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  1. 501State documentT-S Misc.22.233

    Fiscal account recording the revenue of wheat, barley and broadbeans produced in five villages of the Gharbiyya province (Basūṭ Nahīsah, Maḥallat Bū l-Haytam, Nawāj, Damshīt, …

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  2. 502State documentT-S Misc.22.235

    State document, petition in a chancery hand and large Arabic script. Words that are readily legible include al-Qāhira, al-Ḥāfiẓiyya, al-majlis al-sāmī al-mālikī al-sayyidī al-ajallī al-Afḍalī, …

    1. سواله(؟)....القاهرة الكامنة الحافظية خلد الله ملكها
    2. وجميل راي المجلس السامي الملكي السيدي الاجلي الافضلي 
    3. .......وهو  من بقيت..............المرسوم

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  3. 503LetterT-S Misc.22.245

    Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (right side only). Asking the addressee for a favor concerning Abū l-Fakhr b. Wahb. The blank verso was reused for …

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  4. 504Literary textT-S Misc.22.250

    Popular literature (nawādir) in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 19th century.

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  5. 505List or tableT-S Misc.22.250

    Sums on lined paper and in purple ink. Dating: Probably 19th century.

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  6. 506State documentT-S Misc.22.252

    State document(s). In Arabic script. One column is probably a petition and the other the rescript (identical format to T-S NS 96.66, which was edited …

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  7. 507Legal documentT-S Misc.22.280

    Declaration of receipt of money. In Arabic script. Location: the Fayyūm. Dated: Monday, 4 Shaʿbān 438 AH, which is 3 February 1047 CE. Ghālib b. …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. يقول غالب بن حباسة بن الامير مراد الدولة عبد امير المومنين
    3. صلوات الله عليه اني قبضت من الشيخ ابى غالب عبد الله بن منصور
    4. الجهب…
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  8. on Monday, the fourth of Shaʿbān of the year four-hundred and thirty-eight.  

  9. Praise be to God and his blessings and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, the  prophet, and his family.  

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  11. 508State documentT-S Misc.22.282

    Probably a document, but could be a religious text such as a prayer. In Arabic script, in a very large (chancery?) hand. Full of fancy …

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  12. 509Legal documentT-S Misc.22.285

    Testimony concerning the death of a man and his son. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 427/1 August 1036. The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. شهد الشهود المسمون في هذا الكتاب كلهم يعرفون صدقة بن علون ابن الدباب
    3. الاسراىيلي معرفة صحيحة لا يسلون فيها ولا يتطلبون ش…
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  13. with his hand on its date.  

  14. ʿAli ibn Ḥusayn testified tohis knowledge of the death of the two people  mentioned herein and to everything that this document contains.  

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  16. 510State documentT-S Misc.22.286

    Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. [صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته 

  17. The blessings and benedictions of God, his increasing benefactions and most excellent salutation and greetings be

  18. upon our lord and master, the imām al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,

  19. and upon his pure ancestors and his most noble sons, with a blessing enduring until the day of judgement.

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  21. 511State documentT-S Misc.22.288

    Document in Arabic script. Unusual format, with text mostly in one column on the right side of the page. Moderately wide spice between the lines. …

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  22. 512State documentT-S Misc.22.293

    State document, probably an internal state memorandum regarding a payment. Portions of three lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Mentions a sum of …

    1. الى ان قطع على نفسه ماية دينار وان الذي حصىـ

    2. له من هذه الجملة خمسون دينار ويسال في الانعام عليه 

    3. [والاحسان إليه] ….ليقبل به

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  23. 513Legal documentT-S Misc.22.296

    Witness statement(s) in Arabic script, originally at the bottom of a deed of acknowledgment made by a woman. Dated: Shawwāl 427 AH = July/August 1036 …

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  24. 514List or tableT-S Misc.22.297

    Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions cinnamon, pepper, coriander, dates. Written in the blank space remaining on a bifolio of Hebrew poetry.

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  25. 515State documentT-S Misc.22.299

    Recto: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved.

    Inverted text (originally meant to be at the bottom)

    …..والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلامه على اله الائمة الطاهرين

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  26. 516State documentT-S Misc.22.300

    State or legal document in Arabic script. 6 lines are preserved, with moderately wide space in between. Mentions "wa-khaṭṭ al-shaykh Abū l-Faraj" and "[...] al-madhkūr." …

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  27. 517Paraliterary textT-S Misc.22.303

    Calendar fragment from the year [5]404 AM (1643/1644 CE). Very well-rendered, on a grid drawn with a straight edge.

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  28. 518List or tableT-S Misc.22.306

    Large account in Arabic script. Unclear for what. Sums of money are listed together with months of the year. The year 497 is mentioned = …

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  29. 519Legal documentT-S Misc.22.307

    Ownership note on a literary work that resembles but is not identical with Ruth Rabba (information from FGP). "The undersigned witness that Yehuda b. Ovadya …

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  30. 520LetterT-S Misc.22.310

    Petition addressed to the Italian consul in Cairo. Dated 10 August 1865 CE. Information from FOTM: "Although the majority of the material preserved in the …

    (folio 2, ln. 3-26)

    Domanda: che per la parte dell'autorità locale vengano condannati, non tanto i suddetti amministratori,quanto lo stesso Ibrahim Bey

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    (folio 1, ln. 19-26)

    ...the fact that the aforementioned administrators [of Ibrahim Bey] entered by force the country house of the undersigned [Jacub Dayyan] and took from the stable the two cows in his property and sequestered them...

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  31. 521LetterT-S Misc.22.311

    Letter from Mordechai b. Yizhaq Shraga Feivish, perhaps in Rafah, to R. Yom Tov the Av Beit Din of Cairo, probably Yom Tov Israel Cherezli …

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  32. 522Legal documentT-S Misc.23.3

    Record of a testimony written in Alexandria regarding a family excommunicated by Daniel b. Azarya. The members of the family desecrate his memory. Date: May …

    TS Misc.Box 23, f. 3r, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 3, pp.331-332 (Doc. #531), C.B. 04-21-88 (p)Record of a testimony written in Alexandria regarding a familyexcommunicated by Daniel b. Azarya and the members of the familydesecrate his memory, May 1079.

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  33. 523LetterT-S Misc.23.4

    Letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva, probably Fusṭāṭ, to the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Damsīs. Much of the letter has to do with Avraham …

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  34. 524LetterT-S Misc.23.5

    Letter from Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. The sender received the addressee's letter with concern about the whereabouts of Abū l-Ḥasan …

  35. הדרך והקבה יברך חמודה
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    1. וישמרהו מכל דבר רע
    2. ויכונן יה אשוריו
    3. ושלום גדולתה ויופי משרתה

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  37. 525LetterT-S Misc.23.6

    Perhaps he wants an official appointment as a cantor in Fustat? Moshe lived much of his life in Qalyūb but was evidently staying in Fustat at this point.

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  38. 526Legal documentT-S Misc.23.8

    Court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. A woman (Ḥasana bt. Menashshe ha-Kohen the …

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  39. 527Legal documentT-S Misc.24.5

    Court record of three sessions concerning the same case dealing with two merchants, Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Saadya and Saadya b. Ishaq. Shelomo had sued Saadya …

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  40. 528LetterT-S Misc.24.13

    Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Seems to be addressed to the shop (dukkān) of a Qāḍī, as discernible from the first fragmentary line. …

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  41. 529LetterT-S Misc.24.16

    Letter from Yom Ṭov and Shelomo Kastiel (? קשתיאל) to family members including a mother. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. Needs …

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  42. 530LetterT-S Misc.24.20

    Note in Arabic script. Mentions a maqṭaʿ cloth, but maybe also materia medica such as tamarind. Needs further examination. Information in part from Goitein's note …

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  43. 531Legal documentT-S Misc.24.21

    Verso (probably original use): Fragment of a document in Arabic script, maybe an official report. Mentions the arrival of another document (...waṣalat ruqʿa...), a caravan twice (al-qāfila), and travelers (al-raḥḥāla).

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  44. 532List or tableT-S Misc.24.28

    A list of at least 42 books of poetry, all called Dīwān or prefaced "min shiʿr [X]." In Arabic script. Poets named include: Ṭarafa, ʿAntara, …

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  45. 533LetterT-S Misc.24.35

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script in a different hand. Mentions "your friend in Cairo" and regards to various people such as Hājj [...]. Partial transcription: …

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  46. 534State documentT-S Misc.24.38

    Three tax receipts. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).

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  47. 535List or tableT-S Misc.24.39

    Private accounts of Abu Zikri Tabib in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim (Goitein) or Yehuda b. Saadya (Gil). Dating: ca. 1065 (Gil). Draft. Mentions …

  48.  כתאן אהנאס[י         ] ל'ח' די'נ' ורב'
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    1. ולה נ'צ' ספתגה' י' דנא אהנאס[י] ה' דנ'א' 

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  50. 536Legal documentT-S Misc.24.42

    Court decision in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Sulayman ha-Kohen al-Naqqad suspected the trustworthiness of al-Rasuy in matters of money, and the latter gave oath …

    1. . . . . . רס ס[ . . ] . . רא . . . . . . . . . . ללרצוי אבי אלפצל
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . אלמאיתין וסבעין דרהמא פלוס
    3. . . . אן מגדדה אן לא וצלהא //אל…

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  51. 537LetterT-S Misc.24.56

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions that all slaughtering in Damsīs has been put on hold; asks the addressee to obtain a fatwā in …

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  52. 538Legal documentT-S Misc.24.66

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Isḥāq b. Abū Saʿd b. Maḥāsin al-Yahūdī al-Kaʿkī receives from al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Maḥfūẓ b. Mubārak al-Ṭaḥḥān 254 dirhams and …

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  53. 539Literary textT-S Misc.24.74

    Bifolium with Arabic literary text (on love?) and one page of Hebrew.

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  54. 540Legal documentT-S Misc.24.76

    Draft or record of legal deed(s) in a court notebook. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership at the death of one of the partners. Names: …

    Recto - left page

    1. וכנת קד קבצת בעד ופאה כיאר להדה אלשרכה . . . .
    2. הי פש . . . . . אן [[ . . ל]] חצל פיה סבעה ותלתין דינארא [[ונצף]]

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  55. 541List or tableT-S Misc.24.106

    List in large Arabic script. Perhaps materia medica? Saffron (zaʿfarān) appears. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic jottings of formulaic phrases from a letter and the beginning of …

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  56. 542Paraliterary textT-S Misc.24.113

    Recto, center: The title of a section of an Arabic medical treatise: المقالة الاولى من كتاب تركيب الادوية بحسب المواضع الالمة لجالينوس الحكيم نقل حنين …

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  57. 543State documentT-S Misc.24.113

    Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …

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  58. 544Literary textT-S Misc.24.121

    Folio probably from the Arabic version of Yosippon, containing part of the speech against suicide at the siege of Yodfat. Mentions Vespasian (اسبيانوس). ASE

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    1. في الحرب ولم اشاهد قتل اصحابي وكيف لي ايضا بان يغدر
    2. بي الروم اذا اخذوني ويقتلو[نني] ولا ارى ما اتخوفه من خراب

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  59. 545Legal query or responsumT-S Misc.24.132

    Responsum in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Perhaps given by Elḥanan b. Shemarya? Concerning a betrothal. (Information from Goitein's index …

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  60. 546Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.1

    Three court records dealing with the same conflict over bay windows of two confronting houses which were touching. Dated: Tuesday, last decade of Shevaṭ, 1419 …

  61. בינהמא אלימין עלי דלך
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    1. חצר אלי בית דין אלשיך אבו עלי אלתפארת
    2. וקאל לי שהאדה וזכות אריד מן בית דין

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  63. 547Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  64. 548Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  65. 549Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  66. 550Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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