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  1. 5401List or tableJRL C 88

    Based on the paleography the dating may be 17th/18th-century. In some entries names are mentioned such as Yosef Haggai (upper center recto), Shabbetay Ḥayyīm de Londra [London?]

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  2. 5402List or tableJRL C 162

    On the verso, the Judaeo-Arabic word "חסאב / حساب" is used repeatedly in labeling the headings of various entries/calculations. Date: 18th c or 19th c. MCD.

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  3. 5403LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/1

    The letter consists entirely of flowery expressions of sorrow on account of separation.

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  4. 5404Literary textMIAC 70

    Short story by Yūsef Zeki Marzūq about a mother enduring the torment of her spouse throughout the process of her son who growing up marrying and forgetting her, thus all of her dreams have died – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 70) – in Arabic.

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  5. 5405List or tableMoss. I,106.1

    Eliyyahu; possibly identical with the Abu l-ʿIzz who inherited books from Avraham ha-Ḥasid (T-S 20.44); and possibly identical with the physician Abū l-ʿIzz whose books were sold after his death (ENA 1290.16). (Information from CUDL and Allony et al.)

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  6. 5406LetterMoss. IV,62.2

    Recto: End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to a gathering that took place at the home of "Sayyidnā" on Shabbat, where the addressee's name came up.

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  7. 5407LetterMoss. IV,80

    Udovitch's transcription differs from the earlier transcription of Bernard Dov Shapira, so the PGP team of the 1990s has produced an edition using Udovitch's transcription as a base-text, indicating the differences between the two transcriptions with an asterisk and giving Shapira's reading at the end of the line in parentheses. MR

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא
    2. ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה לח' בקין מן מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא
    3. באחסן כא…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, ויסלק כל רע
    2. ממך ברחמיו, מאלכסנדרייה, בכ׳׳ב (או כ׳׳א) במרחשון,…

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  8. 5408Legal documentMoss. V,389.1

    End of a legal declaration, written and signed by Avraham b.

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  9. 5409Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. Xa,3.1

    It is also possible that recto and verso are from the same document, since the hand and layout appear similar, and the text on both sides is cut off at the short end of the paper.

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  10. 5410LetterReinach IV

    The letter occupies the lower half of recto. End is missing.

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  11. 5411LetterT-S 8.80

    At 180 degrees, a rhymed Arabic letter that consists entirely of flattery and good wishes ("may God guard your shoulders(?)

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  12. 5412Legal documentT-S 8J4.23

    Fol. 2v: Entry in a court notebook detailing that Sitt al-Milāḥ bt.

    1. אלדי אעתרפת סט אלמלאח בת אפרים הלוי ראש
    2. הקהל נע יום חמישי כא באלול שנת אתכא אנהא
    3. קבצתהא מן מאל כתבתהא עלי מ ששון בר יפת נע
    4. זוג דמאלג דהב קאלת אנהא א…

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  13. 5413Legal documentT-S 8J4.25

    Recto: End of a court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b.

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    1. בעשרה דנאניר וסלמתהא אלי אלשיך אבו אלמנא [דנ]ן
    2. בחצרה רבנו ⟦ורציא בהא גמיעא⟧ פקבלהא אל
    3. שיך אבו אלמנא במחצר מן רבנו והו סאכת
    4. פסאלנא אלשיך אבו אל…

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  14. 5414LetterT-S 10J18.1

    Miryam asks her brother to enquire after the whereabouts of her son and to induce him to contact her, last quarter of the 12th century.

    1. אלחכם אלמעטם רבנא משה שצ מלתזמה תעטימך (!) מרים אוכתך
    2. אדאם אללה רפעה מולאי וסידי ותאגי וצוי ופכרי ו (
    3. ועלא דרגתה ואסמי בהגתה וזין חצרתה בטאעתה ולא (…

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    1. (אל) החכם המהודר רבנא משה ש״צ (מאת) החייבת בהידורך מרים אחותך
    2. יתמיד ה׳ מעלת אדוני ומרי וכתרי ואורי ופארי ו(
    3. ויגדיל מעלתו וירים תפארתו ויקשט את…

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  15. 5415Legal documentT-S 12.491

    Recto and verso: Court records. The entries on recto are quite faded and need examination.

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  16. 5416Legal documentT-S 13J8.10

    Fragment from the end of a contract, followed by a whole contract, both of which are between Avraham and Shalom and witnessed by the scribe Natan b.

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  17. 5417LetterT-S 13J9.19

    Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or early 17th century (per Avraham David, based on a potential reference to the same events in a pinqas entry from the community of Mantua dated 31 January 1616 CE).

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  18. 5418LetterT-S 13J13.22

    The letter consists entirely of well wishes and greetings for the holiday.

    1. ואמרתם כה לחי ואתה שלום וביתך שלום
    2. ממלוכה בו מנצור
    3. בן בי סעד נע.
    4. ממלוך כגק מר ור אברהם התלמיד המבין המלמד החכם
    5. והנבון ישמרו אלהינו ויהיה בעזרו ויציל…

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  19. 5419LetterT-S 13J20.26

    Nahray was very worried about ʿIwāḍ, but he ended up improving (lines 6–7). Cf. T-S 10J10.27, from 1060 CE, in which ʿIwāḍ himself writes to Nahray about his intestinal bloating and how he is scared and does not know what will happen.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאג'ל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת 
    2. אעדאה מן אלמסתקר מסתהל ניסאן כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה וקבול אל 
    3. מעוד…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת חסדיו לך ויכה
    2. את אויביך, מן הבית, בראש חודש ניסן, י…

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  20. 5420LetterT-S 16.284

    Somebody in the party had an earache, but recovered ("entered the bath") in Fuwwa. On the torn portion at the bottom, the writer cryptically mentions walking barefoot and that his "liver was in the red fire... after the shaking and the weariness...."

    1. .] שיויתי ייי לנגדי תמיד כי מימיני בל אמוט
    2. ו]לדהא אבו אלברכאת געל פדאהא כתאבי אלי
    3. ח]צרה אלואלדה אלעזיזה אלכרימה אלמכרומה
    4. . . .] כ[. . . . .] אלמחתרמ…

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  21. 5421LetterT-S 16.297

    He mentions his mother several times as well as a woman in labor, but the latter might be proverbial ("I hear that a woman in labor (makhīḍa) when nothing happens becomes enraged (maghīẓa).") He conveys good wishes for the addressee's recovery from an illness (r23–25).

    1. בש
    2. שויתי ייי לנגדי תמיד לנגדי תמיד כי מימי[ני בל אמוט]
    3. וצלת מכאטבה אלמולי אלחסנה ומכא[טבה . . . . . .
    4. אללסאן ען גואב ממא טלבתה וטיב נפסה [... אללה]

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  22. 5422Literary textT-S Ar.29.26

    End of a literary work written in Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic mixed in.

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  23. 5423State documentT-S Ar.30.89

    At bottom left there is a separate entry mentioning the same year, then Dhū l-Ḥijja of "the aforementioned year" (min al-sana al-madhkūra), then the figure of 6 dinars.

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  24. 5424List or tableT-S Ar.30.100

    Dated in the main heading on the left side of the recto: 9 Ṣafar 962 AH (סבץ), which is 1555 CE. One of the entries on the right side of the verso mentions Yiṣḥaq Sholāl, probably not the final Nagid (r. 1502–1517 CE) who died earlier than 1555 CE– perhaps c. 1524 CE, as noted in: CUL Or.1080 J216 (PGPID 19804).

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  25. 5425Legal documentT-S Ar.39.237

    ʿAbd al-Masīḥ dated 2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (April 1015) (see separate entry), suggesting that tax receipts may have been archived and retained for more than a century.

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    1. بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اشهدني ياروخ بن جوشن
    3.  … … انه ال
    4.   بالناحية المعروفة بسنورس
    5.  بالـ     الشرقية الاستعمال 
    6. الحادي عشر من شوال…

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  26. 5426State documentT-S Ar.39.403

    There are two different registration marks at the top: The one in bold reads "al-ḥamdu li-llāh ḥamdan yurḍīhi", and the other is a ḥasbala followed by other formula.. The end of the first line may read وكشفنا صح, indicating that the information contained here has been checked.

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  27. 5427State documentT-S Ar.40.41

    The oversized ʿalāma (endorsement) in thick pen reads as "yuṭlaq dhālik", "may it be granted", possibly in the Caliph al-Ẓāfir's own autograph ("al-khaṭṭ al-sharīf").

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  28. 5428State documentT-S Ar.48.92

    Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved, mentioning the amīr Zayn al-Mulk wa-ʿAlam [al-Dawla, probably]: لم تمسك بها واعتمد عليها . . .

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    1. ]ـها خدماته لم تمسك بها واعتمد عليها
    2. ]ـا الامير المختار سن الملك علم[الدولة؟

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  29. 5429LetterT-S Ar.48.181

    Mentions Jerusalem (al-Quds) at the end of l. 3, then a quire of Damascene paper (kurrās waraq Dimashqī).

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  30. 5430State documentT-S Ar.51.107

    On verso are two versions of the same reply to the petition, in which the judge Kāmal al-Dīn is entrusted with clarifying the status of the petitioner and working out a solution for him.

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    1. المملوك 
    2. أبو عبد الله بن يحيى الفران بمصر
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا 
    5. الإم…

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    1. The slave

    2. Abū ʿAbdallāh, the baker from Fusṭāṭ.

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

    4. The benedictions of God and his ble…

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  31. 5431State documentT-S Ar.52.253

    After the header a sum for the month appears, and individual entries are provided for specific dates within each month.

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  32. 5432LetterT-S Ar.54.23

    He says that he even loaded up his donkey and set out, but then was overtaken by sukūna (a medical term that appears in other documents but whose meaning is not entirely clear) and an attack of colic (qawlanjiyya).

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  33. 5433Legal documentT-S AS 144.7

    Copy of an engagement (shiddukhin) contract in Hebrew written in a different hand (though same hand as the pen trials underneath).

    1. בע׳׳ה בסט׳׳ו ובנים ועושר והרוחה כי׳׳ר קונטאנטי סך י׳׳ב אלפ מ׳׳ך
    2.                     מתרכתא
    3. שידך היקר ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר יוסף פינטו יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר המ׳ יצ…

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  34. 5434State documentT-S AS 150.3

    (Mark Cohen, "Jews in the Mamlūk Environment: The Crisis of 1442 (A Geniza Study)," BSOAS, 1984, 431-4) EMS

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    1. אלממאליך גמאעה אליהוד רע[ייה
    2. אלמקאם אלשריף ואלאסלאם אל[כרים
    3. יקבלו אלארץ וינהו אנהם [פי] בל[א
    4. עטים מן יום תולא [[עליהם]] עבד לטיף
    5. אלמתטבב רייס …

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    1. –2. Your slaves, the Jewish community, the su[bjects] of your noble highness and of [gracious] Islam 
    2. –5. kiss the earth and report that the…

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  35. 5435LetterT-S AS 158.373

    Concerning shipments of materia medica, including licorice root (ʿirq sūs), endive (bizr hindibāʾ), black spleenwort (ashtwuān).

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  36. 5436LetterT-S AS 169.263

    , referring to "worshipping in it . . . making pilgrimage (ziyāra) to a place where this applies . . .," then a reference to the biblical Moses (ורבן שלכל הנביאים עה), then "the people who frequent it. . . with merriment (lahw) and entertainment (ṭarab)." On verso mentions a period of 1.5 years and declares a ban of excommunication against naysayers (. . .

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  37. 5437State documentT-S AS 178.111

    There are multiple distinct entries on both recto and verso, with a lot of wasted space in the margins.

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  38. 5438List or tableT-S AS 199.152

    Account list, perhaps communal based on the number of orphans and widows mentioned (entries starting with the abbreviations יתו and אל).

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  39. 5439LetterT-S AS 219.131

    Mentions Abū l-Khayr; bales of a commodity that arrived with Abū l-Ḥasan, of which the first sold for 59, but the other seems to have encountered a snag at customs; Alexandria; ʿĪsā the ghulām of al-M[...] who has not yet arrived; and the government and a ship.

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  40. 5440List or tableT-S J1.6

    On the recto, the list heading on the right of the bifolium is in the name of Shemuʾel Tortos and the entries below it mention goods such as "almonds/לוז", "olive oil/זית", "cheese/גבן", and other Judaeo-Arabic terms.

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  41. 5441LetterT-S J2.26

    A woman deserted by her husband for many years had brought up her only son and when he was old enough had sent him out to find his father, but the boy perished on his way.

    1. שקר ואחר ימלא פיהו חצ[צים
    2. וכמה מעשיות יש בחסידים שניסרו
    3. בבניהם אבל אשרי מי שנלקח בנו
    4. והוא רצוי לפני בוראו ואיך להרהר
    5. אחר מידות יוצרנו המשאל ממנו
    6. לכב…

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  42. 5442List or tableT-S K15.99

    Dating: Probably 11th century. Most of the entries open with the word באבה in the sense of "for."

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  43. 5443List or tableT-S K15.112

    Abū l-Ḥayy and announcing the writer's arrival in al-Mahdiyya (this part makes it seem like a note addressed to somebody else, with accounts enclosed). Also mentions al-Andalus. Commodities mentioned include flax, wax/candles, and garments such as shuqqas, fūṭas, and malḥafas.

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  44. 5444List or tableT-S Misc.8.72

    Same cluster: T-S Ar.6.28 (PGPID 1278), ENA 2592.24 (PGPID 12808), T-S K15.46 (PGPID 23221), and T-S Misc.8.72 (PGPID 8337).

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  45. 5445List or tableT-S Misc.25.84

    When a beadle is listed here with a salary of 4 dirhams (instead of 2, as usual), the sum certainly included arrears for the preceding week. Also, some entries of personal expenditure made by the official.'

    1. אל..אל ביד בו אלעלא ותעטת?
    2. כי תשא ע' 1/3? ½ ¼ י ואגרה
    3. כבז קנטאר וחמאל אלחזן ר' יפתח מנקי שמש
    4. כב' ורבע ו ו ½ ד ד
    5. שמש בו אלפצל בית אלמבי בית ר' ישועה …

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  46. 5446List or tableT-S NS 190.1 + T-S NS 190.2 + T-S 8K22.7

    There are probably more fragments of this list to be found in the Geniza. See also ENA 2687.2 (PGPID 11115).

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  47. 5447Literary textT-S NS 264.27 + T-S NS 224.181 + T-S AS 145.360 + T-S 12.537

    Probably the upper bifolio nested inside of the lower bifolio, as the lower bifolio contains both the beginning and the end of the text. (Information in part from Cecilia Palombo and Goitein's attached notes.)

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    1. אלעזת לאלאה וחדהו
    2. אוציכמו סאיר אלעאשקין בטאעת אלמ[ל]אח
    3. אגמעין וכרו בין ידיהם סאגדין ואקטעו אלשך
    4. בליקין וקולו אלחמד ללאה רב אלעאלמין אלדי
    5. מן…

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  48. 5448LetterT-S NS 320.8

    Note that Yehuda's father's name is something else in the Hebrew-script address (neither Sahl nor Yashar; ends with ש). The sender asks Nahray to order a commodity (ḥajar al-māʾ?)

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  49. 5449LetterT-S NS 320.16

    The first few lines preserved here are written in Arabic script, and the end of the letter is in Hebrew. NB: When Goitein refers to "T-S NS 320.16," he generally means the manuscript that currently has the shelfmark T-S NS 320.42.

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    1. ] و[يغ]فر(؟) ما لعله يكون صنع من الله
    2. ] اليه وجلال شاكر ذاكر باث بشكره
    3. ] يجتهد في صلاح شانه فالله يحرسه وﻻ يخلي منه
    4. ] ت شرح ل לשון קדש כל המתחד…

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  50. 5450Legal documentT-S NS 320.25

    Legal documents, possibly from a court notebook, as there are entries on both sides. Recto: Involves a man and a woman, payments received, a release from further obligations, and a document from the Muslim courts detailing the remaining installments.

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