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  1. 7951LetterT-S Ar.19.22

    Dating: Probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era (based on handwriting, format, linguistic features). Mentions al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ṣawwāf and Ismāʿīl; the addressee's mother sends her greetings and says "by the [breast?] […] and the ghulām of the qāḍī Shams al-Dīn, "nothing of what you said is true." The letter concludes with greetings to various people, including the addressee's wife (zawjatak) and family (ahl baytak).

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  2. 7952State documentT-S Ar.40.84

    Recto (original use): Bottom of a formal petition, or most likely a report due to state related affairs discussed, in Arabic script, mentioning "al-thaghr" (=Alexandria?) and merchandise and the money of the diwan.

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  3. 7953LetterT-S Ar.48.42

    Daniel), recommending collections to be arranged on behalf of the petitioner in al-Maḥalla and Alexandria. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 508.)

    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. כתאבי אליך יא מולי ואל
    3. עזיז עלי גמע אללה ביננא
    4. אן שא אללה וקד כרגת
    5. אלי מליג ומא כרגת חתי
    6. בלגת אלסכין אלעטם ומא
    7. בקי לי לא תוב לא ללסבת
    8. ולא…

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  4. 7954Legal documentT-S AS 44.32

    Legal query to the jurisconsult Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Abū l-Fatḥ (active in Egypt after 1183/84 CE) regarding liability for damaged property. […] The question is followed by the legal opinion by al-Ṭūsī (possibly an autograph). Dating: ca. 12th century.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. ما يقول سيدنا الشيخ الفقيه المولا الزاهد العابد
    3. شهاب الدين وفقه الله لطاعيه في رجل
    4. يهودى له دار متسفلة و بجانبها…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  
    2. What does our lord the elder, the jurisconsult, the master, the ascetic, the pious…

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  5. 7955LetterT-S AS 155.321

    Verso: unusual note that does not seem to be a classic address; it is written vertically and 90 degrees to the direction of the text on the other side, which suggests it was written after the fragment was already torn. It reads, "Letters from [my? your?] brother from Yemen, to be sent to Sicily/Palermo along with my letter, God willing." Maybe the letter on recto was torn to create scrap paper, and this note was then enclosed along with a bundle of letters to be forwarded from Yemen to Sicily via Egypt.

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  6. 7956Legal documentT-S AS 173.27

    (II) The other entry (verso continuing onto the bottom and margin of recto) involves a woman and her husband; 56 dinars; rent; an oath taken by Ghālib; a house in the alley of the synagogue; garments and items of jewelry; the dispute between Ghālib and his sister Bārra over the sale of a partial house and who is obligated to pay the ḥikr. (It's possible that these are two or three distinct records rather than one long one.) See also T-S 18J2.5 (PGPID 3528), involving the same Ghālib and Bārra.

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  7. 7957State documentT-S AS 183.156

    After the initial "ṣaḥḥa bism X," it continues "min jumla mā yajib ʿalayhi min kharāj. . . ." It is "for the months of the year 526." […] It seems to be for a total of a single dīnār. There is an ʿalāma at upper right and additional confirmation of the sum in the middle of the upper margin. The scribe's signature does not give a specific date but only "fī l-taʾrīkh al-madkhūr."

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  8. 7958Paraliterary textT-S K2.51

    The focus on Persia in this text and its mention of a king seem to suggest a pre-Islamic date, perhaps originally a non-Jewish context, and the mention of Jews may be a later insertion. There are also many parallels to Akkadian astrology. Empty brackets indicate lacunae in the manuscript. (Information from Posen Library) Alt. Description: Description of disasters, famines and frightful events due to happen in each of the Jewish months, mentioning the Jews and their slavery, the Arabs and their need for food, and the River Nile and its drought.

    [ ] and the rich shall become poor [ ] there shall be [ ] upon the world, and hunger shall be in [ ] and death and murder in Media, and there shall b…

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  9. 7959Legal documentT-S K6.118

    One of the entries according to Goitein's index card: Sitt al-Iraq bt. Yaʾir the wife of Abū l-Maʿālī Netanel gives her son Abū Saʿd one quarter of a house in the Darb al-Zanājiliyyīn ('the street of the canister makers') and the other quarter to her daughter Sitt al-Banīn.

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  10. 7960Legal documentT-S Misc.20.100

    (The mirror image large letters overlying the text are ink transfer from T-S Misc.20.103, which also contains additional several lines of imprinted text originally from T-S Misc.20.100 which have since been torn away.) […] Yeshuʿa ha-Zaqen and Sitt al-Nasab, dated Thursday, 24 Tevet 1477 Seleucid = 30 December 1165 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (recto), with part of the trousseau list preserved (verso).

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  11. 7961Legal documentT-S Misc.27.4.2

    Khalīl ha-Levi, [...] bt. Bū ʿAlī b. Ṭoviyya/Ṭībān b. Khalīl ha-Levi, and Sayyida bt. […] On the other side there are more details about the dispute—it concerned shares in a house known as "the house of Ibn Khalīl" in the alley known as Zuqāq al-Bawādīl(?).

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  12. 7962LetterT-S NS 264.7

    Dating: late 14th century. Likely sent from al-Maḥalla to Fustat, to al-Ḥakīm Abū [...] near the Palestinian synagogue. The sender has heard upsetting news involving a Christian and the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Ḥasan and the financial problems of the addressee.

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  13. 7963Literary textT-S NS 299.150

    These three blessings, all preserved in the Cairo Geniza, were likely recited in Rabbanite synagogues in Fustāt (Old Cairo) or its surroundings. […] The second blessing was to be said for readings from the Writings (Ketuvim) on the Sabbath, and the third for Psalms. [these prayers are also preserved in T-S Or.1080 3.52 and T-S NS 155.1] (Information from Posen Library)

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    You are praised, Lord, our God, universal king, for having chosen the scholars and their students, given them the Torah at…

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  14. 7964Legal documentT-S NS 320.54

    In which Eliyya b. [...] acknowledges that he has received 18.25 dinars from Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya; then mentions "all the coral given to me by way of [...]"; then [...] ha-Levi ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad (=Eliyya?). This document is related to ENA 2712.10 + T-S NS 320.111 (PGPID 11444); might be a join. The same two parties also appear in T-S 8J11.12 (PGPID 16210), which is dated 1123/24 CE.

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    1. [ ]ת[ ]
    2. [ ]מה מ [ ]
    3. [ ]לך אשהדו עלי אנא אליה ביר [ ]
    4. [ ]תמו עלי בג[מי]ע אלאלפאט אלמחכמה ואלמע[אני]
    5. [ ]תא וסלמו דלך אלי אלשיך אבו אלסרור מרור פ…

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  15. 7965LetterT-S NS J4

    He mentions an incident on Friday when he attempted to use the toilet after three days without a bowel movement, which is when the guard beat him. "They were alsoallowed to send letters out of prison, some of which we still have, and since in one such letter a complaint is made against a particularly wicked jailer who cursed and beat the writer without reason, we may assume that in some places at least the authorities in charge did not tolerate excesive cruelty."

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  16. 7966List or tableT-S NS J569

    Dating: 16th century, as the largest portion concerns the expenses of Moshe לחמית traveling to Jerusalem (taraqqi al-quds); the same man appears in Moss. IV,93, which dates to ~1557 CE. […] The purchases in Gaza include firewood, shīrīn (=sweets?), fodder (ʿalīq), laundry straw, chickens, rice, eggs, coffee. The purchases in Ramla include all the same and more. The tables on verso are clearly written but inscrutable—perhaps this is an accounting shorthand.

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  17. 7967Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Shelomo and Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi al-Somekh in which the former agrees to repay a loan of 37 gold jadīd. Shemuʾel ha-Dayyan is one of the presiding judges in many of the court register entries and he also appears as a party to the previous entry #94 (PGPID 41601), where a family member agrees to repay him a loaned sum of money.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 32r

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלגמעה י׳׳ג שהר ניסן המכו׳ סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ו׳ ליצירה אשהד
    2. עליה יעיש אלכהן א׳אלמר׳ ע׳אלכרים אלמאורדי אן ענדה…

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  18. 7968Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Incomplete entry in which Yaʿaqov b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kohen al-Kurdi appears before the court and members of the community in Dār Simḥa Synagogue to make rental payment for his residence, which is part of the communal qodesh.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 6r

    1. למא כאן נהאר תאר׳ סנה תאר׳ חצרת אלגמא׳ בר׳ יה׳ פי דאר שמ׳
    2. וחצ'ר בחצ'ורהם אד׳ הנ׳ הג׳ שמואל הדיין יצ׳׳ו וכ׳׳ר יהודה הרופא…

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  19. 7969Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated to the same month/year as the previous entry [Iyyar 5322 AM], which makes it possible to infer 1562 CE. ʿAbd al-Jawwād b. Farjallah al-Kohen swears an oath before the three dayyanīm that from this day forward he will no longer quarrel or lay his hand on anyone. The judges will seek payment of a fine if "in his wickedness he lied under oath" and ʿAbd al-Jawwād proceeds to quarrel once more within a stated timespan of months (more than 10, but the second digit is damaged).

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 11r

    1. יוזן(?) אלאשרפי ולא יעמל פיה חילה אן תכון [[בוגה]] מטלקא ודלך מנה [בשבו׳
    2. גמורה בש׳ ית׳ תם אנה בעד דלך אלזם נפסה עלי אנה…

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  20. 7970Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Partnership agreement between the goldsmiths Mūsa b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Levi and Raḍī b. Shemuʾel Berakha. The partners agree to a two-year profit-sharing arrangement and terms for running a shop together. Gold "dust" is probably mentioned in line 11 (al-turāb) but lacks the direct specification as a precious metal.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 26r

    1. למא כאן לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאתנין י׳׳ח פי שהר סיון המכו׳
    2. סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ה ליצירה חצר מוסי אללוי א׳ ע׳אלבאקי אללוי יצ׳…

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  21. 7971Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.11

    Ibrāhīm engages (khaṭaba) Sitt al-Kull bt. Hiba al-ʿAṭṭār. Early marriage payment: 2 dinars. […] The fiance deposits with the fiancee's maternal aunt Sitt al-Nās bt. ʿAbdallāh a silver seal/ring until the time of the milāk (which can mean either engagement/shiddukhin or betrothal/erusin/qiddushin).

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  22. 7972List or tableAIU VII.A.38.2

    Mentioning many items of clothing and ʿAydhāb. There is also an imprint of an unrelated letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  23. 7973Paraliterary textAIU VII.F.32

    , several dated 5558 AM = 1797/98 CE. There is also a magic square and some numerology. Related to T-S AS 144.7 (PGPID 18740).

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  24. 7974LetterBL OR 10578R.121

    Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Marjānī and al-Shelishi. Excerpts: ליס ימכן . . .

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  25. 7975List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 105/51

    Mentions the wool market (Sūq al-Ṣūf). Mentions various garments including sūsiyyas and fūṭas. Mentions people such as Yosef, Mūsā, Mukhtār al-Iskandarānī, and Khalaf.

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  26. 7976LetterBodl. MS heb. f 102/50

    Letter addressed to the shop of Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi, in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, in Fustat.

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  27. 7977Legal documentCUL Or.1080 4.8

    The phrase "mā yujtabā" is also preserved, but unclear what this means.

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  28. 7978LetterCUL Or.1080 J79

    Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051.

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    1. ואשתרית רבע ח שכאיר צוף לי פיהא אלרבע ואלרבע לנהראי בן נסים

    2. ואלרבע לאבי אלכיר אלצירפי ואלרבע לאבי זכרי בן קיומה ואלרבע אלדי לי אנא

    3. הו בינ…

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    1. וקניתי רבע מח' משואי צמר, רבע מהם שלי, רבע של נהוראי בן נסים,
    2. רבע של אבו אלכיר אלצירפי, ורבע של אבו זכרי בן קיומה. הרבע שהוא שלי
    3. הוא (בשותפות)…

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  29. 7979LetterDK 232.5 (alt: XXVII)

    Sukkarī (or Zikrī?) in Alexandria reporting that the Rūmī cheese had arrived and that the writer had sent the desired ceramics (fukhkhār).

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    1. ב
    2. ממלוכה ואצגר
    3. כדמה סאלם
    4. יקבל אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי אלמחתרמי
    5. אלמכדומי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדם עזה ונעאמה
    6. ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה וגמע ביני…

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  30. 7980Legal documentENA 972.5

    Written and signed by Avraham b. [...]; also signed by Levi b. Avraham. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.

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  31. 7981List or tableENA 2442.2–7

    Currencies: gold cedid (f.1r), קרונה, several more. There are also some narrative notes ('memorandum against forgetting. . .').

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  32. 7982List or tableENA 2461.14

    The term "וזן" appears repeatedly under the archival tape that was applied along the right border of the recto. Mentions people such as Ibn ʿAṭiyya, al-Sharīf, and Ibn Ghazāl.

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  33. 7983List or tableENA 2735.8

    Note in Judaeo-Arabic saying "our lord" - probably the recipient - has already told R. Eliyahu (the 13th century judge) on Friday to give the rest of the alimony which is 4 dirhems to R. yedutun and he responded "Yes" - not the note is asking that this be done.

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  34. 7984List or tableENA 3736.1

    Medieval era. There is also an extensive chain of numerals below the right column.

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  35. 7985LetterENA 3936.8

    Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?)

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  36. 7986Legal documentENA NS 16.5

    Someone makes an acknowledgment in favor of Sayyid al-Kull. In the missing upper part of the document there was an interlinear insertion reading "all of it without installments."

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  37. 7987Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 77.353

    Order instructing al-Shaykh al-Asʿad to pay a certain sum to the bearer Abū l-Karam.

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  38. 7988Paraliterary textENA NS 77.405

    Saʿadya Jabbān(?) (גבאן). There is also a variety of text in Arabic script that requires further examination, possibly from a previously stage of paper usage.

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  39. 7989LetterJRL B 2961

    Verso: The introduction to a Judaeo-Arabic treatise, either identical with or merely citing Yaḥyā b. Dāwud's Kitāb al-Ibāna ʿan Ḥurūf [...] al-ʿIbrānīya. This was underlined in red, presumably in modern times.

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  40. 7990LetterJRL B 8342

    כתא) including one "to Alexand[r]ia," one called תדרכי נפשי עז, and one to [...] b.

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  41. 7991List or tableJRL C 152

    Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of itemized food ingredients, quantities, and associated dates. One of the lists also includes surnames. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 18th/19th-century.

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  42. 7992List or tableJRL C 160

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and alphanumerical figures. On the verso there are clearly labeled entries that are common for the 16th-18th centuries yet on the recto lie the remnants of extensive lists that repeatedly interject the word "zero / צפר" between alphanumerical figures.

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  43. 7993LetterMIAC 29

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35).

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  44. 7994LetterMIAC 32

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 59).

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  45. 7995LetterMIAC 36

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 36).

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  46. 7996Legal documentMIAC 50

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 73).

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  47. 7997Literary textMIAC 56

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37).

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  48. 7998Literary textMIAC 111

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35).

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  49. 7999List or tableMIAC 144

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 72).

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  50. 8000Literary textMIAC 163

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 44).

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