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  1. 5901LetterENA 2805.18.2

    Letter from Da'ud b. Ammar (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1065. Deals mainly with the silk trade and the events happening in Sicily. …

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    1.                           ] פיג וכ'יר יכון אן שא אללה                 ולו אנפתחת אלסרה
    2.                           ]ת'ר מרץ' וקד דכר לה אבן אל  …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך, מאלכסנדריה, בי' בתמוז ; שלומי טוב .... ואני מאושר
    2. .... (לפני כן …

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  2. 5902Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1565

    Karaite agreement regarding the lease of a perfume shop. Dated 28 Tevet 5425 AM (1665 CE). Moshe b. Shemuʾel Ḥazan leases the shop to Yeshuʿa …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלכמיס אלמבארך ח׳׳ב פי חדש טבת יא׳׳ל
    2. סנה התה׳׳ב ליצירה חצ'ר אלאך ר׳ משה יצ׳׳ו אבן אלמר כה׳׳ר שמואל חזן
    3. נ׳׳ע ואגר נפסה ללאך כה׳׳ר…

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  3. 5903LetterENA NS 32.14

    Letter from Abū Sahl Levi probably to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer conveys the news that the adressee's brother Abū …

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    1. בש רח
    2. אללה תעלא לא
    3. יוחשני מן אלולד
    4. אלמבארך משה
    5. ויגמע אלשמל
    6. בה ברזק ואסע
    7. אמן ואן אכוך
    8. אלשיך אבו אל
    9. חסן עלי גמלה
    10. אלסלמה ואלעפיה
    11. מן פצל אללה
    12. ומא…

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  4. 5904Literary textT-S 16.325

    Palimpsest, with Palestinian Talmud, ʿEruvin 20d-21d, written over a Syriac version of Hosea 14:4-10; Joel 1:1-2:20. (Information from CUDL.)

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  5. 5905LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1863/10b

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unfortunately, most of it is covered up by the other fragment. Needs examination in person.

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  6. 5906List or tableT-S AS 182.113

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  7. 5907Literary textAIU XII.138

    Arabic poetry.

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  8. 5908List or tableENA 3956.7

    Accounts in Arabic script. "Al-maqbūḍ. . . ." Mentions ʿAbd al-Hādī.

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  9. 5909Legal documentT-S AS 146.244

    Legal document. Dated: Tuesday, 9 Tammuz 5422 AM = 30 June 1762 CE. Location: Cairo. Bill of authorization is given to Yaʿaqov al-Khallāf in connection …

    1. אנחנו ב׳׳ד חותמי מטה נותנים רשות גמורה מעכשו [...
    2. יעקב אלכלאפ הסופר(?) יצ׳׳ו להש[.]יות את המ׳ רחמה ת׳׳מ [...
    3. אלמנת הר׳ רחמים ארוך נ׳׳ע שב..ות(?) אלמ…

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  10. 5910LetterYevr. II A 1839

    This manuscript contains two different documents. One is a letter to Yehuda b. Moshe Migas. The other is a receipt by Zekharya b. Gershon from …

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  11. 5911Legal documentMIAC 156

    Receipt from the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva – dated – July 10 1948CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 156) – in Arabic, French, and …

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  12. 5912Legal documentT-S 16.159

    Deed of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Kislev 1526 Seleucid = 19 November 1214 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. This partnership release …

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    1. שהדותא דהות קדמנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא בתלתה בשבא דהוא חמיסר יומין לירח כסליו
    2. דשנת אלפא וחמש מאה ועשרין ושית שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל…

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    1. Testimony which was before us, we the undersigned witnesses, on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of the month of Kislev
    2. of the year one thousand five …

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  13. 5913List or tableT-S K3.15

    List of various books, among which are biblical books, a commentary on Psalms mentioning various proper names (eg. Abū l-Majd ibn Bishr, Abū Saʿīd ibn …

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  14. 5914Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1598

    Karaite partnership agreement in צנאעה אלשים, "silversmithing" (صناعة السيم). The term "sīm" is Ottoman Turkish for "silver." Dated Wednesday 15 Kislev 5523 AM (1762 CE). …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדה אלאחרף ובמוגב תחריר באן 
    2. אלחאג אבראהים אבן אלחאג סיד אחמאד אלגוהרי
    3. ואלמעלם יעקב אבן אלמעלם שמואל ואלמעלם
    4. שמואל אבן אלמעלם יעקוב ואלמעל…

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  15. 5915Paraliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110a/8

    Two or three amulets containing remarkable illustrations: a demon with a tail, tutu, scepter, horns, and curly hair; a seated woman; and a man being …

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  16. 5916Literary textAIU VIII.B.28

    4 pages from a late Hebrew medical treatise, including the introduction on general physiology and ontology of illness.

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  17. 5917LetterT-S AS 168.134

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone with a 'ruined education' (bad manners? makhrūb al-taʿlīm), the washing of a garment, buying something, forcing …

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  18. 5918Literary textT-S 8J40.7

    Astrological or astronomical treatise, possibly in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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  19. 5919Unknown typeENA NS 83.54

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  20. 5920Paraliterary 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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  21. 5921LetterENA 3918.10

    Letter(s) in Arabic script. Recto and verso are probably distinct letters. Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The letter on recto appears to be from …

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  22. 5922Unknown typeT-S Misc.20.66

    Bifolio of Hebrew poetry, with one page of unidentified Arabic script, possibly medical.

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  23. 5923LetterT-S 12.327

    Letter written by a sick man who asks the recipient to buy him a female slave, for "I have no one to give me medicine," …

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    1. ] . . מן ספרהא (?) מא אקעדני ענך
    2. ] וגע . אללה יסתגיב מני פיך צאלח אלדועא (!)
    3. ]לם אנני וגיע כתיר ולא אחד יסקיני . . טת מא
    4. ]ולציגאר מטרוחין לא…

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  24. 5924Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.11

    Legal record (#19). Engagement contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Goitein notes that both fiance and fiancee must be very poor; neither has a …

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  25. 5925LetterENA 2386.10

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic regarding a business matter (vessels of wine and water?). Excerpts: עבדהא יקבל ידהא ויערפהא אנה . . . קנטאר תמניה(?) כבאלי(?) …

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  26. 5926List or tableT-S AS 181.155

    Likely business accounts. In Arabic.

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  27. 5927Legal documentT-S 10J28.12

    Recto: Legal document in which Abū l-Khayr Ḥananʾel (Khiyār) b. Yaʿaqov releases Benaya b. Moshe from a partnership with ʿAllān b. Nahray, after the former …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בחמשה בשבה
    2. דהוא עשרין וחמשה יומי בירח אב דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחד עשר שנין
    3. למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט…

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  28. 5928Legal documentJRL B 8314

    Both recto and verso appear to be legal texts regarding real estate. Verso is in Arabic script. It describes a house known as the house …

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  29. 5929Legal documentAIU VII.D.55

    Engagement document (shidukkhin) and dowry list: "The clothes and the nedunya and the contante [Italian for cash] of the widow Ms. Dona bt. Moshe Ptso/Ftso"). …

    1. ב׳׳ה 
    2. בסט׳׳ו ובנים ועושר והרוחה כי׳׳ר
    3. אלה פרטי הבגדים הנדונייא והקונטאנטי של האלמנה
    4. היקרה וצנועה מרת דונא מב׳׳ת ..(?) המ׳ משה פתסו נ׳׳ע
    5. חלק דהב     …

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  30. 5930LetterMIAC 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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  31. 5931Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 179.7

    Order of payment in Arabic script. Mentions a name, 5 dinars, and a date. Additional jottings on verso. Probably belongs with T-S AS 151.132, T-S …

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  32. 5932LetterT-S G2.98

    Upper part of a petition/letter in Arabic from Yaḥyā b. Yusuf, asking the recipient to fulfill the request of "mawlay al-qāʾid" and to send a …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. مملوكه يحيى بن يوسف
    3. ان راى مولاي الشيخ ادام الله عزه ان يتم انعامه على
    4. عبده بسوال لمولاي القايد ايده الله ان يرسل
    5. رسول لابن ا…

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  33. 5933Literary textT-S Ar.49.62

    Popular literature. Small fragment in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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  34. 5934Literary textENA NS 83.4

    Newspaper fragment, Iran, second half of the 19th century. "About 1861, Nasir al-Din Shah appointed Sani’ al-Mulk as Director of Printing and Chief Illustrator and …

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  35. 5935Legal documentT-S Ar.51.103

    Fol. 1: Several legal documents, all in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In one, Ṣadaqa b. Avraham known as Ibn al-Warda and his wife …

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  36. 5936List or tableT-S NS 304.29

    List of names and amounts, probably to be paid in certain months

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  37. 5937State documentT-S Ar.39.470

    Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also used …

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    1. [علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن  [وعلى ابائه]

    2. الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي

    3. الحضرة ا…

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  38. 5938Legal documentT-S AS 167.274

    Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.

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  39. 5939List or tableMoss. IXa,3.5

    Accounts. Late 19th century. Numerals expressed in Arabic.

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  40. 5940Legal documentT-S AS 183.68

    Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Involving the qāḍī Jamāl al-Dīn and the price of 1/2 of a 1/24 share of a …

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  41. 5941Legal documentYevr. II K 51

    Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Kogan b. Avraham. The bride is Esther d. Yeshu'a b. Daniel.

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  42. 5942List or tableMIAC 41

    List issued by the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo naming the butchers who are permitted to slaughter chickens on the eve of Yom Kippur Tishrei 5690 …

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  43. 5943Legal documentT-S AS 178.327

    Fragment from the beginning of a legal document in Arabic script. Involves [...] b. Muqābil(?) and Manṣūr b. Thābit al-Qazzāz.

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  44. 5944Legal documentT-S 24.5

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1422 Seleucid, which is February–March 1111 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (who died …

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  45. 5945Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79.6

    P6: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to [Sitt al-Sāda bt.] Evyatar ha-Kohen the Palestinian Gaʾon, who is …

    1. למא חצרנא אנן חתומי מ[טה

    2. קדשת מרנו ורבנו אדוננו אביתר הכהן רא[

    3. אבו אלרצא אלוכיל כגק מרנ ורבנ שלמה ה[

    4. גדולה נע זוגה אלשיך אבו אלמכארם ישצ[ו

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  46. 5946List or tableENA NS 60.27

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Very neatly written.

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  47. 5947Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J273

    Deed of sale for the sale of an enslaved woman. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under …

    1. למא כאן פי יום אלתלתא ראש חדש ניסן משנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין
    2. ושבע שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה
    3. דאדוננו נגידנו אברהם הרב הגדו…

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  48. 5948LetterENA 2747.10

    Letter from Shelomo b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. Shelomo had been asked to …

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    1. על שמך

    2. לם יכן תאכיר כתבי ען מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה

    3. ואדאם עזה אלא אתר לתכפיף ען חצרתה ואלא אציף אליה

    4. שגל סר מן גהתי לאנני אער…

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    1. (2−1) על שמך ; נתאחרו מכתבי אליך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים
    2. ויתמיד את גדולתך, אך ורק וקודם כול כדי להקל על הדרתך וכדי שלא…

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  49. 5949List or tableJRL B 3575

    Late writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic, based on phrases from a letter.

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  50. 5950List or tableT-S AS 153.84

    Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Contains a number of names and professions such as Joseph, Umm ʿAlī, al-Ḥazzān, al-baqqāl ‘vegetable trader, innkeeper’, …

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