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  1. 8801Legal documentT-S AS 90.45

    Bottom of a legal document in Hebrew. Location: Alexandria. Concerning a debt. Dated: probably 5365 AM = 1604/05 CE (שנת שללה תקבץ לפק).

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    [.........................................................................]

    1. ............................]..ה ע..[.............................…

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  2. 8802Legal 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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  3. 8803Legal 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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  4. 8804Legal 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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  5. 8805Legal 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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  6. 8806Credit 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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  7. 8807Legal 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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  8. 8808Legal 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.

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    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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  9. 8809Legal 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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  10. 8810State 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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  11. 8811List 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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  12. 8812LetterT-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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  13. 8813LetterT-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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  14. 8814Legal 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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  15. 8815Paraliterary 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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  16. 8816Literary textT-S J2.39

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

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  17. 8817State 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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  18. 8818State 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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  19. 8819Legal 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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  20. 8820LetterT-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…

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    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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  21. 8821Legal 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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  22. 8822Legal 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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  23. 8823Legal 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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  24. 8824LetterT-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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  25. 8825Legal 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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  26. 8826LetterT-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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  27. 8827Legal 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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  28. 8828Legal 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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  29. 8829Paraliterary 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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  30. 8830Legal 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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  31. 8831Paraliterary 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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  32. 8832State documentT-S NS 327.49

    The petitioners ask for the issuance of an authoritative order ensuring that they are charged only the recognised amount per head of cattle, without additional exaction or injustice. The surviving text also mentions ḍamān and khafāra, but their precise role is unclear.

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    1. عنده هذه شريعة ادعى بعد هذا وضمان[
    2. وطلب منهم الغرامة في(من؟) الراس الـ[ـبقـ]ـر اربعة منه(؟) ولم ناظـ[ـر؟
    3. منه قط خفارة والمماليك يسلوا في خروج …
    1. [He has] with him this … which he claimed after this, and a ḍamān …
    2. And he demanded from them a fine of a head of cattle, four of them, and he did n…

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  33. 8833State 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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  34. 8834Legal 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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  35. 8835Legal 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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  36. 8836List 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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  37. 8837LetterT-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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  38. 8838LetterT-S NS J566

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

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    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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    1. (5-1) (אני כותב לך, וכו', ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות) ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך וייתן לך שלום וימנע ממך (כל רע) .... (ויתמיד את) גדולתך ואת מעלתך ואת…

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  39. 8839LetterYevr. 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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  40. 8840Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.4

    Dated: Wednesday, 10 [Iyyar 1467 Seleucid]. Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen al-Tājir agrees to the postponement (imhāl) of the oath of his partner Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm in a partnership of 100 dinars until after someone's return from a journey.

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  41. 8841LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1456

    This very large document needs further examination. Apparently this also has the shelfmark Yevr.-Arab. II 1477.

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  42. 8842LetterAIU VII.E.239

    Two letters of recommendation in Italian for a certain rabbi Barukh Löb Heilpern, apparently the former head of the old Universita Israelitica in Livorno, the first signed and dated in Livorno, 28 October 1852 (15 Heshvan 5613), the second signed and dated in Torino, 17 December 1852. There is also the remnant of a binding and a fragment of a facing page, with more Italian writing.

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  43. 8843LetterBL OR 5566B.11

    Mentions grains and produce in large quantities: 400 irdab wheat, and 600 irdab harvest. Also mentions large sums of money, a tax, probably capitation, and a record of something on a paper (kāghaẓa).

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  44. 8844List or tableBL OR 8662.1

    Recto: list of various garments and textiles along with numbers. Verso: multiple blocks of text going in four different directions. […] Another may be a continuation of the accounts on recto along with calculations of total sums of money. Needs further examination.

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  45. 8845List or tableBL OR 10126(3).4

    In each line of the list a different name is mentioned and their related quantities of "עדה" vary in alphanumerical figures that appear below each appearance of the word. The verso has been used for alphanumerical calculations. MCD.

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  46. 8846Legal documentBL OR 13153.8

    mentioned that the ketubba is missing a silver armlet weighing 12 dirhams..." There is also discussion of 3 caps (maʿāriq) and the rent of the house during the time she was living with him.

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  47. 8847LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/39

    The writer probably claimed (that part of the document is torn off) that the man had also promised something to his married daughter, his wife.

    1. אלממלוך[. . . . .].
    2. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ וינהי אלי מגלס הגאנו[ת ירום הודה
    3. אן כאן לה צהר למא דנת ופאתה אוצא באן א[לנצף מן
    4. דארה לזוגתה באלמאוחר ואלבליות…

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  48. 8848Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 79/36

    Very important legal document consisting of two depositions held in the synagogue of Syracuse, dealing with a lawsuit against Eliyyahu b. al-Harrar, who was accused of taking a share of the estate of Nahum b. Ismail al-Harrar. Dated April 1020. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 654, and from Yehudei Sitziliya, p. 104)

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו קהל סרקוסה במושב בית דין חצרו בי[ן ידי]
    2. אלגמאעה שאהדין והם משה בר חסדאי נ'ע' אברהים בו עלו[ן נ'נ']
    3. ושהדוא אנהם סמעו מן אל…

    ע׳׳א:

    1. (1–2) באו לפני הקהל שני עדים, והם משה בר חסדאי נ׳׳ע, ואברהים בר עלון נ׳׳נ,
    2. והעידו ששמעו מאליה בן אלחדאד, כאשר היו שניהם יחד עמו בבית הכנסת;…

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  49. 8849Literary textBodl. MS heb. e 74/1–6

    The first six leaves of a copy of the Ghurar al-Balāgha of Hilāl al-Ṣābi' — a book of formularies for letter-writing — copied in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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  50. 8850Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 98/56

    This gift was given in addition to the payment of the ketubba and the 'added to the ketubba',and the women could do with it as she pleases. Edited also at Weiss, Ḥalfon, Doc. #9. In the Bodl. catalogue and in Weiss' dissertation it is marked as fol. 46.

    1. [...]ד תכון
    2. [...]...[...] לי דונִהִאִ ..
    3. [...] תבקא סא[יר ...] מא וקע ענִדִ[ה]
    4. [...]הִ בחגה כל עיקר ובטילית נמי כל מודעי
    5. [... ודמ]סרנא על שטר מתנת…

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