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  1. 701Legal documentT-S Misc.28.83

    Reused for legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), which mention Sutūt the wife of Khalaf b. Qashqūsh; a real-estate …

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    1. 1 ( )ד צ( )
    2. 2 ( )מחרם עמא( )
    3. 3 ( ) שרכה סתות זוגה כלף בן קשקוש ( )
    4. 4 ( )שאע גיר מקסום ורבע אלדאר אלתי ( )
    5. 5 ( ) בקצר אלשמע פי זקאק אלדכאן שרכה …

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  2. 702LetterT-S Misc.28.83

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe, probably addressed to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part of recto). Mentions: the …

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    1. 1 ( )ד צ( )
    2. 2 ( )מחרם עמא( )
    3. 3 ( ) שרכה סתות זוגה כלף בן קשקוש ( )
    4. 4 ( )שאע גיר מקסום ורבע אלדאר אלתי ( )
    5. 5 ( ) בקצר אלשמע פי זקאק אלדכאן שרכה …

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  3. 703LetterT-S Misc.28.84

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions: ʿūd rīḥ; 3 dinars and a rubāʿī; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …

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  4. 704LetterT-S Misc.28.85

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on goods that arrived and prices (incl. mercury) and goods that were sent with the bearer of this letter (incl. …

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  5. 705List or tableT-S Misc.28.86

    List of tenants. In Judaeo-Arabic. "My tenants in the house in Ḥārat al-Zuwayla in the Alley of the Christians: Abū l-Faḍl Natan b. Yeshuʿa; Abū …

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  6. 706Legal documentT-S Misc.28.87

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerning [...] b. Hillel ha-Zaqen, Yosef b. Moshe ha-Kohen (see T-S NS 321.12 (PGPID …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנ[א ]
    2. מרור הלל הזקן נע וקאל [ ]

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  7. 707LetterT-S Misc.28.88

    Letter, apparently the second folio of what used to be two folios. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with some business matters and containing an urgent request for …

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  8. 708LetterT-S Misc.28.89

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions coral and Efrayim and a qirṭās containing 160 …

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  9. 709Literary textT-S Misc.28.91

    Literary text in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  10. 710LetterT-S Misc.28.93

    Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaʾon according to Gil), in Ṣahrajt, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE …

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    1. [כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אל]חבר ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה מן צהרשת ואלחאל

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  11. 711LetterT-S Misc.28.98

    Letter fragment addressed to Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when he was active in Egypt. There is a lengthy introduction, and …

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    1. ממלוך הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת הוד ועטרת
    2. וצניף כותרת מרנו ורבנו משה הרב ה[גדול]
    3. הפטיש החזק ה[...]ו שמים יאריך אלהינו
    4. ימיו בטוב ושנותיו בנעימים בז…
  12. Furthermore, my master, what you want to know is that
  13. the letter of my master (=your letter) has arrived. I have read it and understood
  14. its contents, which is, my brother, that this wine was deposited
  15. with Umm Manṣūr …
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  17. 712List or tableT-S Misc.28.100

    The original document is quite damaged; there is a list of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. There is also a line in Arabic …

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  18. 713Legal query or responsumT-S Misc.28.102

    Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning a dispute over who had the right to lead the congregation in prayer.

    1. מא יקולו חכמי ישראל ורבניהם פי קהל כרים מן ישראל
    2. יש צו יגתמעו בבית הכנסת ללצלאה ואכתארו אן
    3. יכון שליח צבור אלדי יאם בהם כמא ארשדו לדלך
    4. אלחכמים והו קו…

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  19. 714LetterT-S Misc.28.103

    Letter from Sulaymān b. ʿAlī, unknown location, to Abū Saʿīd Yaʿqūb, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Abū Sahl Saʿīd the sons of Yisra'el (al-Tustari). In Judaeo-Persian, …

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  20. 715LetterT-S Misc.28.107

    Letter from ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yeḥezqel, in Jerusalem, to ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen, in Fustat. (The addressee is named Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn al-Ḥaver b. Muʿammar …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר ואדאם עזה ותאדיה מן אלקודס לו כלון מן אייר
    2. וחאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק שדיד גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וכרמה אועלם
    3. י…

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  21. 716LetterT-S Misc.28.129

    Recto: Legal document somehow related to verso. Verso: Legal document. Dated: Tammuz 4831 AM, which is 1071 CE. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya. (This is rare; others …

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  22. 717LetterT-S Misc.28.131

    Lower part of a letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. He describes his great distress (poverty, dependents, …

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  23. 718LetterT-S Misc.28.133

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic calligraphy presenting a Hebrew poem in honor of the addressee's wedding.

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  24. 719List or tableT-S Misc.28.133

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  25. 720LetterT-S Misc.28.136

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: likely 11th century. Dealing with a matter of communal/political strife in the yeshiva. Some phrases: עלי אלמתיבה . . . …

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  26. 721LetterT-S Misc.28.138

    Letter from Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Judaeo-Arabic. The whole letter is preserved, but the text is extremely faded. In one of the …

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  27. 722LetterT-S Misc.28.140

    Hebrew letter, likely a draft, from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi to a distinguished physician (but probably not Maimonides: Moshe b. Levi blesses his "sons" rather …

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    1. שלום רב וג
    2. והאיש משה וג
    3. כי ארך ימים וג

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  28. 723LetterT-S Misc.28.143

    Letter from Me'ir Saragos, in Fustat/Cairo, to Yaʿaqov Mar Ḥayyim, probably somewhere in the Levant. The writer was a judge active in Cairo in the …

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  29. 724LetterT-S Misc.28.145

    Later text: Brief note from Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) to Mevorakh b. Saadya (1078–1111) saying that he has sent him Levantine parchment. Goitein's …

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  30. 725Literary textT-S Misc.28.145

    Palimpsest. Original text: Leaf from an Arabic diwan on vellum in elegant calligraphy. Poets named include Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. [...] and Ibrāhīm al-Shāmī (neither …

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  31. 726LetterT-S Misc.28.146

    Letter to Ḥalfon b. Berakhot (?). In a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very long, but the substance seems quite short, occupying …

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  32. 727LetterT-S Misc.28.150

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip). Dating: probably 11th century. Quotes Proverbs 6:19 (משלח מדנים...). Mentions Nahray, ʿEli he-Ḥaver, a qāḍī, the Qaraites (contrasted …

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  33. 728LetterT-S Misc.28.151

    Business letter to Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the margins of verso (the first page), there is a price list for commodities …

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  34. 729State documentT-S Misc.28.153

    Verso (original use): Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. The beginnings of two lines are preserved. كانوا فاما . . . الى …

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  35. 730Legal documentT-S Misc.28.153

    Recto (secondary use): Legal document. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Dated: 13 Adar I 1337 Seleucid = 3 February 1026 CE. Settling a …

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  36. 731LetterT-S Misc.28.155

    Recto and verso: Letter recounting how a storeroom in Alexandria belonging to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, was opened and it was discovered that the grain …

  37. קלת לדפע
  38. אל
  39. top margin

    1. כתאב
    2. והו דאפע
    3. לך
    4. ותופין
    הודעתי למוסא אלעניו מה שכתבתי לך

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    במכתבי, והוא מתפלל למענך. נפטרו הילדים של אבו אלפרג' הכהן, הבן והבת, בשבוע אחד; (ייתן) אלוהים שתיבדל אתה לחיים ארוכים, כי בו אני בוטח.

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  40. 732State documentT-S Misc.28.155

    Recto: Fatimid state document. Maybe a petition or report. In Arabic script. 5 lines are preserved. Refers to somebody who rejects benefaction (munākarat al-naʿīm) and …

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  41. 733State documentT-S Misc.28.164

    Verso (original use): Remnants of three words of a state decree in enormous calligraphic Arabic script ("...ī maṣāliḥ al-musli[mīn]" (ى مصالح المسل[امين...). Dating: pre–1108 CE, …

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  42. 734Legal documentT-S Misc.28.164

    Recto (secondary use): Draft of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involves Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo; a little house; …

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  43. 735LetterT-S Misc.28.166

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Addressed to Natan b. Avraham ha-Kohen Sholal (?). The writer expresses his longing for the addressee (r1–4). He gives news of …

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  44. 736LetterT-S Misc.28.168

    Business letter in Hebrew. Late. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. Mentions currencies such as coronas and peraḥim. Most …

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  45. 737State documentT-S Misc.28.169

    Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man seeking employment in the caliph’s service. Draft, opening only. Dating: ca. 427–87/1036–94. On the other pages is …

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    1. الحمد لله وحده الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على خير خلق من الورى
    2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا
    3. ال…
    1. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings be upon our master and lord

    2. the imām al-Mustanṣir bi-Allāh, commander of the faithful, and upon his pure ancestors and most noble sons.

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  46. 738LetterT-S Misc.28.171

    Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Eli ha-Kohen (identification based on comparison with DK 233.2), evidently in Jerusalem, to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Isḥāq al-Ṣārifī (!), in …

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  47. 739Legal documentT-S Misc.28.180

    Legal document. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: No later than 1034 CE ([4]7[.]4 AM). It is also possible that the 'ארבע' is 'ארבעין', in which …

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  48. 740List or tableT-S Misc.28.180

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems. Fragmentary.

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  49. 741List or tableT-S Misc.28.183

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  50. 742LetterT-S Misc.28.183

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, and written in an elegant script. The sender gives a convoluted account of a business/legal dispute, involving stakes of over …

    1. ]נעם פ . [
    2. ]ב לי אלגר אלז אל . . . . . [
    3. אן גא עם אול וקת אקלא[ע] מ. אדב(?) כלמתו וקאל ח[
    4. וקלת לה סאפר פי אמאן אללה ווצל אטראבלס ונזל [
    5. לאחד מעה שי …

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  51. 743List or tableT-S Misc.28.184

    Before a comprehensive distribution of wheat, communal officials scrutinized the list from the preceding distribution and made a note. of changes in circumstance, such as deaths, changes in economic situation, and departures.

    recto, left-hand page:

    1. חמאה יהודה ויבה ורבע //הלך//
    2. בנת אלאקריטשׂי נצף

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  52. 744LetterT-S Misc.28.187

    India Book (IB) II, 65. Letter from an unknown sender in Aden to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Hibat Allah (?) in Lawāmanda (?), possibly an island …

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    1. חרס אללה עז חצרה אלשיך אלאגל אלסייד
    2. אלמולא אלמאלך אלמנעם אלמתפצל חראסה
  53. ...This isto inform you, that
  54. were I to stubbornly pursue the suit, it would lead to bloodshed.
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  56. 745Legal documentT-S Misc.28.189

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment. Involves a tenant named Ḥusna, Abū l-Fakhr, and a property.

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    1 ( )א בזיאדה ו(לא )

    2 ( ) איאהא אלתי אולהא תש( )

    3 ( )מיעא בדלך ואלתזמא בה ואקנינא ( )

    4 ( ) ומנסוב אליה מן דלך בעד צחה אלמערפה בחסנה

    5 ( ) ושה…

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  57. 746LetterT-S Misc.28.190

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this …

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  58. 747LetterT-S Misc.28.191

    debt of the city of Fayyūm before Yom Kippur, but is not optimistic, because the official order on the decree (al-amr ʿalā l-marsūm al-karīm) is unchanged.

    1. והדרת ר עובדיה ור חננאל אן בקי אלאמר עלי אלמרסום
    2. אלכרים עז נצרה עלי חאלה אן אלממלוך אן שאללה
    3. לא תנקצי עשרת ימי התשובה אלא והו חפשי
    4. ממא יתעלק בדין מד…

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  59. 748LetterT-S Misc.28.199

    Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel ha-Andalusi, in Jerusalem, to Yosef b. Naḥum ha-Baradani, in Fustat. Dating: 5 Adar Sheni, around 1060 (Gil). Yosef has arrived …

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    1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
    2. [מן א]ל[ק]דס לה כלון מן אדר שני ערפך אללה ברכתה ויומנה ען סלאמה ואלחמד ללה

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  60. 749LetterT-S Misc.28.207

    Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (identified on the basis of the handwriting), probably writing from Qayrawān, to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. Refers to …

    Recto

    1.               וסי]די בקאך ואדאם איאם סלאמתך ורעאיתך וציאנתך וכפאיתך וחראסתך

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  61. 750Legal query or responsumT-S Misc.28.208

    Recto is a legal query regarding a sale and interest. Written on parchment. Dating: early 11th century. Verso contains a faded address in Arabic script, …

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