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  1. 551State documentT-S Ar.42.51

    State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. السيد الاجل الاوحد المكين
    3. الثقة الامين فخر الوزرا وعظيم المملكة
    4. شرف الدولة العلوية مختص الخلافة
    5. الفاطمية تاج الاصفيا عز…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.

    2. The most lofty and singular lord, the firm,

    3. the confidence, the trustworthy, pride …

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  2. 552Paraliterary textT-S AS 162.51

    Spell of destruction. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic, with a postscript in Arabic script ("for killing, very useful"). See Niessen, F., & Bohak, G. (2007). ‘Destroy …

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  3. 553LetterT-S AS 183.110

    Letter in Arabic script. The writer is in Aden. He reports that something of the addressee's is safe in his keeping. "If his (or your?) …

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  4. 554State documentT-S Misc.6.5

    Tax receipt for jawālī with registration marks.

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  5. 555State documentT-S Misc.6.5

    State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."

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  6. 556List 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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  7. 557List or tableENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23

    Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …

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  8. 558List or tableENA 641.19 + ENA 641.23 + ENA 641.21

    Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …

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  9. 559List or tableENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24

    Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …

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  10. 560List or tableENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23 + ENA 641.19

    Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …

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  11. 561List or tableENA 641.22 + ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.24

    Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …

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  12. 562List or tableENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24 + ENA 641.20

    Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …

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  13. 563State documentENA 1177.76

    State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …

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  14. 564LetterENA 2176.14

    Letter fragment from an unknown writer in Syria to 'Rabbenu' in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the capitation tax (... al-jawālī) in al-Shām and specifically mentions …

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  15. 565State documentENA 2917.1

    Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …

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  16. 566Paraliterary textENA 3207.17

    Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and magical script. Including a birth control recipe: "If you want a woman not to become pregnant. . …

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  17. 567LetterENA 3904.1

    Letter addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ajal al-Raʾis Abū ʿĪmrān Mūsā (Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdāwī in al-Mahdiyya) from his business associate (Peraḥya b. Yosef in Fusṭāṭ) regarding …

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    1. مملوكه

    2. ابن [

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الريس ابو 

    5. عمران موسى اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك ونعماك

    6. ومن حسن التوفي…

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  18. 568Legal documentENA 3917.2

    Recto: Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter. Rudimentary handwriting and orthography. Sings the praises of a Coptic sage in Alexandria. This sage is versed …

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  19. 569State documentENA 3935.5

    Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …

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  20. 570Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3971.5

    Receipt in the hand of Abu Zikri Kohen: saḥḥa lil-shaykh Abū l-Surūr dirham wa-niṣf la-ghayr. Old IB: 229f. There is a line or two in …

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  21. 571State documentENA 3971.23

    Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …

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  22. 572Paraliterary textENA 3982.36

    Template fragment of a divination/magical charm starting with a few words of prayers followed by a spell: "fulān b. fulān". Then: 'blind his heart and …

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  23. 573LetterENA NS 7.47

    Original document: Accounts in very small Arabic script. Subsequent document: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a woman. Written in the spaces around the original …

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    1. אשמעת בל[שיך] אבו . . . . . חבר קד 
    2. אסתקר ביני [ובי]נהם אנה ידכל אלי בלביס ויקדס
    3. עלא אלצגיירה פי בלביס ומן דו יק[דס] עליהא
    4. יגֿרי עליהא אלנפקה …

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  24. 574List or tableENA NS 50.6

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Dating: 12th century. Featuring Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel Al-Dimyāṭī, the brother of Ḥalfon b. Netanel, as well as Khalaf …

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    1. בן אלנאקד א אבו נצר ד
    2. אבו אלמנא ה אבו אלפצל //אלרפא// ב
    3. בשאר א אלאבל א
    4. אלפקאעי ב בן גליב ב
    5. בן אלעכי ב בן צדקה נץ
    6. אלטויל א אלרפא אברהים א
    7. בן אל…

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  25. 575LetterMoss. IV,40.1

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile. Mentions something coming from Gaza and possibly the commodity tartar (or Mongols? al-tatar). "As for the woman who came, …

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  26. 576LetterMoss. Va,11

    Business letter in Arabic script in which a father reports to his son on events in Alexandria and the arrival of the aṣḥāb, about which …

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  27. 577LetterMoss. Va,11

    Letter written in Fustat on 6 Ṭevet (no year) from a son to his mother (l. 17, yā wālidatī). Very emotional. Mentions Alexandria and flax, …

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  28. 578Legal documentT-S 8J11.19

    Query from Nadiv b. Yiṣḥaq, “the son of the brother of Umm Nadiv,” asking whether a woman who was deserted by her husband with whom …

    1. בש רח עבדו ותלמידו הקטן נדיב
    2. כתבתי זו הכתב לשאול בשלום הדרת יקרת צפירת
    3. הדרת מרנו ורבנו המלמד ר ישועה הרב הגדול גאון (?) ה/ח/כמים
    4. תפארת הרבנים מרדכי …

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  29. 579State documentT-S 10J19.13

    State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.

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  30. 580LetterT-S 13J13.19

    Letter from Mūsā (or Musallaḥ?) b. Ṣāliḥ to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew and in Arabic script. Appealing for help from the addressee. (Cf. Geoffrey …

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    1. [עבדה] מוסא . בן צאלח
    2. אלבגדאדי
    3. דודי שכלולו יצריח: ואהלו יפריח: בכתר כילולו:
    4. והוא מבין ונעלם יאמצנו: ויהי בעזרו ויחלצינו רבות עוז
    5. יקר וה/י/לו…

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  31. 581LetterT-S Ar.40.184

    Letter from a man in Minyat Ghamr to his brother Maḥfūẓ in Fustat. In Arabic script. The writer has been ill, and people tell him …

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    1. من اخوه [. . . . . .]
    2. الذي اعلم به الاخ العزيز محفوض
    3. الله تعالى وينهي ان مملوكه في
    4. منية غمر مريض اليوم من خرج(؟) الاعياد
    5. وكم قد سيرت لك من ال…

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  32. 582State documentT-S AS 184.156

    State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …

    1. مولانا وسيد[نا
    2. وابنائه الاكرمين [
    3. المجلس السامي السـيد[ي
    4. الكاملي الهادي عضد [الله به الدين وامتع بطول بقاءه امير المؤمنين]

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  33. 583State documentAIU XII.15

    Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …

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  34. 584LetterAIU XII.83

    Letter in Arabic from Ṣāʿid, probably a Jewish merchant, in ʿAydhāb, to his mother and brother in Fusṭāṭ. He reports that his party left Qūṣ …

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  35. 585State documentAIU XII.102

    Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …

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  36. 586LetterBL OR 5542.19

    Business letter from Avraham ben Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to Abū al-Faḍl Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma al-Sukkarī in Fustat. Datable to ca. 1062 on …

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    1. [כתאבי] אטאל אללה בקא סידי ומולאי ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסלאמתה מן

    2. [אלמסת]קר לי בקין מן אללה ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכה מא יליה ואל

    3. חמד ללה רב אלע…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך,
    2. מהבית, בכ' באלול, יודיעך אלוהים את ברכתו ואת ברכת…

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  37. 587Legal documentBL OR 5566B.15

    Legal document in Arabic script. A contract made before a Muslim notary, in which the proprietor of a Nubian slave promises to pay to the …

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  38. 588List or tableENA 1822a.86

    Late list of wealthy contributors, about 30 per week (Information from Goitein index cards.) Verso: There are also several lines of Arabic script. Dating: probably …

    1. [פרשת אתם נצבים היום כלכם] לפני

    --- -- -- --- ---

    1. ..........י]הודה יעקב מנצור יום טוב חיים

    -- -- -- -- --

    1. .....]..לסל? סלמאן ביתן ברגות יהודה

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  39. 589State documentENA 3842.1

    Letter in Arabic script addressed to al-Mawqif al-Ashraf and ʿIzz al-Dawla. Maybe Fatimid official correspondence. Mentions the amīrs Shujāʿ al-Dawla, Majd al-Dawla, and the city …

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    1. كتابي . اسيره(؟) الى الموقف الاشرف والى حضرة مولاي القائد
    2. الاجل عز الدولة وحسامها ادام الله تمكينه ولما وصل ا[بن/بو؟]
    3. نسا؟ الى طرابلس امتنع ال…

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  40. 590LetterENA NS 21.5

    Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]אלויה אטאל אללה
    2. . . . . . . . . . . .]הא ועלאהא ותמכינהא
    3. . . . . . . . . . .] באלדל חסדהא ועדאהא
    4. . . . . . . .] כל סו פ…

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  41. 591Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. II.140

    Money order. In Arabic script with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abū l-Faraj is asked to pay 2.5 dirhams to the bearer Sayyid Muḥammad …

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  42. 592LetterNLI 577.1/13

    Letter from al-Sharīf Ḥasan to the qāḍī Ṣanīʿat al-Mulk. In Arabic script, with diacritics and vowels, calligraphic. Dating: Perhaps 13th to 15th century, on paleographic …

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  43. 593Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 12

    India Book II, 50. Memorandum from Khalaf b. Isḥāq al-Yamanī. In Arabic script, with additional notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تذكرة مباركة صحبة الشيخ
    2. مشرقه كتب الله سلامة اصحبه عبده خلف
    3. بن اسحق صرة هيل الوزن اربعة عشر رطل يتفضل حرس الله
    4. عزه ويسا…

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    1. בשם אלוהים הרחמן הרחום. תזכיר, יהיה לברכה, (הנשלח) עם האדון
    2. משרף בן .... יכתוב אותו אלוהים לשלום, מסר לו עבדך חלף
    3. בן אסחק : צרור קרדמון משקלו …

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  44. 594LetterT-S 8J23.17

    Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …

    1. من والدتهم لا عدمتهم
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. كتابي الى الولدين العزيزين الموفقين وفقهم الله تعالى وجمع الشمل بهم قريب في خير وعافية
    4. وسوى ذلك اني كثير…

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  45. 595State documentT-S 12.821 + ENA 3682.5

    Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE. (Cited in Khan, BSOAS 53 (1990) 25; Arabic Legal and …

    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]

    2. [صلوات الله بركاته ونوامي زكواته وافصل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيدنا] 

    3. الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله [امير المومنين …

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  46. 596LetterT-S Ar.34.142

    Letter in Arabic script from Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Mentions going to Abū ʿAlī b. al-Dimyāṭī (=Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi) and borrowing …

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  47. 597State documentT-S Ar.35.48

    Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 8 Rabīʿ I 405 (6 September 1014). Written …

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  48. 598LetterT-S K25.43

    Letter fragment (lower part) probably from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi in Qalyub to his father in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses sundry small business dealings (in …

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    1. [ ]עפיף
    2. [ ] ואלורד ואמא

    3. גיר דא פאלפ/א/צל לכם ענדי מן תמן

    4. גמלה אלחואיג אלדי בעתתוהא

    5. לי פי הדי אלגמעה ב [[ונצף]] ולכם

    6. ענדי דרהמין צאר א…

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  49. 599LetterT-S Misc.11.53

    Recto: Bottom part of a letter in Arabic script, from a man to his 'brother.' He spells والساعة as والسعا numerous times. He mentions people …

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  50. 600LetterT-S NS J38

    Letter, fragmentary and calligraphic, regarding business. Mentionins dealings in corals, storax, and zaituni (silk), and merchants of the second half of the eleventh century (Joseph …

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    1. ] אלשיך אבו [
    2. ]תקצא עלי צחה דלך ואמא מא דכרתה מן אלמזאיר
    3. . . . צחבת אלשיך אבי סעיד אידה אללה פסאלתה אנא ען דלך וקאל תרכתהא
    4. ענדך לאן לם יתמכן …

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