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  1. 7551LetterT-S NS 320.2

    Written in an unusual hand; Goitein calls it "papyri script," probably referring to the early documents edited by Blau and Hopkins in "Judaeo-Arabic Papyri" (1987). There are also some interesting spellings, e.g., ואמגיר for ואמא גיר. […] Most of verso consists of a price list, mentioning goods such as soap, almond, mastic, saffron, tragacanth (kathīrāʾ), henna, sumac, pistachio, sesame, usnea/lichen (shayba), labdanum, and kohl.

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  2. 7552Legal documentT-S NS 321.50

    Goitein records that this fragment is from a copy of the document from which T-S Misc.28.263, also in this documentary corpus, emerged. Both fragments refer to the renewal of a trading partnership worth 3,750 dinars for which profits are divided equally, and the partners are granted an allowance for their maintenance.

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    1. ]..חסן .........................[
    2. ]דלך ומנא מן כתב באסמאינא גמיעא וכדלך פעל[
    3. ]פעלה צאחבה גמיעאנא מתפק אן וניתנא מסתקימה[
    4. ]א יד... .ל. מא .. מן…

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    1. […] good … […]
    2. […] that, and those of us who wrote our names together. Likewise …[…]
    3. […] his fellow enacted, agreeing with all of us, our intenti…

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  3. 7553LetterT-S NS 323.10

    Goes on to mention Mevorakh; a letter to Abū Saʿd; coming to Cairo; al-Dustarī(?) al-Sharābī; a shop; someone sitting or staying somewhere after returning from the palace of al-Zarqa (?

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  4. 7554LetterT-S NS J37

    Shemuel to the cantor and teacher ʿAbd al-Bāqī Sheʾerit, informing him that he had sent him 20 dirhams for his children with the wife of Zayn al-Tujjār, ten of which had been donated by Sitt Ṭāwūs. […] This could be the letter from ʿAbd al-Bāqī to which Yeḥezqel is responding. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)

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    1. חצרה אלשיך אלאגל עבד אלבאקי כב מר
    2. ורבנא שארית החזן והנבון(!) שצ א . מ . אל
    3. יהיה בעזרו מכצוצה באגל סלאם ואעצם(?)
    4. תחייה ואכראם מן מחבהא אלדא[עי …

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  5. 7555Legal documentT-S NS J67a + T-S NS J67b

    The case involves Abū l-Ḥasan Mevorakh and the heirs of Abū l-Faraj al-J[ubaylī?] and potentially a woman named Jamāl. […] Menashshe is preserved; the document was also signed originally by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Avraham b.

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    1. [ ]ותינו זל פי [ ]
    2. [ ]י ומודעי דנפקין מגו מ[ודעי ]
    3. [ ] ורבנא מבורך השר הנכבד דנן ולגמיע וראת אלשיך אבו [אלפר]ג [ ]
    4. [ ] אלגליל אבו …

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  6. 7556LetterT-S NS J131

    Asking him to intervene in the strife of the Jewish glassmakers of al-Fayyūm (וכנת קד דכרת לה פי כתאבי אלמתקדם חאל אצחאבנא אלזגאגין אלדין באלפיום ומא אנסאק אלי קלבי מן המהם אולא ואכר וסאלתה ואנא אלאן אגדד סואלה אן יתוסט בינהם). Before this also mentions the wheat (qumūḥ) of the Fayyūm. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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    1. בשמך
    2. תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלשיך חמדת הקהל אטאל אללה בקאה

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    1. קמוח אלפיום

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    1. כאלק ללקות..יל ..וק
    2. פלא יותד לי אל…

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    1. In Your name
    2. I had previously sent a letter to my lord the elder Dear One of the Community, may God prolong his existence  

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  7. 7557Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated 16 Tammuz 5324 CE (1564 CE). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khiḍr al-Fulādī and Moshe b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī ha-Levi testify that they received three gold ashrafi (coins) from Avraham b.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 22r

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלכמיס י׳׳ו פי שהר תמוז יא׳׳ל סנה ה׳ש׳ד׳כ׳ ליצירה
    2. חצ'רו אלאך ע׳אלרחמאן א׳ אלמר׳ כצר אלפולאדי נ׳׳ע ו…

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  8. 7558Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1370

    Groom: Ibrāhīm b. Yehuda al-Ḥakīm. Bride: The daughter of ʿAbd al-Maqṣūd al-Ḥāshir.

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  9. 7559Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 1543

    Muslim anti-Christian polemic, Ḥadīth Wāṣil al-Dimashqī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. "This short tract claims to be the account of a debate on religion which took place among Wāṣil (a Muslim prisoner in Byzantium), Bashīr (a Muslim convert to Christianity), and Christian priests in Byzantium. See also Griffth and Miller, "Bashīr/Beser: Boon Companion of the Byzantine Emperor Leo III: The Islamic Recension of his Story in Leiden Oriental MS 951(1)," Le Museon 103 (1990), pp. 293–327.

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  10. 7560Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1587

    Yosef Rofe aka Ṣaʿīr mentioned in her ketubba. There is also mention of a loan for 90 medin between the two spouses. The final lines recount that the debts between them are settled; Ḥilda commits not to claim seek any more payments related to the transaction. Although Ḥilda is receiving money from her ketubba, notably, it is not mentioned within the context of divorce proceedings.

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלכמיס אלמבארך תאלת עשר יום
    2. פי חדש תשרי המ׳ סנת ה׳ת׳נ׳ט׳ ליצירה חצרת אלאמראה
    3. חלדה מב׳׳ת בנת כה׳׳ר שמואל פירוז נ׳׳ע גוזתה כמוה׳׳ר
    4. …

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  11. 7561Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1630

    The bride and groom agree to a variety of conditions for the marriage: respect for spousal authority, conditions against physical violence by the husband, oaths that run counter to religious law, and the husband also agree he will not insult her relatives (both those who are alive and dead).

    1. סבב תסטיר האדי אלאחרוף במוגב תחרירהא והוא אנהו אקר ואשהד ואעתרף
    2. עלי נפשהי הב׳ הי׳ הנ׳ הר׳׳י אליאו חנניה החתן הלוי ס׳׳ט בן כ׳ג׳ק׳ אחי׳ ואה׳ רבי
    3. יעקב …

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  12. 7562LetterMIAC 23973.62

    Letter from Lāmiʿ b. Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī b. Khiyākh in Ibrīm dealing with business transactions, personal grievances and diplomatic tensions. […] Lāmiʿ then asks the eparch to write to the king about the mistreatment of the his slave boy by Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī, who apparently humiliated him and took "tūman" (money) from him. […] Finally, he asks for the return of his servants who have his goods, Abū ʿAbd Allāh and Mārīkhura." MR Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 9

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. وصل كتاب صاحب الخيل ووزير الملك اطال الله
    3. بقاه وادام تاييده وسعادته وسلامته ونعمته وكتاب
    4. اخر الى الشيخ ابو الطاهر بن تر…

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. The letter of the Master of the Horses and vizier of the king—may God prolong
    3. his life and…

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  13. 7563LetterPER H 161

    Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid al-Kull), in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. […] The court of Aden here presents all of the available evidence for the shipwreck: eyewitness accounts, secondhand reports, and legal pronouncements. […] (ASE, PG) (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Traders; see analysis and translation there for further details.) See also PGPID 5424.

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    1. לשיבה טובה אזורה / עוז והדר ותפארה / יסובבנה בזיו
    2. וזוהר ואורה / דיע מנדע וכוח וגבורה / במו בשבתה
    3. ובקומה להתגברה / נחולה עטיית הוד ושררה / מנוי…

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    1. [lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]

    2. Your distinguished letter, my lord, arriv…

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  14. 7564LetterT-S 13J26.13

    Dating: 1050–55 CE, based on the likely identifications of Ḥaydara and Khaṭīr al-Mulk. "The extortion of payments of the capitation tax in advance is thus far known from Geniza records only for Palestine and for the second quarter of the eleventh century, a period of anarchy and misrule. […] Another ruler (shaliṭ) came to power this year, named Ḥaydara Dhakhīrat al-Dawla (appears also in T-S K25.249 in 1031 CE). […] The requests were accepted and the decree was issued by Khatīr al-Mulk (=the son of al-Yāzūrī, or possibly al-Yāzūrī himself; see Yaacov Lev, Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt, p. 145)\.

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    1. [ ] שהמים בבורותינו
    2. וכשגרמו העונות וגברה יד הערביים לשלוט וישאו ראש עם
    3. פריצי המדינה וחשוביה //וזקניה// והשופט שהיה //בה// הנה הנקרא בן אכת אבו …

    The increase of our iniquities caused the hand of the Arabs to strengthen its rule, until, growing bold, the tyrants of the city, its notables, its e…

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  15. 7565LetterAIU VII.E.124

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe ben Naʿim, Fustat/Cairo, to his brother David ben Naʿim, Alexandria, dated 1820 CE (20 Rahamim [= Elul] 5580).

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  16. 7566List or tableAIU VII.E.159

    Several of the entries begins "wa-qia maktūb ʿalayhā thāniyan/thālithan/rābiʿan/khāmisan/sādisan al-ʿadad. . . ."

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  17. 7567LetterAIU VII.E.171

    and a sale of something. Also asks the addressee to meet with the ḥaver Tayyib and "liberate me from him."

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  18. 7568LetterAIU VII.E.234

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe ben Naʿim, Alexandria, to his brother David ben Naʿim, Cairo/Fustat.

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  19. 7569LetterBL OR 10578R.51

    Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions Alexandria and possibly Fustat in the marginal text.

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  20. 7570Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 102/45

    Title page of al-Ḥāwī by David b. Seʿadya al-Ger ("the convert").

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  21. 7571Literary textCUL Or.1080 J147

    Literary work in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda of Rabbenu Nissim. This page discusses Naḥum of Gamzu and Rabbenu ha-Qodesh when he was afflicted by illness (and toothache?).

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  22. 7572LetterCUL Or.1080 J168

    Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055.

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    1. מולאי וסיידי ורייסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך

    2. ותאידך מן אסכנדריא ליו כלון מן מרחשון ערפך אללה ברכתה ואלחאל סלאמה

    3. ונעמא א…

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    1. אדוני ורבי וראשי ומכובדי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, 
    2. ואת עזרתו לך, (אני כותב) מאלכסנדריה, בי"ו במרחשון, יודיעך אלו…

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  23. 7573Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J243

    Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Yiṣḥaq b.

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  24. 7574Legal documentCUL Or.1081 1.61

    There are additional legal notes on verso, mentioning various sums of dinars and also Ḥusna or Ḥasana bt. Menaḥem the wife of Menashshe.

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  25. 7575State documentENA 2762.8

    State accounts (makhzūma) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line.

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  26. 7576Legal documentENA 2867.7

    Witness is Hibatallāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad. The recto was reused for Hebrew alphabetical practice with Tiberian voweling.

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  27. 7577Paraliterary textENA 3956.17

    Contains instructions for applying flower oil and water lily (nīlawfar) oil over the head, forehead, and a few drops in the nose. It is also advised to eat it after a meal. On the lower portion of verso there are pen exercises.

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  28. 7578Legal documentENA 3963.1

    The name of the one of the parties is al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Karīm and the amount mentioned is 30,000 dirhams.

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  29. 7579State documentENA NS 7.49

    , and there did not remain in al-Ramla... Muḥammad(?) b. Muḥsin(?) al-Anṭākī... the reins(?)

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  30. 7580Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 33.30

    Rental document, in Arabic script, possibly a receipt of transportation of unspecified goods, dated to the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1259/April 1843. The name of the tenant is Yeshūʿa and involves a property in Ḥārat al-Yahūd.

    1. وصلــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــت/وعمـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــل…

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  31. 7581LetterF 1908.44OO

    The letter deals with several business matters, especially the sugar trade. Also mentions 1000 Venetian swords.

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  32. 7582LetterHUC 1122

    Letter of recommendation from a judge in Aleppo (צובה) on behalf of Binyamin Mizraḥi. In Hebrew.

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  33. 7583LetterJRL A 287

    Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company, in Alexandria, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo.

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  34. 7584LetterJRL A 681

    Mentions a teacher (ha-melammed); a girl (al-ṣabiyya); a request for assistance; the father of the girl; and the betrothal (ʿaqd al-qiddushin) and the writing of the ketubba after Yom Kippur.

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  35. 7585List or tableJRL B 1928

    Names include: Sayyidnā al-Nasi; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faraj; Abū l-Najm Munajjā; Abū l-Faraj al-Munaqqī Dating: likely 12th or 13th century.

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  36. 7586State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 205

    State document in Arabic script, issued by the "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s.

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  37. 7587Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 341

    Begins with a basmala and new section "fī jumlat al-kalām ʿalā l-aʿḍā", mentions the four elements and the four humors.

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  38. 7588LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 715

    It seems addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllānal-Ḥibr (the ḥaver), whose name appears both at upper left and in the first line of the text, telling him what items have been sent with the bearer.

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  39. 7589Literary textMIAC 11

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40).

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  40. 7590Literary textMIAC 14

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 42).

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  41. 7591Literary textMIAC 61

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 38).

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  42. 7592Literary textMIAC 83

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40).

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  43. 7593Unknown typeMIAC 89

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 41).

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  44. 7594Legal documentMIAC 96

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 30).

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  45. 7595Literary textMIAC 98

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 98).

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  46. 7596Legal documentMIAC 177

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 41).

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  47. 7597Legal query or responsumMIAC 182

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 34).

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  48. 7598Legal documentMIAC 198

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 42).

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  49. 7599Legal documentMIAC 206

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 66).

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  50. 7600LetterMIAC 218

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 49).

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