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  1. 6201LetterT-S 13J22.24

    Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Jerusalem, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Abū Zikrī reports that his masters, the princes al-Malik …

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    1. ודכר אלמולי ען אלבקיאר אנה קד אפדאה
    2. וטלב יסיירה פלא תסיירה אצלא פאני

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  2. 6202LetterT-S 6J9.3

    Recto: short letter or note to Yosef ha-Sar the doctor. The writer had tried to visit Yosef several times but didn’t find him in and …

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  3. 6203LetterT-S AS 162.14

    Small fragment of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions being preoccupied, then, "your mother went to convey your greetings to the wife of Sibāʿ, and …

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  4. 6204LetterENA NS I.76

    Letter. Faded. Addressed to Abū l-Majd. It may be from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. …

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  5. 6205Legal documentT-S 24.81

    Three related court records. In the hand of Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī (active ca. 1201–43). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 4800 + 167 …

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  6. 6206Paraliterary textBL OR 5566D.20

    Recto: elegant Judaeo-Arabic rhymed prose on the theme of memento mori, interspersed with verses from Job in Hebrew (21:32: 'For he is borne to the …

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  7. 6207Legal documentBL Or. 12369.46

    Legal document, Mamlūk era, deed of sale, in a very faint and worn-off Arabic script. The document is dated to the last ten days (ʿushr …

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  8. 6208List or tableENA 1822a.25

    List of debts. In the first line Abū Saʿīd al-Dimyāṭī (= Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi) is mentioned as owing a debt of 20 dinars. Should …

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  9. 6209Legal documentENA 2558.6

    Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …

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  10. 6210LetterENA 2560.5

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef to a certain [son of] Natan he-haver. The letter mourns the passing of Madmun (the Nagid of Yemen) and is …

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  11. 6211Legal documentENA 2957.32

    Trousseau list (taqwīm) for Sitt al-Waqār bt. Bū l-Riḍā b. Tamīm. Gives details of the items with numbers next to them. Dating: The document is …

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  12. 6212List or tableENA NS 10.4 + ENA NS 49.12 + ENA NS 10.3

    Tables of Hebrew letters with a first-person phrase along the lower border of ENA NS 10.4, "...]אני הצעיר יצחק הר", perhaps a scribal attribution (Join: …

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  13. 6213LetterENA NS 14.14

    Recto: Communal/administrative letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 1150–1250. Ordering payments to the usual people: Umm Nuṣayra the sister of Ḥayāʾ the wife of Yosef …

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  14. 6214Legal documentENA NS 18.20

    Court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1140s CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Faḍl al-Kutnānī b. Hiba al-Iskandarānī claims that he …

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  15. 6215Legal documentENA NS 31.23

    Marriage contract. Dated: 5579 AM, which is 1818/19 CE. Groom: Raḥamim ואפה(?). Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yaʿaqov Manīṣar (מניצר). Currencies: real, medin. The border of the …

    1. ...]ם ויהי ביתך כבית פרץ אשר ילדה
    2. ...] שנת חמשת אל[פים] וחמש מאות ושבעים ותשע ליצירה הכא בעיר
    3. ... דעל נהר ני]לוס מותבה אנן סהדי איך ה[יק]ר ונע׳ כה׳׳…

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  16. 6216Legal documentT-S 8J4.10

    Beginning of a court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1402 of the Seleucid Era (1091 C.E.). Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi is mentioned, no other details …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנחנא שהדי דחתמות ידנא
    2. לתחתא בשטרא דנן בתלתה בשבה דהוא תריסר יומין
    3. בירח תמוז דשנת אלפא וארבע מאיה ותרתין שנין למנינא
    4. דרגיליננא בי…

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  17. 6217Legal documentT-S 13J4.12

    Deposition in which denunciation is alleged. Dated: Thursday, first decade of Tishrei 1581 Seleucid, which is September 1269 CE. Testimony of ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen …

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא אכר הדא אלמסטור אן למא כאן
    2. יום אלכמיס מן אלעשר אלאול מן חדש תשרי שנת אתקפא לשטרות חצר
    3. אלינא מר ור עמרם הכהן היקר בר …

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  18. 6218List or tableT-S Ar.30.8

    Trousseau list and wedding outfit for a poor woman, perhaps an orphan. The man is also very poor. The list is to be understood thus: …

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  19. 6219State documentT-S Ar.30.158

    State document, in chancery hand. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Probably a report mentioning the royal kitchen "maṭbakh" and lamb meat "laḥm al-kharīf." …

    1. ]ـن جملة (حمله=alt) الخريف
    2. ]رحه في المطبخ
    3. ]ـمها بالوزن فيه
    4. ] الفاصل منه بعد
    5. ]ـستعمل الى هذا

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  20. 6220Legal documentT-S Ar.35.73

    Recto: Acknowledgement of the payment of rent. Dated: 3 Rabīʿ I 607 AH, which is 25 August 1210 CE. Aḥmad b. al-Shaykh ʿAlī Ibn al-Akhḍar …

    1. بسم الله الرحـ[ـمن الر[حيم ]
    2. اقر احـ[ـمد      ] بن الشيخ على بن الاخضـ[ـر]
    3. اقرارا شرعيا انه قبض من المزبد
    4. ابي الخير المتطبب جميع ما كان عليه من الاج…
  21. Aḥmad [ … ] ibn al-Shaykh ʿAlī ibn al-Akhḍar acknowledged  

  22. with a legal acknowledgement that he has received from al-Muzbid  

  23. Abū al-Khayr, the physician, all the rent that he owed  

  24. and that was recorded as owed by him in the lease that is in the possession of this Aḥmad.

  25. Thistook place on the third of the month of Rabīʿ I of  

  26. the year six-hundred and seven.

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  28. 6221List or tableT-S Ar.54.52

    Bifolio with weekly communal accounts for August–December 1387 CE (1698 Seleucid). In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. The money collected is handed over every week (20 …

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  29. 6222LetterT-S AS 153.95

    Recto: Letter, mentioning Yehosef the Nagid of the Diaspora, and Spain. This is probably Yehosef b. Shemuel ha-Nagid (date: 11th century). Cf. ENA 3765.8–9 and …

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  30. 6223Legal documentT-S H10.166

    Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Upper document: Legal document. Parties mentioned include Abū l-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir b. Karam b. …

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  31. 6224List or tableT-S NS 129.82

    Jottings in both Arabic script and Hebrew script, on the back of a Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the Arabic sections is dated: end of Rajab …

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  32. 6225Paraliterary textT-S NS 164.22

    Small fragment (writing practice for a colophon?) containing the name of Shemuʾel b. Yefet (עבד האל הקטן בישראל בר יפת שמואל) who is probably the …

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  33. 6226LetterT-S NS 190.14

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Resembles the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis (cf. T-S 12.654 and the related fragmented edited by Gil). Mentions …

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  34. 6227LetterT-S NS 308.122

    Letter from the yeshiva in Pumbedita to two people from Qayrawan, around 850. The yeshiva members complain about the economic support that they get from …

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    1. [האיי] בן דויד ראש[כלה( ?) לרבנא ]ם בן רבנא הנניה ולרבנא יהודה בן רבנא שאול ולשאר כל קהל הדרין

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  35. 6228LetterT-S NS 320.131

    Fragment of a letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to ʿEli b. Amram, in Fustat. Daniel is expressing his support of ʿEli b. ʿAmram against people …

    TS NS 320.131, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp. 683-684 (Doc. #369), C.T.,6-23-86 (P)

    1. שיגרתי אליו י]שמר[ו צורו
    2. ת[ ] מאצל [ ] וידע
    3. [ ] שית[ ] אנו נוטים…

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  36. 6229Legal documentT-S NS 320.140

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a certain [...] b. Ṭībān and Abū Mūsā and details concerning …

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  37. 6230Literary textT-S NS 321.19

    Popular literature. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th–16th century. This is a tale in rhymed prose, every line rhymed on "-īn" (which distinguishes it from …

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  38. 6231LetterT-S NS J186

    Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy. Around 1063. The writer informs the addressee about Nahray b. Nissim’s illness. Seems …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויחמיר את עזרתו לך ואת שלומך
    2. ואת חסדיו לך ויכה את אויביך, מן הבית ....

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  39. 6232Legal documentAIU VII.E.187

    Partnership dissolution arrangements following the death of one of the partners, a certain Shemuʾel Boas(?) (spelled by his sons in the signatures section as בואש/בוואש). …

    :(ll. 48-53) Signatures

    [first signature lost to damage]

    [מודה אני על] כל [הכתוב עלי] לעיל [הצעיר יצחק] בואש ס׳

    מודה אני על כל הכתוב עלי לעיל הצעיר [א]ברהם בוואש ס׳׳ט

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  40. 6233LetterCUL Or.1080 J35

    Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef b. Simha, Alexandria, to the Taharti brothers (Ismāʿīl and Ṣāliḥ b. Barhun), Fustat. The writer is aboard a ship in …

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    1. ע'ל' ש'מ'ך'
    2. כתאבי אליכם יאכותי וסאדאתי אטאל אללה בקאכם ואידכם ואסעדכם ואתם נעמתה

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  41. 6234LetterT-S 8J24.10

    Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his brother about buying flax. (Information from M. Gil, Kingdom, Vol.

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    1. כתאבי יאכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך]
    2. מן אלול ען סלאמה ועאפיה [קרב אללה אלאג]

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    1. אני כותב לך, אחי ואדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדו לך, ממהדייה, בי'
    2. באלול; שלומי טוב ואני בריא; יקרב אלוהים את פגישתי עמכם במיטב הנסיבות.

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  42. 6235LetterT-S 20.174

    Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writes to a relative (his father-in-law Abū l-Faraj?) complaining about the behavior of Abū l-Barakāt (Sitt Ghazāl’s paternal uncle and Shelomo’s first …

  43. סת גזאל פהי פי אלף נעמה משתאקה אליך
  44. right margin, diagonal, at 45’ to main text

    ומתחיילה כאלטיר עליך | ותסאלך אן לא | תקטע | כתבך | עני אנא | וענהא | לאן כתאבך | ענדי

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  45. 6236LetterT-S 32.7

    Letter from Abū l-Bayān either to his father or to a distinguished elder. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The father is titled …

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  46. 6237Legal documentHalper 351

    Legal document. Written and signed by Mevasser b. Avraham ha-Kohen. Signed by at least four others including Avraham b. Moshe ha-Melammed, Avraham b. Natan, and …

    1. ח]צר לבית דין הנגיד ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו [רגל
    2. ידיע כציב ולד אלשיך אבו נצר אלמערוף בבן אלמה
    3. נע יטלוב עודה משה אלשרגי נע פמנענא צאחב
    4. אלסוק אעני אלצמן…

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  47. 6238LetterT-S 13J18.15

    Letter addressed to Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf (aka Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Levi). Dated: Ḥeshvan 1439 Seleucid = October/November 1127 CE. (Goitien initially …

  48. אלצנדוק אל[ . . . . . . ] אלא
  49. מן ידך אנת בעת[
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    1. ואנת מחתאג ואליום קד אנעם אללה
    2. עליך ואריד שי אלדי מנך בוכאלה

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  51. 6239LetterT-S Ar.54.39

    India Book (IB) IV,9 (ח6). Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanʾel, writing from Aden. This is the preliminary draft of a letter, …

  52. יצל ליוסף מע אלפתיחי
  53. (continued on recto, left)

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    1. מע כתב אלנזר מע
    2. מתאע [בו] סעיד
  54. ...He will endeavor
  55. to get Maḍmūn to sign with his own hand
  56. if he is asked about them. He will hurry to 
  57. it all, the night after
  58. he arrives.
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  60. 6240LetterSim. Jud.-Arab. 6

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is extremely damaged/faded, while verso is mostly legible. The hand may be known. Recto mentions ʿImrān; a woman; legal proceedings; corrupt …

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  61. 6241LetterT-S 13J28.6

    Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably from Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: Probably from November 17, 1046. The letter contains personal information: the …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מ[ולאי אלשיך] ואדאם עזה ותאיד[ה]

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

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  62. 6242LetterT-S 18J3.3

    Letter probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat, to his paternal aunt (Umm Dāʾūd) and paternal uncle (Abū Manṣūr), probably in Alexandria. He says …

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    1. כתאבי לחצרת אלסת אלגלילה אלרשידה עמתי
    2. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עזהא ונעמהא

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  63. 6243Legal documentBL OR 5532.1

    Formulary for a Karaite ketubba. See Mann, Texts and Studies, 174–76. Information from Goitein's note card.

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    1. ויבנה מקדשו ואולמו   וישיב כבודו להדומו    ויראה בעוני

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    1. He will rebuild His sanctuary and His hall. He will return His Glory toHis throne.

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  64. 6244LetterT-S 12.398

    Letter fragment in Ladino from an old man who has arrived in Jerusalem and is having a hard time there. "La paz y salud. . …

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  65. 6245State documentT-S Ar.38.140

    Recto: two documents. The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant …

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  66. 6246LetterYevr. II A 1896

    Letter draft from one Jewish community (A) to another Jewish community (B) in a different land. In Hebrew. Locations unknown. Dating: Late. Catalogued as 18th …

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  67. 6247Legal documentBL OR 5561A.7

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …

    1. בה׳׳ו
    2. בס׳׳ט בשעת ברכה והצלחה וחיים טובים ארוכים וברכת ה׳ קעשיר דיר׳׳א בהיות אמע׳׳ץ באו לפנינו העדים החותמים מטה --
    3. והודו הידי נשא ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר …

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  68. 6248Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/8

    Legal document. Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1134. Abū Sa‘d and Abū Sahl form a partnership lasting 6.5 …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא
    2. אלשיך אבו סעד אלזגאג מר ור נתנאל הזקן בר מר ור יוסף הזקן נע ומר ור
    3. מנשה לוי הנקרא אבו…
  69. We wrote and signed this testimony and gave (it) to the Elder, this Abū Sa‘d, in order  that he would have in his hand  
  70.  a title of right and proof.117 Thistook place in the middle third of the month of  Kislev, dated above, in Fusṭāṭ 
  71.  Egypt, situated on the Nile River, in the jurisdiction of our lord Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen, head  of the Academy of the  
  72.  Price of Jacob, may his name always be like the moon, established forever.
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  74. 6249LetterT-S 13J23.17

    Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to the brothers Abū l-Makārim and Abū Yaʿqub ha-Kohen. The writer describes in detail the severe fever and dysentery …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. סבב הדה אלאחרף אלי אלשיך אבו אלמכארם ויעקוב חפצהם אללה ותולאהם
    3. אעלאמהם אן אבו אלרצא אכוהם עלי כטה קביחה תאלף מן אל[נזו?]ל
    4. ואלזחיר אלמפרט והד…

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  75. 6250LetterT-S NS J360

    Letter from Alexandria to a man from Jerusalem, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1060 CE. Concerning a communal dispute in Fustat. At the center …

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