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  1. 6751Literary textJRL B 5336

    Small fragment with Hebrew text. Likely literary.

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  2. 6752Legal documentT-S 13J3.23

    Legal document written and signed by Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu ha-Kohen, the muqaddam of Bilbays 1170s–1220. Dated: Monday, 26 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid (1214 CE). Concerns a …

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    1. למא כאן יום אלאתנין אלסאדס ועשרון מן חדש תשרי שנת אתקכז לשטרות
    2. בעיר בלביס הסמוכה לארץ גשן מותבה רשותיה דאדוני[נו] נגידנו רבנא אברהם
    3. הרב הגדול …

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  3. 6753LetterJRL B 8565

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Naṣr and Ḥalfon Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva as well as a vessel (zīr). Phrases: כם אלא עדאב אלקלב ושגל אלסר . …

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  4. 6754List or tableT-S NS 226.144

    Communal accounts from the late 12th or early 13th century. Mentions: [...] and Menashshe b. Ḥananʾel known as al-Amshāṭī; and Moshe ha-Kohen known as Ibn …

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  5. 6755LetterT-S NS 183.84

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions the names Yosef and Manṣūr. Likely a business letter.

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  6. 6756LetterCUL Or.1080 J176

    Letter from ʿEli Ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: approximately 1045 …

    1. קד כאנת כותבי צדרת אלי סיידי אלחבר
    2. אלמעולה אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
    3. ותאיידה במא לא אשך פי וצולהא
    4. אליה ווקופה עליהא ולם יצל לאח[ד]
    5. גואב וארגו אן לא י…

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  7. 6757LetterAIU IX.B.19

    Letter in Ladino (fragment) which the heading addresses Nissim Ḥayyim Rafael Aharon de Segura and opens with the warm phrase: "despues de bezarle las manos" …

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  8. 6758State documentT-S AS 113.210

    Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …

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  9. 6759Unknown typeENA NS 85.294

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  10. 6760Unknown typeENA NS 85.1034

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 6761Legal documentBL OR 10118.6

    Late proclamation, on vellum, ornate, in flowery Hebrew, with remnants of a black and red illumination at the top of the page. It opens with …

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  12. 6762LetterT-S AS 171.64

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the paper is preserved, but the text is too faded and damaged to read much.

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  13. 6763Unknown typeENA NS 85.1268.1

    List or table with extremely faded text in Hebrew script, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

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  14. 6764LetterMoss. VII,140.2

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender seems to be imploring the addressee to resume his correspondence, for "I used to be like a son to …

    1. בנא רב . . גמיעא [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]כרה [
    2. פקד כנת ענדה פי מנזלה אלולד ואקתבסת מנה אשיא
    3. יגב עלי . . . . ענה בהא מא חיית הקבה יעמיד …

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  15. 6765List or tableT-S AS 97.158

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic; probably Ottoman-era. Mentions a turjumān and possibly the Turkish word for "writer" or "scribe" yazıcı (אל יאזגי).

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  16. 6766Literary textMIAC 179

    Exegesis and religious commentary – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 179) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …

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  17. 6767List or tableT-S Ar.6.30

    Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm; Hilāl; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū Yaḥyā, Shemuel. Mentions various …

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  18. 6768State documentT-S Ar.42.186

    A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?) b. Ismaʿīl who was arrested by Sayyid al-Ahl, Riḍwān, and al-Muẓaffar …

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  19. 6769Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 181.262

    Possibly a receipt.

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  20. 6770Legal documentT-S 16.233

    Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (long vertical strip from the middle of the document). Dating: ca. 1135 …

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    1. [ ]חתמו[ ]
    2. [ ]לוי היקר [ ]
    3. [ ] אבו אלרצא כגק מרור מ[ ]
    4. [ ] חצר בעד דלך אלי בית דין הגדול יירומם [ ]
    5. [ ] אבו אלפרג מרור נתנאל היקר ישצו פי ד[ ]
    6. …

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  21. 6771LetterENA 3927.4

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. From Waliyy(?) to his 'father' ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (named on recto). The address is made out to Makīn(?) b. Waliyy al-[...] …

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  22. 6772Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/17b

    Legal fragment (two lines from the bottom). Signed: ʿOvadya b. ʿOvadya.

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  23. 6773LetterCUL Or.1080 J281

    A query from a local Dayyan to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid, ll. 7-8r). Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. Concerning a "wicked kohen" who, while married in Alexandria, …

    CUL (ULC) Or 1080 J 281, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp. 326-330, N.H.06-15-88, (P).Letter to Abraham Maimonides by a local Dayyan, approximately …

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  24. 6774List or tableT-S AS 176.264

    Mercantile account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century, potentially related to the India Book documents. Neatly written and well preserved. …

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  25. 6775Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.30.184.6

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 dinars. Dated …

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  26. 6776Legal documentT-S AS 180.274

    Fragment of a legal or official document, with details about people collecting things from people.

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  27. 6777List or tableT-S AS 210.50 + JRL B 4158

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the month of Rajab on the verso above the main heading, possibly with a year in the left corner כגץ …

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  28. 6778List or tableT-S K15.103

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Goitein writes, "Accounts, similar to those in nos. 71 and 77." …

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  29. 6779LetterENA 4020.49

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Barakāt. The addressee is likely Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī to whom Shelomo also wrote CUL Or.1080 …

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    1. אתה ייי לא תכלא ר[חמיך ממני [. . . . . . . . .
    2. אלממלוך אלאצגר שלמ[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. אלדי אערף בה אלמולי אלסייד אלאגל אלתלמיד [. …

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    1. You, O Lord, do not withhold Your mercy from me [...]

    2. The insignificant servant Sh-L-M[...]

    3. by which I make known to the master, the nobl…

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  30. 6780Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#59) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 Adar II …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 20v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלכמיס תאסע פי שהר אדר שני סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ג׳ ליצירה
    2. אשהד עליה פרגא׳ אללוי אבן ע׳אלבאקי אללוי אן ענדה ופי ד…

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  31. 6781State documentMoss. IV,383.1

    Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. The preserved text is fragmentary and doesn't directly indicate its a state document but contains elegant line spacing …

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  32. 6782List or tableENA 2958.16

    Order for shopping? Items mentioned include rose syrup, 1/2 pound; basil seed; another kind of seed; chicken; green almond, 1 1/2 dirham; something large and …

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  33. 6783LetterT-S AS 168.319

    Letter addressed to Abū l-F[araj Yosef] b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusī Ibn ʿAwkal. Written on parchment. Small fragment. Dating: 11th century. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially …

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  34. 6784LetterJRL L 26

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious …

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    1. בע׳׳ה(?)
    2. היום ה׳ לחודש שבט משנתינו התקס׳׳ה
    3. למול פני אחי אשר כנפשי ה׳׳ה הנבון וחכם
    4. כמה׳׳ר מאיר ן׳ נעים נר׳׳ו יאי׳׳ר
    5. אחדש׳׳ו בעד מזיד אל סלאם …

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  35. 6785LetterT-S AS 149.252

    Letter mentioning a certain Yosef and commodities such as sugar. (Information from CUDL)

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  36. 6786State documentT-S Ar.40.161

    Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …

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  37. 6787LetterT-S 8.48

    Letter or letters from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (early 13th century). Many greetings at the bottom of verso, including to 'your paternal aunt Umm Abū l-Surūr,' …

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  38. 6788State documentENA 3968.22

    Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.

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  39. 6789List or tableT-S AS 207.144 + T-S AS 207.169

    Accounts in Arabic, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Requires further examination.

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  40. 6790Legal documentT-S NS 226.139

    Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May consist entirely of legalese; no information about the case.

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  41. 6791State documentT-S Ar.54.69

    Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioner complains that the ىىن (= the fig trees? the straw?) have been moved …

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  42. 6792Literary textENA 3948.7

    Verses of Arabic poetry about absence from a beloved, copied on both recto and verso, accompanied by doodles. Pinholes in the margin match those of …

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  43. 6793LetterBL OR 10589.17

    Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic from Bū l-Majd to al-Raṣuy asking him to send the jarāʾid(?) belonging to the compound, urgently. Dating: early 13th century. …

    1. لے
    2. מולאי אלרצוי ינעם ירסל לכאדמה
    3. אלגראיד בתאע אלרבע מן כל בד
    4. סרעה ושלומך יגדל      בו אלמגד
    5.                                   כאדמה

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  44. 6794State documentT-S K25.212

    Small fragment of a decree (parts of two lines are preserved, but no full words). Reused for a medical recipe in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand might …

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  45. 6795LetterT-S AS 152.80

    Informal note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Sadīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reminds him that he owes the sender 40 dirhams and should repay the money before …

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  46. 6796LetterT-S 8J25.15

    Letter sent by Musa b. Abu Ali b. Salah to Abu al-Faraj Yeshua b. Hananya. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. אלדי אעלם בה חצרה מחל אלאך אלשיך אלאגל אלאעז אלאחב אלי
    2. אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך אני וקפת מנה אלי יום אן כתבת
    3. הדא אלכתאב ודלך תאני שבט עלי ה כתר ור…

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  47. 6797LetterT-S AS 179.33

    Fragment of a letter or possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. Seven lines are partially preserved on recto. Legible phrases: ينفذ الى . . …

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  48. 6798LetterT-S NS 225.105

    Letter fragment (upper left corner). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Refers to a period of …

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  49. 6799LetterT-S AS 166.194

    Verso: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Address to a notable. The portion preserved is probably the end of the introduction and the beginning of …

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  50. 6800State documentT-S AS 179.154

    State document, in Arabic script. Fragment from the beginning of a petition. Dating: likely Ayyubid or Mamluk.

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيـ]ـم
    2. المملوك........[
    3. يخدم المجلس السامي الاجلي المولوي
    4.  الاميري الكريمي الاسفهسالاري المحامدي....

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