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  1. 8651List or tableT-S Ar.30.92

    Mentions other goods, mainly camphor, which was bought in a price that is about a third of the regular price. Also mentions expenses for packages, shipments, taxes, and bribe.

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    1. [                          ] עדל כתאן אלי מצר יב

    2. [                          ] ומן אלורק יט> באלבקיה

    3. [                        …

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    1. (1–5) …משאוי פשתים לפסטאט, י"ב; .... ובורק י"ט וחצי; ביתרה .... יסתכם בדינר ושליש ורבע .... 
    2. (6–8) …. ת"ק רטלים, דינר וי"…

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  2. 8652State documentT-S Ar.34.51

    Report of the death of a Jewish woman named Sitt al-Dār bt. Yaʿqūb on Thursday, 8 Rajab 627 AH = 23 May 1230 CE. […] For similar documents see Khan, ALAD, docs. 125 to 131.

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  3. 8653LetterT-S Ar.34.154

    Upper part of a letter addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥasan al-ʿAsqalānī, in Fustat. In Arabic script.

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  4. 8654List or tableT-S Ar.34.232

    Many sections are headed "tawqīʿ ʿālī," perhaps summarizing the content of various rescripts. One entry refers to [...] al-maʿmūra, a term typically used for state institutions.

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  5. 8655List or tableT-S Ar.34.303

    The two columns on verso mention various Dārs, e.g. Dār [...] al-Yahūdī, and Dār al-Ṣabāḥ is mentioned multiple times, once in the context of construction (ʿimāra).

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  6. 8656List or tableT-S Ar.34.318

    The date is not 14 May 1517 as the Baker/Polliack catalogue has it: this entry is referring to 14 maidis (muayyadis = medins = nuṣf fiḍḍa). There is also mention of hungaros/ungaros, sequinos, and "as menudensias del magazen."

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  7. 8657LetterT-S Ar.35.20

    Letter from Kathīr b. Abū Naṣr al-Ḥazzān, unknown location, to his son Bū l-Ḥasan b. […] C/o the shop of ʿAmmār al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Only the opening greetings, the concluding greetings, and the address are preserved.

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  8. 8658List or tableT-S Ar.35.141

    Some of the work is for a wind catcher (bādhanj). Also mentions ashes and quṣrumīl/kosromel/קוצרומיל/قصرميل = a kind of mortar made from sand and broken tiles and ashes.

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  9. 8659State documentT-S Ar.38.122

    Mentions the police "raqqāṣīn" and "shurṭa", Aswan(?), and "diyār al-Miṣriyya wa al-Shāmiyya". Needs further examination.

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  10. 8660Legal documentT-S Ar.39.276

    ʿUthmān," possibly then referring to the court of the Jāmiʿ al-Ṣāliḥ. Underneath there is an almond-shaped seal imprint featuring names such as [...] b.

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  11. 8661Legal documentT-S Ar.42.172

    Fragment (upper right piece). Lessee: al-sharīf Muslim b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ṭabāṭabā al-[...].

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  12. 8662Legal documentT-S Ar.42.201

    The last object of sale is a donkey. A ninth entry was also begun, with only the word "ishtarā" preserved, which tells that the document is a draft.

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  13. 8663List or tableT-S Ar.54.92a + T-S Ar.51.118

    Bifolio from the account book of a real estate broker who also kept some agricultural property. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  14. 8664Legal documentT-S AS 146.158

    The bride's name is Sitt al-Hus[n]. Although the verb use is אירש, as commonly found in Karaite marriage deeds, this deed is probably Rabbinate, see Ashur, Engagement and Bethrotal, p. 45, n. 157.

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  15. 8665Legal documentT-S AS 146.289

    Moshe ha-Kohen, ha-Talmid, Abū ʿImrān Ibn al-[...], and al-Raqqī. Seems like a deposition: אנה יעלם אלצחיח אן . . .

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  16. 8666Legal documentT-S AS 148.212

    Includes a long list with names, such as [...] b. ʿAllūn known as Ibn al-[..]ān, and Isaac. Signed by Ḥayyim, Joseph, ʿEli b. [...], and ʿEli ha-Kohen.

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  17. 8667Legal documentT-S AS 149.92

    Elʿazar known as [...], possibly his wife, suing Avraham b. Shemuel al-Ḥemdat, [...] known as Ibn Najā, and Abū l-ʿAlā.

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  18. 8668Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 151.132

    Order of payment in Arabic script. The "judge" (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer. On verso, in Judaeo-Arabic, the name "Abū l-Ṭāhir al-Miṣrī." Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century.

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  19. 8669Legal documentT-S AS 151.263

    Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in this period, worth "somewhat more than one third of the Fatimid dinar" according to Goitein). Also "my brother" or "the brother of" Abū Naṣr. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  20. 8670Legal documentT-S AS 152.218

    Announcement of a threat of excommunication (ḥerem stam) against anyone in Fustat or Cairo or their environs who knows the whereabouts of Abū l-ʿAlā b. Yosef al-Ṭabīb (the physician) and does not inform the Jewish court.

    1. יחרם חרם סתם בא[סם] מן יעלם מוצע אבי אלעלא
    2. בן יוסף אלטביב פי מצר או אלקאהרה או חואליהמא ולא
    3. יערף בית דין בדלך

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    1. יחרם חרם סתם בא[סם] מן יעלם מו…

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  21. 8671Legal documentT-S AS 153.362

    Minute fragment, probably from the middle part of a ketubah, based on the mention of דמיפטרא ביה (what that will make her divorce) which is commonly found in marriage stipulations. Also few letters from the immersion clause, that started to appear after 1176.

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  22. 8672State documentT-S AS 158.30

    Perhaps having to do with the synagogue’s exemption from tax status, because the ʿummāl have been harassing them. Reused by Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (d. after 1298).

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  23. 8673List or tableT-S AS 160.23

    E.g., "Third: Epistle elucidating the beliefs of the Brethren of Purity and the sects of the holy divines (madhāhib al-rabbāniyyīn al-ilāhiyyīn; this probably does not refer to Rabbanites).

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  24. 8674LetterT-S AS 177.112

    The addressee is asked to greet/'serve' people on the sender's behalf (ukhdum ʿannī majlis al-shaykh al-ajall...). On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  25. 8675LetterT-S AS 178.95

    He is a "blind, paralyzed" (aʿmā maflūj) man with dependents, who has been "cut off from all occupations" (munfariṭ ʿan sāʾir al-taṣarrufāt) for 10 years.

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  26. 8676Legal documentT-S AS 216.201

    The witnesses are Abū Isḥāq al-Tawwazī (אלתווזי); Yosef the cantor; Abū Isḥāq Yosef b. Yaʿaqov the lead worker (al-raṣṣāṣ); "and me" (wa-anā). Looks like the hand of Natan b.

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  27. 8677Paraliterary textT-S AS 221.307

    Attached to an unknown manuscript copied by Masliaḥ. The document also contains mirrored text, imprinted from a Maimonidean responsum on T-S AS 221.306 (PGPID 40127) over the course of centuries of adjacent storage.

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    1. שמיא
    2. וכתבתי אני מצליח ביר נסים
    3. בידי והגהתי אותה מנוסא בדיקא
    4. ביום הרבעי (!) שהוא שני ימים לירח
    5. תמוז המקבה יהפוך אותו לססון (!)
    6. ולשמחה בשנת אלפא…

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    1. Heaven
    2. I, Masliaḥ b. Nissim, wrote this
    3. in my own hand and proofread and compared it with an accurate copy
    4. on Wednesday, 2nd of the month
    5. of T…

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  28. 8678Literary textT-S J2.39

    Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya?). There are also various other jottings. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  29. 8679State documentT-S K1.150

    Petition from an impoverished army veteran who had served in ʿAsqalān, possibly to the vizier Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53). 1153 is a terminus ante quem as that is when Ascalon fell to the Franks. However, the petition is not dated and does not refer to Ibn al-Salār by name or by any unique titulature. (Information in part from Khan.)

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    1. خلد الله تعالى ملك المجلس العا[لـ]ـي [ا]لسيدي [الاجلي الجيوشي السيفي]
    2. الناصري الكافلي الهادي وعضد به الدين وامتع بطول بقاىه
    3. امير المومنين وادا…

    1. May God make eternal the reign of the exalted seat, the [mighty] lord, [(commander of) the armies, sword (of Islam),]
    2. the defender (of mankind),…

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  30. 8680State documentT-S K8.101

    The sender asks for a favor from the graces of the addressee ('al-makārim al-mawlawiyya) in eloquent language.

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  31. 8681Legal documentT-S K23.3.2

    Unusually, the later scribe also wrote over the text of the original ketubba.

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    1. והוות לצלח בר [...]
    2. לה מהר חולקיה [...]
    3. בדרתה דאברהם [ה...] בר חות[ם(?) ...]
    4. צפונה [דמיגו(?)] תרעא אתריה [...]
    5. [ ] רשות הרבים ולעל […
    1. And she become [the wife] of Ṣulḥ b. […]
    2. [and he gave/wrote] her as mohar the portions/his portion […]
    3. in the house of Abraham […] b. Ḥota[m(?) …]
    4. t…

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  32. 8682LetterT-S K25.191

    Aharon ha-Ḥazzan, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat (?). Dating: ca. 1070.

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    1. הצור תמים פעלו
    2. קד עלם אללה גלת קדרתה מא נאלני [ 
    3. מן אלהם ואלקלק ושגל אלסר במא וצל [ 
    4. מולאי אבו סעד אחיאה אללה ורחמ[ 
    5. אלצנועה אלכשרה אלצדקת אלד…

    recto

    1. הצור תמים פועלו; 
    2. אלוהים, תתהלל גבורתו, הוא היודע מה רבים הדאגה 
    3. והלבטים וטרדת הלב שאפפוני על מה שהביא…
    4. אדוני אבו סעד, ייתן לו אלוהים חיים,...…

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  33. 8683Legal documentT-S NS 184.57

    (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 327; see also Goitein's index card.)

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . מן כלאמ [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] קאלו…

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  34. 8684Legal documentT-S NS 190.112

    A declaration is made in favor of a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. A parnas is also mentioned.

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  35. 8685Legal documentT-S NS 226.89

    Probably related to T-S NS 226.58 (PGPID 24384). Also resembles T-S NS 226.82 (PGPID 24408).

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  36. 8686LetterT-S NS 264.11

    Letter of appeal for charity. From Abū l-Majd to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century.

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  37. 8687Legal documentT-S NS 305.202

    May be a deed of sale for a property: mentions a vault (al-qabw) in l. 4 and floor tiles (balāṭ) and stairs (salālaim) in l. 7. Mentions the name [...] b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī in l. 6.

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  38. 8688LetterT-S NS 308.113

    The letters' addressees include: Shelomo the head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., the father of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon). There is also reference to the Nagid, probably Moshe b. Mevorakh.

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  39. 8689Legal documentT-S NS 311.2

    Unrelated to the entry on recto Written and signed by Avraham b. Natan Av. Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel, Nissim b. Nahray ha-Rav, and Avraham b.

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  40. 8690Legal documentT-S NS 320.59

    Husband: Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. On verso, confirmation that Sitt al-Ahl received the geṭ, signed by Meshullam b.

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    1. בתרין בשבה דהוא תמני עשר יומי בירח אדר
    2. דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ותלתין שנין למניינא
    3. דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס
    4. נהרא מותבה אנא חלפון בר מב…

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  41. 8691Paraliterary textT-S NS 323.5

    Amulet to make Yosef b. Amira (also known as Yosef b. Efrayim) return quickly to Fustat.

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  42. 8692Legal documentT-S NS 324.100 + T-S 16.104

    Part of the heading for a highly decorated ketubba (in Hebrew, although the ketubba text would likely have been in Aramaic). All of the main text has been lost but the heading refers to Sar Shalom ha-Levi, leader of the Jewish community in 1170 and 1177-1195 CE (brother of Gaʾon Nathaniel ha-Levi).

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  43. 8693Paraliterary textT-S NS 325.140

    Piyyuṭ for Shabbat Balaq with a colophon. "By Ibn al-Shaṭnāsh (אלשטנאש/الشطناش), may God have mercy on him. Written by the cantor Abū l-Ḥasan the son of the cantor Muʿammar, may God have mercy on him, Ibn al-Jāzfīnī." T-S H15.10 has a piyyuṭ by the same poet (Yosef Ibn Abiṭur).

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  44. 8694State documentT-S NS 338.69

    Begins with a basmala and ends with a hamdala; there may be a date in line 4 (below basamala): sana iḥda...? Also a possible mention of ar-rawq (to please/excel, L6).

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  45. 8695Legal documentT-S NS J164

    Wife: Ḥasana bt. Salāma. Also signed by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Melammed. On verso confirmation of receipt of the geṭ.

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  46. 8696Legal documentT-S NS J185l

    VII,39 (PGPID 7024) for similar formulae). Also mentions "our father."

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    1. [ ]א יכת[ץ ]
    2. [ ]יר אלאשיא לא ד[ ]
    3. [ ] חגארה ולא שרכה ולא מצארבה
    4. [ ]וד ולא ענבר ולא זבדה
    5. [ ]מאנה ולא כיא[נה] ולא דין
    6. [ ]ק [ו]לא מלבוס לא
    7. [ ]ה ל…

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  47. 8697List or tableT-S NS J264a

    The revenue from several apartments and shops is listed, as collected monthly, during Rabi' al-awwal, Rabi' al-akhir, and Jumada'l-awwal. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 182 #15)

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    1. איצא [מן קבצתה] מן אגרה רביע [אלאול]
    2. [מן] בית יע[קב] ד דר [ו] נצף ומן כוץ אלרומייה [ג דר גיר]
    3. [רב]ע ומן כוץ דאוד ג דר [ונ]צ[ף] ומן כוץ [ח]מאת …

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    1. Also, collected by me from the rent of Rabīʿ al-awwal: 

    2. From the room of Jacob, 4 1⁄2 dir. From the khuṣṣ of al-Rūmīya, 2 3/4 dir.

    3. From t…

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  48. 8698LetterT-S NS J397

    The handwriting seems consistent with Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, who also uses the phrase וחסבי אללה והו תקתי; cf. T-S 12.227 (PGPID 1633) and AIU VII.E.130 (PGPID 5559).

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  49. 8699LetterT-S NS J566

    Fragment of a letter from Ḥayyim b. 'Ammār al-Madīnī, probably from Palermo, to Barhun b. Ishaq al-Tāhartī, Qayrawan.

    Recto

    1. ] בקאר ואדאם //נעמאה// וסלמה ואכלאה
    2. ] עזך ועלוך וארתפאעך וסנוך וכאן
    3. ] וינצורך ובלגך מן אלמראתיב אעלאהא ומן
    4. ] גמע יאסידי ביננא אלהי ישרא…

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    אדוני ורכי ונכבדי והטוב שבאנשים אלי .... אבו אסחק אברהים בן אסחק השולחני, שומרו אלוהים; יגיע לקירואן, ברצון האל.

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    1. (5-1) (אני כותב לך, וכ…

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  50. 8700LetterYevr. II A 2671

    Contains an intricate legal query. Also an order for the book Shviley Emuna, "because I need it very much sometimes for the healing of the sick."

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