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  1. 5251Literary textT-S NS 164.154 + T-S NS 204.68

    Bonebakker, Ḥātimī and his encounter with Mutanabbī: A Biographical Sketch (Amsterdam, 1984).

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  2. 5252State documentT-S NS 203.1

    Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry soldiers founded by al-Afḍal, whose members upon graduation joined the ṣibyān al-khāṣṣ (cf ENA NS 71.8 (PGPID 10067)). The document states that "their number is 530 ghulāms."

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  3. 5253LetterT-S NS 225.94

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Consisting almost entirely of business accounts. The sender acknowledges receipt of a letter discussing a foreigner (?

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  4. 5254Legal documentT-S NS 226.9

    Legal record. Only the very end is preserved. Dated: 1429 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE.

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  5. 5255Legal documentT-S NS 288.185 + T-S AS 152.160

    NB: This PGPID is a duplicate from prior to the join's entry and needs to be merged.

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

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

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  6. 5256LetterT-S NS 305.203

    At the bottom of verso the sender blames the entire disaster (al-muṣība) on Abū l-Maʿālī. Seems to be written as poetry, or versified at least.

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  7. 5257LetterT-S NS 323.31 + T-S 12.532

    Mentions the city of Nájera in Castile. See Engel, The Wandering of a Provencal Proselyte: A Puzzle of Three Genizah Fragments, Sefunot: 7(22) pp. 13–21.

    1. [באתה] אלינו אנ[שי... | ... ]ה שתי ש[...

    2. [קרו]בתה כסבורה ש[.... | ... אחר] שנהרג בעלה [...

    3. [ל]ה בכפר נאג'רה על מה [ ... | ... וסיפר] לנו כל…

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  8. 5258LetterT-S NS 327.4

    The addressee seems to be a scholar and physician in the entourage of the Mamluk sultan Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī (r. 1501–16): al-jināb al-karīm al-ʿālī al-mawlawī. . . lisān al-mutakallimīn ḥujjat al-munāẓirīn munāṣiḥ al-mulūk wa-l-salāṭīn. . . . rayyis al-aṭibbāʾ. . . ."

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  9. 5259Legal documentT-S NS 329.875 + T-S 16.99 + T-S 12.169 + T-S AS 88.271 + JTS MS R2360. 1

    Few fragments of a rotulus, joined together. written by the scribe who is known to write many such rotuli for the owner known as Ibn al-Baqra (early 11th century). On recto there is the end of a responsum on Giṭṭin 32 regarding the cancellation of a geṭ.

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  10. 5260Legal documentT-S NS J48

    Goitein's index card notes that the Diyār bt. Yefet in ENA 4011.6 (ca. 1158 CE) is probably a different person.

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    1. בחד בשבה דהוא שבעה יומי בירח מרחשון
    2. דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וארבעין וחמשה
    3. שנין למניינא דרגילינ[נ]א ביה בפסטאט מצרים
    4. דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה אנא ישועה…

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  11. 5261LetterT-S NS J212

    Although only a small section from the beginning and the end of the letter with very little other content has been preserved, the very fact of a connection between the writer and the recipient is, according to Friedman, noteworthy.

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    1. בש̇̇מ רח̇̇מ
    2. קד עלם אללה מא נאלני מן אלשוק ואלוחשה ואלתאסף לפראק ח̇̇צרה
    3. מולאי אלשיך [... ח]ל[פון] השר2
    4. ה[...]

    Recto, right margin

    1. פאידה פינע[…

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  12. 5262Legal documentT-S NS J379

    Yosef ha-Levi (known also from ENA 4011.73, dated 1100 CE, and several other documents).

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  13. 5263Legal documentT-S NS J392

    Location: Fustat. Dated: End of Shevaṭ 1439 Seleucid, which is February 1128 CE.

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  14. 5264Legal documentYevr. II K 40

    For a similar rendering in a Rabbanite ketubba, see Ruth 4:12 along the margin of ENA NS 31.23 (PGPID 12881). MCD.

    1. שדי ישקיף משמי מרומו ויקנא בתח[לה ל]קדושת שמו
    2. ויבנה היכלו והדומו ויכונן דבירו ואולמו וישלח אליהו כנאמו ויגלה המשיח בעולמו ויקבץ פזורי עמו ויטעם על ו…

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  15. 5265Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated Iyyar [5322] AM (1562 CE), based on the year mentioned in the first entry on the same folio. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Moshe al-Maghribī takes an oath that he will cease quarreling with anyone in the Karaite community for 10 months.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 10v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלכמיס כ׳׳ו שהר אדר סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ב׳ ליצירה חצרו אלגמא׳
    2. בר׳ יה׳ פי (מנזל) אלמולי אלאגל יהודה אלחכים //.הן…

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  16. 5266Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated 11 Sivan [1873 Seleucid/5323 AM] (1563 CE), likely in the same year as the two previous entries based on the scribe's mention of סנה תאריכה.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 15r

    1. פיאלתראב לם ימסכה בידה ולא יתסבב פיה דון אן יופי הדה אלמבלג אלדי כ[..]ה
    2. אתנין ועשרין אשרפי דהב צלאטנה אלמד׳ אע׳ תם אשהד…

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  17. 5267Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.8

    Seʿadya; Mevorakh b. Natan. This entry together with the note on the facing page (Yevr.

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  18. 5268Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.14

    See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. NB: Goitein referred to this document as folio 13 (Firk.

    1. ברכות בר טוביה
    2. תקוים אלש בו אלשרכאת אלעטאר
    3. סת אל [[ימן]] דאר בת יפת הכהן בר מנשה הדיין החבר
    4. ואלשרוט
    5. זוג אבר דהב אהליה מכללה בלולוג>
    6. זוג אבר נשאשיב ד…

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  19. 5269LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1439

    There is a second letter directly underneath the first, addressed to Gedalya Fayrūz, also consisting almost entirely of greetings. There are two versions of the same postscript in which David Nasi Rofe adds his greetings to all the aforementioned people.

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  20. 5270LetterT-S 10J14.20

    {I fasted and wept and did not change my clothing or enter the bath, neither I nor your sister.} I vowed not to eat during the day, not to change my clothing, and not to enter the bath, neither I nor my daughter, until your letter arrived with your news. […] I thanked God who made the end good." Goitein, and later Krakowski, used this letter to illustrate the intense affective bonds between brother and sister, as well as the notion of fasting as an intercession for a loved one who is sick (Goitein, Med Soc V, p. 97). […] My brother, help me with some portion of this debt engulfing me—do not abandon me and do not forsake me."

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    1. אטאל אללה יאכי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ומן תופיקה לא

    2. אכלאך כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי נצ אלול ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק

    3. אלי…

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    1. ייתן לך אלוהים, אחי והיקר לי, אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת ההצלחה אל 
    2. ימנע ממך. אני כותבת לך, אחי והיקר לי, בחצי אלול; שלומי טוב …

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  21. 5271List or tableAIU VI.B.174

    Perhaps this was the envelope, came apart from the letter, and was then reused for accounts.

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  22. 5272Legal documentAIU VII.D.4 + T-S 13J5.1 + T-S 8J4.3

    This is the direct continuation of T-S 13J5.1C. (ENA NS 7.25 and T-S 8K20.1 are also somehow connected to at least one of the records on these fragments.)

    פאיזה זוגה ברהון בן סהלאן

    1. אסתקר אלחאל בין מ שלמה בר כתירא וזוג
    2. אבנתה פאיזה זוגה מ ברהון בר סהלאן
    3. עלי אן [[סלאמה]] מ ברהון הדא יפתך גמיע
    4. מא עליה מן א…

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  23. 5273LetterBL OR 5566B.20

    Ḥalfon sends rose water and raisins, enquires about textiles prices and asks Nahray to sell the silk (lāsīn) that he had sent to Fustat.

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    1. תמאם כתאב מולאי אלשיך אבי יחיה

    2. פי כתאבה אנך לם תרגע אלי אלקאעה אלדי לך אלי אסעה

    3. אללה יופקך ואלל כפיא מא ורד אלדי מעך הדיא יאמולאי

    4. תקבפה…

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    1. השלמת המכתב (אל) אדוני ורבי אבו יחיא.
    2. במכתבו (הוא כותב) שאתה לא חזרת עד עכשיו אל הדירה שלך,
    3. ייתן לך אלוהים הצלחה. ל' הכדים מי ורדים שאצלך הם מ…

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  24. 5274List or tableBL OR 10123.4

    The account heading states that the monthly entries are listing payments from R. ʿAkūbas from a prior debt acknowledgment deed.

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  25. 5275LetterBL OR 10578C.1

    Aharon, and a fourth man. The content is not entirely clear. Mentions an Abū Saʿīd, a shaliaḥ, and uses the verb قشع for "see."

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  26. 5276Legal documentBL OR 12369.11 + AIU VII.D.99 + Yevr. II A 1292

    Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between Eliyyahu b.

    1. בע׳׳ה 
    2. להיות שהיתה חברה ושותפות הכה׳׳ר אליאו ן׳ צהל יצ׳׳ו והכה׳׳ר יעקב הלוי ידיע עכובס והכה׳׳ר מרדכי
    3. קפנטון יצ׳׳ו בעסק הצרפליק וסחורות ופרקמטיאות וכ…

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  27. 5277Legal documentBodl. MS Arab. c 56.1

    It is unclear whether the building for sale is a house or a mosque, because the document mentions the qāḍī endowing the building. The document on the recto was probably drafted at the court of the chief judge in Cairo, Sharaf al-Dīn b.

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  28. 5278Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/35

    Upper end of a large deed of sale in Arabic script, in which a Christian, Yuḥannas b.

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. هذا ما اشترى صلح بن علي بن هاني اليهودي المعاهد من يحنس بن اندونة بن قسطنطين بن بسندة النصراني اشترى منه جميع ما ذكر يحنس بن…

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  29. 5279Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/31

    Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed will.

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  30. 5280Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/5

    Avraham, who also wrote T-S 13J13.2 and ENA 2465.8–9. Also signed by: Ḥalfon b. Shelomo; Ṣadaqa b.

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  31. 5281LetterBodl. MS heb. e 34/67 + Bodl. MS heb. e 34/68

    The first page of the letter is on a blank verso and the ending of the letter takes up the lower margin of both recto and verso of the second leaf.

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  32. 5282Legal documentCUL Add.3339a

    Dated: middle decade of Adar 1528 Seleucid = end of February 1217 CE. In which an elder brother accepts the administration of a minor sibling's share in his deceased brother's inheritance and takes it upon himself to maintain the orphan until he reached maturity at thirteen.

    1. שהדותא דא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא
    2. לתתא כן הוה למא קצא אללה תעאלי באלמחתום עלי בני
    3. אדם ותופי אלשיך חסן אללוי ביר ישמעאל הלוי הזקן הנכבד נע
    4. פ…

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  33. 5283Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J289

    No trousseau. At the very end: "she produced her geṭ and we tore it." Witnesses: Elʿazar b.

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  34. 5284LetterDK 231.5 (alt: XVII)

    Written by a scribe, who adds his greetings at the end. Reporting about a lawsuit involving a wālī and urging the addressee to stay with his mother until her confinement.

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  35. 5285LetterENA 1628.56

    Yefet has purchased a quarter-mann of muql (this refers either to the gum resin called bdellium OR to the edible fruit of the doum palm — see Bos et al, Marwān Ibn Janāḥ, entries 294, 521, and 1044). He gives instructions regarding what to purchase, including sorrel seed (bizr ḥummāḍ), and what not to purchase.

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  36. 5286Legal documentENA 1822a.84

    Engagement deed, badly damaged. Dated in the lower right corner as (5)570AM ה)תק׳׳ע).

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  37. 5287List or tableENA 1822a.92

    An inventory dated 8 Jumada II of a shop selling fruit and sugar, the ingredients for homemade candy "for those who wished to enjoy the fruit in a state other than natural." Lists a large amount of regular sugar and a small one of rock sugar, 100 pounds of hazelnuts and smaller quantities of pomegranate seeds, sumac, pistachios and two types of raisins.

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  38. 5288List or tableENA 2348.2–5

    Sums of money donated by members of the Jewish community in Cairo. ENA 2348.4 mentions Ibn al-Abraṣ, who may be the grandfather of the physician in the qāḍī-court document T-S Ar.38.131 + T-S Ar.42.212 (PGPID 8228).

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  39. 5289Legal documentENA 2558.19

    Dating: The year-long lease begins on [Ṭevet] 1525 Seleucid = [Shaʿbān] 610 and ends on Kislev 15[26] Seleucid = Rajab 611 AH. So the document was drawn up in December 1213 CE or shortly before then, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides.

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  40. 5290List or tableENA 3576.2

    The student practiced Hebrew letters, Jewish legal formularies, and on one occasion wrote out the entire Coptic cursive alphabet (verso). The Hebrew (i.e.

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  41. 5291State documentENA 3940.9

    Ḥafṣ bi-khaṭṭih. At the bottom: the end of the name of a caliph [...] Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn, then prayers for him and his family, then the name [...] b.

    1. ثـ]ـبت عندي جميع ما نص وشرح فيه
    2. ]وكتب محمد بن ابرهيم عبد الله بن حفص بخطه
    3. ]لله امير المومنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابايه الطاهرين وابنايه
    4. ]ـي يحيى بن…

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  42. 5292State documentENA 3944.10

    Recto (original use): Petition or report preserving the ends of 7 lines from the lower part of the document.

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  43. 5293LetterENA 3944.19

    Scrawled ḥamdala at the end.

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  44. 5294LetterENA NS 7.71

    Refers to the remainder of the price of a female donkey; a request for a fatwā from 'adonenu'; somebody who took an oath not to pray 'behind me' (i.e., when Moshe is leading services); this was followed by great regret; continues to discuss oaths and cantors and a place where the is no other cantor; mentions Shemini ʿAṣeret; somebody planning to enter Cairo (אלקהרה); a request for a maqṭaʿ cloth from the clothier (al-bazzāz); greetings to Abū ʿAlī.

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  45. 5295Legal documentENA NS 7.84

    Recto: Legal document, possibly a court record. Regarding an engagement (shiddukhin). Fiance: Yefet b. Binyamin b.

    1. אלמש[ד]ך
    2. אלמשדך יפת הלוי בר בנימין
    3. בר רפאל הלוי התלמיד נע
    4. אלמשודכת פאצלה בת
    5. בו אלכיר //הלוי\\ בנימין בר פרח נע
    6. אל[

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    1. מקדם     מוכר     עמלהא  …

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  46. 5296List or tableENA NS 13.3

    See also T-S 13J33.11 + ENA NS I.23 (PGPID 35755).

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  47. 5297Legal documentENA NS 48.27

    Dated "middle of Ḥeshvan '29," which might enable the date to be pinpointed if the parties are identified.

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  48. 5298List or tableENA NS 77.393

    Verso: Fragment of a document in Arabic, possibly a Mamlūk-era letter, report, or petition. Compare with ENA 3910.1 (PGPID 32753)." Requires further examination.

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  49. 5299State documentHalper 354

    Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing the prerogatives the gaʾon has enjoyed for the past eleven years of his tenure. If this interpretation is correct, the document dates to 1036 CE.

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    1. [ بعد ما التمسوا]جميعا وفرادا
    2. [ ان يشهدوا هذه الشهاده قال كل]منهم من كتب شهادته بخطه
    3. [ فى اخر هذا الكتاب ان ا]لذى عرفوه وعقلوه ويشهدوا
    4. [ به فى…
    1. (Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately, 

    2. (to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing 

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  50. 5300Legal documentJRL B 2628 + JRL L 155

    Engagement document issued in Cairo. Dated 5604 AM (1843/1844 CE).

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