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  1. 9901List or tableENA 2235.3

    Alphabets for children

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    Alphabets for children

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  3. 9903Literary textT-S NS 31.6

    Alchemical text.

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  4. 9904Literary textAIU XI.127

    id=deBoAAAAcAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP7. There are also biblical scraps and and at least two different handwritten fragments, and probably more hidden underneath various folds.

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  5. 9905LetterAIU XI.266

    If Sulaymān wishes to go down to al-Kawm al-Aḥmar ("the red mound," a pharaonic site in Upper Egypt), then the addressee should assist him and make sure that he is honored.

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  6. 9906Legal documentBL OR 5524.3

    Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, also signed by Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. Verso is blank.

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  7. 9907Legal documentBL OR 5524.6

    Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver, also signed by Shelomo b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Verso is blank.

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  8. 9908LetterBL OR 5544.4

    Ḥalfon reports that the letter of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣayrafī Dihqān arrived with the news that al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan was ill.

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  9. 9909Literary textBL OR 5554A.29

    A folio from a Judaeo-Arabic epistle/treatise on Hebrew grammar, listing the Masoretic pedigree of Aharon b. Moshe b. Asher, also mentioning R. Moshe Moheh and Moshe ha-'Azzati ha-Naqdan, and then going into a discussion of rules of sheva and dagesh.

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  10. 9910List or tableBL OR 5566C.1

    Of the eight persons listed under the second and third weeks, six recur also in the first, which contains fourteen names.

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  11. 9911LetterBL OR 5566C.5

    The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") and asks the addressee to help him settle the payments of the capitation tax ("al-mas").

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  12. 9912LetterBL OR 10589.14

    Mevorakh (r. 1112–1126 CE), as he sends greetings on verso "from our two sons Mevorakh and Yehuda" (וכן קבלוהו משני חמודינו מבורך ויהודה); we know from T-S 32.8 (PGPID 1812) that these were the names of Moshe's sons. Also mentions two judges. Merits further examination.

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  13. 9913List or tableBL OR 10599.27

    Some professions are listed and with further research the names of many community members: R. Yiṣḥaq Beirav, Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar, Efrayim al-Ḥāmī, Moshe Dammūhī, and others.

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  14. 9914Legal documentBL OR 12299.8

    Settlement of a conflict between a husband, Moshe ha-Sar ha-Adir, and his first wife, Sitt al-Kamāl, who nearly got divorced. The husband was spending 2/3 of his funds on his second wife (the 'ḍarra' of Sitt al-Kamāl) instead of treating them equally.

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  15. 9915LetterBodl. MS heb. a 2/18

    Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Qayrawan. Around 1045.

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    1. כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך
    2. מן אלאסכנדריה לג כלון מן סיון ערפך אללה ברכתה ומא יליה מן אל
    3. אשהר ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק א…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אחי ואדוני היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויחמיר את חסדיו לך,
    2. מאלכסנדריה, בג' בסיון, יודיעך אלוהים את ברכתו ואת ברכת
    3. החודשים…

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  16. 9916LetterBodl. MS heb. c 50/23

    In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning alimonies (15 dirhams and 3 waybas per month) which the wife of Faraḥ was being paid during the period she was nursing a boy. […] The brother of Faraḥ, Sālim, left and went to the army camp (al-ʿaskar). The sender asks Eliyyahu to bring up this matter with 'sayydinā' (probably Avraham Maimonides).

    1. אלממלוך
    2. דאוד
    3. ברוך הגבר אשר יבטח
    4. וצל כתאב אלמולא אלואלד אלאגל מר ור
    5. אליה הדיין החכם המפלא שצ וסררת
    6. בעאפיתהא וסלאמתהא הקבה יסתגיב
    7. מני פיהא צואלח אלדעא…

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  17. 9917LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/129

    People mentioned include the shammash Thābit, the Ḥaver, someone's father-in-law (ḥammūhu) Abū l-Ḥusayn; and Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣayrafī—this last is the person with whom Nissim sent his previous letter along with the medicinal electuary (maʿjūn).

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי אעלם בה מולאי אלמלמד נט ר[ח
    3. אן אלשמש תאבת אלכהן כאן קד סלם אלדפאתר
    4. אלדי לך ללחבר פלמא וצלת אעלמני בדלך
    5. פאנפדת אלי חמוה אבו אלחסי…

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  18. 9918LetterCUL Or.1080 J214

    Information from Goitein’s note cards and Med Soc II, 44. See also card #27137.

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    1. ואנא מריץ לאן כאן קד בקי פי רגלי
    2. עצם כרג בעד אן שדת עליה
    3. וקאסית מא הקבה עאלמה
    4. וללה אלחמד עלי חמיד אלעאקבה
    5. חצרתהא מכדומה באתם
    6. סלאם וגמיע מן ענ…

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  19. 9919List or tableENA 2898.7

    A few names are mentioned such as Moshe b. Ḥayyīm and Yiṣḥaq al-Sh__[?]. In the first entry the payment may be related to a quantity of leather (גלדי). […] The shelfmarks ENA 2898.7-14 may all be from the same booklet. MCD.

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  20. 9920Legal documentENA 3616.7

    , to Moshe Abudarham, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's identification of the addressee.

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  21. 9921Legal documentENA 4010.36 + PER H 1

    In the hand of the ḥaver ʿAmram b. Ṣedaqa (see also T-S AS 150.230, T-S 16.136, T-S AS 156.394, and T-S AS 150.230).

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    ENA 4101, fol. 36

    1. על שמיה דבריין יבנו ויצליחו
    2. ביום חמשתא בשבעה יומין לירחא דאלול דהיא שנת ארבעא אלפין
    3. ותמאני מאוון ותלתין ותשע שנין [לבריתיה] ד…

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    Ḥalfōn b. Aaron  

    Ghāliya daughter of Musāfir 

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    1. By the name of our Creator. May they build and prosper.
    2. On the fifth day (of the week),…

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  22. 9922State documentENA 4020.65

    Petition from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the caliph al-Ẓāhir (matn only) defending his position against Yūsuf al-Sijilmasi, the Iraqi leader in Palestine.

    1. ואלדי קצד אלדאעי בכניסתין וריאסתין ן
    2. אלסגל מאסי לאנהו אדא גאז אן תכון ריאסתין גאז אן תכון
    3. תלאתה ואכתר מן /דלך/ וודא דלך אלא מא לא (נ)האיה לה מן אלפת…

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    1. And as far as the argument in favor of the two synagogues and the two authorities is concerned, (it has already been refuted by) Ibn

    2. Sijilm…

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  23. 9923LetterENA 4100.7b

    Written in Judaeo-Arabic and a cipher (lines 7-12; noticed by OZ; probably this is also in Judaeo-Arabic). The portion of the letter not in cipher mostly consists of regards, and a complaint that the addressee had sent no letter ever since Abū Manṣūr had left her, and he is angry at her.

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  24. 9924List or tableENA NS 12.3

    The bottom of the verso has a note in Hebrew mentioning that Moshe ibn Sunbul went "from there (Abū Qīr?) to go to Alexandria" (~15 miles distance if Abū Qīr was implied).

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  25. 9925Legal documentENA NS 34.1

    Verso: Draft of a legal document in which Rabbenu Yeshaʿyahu sells a portion of a property adjacent to the house of Ibn Qashqūsh. Also involves Abū l-Maʿālī and the same sum of 400 dinars; someone's mother and wife; a woman's rights from her ketubba; and a library of books (dafātir, maṣāḥif, tafāsīr, mishnayot, talmud, perush, books of jurisprudence (kutub fiqh), and Arabic books).

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  26. 9926LetterENA NS 35.2

    Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems from a man to his brother Shemuel (or less likely his father, if the letter is read as a ב). Alexandria is mentioned in the first line. The addressee is to tell something confidential to Sari (?)

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  27. 9927LetterENA NS 47.21

    Business letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ṭulayṭulī to Abū al-Najm Hilāl b. Yosef ha-Qara.

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  28. 9928State documentENA NS 50.5

    The writer thanks the addressee for his benefactions and reports on a specific group of people who were consumed by greed and hence lost their decency. Mentions bāb al-Ṭāhir al-Nabawī, probably the Caliph himself, and reports that no traveler passed through the gates of southern Upper Egypt.

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    1. للحضور صحبة النايب مقتفي؟ الرجال…. ريب؟ 

    2. وعبد الغني وان رفعت الرخصة لهم وكثر طمعهم وقل بذاك عدالتهم؟

    3. والمملوك يشكر الانعام عليه بخروج الا…

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  29. 9929State documentENA NS 63.11

    Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just casual reuse of the state document. The second hand also seems like a chancery hand but is different from the first hand.

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    1. ]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟

    2. ]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها

    3. ] للنجاج باولاها واخراها

    4. ] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…

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  30. 9930List or tableENA NS 83.15 + ENA NS 83.65

    ENA 83.65 contains mirror-image text that looks quite similar to ENA NS 83.15r and also contains the word مولدخان. It does not appear to be a direct imprint, but it may be the imprint of another portion of the original document.

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  31. 9931List or tableF 1908.44JJ

    A full discussion may be found in Med Soc I, pp. 339ff. Recto, line 8, also contains a reference to a [fee for] sealing of the consignment and jahbadha.

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  32. 9932LetterJRL A 924

    This letter concerns a transaction in wheat (possibly one irdabb) and involving among others a haver ('member of the yeshiva'). If al-shaykh Yeshu'a (lines 3-4) is the same person as al-melammed ('the teacher', line 1), he may be identified as one of two persons attested in Geniza documents by the name Yeshu'a ha-melammed b.

    1. אלמולא אלמלמד שצ אלדי יעלם[.]
    2. לאבני דכל פי דכנה ויכד קמח
    3. אנ..........ה אלשיך
    4. ישועה שצ ואן חצל ידי ואן אכד ארדב
    5. ואדכל אלדי קבצה אלחבר מע אי מן גא
    6. ואל…

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  33. 9933LetterJRL B 5738

    An unnamed elder (titled 'the most illustrious, solid') directs the beadle Abu al-Tahir to furnish Harun the copyist with a good copy of a Torah scroll so that the latter can copy from it. Harun is to bring the book to the beadle each Friday, to be read on the Sabbath. A beadle named Abu al-Tahir b. Mahfuz was active between 1183 and 1223 (Med.

    1. חצרה אלשיך אלאגל אלמכין שצ תנעם תקול
    2. ללשמש אבי אלטאהר ידפע ללשיך הארון אלנאסך
    3. נסכה גיידה מחררה מן אלארבעה אלאול ינקל
    4. מנהא והו יחצרהא לה כל יום גמעה …

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  34. 9934List or tableJRL C 119

    The accounts relate to income (וארד) from a variety of sources, such as the "ṭaʾifat al-qaṣabaya[?]" (טאייפת אלקצבאייה) which may be an erratic spelling meant to refer to a butcher's guild in Cairo. The following names appear in the accounts: (recto) Muḥammad Ṭara[?], al-Ḥajj Ismaʿīl, (verso) Muḥammad Ḥarārī, and Nissīm Ḥāmī, among others.

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  35. 9935List or tableJRL C 162

    On the recto there is also a list of books in the Bible and the corresponding totals of their respective chapters (i.e.

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  36. 9936LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/5

    Information from Avraham David's edition via FGP. This shelfmark also includes a tiny fragment of another letter.

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  37. 9937LetterMIAC 104

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 34).

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  38. 9938LetterMIAC 23973.63

    Letter from Ḥāmid al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. The letter is primarily a letter of introduction for Saʿāda, who has been sent to carry out various tasks on behalf of Ḥāmid al-Kanzī.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. توجه اطال الله بقا صاحب الخيل ووزير الملك مته

    3. واكشيله اطال الله بقاه وادام سعادته وسلامته

    4. ونعمته و{لـ}ـحراسته ص…

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.

    2. May God prolong the life of the Master of the Horses, the vizier of the king

    3. and his …

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  39. 9939LetterMoss. IV,20.3

    He wants to know which ships have arrived, the news of the merchants and the merchandise, and sends greetings to Abū Bakr and al-F[...] b. Ilyās (?). Fragment filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew written at all angles.

    1. אלדי אעלם מולאי אלאך אלכרים אנני וצלת אלי
    2. מצר [עלי] גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעאפיה פלא תשגלו
    3. קלוב[כם ע]לי ואחרצו פי אן תרסלו לי [[כתא]] כתאב
    4. תער[פוני] פיה אכ…

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  40. 9940LetterMoss. IV,62.2

    On verso there is a list of medical simples, including saffron, sugar, aloe, camphor, honey, and alum (this description might belong with a different fragment; it does not seem to match the handful of mysterious words in Hebrew script that actually appear on verso).

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  41. 9941LetterMoss. IV,80

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Fustat. Around 1055.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא
    2. ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה לח' בקין מן מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא
    3. באחסן כא…

    ע׳׳א:

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, ויסלק כל רע
    2. ממך ברחמיו, מאלכסנדרייה, בכ׳׳ב (או כ׳׳א) במרחשון,…

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  42. 9942Legal documentMoss. VII,101

    Some of the names mentioned in the document are: Khalaf b. Musa al-Barqi and Sahlan b. Yehoshua al-Tarabulusi. This document was written in Iyyar 1351/ February-March 1040 (Ben-Sasson).

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    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . ] של אדוננו נתן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב נט רח כלף בן מוסי אלברקי
    2. סלמאן בן דאוד בן ש]מעון וטאלב כלף הדא לסלמאן הדא בעדל ניל…

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  43. 9943State documentMoss. Xa,3.2

    In l. 7, mentions something al-mubāraka ilā mawlāy (or mawlāhā). The next word may be yāqūt. […] Verso: basmala followed by two lines of poetry by al-Mutanabbi: عَواذِلُ ذاتِ الخالِ فيَّ حَواسِدُ [وَإِنَّ ضَجيعَ الخَودِ مِنّي لَماجِدُ] يَرُدُّ يَداً عَن ثَوبِها [وَهوَ قادِرٌ وَيَعصي الهَوى في طَيفِها وَهوَ راقِدُ]

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  44. 9944List or tableStras. 4068/30

    It names 'Ayn Ya'aqov, Pesikta ha-Nasi ha-Gadol, Humash ha-Gadol, and Rav Alfas, and "three excerpts of the Rambam." He signs "I am Men[ah?]em b. Yehudah al-Mujhid (?)." Probably late, at least 16th century.

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  45. 9945LetterT-S 8.80

    Underneath there are some additional jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (al-raʾīs al-[...]). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  46. 9946LetterT-S 8J16.7

    In a post-scripted note, the petitioner also requests some food should the addressee have a Jewish celebration.

    1. תו שלום וג'
    2. שלום רב לאהבי תורותך
    3. שלום שלום לירחוק (!) ולקרב
    4. סבב הדה אלרקעה ולכבר מן מר' ור'
    5. אלשיך אבו // סהל // החבר השר ה/א/דיר החכם
    6. והניבון (!) ומ…

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    1. "[Say] as follows: '[To life!] Greetings to [you],'" etc. (1 Samuel 25:6).
    2. "Those who love Your teaching enjoy well-being" (Psalm 119:165). 
    3. "…

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  47. 9947Legal documentT-S 8J17.9

    Ff. 1r–2r: Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Kull bt. ʿEli from Fusṭāṭ and Moshe b. Yisrael from al-Maḥalla, in which the bride agrees to follow her husband to his domicile.

    T-S 8J17.9 2 recto

    1. חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו מעכשו בביטול
    2. כל מודעין ותנאין ושהדותא דא כתבנא וחתמנא
    3. דליהוי לזכו ולראיה וכאן דלך לילה אלאחד אל
    4. אלתאני עש…

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    Our teacher and master, Moses ha-Yakar—the son of our teacher and master, Israel ha-Zaken [the elder]—betrothed before us, t…

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  48. 9948LetterT-S 8J18.22

    His excuse is that he had an intense pain, like colic, and he could hardly sit down, let alone stand or ride. The illness persisted for most of the day, and when it relented and Natan asked after Ḥalfon, he was told that he had already departed.

    1. ]אל כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנא ורבנא חלפון
    2. ] החכם והנבון יברכהו אדון האדונים וינצריהו שוכן
    3. עליו]נים וינחילו שומר אמונים חיים ארוכים ושנים נעימים
    4. לחדש לו …

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  49. 9949LetterT-S 8J28.11

    The sender urgently asks the addressee to send for the merchants Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-Suṭūḥ from Tripoli (Libya) and his traveling companion Yaʿaqov b. Zikrī al-Nafūsī who are soon to depart for Yemen. One of them has a bill of divorce with him that must be delivered before he travels.

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  50. 9950Legal documentT-S 8J36.10

    Several names appear at the bottom of the document, but these appear to be the scribe's notes rather than actual signatures: Sulaymān b. Saʿīd; Avraham b. ʿAlī; Munā bt. Ismāʿīl; the maternal uncle Avraham b. […] ; the paternal uncle Mūsā b. ʿUqayb al-Mastī(?).

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    1. אלדי יוצי בה . איס לאבנתה כרימה דלך גמיע מא הו מודע ענד כאלתהא מן דהב . . . .
    2. וגמיע מא ענד [[. .]]//אכ//תהא וגמיע מא ענד מרתה(?) עוד . . . . …

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