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  1. 501List or tableENA 3306.7–8

    Extensive accounts in Ladino with at least one full date on ENA 3306.8r in the upper left corner: ״27 תשרי [הת]קסח״ which is 27 Tishrei 5568 AM (October 1807 CE). There are probably several joins for this fragment and many individuals listed who may appear in additional documents from the early 1800s: (ENA 3306.8r), ʿImannuʾel Maṭalon; (ENA 3306.7r), Shelomo Cuenca (whose surname echoes the city in Castille), Yaʿacov Cuenca, Daniel Florentin, Yosef Moliano (possibly Italian = "Mogliano"), . The accounts deal with quantities of sugar (אסוקר), cinnamon (קאנילה), Yisraʾel Yaʿīsh, Aron Cassuto, Yosef Ben-Veniste (ן׳ ביניסטי), Daniel Ḥason; (ENA 3306.7), Menaḥem Mikhāl, Moshe Yiṣḥaqarī, Shelomo Mosseri, Ḥayyīm Naḥama, and others.

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  2. 502LetterT-S 8J40.11 + BL OR 5542.12

    The writer is preoccupied on behalf of Abū Ibrāhīm who encountered difficulties while traveling to Rashīd. Ismāʿīl is mentioned several times. The writer has enclosed another important letter, to a certain family (al-Faṭṭūma?), from their agent ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and he asks the recipient to ensure that it reaches its target. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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    1. על שמך ייי תוכלת עלי אללה
    2. כתאבי יאמולאי וסידי ושיכי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
    3. וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ואלחמד לל…

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  3. 503Legal documentT-S 16.15

    The upper lines mention two more enslaved people: Ẓarf and her son Muwaffaq. A faded note on verso mentions Yehoshuaʿ ha-Kohen, and does not appear to be related to the text on recto. (Information from Craig Perry and CUDL) NB: An earlier description in the PGP identified the enslaved person sold by Michal as Bidʿa ‘Innovation’, also called ‘Gazelle’.

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  4. 504List or tableT-S Ar.30.152

    Dated on the verso in the first row of entries: 6 Ramaḍān _43 AH but the scribe omitted the hundreds digit. […] For each day of the week, lists the boats (qārib) belonging to different people (Muḥammad, Shihāb al-Dīn, Naṣr al-Dīn. . .) and commercial goods and numbers associated with them. An entry mentions "rice from Damietta" on the left side of the recto and the town Minyat Salsīl is mentioned in entries on both the recto and verso (modern-day Mīt Salsīl, ~25 miles due south of Damietta). At least one other potential placename appears in the entries: (verso) Minyat Budayr. Needs further examination.

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  5. 505Legal documentT-S NS J484

    Yaʿaqov signed T-S Ar.29.145 (PGPID 39225) in 1170 CE. The owner of the enslaved woman is named Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. The enslaved woman's name starts with תוכ or תומ. Witnesses: Avraham b.

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    1. בתרין בשבה דהוא חמשה יומ[ין בירח
    2. כסליו דשנת אלפא ואר[ב]ע מ[אה
    3. ותמניא שנין למניינא דרגילינננא(!) [ביה
    4. בעיר אלקאהרה דסמיכא לפסטאט מ[צרים
    5. דעל ניל…

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  6. 506Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated 13 Heshvan [5322 AM] (October 1561 CE), the same day and year as the previous entry on f. 12v. Incomplete document entry in which Farjallah b. […] Yaʿaqov al-Levi ha-Somekh. The entry notes that the property is held in a pious endowment (indicated by recurring references to כלו/خلو status) and that Farjallah had previously purchased the maqaʿd from a Rabbanite Jew, whose name was left blank in l. 24.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 12v

    1. אותה מתחת רשותי להיות עלי חוב אמת [[מח]] מחזק וקים ותשמע
    2. אמה אלקא׳ אסתר הנז׳ למע׳ וגם קבלה מיד החתן הנז׳ למע׳ מהר
    3. בעילת…

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  7. 507Legal documentENA NS 66.2

    Probably a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  8. 508List or tableENA 3909.2 + ENA 3909.1

    List of entries in Arabic script that possibly designate accounts. […] A number of shorthand terms are in use, for example the single ligature that begins each entry may itself be a common financial term that was quickly written and thus lacks any dotting. Another term, possibly an abbreviation, that appears in some entries is "صو" which could also be read as "حو".

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  9. 509List or tableT-S Ar.39.106

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly related to state finances based on the recurring mention of "stipends" "jamakiyya". Dated in multiple entries as 937–938 AH, which is approximately 1530–1532 CE. Alexandria and, possibly, the nearby coastal town of Abū Qīr are mentioned– but this may be a person's name based on the format of other entries. There may be a reference to an Ottoman tax farm (muqtʿa) on the verso, but the entry is badly damaged.

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  10. 510Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J66 + ENA 2738.1

    T-S Ar.18(1).35 + T-S 20.96 and ENA 2738.1 were published by Gil, Pious Foundations, no. 3. […] Shekhanya was the scribe for both ENA 2738.1 and T-S Ar.18(1).35 + T-S 20.96, but it seems that the document of the qodesh in CUL Or.1081 J66 + ENA 2738.1 is actually in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. The transcription for ENA 2738.1 is currently listed under PGPID 1251, section [c].

    1. אלהיאמנה אלדי קאמו פי חיאה אלר[ב שמריה נע
    2. סנין אכרבת אלכנאיס ונקצו אלפר[אשין
    3. ובאעו אכשאב אלמואצע אלמדכור[ה
    4. כראב אלי וקת רגוע אלכנאיס ותסלמו[הא
    5. בר חכ…

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  11. 511List or tableYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Due to the condensed layout of the individual entries, the line numbering in the transcription is not a one-to-one representation of the document itself. The list has 52 entries, most of which are names of residents or people renting shops held in the qodesh. […] Yeshīʿa Tawrīzī, given that one entry reads: "my father Yeshīʿa Tawrīzī" (ll. 47-49).

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 7r

    1. הדה תקוים ביות אלקדש אלדי לליהוד אלקראיין יצ׳׳ו בתאריך שהר תשרי שנת הש[..
    2. בית יעקב          שמואל   ע׳אללטיף    פרגא׳   …

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  12. 512Literary textAIU VI.B.184

    A leaf giving methods for predicting the future/answers to various questions (how you will escape from an enemy. . . whether the rumor is true or not. . .).

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  13. 513Legal documentBL OR 4684.9

    Jirja and ... concerning an enslaved woman (jāriya), dated Dhū l-Ḥijja 383. (AP)

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  14. 514State documentENA 3968.21

    Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]).

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  15. 515State documentENA 3968.23

    Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]).

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  16. 516List or tableENA NS 76.435.8

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of the same scribe as adjacent fragments (see especially ENA NS 76.435.1 + ENA NS 76.435.3).

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  17. 517LetterENA NS 77.59

    Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Referring to necessity/need (אן אוגבת אלצרורה) and ending ישע רב.

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  18. 518Paraliterary textT-S Ar.46.137

    Advice on how to succeed against enemies, on a journey, etc. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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    1. ירידו. גמך ומתלך מ/ת/ל באב מגלוק ואלנגאר
    2. קאעד יצלחה ואנת תרי אנך רגל באזל ולאכן
    3. אחדר אעדאך לאנהם אקוא מנך ואדעו אללה
    4. יכפיך מונתהם ו…

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  19. 519Legal documentENA 4011.45

    The parties are [...]l ha-baḥur ha-ṭov ha-talmid and Mishaʾel ha-Levi ha-baḥur ha-ṭov. ENA 3737.8 might be an indirect join. NB: Goitein refers to ENA 4011.45 as ENA 4011.47.

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  20. 520LetterT-S AS 149.28

    The sender curses the addressees' enemies. Ends with a bialphabetic blessing: ורחמת אללה וبركات (wa-raḥmat Allāh wa-barakātuh).

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  21. 521Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1554

    Karaite engagement deed. Dated on the night of Purim 14 Adar I, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yiṣhaq b. Aharon Ḥakīm engages the previously unmarried Qamr bt. Nissīm b. Yosef Levi. Their engagement is set to last for two years and the groom contributes a mohar of 40 reales.

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף תחרירהא באן חצ'רו בעץ' מן אלקהל
    2. ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל אחי׳ רחמים לוי יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר נחום לוי נ׳׳ע תם חצ'ר הב׳ יצחק
    3. החתן ס׳׳ט בן אהרן ח…

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  22. 522Legal documentBL OR 4684.8

    Jirja al-Ṭuṭūnī and ... concerning an enslaved woman (jāriya) dated Muḥarram 384 AH. (AP)

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  23. 523LetterDK 231.1 (alt: IX)

    Eliyyahu to the judge (dayyan) Avraham ha-Kohen. Consisting entirely of Hebrew encomia.

    1.  הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרנו ורבנו אברהם הכהן
    2. הדיין הנכבד החכם הנכבד החסיד ישמרה אל עלה
    3. תפלת תמיד שלותו שקט יתמיד ואויביו ישמיד
    4. ומשנאיו ינקום מהם ו/י…

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  24. 524LetterENA 1822a.16

    Dealing with political machinations and silencing enemies. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

    1. الان واليه انقيادنا من קצינינו ויועציו لقد كان الامر يفضي الى
    2. ما ينعم وان كان في מקצת משרתיו מ[י] שמעו מפיו דברים שמחו
    3. עד למאד ولولا انا تداركنا الا…

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  25. 525List or tableENA 2875.35 + ENA 2875.34

    Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. ENA 2875.35 belongs before ENA 2875.34. See Goitein's index card for more information.

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  26. 526List or tableT-S AS 209.169

    List in Judaeo-Arabic, with detailed entries on the recto and verso. Some entries list the weights of goods.

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  27. 527List or tableENA 2425.13

    For similar usage of the letter ץ as 900 in sixteenth-century accounts, see for example: ENA 3150.4 - PGPID 40491. The entries on the recto are better preserved, mentioning names and groups such as: Abū al-Nasr (Naṣr), Abū l-Baqāʾ b. […] Cairo's northern Nile port of Būlāq is mentioned in an entry in the lower right corner of the verso. MCD.

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  28. 528Legal documentENA NS 7.24

    Legal register from the rabbinical court in Fustat, signed by Efrayim ben Shemarya in uncharacteristically calligraphic Hebrew letters. Recto has two entries from Ḥeshvan 1339 Seleucid, and verso has an entry from Kislev 1339 Seleucid (=1027/28 CE). The entry on verso concerns the same case of levirate marriage as found in T-S NS J51 from several months earlier (Elul 1338 Seleucid).

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  29. 529List or tableENA NS 77.33

    Probably all from the same register: ENA NS 77.33 (PGPID 4553) ENA NS 77.93 (PGPID 4561) ENA NS 77.208 (PGPID 4545)

    1. שי? ידור פי חגר אלדהב
    2. ואכוה אלצבאג
    3. אם פתיאן
    1. הל[א]ל [א]למקדסי
    2. ........]פי.[

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    1. וב]נתהא ואבנהא
    2. אם רייסה
    3. יתים בן קטאיף
    4. ..].לה

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  30. 530List or tableENA NS 77.395

    The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the paleography. At least three entries on the recto mention unnamed daughters of community members. Some of the entries repeat the word "qamīṣ" (shirt) similar to the potentially related shelfmark ENA NS 77.276 (PGPID 13599) from the same archival series.

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  31. 531State documentMoss. Xa,3.122

    The same two ʿalāʾim apper also in ENA 3945.9 (PGPID 10485) and ENA 3982.56 (PGPID 10922), and the latter appears in ENA 3936.1 (PGPID 10376).

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  32. 532Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Dated 16 Tammuz 5458 CE, which is 1698 CE. (Document #33) Engagement deed between Shaʾul aka Shaḥata b. Moshe ha-Levi and Qamr bt. Efrayim ha-Levi, the latter is listed as previously divorced. The entry includes conditions for the engagement and marriage as well as a partial dowry list.

    Left side of bifolio 4v (Documents 31-33):

    1. בעח׳׳מ בא היקר ונעלה כה׳׳ר אהרן לובריגון (Lobregón) יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו דמו(?) לכם
    2. שאני הולך לנא אמון יע׳׳א ומ…

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  33. 533Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 5.4

    to annul the evil wishes of his enemies and make everyone love him. In Hebrew, Aramaic, and nomina barbara.

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  34. 534Paraliterary textT-S K1.150

    Nujūm to give him charm and grace and to silence his enemies. (Information from CUDL.)

    1. May God make eternal the reign of the exalted seat, the [mighty] lord, [(commander of) the armies, sword (of Islam),]

    2. the defender (of mankind), …

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  35. 535LetterT-S Misc.11.230

    Note in Hebrew to some sort of dignitary that consists of nothing more than a string of flattering titles and blessings for prosperity and victory over his enemies.

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  36. 536Legal documentT-S Ar.29.49

    Sitt al-Fakhr had bought the enslaved woman from ʿEli's wife Khulla bt. Yosef ha-Kohen for a sum of 10 dinars. […] When ʿEli and his wife Khulla are asked, ʿEli claims that Sitt al-Fakhr never even bought this enslaved woman, and that in fact the buyer was Sitt al-Fakhr's husband, Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. […] and from the female broker (al-dallāla) that this enslaved woman only had [...] defect and no more. There is a small gap here.

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  37. 537List or tableENA 2592.6–7

    ENA 2592.7: List, continuation of ENA 2952.6 mentioning some of the prominent members of the Babylonian community in Fustat in the 11th century, concluding with Nahray b.

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  38. 538List or tableENA 2715.20 + ENA 2715.19 + ENA 2715.21

    Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew that can be dated through a join's (ENA 2715.19) entry dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE.

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  39. 539Legal documentENA NS 72.18

    Draft of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Abū al-[Man]ṣūr al-Kohen purchases a female slave named Ṭ[...] for the price of 25 dinars.

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  40. 540Legal documentFriedberg MSS 9-004/25

    Deed of gift of an enslaved woman (waṣīfa). Fragment, containing the first half of 5 lines.

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  41. 541Legal documentT-S K22.27

    (Document #12) Real estate case with three judges' signatures regarding an endowment property (waqfiyya), specifically a commercial house (אוכאלה=وكالة) in the "port of Damietta" that has fallen into ruin. The entry is based on witness testimony about the state of the property whose waqf status is explained in the opening line of the entry (וקפייאת הקרקעות שעשה הרב הכולל מוהרי׳ קשטרו זלה׳׳ה)– pointing to the founder of the endowment as R. […] The description of the property mentions the collapse of various walls and the lack of a door/lock on the building (דלת ובריח אין לה). The document entry also discusses arrangements for future repairs, ground rent (arḍiyya), and for the property's succession among current/future descendants of the Castro family.

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    1. שהיא עקר הוקפייה שהכותל [...]ה פונה [..] בית השופ[...] עד
    2. שם הזקין בארץ עכשו והוא נוטה לי[..]ל ומן ה[..…

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  42. 542List or tableENA 2898.4 + ENA 2898.3

    See also JRL SERIES B 7663 (PGPID 40386). ENA 2898.4: Recto is headed "the ship of Kara ʿAlī arriving from Antalya on 20 Ramaḍān '46." […] Underneath there are the sums for "the entire ship" (jumlat al-markab). ENA 2898.3: Recto is headed, "the closing (? taghlīq) of the ship of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ʿAbbās." The entries underneath include the names ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Qūqū, Salim(?)

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  43. 543State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.1

    Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?)

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  44. 544LetterT-S AS 134.189

    Fragment of a letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of five lines are preserved, with words stacked at the end.

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  45. 545LetterT-S AS 145.227

    Fragment from toward the end, including the end of business matters involving dirhams and then the greetings-to-the-family section.

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    1. [              ]. [ ]....[                 ]
    2. [              ]אלמולא אלגזיל ותערפה
    3. [              תעא]לא דכרה אללה בכיר
    4. [              ] דראהם …

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  46. 546Legal documentT-S AS 145.354

    Bill of sale for an enslaved woman, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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  47. 547Legal documentT-S AS 151.258

    Legal document concerning a sale of an enslaved person, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

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  48. 548Paraliterary textT-S K1.69

    Possibly also refers to Mevorakh and Abū ʿAlī as the person's enemies. (Informationf rom CUDL.)

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  49. 549Legal documentT-S NS 157.58

    Marriage contract for two enslaved people, both born into slavery (muwallad(at) al-jins), Muwaffaq and Dhahab.

    #62, pp. 188-9

    1. [بـ]ـسم اللـه الرحمن الـ[ـرحيم]
    2. [شـ]ـهد الشهود المسمون اخر [هذا الكتاب ان القاضي ]
    3. [ ]ع ويكنى ابا البركات وعبد السلم الـ[ بن ابي] الف…

    #62, pp. 189-92

    1. Au nom de Dieu, le Clément, le [Miséricordieux].
    2. Les témoins nommés au bas du document… attestent [que le cadi… ]
    3. … qui porte les su…

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  50. 550Legal documentT-S NS 184.59

    Deed of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).

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    1. ואשרטת עליה מע דלך איצא [
    2. דוני ועליה אלקיאם בה מן כאצה [
    3. אפילו משוי פרוטה ולעילא אד [
    4. תאם זבינין גמירין חתיכין חליטי [
    5. בתריה מן שמי מן יומא דנ…

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