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  1. 651State documentT-S Misc.26.52

    Petition or report. Bottom ~10 lines are preserved. Difficult handwriting. The first line may begin with the words "umūr al-thaghr." Mentions a paper trail and …

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  2. 652Legal documentT-S Misc.26.60

    Ketubba, probably. Late. These are two addenda that detail various obligations of the groom Yaḥyā. Presumably the original ketubba itself was located on the upper …

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  3. 653Legal documentT-S Misc.26.61

    Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Groom: Abū l-Karam Nadiv (might be identical with Abū l-Karam Nadiv b. …

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  4. 654LetterT-S Misc.28.260

    Letter from Mawhūb b. Aharon the ḥazzan to Nahray b. Nissim. Containing mainly warm greetings and blessings, particularly for Nahray’s son. He notes that he …

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    1. כאן תקדם כתאבי אלי מולאי אלחבר אל 
    2. גליל גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה בקאה
    3. ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה 
    4. ונעמתה מהניא לה באלמועד אללה
    5. יעידה עליה ועלי ולדה…

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    1. כתבתי לך לפני כן מכתב, אדוני החבר
    2. הנכבד גדול הישיבה, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים
    3. ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך
    4. ואת חסדו לך, ובו בירכת…

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  5. 655LetterT-S Misc.28.261

    Letter from Manṣūr to either his son or his father Abū ʿImrān. (Both are referred to as ואלד, but this is sometimes the spelling for …

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  6. 656Legal documentT-S Misc.28.263

    (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 260.) NB: T-S Misc.28.263 is sometimes mistakenly cited as T-S Misc.28.283.

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    1. יכן הו]ה חצרא אלינא אלשיך אבו אלברכאת כגק מר ור ברכות הזקן הנכבד ישצו בר כגק מר ור יעקב
    2. נע ואבו ][אל]ופא בן אכתה כגק מר ור תמ[ים הז]קן הנכבד ה…
    None of us has
  7. [...] not required in that which his fellow does with his workers (mu‘āmilīhi), and in all that which could cause harm
  8. [...] one of us does after the period for which we have collaborated (mukhtaliṭīn), and all that which he sends and trades
  9. [...] he sells, and all the merchandise and commodities which he buys, and all that which is in his name in a document or
  10. […]in that he looks for something for himself, since the source of that money is between us, for himself, each of us half
  11. […] our lives nor for our heirs after our deaths.
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  13. 657Legal documentT-S Misc.28.264

    If indeed this is from 1318 CE, it might be the latest known mention of Avraham II as Nagid. Groom: Shemuel b.

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  14. 658Legal documentT-S Misc.28.266

    Ketubba. Dating: Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal (d. 1524). Groom: Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Yaʿqov. Bride: Raḥma/Ruḥama bt. Yosef, a …

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  15. 659Legal documentT-S Misc.28.267

    Ketubba. 16 lines preserved. Dating: Probably 13th century. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)

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  16. 660LetterT-S Misc.34.26

    Letters of recommendation, probably. For Barukh Löb (here also called Barukh Lion). Written in Mainz. Presumably the language is German. Dated: 30th and 31st August …

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  17. 661List or tableUU 1626

    Accounts, goods, and salaries, in Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals. Late.

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  18. 662Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.25r–26r

    II NS 1700.24-25) in accordance with the foliation written in pen; but the correct folios are 25 (recto and verso) and 26 (recto), as written in pencil (the librarian with the pen gave two folios the number 8).

    תקוים אלשיך אבו אלכארם

    1. תקוים אלש בו אלמכארם אלצאיג
    2. יוסף בן שמואל אלכלה סת אלריאסה הבתולה בת שלה
    3. הלוי נעאלמקדם כמסין מתנה
    4. אלמוכר מאיה דינאר מחקקה
    5. ושר…

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  19. 663Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.26v–27v

    NB: Goitein and Krakowski referred to this document as folio 25b–26b (Firk. II NS 1700.25b–26b and Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.25b–26b respectively, with the 'b' indicating verso) in accordance with the foliation written in pen; but the correct folios are 26–27, as written in pencil (the librarian with the pen gave two folios the number 8).

  20. מכחלה פצה ומלענהב
  21. Firkovitch II NS 1700 26a

    1. מש פצה
    2. דרג פצה
    3. ואנבובתין פצה וג כואתים דהב וכאתמין פצה וכאתם ענבר ה

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  22. 664Legal documentBL OR 5524.8

    Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 26 Av 1484 Seleucid = 7 August 1173 CE. Husband: Abū Saʿd b.

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  23. 665List or tableT-S Misc.8.29

    List of contributors to charity, preserving only 26 names, many identical with T-S K15.106. First two, including again the representative of the merchants al-Hakim, give 1/8 dinar, approx 5 dirhams.

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    1. בן אלקרי[.]אני תמן אלכהן

    אלדמיאטי ב'

    1. מולאי אלחכים דינאר (in Arabic letters
    2. אלשיך אבו נצר ג [[ב]]
    3. אלשיך אבו סחאק אלשיך ב'

    א…

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  24. 666Literary textMoss. VIII,119.2

    India Book II, 41. Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.

    24. על שר אשר נפטר וריחו לא נמר

    25. ועומד בכל חכמה ומבין כמארי מר

    26. ואחז בארזי אל וסנסני התמר

    27. כל העם מקצה ספדו [… (?) מר]

    28. באבל חזק בל ימוט כמו דלת במסמר

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  25. 667LetterBL OR 5542.26

    Letter of appeal for charity from Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Nafūsī to Moshe Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim. He states that he is an old man from Nafūsa (Libya) and …

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  26. 668Literary textBL OR 5558B.26

    Almost too damaged to identify. Possibly Talmud or Talmudic commentary, since among the surviving words are "the [priest] anointed for war" and "with a vow …

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  27. 669Legal documentBL OR 5561B.26

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 15 Sivan 5590(?) AM, the final digit is unclear and this document may be older than 1830 CE based on …

    1. ב׳׳ו
    2. לפנינו עדים החתומים מטה בא היקר נשא ורם מ׳׳ר לשט׳׳ו הגבאי המפואר כה׳׳ר סי׳ מרדכי
    3. בייאלובוס יצ׳׳ו והוא הודאה גשו׳׳ק כמודה לפני בד׳׳ח מדעתו ורצונ…

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  28. 670LetterBL OR 5566B.26

    Letter from a judge to Avraham Maimonides, reporting about a case that came before him in Adar I 1529 Seleucid (which is 1218 CE). About …

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  29. 671LetterBL OR 5566D.26

    Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting and spelling addressed to 'my mother' (yā sittī) Sitt Ghazal. After the blessings, the writer says he/she received …

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    1. בשמך רחמנה
    2. יא סתי סת גזאל
    3. געלני אללה מן כל סו פדאך
    4. וגמלני בבקאך וצאנך ווקאך
    5. ואחיא לך ואלולד ואלגליל
    6. ואלפרע אלנגיב ויבלגך
    7. פיה אמלך אלסארה אן שא

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  30. 672List or tableBL OR 10118.26

    List of names. Tiqva ha-Kohen; Yakhin b. Yeshuʿa; ʿEli b. Shelomo; Elʿazar b. Araḥ; Berakhot; Avraham b. She'erit; ʿEli ha-Ḥaver(?).

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  31. 673Paraliterary textBL OR 10126(1).1

    Prognostications? In Arabic script.

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  32. 674List or tableBL OR 10126(1).1

    List of accounts for the bread distribution. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the paternal aunt of the judge, the Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī, and Maḥfūẓ the khādim …

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  33. 675List or tableBL OR 10126(1).2

    Calendar for maḥzors 258 (starting 1122 CE) through maḥzor 261 (ending 1199 CE). Will be a useful resource for dating the handful of Geniza documents that contain only the maḥzor and the year within the maḥzor.

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  34. 676Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).4

    The name Muhadhdhab al-Ṣayrafī then appears. Then perhaps a new testimony that somebody acknowledges that he owes 100 dirhams to his wife and will pay it by the end of Sivan.

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  35. 677Unknown typeBL OR 10126(1).5

    Note to Moses Gaster, in Hebrew, concerning a delay in the delivery of a crate.

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  36. 678Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).6

    Legal document. Loan terms. Dated: September 1239. Location: Bilbays. Between Amram b. Ḥalfon and Avraham b. Efrayim. Initially described as commenda (qirāḍ) but re-negotiated into …

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    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצין כטוטנא אכר הדה אלמסטור אן למא כאן פי אלעשר
    2. אלאכיר מן חדש תשרי שנת אתקנא לשטרות בעיר בלביס הסמוכה לארץ
    3. גשן מותבה רשותיה…

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    1. We, the undersigned witnesses, say that on the last ten-day
    2. period of the month of Tishri of the year 1551 of (the Era of) Documents in the city of Bilbays situated near the land of
    3. Goshen, jurisdiction of our lord David, the great Nagid in Israel, may his name endure forever,
    4. the Elder Amram ha-Kohen b. Ḥalfōn ha-Kohen (who) r(ests in) E(den) came before us and requested that we produce testimony of what we knew
    5. concerning him and the Elder Abraham b. the Elder Ephraim Maghrebī in the writt[en] documents
    6. concerning what he owed him, and [th]at … the entire recorded amount concerning what he owed him, according to Jewish law and according to
    7. gentile law as a commenda (qirāḍ).

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  37. 679List or tableBL OR 10126(1).7

    List in Judaeo-Arabic, neat and well-preserved, with quantities of food items and materia medica on the recto. There are three columns from right to left …

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  38. 680Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).8

    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū Naṣr Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen was going to make a declaration, but …

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  39. 681Unknown typeBL OR 10126(1).9–10

    Copy of the first verse of Genesis, probably by a child. Interesting because the original binding appears to be preserved.

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  40. 682Literary textBL OR 10126(1).12

    Literary. Psalms and Job.

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  41. 683List or tableBL OR 10126(1).15

    Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic that express figures in western Arabic numerals. Dated 19 Kislev [54]97 or less likely 55[97]– so 1736CE or 1836CE. Some …

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  42. 684Paraliterary textBL OR 10126(1).17

    Recto: Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Purpose unclear. The second recipes involves red hairs, a cloth, and lamp oil (zayt ḥār). Verso: Hebrew poem.

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  43. 685LetterBL OR 10126(1).19

    Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Needs examination

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  44. 686Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).24

    Legal document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In Aramaic. There is also one line in Arabic script on verso. Location: Fustat. Dated: 137[.] Seleucid, …

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  45. 687Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).25

    Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …

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  46. 688List or tableBL OR 10126(3).2

    Jottings in Hebrew script. Maybe accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The word thawb appears.

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  47. 689List or tableBL OR 10126(3).4

    List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic where the object "עדה" is being expressed in various quantities of the unit of weight "ratl", here expressed in plural …

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  48. 690List or tableBL OR 10126(3).7–8

    See tag.

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  49. 691LetterBL OR 10126(3).12

    Letter from ʿEli b. David ha-Kohen to Abū l-Qawām Thābit. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic opening and the address are preserved.

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  50. 692LetterBL OR 10126(3).14

    Document in Judaeo-Arabic, apparently summarizing a petition. Headed ב, then "in which your slaves Abū l-Riḍā al-Abwānī asked Sayyidnā (=you) . . . the letter …

    1. ב
    2. אלדי סאל חצרה סיידנא פיה ממאליכהא אבו אלרצא אל
    3. אבואני א . . כתאב מן אלמעטם אלי אלקאצי אלמכין [[אל]]
    4. משארף אלאסכנדריה באלוציה פי אן יטלק לה רבע אל …

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  51. 693Legal documentBL OR 10126(3).15

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 4846 AM = 11 February 1086 CE. Mentions a Peraḥya and a Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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  52. 694List or tableBL OR 10126(3).17

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Based on the paleography the dating for these accounts possibly is possibly 16-17th-century. The recto and verso account for payments "אל ווצל" …

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  53. 695Literary textBL OR 10126(3).19

    Literary text, in Hebrew

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  54. 696Unknown typeBL OR 10578C.26

    A few Judaeo-Arabic words in large script.

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  55. 697Legal documentBL OR 10589.26

    Account in Arabic script, seems to be private though the layout resembles official documents. "Account of the soap which arrived on the date of [...] …

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  56. 698State documentBL OR 10599.26

    Document with a few lines of Arabic script on each side. Probably a fiscal account. Mentions 200 dinars on verso, and possibly a dīwān. Needs …

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  57. 699LetterBL OR 12369.26

    It appears that the recipient is also interested in the daughter of Abū Saʿd, since the writer tells him to pluck up his courage and come quickly so that they can confer with his mother and visit Abū Saʿd in the night and speak to him before they miss their chance.

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    1. אלדי אעלמך בה אנך נזלת
    2. וקלבי ענדך ואמא גיר דלך
    3. פאני בלגני אן ברכאת בן אלרייס
    4. . . שש . קד טלב בנת אלשיך אב/ו סעד/
    5. וקד לאן (?) לאגלה וקד עמלת א…

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  58. 700Literary textBL OR 13153.26

    Literary work on the blowing of the shofar.

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