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  1. 5801LetterT-S 13J27.9

    Letter sent from Alexandria by Zikrī b. Ḥananʾel to ʿArūs b. Yosef in Fustat. It is a copy of a previous letter informing the recipient …

    ד דנא אלקנטאר | מא א.ל אעלמתך דלך | [[קראת דלך . . . .]]

    Top margin, parallel lines written upside down.

    וכתאבי הדא לך לילה אסרו חג

    Verso. Top margin, parallel lines written in same direction. Address.

  2. ...אצל שום אדם, כי אינם בנמצא אצל איש, חוץ מאשר אצל בן בבוש, ו' שעבר זמנם, והוא שילם לו
  3. recto, right margin

    ד' דינרים הקנטאר, אבל לא מכר. זאת לידיעתך. אני שולח לך דרישות שלום.

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    מכתבי זה אליך (נכתב) בליל אסרו חג.

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  4. 5802State documentT-S 28.8

    Two petitions to a Fatimid judge. The first concerns the incarceration of the family breadwinner, a certain Ḥabīb. An endorsement fixed to the end of …

  5. ……..

  6. Top, upside-down

    1. عبدها

    2. عمر بن ابرهيم السمسار

  7. The group of slaves, the old among them and the young, have appealed to God, praise be to him, and to the glorious and lofty presence of the elder,

  8. may God protect his power from others, make happiness eternal in his courtyard and establish the bounties that are bestowed upon him and upon others, and (have appealed) tohis religiosity to grant what they yearn for

  9. and put an end to their poverty by releasing their aforementioned son, Ḥabīb, taking into consideration the good deeds to the members of minority communities and the dhimmīs that God has caused him to perform, he (God) having endeared them to him and caused him to act kindly

  10. to them, and also his efforts to treat everyone in a way that pleases God, praise be to him, for the sake of God, the exalted.

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  12. 5803LetterT-S NS 304.6

    Letter from Isḥāq b. Yaʿqūb, in Fustat, to the household of his nephew (sister's son) ʿImrān b. Abū Naṣr, in Jūjar. To be delivered to …

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  13. 5804Legal documentT-S NS J351

    Recto: Legal document dated 1089–1188 CE, describing a son whose father, before traveling to Yemen, had given him, as ẓedaqa, two houses. The father then …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] דיאר אלימן וכתב לי בהמא כתאב צדקה באלעדים אשה[דהם
    2. . . . . . .]ה . . . קד געלתהמא במתנה לאחר מותי לואלדתי תתצרף פיהמא בע…

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  14. 5805Legal 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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  15. 5806Legal documentT-S 6J2.1

    Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn …

    1. למא כאן יום אלגמעה והו יום עשרין מחדש
    2. סיון משנת קסד אקנינא מן זין אלדאר ברת
    3. זכריה הזקן הנכבד נע אלמנת יפת בר שלה מקדסי נע
    4. באנהא וכלת מאיר הבחור היקר…

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  16. 5807Legal documentENA 2727.3

    Legal record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1077–1055 CE). Khallūf makes a claim on the inheritance of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān. The document …

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  17. 5808Legal documentT-S 8J12.1

    Deed of manumission of a female slave. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1421 Seleucid, which is 1110 CE. The owner's name is Ṭoviyya b. …

    1. בארבעה בשבה דהוא תמני עשר יומין בירח
    2. סיון שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ועשרין וחדא שנין
    3. למניאנא דרגיליננא ביה בעיר אלקאהרה דסמיכא
    4. לפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא …

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  18. 5809LetterAIU VII.E.49

    Letter from Moshe Ḥakīm and "Senyora," in Fustat/Cairo, to Ḥayyim Rosano, in Manṣūra. In Judaeo-Arabic, elegant hand. Dating: Probably late 18th or early 19th century. …

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  19. 5810LetterBodl. MS heb. a 2/18

    Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Qayrawan. Around 1045. The writer is still in Egypt (before he moved to Byzantium) …

  20. יתפק ביע
  21. אלאפריא
  22. Recto - top margin

    1. וכדלך אלקצט
    2. פי מרכב בן צנדלאן
    3. וקד אקלע אללה

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    (1–10) כיוצא בזה השרף, הוא באוניית בן צנדלאן, והיא כבר הפליגה. אלוהים יכתבנה לשלום.

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  23. 5811LetterDK 351

    Letter from Bayān to his 'father' Abū l-Fakhr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The sender reminds the addressee that he had promised …

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  24. 5812LetterENA 2805.5

    Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 CE, based on Gil's assessment. The handwriting is that …

  25. קדרת

  26. recto - top margin

    1. ותשרי לי ג

    2. אזואג

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    קנה לי ג' זוגות נעליים ראויות למתנה, בחצי דינר בקירוב; ומסור לאדוני ורבי אבו נצר דרישות שלום, ודרישות שלום לך, מכובדי:

    verso

    1. ואל תפסיק לכתוב לנו על מצבך, וכל צורך בקנייה שיהיה לך, כבדני בו.

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  27. 5813Legal documentT-S 20.93

    Two unrelated legal deeds written by the judge Avraham b. Yizhaq ha-Talmid. The longer one is a deed of sale of a female slave, dated …

    recto,top

    1. אדנ[נו] מבורך שר השרים אלוף הבינות חכ[

    2. סנהדרא רבא עוז בית ישראל בן כב' גד' ק[ד' אדוננו]

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  28. 5814Legal documentT-S Ar.41.58

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Jumādā II 907. A (sale?) contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of …

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  29. 5815Legal documentT-S Ar.42.116

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 962 AH, which is 1554/55 CE. (Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. …

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  30. 5816LetterT-S AS 151.54

    Fragment of a letter, damaged. Opening lines are in Hebrew and the body is in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is likely that of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli …

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  31. 5817List or tableT-S AS 177.98

    Mercantile accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Each page is headed "the wheat sold in the name of Abū Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Sukkarī." Dated: ca. …

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  32. 5818Paraliterary textT-S K6.47

    Menahem (the latter three were all judges) buys the codex on 16 Ḥeshvan 4897 AM = 13 October 1136 CE, "the day on which the prisoners of Jerba arrived."

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  33. 5819State documentT-S K6.150.2

    Document in Arabic script. Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) Cf. …

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  34. 5820List or tableT-S NS 233.14

    Recto (original use): mercantile accounts in Arabic script. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century. The format is unusual: approximately five distinct Arabic text blocks clustered …

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  35. 5821Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1596

    Divorce agreement, Qaraite. Dated: Wednesday, 25 Nisan 5488 AM, which is 1728 CE. This does not seem to be a ketubba, per Ktiv, but rather …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלארבע אלמבארך כ'מסה ועשרין יום פי
    2. חדש ניסן המכ׳׳ו אפתתאח ה׳ת׳פ׳ח׳ ליצירה חצ'ר כה׳׳ר דוד יצ׳׳ו
    3. בן כה׳׳ר רחמן בן כה׳׳ר יוסף ידיע …

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  36. 5822LetterYevr. II A 1295

    Letter from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Istanbul. In Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman-era. The purpose of the letter is to request …

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  37. 5823LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/60

    Letter from Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, in Tripoli (Syria), to Nahray b. Nissim. The letter mentions Nahray's pilgrimage to Jerusalem and shipments of emblic myrobalan and …

  38. או בכתאב חמוד[ו]
  39. כמא א[מרנא]
  40. Top Margin

    1. ואן גא כתאב מולאי
    2. אלשיך אלגליל אליה ואמרני
    3. באלטלוע בהא פאנא אפעל

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  41. 5824LetterBodl. MS heb. f 107/52

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Addressed to someone important, possibly the Nagid, and possibly specifically Maṣliaḥ Gaon (based …

    1. ראש ישיבת גאון יעק]ב יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון [עולם אדאם אללה
    2. גאההא וידים סעאדתהא ויזידהא אצעאף [
    3. אולאדהא ויוצל איאמהא ואיאמהמא באיא[ם אלגואל
    4. ולא יכל…

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  42. 5825List or tableENA 2373.1

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM, which is 1821/22 CE. Mentions the mustaʿrib congregation in the header and, below that, the …

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  43. 5826LetterENA 2808.2 + ENA NS 45.16

    Business letter from Yehuda Castro to Binyamin Castro. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. The sender reports on business developments in crops, fruits, and vegetables, and …

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  44. 5827LetterENA NS 47.23

    Letter of recommendation from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) addressed to the congregation of 'Goshen' and surrounding villages, at their head the judge Shemuel. In …

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  45. 5828LetterMoss. Ia,15

    Bottom part of a letter to ... b. Iṣḥaq, possibly from Hayye Gaon, congratulating the recipient on his being appointed rosh kalla. The recipient is …

    Recto

    1. [         ]ונת דליותיו [                                          ]
    2. [         כ]מעין המתגבר [                                    ]

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  46. 5829LetterMoss. IV,67.1

    Recto (secondary use): Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th …

    Recto

    1. ממלוכה עזרא
    2. וצלתני רקעה מולאי
    3. וסידי ר סעדיהו נט רח

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  47. 5830LetterMoss. IV,75.2

    Informal note probably from a woman to her mother. May be an abandoned draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks for the addressee's news and says …

    1. אלדי אעלמיך בה יא ואלדתי מן כתרת אלשוק אליך
    2. וֹאן קלבי משתגל עליכם ובחק אללה ארסלי לי [[באחוליך]]
    3. באחואליך ומא אנתי פיה ואיצא מא ענדי הם(?) אלא
    4. מן המ…

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  48. 5831Legal query or responsumMS 8254.14

    Responsum by Moshe Maimonides. A copy. The responsum corresponds to #355 in Blau's edition ("I am very troubled by various matters, and my body is …

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  49. 5832LetterT-S 8J18.11

    Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy from Alexandria to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Inferred dating: around 1055 (Gil). The writer is available to work …

    Recto

    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אל
    ועוד יואיל להיוודע בשבילי אצל האדון אבו זכרי

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    הזה: אם אשלח אותה לו, האם יוכל לשווק אותה ? יש בה בדי פשתים וכרכום, וכ' בגדים בקירוב.

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  50. 5833LetterT-S 8J18.16

    Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to a younger relative. Around 1050. Barhūn informs that a shipment of goods is on its way, …

    Recto

    1. [                               ] עלי אלאסגאר [ו]אלאכבאר ואלדי אערפך בה אני אסתכרת

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    1. ....(שלום) לקטנים ולגדולים. ואשר יש לי להודיעך: ביקשתי את חסרי
    2. אלוהים ושלחתי בשיירה זו עם מחמד בן סלאמה בן אלואלדה אלג'מאל אלג'ביני
    3. 'ג'וארה'(?)

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  51. 5834LetterT-S 8J38.1

    Letter to a dignitary ("the head of the Yeshiva of the Torah") in Judaeo-Arabic, reporting that Yosef Ibn al-Salamantī(?) came to al-muʿallim Farajallāh complaining to …

    1. ] המגדול ה[
    2. החכמים ראש ישיבתה שלתורה ה . . מ . . . . . . [
    3. אן מוגב תסטירהא אן לשיך יוסף בן אלסלמנתי סט
    4. חצר אלי ענד אלמעלם פרג אללה היב ותשכי לה מן
    5. ח…

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  52. 5835LetterT-S 10J10.29

    Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably in Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Around 1046. The writer is about to travel to Palestine. Mentions …

    recto

    1. [כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מו]לאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה

    recto

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך,
    2. ....

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  53. 5836LetterT-S 10J16.4

    Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Gaon concerning the difficulties she is having with the son of her late husband …

    1. אלעבדה זוגה
    2. אלחזאן בן נחמאן
    3. אלעבדה תנהי אלי הדרת הגאונות תכן מ[שר]תה לנצח
    4. ח]אל אלעבדה וולדהא וג/ו/עהם ועריהם לאן ללעבדה
    5. משתתה הי וולדהא ען אלדאר ג ש…
  54. ...That is because your slave
  55. has been banished, she and her son, from her house for three months, without being able
  56. to enter it.
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  58. 5837State documentT-S 13J7.29

    Decree (copy in Hebrew script) from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to a governor of Palestine (probably Anushtekin al-Dizbirī) informing him of another decree that had …

    1. על שמך
    2. ערצת בחצרת אמיר אלמומנין רקעה מתרגמה
    3. בגמאעת אליהוד אלרבאנין יסאלון פיהא
    4. חמלהם עלי מקתצא אלסגל אלמכרם
    5. אלמכתתב להם באן ימכן אחבארהם
    6. מן אקאמה פר…
  59. ...It was deemed necessary to address you (the lower official) about them (the two groups of Jews) so that 
  60. you should exercise the utmost caution not to show any preference
  61. or partiality, and that you arrest anyone who 
  62. contravenes this edict (maʾmūr), and that you report to me his situation.
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  64. 5838LetterT-S 13J15.11

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …

    1. [ ] יראת יען [כי] לא יראו אים ולא פחדו ל[
    2. [ בי]ת הדין אליו אקרא ואליו אתחנן וכא[
    3. וזאת והי[טו א]ת לבך מדברי ת[ורה] ישאו חטאם
    4. ואתה תגי[ל ביי בקדוש] יש…

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  65. 5839State documentT-S Ar.54.69

    Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioner complains that the ىىن (= the fig trees? the straw?) have been moved …

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  66. 5840LetterT-S AS 151.14

    Informal note from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). Identification of the writer is based on handwriting. "They went to the house of …

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  67. 5841List or tableT-S AS 176.43 + T-S AS 176.44

    T-S AS 176.43 is a small piece of cloth with a few illegible words in Arabic script written on it. Might be related to the …

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  68. 5842LetterT-S AS 182.86

    Letter to an amir titled Ṣamṣām al-Dawla (wa-shujāʿuhā)—the same who is mentioned in BL OR 5557B.19? In Arabic script. Seems to mention the army (ʿaskar) …

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  69. 5843List or tableT-S NS 83.37

    Accounts of a bookseller or copyist. Mentions names such as Abū l-Khayr b. Tammām and Yosef al-Ḥazzan. Most of the books seem to be religious …

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  70. 5844LetterT-S NS 321.95

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender insistently urges the addressee to act according to his request, "because the muqaddam thinks he is like an angel …

    1. מא אנפד ורא . . . [
    2. אנהאה פיכון אלמולי פי הדה אלאמור עלי
    3. יקצה ולא יתגאפל ענהא ואדא סמעהא
    4. לא יתהאון פיהא לאן הדא אלאמר מעדוק
    5. בה ולאזם לה לאן אלמקדם י…

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  71. 5845LetterT-S NS 327.11

    Business letter in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl, according to Sabih Aodeh). The sender, writing from Ramla …

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  72. 5846LetterT-S 13J22.28

    The writer returned to the camp site the next day, but Abū l-Afrāḥ had already departed.

    1. קד עלם אללה שדה שוקי אלי מולאי
    2. אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. [ע]זה ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק
    4. אליה שדיד אסל אללה קרב אלאגתמאע
    5. בה עלי אפצל אלמחאב במנה וגוד…

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  73. 5847LetterT-S 16.344

    Letter from Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Shela, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef ha-Kohen "the pride of the traders" (peʾer ha-soḥarim), in Fustat. Dating: mid-12th century; …

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    1. عبدها محاسن
    2. ב
    3. לכבוד השר היקר הכהן המיוקר כ

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  74. 5848Paraliterary textAIU VII.F.32

    4 pages of geomancy divinations, in which the questions are given (e.g. How high will the Nile be, and will produce be cheap or expensive? …

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  75. 5849LetterBL OR 5544.5

    Letter, probably. In Hebrew. On one side there is a poem (panegyric?). On the other side there is the lower part of an elaborate letter, …

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  76. 5850LetterENA NS 77.58

    Small fragment of a letter to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. From one of the Spanish merchants in his circle, resembling the documents of India Book …

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