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  1. 7201List or tableT-S 8J6.3

    Verso: List of "those who have not received their share" (al-bāqiyyīn bi-lā akhdh), i.e., in the distribution of wheat. […] The neglected people listed were mostly outsiders, either foreigners (Rum/Byzantium, Persia, Jerusalem, Barqa, etc.) or from Egypt itself (Alexandria, al-Mahalla, Minyat Ghamr, Benha, Damira, Dakarnas).

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    סדכ.דו

    ר'[.]בי..א אמ[ר]אה פ[רנ]ס?

    סכנדרי מהא.?

    זוגה ....

    קדסייה

    אם טאהר

    אמו אבן .ידאן

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    שׂרה לאה

    מליחה דויד

    זוגה ה[א]רון

    אברהם דקיק[י]

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  2. 7202Legal documentT-S 8Ja2

    Mūsā in Palermo and of his brother Sahlūn in Alexandria. Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov presented to the court in Fusṭāṭ an earlier document issued by a court in Qayrawān on Wednesday, 20 Elul 4792 (1032). […] Yaʿaqov Ṭarābulusī was authorized to govern the inheritance. It also contained a statement of Yaʿaqov b. Mūsā’s widow that she had no claims to the inheritance.

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    1. סוף אדר ש'מ'ה'
    2. אחצ'ר משה אלמכנא אבו עמראן בן יעקב קאבסי
    3. פי בית דין כאן וכאלה מ[כ]תתבה באלקירואן בכט הילל
    4. בן אגראצ'הא אנה למא תופי יעקב //בן מו…

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  3. 7203LetterT-S 10J15.9

    Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). In Judaeo-Arabic. After the greetings, which include wishes for the husband's recovery from illness, she continues, "Don't ask what I suffered on the road due to riding. […] Your father certainly quarreled with me in the middle of al-Muṣāṣa (a neighborhood in Fustat), and not all that was said needs to be repeated. […] He (it seems one of her own family members) said to me, 'Divorce him, and I will take care of all that is necessary.' Now, if I divorce you. . . ."

    1. I inform you, master of the house, may God always give you happiness, strengthen your well-being,  

    2. cure your sorrows, destroy your enemies and…

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  4. 7204LetterT-S 12.495

    Letter from a woman, probably in Alexandria, to her paternal uncle. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Despite the difficulties, she also mentions that the family has received a shipment of merchandise.

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    1. הדא אלכתאב ען סלאמה פי אלנפס ושגל פי אלקלב ללה אלחמד רב אלעאלמין וצלת גמיע כתבך וסרנא עאפיתך [
    2. גואב קבל הדא אלכתאב וער/פ/תך יא עמי וואלדי שוקי…

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  5. 7205Legal documentT-S 12.872

    Deed of manumission (geṭ shiḥrur) for an enslaved slave woman named Saʿāda, manumitted by the trader Abū l-Maʿālī b. Khalaf al-Levi al-Dajājī. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Tishrei 1510 Seleucid (15 October 1198 CE). […] Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1165–1203). Also signed by Menashshe b. Yosef. (Information in part from Moshe Yagur via FGP.)

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    1.       בתלתא בשבה דהוא תלת עשר יומי

    2.       לירח תשרי שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ועש[ר]

    3.       שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל

    4.       נילוס נהרא מות…

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  6. 7206Legal documentT-S 13J1.21

    The property is a ground floor (qāʿa) and mezzanine (mustaraqa) belonging to a famous house located in the Zuwayla quarter in Cairo, the street of the Slavs (Darb al-Saqāliba), across from the oven. Lessor: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Ibrāhīm known as Ibnat bint al-Wuḥsha (i.e., the granddaughter of the famous Wuḥsha), the wife of Abū l-Maʿrūf Ṣedaqa b. […] Lessee: Abū Naṣr b. Sulaymān al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). The period of the lease is 8 years, and Abū Naṣr will pay 40 dinars total, coming out to 5 dinars a year or 10 qirats a month.

    1. אקנינא אנן חתומי מטה מן סת אלאהל אבנה אברהים זוגה אלשיך אבו אלמערוף צדקה אלמערופה
    2. באבנה בנת אלוחשה בעד צחה אלמערפה בהא קנין גמור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנו…

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  7. 7207Legal documentT-S 13J2.8

    Record detailing the action of a court in Fustat in preparing a claim to an estate in Aleppo, made by a man name Sālimو residing in Fustat. The man’s uncle was from Aleppo and died in Akko; having never been married, his heirs included two brothers and this nephew from a deceased third brother.

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    1. חצר אלינא אנן בי דינא אלשיך אבו אלמרגא מר ורב יוסף בר מר
    2. מבורך דידיע בן אלנאקד ואלשיך אבו אלחסן מר אהרן בר מר
    3. יפת אלאסכנדראני ואבי אלפרג מר יש…

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  8. 7208Legal documentT-S 20.187

    Power of attorney. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia. Monday, 1 Av [4]833 AM, which is July 1073 CE. In which the Qaraite Abū Saʿd Isḥāq b. Khalaf b. ʿAllūnal-Kātib al-Miṣrī gives to Ḥassūn b. Abū l-Faraj Mahdawī the right to act on his behalf and recover a long list of household utensils, which Abū Saʿd had left with Sittūna bt.

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  9. 7209LetterT-S Ar.39.9

    I have / she has perished, we are all prostrated, I have no one to go out and bring me anything, and (your) kindness will not be lost on God the exalted. […] for me from the hospital (al-maristān) palm ointment (marham nakhlī, cf. T-S 8J20.26 and Yevr.[…] I salute/greet you (qaraʾtu ʿalaykaal-salām)." ASE

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  10. 7210LetterT-S Ar.39.55

    He refers to the arrival of goods from Fanṣūr (=present-day Barus in NW Sumatra); to a trader in Malabar (Malībar), to his own meeting with Abū l-Maʿālī b. Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Amshāṭī in Shingli (شنجلي) (present-day Kodungallur), and to how Abū l-Maʿālī gave him a power of attorney to collect goods on his behalf in Aden. Other names mentioned are Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ (well-known from the published India Book documents, although from the first half of the 12th century - PG), al-Fāsī, possibly Bū Ṣāliḥ Mūsā, and Maḍmūn b.

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  11. 7211LetterT-S Ar.42.165

    Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. […] The purpose of the letter is to rebuke Sābiq: "I think of you what I think of my son Ḥassūn, namely, that I have written him many letters and not received a single response. All this time he has not thought of me or inquired about my health (iftaqad ḥālī) at all.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الى سيدي ومولاي اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتمكينه وعلاه وكبت اعداه
    3. عن شوق اليك شديد وارتياح نحوك الله تعالى يقرب ا…

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  12. 7212Paraliterary textT-S K25.261 + T-S 10J28.6

    "gardens and waterwheels... mosques and synagogues...") which could either be humor or incomplete context. There is also a damaged section mentioning geographical names including Samarqand, Khorasan, Baghdad, China, Barqa, עמאוריה (= ʿAmmūriyya?)[…] T-S 10J28.6v contains a section from the same context but in a second hand (whereas both sides of T-S K25.261 and 10J28.6r are all in the same hand). (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) Indirect join: Alan Elbaum.

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  13. 7213State documentT-S NS 184.24

    Refers to "Wednesday the 4th of Ṣafar" (l. 5) and then provides a technical description of the configurations of Mars (Mirrīkh), Saturn (Zuḥal), the sun, Leo (al-Asad), Jupiter (al-Mushtarī), and Venus (al-Zuhra) (ll. 6–9): المريخ غايب عن زحل مقبول من الشمس لكون . . . […] "cold" (bārid) and "money" (al-māl). In l. 12: "this day is superior to Monday, the 9th of Ṣafar."

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  14. 7214LetterT-S NS 290.82 + T-S NS 290.79

    One of the parties is referred to as al-Rayyis, and another is al-Sharīf. Somebody travels, and somebody has a male child, and somebody dies. In l. 10 a woman is introduced (al-mamlūka). She seems to be demanding her ketubba payment (kitābhā wa-ḥaqqhā). […] Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum

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  15. 7215LetterT-S NS 305.105

    so that he or she can pay the rest of the capitation tax (al-jāliya). Refers to a two-cubit piece of cloth (khirqa dhirāʿayn fa-armūhā maʿa al-[...]...). The sender mentions that someone came and informed them about the sickness of 'the little one' (al-ṣaghīra). In the margin there is an instruction to ask after someone's daughters (banāthā) and about Abū Saʿd and the receipt for the capitation tax (barāʾat al-jāliya).

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  16. 7216Legal documentT-S NS 309.12

    Recto: Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: middle third of Av 1481 Seleucid (= July/August 1170 CE), with the signing delayed until the middle third of Elul 1481 Seleucid (= August/September 1170 CE). […] In particular: Hiba b. Elʿazar appointed al-Shaykh al-Thiqa [...] b. Yehuda ha-Kohen Keter ha-Kohanim as his agent to sell his female slave Nasrīn. […] Interestingly at least two of these witnesses (Aharon and Shemarya) were active in Fustat rather than al-Maḥalla based on their other Geniza documents.

    TS NS Box 309, f. 12, Goitein, Palestinian Jewry, pp.317-318, C.B. 05-09-88 (p)

    1. ]הדיין המ[ופלא נתתי לו ד אמות שלי
    2. שבארץ ישראל ואגבן [הרשיתיו וכו'
    3. בת…

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  17. 7217Legal documentT-S NS 320.75

    States that future claims will be void, "whether verbal or written, whether in Hebrew documents or Persian documents." Similar formulae also appear in 10th-century legal documents (e.g., T-S 16.56 and T-S 12.496, and there is a good chance that other languages were listed at the beginning of the next line of this document, which is missing). […] Based on the reference to "distillation" (taqṭīr), these are probably instructions for making perfume or alcohol, or at least some (al)chemical process. This fragment is uncited in the literature.

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  18. 7218LetterT-S NS 338.12

    Yosef Ibn Yiju), in Alexandria, to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat. […] This fragment (lower half of recto, upper half of verso) begins in medias res: the sender is writing about his time with some community, probably near Minyat Zifta; he describes a circumcision that was done on Shabbat; the sender organized a drive (pesiqa) for "the female captives"; and he found the congregation impoverished (fa-wajadtu l-[qaw]m fī ḥāl ṣaʿb... baqā al-jamāʿa ʿaniyyim marudim) on account of the ḍamān incumbent on them (a guarantee they had undertaken? […] It was resolved to inform "our Rabbi" (likely Moshe Maimonides) about all this, and the Parnas went to do that. The sender awaits (the Parnas's?

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  19. 7219Legal documentT-S NS J174

    On recto, the parnas Sālim al-Jubaylī makes a first-person declaration making a case for his lack of liability in the loss of the 10,000 dinars that many Jews had deposited in the synagogue ('miqdash') of Fustat under his stewardship. […] On verso, there is a declaration by witnesses in support of Sālim al-Jubaylī. "Needless to say, the great pillage of Fustat in 1168, nahb misr (referred to also as the affliction, nawba, or burning), the last notorious demonstration of Fatimid impotence, is reflected in the Geniza.

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  20. 7220List or tableT-S NS J293a + T-S NS J293b + T-S NS J293c + T-S NS J293d

    Dated: 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139/40 CE. Four fragments altogether, three of which being in the hand of the scribe of T-S K15.48, part one. They are headed by the parnas Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh, receiving a muqaddar, and the shomer Abū l-Surūr allotted a shuqqa. All the remaining forty whose names are preserved get a jūkhāniyya.

    a - verso Fragment 1 right side IV

    1. {בם}
    2. ..ג אבן זגלי ם גוכאניה
    3. אמראת אברהם ם גוכאניה

    אלקשׁאשׁי

    1. אמראת אלגר ם גוכאני'

    אלחפאר

    1. אמראת אלת.[..] גוכאני…

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  21. 7221Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    The date is damaged, with only the day of the week legible and month of Av visible. This record was almost certainly recorded in Av [5327] given that the entry just below it on the same page is dated in this month/year. […] The closing lines mention that Shelomo Fayrūz, the son-in-law of the person testifying, commits to pay a sum of money to Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov al-Levi al-Somekh al-Qayyim (probably an outstanding debt mentioned earlier in the document).

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 38v

    1. ...] באחד נהאר אלכמיס מצ'נה חדש אב
    2. ...]. מצרים חצ'ר אד׳ הנ׳ הג׳ אהרן יצ׳׳ו ואשהד
    3. ...]גל שלמה יצ׳׳ו אבן אלמולי אלאגל מר׳…

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  22. 7222LetterAIU VII.E.240

    Livorno is mentioned in the first lines. There are also sums and a single line in Hebrew: "Today is the 18th of Tammuz .. 94."

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  23. 7223List or tableAIU XII.25

    List of names (right column) and sums of money (left column) in Arabic, presumably either a donations or an alms list. Most names sound Coptic (e.g. ṣihr Būlus al-Kātib) or Muslim.

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  24. 7224LetterBodl. MS heb. d 65/6

    One of these people is also the son of Ṭoviyya.

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  25. 7225List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.36

    Alms list (probably), fragmentary. Names include Sutayt, Abū l-ʿAlā, the wife of the ger, Mūsā, Abū Naṣr, Umm Khulayf, the acquaintance of the astrologer (munajjim) and his acquaintance.

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  26. 7226LetterDK 36.23

    The former at least is signed by a Shabbetay who also gives the name of his city (קיריכטו?). See folio 26 for the probable dating.

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  27. 7227Literary textDK 252

    Literary work entitled Ṣifat al-Mulūk. In Arabic script. It gives a census of the tribes of the jinn (72 tribes in all, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Samaritans, Sudanese and Persian, etc.) and descriptions of the kings of the jinn.

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  28. 7228List or tableDK 365

    Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir; al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Rubāʿī(?); Abū Yiṣḥaq; Tamīm.

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  29. 7229LetterENA 1822a.19

    Letter addressed to Sitt al-Khayr. It seems that the writer had learned that Sitt al-Khayr's daughter was going to get married and expresses her expectation in the letter to receive an invitation.

    1. ] ב ר
    2. ] אוחש אללה תע מן טלעה אלאכת אלעזיזה
    3. אלמו]פקה אלסעידה סת אלכיר אטאל אללה בקאהא
    4. ]חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאהא וגמעני ואיאהא
    5. ] אסר חאל ואנעם באל וינהי …

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  30. 7230LetterENA 1822a.95

    Ibrāhīm and the 'addressee' is a Fatimid dignitary titled Fāris al-Dawla wa-Ḥusāmuhā. Reads, in part, ḥadrat mawlaya al-shaykh.

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  31. 7231Literary textENA 2627.81

    On ENA 2627.81 there are also some account in a different hand mentioning Elazar Yehudi.

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  32. 7232Literary textENA 2627.82

    On ENA 2627.81 there are also some account in a different hand mentioning Elazar Yehudi.

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  33. 7233Legal documentENA 2730.6

    A certain Maymūn appeared before the court on the 17th of Av. Also mentions [...] b. Dunash ha-Rav.

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  34. 7234List or tableENA 3226.3

    575 raṭl" and line 6 on the recto may mention Alexandria.

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  35. 7235List or tableENA 3308.20

    The fragment shows signs of having been used in a book binding. There is also a jotting of an Arabic-script basmala.

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  36. 7236State documentENA 3962.2

    Verso: Remnants of a state document (two lines partially preserved, wide line spacing) mentioning Alexandria. In the large blank space someone has practiced writing لا several times.

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  37. 7237Legal documentENA NS 59.10

    One of the witnesses is al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿ[...].

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  38. 7238LetterENA NS 67.9

    The writer requests someone's urgent attendance in Cairo; mentions al-Kohen al-Shaykh Muwaffaq; mentions a tarsīm (fee for house arrest?).

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  39. 7239Literary textGeneva 119

    Refers to Fustat as Babylon (באבלון) on fol. 7r. There are also several pages of Hebrew and Aramaic piyyuṭ at the end.

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  40. 7240LetterJRL A 659

    Letter addressed to a certain Abu Ibrahim Ishaq, dated in the month of Marheshvan (the rest of the date is missing), and mentioning equipment of a weaver's shop, including components of a loom. The author also conveys personal regards from Yeshu'a and Musa.

    1. ]בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף
    2. יום]כלון מן מרחשון ערפך אללה ואיאנא ברכתה
    3. ואלח]מד ללה רב אלעאלמין וען שוק אליך קרב
    4. ]יך בשרח מא חמלתה לך וקד חמלת
    5. ].ל…

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  41. 7241LetterJRL A 849

    Mentions people such as [...] al-Iskandarānī and Ibn al-Maṭar.

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  42. 7242LetterJRL A 1220

    indicating that when someone arrived (or arrives?) in Alexandria, something something "to our master Shemuel ha-Nagid."

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  43. 7243LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/6

    In the name of the wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī. Instructing Abū l-ʿAlāʾ to meet with Eliyyahu the Judge and deal with the sale of a cauldron (qidra) and a frying pan (ṭājin).

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  44. 7244Literary textJRL L 228 + JRL B 6033

    Bifolio containing a portion of the (previously unknown) Bohairic version of the Mystery of the Greek Letters, a work otherwise known in Greek, Sahidic, and Arabic. Join: Alan Elbaum. Identification of the text and confirmation of the join kindly provided by Alin Suciu.

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  45. 7245LetterMIAC 67

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 55).

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  46. 7246Legal documentMIAC 73

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 64).

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  47. 7247Unknown typeMIAC 117

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 29).

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  48. 7248LetterMIAC 127

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 58).

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  49. 7249List or tableMIAC 172

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 76).

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  50. 7250Legal documentMIAC 203

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