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  1. 851State documentT- S AS 185.156

    State document in Arabic, probably. Medieval-era. Only one line is visible on the verso: بذلك جارية فيه على ما يكون. The recto was reused for …

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  2. 852Literary textT-S AS 183.192

    Possibly from a historical chronicle. Headed, "One of the governors (ʿāmil min ʿummāl) of Homs wrote to ʿUmayr(?) ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz(?). . . ." This is …

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  3. 853Legal documentT-S Ar.42.161

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Bū l-Faraj b. Yūsuf the Rabbanite Jew makes a declaration for Bū Saʿd b. [...] the Jew, probably …

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  4. 854Legal documentYevr. II K 3

    Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Adar 1810 Seleucid, which is 1499 CE. Groom: Elazar. Bride: Esther Sutayta bt. Yosef ha-Levi. Quite faded and damaged, …

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  5. 855LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/59

    Letter from Fustat to Sadoq Ha-Levi b. Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva. Ca. 1030

    1. תנו אדר מלובשי הדר בחורים מכל עדר לאלוה נוראים : עוז ומעוז יתן
    2. אלוה המעוז להוגים בשבוית חכם בעוז במסות ומוראים : לאלהים יוצר כל
    3. יצור אשר הכל בעוזו נ…

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  6. 856Unknown typeJRL B 8218

    Small fragment mentioning Yosef ha-Shofeṭ

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  7. 857Unknown typeENA NS 85.422

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  8. 858LetterT-S 8J9.7

    Letter probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s) addressed to someone he calls "the great rabbi." In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter consists entirely …

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    1. . . .הר]ב הג המעוז המגדול ישמ יוצ ויהיה
    2. ב]עזרו ויכניע כל אויביו וצורריו וכן יהי רצון אללה
    3. אלעאלם מא ענד אלממלוך מן שדה אלשוק ואלתאסף
    4. עלי מא י…

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  9. 859LetterBodl. MS heb. e 100/54

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. Some excerpts: "By the Law! ... From the day that he traveled until now... he married a woman in ʿAkkā... …

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  10. 860LetterENA 3014.3

    Account, private, written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1061 CE. Nissim b. Ishaq, for whom the account was made, is probably ha-Tāhartī. Mentions silk …

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    1. וצל חסאב רב נסים בן אסחק ז''ל יתצ'מן אן אלדי צחב אל 
    2. ] מן אלכלטה בחית לם אחתסב לה במא אסקט ז''י 
    3. ] אלנפקה                           קפ''ג דינ'…

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    1. הגיע חשבונו של רבי נסים בן אסחק ז"ל וכלול בו כי מה שהיה ביחד עם… נסים, ככל הנראה: 
    2. נסים בן יצחק התאהרתי. שבשותפות, כי לא אחשוב לזכותו את מה שה…

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  11. 861Legal documentT-S NS 338.49

    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a man and his cousin (ibn ʿamm); 51 dinars; and something granted …

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  12. 862State documentT-S Ar.44.162

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. State document? On verso there are medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.

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  13. 863List or tableT-S AS 148.142 + T-S AS 148.141

    Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  14. 864LetterT-S NS 324.91

    Recto: Brief letter to a cantor concerning 4 dinars for the purchase of a Torah codex (muṣḥaf): אלחזן שצ יעלם אן לא . . . …

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  15. 865Unknown typeT-S NS 324.25

    Original document (both sides): Several names in Arabic script, e.g. al-Shaykh Abū Manṣūr . . . Hilāl). Verso (around the original text): Greetings or address …

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  16. 866LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/63

    Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barki, from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Ca. 1053 (Gil). The writer is in Busir for the …

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    1. וקד וצל כתאבך ביד אבי אלחסן כיארה מולא אלמד וצחבתה אלצרה אלדי ד'כרת
    2. ומעהא אלצרה' אלד'ר'ה' בתצחיח אלעדר ואלוזן וקבצ'תהם מנה ללוקת ת'ם דפ'עת
    3. אלכ…

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    1. ….הגיע מכתבך ביד אבו אלחסן כיארה, בעליו של אלמד, ועמו כיס שעליו כתבת
    2. ועמו כיס הדרהמים עם אישור המספר והמשקל ; וקיבלתים ממנו לפי שעה ; אחר כך מ…

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  17. 867Literary textJRL B 2391 + JRL B 2394

    Late literary fragment in orange/faded red ink.

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  18. 868Legal query or responsumMS 8254, fol. 17

    Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), with the latter's autograph responsum. NB: There is an extensive bibliography on this fragment, but it …

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  19. 869LetterT-S 6J1.27

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an Abu al-Barakat whom he addresses as 'brother' and 'friend'

    1. אכיה ומחבה שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין נמשול [
    2. כתאבי אלי אכי וצדיקי אלאך אלעזיז אלגליל א[
    3. אלאדיב אלחביב אלראיס אללביב אבי אלברכאת [
    4. ובלגה פי אלדארין אראדתה…

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  20. 870Legal documentT-S AS 183.91

    Witness clause from the bottom of an iqrār. The witness is Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh.

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  21. 871LetterBodl. MS heb. d 76/58

    Letter by Menashshe b. Moshe to Rabbi Eli b. Mevorakh, probably sent from Sicily to Egypt. The writer orders some clothing and mentions Abu al-Bishr …

    1. כת]בת [הד]ה אלאצטר אלחצרה מולאי [אל]חבר אלאגל
    2. אדאם אללה עזה ועלאה וכבת באלדל [א]עדאה וקד
    3. תקדמת כתבי למולאי [מע חס]אב פ[. . . .] אליום מולאי
    4. אלנגיד א…

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  22. 872List or tableT-S NS J593

    List of quantities of commodities, including 1/2 ratl of tamarind. In Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Shivtiel/Nissen catalog.

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  23. 873Unknown typeENA NS 85.263

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  24. 874Unknown typeDK 36.22

    Awaiting description

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  25. 875LetterENA 3765.10 + T-S 18J4.16

    Letter from Shemarya b. Maṣliaḥ, in Fustat, to the Nagid Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram, in Qayrawān. Dating: probably spring or summer of 1039 CE, and in …

    A: ENA 3765, f. 10r B: TS 18 J 4.10v ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.332-335 (Doc. #192) C.B. 02-03-88 (p) Rough draft of a letter written by Ghalib Ha…

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  26. 876Paraliterary textT-S AS 204.320

    Magical fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. For getting rid of an enemy.

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  27. 877List or tableENA NS 62.29

    Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto is in two columns and verso is in one column. Recto is particularly messy. Mentions …

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  28. 878List or tableENA 3602.7

    Bifolio from an account book. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions mainly Muslim business partners such as Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Muḥammad and …

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  29. 879Legal documentMoss. VII,8.3

    Fragment of a partnership agreement. The trader [Abū l-Surūr] Peraḥya [b. Tiqva ha-Levi?] Ibn al-Amʿaṭ (known from several other documents from the second half of …

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  30. 880LetterT-S 12.85

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a certain Avraham, c/o the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣā'igh, in Fustat. The sender asks the addressee to send …

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    1. []הב[ . . . . . .] מ . []
    2. ענה [. . .] . . יכ . . . . אמ . . []
    3. יא מולאי אנעם עלי ממלוכך
    4. בדראעין עלאים ויכונו צחבה
    5. אלמכארי ואישמא כאן תמנהם
    6. אעל…

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  31. 881State documentT-S AS 176.144

    Probably a state/fiscal document. Mentions a date, then a space, then "al-jahābidha" (the tax collectors), then a space, then at the bottom a date span. …

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  32. 882LetterENA NS 31.16

    Letter from קלדה the wife of Meir Ṭaras(?) to דייצה the wife of Avraham Ḥalafta(?). In Ladino. Needs examination.

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  33. 883State documentCUL Or.1081 1.7

    Recto: Fragment of an Arabic-script state document, likely a decree. Verso: Reused for a Hebrew text, probably literary. The ink has faded to silver/white.

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  34. 884LetterT-S NS 342.71

    Fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.

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  35. 885Legal documentT-S G1.47

    Fragment with several different text blocks, chiefly a responsum attributed to the late Yaʿaqov Canpanton (d. before 1439 CE). Location: probably Spain. Dating: ca. second …

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  36. 886LetterMoss. Ia,22.2

    Interesting, late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "the land of the Christians" to al-Muʿallim Yūsuf, the shammas of the synagogue, Cairo. The writer narrates in brief …

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  37. 887State documentT-S Ar.34.65

    Petition, bottom left fragment, in Arabic script. Not a lot of content is preserved but the petitioner owes a debt and the ghuramāʾ are pressing …

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    1. ]وحمل الغرما الى[
    2. ]...على المملوك واحسانا[
    3. انهى ذلك والراي الاعلى [في ذلك ان شا الله]
    4. الحمد]لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا
    5. [محمد نبيه واله وسلم تس…

    1. ] and the debtors took him to [

    2.].. On the slave and kindness [

    3. ]he reports that and the lofty resolution [regarding this if God wills]

    4. ]

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  38. 888LetterENA NS 7.83

    Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the name Moshe. Instructing the (male) addressee not to neglect washing another man's clothes and fulfilling his …

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  39. 889State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 789

    State-issued rent receipt for Ḥasan b. Thābit for his dwelling in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat). Needs further examination.

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  40. 890List or tableT-S AS 202.408

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Underneath a short book list in Judaeo-Arabic: תפסיר תורה בראשית ואלה שמות [[ותרגם נביאים]] ותורה ופטרתה ושרח תורה

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  41. 891Unknown typeENA NS 79.177

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  42. 892Literary textJRL B 6864

    Marginal notes in Judaeo-Arabic on top of an almost entirely effaced literary text in Hebrew. One says "al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh" and another "he disappeared after …

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  43. 893Literary textT-S Ar.30.111

    Fragment of a bifolium with recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, probably alchemical.

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  44. 894Legal documentT-S 8J5.5

    Legal document. Iqrār (Hebrew script) in which Yūsuf b. ʿAlī buys a Maghribī female slave named Ḥadaq ("pupil [of the eye]") from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ …

    1. חצר אלינא אנן דחתימין לתתא //אלקאהרי// יוסף בר עלי נע
    2. ואקר אנה באע [גא]ריתה אלמדעאה חדק
    3. אלמגרביה מן שלמה בר צמח אלטביב //ביע גלב//
    4. בתמן מבלגה יד דינ…

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  45. 895State documentT-S AS 172.313

    Small fragment of official correspondence, reused for literary text in Hebrew script. Only a few words preserved.

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  46. 896Unknown typeENA NS 85.702

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  47. 897List or tableT-S K11.45

    Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The entries are fairly well-preserved, some are crossed out. Requires …

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  48. 898LetterT-S 12.289

    Letter of recommendation from Yehuda to Avraham ha-Zaqen about a righteous silk weaver named Tahor al-Talmid from the pupils of Avraham Maimonides (min jumlat aṣḥāb …

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    1. עבדו ומודה חסדו
    2. יהודה
    3. וכהניה אלביש ישע וג
    4. תקדמת כתבי אלי חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלחבר כגק' מר ור
    5. אברהם הזקן היקר השר הנכבד החכם והנבון תפארת ה…

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  49. 899Legal documentT-S NS J25

    Draft of the beginning of a legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated 1151/52 CE (1463 Seleucid), under the reshut of Shemuel ha-Nagid. The case involves the …

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  50. 900LetterT-S 13J21.15

    Letter drafts from a certain Shelomo. Rudimentary handwriting. On recto he states that he is unable to come because his father is sick. The draft …

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