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  1. 5401Legal documentENA NS 17.25

    Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of Moshe b. Peraḥya, the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla. Dating: the date is missing, but probably written under the authority of David Maimonides (l. 3), in which case this would date to after 1238 CE.

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כ[
    2. כאן פי אלעשר אלאכיר מן חדש [
    3. אלכברי רשותיה דאדונינו דו[
    4. מצרים חטרנא פי בית אלסר [
    5. לתקוים אלנדוניא אלדי לזוגת[ה
    6. אלחאצרין …

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  2. 5402Legal documentJRL B 5628

    Ḥayyūn from the money/property of....". Also Mentions Ḥasan b. ʿAlī and dirhams. Needs further examination.

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  3. 5403State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 36

    Middle part of a tax receipt in the hand of Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably issued for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. […] Wahb corpus with a third set of registration marks (see also ENA 3942.3, PGPID 10434). Date not preserved, but presumably dates to 401–5 (1011–15) like the rest of the corpus.

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  4. 5404LetterMIAC 208

    Letter from the lawyer Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Nūbī to Kẖawaja Sālamūn Melūl requesting payment that was the amount of the court and its total is 240 qirsh cash – February 24 1925CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 208) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 65).

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  5. 5405LetterMIAC 219

    Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community and by the rabbinate that all the wine sold by the company "Curiel Oriental" is not kosher, and an announcement on the slaughter of poultry on the eve of the holiday – May 10 1953CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 219) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40).

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  6. 5406Legal documentMIAC 224

    Donation pledge form from Yaʿacov Kohen to the holy yeshiva (the right and the peace) for the sake of raising generosity and assistance to all the people of Israel in the world who endure every day – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 224) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 48).

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  7. 5407Legal documentMIAC 229

    Ruling in absentia obligating Maʿtūq Dāūd al-Jamāl to pay the amount of 985 pounds toward the rent of a store in the inheritance of the deceased Muḥammad ʾAẖī Qāsim – January 11 1938CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 229) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 67).

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  8. 5408LetterMoss. IV,71.2

    The sender seems to be complaining that the addressee did not inform him about the price of saffron; he heard that it is going for "10 per mann." There is none in "al-thaghr" (probably Alexandria). Excerpts: באן לם תערפני איש . . .

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  9. 5409State documentMoss. VIII,239.1-3

    Decrees that the rituals be carried out according to the tradition 'wa-an yakūn al-ʿamal bi l-rusūm' and mentions 'al-dawla al-sharīfa'.

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  10. 5410Legal documentT-S 6J1.9

    Legal document settling a dispute between Abū l-Faraj and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the well known parnas in Fustat (dated documents 1084–1117), regarding shops of the former. […] ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE); also signed by Shelomo b. Yosef Av. Fols. 1v–2: account of expenditures

    1. בקא אלחסאב ענד אבו אלפרג
    2. ישועה אבו אלמתופא בר מבורך
    3. מן תמן אלדכאן אלדי באעה
    4. ארבעה דנא ותלת ותמן
    5. חצר בבית דין אלשיך אבו אלעלא
    6. מר עולה הלוי בר יוסף קא…

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  11. 5411List or tableT-S 6J8.7

    Groom: Ghālib b. Ḥalfon. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Berakhot. Marriage payments: 20 + 40 = 60 dinars. Followed by jottings of Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly the sum of the value of the dowry. Also followed by a medical recipe/prescription in Arabic script.

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  12. 5412LetterT-S 13J22.30

    Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very good at kattan work, including the scutching and hatcheling of flax. Also mentions the silk market and prices. (S. D.

    1. בשמך רח'
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
    3. אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וקראתה
    4. ומא דכר מן אלשוק והו ענדנא באצעאפה
    5. פאסאל אללה תבארך ותעאלי בקרב אל

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  13. 5413Paraliterary textT-S 28.11

    David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202.

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  14. 5414List or tableT-S Ar.11.16

    Mentions items such as mastic, costus, wax, the goods of Ibn Ṭībān, pure tartar, kohl, storax, flax. Also mentions al-ʿAfṣī. At the end mentions further business transactions including the rent of a boat and dealings in pepper and copper.

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  15. 5415Literary textT-S Ar.30.5

    A few words from the same poems are also written out in Arabic on the page on the right, along with other jottings and crossed-out lines in Arabic.

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  16. 5416LetterT-S Ar.34.190

    It may even be signed אלממלוך ר אברהם but is very messy, so it is hard to say. A request from Fakhr al-Dawla Abū (Ibn?) al-Fakhr to help Abū Naṣr al-Kātib with the price of Nāṣiriyya silver and of gold.

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  17. 5417LetterT-S AS 84.136

    , including the line "we do not consent to your being a messenger, from your first actions the end was already clear." Also quotes Proverbs 26:11 ("As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly").

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  18. 5418LetterT-S AS 145.186

    Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) to Sayyidnā al-Nagid (likely Avraham Maimonides). The sender is in unspecified distress of some kind.

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  19. 5419LetterT-S AS 147.59

    Addressed to (or mentioning) someone associated with the Yeshiva (al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-mathībiyya). The sender mentions his difficulty with handwriting (אנני קציר אלכט).

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  20. 5420Legal documentT-S AS 161.251

    "From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān of?] mosques (al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid)...." There follows a detailed description of a property and its location. The only other Sitt al-Munā in PGP or Goitein's index cards is the widow of Nahray b.

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  21. 5421State documentT-S AS 168.208 + T-S AS 168.207

    Hard to tell if it is a state document, a mercantile document, or both. Refers to "al-ḥujaj al-sāmiya," a quantity in Egyptian qinṭārs, and a shipment by Shams al-Dawla(?).

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  22. 5422State documentT-S AS 177.30

    , Ḥamad b. Ḥaydar(?), ʿAlī b. Mūsā, ʿUmar b. [...], ʿAlīal-[...]

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . . . . . . .
    2. يقبلوا الارض وينهوا ان المماليك في غاية ما يكون من الضرر
    3. بسبب عدم حضور التجار للناحية وان المعر[فة…

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  23. 5423List or tableT-S AS 205.176

    Many names listed, including: Ismāʿīl; Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAsqalānī; Sayf b. ʿAlī; Ẓāfir; Sumʿān; Avraham; Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Qāsim b. Khiḍr; Abū l-[...] b. Yosef.

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  24. 5424List or tableT-S K3.6

    List of 57 names, in some cases indicating their profession (many are physicians, also common are pharmacists, silk merchants, and silk weavers and dyers), beginning with ‘Abū Naṣr ibn Dāwūd and his father’. Among the names listed (line 7) there is Dāʾūd ibn al-Rayyīs, possibly the son of the Nagid Abraham Maimonides and grandson of Maimonides.

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  25. 5425List or tableT-S K3.21

    Watchmen are engaged during the building operations; also an army officer, amir, is mentioned, and negotiations which were going on, al-Askar, the location of the government offices near Fustat.

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    1. אלמגרם אלדי לם יחצל לדאר
    2. בן נעמאן מנה מנפעה
    3. קטע תראב אצחאב מן גהה רשיד
    4. קיראטין נקרה מן יד
    5. אלמהדב ⟦. .⟧ בן אלעודי
    6. 6 ½
    7. ואלגראמה אלאולי ותאני סנה

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    1. (1-2) The debt to be deducted from the revenue of Dār b. Nuʿmān:
    2. (3-6) Removal of garbage, 73½. The watchmen, on account, for Rashīd, 2 qīr…

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  26. 5426List or tableT-S K11.55

    Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with western Arabic numerals and Hebrew alphanumerals. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography and layout. A variety of individuals and groups are listed, such as: Muṣtafa Çavuş, ʿAlī Hersek Çavuş, Muḥammad Çavuş, and "al-ṣayarīf" (the ṣarrāfs).

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  27. 5427List or tableT-S K15.11 + T-S Ar.34.15 + T-S NS 292.47 + T-S NS 297.31 + T-S AS 153.219 + T-S AS 203.57 + T-S K11.21 + T-S AS 202.412

    Resembles T-S AS 202.399 (PGPID 22677). Joins: Alan Elbaum. Description from T-S AS 202.412: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

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  28. 5428LetterT-S Misc.28.246

    Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, in Barqa to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. […] It seems that after his stay in Alexandria, Barhūn traveled to Barqa. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #329) VMR

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אט[א]ל [אל]לה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא

    2. ענך ברחמתה מן ברקה [מסתהל] כסלו ערפך אללה ברכתה וכתמה עליך באחסן כ…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ויסלק ממך כל רע
    2. ברחמיו, מברקה, בראש חודש כסלו, יודיעך אלוהים את …

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  29. 5429List or tableT-S NS 31.10

    Mentions names such as Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb; Abū Zikrī Ibn Sughmār; Makhlūf; Yiṣḥāq; Ḥassūn b. Yaḥyā Hiba; Wahb al-Mawṣilī; Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Nissim; Ibn al-Sukkarī.

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  30. 5430State documentT-S NS 202.47

    The ends of three lines are preserved. "... bi-l-istiʿmālāt al-mubāraka... wa-ʿarrafanā ijtihādaka... al-maḥmūl ʿaynan wa-l-aṣnāf...." […] In between the lines there is additional Arabic text in much smaller letters possibly mentioning the districts around Aswān (fī l-nawāḥi al-aswāniyya). On verso there is piyyut.

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  31. 5431LetterT-S NS 304.1

    Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar to 'the officials of the treasury.' In Hebrew. […] Concerning a wikāla containing multiple apartments and an effort to stop somebody from buying out more than half of it. On the sender, see also ENA NS I.17 (PGPID 12278) and ENA 2607.25 (PGPID 12400).

    1. הנבונים ומעולים וחשובים הממונים באוצר יצו     הנה לא נעלם מכבודכם כי הוכאלה
    2. הקטנה אשר קנינו //החזקה// לשותפות מר שמואל אל גד בסך שלשים זהב ומאז דבר …

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  32. 5432LetterT-S NS 308.119

    The sender blames a third party, Yosef al-Sabuni, for slandering him. He also sends an account and complains that he does not have enough money for processing (beating flax) and packaging his goods.

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    1. כתאבי אליך יאשיכי ורייסי וגלילי וכבירי אטא<ל> אללה בקאך ואדאם געמאך
    2. ותולאך ורעאך ומן תופיקה לא אכלאך ען סלאמה ושגל פי אלקלב ממא
    3. ורד עלי קלבי מ…

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  33. 5433LetterT-S NS 320.136

    He/she asks for news and mentions a young woman (al-ṣabiyya) and something to do with "going out." Regards to the whole family and to the neighbors, and to Abū l-Faraj and his wife. There is also something to do with Eliyya and a dirham.

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  34. 5434Legal documentT-S NS 320.142

    Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See also the description for T-S NS 320.57 + ENA 2386.4, which is related.

    T-S NS  320.142 recto

    1. [ ]מנאהא בצחה אלאמר
    2. [ ] באן יכתב להא בדלך שטר
    3. [ ] אמתת לנא מרסומהא אלש[ר]יף
    4. [ ] כמא נעלמה מן צחה אל[ ]א אלשטר
    5. [ ]ך ואן אסתחקאק…

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  35. 5435List or tableT-S NS 321.94

    One of the recipients is called only "majnūna" ("a madwoman"); there is also Bint Qulqās; Bint Salmūna; and [...] al-Andalusiyya.

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  36. 5436LetterT-S NS J308

    A letter of recommendation poor man who has debts and must pay the capitation tax. Menaḥem also promises to send the quires (karārīs) as soon as he has finished writing them. "As for the capitation tax, it is said that it will not be demanded from the poor, who may obtain for it a rescript from the government (khaṭṭ al-sulṭān)." ASE.

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  37. 5437Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Avraham the elder (ha-zaqen) b. Manṣūr al-Fūlādī acknowledges that he owes a debt of 20 ashrafi in the form of a charitable loan to ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Levi.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 40v

    1. למ]א כאן [[בתא׳]] נהאר אלכמיס כ׳ח׳ שהר סיון סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ט׳ ליצירה
    2. אשהד עליה אברהם הזקן יצ׳׳ו א׳ אלמר׳ מנצור פ[ו]ל[א]די נ׳…

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  38. 5438Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.14

    Stating that a document shall be drawn up in which Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥarīrī and Yiṣḥaq b. Ṣadaqa ('and Peloni b. Peloni') release him (=Abū l-Makārim al-Dimashqī) from all claims (in exchange for his commitment not to compete in the silk trade).

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    1. ויכתב בינה ובין אלשיך אבו אסחק
    2. אלחרירי ובין פצאיל שריכה יצחק בר
    3. צדקה ופצאיל פל׳ בן פל׳ אן ליס להמא
    4. ענדה שי אלבתה ואנהמא קד אברוה
    5. אברא …

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  39. 5439LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1405

    The address reads "to the teacher ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī al-Ṭabīb in the Wikāla of K[...]."

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  40. 5440Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 3405

    Mentions a jamāʿa. . . a monthly payment. . . al-ḥāra al-mutawajjiha maʿrūfa bi-l-waqf al-Mufawwīḍ(?).

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  41. 5441LetterAIU VII.E.136

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Yaʿīsh Ḥarrār in Alexandria from Yaʿaqov ha-Levi.

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  42. 5442Paraliterary textAIU XII.112

    One of them is attributed to al-Rāzī and al-Zahrāwī.

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  43. 5443LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/79

    Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה 
    2. ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ל''ח בקי מן תמוז כתמה 
    3. אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה אעלם מולא…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת שלומך
    2. ואת חסדיו לך ויכה את אויביך, מן הבית, בכ"ב בתמוז, יחתום…

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  44. 5444LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/91

    Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה 
    2. וכבת אעדאה לי' כלון מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלי מולאי באחסן כאתמה
    3. בעד וצול כתאבה מע אבן …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת חסדו לך
    2. וישמיד את אויביך, בי' בכסלו, יחתום אותו אלוהים על…

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  45. 5445Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 14.19

    Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.

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  46. 5446Literary textENA 1822a.62

    Verso: Draft of the opening lines of ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā's Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn. ASE

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. وصل كتابك ايها الاخ الفاضل حفضك
    3. الله برافته وارشدك الى الصواب برحمته
    4. تسال عن جوامع كتب جالينوس
    5. في امراض العين

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  47. 5447List or tableENA 3755.1

    Accounts or sums in Greek/Coptic numerals (no words). There is also some literary text in Hebrew.

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  48. 5448Literary textENA 3950.6

    In Arabic script. There are also a couple lines of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  49. 5449LetterENA NS 8.50

    Fragment of a letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The recipient was ill when the writer departed Fustat.

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  50. 5450List or tableENA NS 83.32

    Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. There is also a smaller unidentified different fragment in Arabic.

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