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  1. 6251List or tableJRL C 83

    Accounts in Judeo-Arabic related to the finances of Mordechai Bilobos and Yiṣḥaq Bilobos expressed in "פצה/silver". On the right side of the recto the list …

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  2. 6252Legal documentMoss. VII,95.1

    Legal fragment. Very faded. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver, whose name also appears in l.2. A number of other names are mentioned in this …

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  3. 6253LetterT-S 10J17.3

    Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (active 1190s–1212 CE), in Qalyūb, to a family member in Fustat. Moshe requests a silver mirwad (stick for applying …

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    1. لے
    2. בעד אלסלאם עליכם ותקביל איאדיכם אשכו
    3. אליכם בעץ שוקי אליכם פאללה תע לא יכליני

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  4. 6254LetterT-S AS 147.103

    Letter fragment (upper half of recto). The name Mus[a] may appear at the top. The addressee is addressed as "my son" and perhaps also as …

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  5. 6255LetterT-S NS 155.76

    He has had difficulty in buying parchment for the purpose which he had previously mentioned to the addressee.

    1. בעד אדא אלממלוך אלחקוק אל . . . [
    2. ואגב אלמגלס אלכרים עמרה אללה באלעז וולא
    3. וחסן אלעאקבה אכרא       וינהי אנה קד כתב
    4. תתקילה [[ואנמא]]       ל . ל . . …

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  6. 6256LetterT-S 13J35.15

    Letter from Abū l-Faraj and his son Abū l-Majd in Bilbays to Eliyyahu the Judge (who is the cousin, ibn khāl, of Abū l-Faraj). They …

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    מן ענד ממלוכה אבו אלמגד וואלדה אבו אלפרג

    1. בשמ׳ רחומ׳
    2. כתאבי אלי אלאך אלשקיק אלריס

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  7. 6257LetterAIU VII.E.228

    Letter in Ladino from Mordechai Mir to Avraham Crespin (or Krispin) in Cairo. Dated 15 Cheshvan [5]550 or 4 November 1789CE. A number of other …

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  8. 6258LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/22

    Commercial letter from Mūsā b. Shahriyār to the three Tustarī brothers, Abū al-Faḍl Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf and Abū Sahl Saʿīd, in Fusṭāt. The letter …

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  9. 6259Legal documentCUL Or.1081 2.58

    Legal document from Cairo, dated 1817 CE (end of Heshvan 5578) in which David Dayyan declares an investment partnership with Barakha Goren. A specific profession …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בפ׳׳עח׳׳מ הודה כ׳׳ר דוד דייאן [יצ׳׳ו] הודאה גמו׳ שרירא וקיימת מדעתו ורצונו והגמור עלי זכר שום מין
    3. אונס כלל ש[נ]תחייב צלא.ר(?) להר׳ ברכה גורין …

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  10. 6260LetterENA NS 83.237

    Verso: Informal note addressed to 'my lord and master al-rayyis.' Unclear what the content is. Ends "waffaqahu allāh taʿālā in shāʾ allāh." On recto there …

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  11. 6261Literary textNLI 577.1/29

    Literary text, in Arabic script. Part of the text contains an epistolary exchange written in verses, full of expressions of heartsickness and longing. The extract …

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  12. 6262Letterp. 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
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  13. Gruß an Dich! Mein Genüge ist Gott, er ist der beste Sachwalter!

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    1. Das Rezept ist für seinen Diener Ḫalaf b.

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  15. 6263Legal documentT-S AS 183.81

    Fragment from the middle section of a legal document. Dating: refers to the middle decade of Shawwāl 508 AH = March 1115 CE. There is …

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  16. 6264Legal documentT-S NS 321.37

    Partnership/investment agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[.]4, probably 1384 Seleucid, which would be 1072/73 CE. (1334 and 1394 Seleucid are also technically possible; the decade word …

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  17. 6265Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.21r–21v

    Legal record (#52). Disposition of inheritance. Belongs with the previous record. Headed "the text of what should be written," but this is not solely a …

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  18. 6266LetterT-S 24.38

    Recto: Letter from somebody, in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1230s. The purpose of the …

    1. נוטה ]קו הפליל מסלפת ממלכת האל[וף
    2. מרי]מה דגל דת משה המבארת תלמוד רב
    3. רבינא ורב אשי המחביר המהדיר יגדיל תורה
    4. ויאדיר הוא אדונינו צניף תפארתינו הודינו ו…

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  19. 6267LetterENA 2896.15

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Mordechai Masis (? משיש) that has been reused for pen trials in square Hebrew letters and possibly a literary …

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  20. 6268LetterENA NS I.78

    Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria, to Abū Bishr Azhar b. Manṣūr (aka Avraham), in Fustat, ca. 1075. Mentions a shipment of …

  21. יעתב וילום אן ערפה בן קסאסא אני אנא ומולאי אלשיך אבו אלפרג

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    1. בן נחום אדאם

    2. אללה עזה תכלמ[נא]

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    1. כתבתי לך לפני כן, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ויכה את
    2. אויביך, מכתבים אחרים, תשובות על מכתביך שהגיעו, ועניתי לך על כל פרט שבהם; אשר 
    3. למה שכתבת, שקיבלת את המשי וכי פרשת אותו ו....

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  23. 6269LetterMIAC 23973.50

    Letter from Lāmiʿ ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm providing important political news to the eparch and historical information for us: …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل ووزير الملك اطال الله بقاه
  24. Praise be to God alone and His blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, His prophet, and his family, and His peace.
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  26. 6270State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.12

    Tax guarantor contract (kafāla wājiba "binding guarantee" or "obligatory surety," line 6). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 431 AH (1040 CE). Two individuals, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥajjāj and …

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    1. اعترفنا عندي المقرين بذلك وكتب مسلم بن الحسين بن محمد الـ…ـي

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  27. 6271State documentT-S Ar.42.93

    State document. An order from the military administration: "min Majlis al-Ḥarb al-Saʿīd." There is an ʿalāma, scribbled out, between lines 1 and 2 of the …

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  28. 6272Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J10

    Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1180. Abu'l-Bayan, one of the prominent parnasim of this period, leases an apartment, which is in a …

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    1. אסתאגר אלשיך אבו אלפצל אלפרנס בר אהרן הלוי נע מן אלשיך אבו
    2. אלביאן אלגאבי בר אלעזר הלוי נע אלטבקה אלתי בתגיב בדאר
    Elazar ha-Levi, of blessed memory, the ṭabaqa that is in Tujīb, in Dār
  29. al-Zajjāj, in the Silsila lane,which is the apartment of Makārim (and) b.

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  31. 6273State documentT-S 12.1 + T-S B12.39

    Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …

  32.  الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه [الاكرمين]

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    1. وما يجري فيها لسنة سبع عشرة واربع ماىة الخراجية وفيها سنة 

    1. The servant of our master and lord, the imām al-Zāḥir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,

    2. the blessings of God be upon him and upon his pure ancestors and his most noble sons,

    3. and his slave Ḥusayn ibn Yasir.

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  34. 6274LetterT-S NS 225.3

    Mercantile letter. On parchment. Dating: Early 11th century. The address is only partially legible and written in a confusing way. The sender appears to be …

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  35. 6275LetterT-S 10J9.25

    Recto: Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in which he urges his supporters to be in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles, lest their party be …

    1. [ ישא] זקננו ידיד הישיבה שלום רב ממנו ומכל בני [ישיבתנו]
    2. הנסמכים אלינו וידע כי שלום אנחנו מודים לאל כי טוב ומודיעים
    3. כי כמה פעמים כתבנו אל גדולנו ידי…

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  36. 6276Legal documentT-S Ar.54.78

    Engagement contract between Ḥusayn b. Faraj and his prospective father-in-law Fuḍayl b. ʿAllūn, for the hand of Fuḍayl's elder daughter Mufaddāt. Dating: Ca. 1000, per …

    T-S Ar. 54.78 recto

    1. אתפק חסין בן פרג מע פציל בן עלון ענד
    2. מא אסתקר אלחאל בינהמא פי אתצאל חסין

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  37. 6277State documentAIU II.B.312

    A fragmentary line of a widely spaced Arabic text (probably a decree) visible in the left margin; the document was recycled to copy a biblical …

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  38. 6278Legal query or responsumENA 1822a.74

    Responsum on biʾur ḥameṣ (the burning of leavened products before Passover). The text is parallel to Otzar ha-Ge’onim, Pesahim, p. 51, 10 lines from the …

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  39. 6279Legal documentENA 2559.2

    Beginning of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Iyar 1510–29 Seleucid = 1199–1218 CE. Left incomplete. On the other side there is a poetical letter …

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  40. 6280LetterENA 2805.7

    This is the upper fragment under the shelfmark. Letter from Nissim b. Avraham to Nahray b. Nissim. Needs examination. Gil may have only edited the …

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    1. סידי ורייסי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ו[
  41. ...אליך, ורצוי שיהיה סודו שמור עמך, כי כך הורה לי
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    אדוני אבו יצחק לכתוב לך. אני מפליג כתעלת שרסאה בדרכי אל הריף כדי לקבל את התמורה בעד אדרת (בשביל אדוני) אבו יצחק, ואכתוב לך מן הריף בדבר ההחלטה על הדינרים,

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    ברצון האל.

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  43. 6281LetterENA 2855.21

    Letter from an unidentifed writer in Rashīd to Shelomo Ḥalafta. In Judaeo-Arabic. Long and well-preserved, though some of the text is cut off in the …

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  44. 6282LetterENA 3392.3 + T-S 20.61 + ENA 3392.4

    Letterbook of Alpalas y Costa, preserving mainly (or entirely?) letters addressed to Daniel Bonfil in Livorno. Dated in one entry as 1 Sivan 5481 AM, …

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  45. 6283Literary textENA 3943.5–6

    Possibly poetry in Arabic script. There is a row of diamond-shaped designs on recto of ENA 3943.5 before a new section begins, and similarly on …

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  46. 6284LetterENA NS 7.95

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to some dignitary. Only the formulaic opening is preserved. In the upper margin and on verso there are jottings in Hebrew …

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  47. 6285Literary textENA NS 38.15

    Literary. Judaeo-Arabic. This is either Maimonides' introduction to Perek Ḥeleq of Sanhedrin, or a work quoting it. Elaborating the 13 principles of faith; this excerpt …

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  48. 6286State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 440

    Presumably a draft of a letter of appointment for a scribe to the central chancery. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Muḥammad al-Kātib is appointed as a scribe …

    1. خــــــــــدمة
    2. عبد الغني بم محمد الكاتب بديواني
    3. الانشا والمكاتبات اسعدين //في// مصر //في// شهور سنة 
    4. اربع [[وثما]]وثمانين وخمس مائة

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  49. 6287Literary textMoss. II,214

    Elegies: all appear to be by the same author, including an elegy for a Gaʾon, צפע רוש הלעיטני, and for a woman. ‘Nathan b. Shemuʾel …

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  50. 6288LetterMoss. VII,173.1

    Letter to Eliyyahu the judge. Fragment (first ~6 lines only). Dating: early 13th century. The sender may be named [Abū l-Ḥa]san. Almost none of the …

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  51. 6289Paraliterary textT-S 8J15.6

    Template or draft of a formula of praise for a legal authority (he is compared to Rabba bar bar Ḥanna), with the space for the …

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  52. 6290Legal documentT-S 8J35.11

    Fragment of a deathbed will. The testator is Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiel (b. Moshe) known as al-Ḥakīm, the well-known representative of the merchants. He gifts two …

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  53. 6291LetterT-S 12.349

    18 lines of Hebrew praises for a great dignitary (ha-Patish ha-Ḥazaq, Mordekhai ha-Zeman, etc.). The only name that appears to be preserved (possibly that of …

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  54. 6292LetterT-S 20.128

    Letter to Shelomo ha-Nasi concerning destruction of houses and oppression of his mother's brother in Mosul (May 16, 1237). Context is likely the Mongol invasion. …

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    1. אאלתכמ 
    2. אלדי אשער בה כרים עלם מולאי וסידי 

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    1. (1–4) אאלתכ׳׳מ; הריני מודיע לך, כבוד אדוני ורבי, מנהיג הדת היהודית וראש החבורה של בני דויד, כב׳ וכו׳ →
    2. (7–8) אל ימנע אלוהים חסדים ו…

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  55. 6293LetterT-S AS 180.246

    Small fragment of a petition/letter of appeal for help. In Arabic script. There is a wide space between lines 2 and 3 presumably for the …

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  56. 6294State documentT-S AS 181.274

    Bottom right-hand part of a receipt written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably relating to a tax payment by the ḍāmin Abū l-Ḥasan …

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  57. 6295Legal documentT-S AS 204.324

    Validation (qiyyum) of a legal document. The witnesses to the original document were Avraham b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Mevorakh b. Natan 'ha-Gevir.' On verso there …

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  58. 6296LetterT-S NS 190.75

    Letter possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. 8 partial lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Mentions a Sar Shalom who is dead. …

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  59. 6297List or tableT-S NS 297.273

    Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions "mā iqtaṭaʿa min X" and lists values corresponding to wheat and barley. The verso is a literary …

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  60. 6298LetterT-S NS 306.216

    Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn" followed by a prayer: allāhumma …

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  61. 6299LetterT-S NS 321.30

    Letter, in Arabic script. Very neat hand. Approximately 5 lines are preserved, consisting mostly of conventional and deferential greetings. On verso, there is a draft …

    1. والاكرام وينهي شدة شوقه الى خدمته واسفه على
    2. الفايت من مشاهدته ما لو وصف المملوك سيره لعجز
    3. عن تسطره وتغييره والله يسهل للمملوك سرعة
    4. النظر اليه والمثو…

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  62. 6300Literary textAIU IV.A.239

    Prayerbook in Hebrew and Italian. Opens with a prayer for good children, for women to recite before immersion in the miqva. Later: "Because prayers have …

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