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  1. 5001LetterT-S NS 255.34

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    Arabic

    Typewritten or printed letter addressed to Moshe Pardo, the head rabbi of Alexandria (served 1871–88). In Arabic script, with Hebrew insertions. In which the sender …

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  2. 5002State documentENA 2818.46

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    Arabic

    Letter/petition in Arabic script. Dating: likely mid- to late 12th century, based on paleographic grounds, the mention of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rav who may be …

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  3. 5003Legal query or responsumMS R1889, fol. 2 + MS R1889, fol. 1

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    4 pages contains four legal queries and their responsa all by the RIF. Published in Wertheimer, קהלת שלמה, p. 92-94 [Ginzei Yerushalyim, p. 68-71. The …

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  4. 5004LetterENA 1822a.54

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in which the writer asks the recipient to deliver the bearer of the letter fifty dirhams worth of black silk, since the writer is …

    1. רקעתי אלי מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה
    2. בקאה ואדאם עזה ומא אעלם חצרתה
    3. סאעת וקופה עלי רקעתי יתפצל עלי
    4. יאכוד לי מן ברכאת וזן ן דרהם
    5. חריר אסוד ידפע למוצל רקעת…

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  5. 5005LetterENA 2727.37

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Upper fragment: Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī, probably Yeḥezqel ha-Levi (his name is written in the margin), in Alexandria. What remains from the letter contains …

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  6. 5006LetterT-S 13J19.24

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Maʿālī. Beginning with good wishes for Rosh ha-Shana and recommending a stranger, a certain "Raʾīs" …

  7. מלאחטתה אלי חית עודתה פהי תעלם

    8. Recto - right margin

    1. נפס אלגריב
    2. ושלום הדרתה
    3. יגדל לעד

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  8. 5007LetterT-S AS 158.200

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Makārim. Asking him to pawn 'this book' for 10 dirhams, because the need is pressing. Cf. …

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  9. 5008Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 182.297

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    Arabic

    Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (mawlāya al-dayyān) is instructed to give 5 dinars to the bearer Abū l-ʿIzz on a certain date. …

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  10. 5009Legal documentT-S NS 225.25t

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    Debt contract. Probably in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. [Yose]f b. Elʿazar b. Mevorakh Ibn …

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  11. 5010List or tableT-S NS 277.177

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    Arabic

    Bifolio mainly with Hebrew poetry or liturgical text, but with two sections in Arabic script. The one on verso appears to be a note about …

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  12. 5011Literary textT-S NS 305.17

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    Arabic

    Sufi epistle, it seems -- discussing the 'stations' (al-maqāmāt) of the 'path' (ṭarīqa) and the right way to progress through them. Might be an actual …

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  13. 5012Legal documentL-G Glass 40

    Recto: part of a large letter to the courtier Avraham b. Yashar (Abraham b. Sahl Tustari). The writer wishes him recovery from his illness, and …

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  14. 5013List or tableT-S NS 99.13

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating; 11th century. Seems to be a list of debts (duyūn). The sums are quite large: - Yeshuʿa, in Damsīs: 36 …

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  15. 5014LetterBL OR 5566C.7 + BL OR 5566C.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter (tadhkira, memorandum) on two sheets of paper, written and signed by Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī, probably in Fustat, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, perhaps …

    (א)

    1.           תדכרה לשאכרך
    2. מנשה ביר' דויד אלצירפי 
    3. אנא אסאלך חרס אללה ערך אדא וצלת 
    4. [א]לי אסכנדריה ואתפק אנתמאעך באלשיך 
    5. אבי אברהים אסמעיל אדאם אללה…

    (א)

    1. (2-1) תזכיר של המודה לך מנשה בי"ר דויד השולחני.
    3. אבקש ממך, ישמור אלוהים את גדולתך, כי אם תגיע
    4. לאלכסנדריה ותיפגש במקרה עם האדון
    5. אבו אברהים אסמעי…
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  16. 5015LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/8 + Bodl. MS heb. c 64/9

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    Hebrew

    Letter in Hebrew dated 1766/67 CE (527 = וה(י)כינו את (אשר) יביאו) from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging …

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  17. 5016LetterT-S Ar.37.154

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter addressed to R. Peraḥya ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Maybe Ayyubid or Mamluk-era based on the hand and formulae, but this should be …

    recto

    1. בר
    2. אצגר אלממאליך יקבל אל[אר]ץ בין ידי סידנא

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  18. 5017List or tableT-S Ar.51.78

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Informal note from a bookseller named Yefet to a Nasi. He is acting as a middleman and presenting a bill for approximately a dozen books …

    1. ענד סידנא אלנשיא ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו אלחאוי
    2. גזאין כ וכתאב אלמחאצרה יו וכראריס כתיר מגמע/ה/
    3. מן פנון כתירה י ואללגה ד ותנחומא ח ומשנה כא
    4. וכתאב אלארש…

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  19. 5018LetterCUL Or.1080 J97

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    Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter addressed to Moshe ha-Dayyan, who has a son named Yosef. The sender reports that Avraham was grateful for the favor of the addressee and …

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  20. 5019State documentCUL Or.1080 J255

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    Arabic

    Fols. 1 and 2: Petition in Arabic script. From Mubārak b. ʿAllūn. The addressee is al-Ajaliyya al-Afḍaliyya al-sharafiyya, probably one of the Fatimid wazīrs post …

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  21. 5020LetterENA 2558.30e

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yehuda b. [...] to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The name of the city Tripoli appears after the sender's name, much of which is …

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  22. 5021LetterT-S 6J5.6 + T-S NS J274

    Draft of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in the Maghreb. Around 1046. Seems like the letter is addressed to the Tāhartī …

  23. …אלקזדיו

    24. verso, top margin

    1. …אלג'לאיל ג' דנא'
    2. …ואלעלאוה

    verso

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך (מ… ביום… בחודש… יראה) 
    2. אלוהים (לנו) ולך את ברכתו ואת אושרו, וגם…
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  24. 5022LetterT-S 13J35.12

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Sahlān b. Avraham to a Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1035. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 622-623, #339). Goitein …

    1. אלכמסה פקא [
    2. ואפיה בלא נקץ [
    3. שהאדאתנא וקד ע[לם?
    4. אלה צחה קולי פאן אמרני מו[לאי
    5. פעלת וקד כתבת אלי חצרה גאון [
    6. אעלמת מולאי אלחבר שצ דלך ל[א
    7. מוכלא לאבו …

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  25. 5023LetterT-S AS 149.89

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Autograph letter from Maimonides to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi). Dating: ca. 1168–1204, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …

    1. [הדר]ת אלדיין אלמשכיל שצ תרום
    2. [תתו]סט בין אלשיך אבי אלפכר מוצלהא
    3. [ובין] כצמה אלשיך אבי אלמחאסן פאן גלבת
    4. פ[י] דלך תחלפה ימין אלעדם אלמעלומה
    5. [ות]חדר ע…
    1. [הדר]ת הדיין המשכיל ש[מרו] צ[ורו] תרום
    2. [תת]ווך בין השיך אבו אלפכר המוכ"ז
    3. [ובין] בעל דינו השיך אבו אלמחאסן. ואם נבצר ממנה (= מהדרתו)
    4. לעשות כך, תשביע …
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  26. 5024Legal documentT-S NS 297.317

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    Arabic

    Legal document(s) in Arabic script. The two columns are written in two different hands. The text on the left is extremely similar to the text …

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  27. 5025Legal documentYevr. II A 1296

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    Hebrew

    Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 25 Sivan 5556 AM (1796 CE). The groom Moshe ha-Kohen taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, …

    1. ביום ראשון בשבוע והוא חמשה ועשרים יום מחדש סיון שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות
    2. ששה וחמשים שנים לבריאת העולם ואלפים ומאה וחמשה שנים למספר יונים בעיר
    3. אלקאהר…
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  28. 5026LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1439

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yeshaʿya Kohen, in Damascus, to his nephew Aharon Kohen, in Fustat/Cairo. (The writer is the paternal uncle of the addressee.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …

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  29. 5027Legal documentENA 4011.49

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    Legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel, who also signed the validation (qiyyum). Dating: ca. 1145 CE (but it is not clear where …

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  30. 5028LetterENA 4100.11

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last leaf only. The writer is begging for an urgent loan or gift of 5 dinars, on Sunday. A sum of 20 …

    1. יעקב יטאלבה מני פמא כאן ימכנני אמצי ולא יכון
    2. צחבתי ועבדהא יסאלהא תכמיל אלאצטנאע פי
    3. כמסה דנאניר תציר אלגמלה ענד עבדהא עשרון
    4. דינארא סוא פקד אנעמת במא …

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  31. 5029LetterENA NS 7.85

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    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The only name surviving in the address is Musāfir b. Hiba al-Sabīʿī, which is presumably …

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  32. 5030Legal documentT-S 10J2.35

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    Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Sivan 1524 (26 May 1213). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark.

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  33. 5031List or tableT-S K6.45

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Fol. 1v: Booklist mentioning a Torah and a Targum, sheʾiltot of R. Aḥa, responsa and treatises by Hayya Gaʾon, a Bible commentary by Ibn Sarjado, …

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  34. 5032List or tableENA 2958.12 + ENA 2958.13

    List of accounts in Judeo-Arabic in which each heading is marked by elongated ligatures either as extensions of final letters or as independent lines drawn …

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  35. 5033List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 197

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    Ottoman Turkish

    Practice of drafting a state document, Ottoman-era. Probably an instance of someone practicing an epistolary address to the Ottoman Sultan rather than an honorific of …

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  36. 5034LetterT-S 12.608

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) warning against a traveling preacher, popular in the community, who "speaks of secrets whose meanings …

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  37. 5035Legal documentT-S AS 207.193 + T-S AS 207.191

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    Hebrew

    T-S AS 207.191: Interior section from a larger legal document, very damaged. Ca. 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The document may relate to …

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  38. 5036LetterAIU VII.E.174

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 9 Nisan 5568, which is 6 April 1808 CE.

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  39. 5037Legal documentBL OR 10578R.48

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    Aramaic

    Small fragment of legal document(s). Recto is in a square hand and verso appears to be a more cursive copy of it. Needs examination.

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  40. 5038Paraliterary textBodl. MS heb. e 105/43

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Ownership note on a book acquired by Natan b. Yeshuʿa. There is also a date based on a biblical verse but hard to interpret.

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  41. 5039LetterENA NS 29.18

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    Hebrew

    Letter addressed to ʿAmram. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably no earlier than 16th century. Shemuel b. Sīd(?) is mentioned in the first line. Very faded.

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  42. 5040Legal query or responsumENA NS 67.16

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    Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Opening of a legal query, perhaps addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon ('rosh yeshivat Ga'on Yaʿaqov'). In Judaeo-Arabic. On recto there is a text in Aramaic.

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. קד געל אללה תבארך [ותעאלי
    3. ראש ישיבת גאון יעק[ב
    4. ישראל מפצל בין אלחק [
    5. מן אלבאטל פאללה אל[
    6. אפצל [. . . . .]לב אלצ[
    7. . . . . אנה] ולי אלאגאבה
    8. . …

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  43. 5041Paraliterary textJRL A 1273

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    Hebrew

    Calendar in Hebrew for 5582 AM. The calendar retains a reference to the calendrical correspondence of Rabīʿ I 1243 AH which is 1827 CE.

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  44. 5042List or tableJRL B 6500

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Two columns at 180 degrees to each other, one in Judaeo-Arabic and one in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic column is a list of names.

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  45. 5043LetterJRL B 7502 + JRL B 7449

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. High register. Verso is addressed to Moshe b. Nissim and resembles the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Needs examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  46. 5044Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Talm.II.15A

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Munajjā is to give (the bearer?) 4 ounces of rose and lemon. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  47. 5045LetterMoss. II,147.2

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Drafts of a note addressed to a certain Abū l-Faraj. It's not clear what the precise request is. The scribe spells אתפצל as אטפצל.

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  48. 5046Legal documentMoss. VII,99.1

    Marriage contract. Five lines from the middle are preserved: only detail that survives is the gift of a 1/4 dār to the bride. [RR]

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  49. 5047State documentMoss. Xa,3.29

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    Arabic

    Likely a Fatimid fiscal account. Difficult to read. As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.

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  50. 5048Literary textT-S 8J31.3

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    Fol. 2: Poem written by Abū l-Maḥāsin b. Abū Naṣr al-Ḥasid. According to CUDL, it is a copy of a polemic against a Gaʾon.

    T-S 8J31.3 2r

    1. התקבצו יחד מתי הבין שמעו אשר חובר בימנו (!)
    2. חכמת יחיד הדור אשר תעיד כי הוא ארי תורת אלוהנו (!)
    3. שמעו והלילו וספדו גם תאנחו תמיד לשברינו
      4. …
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  51. 5049Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

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    Fol. 2: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl of oxymel.

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  52. 5050Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

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    Fol. 10v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer lemon and rose [syrup].

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