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  1. 5101Legal documentT-S 6J12.7

    Recto: accounts submitted by Abū l-Barakāt Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Talmid Abu l-Faraj, headed by مملوكه שלמה אמת.

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  2. 5102LetterT-S 10J10.10

    (On verso there are also a few lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.)

    1. כי אם יש אחרית ותקותך לא תכרת
    2. איש זקן מכובד . בברכות יוזבד . בתפארת עטרה יורבד . כעטה מכנסי בד שהוא
    3. לבד . השר היקר . הנברר ונחקר . ובצדק וזוריח כאור…

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  3. 5103LetterT-S 13J25.13

    On verso there are largely undeciphered mercantile accounts involving shipments of silk in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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    1. ב̇שר̇ח
    2. קד עלם אלקדים ̇גל ̇תَנَאَה מא י̇גדה עבד אלח̇צרה אלסאמיה אלריّיסיה אלא̇גליّה אלעאליה
    3. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא ועזהא ורפעתהא וסמוהא וס…

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  4. 5104Legal documentT-S 16.207

    Reused on verso for accounts in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe as well as jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script; see separate record.

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    1. [ ]תים עימנא לתחתא כן הוה כאן קד וצלא פי
    2. [ ]פרי מרור ברכות הזקן בר מרור נתן הזקן נע ומרור
    3. [ ] בוכאלה מתבתה בקיום הדרת אדוננו ראש הגולה
    4. [ ]ם אל…

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  5. 5105LetterT-S 16.292

    There are also drafts of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew letters, as well as a small section of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

    1. כל מעייני נתתי בך ובמודע לבב[י אמצתיך] חקרתיך בעין ל[בי(?)
    2. בניין של קדושים כ מ ורב שילה השר הנכבד החכם הנבו[ן
    3. שצ היב מאת הנכסף לחזותך השמח בחברתך המ…

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  6. 5106List or tableT-S 20.144

    Accounts in Arabic script with names and numbers arranged in neat columns.

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  7. 5107State documentT-S Ar.22.140 + T-S K25.221

    T-S Ar.22140 was reused for a Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Isaiah 54:1 and 1 Samuel 1:11, while T-S K25.221 was reused for Hebrew poetry headed with the name of the meter, כפיף, and for Arabic accounts. Join: Marina Rustow. On the bottom fragment, there are traces of ink below lines 2 and 3 that demonstrate that the paper was folded when the ink was still wet.

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    1. ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه 

    2. الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله

    3. والحمد لله وصلواته على…

    1. To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…

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  8. 5108State documentT-S AS 176.176

    Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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  9. 5109List or tableT-S AS 208.109

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very detailed. Dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and currencies referenced.

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  10. 5110List or tableT-S AS 209.166 + T-S AS 209.168

    Accounts with a wide variety of names mentioned, possibly a communal list.

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  11. 5111LetterT-S NS 320.129a

    Almost all of the text on verso consists of detailed business accounting, with references to multiple types of currency.

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  12. 5112Legal documentT-S NS J401l

    Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts. Arithmetic lessons were to be held through the use of the abacus.

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[חתמות ]
    2. אלשיך אבו אלפצל כגק מרור צדקה הז[קן ]
    3. כגק מרור שמריה הזקן הנכבד נבע [ ]
    4. מרור שלמה הלוי הזקן הנכבד ישצו […

    As to arithmetic, he should master the use of the abacus, the decimals [ ........................ ] and the accounts, not more. It was agreed that the el[der Abu ʾI-Faḍl would receive these 2 dinars] any time he applied for them and that the payment would not be deferred.

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  13. 5113LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/17

    Secondary document: Accounts in Arabic script on verso. Several numbers are mentioned, and potentially dates.

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  14. 5114Legal documentCUL Or.1080 9.21

    Verso: An unrelated list of accounts appears on the verso of this ketubba. A variety of coinage types are mentioned and the appearance of Maḥmūdīya in line 1 points to the likelihood that the list was recorded following the onset of Sultan Maḥmūd II's reign in 1808.

    1. בסימן טוב וחצלה
    2. יתן י׳׳י את האשה הבאה אלביתך כרחל וכלאה
    3. בשני בשבת בארבעה עשר יום לחדש ניסן שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות ושמנים ואחת ליצירה הכא בעיר אל[ק…

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  15. 5115List or tableENA 3704.4

    Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. The upper portion of recto may be a list of customers and their orders, as various names and garment types are mentioned.

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  16. 5116List or tablep. Heid. Hebr. 17

    Recto and verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1053 (Gil).

    Recto, right column

    1.  [א]כראג צרה דאוד שאפע דינ[ר
    2. אבן גמיל לסעיד ג דנא וזן ולה פי עסל ג אלא תמן
    3. חבל                 דינ       צרף             דין אל…

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    1. Expended, first: 352 ⅓ (d.) 1 ḥ.
    2. (Added in small script:) Except the purse of Abu ʾl-Khayr, which was returned to him
    3. in its entirety. It wa…

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  17. 5117LetterT-S 13J22.13

    Reused on verso for Arabic accounts (see separate record).

    1. ולדה שלמה געל פדאה
    2. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ טאיעא
    3. ללה תע אמאם אלמגלס אלסאמי
    4. אלואלדי דאם עזה וינהי כתרה אלשוק
    5. אליה ואלי אלואלדה אלעזיזה דאם עזהא
    6. ואלי אלצגא…

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  18. 5118LetterT-S Ar.18(1).51

    On verso there are jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning fruit of the Syrian ash (lisān ʿuṣfūr), clove, saffron, and sugar among other items.

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  19. 5119State documentT-S Ar.34.89

    Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

    Recto, top right

    1. [يثبت] نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف

    2. ان شا الله

    3. [اثبت و]المبلغ دينار واحد 

    4. [سوا]

    5. والحمد لله على نعمه

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    Yaḥyā b. Nahār, his deputy, and (under) the tax accounting of the elder
  20.  Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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  22. 5120State documentT-S Ar.39.26

    Ḥasan on behalf of the Bureau of Supervision; and (3) (under) the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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  23. 5121State documentT-S Ar.42.186

    A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?)

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  24. 5122LetterT-S Misc.25.130

    Ṣāliḥ would have liked to come to Fustat and help with finding the will and accounts of the deceased, but he was prevented by the death of Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך וא[דאם] עזך

    2. ותאיידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך מן תניס ל[ ] כלון [מן]

    3. אדר ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנה וער…

    recto

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי וראשי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך
    2. ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך, מתניס, ב....
    3. באדר, יו…

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  25. 5123Legal documentT-S NS 324.46

    On verso there is also some accounting in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning goods related to the India trade.

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    1. חצר אלי בית דין //מ'\\ מעאלי בר עיאש //נ'[ע]\\ [...]
    2. ואלתמס מן בית דין אסתמא[ע ...]
    3. אבו עלי דיד [יע] אל. ... [...]
    4. נחן נשהד אן אלעד [ל ...]
    5. בא…

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  26. 5124LetterT-S NS J291

    Reused for jotted Judaeo-Arabic accounts on verso. (Information in part from CUDL and Mediterranean Society, I, p. 221.)

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    1. מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה עזה וסעאדתה ונעמאה
    2. נעלמך סלמך אללה אן קד וצלנא סאלמין בחמד אללה
    3. בעהד לה יום ואלדי כאן מעי בעתה ונצת תמנה
    4. דנא' מרא…

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  27. 5125State documentT-S Ar.35.97

    Dated: 403 kharājī = ca. 1012/13 CE. "Account of the revenue extracted from government estates (ḍiyāʿ al-sulṭāniyya)...mablagh …… fī l-ṣināʿa al-sulṭāniyya bi-nāḥiyat …… al-sana 403 al-kharājiyya...."

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  28. 5126List or tableENA 2713.53

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly recorded by a bookseller and, based on one type of coinage in use, the yüzlük ("יוזליס" l.3r), the document dates probably to the late-18th or 19th century (the Ottoman yüzlük was not minted until 1789CE).

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  29. 5127LetterENA NS 2.15

    Verso was reused for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably by the addressee.

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  30. 5128List or tableENA NS 22.16

    Accounts of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Detailed and important" according to Goitein's index card.

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  31. 5129Legal documentT-S 8J32.3

    Each attests to transactions and deposits; apparently, the partners did not trust one another "as two proper witnesses", and they required direct testimony of the partnership accounting. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 190)

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    1. למא כאן פי יום אלתלאתא אלראבע מחדש אב 
    2. אתעג לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא 
    3. מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כבוד
    4. גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנ…
    When we dispatched (a letter) for his withdrawal (of the funds) from my ( account),
  32. the document of his partner M(r.) Eleazar reached him, saying that he had erred concerning the gold which
  33. was with him.
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  35. 5130Legal documentT-S 13J3.27

    There are a number of provisions concerning the assets of the concern: first, Munajjā is entitled to one dinar from Abū al-Khayr for fourteen months, a debt recorded in a separate document; second, the balance of all the shop’s merchandise is to be retained by Munajjā; third, the first 800 dirhams of the shop’s debts will be repaid by Munajjā (any excess will be repaid by the two partners jointly); fourth, both partners will share in collecting accounts receivable, with the funds divided equally between them; and, fifth, six copper basins will go to Munajjā (which previously belonged to Abū l-Khayr, as he is held responsible for anything missing from them).

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדיא דחתימי לתתא אנה למא כאן פי
    2. אלעשר אלאוסט מחדש תמוז שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ועשרין ותשע שנין
    3. לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל ניל…

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    1. Testimony that was before us—we, the undersigned witnesses—that in the
    2. middle ten-day period of the month of Tammuz of the year one thousand fi…

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  36. 5131State documentT-S Ar.38.140

    The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant Abū Musabbiḥī Abū l-Qāsim al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn, in which it is stated that Abū l-Ḥasan Mājid b.

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  37. 5132List or tableT-S AS 188.17

    Large cluster of 14 bifolios with accounts and lists in Ladino. These folios may have all be part of the same ledger given the sewing marks that appear on the inner spines. 15th-century or later based on the paleography.

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  38. 5133Legal documentT-S G1.47

    Above the responsum there are additional jottings, including accounts in Ladino mentioning the name Don Yosef, and potentially a draft of a commercial letter in Ladino.

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  39. 5134List or tableT-S NS J314

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for Saturday 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda through Friday 14 Dhū l-Qaʿda.

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  40. 5135LetterMoss. IV,29.1

    Verso: another letter (both are possibly drafts), also addressed to a notable, in the same hand, written transversely in relation to the text on recto, overwriting an earlier Arabic text (mercantile or fiscal account). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  41. 5136State documentBodl. MS Heb. d 66/13

    The last two lines are difficult to contextualize but an attempted interpretation could be - with the command of the overseer of his business/accounts, someone wrote from the dīwān regarding what is obligatory on the different types of taxes.

    1. ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة
    2. ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة اعزها الله
    3. ومملوكه سعيد بن لا…
    4. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    5. لست نسأل في مودة الشيخ السيد اطال الله ب…
    in the dīwān with the command of Sayyīdī al-Shaykh, the overseer of his business/accounts…..

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  42. 5137Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J73

    On the verso there are jottings and accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals ("expenses on Sunday: syrup(?)...

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    1. אן יסלם אליי מ[.. גמיע ]מא ענדה [...................................]

    2. ביננא אלמעאמלה ודאך אננא נשתרך גמ[יענא........................מאיה]

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  43. 5138List or tableJRL C 72

    On the verso, the lists are more scattered yet follow a format similar to the recto where more names can be found among the accounts: Ḥayyīm Zagdun. Eliyyahu Shtawī, Yiṣḥaq Yaʿabes, Ḥayyīm Dayyan, MCD.

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  44. 5139Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 10

    Edited by Gil (transcription below). 3. Copious accounts in Arabic script, with some Hebrew interspersed. 4.

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    1. יהודה אלוף בישיבה שלגולה בר אבר[הם]
    2. ותמה אני ממר אלחנן ראש הסדר בר שמ[ריה]
    3. כי בא ממנו כתב אל שער הישיבה
    4. הגיד בו כי שלח כתב אל מרנו
    5. גאון צבי יחי…

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  45. 5140Literary textT-S AS 157.386

    Excerpts from the Gospels, or possibly Toldot Yeshu (though the depiction of Jesus seems too positive and faithful to the New Testament accounts for this to be the case). In Judaeo-Arabic.

    Verso

    1. ] . . . . . [
    2. ואמראה זכריוס(?) אנא . . . . נשרב כפא[
    3. רגלין פטרס וקאל מא גא מן אלבשר ליכדם ו[
    4. וקאם כדם תלאמדתה וקאל פי מזמור [
    5. עלי אנסאן ליס לה…

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  46. 5141List or tableT-S NS 164.41

    On three of the four pages, there are later accounts in a different hand, in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  47. 5142LetterCUL Or.1080 J113

    A letter with Abu l-Ḥasan arrived with the news that you are sick, and we were pained on your account, myself and the mother. As for Tawus and Mas'udah, they did not greet us (?).

    1. יגמע אלשמל בה קריב גיר בעיד פי כיר ועאפיה
    2. אן קד וצל כתאבך מע אבן אלגלאגלי ושכרנא אללה תע
    3. עלי עאפיתך ופהמת מצמונה וקראה נגם אלדין ענדי
    4. פי אלגיזה וכתב…

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  48. 5143LetterT-S 20.149

    He continues with an account of the illnesses afflicting his family members (r23–v1), all of which he has described in previous letters but has not received any response.

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    1. בש' רח'
    2. יחנ'
    3. אשרי תמימי דרך ההול'
    4. אשרי תמימי דרך ההול
    5. והמשכילים יזהירו כזו'
    6. וידע כל יש מ כ נ שמואל
    7. יוי עוז
    8. קומי אורי כי בא אורך וכ[בוד] יוי ע…

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  49. 5144Legal documentENA 2741.7

    The rest of the document seems to detail his efforts to settle his accounts. On verso there is a Hebrew/Judaeo-Arabic glossary of Halakhot Gedolot.

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  50. 5145Legal documentMoss. V,374

    It is not entirely clear who sues whom for what, but it seems that Yefet sues Yehuda for the remaining 30 dinars and 1 qirat owed to him from the balance of the accounts relating to the mint (Dār al-Ḍarb), and in the same court session Yehuda sues Yefet for an old debt of 121 remaining dinars out of an original debt of 145 dinars "from the days of the late judge (shofeṭ)."

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  51. 5146List or tableT-S 10J11.26 + T-S K25.227 + T-S Ar.44.223 + T-S Ar.18(1).181

    Accounts of the Qodesh in the hand of Yefet b. David b.

    T-S 10J11.26 1 recto

    1. בשמך
    2. תבת מא אונפק פי רבע אלכניסה פי סנה תסע ועש[רין] וארבע מאי[ה]
    3. עלי יד חסין בן דאוד בן שכניה
    4. ויעקוב בן בשר אלארגואני
    5. פי עמל ה…

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    1. In Thy Name, (oh Merciful)!

    2.  Record of the expenditures made in the estate of the Synagogue in the year 429 

    3.  by Ḥusayn b. Daʾūd b. Shekh…

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  52. 5147LetterT-S 13J8.22

    Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes).

    1. . . . . ת מולי אלשיך אבו אל[. . .
    2. אלאגתמאע באלשיך אבי ו . ל [
    3. ואלשיך אבו אלברכאת וואלדתה
    4. ונקלהם סלאמי(?) ותערפהם מא
    5. ק[[.]]טעת כתבי ענהם אלא לאנקט[ע

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  53. 5148List or tableT-S AS 153.317

    Bifolio from a ledger of accounts. Dating: Perhaps 18th century, but conceivably 17th–19th century.

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  54. 5149LetterDK 333 (alt: 18)

    Yehuda; also Gil: goes to show that fears of being vilified after death were justified). On verso, accounts of very large sums of money in what Gil identifies as the hand of Barhūn b.

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    1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מן
    2. אלקדס עמרה אללה ען סלאמה ללה אלחמד ולה אלשכר עלי
    3. אחסאנה קד עלם אללה תעאלי שגל קלבי באכבארך ומא

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    My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your strength—from Jerusale…

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  55. 5150List or tableENA 2964.9

    List of accounts that records alphanumerical monetary figures in connection with one "Shemuel al-Ashqar / שמואל אלאשקר" on the 19th of the month Shaʿbān, however, the year is not included in the recto's heading (l.1r).

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