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  1. 8251LetterT-S AS 150.90

    Only scattered words and phrases are preserved (translations uncertain): "...apostate... when you read this... you declare an excommunication... or cause for them... for them in any harm... and judg[e]... if there is any opposition from you... that you prevent that action..." Ends with the ʿalāma/motto עזרת מעוז, perhaps identifying this as from the office of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi (cf. […] On verso there is either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft of the first two lines.

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  2. 8252State documentT-S AS 181.205

    Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of an item in raṭls.

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  3. 8253LetterT-S AS 223.276

    Rough translation: "... the divine overflow which my m[aster] left with me... and my master knew all of the... God-fearing, and the slave (=I) copies/conveys it from [...] which my ancestors knowledgeable in the [...] copied/conveyed... Israel, among the 'people of the path' (ahl al-ṭarīq) who are... the son of Maymūn, peace be upon him, and the slave... and the slave's opinion concerning the [...] of worship/obedience, and my master... and he will not 'honor the mighty' (Leviticus 19:15), and this... Peraḥya... the congregation, lest... the honoring that is not legitimate... and although it is not unknown that...." AA. ASE.

    1. ] יפעל . . . . [
    2. ] אלפיץ אלאלאהי אלדי אודע ענדי ס[יידי
    3. אל . . . יעמל בהא ואן סיידי עלם סאיר [
    4. ירא שמים ואלממ ינקלהא ען אל . . [
    5. נקלתהא אבאי אלדי ערפ…

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  4. 8254Legal documentT-S Misc.28.55

    Declaration of a ban of excommunication against anyone who owes money in any form to Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī known as Ibn Khalfa and does not hand it over to his son Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Khayr (appears also in T-S 12.60 (PGPID 7140)), and against anyone who has relevant testimony and does not bring it to the attention of the court.

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    1. יחרם באסם כל בר ישראל ענדה לאבו אלכיר אלצירפי
    2. אלמערוף באבן כלפה ודאעה או דין או רהן או גייר
    3. דלך מן סאיר אלאשיא ממא יקע עליה אסם והגא
    4. ולא יוצלה…

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  5. 8255LetterT-S Misc.28.129

    Dated: Tammuz 4831 AM, which is 1071 CE. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya. (This is rare; others from Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya are T-S 13J9.5 from 1047 CE and T-S 20.187 from 1073 CE). […] David acknowledges that Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Muslim known as Ibn Ḥarbash has handed over to him the contract(?)

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  6. 8256State documentT-S NS 38a.126

    Apparently from a Muslim sender (there are the standard prayers for Muḥammad in the last line) to a Jewish addressee (something has to be arranged before the onset of the Sabbath, dukhūl al-sabt, ll. 7–8). Most of the formulaic beginning is torn away, so only the body is preserved. […] Then I woke up on Thursday and went to Cairo, but I couldn't find you, and I also went to the castle and couldn't find you...."

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    1. الفخري ادام الله ظله وينهي انه بلغه يوم الاربـ[ـعـة]
    2. ان المولى طلبه وكان المملوك في القلعة لم يقدر يحضر بين يديه
    3. وان المملوك اصبح يوم ا…

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  7. 8257Legal documentT-S NS 226.57 + T-S NS 225.92

    Refers to 'the tax farmers in the aforementioned Minya' and probably to a dyeing workshop (maṣbagh). AA. ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum. T-S NS 226.109 (PGPID 24250) and T-S AS 169.293 (PGPID 37668) are likely related but do not appear to be direct joins. See also T-S NS 226.33 + T-S NS 226.31 (PGPID 24355) and T-S NS 342.98 + T-S NS 342.89 (PGPID 26100).

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  8. 8258Paraliterary textT-S NS 305.59

    On recto some of the writing exercises are based on a poetic couplet about weak memory sometimes attributed to al-Shāfiʿī (شكوت إلى وكيع سوء حفظي ، فأرشدني إلى ترك المعاصيوقال إن علم الله نورٌ ، ونور الله لا يعطى لعاصي), here with some variants/mistakes. On verso there is a poetic couplet beginning "when my wife complained about me to the judges" (لما اشتكتني زوجتي للقضاة فمسني منها جميع الالم فقالت يا قاضي اكتب عليه فقلت تبريني لاني قلم). There are also many practice signatures by Nissim Ṭawīl.

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  9. 8259Legal documentT-S NS 308.114

    (This is the latest known document to invoke the authority of Netanel, though he was still alive in 1169 CE, as we learn from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/6.) The merchant-banker Yehuda (al-tājir bi-dār al-ṣarf) receives from the merchant-banker Tamīm b.

    1. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאוסט מחדש מרחשון שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ותמניא
    2. שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבא רשותיה דהדרת יקרת
    3. צפירת מרינו ורב…

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  10. 8260Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Release agreement between a recently divorced couple. Sarah bt. Hārūn al-Qudsi releases her ex-husband ʿAbd al-Maʿṭī b. Khiḍr al-Fūlādī from any further monetary and material claims following their divorce that same on the evening of 5 Av 5325 AM.

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    1. ..ע קנטאר טייב בסביל אלנדר //אלמד׳ אע׳// לכנסת דאר שמחה תב׳ ותכ׳ תם אשהדת
    2. עליהא גאליה אלמד׳ אע׳ אן ליס [[ל]] בקי להא ענ…

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  11. 8261Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.19-20

    The father is selling off items from the dowry of his wife, Sitt al-Dār ("he said that he sold all these things with her consent"). The records #47 and #48 enumerate the items that have gone to their daughter Sitt al-Karam from her mother's dowry. This record belongs with #49 on the facing page.

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  12. 8262Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1424

    Moshe Rofe aka Ṣaʿīr designates himself as the scribe (and witness): ס׳׳ו. The scribe may have also signed on behalf of other witnesses, although Shelomo b.

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצ'רו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל
    2. כה׳׳ר נחום כהן גבי יצ׳׳ן בכ׳׳ר אהרן כהן ידיע חאטום נ׳׳ע תם חצר הב׳ שלמה
    3. הכהן החתן ס׳׳…

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  13. 8263LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1480

    The scribe is Meir Rofe Tawrīzī, and the letter is also signed by Mordekhai Hillel and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm.

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  14. 8264Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1635

    One of the goldsmith partners, Aharon Ḥakīm, seeks to leave the partnership in order to work in cheese production in the Egyptian countryside (Rīf) and therefore must compensate his partner Yiṣḥaq Kohen with payments totaling to 6 (zeri) maḥbūb + 35 medin. The agreement also details the former partners' division of possessions/funds from their goldsmith shop (200 medin both ways) along with: "coal, rope, crucibles, and (metal) polish" (פחם ושריט ובואתיק וגלא).

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצ'רו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳ יה׳ פי מנזל החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר
    2. אליאו רופא יצ׳׳ו ואחיו החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר ישועה רופא יצ׳׳ו ניני המנוח…

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  15. 8265LetterAIU VII.E.12 + ENA NS 10.19

    The addressee had suffered an attack of colic (qawlanj) but is now feeling better. Yefet also mentions "the large notebook of seliḥot." Join: Oded Zinger.

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    1. וקלת לי אן סיידנא אדאם אללה [עזה
    2. אבו טאלב פי מענאנא אלל[ה
    3. וקע אלכלאם פי הדא אחרא[
    4. קאצי כתיר אלאשגאל פיכון מע [
    5. לם ואלא אנה עלי עין מא ת[רא
    6. מבא…

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  16. 8266Legal documentBL OR 10588.1

    Asmāʾ, the wife of Hilāl the Alexandrian, are untrue. Signed by: Avraham b. Yefet and Khalfa b. [...].

    1. יקול גמיע מן [וצע] כטה [
    2. עארפין בחיסאנה בנת אסמא[
    3. אלדי הי זוגה הלאל אלאסכנדר[אני
    4. פיהא שך אנהא עלי חאל [
    5. אן אשקעת בשנאעה לם [
    6. בל הי זור ומחאל והי כד[

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  17. 8267State documentENA 2148.94

    Mentioning finding someone suitable for a government job (khidma); Ibn Khalīfa from [...] al-Sharīf and Muʾnis al-Ṣiqillī; how the governor or Ṭaḥā (in Upper Egypt) broke into somebody's house and raped his w[ife]; and someone's representative and something being sealed in a gathering.

    1. من يصلح للخدمة ليثبت     و[
    2. يعرف بابن خليفة من اهل [
    3. الشريف ومونس الصقلي [
    4. والي طحا هجم على بيته وهتك حـ[ـريمه
    5. ان النائب عنه انما حتم بمحضر مـ[ـن

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  18. 8268LetterENA 2557.147

    The writer asks him to intercede on his behalf with a powerful lady, the mother of the rayyis Abū al-ʿAlā who bestows kindness on both Rabbanites and Qaraites.

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  19. 8269Legal documentENA 2727.5

    Deed of engagement written on the bottom left part of the document (apparently from the court's legal folder) that contains also a dowry list (not present here). The handwriting is similar to that of Mevorakh bar Natan (Fustat, 1150-1181) but he probably did not write the document.

    1. אלחתן משה [...]
    2. סט [בן ...]ף [..]אִלִ ̇נ̇ע
    3. ישראל ואלכלה סת אלאהל
    4. ב<ר>ת אלעזר בר יוסף הלוי
    5. נֹעֹ עמלה להא וִכסותהא
    6. עליה וסכנהא צחבת
    7. אביה ואמה ושרוט
    8. אל…

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  20. 8270LetterENA 2804.11

    The letter is from the community of Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya and the Palestinian congregation of Fustat.

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    1. [אל אחי]נו הקהל הקדוש הדרים בצוען מצרים
    2. [ובראש כבו]ד מ'ור' אפרים החבר בסנהדרין גדולה
    3. [ישמ' צו' בן]כב' גד' קד' מ'ור' שמריה נוח נפש ושאר
    4. [הזקנים…

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  21. 8271LetterENA 2805.11

    Letter from Hillel b. Ḥasan, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1065. Hillel opens his letter lamenting the death of an important person who is unidentified.

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    1. בש

    2. קד עלם אללה גלת קדרתה מא עלי קלבי מן

    3. תאכיר כתאבי ען מולאי אלחבר נט רח וכנת

    4. מרגוע אלנפס כתיר מן כל סבב ומא עלמת

    5. לה כבר וקלת אלאוקאת…

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    1. (2-1) בש'; אלוהים, תשתכח גבורתו, הוא היודע כמה אני מודאג בגלל
    2. איחור מכתבך אלי, ממך אדוני החבר נטר"ח. היה
    3. לבי דווי עד מאוד מכל מקום, ולא היו …

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  22. 8272List or tableENA 3517.4

    Moshe, Avraham b. Pinḥas, Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-ʿAsqalānī and others. The list was recorded by at least two different scribes based on the paleography.

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  23. 8273State documentENA 3731.4

    State document, Fatimid. Mentions "al-khidma" and "al-muṭāʿ" or maybe "iqṭāʿ" (but less likely).

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  24. 8274LetterENA 3788.1

    Yiṣḥaq ha-̣̣Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to an unknown addressee, in Alexandria. The letter consists of a halakhic discussion, mostly in Aramaic, perhaps a responsum.

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  25. 8275Legal documentENA 3845.5

    Refers to a guarantor (ḍāmin al-darak). One witness signature is preserved: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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  26. 8276Legal documentENA 4011.42

    Incomplete. In which Sayyid al-Ahl testifies that he heard Abū l-Faraj ask Abū Isḥāq b. al-Shofeṭ for some wheat from the storehouse (makhzan) and the dispute over this that ensued.

    1. חצר בפנינו פי יום אלאחד אלתאני עשר מן מרחשון אתסא סיד אלאהל ושהד באנה
    2. סמע אבו אלפרג והו יקול לאבו אסחק בן אלשופט אעטיני מן אלקמח אלדי פי אלמכזן
    3. פקאל…

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  27. 8277LetterENA 4011.52

    Sends greetings to Abū Saʿīd al-Dimyāṭī and Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿbī.

    1. פלא יהם מולאי כלאם חאסד פגעלה אללה מחסוד [ולא י]געלה
    2. חאסד לאן מא יחסד גיר אלמקאביל ואמא אלמדאביר מא
    3. תם אחד יחסדהם עלי אדבארהם ואללה עאלם אן עבדה
    4. אדא…

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  28. 8278LetterENA NS 19.2

    Eliyyahu to his father-in-law al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic.

    1. מן סבב . . . . . [
    2. אלמכין אבי אלפרג אדאם אללה עזה וגמע
    3. אלשמל בה נעלמה אן אלצגיירה //זוגתי// מריצה
    4. וא]נא פי שדה ש[ד]ידה . . . מלהא וסתהא
    5. . . . . . . …

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  29. 8279LetterENA NS 45.31 + T-S 20.90

    Verso is covered with Arabic-script jottings of many kinds (mainly drafts of legal and epistolary formulae). May also join with ENA NS 2.33.

    1. הדא אלכבר ענד אלקהל באלתהניה לי ואלמסרה אלעטימה וכאן דאך
    2. לגמאעתנא כיום טוב וגדרו באלצום כמא וגב עליי ואן כנת אקצר ען קצא
    3. מא יגב עליי ב[ ] אלנעמה אלת…

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  30. 8280LetterENA NS 64.4

    Recommends the bearer for charity and probably asks the addressee to intervene on his behalf with the Nagid. The sender also says that he has sent a bundle of letters (rabṭat kutub) to Yemen with Abū Saʿīd ha-Levi (i.e.

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  31. 8281Legal documentJRL B 4307

    Seleucid, which is 1138–48 CE, which is consistent with the reshut clause invoking the Nagid Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]. Also mentions the name Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen.

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  32. 8282Paraliterary textJRL B 6755

    The original scribe seems to have written Abū Saʿd, but the patronymic was added in later. Also added in later: the name Abū l-Fatḥ Naṣrallāh in between the lines.

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  33. 8283LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 258

    Letter fragment addressed to the dignitary Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Ibn al-Furāt (aka Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen), sent either to or from al-Ramla.

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  34. 8284LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 779

    He intends to "complete our errands" (ḥattā naqḍī ashghālnā), as "all the Arabs have completed their errands" (kull al-ʿarab qad qaḍaw ashghālhum).

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  35. 8285LetterJRL L 17

    Letter from Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm in Cairo to his son Moshe Ben-Naʿīm in Alexandria. Dated 1 Kislev 5583 AM which is 1822 CE.

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  36. 8286Legal documentMIAC 35

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 74).

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  37. 8287Legal documentMIAC 90

    (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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  38. 8288LetterMIAC 132

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 57).

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  39. 8289Legal documentMIAC 133

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 69).

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  40. 8290Legal documentMIAC 137

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 70).

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  41. 8291Legal documentMIAC 138

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 63).

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  42. 8292LetterMIAC 154

    (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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  43. 8293Legal documentMIAC 165

    (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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  44. 8294LetterMIAC 199

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 57).

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  45. 8295LetterMIAC 217

    (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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  46. 8296LetterMIAC 247

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 60).

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  47. 8297LetterMIAC 292

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 54).

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  48. 8298LetterMoss. IV,76.3

    Neither note seems complete. Recto: inviting al-Shaykh al-Nafīs to "come out (perhaps from Fustat to the Rif) and enjoy yourself."

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  49. 8299LetterMoss. V,362

    On the bottom and right margins another person wrote a letter of condolence, probably relating to the dirge. The writer is also mentioning Abu Imran Musa. On verso only part of the address is preserved, and the sender’s father’s name is Yehuda.

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  50. 8300Legal documentMoss. VII,30

    Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b.

    1. [ ] כן הוה
    2. [ אלמ]ערפה >בהא< אשהדו עליי
    3. [ אלמח]כמה ואלמעאני אלמוכדה ובכל לישאני
    4. דזכואתא וסלמו דלך אלי זוגי מרור טהור הלוי אלמנגם בר מר ור נמר נע ליכו…

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