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  1. 6501LetterENA 2805.20

    Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Mentions silk and business concerning dresses. The addressee is unknown although it seems his father’s name …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך [ואדאם עזך ותאיידך
    2. ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה לח כלון מן אדר כת[מה אללה עליך באחסן
    3. כאתמה ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד…

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  2. 6502Legal documentT-S AS 85.6

    Minute fragment of a legal document or formulary in a Spanish hand (...כטופסי דשטרי אלא כחומר...). This fragment also contains a separate text in a …

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  3. 6503List or tableENA 3952.7

    Business account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Neatly arranged in columns on two pages of a bifolio. Mentions goods such as saffron, galangal, pepper, …

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  4. 6504LetterENA 4020.59

    Lower fragment: Possibly an address of a letter. To Yehuda b. Peraḥya (Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva Rosh ha-Nedivim) b. Ḥalfon. On the other side, there is a …

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  5. 6505Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 29

    Recto: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps ca. 1150–1250. Mentions 3 dirhams; "to Qalyūb"; "the remaining dirhams"; [al-shaykh] al-Makīn; and greetings and a …

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  6. 6506LetterT-S AS 154.338

    Fragment from the middle section of a letter about business affairs. Mentions the name Nuṣayr and the figure 2,000. The sender seems upset. (Information in …

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  7. 6507LetterENA NS I.80

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a ḍamān, a ruqʿa, a letter sent with the son of the Qāḍī of Qalyūb (probably), excuses bad manners by appealing …

    1. ]ה ען אלצמאן ותולוה[
    2. ]ק . . ד אועדו בכל גמיל ואלרקעה ענדי מ . לם . [
    3. ] . . . [כ]רוגה אלמניה וקד כתבת לחצרתה אעלמהא בדלך
    4. עלי יד אבן קאצי ק[לי]וב סאעה…

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  8. 6508Literary textJRL B 6976

    Medico-philosophical riddle. "The proof that the pupil (thaqb al-ʿinabiyya) is filled with spirit (rūḥ): when a person dies, the e[y]es sink. This is the answer." …

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  9. 6509Unknown typeENA NS 85.389

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  10. 6510Legal documentT-S AS 167.52 + T-S AS 167.51

    Two fragments from the bottom of a legal document (or draft) in Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Contains release …

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  11. 6511List or tableT-S NS 297.38

    Accounts in Arabic script. On the back of a treatise on the sciences (also in Arabic script).

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  12. 6512List or tableT-S NS 305.181

    Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  13. 6513Legal documentT-S NS 224.12

    Small fragment of a legal document, bottom left corner. Extant torn sigantures include those of the two judges of Fustāt during the early 12th century …

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  14. 6514LetterT-S AS 173.35

    Small fragment from a letter. Besides the usual blessings, the writer inform that he arrived to Cairo

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  15. 6515Literary textBL OR 10599.7

    Hebrew poem of praises and blessings. Possibly a panegyric for a scholar or communal leader.

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  16. 6516LetterT-S Ar.54.93

    IB VII, 35. Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Elʿazar b. Ismāʿīl, in Qūṣ. Dating: ca. 1035 CE (Gil). The address …

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    1. וצל כתאבך יאסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מע צאחב
    2. מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה נעמאה וטלב פי אלוקת גואבה
    3. פעלקת לך הדה אלאסטר ודכרת אן לם יצלך…

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  17. 6517Legal documentT-S 20.32

    Recto: Legal document written by ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Dated: Thursday, 20 Av 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. A release for Bahiyya, wife of Mevorakh …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]מבורך בר [. . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]מו. .ו. .[. . . . . . . . . . .
    3. . . …

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    1. (1–6) ...] Mevorakh b. [Ephraim...] this Jacob and [...] dinars and [...] to the Muslim with these din[ars ...] Muslim to ʿAmram. ʿAmram saw …

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  18. 6518Legal documentT-S AS 66.8

    Fragment from a late legal deed, only partially preserved.

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  19. 6519LetterENA 2804.12 + ENA 2804.13

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1028 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …

    A: ENA 2804, f. 12 B: ENA 2804.13 ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.129-132 (Doc. #75), C.B. 03-14-88 Letter from Solomon b. Judah to Ephraim b. Shemarya…

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  20. 6520Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 13/47

    Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Efrayim ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Dating: probably 11th century, per Goitein.

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  21. 6521LetterT-S 13J11.1

    Letter. Opening with marriage congratulations in Hebrew, beginning with a quote from Ruth 4:11–12. This is followed by an appeal for assistance in Judaeo-Arabic. The …

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  22. 6522Legal documentT-S NS 327.132

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: 1127–39 CE, as Abū Manṣur Ṣalaḥ b. Sulaymān the head of the Jews (Raʾīs al-Yahūd), who appears …

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  23. 6523LetterT-S AS 149.227

    Unidentified, with biblical citations such as Psalms 137:6 and 41:6. List of piyyuṭim? On verso there are also formulae typical of a petition. Dating: probably …

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  24. 6524Legal documentT-S NS J115

    Ketubba, small fragment. Wide space between the lines. Groom: Elʿazar ha-Kohen.

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  25. 6525Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.75

    Small receipt of some sort. For 3 wariq dirhams (this appears in the upper margin and in the bottom line of the text). Dated Dhū …

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  26. 6526Literary textT-S AS 149.73

    Probably a Talmud commentary, with citations such as Bava Batra 49b. See also TS NS 34.107, TS NS 288.209. AA

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  27. 6527State documentT-S NS 264.97

    Verso (original use): Unidentified Arabic document, probably official. Mentions al-Faḍl b. ʿAlī and an agent (al-wakīl). Mostly crossed out. Needs further examination.

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  28. 6528Legal documentT-S 13J1.5

    Power of attorney. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1336 Seleucid, which is 1024/25 CE. In which Ḥusnā bt. Yeḥezqel b. Masʿūd al-ʿAqrabānī, appoints …

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  29. 6529Literary textT-S AS 153.457

    Unidentified. CUDL suggest treatise, possibly philosophical. Can be from a letter? AA

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  30. 6530Unknown typeENA NS 85.847

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  31. 6531Unknown typeENA NS 79.36

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  32. 6532LetterENA 2799.1

    Small fragment in Ladino, probably from a letter.

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  33. 6533Legal documentT-S AS 148.134

    Legal document. Witness statement of the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan, concerning dowry payments. Mentions the name Yehuda. In the handwriting of Yosef b. Shemuel b. …

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  34. 6534Legal documentENA 2727.15b

    Legal document. Tiny fragment. Signed by Elʿazar b. Evyatar.

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  35. 6535Paraliterary textT-S 12.740

    Magical prayer for protection (from every evil, evil eye and impious persons) written (by an unskilled, possibly Hebrew rather than Coptic) hand in the Bohairic …

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  36. 6536Unknown typeENA NS 76.251

    Small scrap with a few words in Hebrew script.

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  37. 6537Legal documentT-S AS 145.333

    Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), mentioning the elder Avraham and 92 dinars. Verso: legal document in the …

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  38. 6538List or tableT-S Ar.35.2

    Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions rent and houses several times, and also several names, including possibly دمينق and al-muʿallam Dāʾūd.

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  39. 6539LetterT-S 6J4.34

    Recto: late letter, to someone described as ‘a great man among giants’ and ‘the great tamarisk’, who is also praised as ‘[possessing more wisdom] than …

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  40. 6540Legal documentENA 2741.7

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: Probably 1082 CE. The approximate time period is established by the mention of Yaʾir ha-Nadiv Peʾer ha-Qahal, who also appears …

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  41. 6541List or tableT-S K15.26

    Recto: Short genealogical list of the Ghuzūlī family and another family.

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  42. 6542Literary textENA NS 8.20

    Calendrical calculations. In Judaeo-Arabic. Referring to the year 629 AH, which is 1231/32 CE.

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  43. 6543Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/45 + Bodl. MS heb. f 56/46

    Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/45r: Deathbed will. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Nisan 1493 Seleucid = 24 March 1182 CE. Testator: Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe …

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    1. למא כאן פי יום אלארבעא אלתאמן עשר מחדש ניסן אתצג
    2. חצרנא אלי אלשיך אבו אלפרג השר הנכבד החכם והנבון בר
    3. כגק מר ור משה הזקן הנכבד דידיע בן אל…

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    1. On Wednesday, the eighteenth of the month of Nisan 1493
    2. we were present with the sheikh Abū ʿl-Faraj, the esteemed notable, the wise and prude…

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  44. 6544LetterCUL Or.1081 J4

    Letter in which a father writes to the teacher of his boys complaining about insufficient attainments and explaining their being late.

    1. בש רח
    2. כאטבת אלמעלם אדאם אללה עזה פי מעני אלולדין אחיאהמא
    3. אללה וסאלתה אן יזיד פי אלאהתמאם בהמא וכאצה אבי מנצור יש צו
    4. פימא יחפטה ויקראה ואן יכון יעיד …

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    In Y(our name,) O Mer(ciful) !

    I have written you before, most esteemed teacher, about the two boys — may God keep them alive — asking you to p…

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  45. 6545LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/28

    Fragment of a letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1020 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1015–1025 CE, based on the years …

    1. [יאשיהו ראש ישיב]ת גאון יעקב בירבי
    2. ] אאגירה ונחמות אליו להדרירה ותעלה
    3. ]אשירה ליקיר במורם: שלומו אקרא
    4. ] כשאורה הגל בכל העברה הדורך הישרה ההוג[נה
    5. ]ה ו…

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  46. 6546Unknown typeT-S AS 130.305

    Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions חצרה מולאי אלחבר

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  47. 6547LetterDK 250

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains that Sayyidnā al-Rayyis and Abū Man[ṣūr?] al-ʿAfīf have cut off the payments with which they …

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  48. 6548LetterT-S 13J25.3

    Letter from the future Gaon Daniel b. ʿAzarya, in al-Mahdiyya, to the leader of the Babylonian community Sahlān b. Ibrāhīm (aka Abū ʿAmr Sahlān b. …

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    1. בשמך רח מן דנ[יאל] בן עזריהו הנש[יא]
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא [מולאי וסיידי סהלאן ה]אלוף [ ואדאם עזה]
    3. [ות]אידה מן מהדיה יום אלג יא בתש[רי ] יגדיל ע…

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  49. 6549Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/57

    Engagement agreement from 1184. The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document …

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    1. בחמשא בשבא דהוא תלת עשרי יומי לירח תשרי
    2. שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ותשעין ושית שנין לשטרות
    3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה
    4. דאדונינו גאונינו ש…

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  50. 6550LetterT-S 10J19.1

    Three lines of a calligraphic letter to the community of Sambutiyya. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. בש רח
    2. אתצל בנא איתהא אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימון[ בעיר
    3. סמבוטיה בראשם כב גד קד מרנ ורבנ צדקה הלו[י

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