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  1. 501LetterT-S 12.242

    Letter of a local Jewish leader to his superior in the Egyptian capital. The first part of the letter is irrelevant to polygyny, thus it …

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    1. ] דכרא אן כאן קד אצדר אליהא [
    2. ] . י ארגו וצולה ואערף חצרתה אלסאמיה
    3. ]נאס וקד תופית אלאם מד סבעה
    4. סנין וכתרת אלשנאעה עלי אלמרה אן זוגהא . . . . .…

    Evil rumours multiplied about the woman, that the husband of her mother [visits] her, really ugly rumours, and people raised a cry. I summoned and le…

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  2. 502Legal query or responsumT-S NS 100.74

    Legal query in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel.

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  3. 503LetterAIU XII.48

    Business letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century (paleographic dating). Written in a chancery hand with very large space between …

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    1. فاما ما اتمنته في معنى التمر والصباغ [------]ـين

    2. صحبة المندوبين عليهما فمنها صح بلا عنبار

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  4. 504Legal documentYevr. II A 1276

    Karaite betrothal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated 19 Elul 5428 AM (1668 CE). Bride: Qamr bt. Ṣemaḥ b. Efrayīm. Groom: Shelomo b. Yahūda b. Shelomo Rofe. …

    1.                          בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
    2. ביום חמישי בשבוע והוא תשעה עשר יום מחדש אלול המ׳ שנת חמשת אלפים וארבע מאות ועשרים ושמונה שנים
    3. לבריאת הע…

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  5. 505State documentT-S Ar.30.214

    Original use: Official letter or decree in Arabic script. Written in large letters wide space between the lines. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. …

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  6. 506Legal documentT-S NS 292.20

    Very faded bill of release from Bū Isḥāq b. Bū l-Karam Ibn al-Dayyān, for Bū l-Maʿānī (or Bū l-Maʿālī) and Bū Naṣr the sons of …

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  7. 507List or tableENA NS 83.180

    Accounts in Arabic script. On the other side there is Hebrew literary text.

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  8. 508List or tableENA 3726.3

    List, commercial, late (FGP). The currency is listed in two places on the recto as "אנגרסי" which is likely a reference to the Hungarian gold …

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  9. 509Legal documentMoss. I,64.2

    Two forms for legal documents in Hebrew. On the other side is a grammatical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  10. 510Unknown typeENA NS 76.482.8

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 511Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.51

    Recto (secondary use): Order from ʿĀzim al-Bayyāʿ (the grocer) to hand over 1/2 wayba of rice to the bearer of the note. Headed by a …

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  12. 512Unknown typeENA NS 85.850

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  13. 513Legal documentNLI Ms. Ar. 276.3

    Legal document from the high court (al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī) in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 28 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1122 AH = 18 January 1711 CE. Judge: …

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  14. 514Legal documentMIAC 203

    Ketubbah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 203) – in Hebrew and Aramaic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …

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  15. 515LetterT-S 8J20.1

    Letter from Natan b. Avraham, probably in Damietta, to Natanel b. Ravah, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably Spring 1038 CE. Natan is on his …

    1. שלום חשובנו ובבת עינינו מרנא ורבנא נתנאל תלמידנו יגדל
    2. לעד וטובות יופק סלה נפרדנו ועינינו מטיפות דמע ולבינו
    3. יהמה על פרידתנו ממך יען כי הייתה לנו למשי…

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  16. 516LetterMIAC 183

    Letter from a person in Jerusalem – 28 March 1920CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 183) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …

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  17. 517Legal documentT-S NS J318a

    Account of repairs of a house, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A previous version of this shelfmark description listed the date range …

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    1. בש רח
    2. צח ללשיך אבו עלי [ ]
    3. הזקן נע ען עמא[רה ]
    4. כניסתין אלמעמור[תין ]
    5. דאר אלתי פי דאר [ ]
    6. ופי דאר בן אב[ו ]
    7. וחראסה וען מא [ ]
    8. ולאכת אלשיך [ ]
    9. ד…

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  18. 518LetterT-S NS 304.33

    Recto: List of dates accompanied by sums of money. Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand. Telling the addressee not to …

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  19. 519List or tableJRL C 2

    List of payments in the name of S[eñor] Yeshuʿa related to ownership or a lease for a house that is dated in the years [55]97AM–[5]600AM …

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  20. 520List or tableENA 3264.2

    Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on verso. The paper was rused for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are …

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  21. 521LetterT-S 13J13.12

    IB VI, 33 (ח86). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, probably in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, probably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1142–45 CE. …

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  22. 522Unknown typeYevr. IV 156

    Non-Geniza, probably. An exchange of letters written as Hebrew poetry.

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  23. 523List or tableT-S NS 225.71

    Late account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the terms Dīwānī; muʿāmala; Qurayshī(?).

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  24. 524Literary textT-S Ar.47.200

    Fragment of Saʿadya Gaʾon's treatise on biblical hapax legomena (Kitāb al-Sabʿīn Lafẓa).

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  25. 525LetterT-S 10J5.10 + T-S 10J11.13

    Letter from Abun b. Sedaqa in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dating: November 1064 CE. The main subject is the tension between the …

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    1. וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה סאעה כתאבי הדא
    2. אליה והו יום אלאתנין יומין בקין מן תשרי אעאד אללה עליה הדה אלאעי…

    Partial translation by Moshe Yagur

    Your letter, my lord, the elder, may God prolong your life and maintain your peace and happiness, has arrived whil…

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  26. 526List or tableT-S 10K20.10

    Book list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the entires are the biblical commentaries of Ibn Balʿam (d. ca. 1070). Saadya's Sefer ha-Galuy also appears.

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  27. 527List or tableT-S AS 122.212

    Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. Mentions dates and names. Needs further examination. Reused on recto for a miscellany in Hebrew. (Information …

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  28. 528Unknown typeT-S AS 215.287

    Unidentified text in Hebrew script, maybe a list of names (e.g., ʿUthmān). Andalusī hand? Needs examination.

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  29. 529Legal documentAIU VII.D.13

    Bifolium with seven legal document entries, likely from a court register. Dated in several entries as Tishrei 5491AM (September/October 1730 CE). (1) The first document …

    1. ...]המנוח כה׳׳ר יאודה .הר(?) תושב פה קושטנדינא
    2. ...]שאיר אחריו אלמנתו מ׳ מלכה תמ׳׳כ ושלשה
    3. ...].ל המכונה בכורה אשת הר׳ שלמה ן׳ משולם
    4. ...] והיקרה מ׳ קא…

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  30. 530Literary textENA NS 85.1121.1

    Minute printed fragment, in square Hebrew script. Refers to the Lekh Lekha parsha on the verso, and the following line is "ותדבר ישרא[ל."

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  31. 531Unknown typeENA NS 85.898

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  32. 532LetterT-S 12.69

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father-in-law Abu'l-Faraj, asking him to write a letter to correct his daughter’s (Shelomo’s wife’s) behaviour, since Shelomo is …

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    1.                כאדמה ומחבה ואכוה אבו אלברכאת אבן מכבה
    2.                     אבו אלפרג’ אבן אלרייס זצל

    3. סבב אצדאר הדה אלאחרף אלי אלמולא אלשיך א…

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    1. Your servant, friend and brother Abu'l-Baraka't, son of your friend
    2. Abu'l-Faraj, son of the chief, (may the) m(emory of a) r(ighteous man be …

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  33. 533Legal documentT-S NS J56

    Bill of divorce given by Ya'ir b. David, known as Ibn Sulimān, to his wife Sitt al-Naẓar bnt. Moshe. Fusṭāṭ, Monday 5th of Shevat 1456 …

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  34. 534State documentMoss. IXa,2.49

    State document, probably a petition or report, addressed to an official styled al-ḥaḍra al-sharīfa. Crumpled and faded. The sender was appointed to a position somewhere …

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  35. 535Unknown typeENA NS 85.981

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  36. 536LetterT-S AS 153.333

    Small fragment, possibly from a letter or draft. Mentions informing Sayyidnā about something and the sender's desire to serve him.

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  37. 537List or tableBL OR 5566C.2

    Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1200–1240 CE, based on Goitein's assessment. "[Received on account of the] Food for the Poor—101 1/2 [dirhems]." Accounts for one …

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  38. 538Paraliterary textT-S NS 226.175

    Formularies for curses.

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  39. 539Legal query or responsumT-S 8J20.20

    Legal queries (2) in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, one about niddah, another about oaths, addressed to Abraham Maimuni.

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  40. 540LetterT-S 20.15

    Letter addressed to Hodaya b. Yishai the Exilarch from Damascus who visited Egypt in the 1230s to solicit money from the communities there and overstayed …

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    1. לכבוד אשר . הכבוד [ח]לק לו מכבודו וקדושת מי שהקדוש ספק לו מקדושתו וגדולת אשר לו הגדולה ... לו מ....
    2. ושמו חטיבה אחת בע נט רח[ב] לב כ...ו שלאולם…

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  41. 541Paraliterary textT-S Ar.38.62

    Magical text in Arabic with drawings of figures.

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  42. 542LetterJRL B 2288

    Small fragment from the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably from a father to a son. The sender reports that [She]muel intended to travel to …

    1. ש[
    2. . . .
    3. אלדי אערף אלולד אלעזיז אלמ[ופק אלסעיד . . . . . . . . . . . . . . גמע אללה ביננא
    4. במנה וופצלה תע אנא . . [
    5. מע עלמך מא נחן פיה [. . . . . . .…

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  43. 543LetterBodl. MS heb. e 45/75

    Letter from a woman, in Qayrawān, to a benefactor, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The beginning is missing. Her children have nothing …

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    1. הדא אלכתאב והם ואללה מא ענדהם לא מא
    2. יאכלו ולא מא ילבסו ואנא יא מולאי יסירה
    3. קלילה אלחאלה ומא תם טאקה וקד אנכשפנא
    4. ולא תטן אלקירואן אנהם ירחמו וי…

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  44. 544Legal documentT-S 13J6.11

    Contract of debt. Location: Fustat. Dated: [157]6 Seleucid = 1264/65 CE, and prior to 9 February 1265 CE (the date of verso). In which the …

    1. ם ס
    2. שיתא שנין לשטרות למנינא אשר הור[גלנו]
    3. נהר נילוס היא יושבת רשות אדונינו נגידנו
    4. מובהק הנגיד הגדול נגיד עם לא אלמן
    5. [ח]צר אלינא כגק מרנ ורבנ דויו הז…

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  45. 545List or tableT-S Misc.8.66

    Bifolio of accounts. Dated: in the middle third of Rabiʿ I 545 (July 1150 CE) on the verso. Concerning the sale of cheese, wax, wine, …

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  46. 546Legal documentT-S 16.178 + T-S NS 320.72

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Groom: Menaḥem b. Hillel. Bride: Sutūt bt. Shelomo. Dated: Tuesday (date …

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  47. 547Unknown typeENA NS 76.594

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  48. 548LetterT-S AS 147.7

    Fragment of a letter concerning Qaraites, the Nasi Yoshiyyahu, and halakhic discussions including the rabbinic prohibition of meat and milk. (Information in part from Goitein …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]מ . יך[
    2. הנשיא רב יאשיהו דמיתי כי [
    3. והיום נטה לערוב ומחר . [
    4. מאצל הנער היה צועק בר [
    5. ובוז והנשיא מתראה כי הוא [
    6. נחמת…

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  49. 549List or tableAIU VII.F.98

    Interesting fragment of a grid containing prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic with interspersed Arabic for various questions. E.g., "This man swore falsely" or "This woman will become …

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  50. 550LetterT-S AS 158.396

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to shipments of sums of money (including 70 dinars?), the arrival of a fatwā without a witness, …

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