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  1. 9751LetterENA 2727.55

    Eliyyahu, apparently addressed to Makārim, who is probably the same as Abū l-Makārim b. al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter opens "may God judge between Barakāt b. al-Dayyān [=me] and Makārim [=you]."

    1. בר
    2. ישפוט השם בין ברכאת בן אלד/י/אן ובין מכארם
    3. לא שך אן פי קלב אלשיך אבי אלמכארם אבן אלשיך
    4. אלתלמיד אבו אלרצא החכם והנבון נע דחול מן
    5. סבב כצאמה מע אכי …

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  2. 9752Legal documentENA 2808.49

    Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-ʿIzz (all called 'al-rayyis,' probably meaning physician here).

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  3. 9753State documentENA 2808.56

    The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to file a complaint with a higher authority over such a little matter" (...fa-yakūn al-mamlūk mamlūk mawlānā ʿumrī kulluh yuḥrijunī an ashtakī li-l-sulṭān ʿalā hadhā l-miqdār wa-mawlānā...).

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    1. ويكون المملوك مملوك مولانا عمري كل يحرجني
    2. ان اشتكي للسلطان على هذا المقدار
    3. ومولانا محاشا من هذا المملوك ينهي
    4. ان وسيد المملوك الذي في البلد ما …

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  4. 9754List or tableENA 2943.41

    Several other entries on the recto also name individuals with the Ottoman title çavuş, such as: Muḥammad Çavuş and Ferḥat Çavuş.

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  5. 9755LetterENA 3140.2

    "I thought you were a religious, praying man. . . ." She also mentions that her mother died. Needs further examination.

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  6. 9756Paraliterary textENA 3207.17

    Contains some Arabic words inserted into Hebrew script; 'law taʿllaq ʿalā', muʿallaq ʿalaihā, muʿallaq. The bottom half of the recto contains 6 lines in what looks like code or a cipher with some symbols that look like Arabic letters.

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  7. 9757List or tableENA 3576.2

    Writing exercises and alphabetical practice in list format with a wide a variety of subject matter. The student practiced Hebrew letters, Jewish legal formularies, and on one occasion wrote out the entire Coptic cursive alphabet (verso). The Hebrew (i.e. Rashi) paleography helps to estimate the dating of this document as fifteenth- to seventeenth-century.

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  8. 9758List or tableENA 3602.7

    Sums are large: 300 dinars, 150 dinars, 25 dinars. Also mentions Abū Yaʿqūb and various quantities of maqṭaʿ cloths.

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  9. 9759Legal documentENA 4011.22

    The parties: Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣabbāgh b. Abū l-[...]; Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Dayyan; Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ al-Tājir and his brother Abū l-[...]. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  10. 9760Legal documentENA 4020.62

    Upper right fragment, recto: Bottom left corner of a letter in Hebrew sent from the community of Aleppo (צובה) to another community. In Hebrew. Mentions Efrayim, a dignitary (sar) named Abū Manṣūr ha-Gizbar ("the treasurer"), [...] ha-Kohen b.

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  11. 9761List or tableENA 4100.21b

    The entries list various items of furniture and household goods, their values, and people associated with them. The last four entries all have the word "nafadha" above them ("it was carried out"). The names include al-Dayyan; Ṭāhir; and Mufaḍḍal (Ṣayrafī?). The items include tables (מאידה), chairs (כרסי), steps (?

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  12. 9762State documentENA 4101.1

    Seems to be regarding the administration of the dhimmīs who live (al-mustamirrīn al-qiyām) in a certain district (nāḥiya).

    1. اليهم بالكشف عما يكمل ناحيته من الذمة المستمرين القيام
    2. وما يجدد بها من التـ[]ـس والطاري لسـ[
    3. سنة تسع واربعين وخمس مائة ونظم الاعمال بذلك
    4. والشهادة اخ…

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  13. 9763LetterENA NS 2.40

    Some persons are mentioned: Abū l-Faraj ibn al-Tawwazī, Sulaymān, and the nephew (brothers' son) of Khalfūn. Dating: ca. 1200 CE (Abū ʿImrān Moshe Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim and Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Tawwazī are both known from other documents from this period).

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    1. אלשיך אלאגל אבי עמראן [כג]ק [מר]
    2. ור משה הכהן הזקן הנכבד תפארת
    3. הכהנים נאמן הסוחרים חמדת השרים
    4. עין העדה תפארת ישראל ויהודה אדאם
    5. אללה עזה וחרס מג…

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  14. 9764LetterENA NS 7.71

    Refers to the remainder of the price of a female donkey; a request for a fatwā from 'adonenu'; somebody who took an oath not to pray 'behind me' (i.e., when Moshe is leading services); this was followed by great regret; continues to discuss oaths and cantors and a place where the is no other cantor; mentions Shemini ʿAṣeret; somebody planning to enter Cairo (אלקהרה); a request for a maqṭaʿ cloth from the clothier (al-bazzāz); greetings to Abū ʿAlī.

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  15. 9765Legal documentENA NS 17.28

    Mevorakh Ibn [...], now remarrying another woman, undertakes to provide for his divorcee Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yosef (the mother of his son Abū l-ʿAlāʾ) 1/3 dinar per month (= 4 dinars per year) for a period of 4 years.

    1. [סת אלבית בת י]וסף נע אם ולדי אבו אלעלא אד[ ]
    2. [ ] ביננא משאגראת אפצת אלי אלפרקה פא[ ]ת [ ]
    3. [ב]רי וטלקתהא בעד אן אבראתהא ואבר[א]תני בראאת קא[טעאת כל …

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  16. 9766List or tableENA NS 27.7 + ENA 1822a.83 + ENA 1822a.82 + ENA NS 39.2 + ENA 1822a.83a

    appears in the third line up from the bottom of the scan. The latter surname also appears in l. 2r as part of another entry where funduqli coinage is in use.

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  17. 9767List or tableENA NS 28.20

    "New Cairo, Thursday, early: an appointment with al-Sadīd. Toward nighttime: an appointment with Waliyy al-Dawla.

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  18. 9768Legal documentENA NS 49.31

    Husband: Shammas b. ʿAbd al-Karīm known as Muṣallī. Wife: Sitt al-Bayt bt.

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  19. 9769Paraliterary textENA NS 63.18

    The second mentions Alexandria and gives the year 1481 Seleucid = 566 AH, which is 1170 CE.

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  20. 9770LetterENA NS I.82

    He now asks for malāff(?) ẓāhiriyya(?) from Dār al-Bayḍ ("Casablanca"), perhaps a type of garment. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh al-Baghdādī should send it to him with the muleteer (ḥammār).

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  21. 9771List or tableHalper 129

    And there are verses by al-Mutanabbī on the east wind, copied by someone who was not a fan (lā raḍiya Allāh ʿanhu): الجزوا (الجزء) الاول من ديوان ابي الطيب المتنبي البصري(؟) لا رضي الله عنه من قوله في الصبا: أَبلى الهَوى أَسَفاً يَومَ النَوى بَدَني وَفَرَّقَ الهَجرُ بَينَ الجَفنِ وَالوَسَنِ.

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  22. 9772LetterHalper 381

    He reports that he sent all the money that Sālim b. Khaṣīb(?) owed to Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn, namely 21 dinars + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/8.

    1. עבדהא
    2. שמואל בר יהודה נע
    3. בשמ רחמ
    4. אעלם אלחצרה אלסאמיה אלאגליה אלעאליה אלמקדמה(?)
    5. תבת אללה סעדהא וכבת חאסדהא ו . . . . אנני
    6. קד אנפדת אלי אלמולא אלשיך א…

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  23. 9773Legal documentJRL Archive GN 2111/30

    .); "the polisa, that is to say the acknowledgment, from that which is owed to me [...] in Alexandria" (הפוליסה ר״ל ההודאה ממה שיש לי . . . .באסכנדיריאה); a claim that someone made (טענה שטען . . . . ); and the consul (קונשול) (penultimate line of recto and second line of verso).

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  24. 9774List or tableJRL C 159

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of expenses and purchases for various liturgical calendar weeks (i.e. the week of Kedoshim parsha) and the food items for a Passover seder are also listed. The itemized accounts are extremely well-detailed: i.e. soap, lemon, rice, wax, beans, taḥīna, among many other entries.

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  25. 9775LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/19

    Shemuel's widow is not Moshe's mother. Also a certain Muḥsin is mentioned (line 10) and again in line 16 in which possibly the begining of the word ha-paqid, the representative (wakīl) can be seen.

    1. [......]ל... ע[...]ל..ק

    2. [...] שכר טוב מאלוהינו [...]

    3. [...ת]בינו זה [ ..עס]ק משה בן שמואל [...]

    4. אלמא[...] אשר ממדינת רמלה ודע יקירנו כי נפ…

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  26. 9776State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 157

    State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş are to be paid five ways by Mūsā Ben-Naʿīm, a ṣarrāf in the state administration.

    1. باسم
    2. مذكورين والفتالين من أجل أجرة فتل الحرير الوارد منهم في شهر جماد
    3. اخر سنة ١٢٣٧ بيع وثلاثون .....(?) عما دفع قدر على مرتبهم
    4. محمد حجر بدوي حجر علي…
    1. In the name of
    2. the spinners mentioned below, receipt of compensation for spinning the silk, the income from them in the month of Jumād[a]
    3. Ākhr 1237,…

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  27. 9777Legal documentJTS MS 9160.5

    Given the context, שראבי may also indicate some type of gemstone possibly through the root س-ر-ب (mirage).

    1. בש׳ רחמ׳
    2. וחנ׳ 
    3. למא כאן בתאריך יום אלתלאתה תאני עשר יום מן שהר סיון שנת אלף ושמנה מאות ועשר
    4. וארבעה שנים לשטרות למנינא דרגילנא לממני ביה הכא בעיר אלקא…

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  28. 9778LetterMIAC 221

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37).

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  29. 9779LetterMoss. II,101.2

    Mentions a benefactor of 'the Alexandrians,' but the context is unclear. Greetings to the addressee's siblings and to Khallūf.

    1. הדה ולא מן זכות אן תפצל ואן יגעלך מקצוד [[מא]] פי אלכיר ואלזכות
    2. ווחק אבי אנה יעאמל אלאסכנדראניין בכל גמיל ולה מוצע הו מנזל
    3. ללאסכנדראניין פבחק מא בינ…

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  30. 9780LetterMoss. II,152.1

    He concludes, "The amir intends to come in [to Fusṭāṭ], and you must go to him and welcome him and thank him. Likewise Muwaffaq al-Dawla al-Ustādh. By God, I have the utmost gratitude for him."

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  31. 9781LetterMoss. II,154.2

    Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī (Fustat), ca. 1065.

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    1. [כתאבי יא]ולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ונעמאך
    2. [ ]נה אליך יום אלגמעה לד בקין מן סיון כתמה אללה [עלינא ועליך]
    3. [באחסן כ]אתמה אע…

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    1. (2−1) אני כותב לך, בני היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת חסדיו לך .... אליך, ביום ו', כ"ז בסיון, יחתום אותו אלוהים עלינ…

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  32. 9782Legal documentMoss. V,382

    Assaf, Texts, p. 172, and also apparently in Rivlin (non vidi). MR

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  33. 9783Legal documentMoss. VII,7

    Another 4 months are stipulated. There is also a sum of 70 dinars involved somehow. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  34. 9784Legal documentMoss. VII,35

    The testimony is about a woman who "cries out and writhes in pain (tastaghīth wa-tataḍawwar) from her husband's beating of her with his foot." A group of Alexandrians then enters the story. The rest of the document is missing.

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  35. 9785LetterT-S 6J4.33 + T-S NS 303.7

    Letter addressed to Yaʿaqov b. Raḥamim al-Miṣrātī, the servant (? ṣabiyy) of Yaʿaqov b. […] Greetings are sent to Sulaymān, Yiṣḥaq, David, and a woman ('al-muʿallima') named Saʿādāt. She is asked to look after Yaʿaqov.

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  36. 9786Legal documentT-S 8.104

    He arranges to have his two sons Abū Saʿd and Maḥāsin be the heirs of the balance of his property, and he orders that his wife Sitt al-[...] bt. Abū l-Maḥāsin function as executor for all his children.

    1. אמר אלשיך אבו אלמנגא כגק מור שלמה בר מור סעדיה נע
    2. אן [[אלאבנ]] אלג בנאת[[ה]] אלדון אלבלאג אלתי אסמאהן
    3. מדללה ונצר ונבא //אדפעו להן מאלא// יגאהזו //בה…

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  37. 9787Legal documentT-S 8.184

    Yequtiʾel b. Moshe is also known from T-S 24.1, dated 1082 CE, and numerous other documents from the India Book.

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  38. 9788Legal documentT-S 8J4.4

    Legal document in which Shimʿon ha-Levi agrees to rent his wife a place to keep her belongings separate from his; Shimʿon also takes over her dowry without permission. Signed by Ghālib ha-Kohen b.

    הסכם בין בעל ואשתו

    1. חצר בית דין שמעון בן לוי פי כלף
    2. וקע בינה ובין זוגתה ואדעת עליה
    3. בדנאניר עלי צפאת פאקר מן גמיע
    4. מא דכרתה עלי תמניה דנאניר
    5. מן שי כאן …

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  39. 9789LetterT-S 8J25.12

    Letter from Ibrahim Ibn al-Ḥaver, probably in Fustat, to Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Melammed, in Malīj.

    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי
    3. אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ונעמאך וגעלני
    4. מן כל סו פדאך וממא אעלמך אן מן
    5. יום גינא דיאר מצר לם יצל…

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  40. 9790LetterT-S 8J25.19

    Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה

    2. וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר ליז כלון מן מרחשון כתמה

    3. אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה תקדמת כתבי אליך…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך
    2. ואת שלומך ואת חסדו לך, מן הבית, בי"ו במרחשון, יחתום אותו
    3. אלוהים ע…

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  41. 9791Legal documentT-S 10J2.4

    The divorce is between Ṣedaqa b. Mūsā and Umm al-Khayr bt. Mūsā. The witnesses are Ṣedaqa b. Naḥūm ha-Kohen and Wahab b. […] On the verso is a note in Arabic script regarding Umm al-Khayr returning engagement gifts. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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  42. 9792Legal documentT-S 10J2.27

    Husband: Manṣūr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Bū Naṣr. Witnessed by: Mevorakh b.

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  43. 9793Legal documentT-S 10J7.10

    Yūsuf, known as Ibn Kujik (כוגך, Kushek, Persian 'Small') and Abū ʿAlī b. Shemuʾel b. Shelomo, known as Ibn al-Dustarī.

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  44. 9794LetterT-S 10J15.23

    (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 218-219 and partial translation in Mediterranean Society, III, p. 228.) See also T-S NS 163.86 (PGPID 23740).

    1. יצל הדא אלכתאב אלי ס"ת אלפצלה(!) אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עזהא
    2. ונעמאהא ומן חסן אלתופיק מא אכלאהא ואגמעני ואייאהא עלי
    3. אסר חאל אן שא אללה בפצלה וכרמה וחק…

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  45. 9795LetterT-S 10J17.23

    The letter was sent with al-Shaykh al-Kohen Abū l-Fakhr. (Information from Goitein's index cards; Goitein did not think the recipient was actually his father but does not explain why.)

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    1. לא אוחש אללה מן כדמה מולאי אלסייד אלואלד ולא ממן יליה
    2. פאללה תע מן אפצאלה ואחסאנה לא יכליה ומן גמיע
    3. אעדאה יפדיה וינגיה ויסעדה פי כל מא יעאניה
    4. ו…

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  46. 9796LetterT-S 10J18.9

    The sender complains that business is poor; mentions Alexandria and Fustat/Cairo; mentions various people such as his sister Jamīla, possibly the female slave of his cousin (ואלגרייה מתע אבן עמתי) David Falījī.

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  47. 9797LetterT-S 10K15.8

    Maybe an ethical will, telling someone to never cease praising God. Might also be a very elaborate letter. Spanish-influenced hand.

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  48. 9798Legal documentT-S 12.62

    (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached notes.

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  49. 9799Legal documentT-S 12.707

    This fragment contains the end of an agreement about a fictive sale of 1/3 of a house possessed by one Shelomo known as Tamīm, also involving a woman. On "fictive sales" as vehicles for obtaining interest, see Med Soc III, p. 330n77 and T-S 12.502 (doc. 43 in Gershon Weiss's dissertation).

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    2. מא ישהד בה אלשטר אל[ ]
    3. מתקדם בינהמא ואן ליס לה עליהא ע[לק ]
    4. סנין אלדי תברעת בהא ולו ביום ואחד זאיד ענהא ולא יקום להא [ ]
    5. מנהא תמן אלתל…

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  50. 9800Legal documentT-S 13J3.8

    Adaya, known as Ben ‘Adi, receives a loan of 45 dirhams from Hibat Allah, the orphan of the recently deceased Abu al-Faraj, in the last third of Elul 1460 sel.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בסוף
    2. שטרא דנן כן הוה חצר אלינא מרור שלמה בר עדיה נע דדיע (צ"ל: דידיע)
    3. בן עאדי פי צחה מן עקלה וגואז אמר…

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