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  1. 601LetterENA 3846.12

    Fragment of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Six lines, fragmentary, difficult to read. Some words read as lil-haṣr(?), thaman(?), ʿadlhā wa-ṣadaqāthā (appealing to …

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  2. 602LetterENA 3935.12

    Copies or formularies of letters, each starting with a new basmala. The letter starting at the bottom of verso is addressed to a dignitary called …

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  3. 603State documentENA 3982.48

    Document in Arabic script. Perhaps accounts or an administrative document. Needs examination.

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  4. 604Unknown typeENA NS 83.67

    Fragment, fainted, and unreadable script. Needs further examination.

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  5. 605State documentENA 3939.2

    Fragment of a state correspondence, probably a decree, 5 lines, bottom-left corner of the document with traces of paper decay. Mentions the day of movement …

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  6. 606State documentENA NS 83.97

    State document, extremely fragmentary, report or petition. Mentions 'al-majlis al-ʿālī' and 'imtathal ilaihi'.

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  7. 607Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 687

    Literary text, in Arabic script.

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  8. 608LetterENA 3936.5

    Letter in Arabic script. Begins with a basmala and taqbīl. Addressed to a certain Muḥammad called Samiyy al-Dawla Jamāl al-[...] (an amīr titled Samiyy al-Dawla …

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  9. 609LetterENA 3936.8

    Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?) mentioning a letter that contained information regarding a mysterious …

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  10. 610Legal documentENA 3936.9

    Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Seems to be an acknowledgment by the Rabbanite Jew named [ʿUmar?] b. Ibrāhīm known as Shams …

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  11. 611LetterENA 3982.34

    Letter in Arabic script. Fragment preserving the middle portion of each side, 6–8 lines per side. The sender is worried about the condition of the …

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  12. 612Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 688

    Literary text, in Arabic script.

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  13. 613LetterENA 3965.14

    Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (the lower part is missing, and the right margin may be missing if it existed); the letter continues in the …

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  14. 614State documentJRL Gaster ar. 691

    State document, probably, mentions "Miṣr". Reused for another Arabic script text, probably literary on verso. Needs examination.

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  15. 615List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 692

    Accounts, probably, in Arabic script.

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  16. 616State documentBL Or. 10578R.115

    Trials of the pen in a fiscal or administrative hand, including the glyph, the basmala and "al-shaykh al-ajall."

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  17. 617State documentBL Or. 10578G.55

    State document, probably a decree. The fragmented line reads as "واما ما ذكره من دعا الخاصة". Hebrew liturgical text on recto.

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  18. 618Legal documentBL OR 10589.3

    Recto: Document in Arabic script recording the settling of a business account (wafāʾ), perhaps what al-Thiqa owed to Barakāt b. Salāma. Dated: 12 Muḥaram '47 …

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  19. 619State documentT-S NS 104.24

    State document, in Arabic script. Right-side fragment of an official correspondence.

    1. لدعـ[
    2. مع عشـ[
    3. الى خمسـ[

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  20. 620LetterJRL Gaster ar. 333

    Letter, probably from a son to father inferred from the expression "وما اعلمك به يا والدي". The name ʿAbd al-Wahhāb appears on verso in what …

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  21. 621Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 657

    Legal document, probably a receipt. Mentions the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda.

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  22. 622Legal documentT-S AS 178.7

    Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamlūk. The one on recto (the later use) involves Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Damīrī al-Mālikī, Ibrāhīm b. Ḥarūn al-Yahūdī, …

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  23. 623LetterAIU XII.91

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Uncertain, maybe late Mamlūk/early Ottoman. The name Abū Ḥamza (?) can be read in the place of the tarjama. Mentions …

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  24. 624List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 660

    List or accounts, with Coptic numerals. Mentions pepper "filfil".

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  25. 625LetterJRL Gaster ar. 668

    Fragment of a letter or official correspondence, Arabic script. Mentions "من يلوذ به", a fragmentary date "[جمادى؟] الاخرة", beginning of a year "سنة خمسـ"and a …

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  26. 626Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 672

    Legal or an official document, or a draft in Arabic script. Mentions a long name on verso "......Yūsuf b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā". …

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  27. 627Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 676

    Literary text, in Arabic script, with red markings.

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  28. 628Unknown typeJRL Gaster ar. 666

    Unidentified text, in Arabic script.

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  29. 629List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 40

    Accounts, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mentions the receipt of payment on verso (wuṣūl) and recto is divided into three columns. Needs examination.

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  30. 630Legal documentT-S 12.584

    Bottom of a legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashse. The document was also signed by Shemarya b. Natan ha-Kohen and Peraḥya b. …

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  31. 631Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 201

    Legal document, in Persian. Dated 26th Rabīʿ II, the year is torn off. Mentions 600 dīnārs, probably a sale contract. Dating - Ottoman era due …

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  32. 632State documentJRL Gaster ar. 648

    State document, wide line spacing, very fragmentary. Needs examination.

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  33. 633State documentCUL Or.1080 9.8

    Complete letter/report in Arabic script written on a long, vertical strip of paper. Looks like a report to a high official or the draft of …

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  34. 634Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 195

    Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. An acknowledgement. The banker/money exchanger (ṣārrāf) Mūsā al-Yahūdī gave back the possession of a caravanserai (wikāla) and paid its …

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  35. 635State documentT-S H2.39

    Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.

    1. خدمة لما اعطى.[
    2. من هذه الامور.[
    3. السبيل من المـ[
    4. غاية منه الا[
    5. وانا والمشية
    6. وادافع[

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  36. 636Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 198

    Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Dated Jumādā II 1245 AH which is 1829 CE. Rental receipt for a shop in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …

    1. الوصـ..
    2. نفسه من المعلم اسحاق //بيبس// اجرت المنزل
    3. حانوت بحارت اليهود تعلق الواضع
    4. اسماء وختمه فيه ذلك عن
    5. شهر جماد اخر سنة ١٢٤٥ خمسة واربعين
    6. ٢٤٠
    7. عن ال…

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  37. 637Literary textT-S AS 181.50

    Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a prayer or some sort of instruction manual. Contains a few Quranic verses like "al-Nabī al-Ummī", and "wa-lā ḥawlā …

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  38. 638Legal documentMoss. 108.1-2

    Possibly a bill of sale "abīʿ" for Ḥusain b. al-Ṣayrafī. Needs examination.

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  39. 639State documentMoss. X,98.1-2

    State document, probably a petition or official correspondence. First line - "al-Ṣāliḥī al-khidma li l-majlis". The second line has the word "al-Mamlūk kataba" written in …

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  40. 640LetterMoss. IXa,2.2

    Very small note, faded and difficult to read. Might be related to illness judging by the words مريض and سرعة. Verso blank.

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  41. 641State documentMoss. IX,43.1-2

    State document, in a chancery hand, fragmentary. Some words read as "bi injāz l-kabīr al-m[" and "yakūn hādhā kulluhu". Document is too fragmentary to glean …

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  42. 642State documentMoss. IX,175

    State document, extremely fragmentary. Only "al-Ajall" is readable.

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  43. 643State documentMoss. IX,192.1-3

    State document, in a chancery hand with wide line spacing. Needs examination.

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  44. 644Literary textMoss. IXa,2.7

    Didactic poetry with vocalization. Incipit: دعي الناس قد طال ما اتعبوك * ورد الى الله وجه الامل. On verso there are few calculations in dirhams.

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  45. 645LetterMoss. IXa,2.47

    Letter from a mother to her daughter الست الجليلة بيننا ادام الله نعمتها, containing a taqbīl clause and mentioning their long-distance relationship. Written on parchment, …

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    1. من عندك(!) 

    2. والدتك

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم                                           

    4. تقبل الارض بين يدي الست الجليلة بيننا ادام

    5. الل…

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  46. 646LetterMoss. IV,22.1

    Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …

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    1.  بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها

    3. افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …

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  47. 647Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. IXa,2.23

    Receipt for wages (?). Mentions Asqalān at the top and labor performed at a guest house. Some of the text reads: عسقلان معما فيه..... مما …

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  48. 648Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 50

    Late Arabic Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions al-Muʿallim Ibrahīm b. Amīn and Khwājā Yūsūf. Name of the notary at the bottom of the …

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  49. 649List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 42

    Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  50. 650State documentJRL Gaster ar. 172

    State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions 20,000 irdab of wheat. A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the …

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    1. الملك معز الدولة[...
    2. ]عشرين الف اردب قمحا

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