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  1. 5651State documentT-S Ar.38.136

    Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …

    1. المملوك بن لفش الشهابي
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. يقبل الارض وينهي حضور السايق تجاري(؟)
    4. وعلى يده كتاب كريم بحضور المملوك والقاضي
    5. والعامل فاما الكاتب فان…

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  2. 5652State documentT-S NS 300.71

    Petition, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Three and a half lines are preserved. The petitioner is one of the traders entering (or importing goods into?) Egypt …

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    1. انه من جملة التجار الموردين الى الديار المصرية خلد الله[
    2. وهو من اهل الستر والسلامة لازم للطرائق الحميدة[
    3. الا جزا وهو [يجدد] تقبيل الارض ويسئل …
    1. He is among the merchants that come to Egypt, may god perpetuate [
    2. and he is a genuine person, following a virtuous path [
    3. except reward. He [renews…

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  3. 5653Legal query or responsumBodl. MS heb. a 3/9

    Legal query addressed to the Gaon and Nasi Daniel b. ʿAzarya in Jerusalem with regard to the goods of a merchant, Moshe b. Yehuda ha-Ma'arvi, …

    1. שאלה לפני אדוננו נשיא וגאון נטרוהי משמיא וגברוהי לסריה ומזליה
    2. מא יקול אדוננו גאון פי ראובן מצרי אשתרא בצאיע מע שמעון סקלי במצר
    3. ווזן כל ואחד מנהמא נצ…

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  4. 5654LetterT-S Ar.39.469

    Family letter. In Arabic script. Begins like a state document with the taqbīl clause. Nearly complete, but faded in places. Perhaps addressed to a 'paternal …

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  5. 5655Legal documentT-S AS 180.270

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Portions of 2 witness signatures are preserved. Dated: [.]27 AH.

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  6. 5656Legal documentMoss. VII,72

    Prosbol document (registration of a loan at the court, thereby exempting it from automatic cancellation in the Sabbatical year). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 27 Elul …

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    1. כ'ז' לחדש אלול     פוסטאט
    2. בה' בשבת       בא אלינו

    3.             חוסין ברב' משה

    4. ויאמר לנו [שמעו] אתם בית דין הנה מסרתי דברי

    5. לכם    והודעתי…

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    1. 27 of the month of Elu'l Fust'a't'

    2. On Thursday

    3. There came to us

    4. H'usayn son of R. Moses

    5. and said to us, Hear ye! You are the court. I…

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  7. 5657LetterT-S 8J20.6

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim.

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    1. סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה פי אלכיר בקאך וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ פי גמיע

    2. אמורך מן אלסכנדריה ליב כלון מן שהר טאבת ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכת מא

    3. יליה …

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    1. אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים ימים ארוכים וטובים, ויהיה לך ועמך מגן ושומר בכל
    2. ענייניך. (אני כותב) מאלכסנדריה, בי"ב בטבת, יודיעך אלוהים את ברכתו ו…

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  8. 5658Legal documentT-S 12.515

    Acknowledgment by Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham ha-Maʿaravi of debt amounting to 600 niqar which he owes to David Kohen b. Shelomo, written in Fustat, 967.

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    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו בחמישי בשבת בשנים עשר יום לחדש סיון
    2. שנת אלף ומאתים ושבעים ושמונה שנים למיניין שאנו רגילין למנות בו
    3. בפוסטאט מצרים שעל נ…

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  9. 5659Legal documentT-S 16.218

    Court record in which Mubāraka bt. ʿAṭiyya is promised 3 dinars per month by her husband, ʿAzarya b. Binyamin, but the reverse side shows a …

    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו [החתומים למטה]
    2. בכתב הזה איך עזריה בר בנימין [
    3. מעכשיו קנין גמור חמור וכתבו וחת[מו
    4. למבארכה בת עטייה ליהיות ביד[ה
    5. לא אנוס ו…

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  10. 5660Legal documentENA NS 83.240

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era?

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  11. 5661Legal documentT-S AS 153.31

    Fragment (bottom part) of a power of attorney. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. In which al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār …

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  12. 5662LetterENA 3746.6 + ENA 3746.7

    Letter in Arabic script with some Hebrew mixed in (בהיכלו). Faded and damaged. A portion of the address is preserved; the sender's name may be …

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  13. 5663LetterT-S AS 153.269

    Recto: Lower part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender places an order worth 16 dirhams, including for 1/2 ounce of Iraqi copper sulfate (zinjār). …

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    1. רטל [
    2. ואעלמני תמן אלגמיע [
    3. כל חאגה וכד לי זנגאר עראקי
    4. נצף וקיה גמלה אלדראהם
    5. סתה עשר דרהם ואעלמני
    6. איש גרא לך פי [[הדה]] אלאמר
    7. אלדי תחדתנא פיה ו…

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  14. 5664Unknown typeENA NS 85.1396

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  15. 5665LetterT-S NS 321.67 + AIU VII.E.120

    Letter from a father who has traveled away to his son at home. In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Rudimentary hand and orthography, with many colloquialisms. …

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  16. 5666State documentT-S AS 178.224

    Document in Arabic script, maybe an official/fiscal account. "... bi-mablagh al-mustakhraj wa-l-maṣrūf...." Needs examination.

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  17. 5667List or tableENA NS 83.180

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

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  18. 5668List or tableBodl. MS heb. d 66/59

    Detailed commercial accounts for the year 1526 Seleucid = 611 AH = 1214/15 CE of a silk merchant who served also as Parnas. His business …

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    1. אנפצלת נפקה ר שלמה שצ מן אברהם
    2. ואלד יוסף ואעתזל כל ואחד מנהמא בעיאלה
    3. ען צאחבה מן תאריך יז תמוז קכו
    1. שהדנא עלי סאלם בן יוסף אן ענדה למכארם

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  19. 5669Paraliterary textT-S NS 327.81

    Alchemical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic (mentioning e.g. "restoring the spirit to جسد المغنيسيا") in the margins of an Arabic (philosophical?) treatise.

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  20. 5670Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#130) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 42r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). On the fourth of …

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  21. 5671Legal documentT-S 12.157 + T-S 12.42

    Recto: Large legal document. Involving Dalāl and Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham and deeds of trustworthiness (שטר נאמנות) and/or release (שטר אביזאריה). Verso: Arabic script, see separate …

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  22. 5672LetterENA NS 85.1212

    Letter fragment in Ladino. Seems to be discussing somebody's (Eliyya's?) illness for the last 6 months: סון 6 מיזיס קי נו איי ריפואה קון אילייא …

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  23. 5673List or tableENA 3669.3

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. late 16th- or early 17th-century. Mentions many names, such as: (recto) Muḥammad Jalabī (Çelebi), H. Franses, and (verso) R. Meʾīr Gavizon. The …

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  24. 5674LetterT-S AS 149.226

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the Jewish community of Ḥamāh (Hama, Syria). Seems to concern a communal controversy over ritual immersion ("...min amr al-ṭevila"). Mentions …

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  25. 5675Legal documentJRL B 6769

    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138).

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  26. 5676Legal documentJRL B 8446

    Minute legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  27. 5677Legal documentT-S NS 226.136

    Legal document, small fragment. Possibly a deed of sale describing the location of a property.

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  28. 5678List or tableT-S Ar.34.304

    Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One side is headed "Cairo" and lists names such as al-Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣāyigh

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  29. 5679Unknown typeENA NS 85.1311.5

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 5680List or tableT-S AS 153.169

    Accounts, mentioning divisions of cash. "Nuqra" and "mufarraq" seem to be the two categories. Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  31. 5681LetterENA 2804.7

    Letter from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: 1055 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 based on the years …

    ENA 2804, f. 7, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 3, pp.11-12 (Doc. #418), C.B. 10-26-87 (p) Letter from Elijah Ha-Kohen b. Solomon Gaon, Jerusalem, to Ephraim…

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  32. 5682LetterT-S AS 152.150

    Beginning of a letter sent to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. S[alāma]. (Information from CUDL)

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  33. 5683Unknown typeENA NS 85.842

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  34. 5684LetterT-S 10J16.3

    Letter. Postscript to a letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo by the scion of the house of David in Mosul who also wrote Bodl. MS …

    1. פצל
    2. . . ל . דאם טלה אנה למא לם יחצל לולדנא שיא אצלא מן אליהוד
    3. . . לא מתל הדא אלצבי אלעגמי ולא מתל גירה מן אקל אלעניים
    4. אלוארדין אלי הדא אלבלד ותחקקת …

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  35. 5685Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1740

    Qaraite court record(s) regarding an agreement that followed two cases of theft (סרקה/سرقة) committed by a certain Yaʿaqov Feyrūz. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5547 AM = …

    1. סבב תצטיר האדא אלאחרף ומוגב תחרירהא אן חצרו בעץ מן אלקהל
    2. בר׳ יה׳ פי מנזל החכם כמוה׳׳ר יום טוב ס׳׳ט וחצרו כה׳׳ר משה ואבו מרדכי
    3. חיינה מן קצ'ית יעקב פי…

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  36. 5686Literary textT-S AS 152.311

    Apparently a small fragment from a medical book, mentioning cartilage, the heart and illnesses. CUDL

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  37. 5687LetterT-S 8J25.4

    Letter to [... b.] Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business issues, mentioning commodities such as gum and walnuts. Containing an order of Abbadani mats, which were …

    1. . . . . .]שלום שלום לר[.]ול[. . . . . . .]וא[. .] ר חלפון
    2. . . . . .]לה תע ורחמתה [. . . .]תה עלי אלש מרדוך שצ
    3. . . . .] אן אלממלוך פרג [. . . . .] יס…

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  38. 5688LetterT-S 8K13.7

    Letter of recommendation for a poor man with a family from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE).

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  39. 5689LetterJRL L 4

    Late letter (or letters?) in Judaeo-Arabic from Ya'aqov Bibas in Cairo (פה מצרים) to Shimʿon Frances in Alexandria (נאאמון). Based on the people referenced, this …

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  40. 5690List or tableT-S AS 148.23

    Accounts with dates, names and numerals. Dating: perhaps 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. A partial date is visible along the upper right corner …

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  41. 5691List or tableENA NS 50.13

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Cairo. May even give a year, but needs further examination.

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  42. 5692LetterT-S Ar.39.485

    Letter. In Arabic script. The sender says that he initially planned to go to Alexandria "as soon as I heard the news" but then saw …

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  43. 5693LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/139

    IB III, 30. Letter from Perahya b. Yosef in Mazara, Sicily, to Avraham b. Eliyyahu in al-Mahdiyya, inquiring about Perahya's uncle, Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: …

    III, 30: Recto

    1. אלי סיידי וגלילי אדאם אללה סלאמתה וגדד כראמתה וכבת באל דל
    2. חסדתה ואיידה תאייד לא יחיד ען אל סביל אל רשיד לא זאלת נעם
    3. אללה תתואתר עליה …

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    1. I was obliged to write to you, my lord, these few, short
    2. lines, for I heard that you had arrived in your homeland. Therefore, I wish …

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  44. 5694LetterT-S AS 157.132

    Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The top line is a date written in Arabic script (15 Dhū l-Ḥijja). The next line may contain a variant …

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  45. 5695List or tableMoss. Xa,3.11

    List of payments (recto and verso). Names include Ṣadaqa b. Mīnā. Quantities expressed in words and dirhams.

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  46. 5696LetterT-S Ar.30.159

    Recto (probably secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan Sar ha-Bina. Bitter complaint of a sugar-maker that the addressee did not send him …

    1. בשמ רמ
    2. תוחלת ממושכה מחלה לב
    3. טוב אשר לא תדור משתדור ולא תש
    4. קד כאן תקדם ועד חצרה מולאי אלשיך
    5. אבו אלחסן שר הבינה ישמרו שומר נפשו[ת
    6. חסידיו בקליל סכר אטב…

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  47. 5697Literary textMoss. III,212.1

    Literary text in Spanish.

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  48. 5698Paraliterary textT-S NS 275.184

    Recto is Hebrew piyyuṭ. Verso is headed "qiddush tarḥīm for Avraham ha-Levi b. Yefet ha-Mumḥe." Possibly the same person as in T-S 16.170 (PGPID 3430), …

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  49. 5699Unknown typeMoss VIII,343

    Two words in an elegant chancery hand which read as "المستمين للعذاب". Maybe scribal practice. Reused for Hebrew text.

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  50. 5700LetterENA NS 77.83

    Minute fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions arriving in Alexandria and meeting with somebody, and possibly a boat.

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