ha-Levi b. Moses ha-Levi …

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    1. [...... ] אלמדכור מן [ .........................................................................]
    2. [....... ] אלמדכורה אלדי תברע לנא בהא אלשיך …

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    1. [...] the aforementioned from […]
    2. [...] the Elder, the aforementioned Abū al-Makārim al-‘Aṭṭār ha-Levi b. M(r.) Moses ha-Levi (who) r(ests in) E…

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  32. 4982List or tableT-S AS 179.264

    Account in Arabic script, evidently itemizing amounts/items owed between Abū l-[...] and Yūsuf al-Bayyāʿ. May mention calves (ʿujūl, ʿijl). The term طرف appears several times …

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  33. 4983List or tableT-S AS 204.220

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Probably medieval. Mentions items such as olive oil, linseed oil, and sesame oil; a jūkāniyya; a pillow; sarāwīl; wood; …

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  34. 4984LetterT-S NS J102

    Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writes to a notable, "I was told that you have made a marriage contract (ṣadāq) for your daughter at a Muslim court. …

    1. מע . . . . אן אלחצרה כתב לאבנתה כתאב צדאק
    2. באלגוים ולם נצדקה פ/ת/רחק מן הכיעור ומן הדומה
    3. לו

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  35. 4985LetterT-S AS 128.66

    Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with many blessings and a taqbīl. Verso: piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  36. 4986Literary textENA 2894.10

    Composition concerning business partnerships. Dating: ca. 16th century, according to Avraham David.

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  37. 4987Unknown typeENA NS 85.1283.4

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  38. 4988Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/53-54

    (c) Trousseau list. Dated: Sivan 1185 CE. Bride: Nasab bt. Abū l-Khayr al-Zayyāt. Groom: Munajjā Abū Saʿd al-Labbān. 10 + 25. Total value: 90 dinars. …

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  39. 4989LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1581

    Long Karaite business letter. The year is given as יה אלש, might be 5431 = 1671.

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  40. 4990LetterT-S NS 320.9

    Letter from Rawḥ Ha-Kohen he-ḥazzan (the cantor) al-Baghdādī b. Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 …

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    1. سيدي وموﻻي الحبر افرائيم بن شمريا اطال الله بقاه وادام [عزه] وتاييده
    2. وسعادته وسلامته ونعمه وكفايته
    3. من روح بن فنحاس الحزان البغدادي ي…

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  41. 4991Literary textT-S AS 151.28

    Commentary entitled פירוש מכתב לרבנות, in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli.

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  42. 4992LetterT-S 10J27.1

    Introduction to a letter, written in rhymed prose and addressed to Seʿadel "the 'sar." There are some large Hebrew letters at the top of the …

    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. בייי יצדקו ויתהללו כל זרע ישראל
    3. תהילות צורינו בכל נשם: תרבנה מאד בכל רשם: כי מאד נעלה:
    4. מכל שבח ותהילה: ומנהו השאילה: ואליו התפלה: להצמיד

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  43. 4993Literary textT-S AS 134.72 + T-S NS 312.127a + T-S NS 312.127b

    Dirge for Rabbenu Bahlul (probably Bahlul b. Yosef active in early 11th-century Qayrawān). T-S AS 134.72 has writing only on recto and does not join …

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  44. 4994Legal documentT-S 16.138 + T-S AS 152.28

    Legal document. Record of release. Dated: August 9, 1077. Location: Alexandria. This release document, written in the Alexandria rabbinical court, concerns a partnership between Yosef …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפ[נא] אנן שהדי דח | תמות ידנא לתחתא בכתבא דנן כן הוה חצרא אלינא

    2. מ יוסף ביר יאשיה נ[ע אל]מערוף בן אל | דהבי ומ כלף בן עזרון ו…

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  45. 4995Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 177.575

    Small receipt of some kind in Arabic script.

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  46. 4996Legal documentT-S AS 153.72

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very faded/rubbed. Seems to be describing a house.

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  47. 4997LetterT-S AS 177.258

    Letter fragment. Looks like a join with T-S AS 177.259.

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  48. 4998LetterBodl. MS heb. d 73/16

    Letter from Yehuda Pinto and Moshe Ḥaddād to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 22 Av 5568 AM = 15 August 1808 CE. …

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  49. 4999LetterT-S K11.68

    Letter formulary in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary: כגק מר ור פ אור עינינו מנהיג דורנו . . .

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  50. 5000Unknown typeAIU VI.B.139

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