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  1. 5201LetterT-S 8K8 + T-S 8K7 + Ms Harkavy

    One of two manuscripts of ben Meir's first letter regarding the calendar controversy of 921/22 CE. (The other one is ENA 2556.2 + Bodl. Heb. f. 26/1-6.) Writes from Palestine to Baghdad.

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  2. 5202Legal documentT-S 10J7.13

    Trousseau list enumerating items of a dowry which amounts to 30 dinars and part of a house.

    1. מצרפה מקדם י מאכר ארבעין
    2. טובא מעליה (!)
    3. זוג אכראץ דהב וכאתם דהב וגלאלא דרי ומעגרהא
    4. וג מנאדיל תניסי ומנדיל רומי וסת מעארק ויזאר (!)
    5. וסת מכאדר מנהא מכ…

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  3. 5203LetterT-S 10J14.24

    Letter from a physician to a Kohen expressing thanks for condolences. At the end he writes a prescription for the growing of hair on skin where none would grow.

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כאן קד תקדם כתאב חצרה מולאי אלכהן אלגליל
    3. אטאל אללה [בקאה ואדאם] עזה ותאיידה ורפעתה
    4. וארתקאה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה והו יעזיני פי
    5. רבנו ז׳ל׳ פכיף את…

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  4. 5204LetterT-S 10J25.4

    The portion preserved consists entirely of asking for a response to letters that had gone unanswered.

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  5. 5205Legal documentT-S 12.19

    Power of attorney to Perahya ha-Kohen to travel to India and sue Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. al-Raqqī for the recovery of goods--primarily textiles--entrusted to said Nissim. Location: Fustat. Dating: early 1090s CE.

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    1. גמורה גלויה ומפ[ור]סמ[ת יהי]בא ומשלמא [בי]דיה [מיומא ד]נן עד לעלם [ואגבן]
    2. אקמתה לי וכילא לימצי אלי דיאר אלהנד ויטאלב לי כב מר נסים אלמכני אבו …

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    1. גמורה גלויה ומפ[ור]סמ[ת יהי]בא ומשלמא [בי]דיה [מיומא ד]נן עד לעלם, [ואגבן]
    2. מיניתי אותו שליח בשבילי ללכת אל ארץ הודו ולתבוע את כב'[וד] מר' נסים…

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  6. 5206Legal documentT-S 12.75

    David ha-Kohen (also signed ENA 3475.5 (PGPID 11347)). There is a diagram in the right margin.

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  7. 5207LetterT-S 12.146

    Reused for literary text on verso in a different hand (with lameds ending in distinctive little loops). (Information mainly from Gil.)

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    1. מאצלכם בעדכם וכשאשמע שלום אדוננו הרב ושלומכם [וגוד]ל תפארתכם א[שמח]
    2. ואשיש ואעלוז בעלץ ואשבח לצור על ככה המק' יגדיל את שמכם למעלה ויוסיף על 
    3. כ…

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  8. 5208LetterT-S 12.428

    (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 101) Full English translation by J. Kraemer in MHR 4 (1989).

    1. שלום קדושים לוי [
    2. חנני חנני [אתם רעי
    3. הלא פרס לרע[ב לחמך
    4. יקבל אלארץ נחוהמא ויכדם מו[אליא
    5. מר ור וכגק מר ור
    6. וינהי אן למא קצא כאלק אלוג[וד
    7. פי אלדיאר אלמ…

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  9. 5209Legal documentT-S 13J4.11

    Yehiel concerning Sulayman ha-Kohen b. Efrayim, who engaged in dyeing silk with turquoise blue. Also mentions the Nagid David; Fustat, 1564 Sel. (1253/1252 C.E.).

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוך אלואצעין כטוטנא אכר הדא אלמסטור אך למא כאן פי אליום
    2. אלתאלת ואלעשרין מן שהר כסלין דשנת אלפא וחמש מאה ושתין וארבע שנין
    3. לשטרות למנינא א…

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  10. 5210LetterT-S 13J6.16

    The writer further notes that “By chance I befriended a man from Damascus who introduced me to the family of Sayf al-Islam. I entered their house and treated them, whereupon they fixed for me a payment of one dinar every month.”

    1. ] מן חאל אלצגאר א[
    2. ] אלגוע ואלערי ואלקלה וכונהם לא יקדרו עלי אלכבז ישבעו בה
    3. לאן אלחצרה תעלם אנהם ירידו שי לא בד מנה וממלוכהא
    4. מא לה רזק אלא דקיק גדא …

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  11. 5211LetterT-S 13J16.12

    The main part of the letter deals with a trading business of dates that ended with the loss of 12 dinars. Also mentions ordering fabrics from Alexandria.

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    1. תוכלת עלי אללה

    2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ואתם אלנעם עליה

    3. ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה יום אלב לבי בקין מן תמוז ערפה…

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    1. (2-1) בוטח אני באלוהים; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך וישלים את חסדיו עליך
    2. ברחמיו, מאלכסנדרי…

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  12. 5212LetterT-S 13J17.6

    News has come from Egypt concerning a severe epidemic (wabā'), and the writer is worried and asks for news of the addressee as well as of the merchandise that he had sent to be sold in Egypt. The writer also encloses a letter for Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Dā'ūd b.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולי אלשיך
    2. ואדאם עזה מן דמשק סלך שואל
    3. ען סלאמה פי נפס ושגל פי אלקלב מן
    4. אנקטאע כתב מולי וכתב אלאהל ולא
    5. חילה ואלאכבאר ענדנא …

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  13. 5213LetterT-S 13J28.21

    Dating: probably 1060s CE, toward the end of Yeshuʿa's career, based on the mention of Eliyyahu b.

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    1. ]ה קד אטלק ל. . . . . . [. . . . . . . . . .] אן יתיר בכורות(?)
    2. ולם יטלק דלך לרב [[עלי גמיעהם אלסלאם //למא ראי פי דלך מן אל עיאב// ללעל . . . …

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  14. 5214Legal documentT-S 16.63

    Hananya by which Yesha'yahu ha-Levi is appointed general administrator of the properties belonging to the qodesh. After an enumeration of different kinds of property, the decision stresses the full prerogratives and the immunity of the appointee from any interference with his activities by the court, including Ḥiyyā b.

    (ר' ישעיה הלוי הזקן)

    1. היקר בר מר' ( ) בט מן שמיא
    2. פי תוליה אלהקדש (ברשות...הדרת) הנגידות המעול(ה)
    3. אדונינו שמו (אל בן...חנניה...) שים לברכה ובית
    4. דינו נ…

    Verso, section a

    1.  …our dear… b. R...., may God preserve him, 

    2.  concerning his appointment as administrator of the heqdēsh, under the authority of…

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  15. 5215Legal documentT-S 16.197

    Signatures of eight people from the end of a legal document: Menashshe b. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, Binyamin b.

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  16. 5216LetterT-S 16.213

    The Nagid had previously arranged for the debtor to repay part of what was owed to his creditors, but he reneged on his agreement and an excommunication was about to be enacted against him as per the Nagid’s instructions.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . הנגיד הן הן ולאו רפיא בידיה מה היה
    2. העם . . . . . . . . תלתה .ל. הדעה אמר כן עמוד לעמוד .ייה
    3. ועתה כשלא עמד בדבריו והפר נד…

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  17. 5217List or tableT-S 20.23

    Verso: List of beneficiaries of donations, similar to ENA 2713.26; T-S 20.112; T-S 24.76, on vellum, the majority of the names legible belonging to community officials and women.

    1. .. מן רחמ[נ]א [...............]מרת ...[.....].מן אם..ה
    2. מערפה אלמסתור................ברהמתה בית אם סרמיה? בנת אב[רה]ם מערפה [.....]ב ב א
    3. אלמעתד.....א…

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  18. 5218Legal documentT-S 20.32

    Bareket, Shafrir Misrayim, p. 271) For recto, see separate entry.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]מבורך בר [. . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]מו. .ו. .[. . . . . . . . . . .
    3. . . …

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    1. (1–6) ...] Mevorakh b. [Ephraim...] this Jacob and [...] dinars and [...] to the Muslim with these din[ars ...] Muslim to ʿAmram. ʿAmram saw …

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  19. 5219LetterT-S 24.33

    Yiṣḥaq, who it seems told him to write to the addressee and can vouch for him, and he continues with a description and praises of this person. He mentions at the end that he has written this letter in haste 'before the betrothed man' (?

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  20. 5220LetterT-S 24.61

    It seems that the sender is asking the addressee to convey condolences on his behalf to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, to Abū Isḥāq and his sons, to the dear brother Abū l-Barakāt al-Ṭabīb and his mother Sitt ʿArīb(?), and to the entire family of the late Rayyis (or of his widow?).

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  21. 5221State documentT-S Ar.34.302

    There are two lines in a chancery hand and the end of a third line, with huge spaces between them, and an additional line in the margin.

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  22. 5222Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.35.269

    The layout resembles a state document. Same genre: ENA 3957.11 (PGPID 11998) and T-S AS 184.265 (PGPID 35432).

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  23. 5223Legal documentT-S Ar.38.10

    "In the name of God the most gracious, the most merciful: the blessed ________ was on Wednesday night, in the middle of Ramaḍān 484 (=1091 CE), may God let us know its blessing and make the end good...." For the missing word in the translation, it looks like it says "the blessed mother" (الوالدة المباركة) but "the blessed birth" (الولادة المباركة) seems like it would make more sense.

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كانت الوالدة المباركة ليلة الخميس

    3. لنصف من شهر رمضان سنة 

    4. اربع وثمان واربع مائة

    5. الله يعرفنا بركتها

    6. [و]يجعل العا[قبة…

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  24. 5224State documentT-S Ar.38.108

    Chancery hand (though not the best), with widened space between the lines, and with white space used to divide sections. The ends of 9 lines are preserved. Mentions "ghilmān li-sayyidī Asad Allāh" (l.1), "Sayyidnā al-Ustādh" (l. 3) and amīrs (ll. 4 and 9) and Abū l-Faraj (l. 8).

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  25. 5225List or tableT-S Ar.39.63

    Dating: Several years are specified, but they are difficult to read; perhaps 493–95 AH, which would be 1099–1102 CE. Entries are separated by horizontal lines and some phrases are crossed out by a thick pen.

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  26. 5226State documentT-S Ar.39.341

    Translation/description entry in-progress

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. بعد التحية والتسليم والعز والتكريم بحضرته الجناب الكريم المخدود الامير
    3. محمد ابن بغداد شيخ العرب ونور فضائله يوضح لعلمه …

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  27. 5227State documentT-S Ar.42.94

    Khuyalāʾ is asking for a decree that would allow him and Abū l-Jaysh to enter these lands. On verso is a Hebrew liturgical text.

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    1.                              الناصرية

    2.                            خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش

    3.                             بن احمد

    4. بسم الله ال…

    1. [ ] al-Nāṣiriyya
    2. Khuyalāʾ ibn Ḥasan and Abū al-Jaysh

    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    4. The slave kisses the ground before the…

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  28. 5228LetterT-S Ar.42.95

    The main crux of the matter seems to be preserved on the verso towards the end of the letter and is about the capitation tax: "shughlī maʿ l-dīwān wa shughl qalbī fī hādihi l-jawālī" (my preoccupation with the government bureau and my anxiety surrounding this capitation tax).

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  29. 5229Legal documentT-S AS 145.69

    Mentions [...] al-Dīn the supervisor of pious endowments (alladhī kāna al-nāẓir fī aḥb[ās...], i.e., nāẓir al-aḥbās).

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  30. 5230List or tableT-S AS 146.345 + T-S AS 210.143

    (Information from CUDL) There are three columns, from right to left that list: the detail of the transaction, the quantity of the monetary sum, and the coinage type– which appears throughout as the silver medin abbreviated as "מאי". Some of the entries offer the formula "מאש אה ר׳ יוסף / More to R.

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  31. 5231LetterT-S AS 147.109 + T-S AS 147.105

    Pedro Teixeira wrote in the 17th century, en route from Baghdad to Aleppo, ""We halted in a plain that the Arabs call Aflayah, the name of a town from which the whole district is so called."

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  32. 5232Legal documentT-S AS 152.160 + T-S NS 288.185

    Dated Kislev 5480 AM in one entry, which is 1719 CE. (the dating info in FGP is incorrect).

     M. Dudley Dissertation, Appendix 6 /// T-S AS 152.160v + T-S NS 288.185v

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שהנבון וחכם והנעלה הגביר השר המרומם כה׳׳ר יאודה פרובינצאל נר׳׳…

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  33. 5233LetterT-S AS 162.14

    Potentially related to the family from T-S 13J16.10 (PGPID 3252) and related documents, but there is not enough information to be sure. On verso there appears to be a line of accounting in Arabic script: "the cantor (al-ḥazzān): 7 dirhams."

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  34. 5234List or tableT-S AS 169.165

    who donates "3." Other entries include Abū Saʿd the kātib (5), Ibn Ghulayb (2), Hudhud ("hoopoe") (4), Dumyāṭī (1), ʿAmīd (1), Ḥabash (1), Muslim (1) Abū Munā (1), Abū Saʿīd, Ibn Majjān (1 wayba), al-ḥakīm (2 waybas).

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  35. 5235State documentT-S AS 176.257

    Reused for a receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (see separate entry).

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  36. 5236List or tableT-S AS 177.98

    Several names are mentioned. One entry refers to "the captain of the ship" (raʾīs al-markab).

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  37. 5237Literary textT-S AS 177.539

    Hansbury, The Letters of John of Dalyatha (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006), pp. 259–260 (English translation). The verso only reads “and the words of [glory]” which may be the phrase from Letter 51, §17, line 6.

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  38. 5238State documentT-S AS 181.9

    There is fiscal accounting, part of a petition (dated [4]58 or [50]8 or [5]58), and an entry concerning a claim made from al-Ṣināʿa al-Maḥrūsa (the port of Fusṭāt).

    Verso (petition)

    1. والحمد لله]وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد واله والسلام
    2. حسب المملوك الله ونعم الوكيل

    Recto (petition)

    1. ويسئل في الانعام عليه والا…

    Verso

    1. He asks that benefaction be extended to him, and [kindness be shown to him]
    2. and the issuance of the noble decree, may God increase its effica…

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  39. 5239Legal documentT-S AS 183.81

    The payment is for some category of expense ("muʾna") for 10 bales of pepper involving the Dār Wakāla in Fustat. Verso is entirely covered with Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  40. 5240State documentT-S AS 183.84

    Dating: the payment is for the year 516 or a part thereof, and the document was written in Jumādā I 517 = June/July 1123 CE. The phrase at the end of l. 3 may read "mā ḥumila lil-ḥaḍra al-saʿīda" indicating that the sum was conveyed to a higher authority.

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  41. 5241State documentT-S AS 183.172

    The recto, which was written before the verso, contains part of a petition addressed to an official (see separate entry).

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  42. 5242List or tableT-S AS 184.129

    There is a recurring phrase that appears underneath the names in the individual entries that looks like ىىل هىه وسيف(؟؟) محلد. Merits further examination.

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  43. 5243State documentT-S H4.33

    Fragment (left side). The ends of 13 lines are preserved. Addressed to the office of the vizier (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-wazīriyya).

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  44. 5244Legal documentT-S J1.11 + T-S 6Ja3

    (I) See PGPID 40206 (II) See PGPID 40207 (III) Entry detailing the maintenance payments (10 dirhams per month) that Ṣadaqa b.

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  45. 5245Paraliterary textT-S K5.26

    (Information from Goitein's note cards) Writing exercises and liturgy in an unpractised hand, probably a child’s. It includes the end of a list of the Tiberian accents (vocalised, and with the corresponding accents marked on the words), and this is followed by the Birkat ha-mason, ברכה מָזֹן (sic).

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  46. 5246Legal documentT-S K6.152

    A copy of the authorisation by Egyptian Jewish authorities of Avraham Maimonides’ enactment concerning procedures for issuing a ban of excommunication.

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  47. 5247Legal documentT-S K22.27

    The lower lines of this entry appear on the left side side of f. 3v. MCD.

    Left side of bifolio 3v (Document 17 contd.):

    1. שום מין תביעה וטענה כלל בעולם לא בשטר ולא בעל פה ולא
    2. [שום] מין כתב ועדות שבעולם לא שותפות ולא עסקא
    3. לא …

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  48. 5248State documentT-S K25.213

    Opens: "Marḥaban bi-qudūm al-fāris al-muḥaqqaq..." The entirety consists of very elevated praises and blessings.

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  49. 5249Legal documentT-S Misc.28.61

    (Avraham I served 1204–37, which does not match any Seleucid date ending with 11; the handwriting is also consistent with a date ca. 1300 CE—it is quite similar to T-S 13J4.13).

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  50. 5250List or tableT-S NS 113.37

    The right column lists sums of 17 dirhams + 14 dirhams owed by Bū l-Manṣūr, 1 dirham by Abū ʿAlī, and 10 owed to Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Kallām (cf. ENA NS 68.8 (PGPID 12231)). The left column refers to a total sum of 45 dirhams owed to 'my brothers' mainly for jewelry.

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