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  1. 8301Legal documentT-S AS 148.167

    Legal document mentioning [...] ha-Levi the elder. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  2. 8302Literary textHalper 222

    Recto: Fragment of a prayer for Jewish burials that was recorded on the back of a letter in Arabic c. 1708 CE (See separate record: …

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    1. [צדיק] אתה ה'' וישר משפטיך צדיק ה'' בכל דרכיו וחסיד בכל מעשיו
    2. [צד]קתך צדק לע[ולם] ותורתך אמת משפטי ה'' אמת צדקו יחדיו
    3. [ב]אשר…

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  3. 8303LetterT-S 10J25.1

    Letter from Moshe b. Shemuel b. Jami, probably sent from Fustat to his partner in Qabes, mentioning merchandise in the Maghreb and Egypt, and asking …

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    1.                         ] גלאם מה[                    ]ידך [                                                               ]
    2. [               …

    ע׳׳א:

    1. (1–2) ….משרת …. (אלוהים) …. גבולות, בחסדו ובנדיבותו. כתבת אדוני שהגיע מה ששלחתי ….
    2. (3–4) …. לחשבונך הפרטי, בשלום, תודה לאל. כתבת על עניין ה…

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  4. 8304Legal documentT-S NS 297.5

    Legal deed. In Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 993 AH, which is 1585 CE. A landlord, called only al-Faqīr ilā Allāh, settles accounts with his …

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  5. 8305LetterT-S 10J15.8

    Letter from Shela bar Mevasser to 'The Rabbi' Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef, Rosh ha-Seder ('Head of the Row'). The letter was written before Shela's appointment …

    מכתב מאת שלה בר מבשר אל 'הרב' יהודה הכהן בן יוסף ראש הסדר. המכתב נכתב עוד טרם מינויו של שלה לדיין באלכסנדריה.

    לא פורסם.

    נזכר: גיל, א, סעיף 378; מאן, …

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  6. 8306Legal documentT-S AS 157.555

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Perhaps a business partnership agreement. (Information from CUDL)

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  7. 8307Paraliterary textT-S NS J17

    Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu Gaon b. Shelomo Gaon b. Yosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Evyatar was titled "the fourth" (ha-reviʿi) …

    TS NS J 17, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp.347-348 (Doc. #545), N.H. 10-23-87 (p) Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar Ha-Kohen b. Eliyahu Gaon

    1. בסימנא טבא…

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  8. 8308Literary textJRL B 3003

    Hebrew literary work, late.

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  9. 8309Literary textNLI 8 420

    Story (ספר חסות) from Yemen about the relationships between the Jewish community and the Muslims. Describes the protection that the Jews received from Muhammad, concerning …

    והאדה כתאב אלדמה אלדי אדם אלנבי מחמד עלא בני אסראיל ע"אל ורחמת אללה

    וברכאתה.

    1. פלמא כאן פי אלזמאן אלקדים כאלפו אלכפאר עלא אלנבי מחמד ע"אל פנצרה אללה ע…

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  10. 8310List or tableJRL B 3137

    Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Hajji Ali Bek.

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  11. 8311Paraliterary textENA 4011.7

    Calendar

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  12. 8312Literary textENA 2875.31 + ENA 2875.32

    Piyyut and/or secular poetry. There are at least three poems on these two folios. One is attributed to Avraham Ibn ʿEzra (in a different hand) …

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  13. 8313Legal documentJRL B 8677

    Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document.

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  14. 8314Literary textENA 2808.33

    Popular literature, probably. In partially rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. Narrates a painful parting from a friend ("I was left in a difficult state, like he who sits …

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  15. 8315State documentNLI 577.1/54

    There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. C, fol.3 - State document, or a draft, in Arabic script. Four ʿalāmas …

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  16. 8316LetterT-S 13J34.12

    Polite letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in which the sender explains that he had been reluctant to visit the addressee, as he surmised that his 'brother' Abū …

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  17. 8317List or tableT-S AS 149.199

    Accounts (?). (Information from CUDL)

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  18. 8318List or tableENA 3731.8

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions wine and raisins.

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  19. 8319LetterT-S 8J24.12

    Letter from Asad b. Hilāl to a maker of scales (al-Mawāzīnī) to whom the writer had given a scale on which to affix a hanger, …

    1. על שמך
    2. אלדי אעלמך בה יאכי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי
    3. אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך
    4. ואלדי תריד עלמה אנני כנת קד דפעת
    5. לך מיזאן לתעמל לה עלאקה
    6. . . . . .] עלי קדרה וד…

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  20. 8320Legal documentT-S AS 151.19

    Legal document headed "memorandum of testimony" (tadhkirat shahāda). The court convened in the synagogue; present were Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Wathīq and Sulaymān al-Ṣāʾigh, who negotiated …

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  21. 8321Paraliterary textAIU VI.C.9

    Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit ḥuṣ." Same …

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  22. 8322Unknown typeENA NS 85.1446

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  23. 8323Legal documentT-S 16.131

    Release given by Karīma bt. Ṣedaqa the teacher to Avraham b. Ḥujayj. Signed by many people, but only four of the signatures preserved. (Information from …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] לא אילנות ולא פרות
    2. . . . ] . . . . [ . . ] ולא [ . . . . . . . .…

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  24. 8324LetterENA 3276.9

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to [...] Abū ʿImrān. Mentions the intercalation of the calendar and something the sender intended to do before he fell …

    1. א]דאם אללה סעאדת אלמולא [
    2. ] אלשיך אבו עמראן כאן אלמולא [
    3. ס]אל לי עלי עמל עיבור פעמל[ת
    4. ] . . וכנת עאזם עלי אני אנקל [
    5. ] ורקה(?) פוקעת פי אלמרץ ול[
    6. ] …

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  25. 8325Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 148.157

    Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Waliyy al-Dawla. The addressee is to give the masṭara (ruling board) to the bearer to bring back to …

    1. יא מולאי אלשיך ולי אלדולה תנעם בפצלך
    2. תדפע למוצלהא אלמסטרה אסטר
    3. בהא אלכראריס ואסיירהא ללמולא
    4. וחק דיני מא אעיקהא ענך אצלא
    5. ואן קצדת תמנהא ערפני כם הו א…

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  26. 8326List or tableBL OR 10599.27

    A list of dozens of names arranged in two columns per side. Prefaced with "the names of the households who are invited (? maʿzūma)." Some …

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  27. 8327LetterT-S NS 168.11

    Bifolio with various different text blocks. On the righthand page of verso there is a Judaeo-Arabic retelling of the Book of Esther, along with the …

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  28. 8328State documentT-S NS 337.60

    Fragment of an official letter in Arabic script. Telling or asking Muʿizz/Muʿtazz al-Dawla to put his signature on something to validate an expense: واستدعيت من …

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  29. 8329LetterT-S NS J271

    Draft of a letter to the 'the Rav' in Mahdiyya, in which the sender writes that he bought quires of books from the inheritance of …

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    1. אבן סהל [
    2. ואלתלמוד לרבנו הא[יי
    3. פהרסת בהדה אלעבארה ודאך אנני סאלת
    4. ולדה אן דפע לי [[אל]] פהרסת אלכתב אלדי לה ואל
    5. תשובות פנסכה לנפסה ודפעה לי [[פ…

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    1. ((Second [leaf])) 

    2. I made a list of all the responsa I had 

    3. and sent it two years ago, together with a letter, 

    4. to Sheikh Abū Zikrī  b…

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  30. 8330Unknown typeENA NS 79.237.10

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  31. 8331Legal documentT-S AS 152.198

    Legal fragment (upper right corner). Dated: Iyyar 14[..] Seleucid = 1089–1188 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Acknowledgment made by Abū Saʿd Shemuel ha-Levi. The handwriting is distinctive …

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  32. 8332Legal documentT-S AS 149.189 + T-S NS 323.32

    Bill of release (שטר פיצוי). In the hand of Yefet b. David? Dated: Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid = October/November 1040 CE. In which [..]āt bt. Yeshuʿa …

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  33. 8333LetterT-S 8J41.7

    Letter by a Karaite from al-Andalus noting that he was very well-received by the people of Alexandria, but of all his money only two dinars …

    1. יא סידי ויא שיכי וכבירי אלמדכור פיה ומן אדאם אללה סלאמתה ואבדל כראמתה
    2. ואקר בכל [ ] ובלגרה גאיה אלמלה [ ]ה וסו עלה מא [ ] על
    3. [ ]יא סידי [ ] אללה בקאך…

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    1. My lord, teacher and mentor of renowned prestige, may God preserve your health, shower you with compassion, 

    2. grant you access to success […

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  34. 8334Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.320

    Order of payment. In Arabic script. Bū l-Najm al-Firnās (the parnas) is to pay the bearer a sum of money (10 nuqra dirhams?). Ends with …

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  35. 8335LetterMoss. Ia,19

    Letter in Hebrew from the exilarch [ʿAzarya] b. Shelomo b. Yoshiya to [...] b. Ḥusayn. Large space between the lines. Verso contains the address, inverted, …

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  36. 8336List or tableENA NS 15.6

    Fragment containing items such as wheat and amounts. Probably an account, less likely a letter.

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  37. 8337List or tableT-S AS 109.125

    Accounting for the qodesh in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. On recto there is the beginning of the ʿamida.

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  38. 8338Legal documentT-S 8J8.20

    Legal document relating to the return of half of the dowry of a woman.

    1. אן גמיע אלנדוניא אלדי תכניס הגברת סת אל אל
    2. בת רבנו יהודה דודו שצ כלתא דא אן אנתקלת
    3. בעד מ טויל אלי חיי העול הבא בלא ולד לא דכר
    4. ולא אנתי יעוד נצף אלנד…

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  39. 8339LetterT-S 18J5.7

    Letter from Shalom b. Yaʿaqov, in Damascus, to (the Nagid) Natan ha-Kohen (Sholal) (d. 1502), in Fustat/Cairo. Concerning business matters. (Information from CUDL and A. …

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  40. 8340Literary textT-S 24.10

    Recto contains a piyyuṭ for Yom Kippur in the hand of ʿEli b. ʿAmram he-Ḥaver. Verso contains his poem in honour of ʿEli b. Mevasser

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  41. 8341LetterT-S AS 186.35

    Fragment of a letter/petition for charity in Arabic script. (This is the text block in large letters on verso.) وكان مولاي الشيخ كبت الله . …

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  42. 8342LetterT-S NS J260

    Informal note from an unknown writer, to Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar ha-Rofe. The addressee is called "father." The writer explains that there has been a setback in …

    1. אלי אלואלד אלעזיז אל . . . . כגק מ ור יצחק
    2. השר האדיר התלמיד הנכבד הרופא החכם
    3. והנבון ולא תסאל מא קד [[גאר]] גרי פי אמר
    4. אלקאמקם באן טלבנה טאהר יעמלהום

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  43. 8343Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/26 + JRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/14

    Draft of a court record from the court in Fustat. 1042. In the handwriting of Efrayim b. Shemarya (not Yefet b. David Shekhanya). Regarding the …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצר[ים]
    2. והזקנים החתומים עדותנו מטה ביום חודש שנת
    3. אלף שלוש מאות חמשים ושלוש שנים למנין שט'
    4. שאנו רגילין למנו…

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    1. קבלתי
    2. כפי שנדרש בן ישראל לקבול, אל דייני בית ישראל
    3. ואל קהילות ישראל שיפסיק הגולן את גזלתו
    4. והוכחתי לכם בנוכחותכם את הגזל של י…

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  44. 8344LetterT-S NS 224.209

    Letter from Abū Zikrī to Abū Saʿīd Halfon b. Moshe, Trustee of the Yeshiva. This person is unknown and is not listed in Goitein's index …

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  45. 8345Paraliterary textT-S K5.36

    T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …

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  46. 8346List or tableT-S AS 183.13

    Table of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a very disorderly scribal hand. Medieval-era.

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  47. 8347Legal documentENA 2538.1

    Legal document, draft. Left side only. No witnesses. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1542 Seleucid, which is 1231 CE. Features a freed muwallad slave (al-ghulām al-maʿtūq... …

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  48. 8348LetterENA 3700.2

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender addresses a certain Avraham and a certain Abūn (both on recto). Most of the commodities mentioned are materia medica, …

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  49. 8349LetterT-S 13J21.10

    Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …

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    1. שלום רב וישע יקרב למורי ואדוני אור עיני ועטרת
    2. ראשי אדוני אישי כבוד ר שלמה הסופר יל קבל
    3. רוב שלום מאדון השלום ומני דונה סורו זוגתך
    4. ובנותיך ריינה…

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  50. 8350Literary textT-S Ar.19.20

    Biography (sīra) of the Prophet Muḥammad in beautiful Arabic script. Bifolium.

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