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  1. 6401LetterT-S 8J17.27

    Letter from a man in debt and unable to meet his commitments, petitioning for help collecting charity promised by the nagid but not received, specifically …

    1. ואתם כהני י/י/י תקראו
    2. יקבל אלארץ בין ידין מ ור יוסף הכהן השר היקר
    3. כתר הכהנים נזר השרים // וינהי // באנני [פי] שדה לא
    4. יעלם בהא אלא כאלק אלוגוד לאנני …

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    1. "While you shall be (called) Priests of the Lord," etc. (Isaiah 61:6)
    2. [...Your slave...] kisses the ground before (our) m(aster) and t(eacher)…

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  2. 6402Unknown typeENA NS 85.850

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  3. 6403Legal documentBL OR 12369.13

    Legal document, investment partnership. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 5555 AM = May/June 1785 CE. Involving Meʾir Ben-Naʿīm investing 100 reales with Yiṣḥaq Zamero. Signed; Yiṣḥaq …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בפ׳׳עח׳׳מ הודה היקר נשא ונעלה לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר יצחק זמירו יצ׳׳ו הודאה גמורה שרירא וקיימת מעכיו מדעתו ורצונו
    3. הטוב והגמו׳ מבלי זכר שום מין אונס כלל …

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  4. 6404LetterT-S NS 342.13 + T-S NS 342.15 + T-S NS 342.25 + T-S NS 342.17

    Several fragments from a business letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Ḥalfon (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Informing him that he …

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  5. 6405LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 2

    Fol. 1: Letter in Arabic script. The addressee is called "al-ṣabiyy(?) al-akram... al-jamālī jamāl al-dunyā wa-l-dīn..." The text is quite faded and difficult to read. …

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  6. 6406LetterENA 2931.51

    Draft of the beginning of a letter. Top right corner, three fragmentary lines. Blank verso. Begins with a basmala and then 'katabtu ilaykum...."

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  7. 6407Unknown typeENA NS 76.394

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  8. 6408LetterT-S NS 228.49

    Draft of a letter from Wāfī b. Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī, 16 July 1059, written at the back of an earlier letter from his father …

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    1. ] להדא אלוקת פוצל כתאבכם מע
    2. וז]נת עליהא ח' דנא' ושק עלי דלך ווצל אל
    3. ]יס טויל אלרוח כמא תערף ואבני עלי חאלה
    4. ד]כרת חדית כתן נחים ומא אצבת מן יפר…

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    1. מיצחק בן עַלי נ"נ מג'אני,
    2. לואפי בן יצחק ב"ר עלי נ"נ מג'אני.

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    1. …עד הזמן הזה, ואז הגיע מכתבכם בידי
    2. …שילמתי בעדם ח' דינרים, והיה ה…

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  9. 6409Paraliterary textT-S NS 200.55

    A tenth-century Hebrew poem written in southern Italy. Goitein translates two strophes in Mediterranean Society (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, 320). EMS

    (Partial translation of two strophes)

    1. Behold, ships, behold, ships coming into the port.
    2. Go and see what merchandise they bring.
    3. Beautiful girls.
    4. Go…

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  10. 6410List or tableF 1908.44R

    Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning people such as Abū Zikrī, Abū Yūsuf, and Barhūn, and commodities such as pepper and …

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  11. 6411LetterYevr. II A 1631

    A letter from Yeshu'a Yosef b. Moshe to Avraham b. Moshe

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  12. 6412LetterT-S AS 150.66

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very little content preserved. (Information from CUDL)

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  13. 6413List or tableENA NS 7.5

    Mercantile account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "the dues of the dīwān" and khazāsh silk and robes. The bottom line is in Arabic script, mentioning a carpet …

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  14. 6414Legal documentT-S NS 329.998

    Legal document. Location: Modon (Methoni, Greece). Agreement of Moshe b. Shelomo Perla in front of Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef and and Shemuel Ṭawīl to remain in …

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  15. 6415List or tableT-S K3.5

    List of the tractates of the Mishna in a non-traditional order. (Information from CUDL)

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  16. 6416LetterMIAC 23973.67

    Letter from Abū al-Thanāʾ Ḥāmid al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh in Ibrīm. This letter demonstrates the significant legal and commercial functions that …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. اعلم الحضرة السامية الاجلية الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه وادام 

    3. نعمته وتوفيقه وحراسته وسلامته وادام بالسعادة…

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    1. In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.

    2. I inform the exalted and glorious presence, the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses—may God …

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  17. 6417LetterT-S Ar.47.146

    Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. The spellings are closer to classical Arabic than usual (e.g. שיא for شيء). The two folios were originally two folios …

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    1. לאדן או ביאץ או נשאדר או גמיע
    2. צנאיע או דראהם מדלסה(?) תאלת פיי
    3. ורמה . . . ויונצח אלסלטאן פי מנאזע
    4. מכאזן אלקמח ואלשעיר ואלקטאני ואל
    5. ז…

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  18. 6418Legal documentT-S NS 324.21

    Legal fragment. This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: …

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  19. 6419LetterT-S AS 150.199

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā and silk. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  20. 6420LetterJRL L 41

    Perhaps writing exercises using a late Judaeo-Arabic letter as the basis? Needs further examination.

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  21. 6421State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 318

    Letter, or official correspondence dated 909 H. Mentions measure of an unspecified commodity, probably grains, in qinṭār. Ḥasbala towards the end. Needs examination.

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  22. 6422State documentENA 3907.14

    Two receipts for payment of kharāj in grain (qamḥ)and beans (fūl) on one sheet of paper from 535/1140–41 (date works well with return to collection …

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  23. 6423LetterT-S AS 146.86

    Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic probably from M[eʾir b. Yakhin] (cf. T-S 8J23.12 (PGPID 3682)) to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or …

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  24. 6424Literary textYevr. II A 188

    There are numerous items sharing this shelfmark. All appear to be piyyutim, except for an ethical will in the name of a certain Shelomo to …

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  25. 6425Unknown typeENA NS 85.1016

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  26. 6426Legal documentT-S NS 338.11

    Legal document. Fragmentary (lower left corner). Mentions a shop and a sum of 55[.] (dirhams? dinars?). Perhaps in the hand of [Shelomo] b. Eliyyahu whose …

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  27. 6427LetterMoss. IIIa,11

    Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, in Alexandria, to his mother and father, in Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The address bears the name of …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. כתאבי יאואלדתי אלעזיזה עלי אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם סלאמתהא וסעאדתהא

    3. מן אלסכנדריה סלך איאר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק א…

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    1. בשם אלוהים הרחמן הרחום.
    2. אני כותב לך, אמי היקרה לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך,
    3. מאלכסנדריה, באחרון של אייר. שלומי טוב…

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  28. 6428LetterT-S 13J25.13

    IB VI, 27 (ח18). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Bharuch, northwest India, probably to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan/Yefet, in Aden. Dating: 1134 CE. The …

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    1. ב̇שר̇ח
    2. קד עלם אלקדים ̇גל ̇תَנَאَה מא י̇גדה עבד אלח̇צרה אלסאמיה אלריّיסיה אלא̇גליّה אלעאליה
    3. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא ועזהא ורפעתהא וסמוהא וס…

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  29. 6429Unknown typeENA NS 76.625

    Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, a few partial words are visible alongside the names Menashshe and Sulaymān. Medieval-era, based on the paleography..

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  30. 6430List or tableENA NS 83.418

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Mamluk-era?

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  31. 6431Legal documentENA NS 18.37

    Qaraite ketubba. The bride is Karīma bt. Ḥasan b. Moshe. Mentions the names Ṣedaqa b. Naḥum ha-Kohen and Moshe b. Sibāʿ. The groom appears to …

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    1. אליה על…

    2. אליה ולא שתי הכליות ולא יותרת הכבד ולא …

    3. לחם הגוים ולא ייניהם ולא טנופם ולא יבעיר נר בלילו[ת השבתות ולא] …

    4. אש בלילות השבתות ול…

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    1. to her …
    2. the fat tail, nor the two kidneys and the lobe of the liver nor …
    3. the bread of the Gentiles or their wine or their abominations. And …

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  32. 6432LetterJRL B 6120

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Conveys greetings from Abū ʿAlī. Refers to "al-naqāḍāt" (אלנקאצ̇את), meaning uncertain (naqḍ or manqūḍ can refer to clipped/inferior coins).

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  33. 6433State documentUPenn RAR MS 82.313.1.2

    Multiple fragments which may or may not be related. One contains a basmala and the tops of a few words in Arabic script. Possibly a …

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  34. 6434Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 25-27) Folio 7r

    1. וזכות וחזקת הר׳ יצחק אחיה הנז׳ ובאי כחו לדור ולהשכיר ולמכור ולמשכן ולתת כמתנה ולעשות
    2. בהם כפי חפצו ורצונו ככח המכיר…

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  35. 6435Legal documentT-S Ar.42.107

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, likely 16th or 17th century. Concerning the estate of the late Shemuel b. Dan, a Portuguese Jew. His …

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  36. 6436State documentT-S Ar.34.50

    Receipt for the ḍamān (or rent?) of a shop in Minyat al-Ghamr(?) for Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm in the year 516 H. Needs examination.

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  37. 6437Unknown typeENA NS 85.902

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  38. 6438Legal documentT-S AS 153.341

    Deed of sale or gift of property. Damaged. Location: not preserved. Dating: not preserved, but 11th century seems likely, based on the uncommon formulae and …

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  39. 6439Literary textMIAC 83

    Religious litanies – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 83) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …

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  40. 6440Legal documentT-S AS 146.79

    Fragment from the top of a ketubah, from the month of Elul. The bride is Jamila d. Yosef. AA

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  41. 6441Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 260

    Literary text, in Arabic script.

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  42. 6442List or tableENA 3616.14

    Table in Arabic script, mainly names together with some numbers. Possibly a list of people being assessed for the capitation tax, as several of them …

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  43. 6443Legal documentHalper 372

    Ketubba fragment. The groom's name is Mazal Ṭov ha-Levi, and the bride is Esther. The eight lines below in smaller handwriting contain a detailed account …

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  44. 6444List or tableMoss. IXa,3.2

    Community accounts. 13 pages. Late- 19th or 20th century.

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  45. 6445LetterT-S 10J16.2

    IB II, 7. Letter from Amram b. Yosef, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1075. Regarding a shipment of palm leaves that …

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    1. תקדם כתאבי לחצרה מולאי אלחבר אל גליל גדול הישיבה 
    2. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם סלאמתהא וסעאדתהא ותאיידהא ונעמאהא
    3. צחבת אבן פתיאן פי גמלת כתאב ר' עלאל …

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    1. שלחתי לך לפני כן מכתב, הדרת אדוני החבר הנכבד גדול הישיבה,
    2. ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת עזרתו לך ואת חסדיו לך, 
    3. עם …

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  46. 6446State documentT-S 20.154

    Recto: Fragments of two lines of a grand state document, perhaps a decree. The word ملاحظتك is discernible.

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  47. 6447List or tableT-S AS 183.120

    Accounts. Many names are listed, e.g. [...] al-Ṣabbāgh; Futūḥ; Isḥāq; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī; Abū Saʿd al-Ṣayrafī; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū l-Faḍl b. Nuʿmān; Mūsā; Abū …

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  48. 6448List or tableT-S AS 182.303

    List of materia medica, including simples such as Convolvulus scammonia, mastic, amber, liquorice, and camphor. (Information from CUDL)

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  49. 6449Legal documentT-S NS J185m

    Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a debt. Mentions 'our master the Gaʾon' (Maṣliaḥ) twice; …

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    1. [ ]פאה מנה [ ]
    2. [ ]בועה קילתא ולא שבו[עה ]
    3. [ ] חיותי ועלי גמיע וראת[י ]
    4. [ ]ת כל שמיא בביתא וב[ברא ]
    5. [ ]זרזי דבי דינא ותקנא[תא ]
    6. [ ]דיזכון ביה ב…

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  50. 6450List or tableT-S AS 183.173

    Recto is a literary text in Arabic in red and blank ink, vocalized and beautifully written. Verso is an account in Arabic, maybe of collaterals …

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