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  1. 801LetterBL OR 10578H.29

    Document in Arabic script, perhaps a trade letter/document. Mentions sending something, probably a letter and milk "ḥalība maḥmūla", in the companionship (suḥba) of someone and …

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  2. 802Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 752

    Order of payment, for Muḥammad al-Raīsī(?), which will be delivered (al-wāṣil) from the kitchen (maṭbakh?), by (ʿalā yadd)....... Needs examination.

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  3. 803State documentBL Or. 10578R.115

    Trials of the pen in a fiscal or administrative hand, including the glyph, the basmala and "al-shaykh al-ajall."

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  4. 804State documentBL Or. 10578G.55

    State document, probably a decree. The fragmented line reads as "واما ما ذكره من دعا الخاصة". Hebrew liturgical text on recto.

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  5. 805Legal documentBL OR 10589.3

    Recto: Document in Arabic script recording the settling of a business account (wafāʾ), perhaps what al-Thiqa owed to Barakāt b. Salāma. Dated: 12 Muḥaram '47 …

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  6. 806State documentT-S NS 104.24

    State document, in Arabic script. Right-side fragment of an official correspondence.

    1. لدعـ[
    2. مع عشـ[
    3. الى خمسـ[

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  7. 807LetterJRL Gaster ar. 333

    Letter, probably from a son to father inferred from the expression "وما اعلمك به يا والدي". The name ʿAbd al-Wahhāb appears on verso in what …

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  8. 808Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 657

    Legal document, probably a receipt. Mentions the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda.

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  9. 809Legal documentT-S AS 178.7

    Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamlūk. The one on recto (the later use) involves Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Damīrī al-Mālikī, Ibrāhīm b. Ḥarūn al-Yahūdī, …

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  10. 810LetterAIU XII.91

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Uncertain, maybe late Mamlūk/early Ottoman. The name Abū Ḥamza (?) can be read in the place of the tarjama. Mentions …

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  11. 811List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 660

    List or accounts, with Coptic numerals. Mentions pepper "filfil".

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  12. 812Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 174

    Note or folio from the epistle on animals, from the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ. "رسالة الحيوان من رسايل اخوان الصفا وخلان الوفا من كلام الحكمة و …

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  13. 813State documentJRL Gaster ar. 176

    Verso: Fragmentary document, in a chancery hand. Typical closing formula of a state document "في ذلك ان شاالله". The second line could be a date. …

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  14. 814State documentENA 2738.4 + ENA 2738.11

    Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting document (or an official order for the release of funds?), complete with ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 4xx (412?).

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  15. 815Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 181

    One line, in Arabic script, "الحكيم الاجل اسعد ....سعاد". Probably literary.

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  16. 816LetterJRL Gaster ar. 183

    Recto: Probably letter draft. "الاخ الشيخ.......قدس الله روحه". Verso: Unidentified table. Needs examination.

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  17. 817List or tableMoss. VIII,96.2

    Fiscal document or accounts, reused for Hebrew script. Mentions transactions in gold (ʿayn) and silver (wariq) and also contains Coptic/Greek numerals. Needs examination.

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  18. 818LetterMoss. IV,22.1

    Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …

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    1.  بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها

    3. افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …

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  19. 819Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. IXa,2.23

    Receipt for wages (?). Mentions Asqalān at the top and labor performed at a guest house. Some of the text reads: عسقلان معما فيه..... مما …

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  20. 820Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 50

    Late Arabic Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions al-Muʿallim Ibrahīm b. Amīn and Khwājā Yūsūf. Name of the notary at the bottom of the …

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  21. 821List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 42

    Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  22. 822State documentJRL Gaster ar. 172

    State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions 20,000 irdab of wheat. A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the …

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    1. الملك معز الدولة[...
    2. ]عشرين الف اردب قمحا

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  23. 823LetterJRL Gaster ar. 665

    Letter (draft?), or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and mentions "al-mamlūk" twice. The text on verso reads as "min ahl hādihi …

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  24. 824LetterENA 3944.12

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). With text in the margins. Begins with a basmala and the phrase 'mamlūk al-ḥadra al-sāmīya' (the …

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  25. 825Legal documentAIU XII.78

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 14 Jumādā II 634 AH (=1236/37 CE). Certifying that Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī b. [...] al-Māwardī and possibly one other person …

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  26. 826LetterJRL Gaster ar. 143

    Letter, official-looking, in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. Central part of …

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    1. المملوك المظفري

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3. يقبل الارض وينهي بعد استمرارة على الادعية الصالحة

    4. فلـ[..]عىه [                         ]

    5. تقبله…

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  27. 827State documentJRL Gaster ar. 830

    Fol. 2v is the closing formula of a state document with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.

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  28. 828Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 211

    Literary text, mentions some astrological references like "ṭāliʿ". Or rather a sermon mentioning an obedient/pious person (ṭāʾiʿ). Needs examination.

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  29. 829Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 306.186

    Receipt? - needs examination. Probably begins with "ṣaḥḥ ibn al-wazīr".

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  30. 830State documentBL Or. 10578G.19

    State document, in Arabic script. Wide spacing, two fragmentary lines. Some of the words read as "من مساعدته....من ذلك في امره".

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  31. 831LetterAIU XII.70

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Addressed to a certain Fakhr al-Dawla (al-shaykh al-ajall, 'the esteemed elder'). The sender met with Muḥyī …

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  32. 832Unknown typeBL Or. 5557K.37

    Single phrase of Arabic on verso "في ادوم غبطة". Reused for Hebrew script.

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  33. 833Legal documentAIU XII.146

    Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps a deed of sale of a property. On parchment. Fragment: the beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved in additional …

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  34. 834State documentJRL Gaster ar. 440

    Presumably a draft of a letter of appointment for a scribe to the central chancery. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Muḥammad al-Kātib is appointed as a scribe …

    1. خــــــــــدمة
    2. عبد الغني بم محمد الكاتب بديواني
    3. الانشا والمكاتبات اسعدين //في// مصر //في// شهور سنة 
    4. اربع [[وثما]]وثمانين وخمس مائة

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  35. 835State documentT-S Ar.34.241

    Tax receipt, with some less common features. Two of the endorsements at the top mention the dīwān al-iqṭāʿāt al-murtajaʿa (office of reclaimed fiefs), cf. T-S …

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  36. 836Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 145

    Receipt of payment beginning with a basmala. Needs examination.

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  37. 837Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 756

    Receipt of payment, in Arabic script, not very legible. Different document on verso.

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  38. 838LetterJRL Gaster ar. 162

    Letter address, in Arabic script. From the head of the Yeshiva (رأس المثيبة) to Ramla. "الرملة يصل ان شا الله". Name of the addressee to …

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  39. 839State documentT-S H5.204

    State correspondence, probably a petition but any petition-related formula is missing. Five lines are preserved, and possibly a copy of a sixth line. Almost all …

    1. الشامل وعدلها وجودها العامر وطولها منه وقدرته

    2. ولم يزل عند مولانا صلوات الله عليه متقلبا في نعمة الدولة

    3. النبوية الضافية عليه ومنحتها المتصلة الي…

    1. …encompassing, and its justice and perpetual generosities, and benevolence from it and its might.

    2. [The slave] steadfastly remained near our maste…

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  40. 840State documentT-S H8.68

    State document, administrative accounts. The right halves of 14 lines are preserved. Mentions someone's servants (wa-ghilmānuhū), half of something, and installments (aqsāṭ). The months Ramaḍān, …

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  41. 841LetterJRL Gaster ar. 618

    Letter fragment. In Arabic script. The first two lines and part of the marginal text are preserved, including the basmala and opening formulae, and acknowledging …

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  42. 842State documentT-S K 6.33

    State document, in Arabic script. 11 lines of official correspondence in a chancery hand, probably a report of some kind. The preserved document was chopped …

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  43. 843LetterJRL Gaster ar. 571

    One side: four fragments of a letter, in an official looking hand, in Arabic script. Mentions 300 dīnārs. Needs examination.

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  44. 844Legal documentT-S Misc.10.32

    Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script. One witness clause preserved and a technical terminology "al-mutakkhir bi-mā fī tārikhih".Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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  45. 845State documentT-S K25.186

    State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …

    1. ثروت(؟) الاحتجاج ويتعجل حمله من.....
    2.             ] تمكينه فقد علم الله

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  46. 846State documentMoss. VIII,276

    State document, bottom fragment, in Arabic script. "الذي لا يقدر فيهم على غيره... ومحاسبته على استقبال سنة خمسـ[...على ما استخرجه واحضر ما". The phrase "wa-muḥāsabatuhu …

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  47. 847Legal documentNLI 577.8/2

    Legal document, in Arabic script. A very long but fragmentary waqf document, probably Ottoman era. Also contains a bold monumental script in the middle, probably …

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  48. 848Literary textMoss. VIII,287.1-2

    Draft/jottings of another document on a Hebrew literary text. "مولاي الشيخ الاجل ابو منصور".

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  49. 849LetterMoss. VIII,308.3

    Letter fragment, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions a couple of names, including Musā al-Yahūdī. Needs examination.

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  50. 850State documentNLI 577.8/4

    Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. An internal report of some kind in a very formal tone. The beginning of the document mentions …

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    1. ـف ورفع الامر في ذلك لمولانا السلطان الانام
    2. الشـ]ـريف باعاليه نصره الله تعالى نصرا عزيزا فـ[
    3. الر[]ـعة بسبب ذلك وعقد لكما اسا[
    4. الاربعة ادام الل…

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