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  1. 6651Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.29

    Maʿrūf owes 1 dinar and 26.5 dirhams to Sālim al-Ṣayrafī b. Abū Saʿḍ Ibn al-[...].

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  2. 6652Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1370

    Betrothal contract, Qaraite. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Kislev 1857 Seleucid, which is 1545 CE. Location: Probably Cairo. Venue: House of Eliyyahu b. Fayrūz Rosh Bet Din. …

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  3. 6653Legal documentDK 324

    Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, with extensive corrections. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi? This document is long, rich, and damaged. Dating: Perhaps …

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  4. 6654Legal documentJRL G 63

    Marriage contract in Arabic script. Dated 29 [Dhū] l-Ḥijja 1002 AH (1594 CE). The JRL catalogue lists the date as 31 January 1680 (29 [Dhū] …

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    1. الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين وصلى الله على سيدنا

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    1. Praiseto God, lord of the universe. The (best) outcome is for the pious.

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  5. 6655LetterENA NS 7.43

    Letter of appeal from a woman whose husband had abandoned her with Muslims. "In this fragmentary letter a woman bitterly describes her marital misfortunes. Her …

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    1. כאן פי כרוגי . . מצלחהם פאמתלת מ[א]
    2. אמרתם בה וכרגת אנא ובנת תמניה
  6. ...He lodged me among the gentiles, and he went in with his father
  7. to spend the Sabbath in Cairo. I passed two years this way
  8. without his father (brother?)
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  10. 6656LetterT-S 12.122

    Letter in Hebrew from the community of Kiev on behalf of Yaʿaqov ben R. Hanukkah. He had been seized by Christian creditors (goyim) of his …

    1. ראשון שבראשון המעוטר בכתר אחרון וראשון
    2. שומע קול לחשון ומקשיב ניב ולשון ינצרם
    3. כאישון ויושיבם עם נחשון במרום מראשון
    4. אנשי אמת שנאי בצע גומלי חסד ורודפי…
  11. ...So now, O our masters, raise up your eyes to heaven
  12. and do as is your goodly custom, for you know how great is the virtue
  13. of charity.
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  15. 6657LetterT-S G1.1

    Verso, continuing onto recto between the lines (secondary use): Letter describing a requisition (muṣādara) carried out against a whole town, in which Muslims, Christians, Samaritans …

  16. אלגדיד ואלבקיר אלגדיד מתאע אלסבת ומא ביע יחצר
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    1. לא אדכל גיר ליברא דין מן תמן אלפלפל לעל אכדה ואדכל

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  18. 6658Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#63) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Nisan 5324 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 21v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאחד כ׳׳ה פי שהר ניסן המכו׳
    2. שנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ד׳ ליצירה חצ'רו בין איאדי אלמולי אלאגל אד׳…

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  19. 6659Paraliterary textT-S AS 144.7

    " (2) "The debts owed by Büyük Hanım ("the Great Lady") the mother of Tursum Basha (טורסום באשא) who is in the harem palace of Muḥammad ʿAlī to Jamīla bt.

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  20. 6660LetterT-S K15.18

    Pledges for charity on Sabbath lekh lekha of the year 1647, the third week of the Jewish liturgical year, falling in October 1335 (Goitein). The …

    1. שבת לך לך אסמו ללפ[קרא]
    2. הד' מר ור שמואל הדיין הכה[ן
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    4. אלשיך אלמופק אכיה יצחק
    5. 5 5
    6. אלכ' יוסף אלשיך צדקה אלשיך
    7. 5 10 5
    8. אברהם אבן נגיב נאצר בן יעקב
    9. 1 1

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  21. 6661LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/32

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: vertical strip containing the right side of recto. Probably addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. …

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  22. 6662LetterCUL Or.1081 J46

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Upper right piece. The sender seems to be rebuking the addressee. Headed by Proverbs 1:7 (יראת ייי ראשית דעת …

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  23. 6663State documentENA 2846.6 + ENA 2846.7

    Verso: State document, two lines preserved and one partial line above. Due to water damage or perhaps long-term pressure and ink transfer, the document bears …

    1. فاما مقدار ما يحتاج | اليه من الصف(؟) المغربية(؟) فذكر المستخدم المذكور
    2. ان الذي قدره منه في | السنة من الجالية خمسين الف واربع مائة مثقالا

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  24. 6664Literary textENA 3216.7

    Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (נאצר אנא האדא שגלי קד צגת מענ …

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  25. 6665LetterENA 4101.17b

    Letter from the Yeshiva to the community of Ḥaṣor. Friedman suggests that the hand is that of Yeshoshuaʿ b. ʿEli, but Gil disagrees and thinks …

    1. שלום השמ[ים] ט[ו]ב ירושלים לאלפי
    2. פעמים לכלל הקהל הקדוש הדרים
    3. במבצר חצור ישמרם צורם ויעזרם
    4. יוצרם על דבר כבוד שמו נצח
    5. קד תקדם כתאבנא אלי אלגמאעה
    6. ישמרם…

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  26. 6666LetterJRL B 5970

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer wants the addressee to meet with somebody. The writer may be a teacher. He describes what a certain mother …

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  27. 6667LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/10

    Lower left fragment: Letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). He has sent two notes, one with Abū l-Ṭāhir and one …

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  28. 6668LetterMoss. II,165.1

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of recto). He previously sent something with Yūsuf b. al-[...] …

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  29. 6669LetterT-S 8.9

    Letter sent from Sicily by a widow to her son, Abu Sulayman Dawud b. Na'aman in Barqa, asking him to take care of his brother …

    וסלם עליך | ורחמת אללה | וברכתה אלסלם | ואלסלם אליך

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    אלי אבי סלימאן דאוד אבן נעמן מן ואלדתה

    אטאל אללה בקאה יצל ברקה אן שאללה

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  30. 6670LetterT-S 12.334

    Letter fragment (missing the upper right corner), mercantile, from someone to "my maternal uncle [...] Avraham b. Salih b. [...]," probably 11th century. The writer …

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  31. 6671Paraliterary textT-S 28.11

    Paraliterary text: a calendar for the years 1207–1212 CE. (Information from CUDL) Verso is a letter (IB II, 67; PGPID 5459), in a different hand, …

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  32. 6672LetterT-S Ar.48.113

    Letter fragment to an unidentified physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is notable: written in a narrow column, with the width of the margin almost equal …

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  33. 6673LetterT-S NS 224.93 + T-S NS 225.25s + T-S NS 224.98

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Probably to one of his brothers. Mentions the capitation tax; a wife; someone who is perishing …

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  34. 6674LetterT-S NS J389

    Letter in which a man who calls himself the father of the cantor who is "sick, poor, and naked" asks a prominent physician to arrange …

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    1. Truth
    2. I kiss the ground before and inform my master [...]

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  35. 6675Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1371

    Debt contract. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 27 Kislev 5346 AM, which is December 1585 CE. Venue: the Dār al-Khāzin synagogue (which makes it possible to infer …

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    1.                                      ב׳׳ה
    2. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאח נהאר אלכמיס כ׳׳ז שהר כסליו סנה ה׳ש׳מ׳ו׳ ליצירה

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  36. 6676Legal documentAIU VII.D.43

    Legal document of ḥaliẓa, probably from the first decade of the 18th century (the year is very faded but appears to begin 546[.]). Shelomo b. …

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  37. 6677List or tableAIU VII.F.96

    Writing exercise. The instructor wrote out the Hebrew alphabet in model handwriting for a student to practice. The student's surname is listed on the right …

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  38. 6678Paraliterary textBL OR 5566D.27

    Recto: excerpts of Arabic poetry, transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. The poem beginning in line 6 is credited to Qays b. al-Mulawwah (Majnun Layla) in some anthologies. …

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  39. 6679State documentBodl. MS heb. e 105/48

    Official-looking document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  40. 6680LetterCUL Or.1081 2.23

    Letter, small fragment. 7 lines of Hebrew blessings with wide line spacing. In the margin there is a reference to petitioning/complaint and a prayer that …

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  41. 6681Unknown typeENA 979.13

    Verso: Fragment of a document in Arabic. Medieval-era. Only two lines are fully legible, with a basmala followed by "بان يطلق الشيخ الاجل". ASE/YU/MCD. NB: …

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  42. 6682LetterENA 2591.16

    Letter from Egypt, late, to Moshe Franko in Jerusalem, written in beautiful Hebrew. The writer mentions that he had left Saloniki. The recipient's wife, Dona …

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  43. 6683Legal documentENA NS 20.2

    Notes from a lesson given by Maimonides. There is a fingerprint. See analysis and edition in Friedman, "Notes by a Disciple in Maimonides' Academy Pertaining …

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  44. 6684LetterENA NS 45.6

    Letter from Abū l-Faraj b. Sāl[im] to Abū l-Fuḍayl Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Not a great deal of the content remains. It seems that the …

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    1. בש רח
    2. חצרה מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
    3. וכבת חאסדתה ואעדאה ומן חסן תופיקה [לא אכלאה

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  45. 6685LetterENA NS 78.6

    Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew. There is a poetic introduction with praises. In the margin refers to "his son my master the Rav" …

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  46. 6686LetterJRL G 18

    Draft of the opening lines of a letter to the Nagid. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century. The title al-Shaykh al-Makīn appears beneath. …

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  47. 6687LetterMoss. IV,84.1

    Letter of appeal for assistance. In Hebrew. The addressee might be R. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan. There is a lot of flattery and blessings. The sender used …

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  48. 6688LetterNLI 577.6/41

    Letter fragment sent to Fustat. In Hebrew. Only the opening lines and the upper marginal text are preserved, in two unusually-oriented diagonal blocks. On verso …

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  49. 6689LetterT-S 8J39.6

    Letter fragment from Yosef to Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿAmrīṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing remarks about business transactions including the delivery of a consignment of glass. [ʿAmrīṣ …

  50. . . . . . . ] אפצל אלאחואל ואכמל אלמסר [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  51. Top margin, perpendicular lines.

    ואלנא[ | כב יבאע | אל . . . . | וגמיע אל | אסר[ | באיעה | ואלעלאוה | אלזגאג | קד קבצהא | לך סידי | ומר

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  52. 6690LetterT-S 13J16.14

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan. Dating: approximately 1020 (per Gil) which is supported by the lack of Gaonic honorifics in Shelomo …

  53. כי הגדיל להי[ ] וכתבתי ל[ ] אדוננו גאון שצ
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    1. תובל בשוש וגיל ליקר האהובים כגק מר ורב אוהבם שלמה בר יהודה ראש

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  55. 6691LetterT-S Ar.39.194

    Letter addressed to a woman (al-sitt al-jalīla). In Arabic script. Fragment (right side only). Not much of the content is preserved. On verso pen trials …

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  56. 6692Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 9: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 3 ounces of lemon and …

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  57. 6693Legal documentT-S AS 122.81

    Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words written in Arabic script. Concerning a poor man who may wish to break an engagement. On verso …

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  58. 6694LetterT-S AS 146.123

    Fragment from the top of a letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. The reports his happiness when he learned of the health of various people (al-mawālī …

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  59. 6695List or tableT-S AS 147.162

    On verso there is a neat table of all the Greek/Coptic numerals in ascending order from 1 to 900,000 (the symbols start repeating after a …

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  60. 6696List or tableT-S AS 152.225 + T-S AS 152.224

    Late accounts. On the recto the title al-qādi appears as part of the only full account listed. Based on the scribal hand, this document is …

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  61. 6697Legal documentT-S AS 153.123

    Legal document referring to Shemarya b. Sheʾerit ha-Kohen. Apparently a debt contract specifying the payment plan of Abū Sahl (l. 5). On verso there is …

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  62. 6698Legal query or responsumT-S AS 168.23

    Responsum/fatwā in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) in which a man is instructed to take an oath concerning, among other things, the …

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  63. 6699Legal documentT-S AS 182.278

    Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is Fāḍila, who was survived by her son Abū Dāʾūd. Dating: 621–29 …

    Praise be to God, the eternal.

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  64. 6700List or tableT-S NS 38a.134

    Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly state or fisc-related.There is a ḥasbala at the top, marking the end of the previous section. It looks like there …

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