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  1. 601List or tableT-S NS J151

    List of daily collections in which almost all the benefactors give one or two dirhams. The lower parts of columns three and four contain accounts …

    1. אבו אלעלא בן אלנפיס נע ורק י
    2. בן אלצנאנרי? א
    3. גארה אללוי א
    4. ולדה א
    5. אבו עמראן לוי .... א
    6. אולאד מצמון נצף ורבע
    7. אבי אלפכר אלכהן צירפי ה ד ר .
    8. אבי אלמנא א

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  2. 602Legal documentT-S NS J401u + T-S NS J401l

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). A mother concludes a contract for the teaching of her boy in Arabic. …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[חתמות ]
    2. אלשיך אבו אלפצל כגק מרור צדקה הז[קן ]
    3. כגק מרור שמריה הזקן הנכבד נבע [ ]
    4. מרור שלמה הלוי הזקן הנכבד ישצו […

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    Testimony about what happened in our presence, we the [undersigned witnesses. There appeared before us] the elder Abu ʾl-Faḍl, (his) h(onor), g…

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  3. 603LetterAIU XII.117

    Recto: Letter/petition, or letter in the style of a brief petition, from "your student Bū l-Majd" to a high-ranking physician. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably …

    1. الحكيمي

    2. بو المجد تلميذه

    3. المملوك يجدد الخدمة الكريمة المولوية المالكية

    4. الحكيمية ويسأل اجابة حضوره فان

    5. المملوك حصل له الم في رجله وباب العمار…

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  4. 604Legal documentAIU XII.173

    Recto: Long, calligraphic legal document in Arabic, from Cairo (مصر المحروسة), dated October 1649 CE (7 Shawwal 1059 AH). It bears seven signatures along the …

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  5. 605LetterCUL Or.1080 J210

    Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Only the last three lines are preserved, then two lines in Hebrew, 'may I be the ransom of the …

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  6. 606State documentDK 256 (alt: XXI)

    State document: report to a high bureaucrat (with taqbīl clauses), written under the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir, 509/1115; in the Hebrew on verso, the date is …

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  7. 607LetterT-S 13J6.4

    Business letter in Hebrew and Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan Binyamin requesting the dispatch of merchandise to Qalyub, including medical supplies, via a ghulām, and …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אנא אקבל ידי //חצרה// מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלסייד אלפאצל
    3. אדאם אללה תאידה וכבת //[אעדאה]// כאן ינעם עלי עבדה [
    4. אן יחצל מא קד תבקא פאיש מא חצל מא…

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  8. 608State documentT-S Ar.40.16

    Petition to an Ayyubid sultan from a Jewish physician. "The slave Makārim b. Isḥāq, the doctor. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. …

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    1.                    المملوك 

    2.                    مكارم بن اسحق المتطبب

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    4. يقبل الارض فينهى انه ممن نشا طبيبا ماهرا ف…

    1. The slave
    2. Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the doctor.

    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    4. (The slave) kisses the ground and reports that he …

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  9. 609State documentT-S Ar.40.37

    Decree (manshūr) issued by the caliph al-Hafiz on 21 Rajab 528/1133 to stop two cases of malpractice which were adversely affecting the Delta province of …

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  10. 610LetterT-S Ar.41.9

    Letter in Arabic script from Naṣrallāh (he begins the letter "mamlūkuhu akhūhu Naṣrallāh," line 2) to his brother Sharaf al-Dīn (line 3). The writer seems …

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  11. 611Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 1727

    Magical fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Unknown. It says Wednesday, 16 Adar 5005 AM, which is 1245 CE, but the scribe might have …

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  12. 612LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/33

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu Ishaq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāharti, Būṣīr. Mentions pepper, caravans.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאס[וא ענך] 
    2. ברחמתה מן מצר יום אלב' לו' בקין מן שבט כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך באחסן …

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  13. 613LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/33

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu Ishaq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāharti, Būṣīr. Mentions imports in the al-Qulzum region (or the village itself?): 400 …

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  14. 614List or tableT-S Ar.39.449

    List of 31 contributors in Arabic and Coptic numerals (1, 1 1/2, 2 2 1/2, 3, 4 4 1/2, 5, 8, 9) but no denominations …

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    1. אבו עמר בן אבו ..... 8
    2. אבו עמראן אלעראקי 1 8
    3. אבו אצחאק אלעטאר ½ 4
    4. צהר מנשא 4
    5. חסין 2
    6. אבו אלפצל 2
    7. מעאלי .........
    8. תלת תארס?
    9. ....…

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  15. 615LetterT-S Ar.40.187

    Letter of appeal/private petition in Arabic script. The writer, Faḍā'il al-ʿŪdī b. Baṣīla (?), had lived for 6 years in Alexandria until he had to …

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    مملوكه فضائل اليهودي بن بقيلة

    2 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3 عبدها يقبل يديها ويعرفها بان عبدها له اليوم

    4 في اسكندرية ستة سنين مقيم باودي والجالية

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  16. 616Legal documentENA 3904.2

    Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …

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  17. 617LetterT-S 13J21.3

    Recto: Letter from the teacher Abū Yaʿqūb to an unknown recipient. Written in a good hand and pleasant style. This letter implores the addressee to …

    1. כאדם חצרתה
    2. אלמעלם אבו יעקוב
    3. . . . . . ]ת אלכאלק תעאלי וחצרה
    4. מול]אי אלשיך אלגליל אלהי ישראל
    5. יצלח חאלה ויוסע רזקה ויכפיה
    6. מוונה כל אדם //רע// ויגן עליו…

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  18. 618LetterT-S Ar.42.165

    Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. Maḥfūẓ, dictated to …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الى سيدي ومولاي اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتمكينه وعلاه وكبت اعداه
    3. عن شوق اليك شديد وارتياح نحوك الله تعالى يقرب ا…

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  19. 619State documentAIU VII.E.166

    Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …

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  20. 620LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/16

    Recto: Petition to Masliah Gaon from a woman wishing to have a divorce. Probably 1127 CE. Discussed in detail, with translation, in Oded Zinger's dissertation, …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. יענך יי ביום צרה ישגבך שם אלהי יעקב וג
    3. אעלם חצרה אדונינו גאונינו נזרינו וכתרינו ועטרת ראשינו
    4. מצליח הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב יברכהו וי…

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  21. 621State documentT-S NS 234.50

    Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …

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  22. 622LetterT-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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