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  1. 8001LetterMIAC 190

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 67).

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  2. 8002LetterMIAC 193

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 46).

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  3. 8003Legal documentMIAC 194

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 61).

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  4. 8004Unknown typeMIAC 196

    (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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  5. 8005LetterMIAC 204

    (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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  6. 8006Literary textMIAC 236

    (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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  7. 8007Legal documentMIAC 263

    (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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  8. 8008LetterMIAC 268

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 56).

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  9. 8009LetterMoss. IV,13

    Recto: Letter to Abū l-Faraj, reporting that the writer has met with R. David; it also mentions Abū l-Riḍā, Yosef and 157 dirhams.

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  10. 8010LetterMoss. IV,20.2

    The writer is in some perplexity about 'what I should do regarding Rashīd, since I rarely come to Fustat.' He also asks whether the addressee has obtained something from Barakāt.

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  11. 8011LetterMoss. Va,11

    Business letter in Arabic script in which a father reports to his son on events in Alexandria and the arrival of the aṣḥāb, about which he's very excited.

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  12. 8012Legal documentMoss. VII,51.1

    The house is located in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat. Mentions the alley of אלמזני.

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  13. 8013LetterT-S 6J3.19

    Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050.

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    1. [יאכי וסידי ומולאי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך

    2. [ ו]צולי נסכתין מע כרפאן מע אלמא כאפור ואלרז ואלקר[ ]

    3. [ מ]א תעמל פיהא ארגו…

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    1. אחי ואדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך 
    2. …. (שלחתי לך אחרי) בואי, עם כרפאן, (מכתב) בשתי העתקות, עם מ…

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  14. 8014Legal documentT-S 8J11.21

    Legal document concerning inheritance issues of the late Jamīla al-Musulmāniyya, mother of Avraham and Eliyyahu Levi, who had converted to Islam and married Ḥasan al-Sharqāwī after the death of her husband Khidr Palomba.

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    1. אן נחן אלאצ'עין אסמאנא פי .אדנה(?) נשהד ונתערפ בכ'צוץ אל
    2. מתוופי כ'דר פאלומבה זוג אלמתוופייא גמילה אל מסלמאנייה
    3. ואלדת אלמע׳ אב׳ אלצראפ [[אנהו ה…

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  15. 8015Legal query or responsumT-S 10J4.18

    About the definition of "moredet" ("rebellious (wife)"); this authority says that it refers only to a woman who refuses to sleep with her husband, not other kinds of 'rebelliousness.' Also mentions the consequences for the return of the dowry.

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  16. 8016LetterT-S 10J15.31

    Letter to a physician, with blessings for his sons Saʿadya and Abū Mansur Elʿazar, and mentioning the sender's longing for a third person. Also with greetings to Abū l-Surūr and the kohanim the sons of Ibn Ḥaffāẓ.

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. שלום נכון לעדי עד ועזר ומסעד ואורה ושמחה ודרך נכוחה
    3. וששון ויקר והוד והדר וכבוד לא נעדר לכגק מר ור [ . . . ]ל הרפא
    4. החכם והנבון האלהים יברכיהו…

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  17. 8017LetterT-S 10J16.31

    Dated: 17 Sivan [5]646 AM = 20 June 1886 CE. Either to or from Alexandria (סקנדרייה יעא). Has mdoern Maghribī dialect features including -דייאל for 'belonging to.'

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  18. 8018Legal documentT-S 10J27.12

    (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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    1. חצ֗רנא נחן אלמתבתה כטוטנא אספל הדה
    2. אלרקעה יום אלאחד לח כלת מן כסליו סנה
    3. אלף ותלת מאיה ואחד ועשרין ללשטאראת 
    4. אלמרסום אלתאריך בה פי פסטא…

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    1. We, the undersigned to this deed, were present 
    2. (2-3) on Sunday, 8 Kislev 1321 to the dating of deeds (27 November 1009) 
    3. according to …

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  19. 8019List or tableT-S 12.378

    Different merchants recorded their shipments, probably from Mahdiyya to Alexandria. Mentions fabrics, cloths from Qayrawan, silk, tin, and oil.

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    1.                               שרח אלרזמה אלדי פי בן דיסור

    2. ברכ]ת .:. היא תעשיר

    3.                     ] מבלג בקדרת [           ] אלכאתמין

    4. א…

    1. (1–3) פירוט הכריכה שב(אוניית בן דיסור; ברכת ה' היא תעשיר ; .... הסכום ביכולת(?) ..... החותמים
    2. אבו אצחק אברהים בן אלצבאג ג' 'מחירות' (?) ....
    3. ...…

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  20. 8020Legal documentT-S 12.406

    Dated: Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid = 11 November 1316 CE, under the authority (reshut) of Avraham II Maimonides. Minyat Zifta is also named in the last remaining line. ASE/MCD

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  21. 8021Legal documentT-S 12.590

    Signed by: Shelomo b. ʿEli (signed also ENA 2556.12 (PGPID 15839) ca. late 10th century); David b.

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  22. 8022Legal documentT-S 13J6.9

    Trousseau list of Sitt al-Suʿadā, written and signed by Moshe b. Peraḥya (active ca. 1220–34) and Yiṣḥaq b. […] "by way of Yemen" (ṭarīq al-yaman, v11). (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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  23. 8023LetterT-S 13J15.15

    Letter to Abu al-Ḥasan 'Allun the parnas (Eli b. Yahya, dated documents 1057-1107) about a case of inheritance, with a recommendation for a bashful young Jewish man as a flax worker.

    1. בש רח
    2. לו דהבת אשרח לחצרה מולאי אלשיך אלואלד אטאל אללה בקאה
    3. ואדאם תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה וכ[ב]ת א[עדאה . . . ]לת אלשרח
    4. אלשרח(!) ליכן אלי אללה אלשכוי וה…

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  24. 8024Legal documentT-S 13J22.18

    Recto: Acknowledgment of debt. Lender: Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer) b. Abū Saʿd. Borrower: Abu ʿImrān ʿAmram ha-Levi ha-Talmid.

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    1. לתח]תא אנה למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאול מחדש
    2. ל]שטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותב[ה
    3. הפטי]ש החזק נר המערבי דגל הרבנים יחיד \\הדור\\ ופלאו
    4. ] אלעלא…

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  25. 8025LetterT-S 13J29.11

    Mentions the receipt of expressions of condolence (on the death of his father). Mentions Alexandria. This Tunisian merchant commuted between Egypt and his homeland.

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  26. 8026Literary textT-S Ar.29.21

    Astrological text in Judaeo-Arabic with an interesting geographical section, describing the different locations under the influence of Leo, including "the lands of the Turks" and the cities that were founded under similar constellations, including Iṣfahān, Raʾs al-ʿAyn, al-Ruhā (Edessa), Latakia, Fustat, Ṣadā(?)

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  27. 8027Legal documentT-S Ar.30.66

    Stating that the ḥerem stam will be issued by the Nagid in the synagogues for the benefit of the children and heirs of Hilāl the Alexandrian, whose will was not taken down in sufficiently clear form.

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  28. 8028Literary textT-S Ar.30.197

    Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There are at least two compositions here (one of them oriented at 90 degrees).

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  29. 8029List or tableT-S Ar.39.206

    Mentions the eunuch (ṭawāshī) Sanad al-Dawla or Sayyid al-Dawla (cf. T-S AS 177.93 (PGPID 37044)) on fol. 1r and a qāḍī on fol. 2r.

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  30. 8030Legal documentT-S Ar.52.191

    Reused (a century and a half later) by Maimonides for a literary work on the other side. It is also possible that the date is 523 AH = 1129 CE.

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  31. 8031LetterT-S AS 118.54

    Recto, and margin of verso (secondary use): Letter or draft in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic involving Abū Naṣr al-Dustarī (=al-Tustarī) (d. 1049/50), something from "the West," [...]q Av Bet Din, and "our friends (aṣḥābunā) the Qaraites."

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  32. 8032LetterT-S AS 146.207

    On verso accounts in Arabic script, also mentioning an Abū l-Ḥasan, his travel, and the rent for a month; may be related to recto.

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  33. 8033LetterT-S AS 148.147

    Natronai (from the end of the 9th century). Also mentions Avraham b. Bahlul. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #46) VMR

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    1. ה]גיעו לפני מר רב הילאי גאון שלנו בן מר רב נטרונאי גאון שלנו זכרם לברכה תהא נשמתם [ 
    2. ט]רחנו [                                              ]וה…

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  34. 8034Legal documentT-S AS 152.21

    The property is in Qaṣr al-Rūm (the Jewish quarter of Fusṭāṭ), in or related to Dār al-Qubba.

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  35. 8035Legal documentT-S AS 152.282 + T-S AS 152.302

    Yefet ‘the generous’ gives his testimony and makes claims against Saʿīd b. Abraham. Also mentioned is [...] b. Ḥalfon the Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)

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  36. 8036LetterT-S AS 153.43

    In the upper margin, the sender asks to be informed, urgently, if it is true that the addressee is going out to the Rīf. He also mentions a shop. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  37. 8037Legal documentT-S AS 177.637

    Maybe a deed of sale, as 'al-mushtarī' ('the buyer') is mentioned at the bottom. Mentions [...] b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān. There is an additional piece of parchment stitched onto the bottom (with the original thread still in place) with at least one additional witness statement/signature.

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  38. 8038State documentT-S AS 178.193

    Petition in Arabic script to somebody called "mawlānā al-Ṣāḥib." Conveying a story about a brawl at the Dār al-Wakāla and people getting arrested.

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  39. 8039Legal documentT-S H15.76

    Dated: 5 Ṣafar 520 AH = 2 March 1126 CE. Sayyid al-Kull b. Jaʿfar, a clothier in Fustat (al-bazzāz bi-Miṣr), acknowledges a debt of 270 dirhams to the Jew Abū Hiba(?)

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  40. 8040LetterT-S Misc.8.92

    The addressee may be asked to write to 'al-ḥaḍra al-nafīsa' on behalf of the petitioner.

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  41. 8041LetterT-S Misc.27.4.9

    The sender came down with an illness (wa-thāra ʿalā ʿabdih al-maraḍ) and he has been prostrated by it for two weeks (wa-lahū usbūʿayn maṭrūḥ), "may God not afflict any other Jew with this."

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  42. 8042LetterT-S NS 224.156

    Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter in Arabic script from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to 'al-shaykh al-rashīd,' aiming to pawn his turban for 40 dirhams.

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  43. 8043LetterT-S NS 304.42

    Other people mentioned: Yehuda al-Fāsī, the Rav, R. Elḥanan, Abū Yaʿaqov, and Abū ʿImrān Mūsā Ibn al-Majjānī.

    1. . . . . . . . . . .] . . . [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] . יין ו . [
    2. . . . . . . . . . .]ן ב . . . . . . . ו . . [. …

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  44. 8044List or tableT-S NS 305.41

    The entries have headers such as makhzan; al-dār al-maʿrūa bi-Ibn Dāwūd; duwayra; duwayra; makhzan; duwayra; ḥānūt; ḥānūt.

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  45. 8045State documentT-S NS 306.131

    Register of ground rent (ḥikr) receipts for Manṣūr b. Muslim al-Zajjāj for his compound in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ with numerous tidy entries spanning a period of approximately 15 years (starting 486 AH = 1093/94 CE and extending into the 500s AH).

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  46. 8046State documentT-S NS 327.25

    Mentions "bi-mushārafat al-qāḍī . . . Yūsuf b. [...]." In the upper margin, ʿalāʾim and registration marks from different government offices (athabatū l-mablagh....).

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  47. 8047List or tableT-S NS 327.134

    Mentions Qalyūb multiple times, and names such as Abū l-Riḍā, al-qāḍī al-muwaffaq (who may have sold the writer gallnuts/ʿafṣ), and Abū l-Makārim.

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  48. 8048List or tableT-S NS 338.21

    Most of the fragment seems to consist of Hebrew literary text, but there are also two lists of names (some of them unusual): ʿEzra, ʿAbīd, Isḥāq, Dāʾūd, Zaqzūq, Saʿid, Sulaymān, Manṣūr, Ḥalīma, Huwayd, Salāma, etc.

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  49. 8049Legal documentT-S NS 342.141

    Toward the bottom the name [Abū] ʿImrān Moshe appears (the buyer or the seller). The name Abū l-Ḥasan also appears at the top.

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  50. 8050Legal documentT-S NS J189

    The beadle Abu'l-Farah (known also as Tahir) pays 30 wariq dirhams for removal of garbage, apparently from the synagogue.

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    1. חצר אלשיך אבו אלפרג בן
    2. מחפוט וסלם קדאמי
    3. כרא רמי תראב אלי אלד(!)
    4. ⟦אלתי⟧ רמוה תלאתין דרם(!)
    5. ורק וכתב עמרם בר
    6. חלפון הלוי
    7. וכתב מבורך הלוי
    8. בר עמרם …

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    1. (1-2) Al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Faraj b. Maḥfūẓ appeared (in court) and paid in my presence
    2. the sum due for removal of garbage to those
    3. who removed i…

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