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  1. 9351List or tableT-S K15.102

    Large, calligraphic alms list. Dating: first half of the twelfth century. According to Goitein, written for the purpose of allocating communal assistance. Cohen: "What kind of assistance was meant cannot be determined (cash?)[…] Later in the list we come upon an unusual entry, the "concealed" glassmaker, zajjaj mastur, nestled among a (poorly paid) parchment maker, a mason (another low-paid wage-eamer), and an immigrant woman (a widow, apparently) from Acre who was living in the home of one of the prominent merchants of Fustat, al-Lebdī. This glassmaker, a representative of the "working poor" and ashamed to appear on an alms list, had himself listed (or was listed by the charity overseers) both anonymously and as mastur, indicating that he normally did not seek charity.

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    1. In (your) n(ame) O Me(rciful)
    2. man from a good family someone’s acquaintance 3 Umm Salāma 3  4  5
    3. the father-in-law of “the hea…

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  2. 9352State documentAIU IX.A.3

    The text is mostly not arranged in horizontal lines but is more sporadic, with some sections written in larger script than others. The name ʿAbd al-Malik al-[...] appears in the upper left. One line may mention the end of (salkh) Dhū l-Ḥijja.

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  3. 9353LetterBL OR 5541.1

    Ibrahim had sent with Abu Sa'id b. al-Sha''ab (another Ibn al-Sha''ab is mentioned in T-S 16.134, v23-24).

    1. [כתר] אללה חטה מנהא וגעלהא ענדה כאמלה ואלחמד
    2. ללה רב אלעאלמין וען שוק שדיד //אלי// משאהדה גליל חצרתה
    3. חרסה אללה ווקאה והו אלמסול תע פי קרב אלאגתמאע מע…

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  4. 9354List or tableBodl. MS heb. d 66/59

    Detailed commercial accounts for the year 1526 Seleucid = 611 AH = 1214/15 CE of a silk merchant who served also as Parnas. His business correspondent was charged with collecting a yearly pledge for Yiftaḥ, wherefore this detail of communal finance appears in the private account of these two merchants.

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    1. אנפצלת נפקה ר שלמה שצ מן אברהם
    2. ואלד יוסף ואעתזל כל ואחד מנהמא בעיאלה
    3. ען צאחבה מן תאריך יז תמוז קכו
    1. שהדנא עלי סאלם בן יוסף אן ענדה למכארם

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  5. 9355Paraliterary textBodl. MS Heb. d 68/105

    The same man appears in T-S 8J6.9 (1231 CE); his brother Yosef b. Shemuel was also a well-known scribe and judge; and their father Shemuel was a judge in Maimonides' court.

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  6. 9356State documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/4–5

    But the roster contains errors, such as parts of the sequence that are repeated. There are also jottings, including a biblical quotation. (Marina Rustow, with information on the calendar roster from Sacha Stern)

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  7. 9357LetterCUL Or.1080 J84

    Mentions places such as Alexandria and Crete. Addressed to Yaʿaqov Kapiloti (?

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  8. 9358LetterCUL Or.1081 1.75

    Mentions someone who "dispersed" a group of people; Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥalabī and Ibn [...]; a prayer for God's vengeance; the phrase "maʿāshir Yisraʾel" typical of a speech addressing a community; Rosh ha-Shana; the "dispersed, fleeing, oppressed" people again; and how the writers "have had to resort to appealing for help"; and "blood and money." The original document was significantly larger and all of the context is lost. Reused on recto for a commentary on Genesis.

    1. ] . . . . . .
    2. ] וגרגרהם ושתתהם אליום
    3. ] אבו מנצור אלחלבי ואבן
    4. ] והאל ינקום נקמתינו מהם
    5. ] מעאשר ישראל געל
    6. ]תם עידתם רא[ס] אלסנה
    7. ] משתתין הארבין מטלומי…

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  9. 9359Legal documentENA 1822a.38

    of the warehouse and accompaniment(?) to Syria (al-Shām) and visiting/solicitation of Yiṣḥāq al-ʿAjamī."

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  10. 9360List or tableENA 1822a.82 + ENA NS 39.2 + ENA 1822a.83 + ENA 1822a.83a + ENA NS 27.7

    Some of the verso's listed entries begin with the Judeo-Arabic word "wuṣūl / ווצול" which may be listed with a Ladino plural ending as "wuṣūles de" and may indicate incoming payments (l. 5-6v). The verso also lists names, such as: Abd Raḥman and Khalīl Effendi.

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  11. 9361LetterENA 2225.4

    in ṭāba qalbuhu maʿa l-mashāyikh) and may encourage him to come together with Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen or with al-Dayyān Rabbenu [...]. On verso there are a couple words in Arabic script (incl. qīrāṭ) and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  12. 9362LetterENA 2808.19

    Letter from a young man named Sibāʿ, in Alexandria, to his mother, in Fustat, but addressed to his brother Abū l-Najm.

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    1. [בשמ רחמ]
    2. כתאבי אליך יא ואלדתי א]טאל אללה בקאך ומן חסן אל
    3. תופיק לא אכלאך וכבת באלד]ל חסדתך ואעדאך גמע
    4. אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במ]נה וכרמה פ[אנה…

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  13. 9363List or tableENA 3909.2 + ENA 3909.1

    Another term, possibly an abbreviation, that appears in some entries is "صو" which could also be read as "حو". MCD.

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  14. 9364Legal documentENA 4011.29

    Dated: Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid, which is December 1181, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Abū l-Munajjā al-Kohen, surnamed al-Zariz, collector for the charitable foundations in New Cairo, turns in 100 dirhams that were used for the distribution of clothing, and an additional 50 that were spent on another approved charity.

    1. אחצר אלכהן אלשיך אבו אלמנגא
    2. אלזריז גאבי רבע אלהקדש
    3. באלקאהרה אלמחרוסה רשותיה
    4. דאדוננו גאוננו שר שלום הלוי
    5. גאון יעקב ירום הודו אמן
    6. מן אגרה אלרבע אלמדכו…

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  15. 9365LetterENA 4020.20

    Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Busir, to Abu al-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b.

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    1. על שמך

    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה מן בוציר יום

    3. אלאתנין מסתהל אלול ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגת[מאע]

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    1. (2−1) על שמך; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך, מבוציר, ביום
    2. ב', א' באלול. שלומי טוב, ואני מאושר, אבל אנ…

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  16. 9366Legal documentENA 4020.36

    Written and signed by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi; also signed by Netanʾel b. Moshe. Concerning a lawsuit regarding a house.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] מעהם פי אלגזו אלמדכור וישהדוה
    2. אלמבלג אלמדכור ואלדי ען אלגזו אלמדכ[ור] פקאלו לה [. .]מהא אחצר
    3. אלמסטור אלמדכור …

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  17. 9367LetterENA NS 2.16

    Eliyyahu to Binyamin the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-isrāʾīlī). The writer sends the recipient good wishes on Hanukka, congratulates him on his wife's deliverance (meaning that she did not die nor was she harmed in childbirth) and wishes him that God may give him a male descendant.

    1. עבד עבדיו מעשה ידיו מודה חסדיו שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין נמשול
    2. אהני מולאי וסיידי ותאג ראסי ועזי וסנדי וגאיה אמלי אלמולא
    3. אלאגל אלסייד אלאציל אלפאצל אלמתיל…

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  18. 9368List or tableENA NS 12.28

    A variety of names and locations are mentioned, such as: Sūq al-Darra(?) (אלדרה) and Ben-ʿAwūn al-Bramūnī. The repeated word אסקאלה (isqāla) likely references the loading docks of a port (iskele in Turkish, from scala in Italian).

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  19. 9369LetterENA NS 22.17

    Nissim to his brother Abu al-Khayr. The letter contains an account for raw Susa cloth, sent from Fustat to another town for treatment, 12 dirhams, plus 2 dirhams for the bearer, all paid in advance by the writer, who asks the recipient not to deliver the cloth to the proprietor before he had settled the bill.

    1. בש
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי וענד[נא
    3. אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמ[.
    4. לו דהבת יאכי אשרח לך מא
    5. לחקני פי הדה אלספרה לכנת
    6. תרי ללדהר עגב עלי סלאמה
    7. ואקל מא ל…

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  20. 9370Legal documentENA NS 29.9

    On the facing page there is another list (also a trousseau list?) in a different hand. Several of the items are written in Ladino.

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  21. 9371LetterENA NS 54.5

    The other manuscripts are also not selling well.

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    1. لے
    2. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ וינהי אנה מא
    3. בקא מגהוד פי אמר אלנסכה אלדי לסיידנא
    4. ואלדי כאן קד תקרר אנה יאכדהא עאד ען
    5. אכדהא וקד עדת אערצתהא עלי גירה
    6. ומא…

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  22. 9372LetterENA NS 63.13

    Mentions Avraham Castro; Ibrāhīm al-Kalaḥ; Mūsā Ḥaqqān. Mentions taxes incumbent on "all who arrive from Hind and Sind and the lands of the Arabs," more than the tithe (ʿushr).

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  23. 9373Unknown typeENA NS 71.9

    An official (vazifedâr) is mentioned in l. 4 and an urban district in l. 7 (mahallede), missing the exact location along the paper tear. The verso contains a curious geometric border design with alternating pink squares.

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  24. 9374State documentENA NS I.31

    There are three interspersed lines of Arabic script between the two lines of the decree which also seem to be in a chancery hand, probably from later reuse.

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  25. 9375Legal documentENA NS I.83

    Legal document concerning the divorce of a woman Sitt al-Dār, who refused to receive her bill of divorce. The procedure was supervised by “sayyidnā al-nagid" R. Ḥananʾel (b. Shemuʾel). This document is discussed in Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, p. 114.

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  26. 9376Legal documentFriedberg MSS 9-004/22

    For "the large dār with the square door" in Qaṣr al-Rūm. Describing its attributes and boundaries. Mentions two bathhouses: Ḥammām al-Faʾr and Ḥammām Būrān(?). May be related to the next shelfmark.

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  27. 9377Legal documentHalper 335

    Faraḥ gives to his sister Munā and Sittūna (though in the second part of the second draft he gives to Sittūna only) a house in the al-Mashshāṭ street of the al-Jaʿfariyya quarter in Ṣahrajt in Lower Egypt, worth 10 dinars.

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  28. 9378Legal documentHalper 362

    , documenting that she is taking "the vow of widowhood" to collect her ketubba payment. The document also involves the legal guardian of the widow's children, Yahuda Temīm.

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שרצתה היקרה הצנועה מ׳ מלכה ת׳׳מ בת היקר כ׳׳ר מ[...] אמארילייו יצ׳׳ו אלמנת החכם המנוח כה׳׳ר יאיר אבידארע נ׳׳ע
    3. להשבע שבועת אלמנה ולגבות כת…

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  29. 9379LetterJRL A 619

    Mentions the purchase of a censer with a handle (yad al-midkhana) by "al-kohen" and mentions "my master Abū Isḥāq."

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  30. 9380Credit instrument or private receiptJRL A 909

    Given that the Ottoman kuruş is mentioned, which was not in wide circulation until after 1703, it is possible to estimate this document's dating as eighteenth- or nineteenth-century (the paleography also matches this designation). MCD.

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  31. 9381Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/17

    Involves Abū l-Ḥasan Yoshiyya ha-Nasi and Daniel ha-Nasi; also mentions Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya; someone known as Ṣahrajtī; and Ibrāhīm Ibn Sughmār.

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  32. 9382Literary textMIAC 53

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 36).

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  33. 9383LetterMIAC 197

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 28).

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  34. 9384List or tableMIAC 272

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 63).

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  35. 9385Literary textMIAC 284

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 30).

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  36. 9386LetterMoss. IV,12.1

    Begins with a mention of two wicked men who have been spreading slander, one named Yosef b. Abū l-Faraj. Also mentions Yehuda. Needs further examination.

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  37. 9387LetterMoss. IV,48.1

    The letter mentions Mūsā (or Nissi?) b. Qūqū al-Bahnasī (or rather al-Nafūsī). Not much more is preserved.

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  38. 9388LetterMoss. IV,73

    Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to the well-known merchant Abū Zikrī Yehuda b.

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  39. 9389LetterMoss. IV,78.1

    There is a postscript added by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī, who wants the addressee to ask Abū Zikrī Yehuda al-Sijilmāsī Kohen (the well-known representative of the merchants in Fustat) if the 'khuṣrawān' has reached him with the Raʾīs.

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    1. אבו זכרי יהודה אלסגלמאסי כהן שמ צור
    2. ותסאלה אן כאן וצל אליה אלכצרואן צחבה אלראיס
    3. . . בל . . . ערפני בדלך לא עדמת תפצלה
    4. פעל דלך מ…

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  40. 9390Legal documentMoss. V,384.3

    Un-conserved, so no numbers allocated to each fragment yet. Among the five minute frgaments in this folder there is one legal document written by Efrayim b. Shemarya, in which Shlomo b. Yosef al-Dim[yati] is approved as a representative for an orphan.

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  41. 9391LetterMoss. VII,184.2

    The letter concludes with blessings for the addressee(s). There are also three words in Arabic on verso; the first two appear to be ʿuṣāra barbārīs = barberry juice.

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  42. 9392LetterNLI 577.3/12

    Letter from ʿAllūsh b. Yeshuʿa (Qayrawan) to Ismaʿīl b. Avraham al-Andalusī (Fustat), ca. 1010.

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    1. כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך וכפאיתך וזאד מן פצלה אליך וגמיל
    2. מואהבה לדיך ברחמתה לנצ' תמוז מן אלקירואן…

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  43. 9393LetterT-S 8.41

    Ṭoviyya, in Jubayl (likely Byblos in present-day Lebanon, but there is also a Jubayl in Yemen). In Judaeo-Arabic, with some odd spellings.

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  44. 9394Legal documentT-S 8.274

    Ṣedaqa confirms that a house which he had given to his sister Umm al-[...] (who it seems had meanwhile died) and which was occupied by her son Abū ʿAlī, is given to the latter and his children.

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  45. 9395Legal documentT-S 8J5.14

    Dated: Tuesday, 27 Sivan 1497 Seleucid = 16 June 1186 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Involves Abū l-Ḥasan al-Muhadhdhab, Abū l-Majd al-Ṣabbāgh, a Muslim, and Abū l-Fakhr.

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  46. 9396Legal documentT-S 10J4.5

    Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation and court of law. Also signed by four others: Aharon b. David ha-Levi; Shemarya b.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . מוחסן . . . . . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] מא…

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  47. 9397Legal documentT-S 10J5.20

    Shelomo ha-Kohen (1127–39); also signed by Moshe b. Sadoq Av Beit Din (president of the high court) and Yehuda b.

    1. [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . י]עקב יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון עולם ותאכרת [כתאמתנא
    2. אלי חדש אדר ראשון מן אלסנה בעינהא שריר ובריר וקיים:

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  48. 9398Legal documentT-S 10J6.3

    Release granted by the wife of Abū l-Makārim al-Kātib to Abū l-Ḥasan, whom she releases from all obligations after having received from him three deeds of a house in the Mamsusa quarter inherited by her father.

    1. [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]ל[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  49. 9399Legal documentT-S 10J7.8

    Her ex-husband responds that she has assets and can indeed support herself. The text also mentions Avraham (known as Abū Kathīr) b. Shelomo b. [...].

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  50. 9400LetterT-S 10J11.16

    He writes that he received a letter delivered by a third person and also mentions his mother, ending the letter with greetings to the family members of a woman.

    1. תרום ידך על צריך וכל אויביך יכרתו
    2. כי ייט יהיה בכסלך ושמר רגלך מלכת (!)
    3. אריכות ימים ורוב שלומים וברכות מנעמים ממולאות מים ושם טוב בכל או . נים
    4. וחן וח…

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