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  1. 51State documentAIU XII.107

    Fiscal document in Arabic script. Mentions al-aʿmāl al-madkhūra in the main text block. Possibly a receipt with a signature at the bottom. Needs examination.

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  2. 52LetterT-S Ar.38.118

    Letter in calligraphic Arabic script. The sender's name probably appears at upper left. He is writing from Jerusalem (al-Quds al-Mubārak, 6 lines from the bottom). …

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  3. 53LetterT-S 12.212

    Letter mentioning a certain Sibyan and Shemarya b. al-Hanan.

    1. ....................... דכר ....................
    2. ........................שבע ובשביל ...............
    3. ...........................כיון שבא וישבתי .....…

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  4. 54Legal documentT-S Ar.38.71

    Court record in Arabic script, maybe a draft. Concerning the inheritance of the late Sittāt bt. ʿAbdallāh. This document was drawn up in Qayrawān, based …

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate [ … ] in the gate of  ʿAbdallāh, in the neighbourhood of the gate  

    2. of the potters. [ … ] pa…

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  5. 55Legal query or responsumENA 2808.15a

    A legal query, possibly addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sefaradi (per Goitein, Palestinian Jewry, 309–11), concerning an adopted woman who fled her marriage to a foster …

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    1. בש
    2. אלדי נסאל חצרה רבינו הרב המובהק אדאם אללה עזהא
    3. ותבת איאמהא תפתינא פי מא ילזם פי הדה אלנובה ודאך
    4. אן וצלו מנד זמאן נסא שבויים וכאן פיהם צבאיא…

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    1. In (Your) N(ame).

    2. This is what we ask your excellency, our master, the prominent Rav, may God make your exalted position permanent

    3. and yo…

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  6. 56Literary textT-S 8K15.17

    Recto: Poem in Hebrew by Shemuel ha-Nagid. Verso: Love poem in Arabic script.

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  7. 57Legal documentT-S 16.115

    Legal document: deathbed declaration, made by a woman whose name is not preserved. The upper part of the document is missing, but the reconstruction, as …

    1. ומילולה נכ[ונים ולשונה סדור ומתוקן בפיה ושומעת ומדברת והיא יודעת]
    2. לישא וליתן [ודעתה מיושבת עליה כהוגן לשאול ולהשיב לומר על הן הן]
    3. ועל לאו לאו כשאר […
    1.  And her speech (was) correct and her language was right in her mouth and she could hear and speak and knew

    2.  what was being dealt with and her mi…

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  8. 58Legal documentT-S NS J405

    Debt contract, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 11 Ḥeshvan 1587 Seleucid, which is 1275 CE. Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Ṣabbāgh is owed a sum of …

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  9. 59LetterBodl. MS heb. c 50/26

    Fragmentary letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: probably late 11th or 12th century. The letter is quite difficult and written in an elevated register with …

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    1. . . .] אלסלף [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] את דבר
    2. מא ממון [. . . . . . .]ן . להש וזה לא נ להש עלי היו
    3. כולנה קד דעת אלצרורה אלי כתב כתאב…

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  10. 60Literary textT-S AS 159.214

    Maimonides autograph.

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  11. 61Unknown typeT-S AS 153.114

    Unidentified text in Hebrew characters, possibly a document or poetry.

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  12. 62Legal documentAIU VII.E.115

    Legal document dated June 1802 CE (3 Sivan 5562 AM) involving a partnership in Alexandria between Hayyim ha-Levi, Merkado Karo, Avraham ha-Levi, and Pinhas b. …

    1. ב׳׳ה 
    2. [בהי]ות שהיתה חברה ושותפות בין הכה׳׳ר חיים הלוי יצ׳׳ו והכה׳׳ר מרקאדו קארו יצ׳׳ו והר׳ אברהם הלוי בכ׳׳ר מנחם יצ[׳׳ו ...
    3. הר׳ יום טוב אריפול יצ׳׳ו…

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  13. 63Unknown typeT-S AS 150.169

    Small fragment of an unknown nature. Very cursive hand and much faded. Dating: a partial Hijri date possibly appears in l. 6 of the recto: …

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  14. 64List or tableT-S NS 109.68

    Document in Arabic script. Possibly describing the locations of different properties. Several names appear in the list: Taqiyy al-Dīn. . . [...] al-Naṣrānī mustawqid al-ḥammām …

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  15. 65List or tableENA NS 47.1

    Communal accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Daily construction expenses for 3 Tammuz through 18 Tammuz. Many of …

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  16. 66List or tableT-S AS 207.70

    Accounts on recto and verso. Distinctive hand. Dating: probably ca. 14th or 15th century. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. One entry on the recto lists …

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  17. 67Legal documentENA NS 77.97

    Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The scribal hand may be known. Requires further examination.

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  18. 68Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 159

    Concluding fragment of a 39 paged bilingual Arabic-Ottoman Turkish language primer entitled "al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah".

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  19. 69Legal documentT-S NS 338.81

    Legal document. Not signed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning Shelomo b. Shabīb ha-Kohen and Yosef b. Khalfa; the latter is trustworthy (to handle the mercantile …

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  20. 70Unknown typeENA NS 85.1437

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  21. 71Legal documentMoss. VII,33.2

    Tiny fragment from the end of a legal document, under the reshut of Shemuel ha-Nagid.

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  22. 72LetterT-S Ar.39.6

    Recto: Possibly an account Verso: Possibly a letter- needs examination.

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  23. 73LetterENA NS 50.22

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Possibly the same handwriting as T-S AS 146.206. Content difficult to understand without a join. Mentions Mūsā …

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  24. 74LetterT-S NS 321.17

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. Wide space between the lines, like an official document, but it appears to be about business. Mentions Ibn …

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  25. 75LetterT-S AS 146.120

    Letter or note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 14th or 15th century based on handwriting. Regarding dealings with 200 dirhams and various quantities of commodities; Arabic …

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  26. 76LetterMoss. II,196.2

    Fragment from the opening of a deferential letter. On verso the writer mentions 'the tax' (? al-mās) and 'your promise'—perhaps he is requesting charity.

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  27. 77Legal query or responsumT-S NS 312.53

    Responsum by HARID (R. Yish'aya di-Tirani 1165-1240), end of no. 93 in the printed edition (info by Simcha Emanuel, FGP)

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  28. 78LetterDK 170 (alt: 129)

    Letter from Eliyyahu Ha-kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, to Ḥalfon b. Shelomo. Note that verso has been reused for a (literary?) Hebrew tex

    1. כי רם
    2. שלום ורוב שלום ועתרת שלום ועטרת שם טוב לשורש
    3. צדיקים [ונ]כד חסידים ובן ישרים שלומו ירבה לעולמים
    4. [ ] בכל אסמים וחיים נעימים ומשמרת שלום
    5. תהי ל[זק…

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  29. 79LetterT-S 13J24.2

    India Book III, 37: Letter of request, addressed apparently to Madmun b. Yefet, by a person in inland Yemen, for help against Ibn Yiju, involving …

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    1. מעה [...] 
    2. אלסדיד אט[א]ל [אללה בקאה ... ]
    3. אנעם אלנאכדה אלאגל במא קד 
    4. דכלת פיה אנת ואלתנא ואלשכר
    5. מא הו אלא לך פקד יא מולאי
    6. אעתנית בשי פאתמה לאן

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    1. [...] with him [...]
    2. al-Sadīd—may [God] pro[lon]g [his life!—. . .]
    3. the most illustrious nākhuda was kind enough (to assist) in what
    4. you had a…

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  30. 80LetterJRL B 3890

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an agent, ships, and oil. Verso: Calendrical fragment? Gives the date of Rosh Hashana 1363 Seleucid = 4812 AM …

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  31. 81Legal documentHalper 356

    Debt contract for a sum of 300 dirhams. One of the parties is Hiba. Written and signed by Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen. There is an …

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  32. 82Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 227

    Beginning of a Muslim marriage contract. There may be a partial name in the second line after the basmala: [ʿAf]īf(?) al-ʿAṣṣār. (Information from Yusuf Umrethwala, …

    1. [بسم الله الرحمـ]ـن [الـ]ـرحيم
    2. [هذا ما اصدق فلان بـ]ـن [عفـ]ـيف؟ العصار [
    3. [عصمتـ]ـه وعقد نكاحه وتزوجها [به اصدقها نصف دينار عجل لها من ذلك]
    4. [دخـ]ـول…

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  33. 83LetterT-S AS 146.187

    Address of a letter to the elders Yehuda, Yosef, and someone else, who are asked to deliver the letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. On verso …

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  34. 84LetterT-S AS 168.10

    Beginning of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (or at least one of the later Maimonidean Nagids) directing the beadle Sulaymān to summon …

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  35. 85LetterT-S AS 164.89

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with pepper, clove, and lac. Instructing the addressee to sell goods in Fustat. Possibly in the handwriting of Avraham …

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  36. 86State documentENA NS 83.190

    End of an official document (letter? petition?). Likely a date in the penultimate line: 4[..] AH.

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  37. 87LetterBL OR 5544.21

    Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew. Dated: Tammuz 5611 AM, which is July 1851 CE. It seems …

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  38. 88LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 661

    Beginning of a letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Only basmala and a few words preserved.

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  39. 89LetterT-S AS 146.206

    Letter of business written in the 11th century, mentioning the rīf (‘the (Egyptian) province’). (Information from CUDL.) Looks like the same handwriting as T-S 10J15.24 …

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  40. 90LetterT-S 10J6.4

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing the top of recto and the address on verso. Dating: Goitein dates it to ca. 1210 CE, based on the …

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    1. ]. . . . . . . . . . .  פי . . . . מן [ . . .] . . . . . . . . [
    2. טאלע אלי מצר ואלכתאב אלדי ורד מנכם לם יכן פיה כברא כאפיא אעול
    3. עליה וקד כנת כל…

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  41. 91LetterT-S AS 158.292

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. Refers to a letter from the wālī; and people such as Sayyidnā; Ṭāhir; the arrival of al-Zariz; and Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya.

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  42. 92Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 145.121

    Order(s) of payment? Mentions the name Sulaymān. Written in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. On verso there is an "emet" followed by the …

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  43. 93List or tableT-S K15.48

    Two lists of recipients of clothing, in two different scripts, the first part, extending from col.I, l. 1, to col. II, l. 14, the second …

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    1. אמראת אכו גוכאנ'
    2. אלפרנאס הבה ם
    1. __________________________
    2. מערפה אבו אלפרג גוכאנ'
    1. __________________________
    1. רבי יצחק אלרומי מקדר
    2. אברה…

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  44. 94LetterT-S NS 321.21a

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Fully preserved but the content is obscure. The sender is upset about some misunderstanding involving a collection (jibāya). …

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  45. 95Legal query or responsumT-S 16.229

    Responsum quoting Ishaq al-Fasi (1013-1103), among other Spanish and Andalusian religious authorities. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] רטל[. . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]. . . . . אלראבעה
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

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  46. 96Literary textL-G Ar. II.143

    Theological treatise or commentary on Genesis. Information from FGP.

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  47. 97Legal documentT-S AS 209.327

    A legal deed regarding division of money between partners involved in the silk industry (אלקזאזה ואסתעמאל אלתיאב). There is an agent named Elʿazar; [...] b. …

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  48. 98LetterMoss. VII,195.1

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  49. 99Literary textBodl. MS Arab. c 56.59 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.60

    Literary text, in Arabic script. Two folios from a juridical legal text on the ādāb al-quḍāt. The preserved text discusses the binding nature of testimony …

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  50. 100List or tableT-S NS J362

    Fragment on vellum listing communal officials and needy families in receipt of loaves of bread; ca. early twelfth century. (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, …

    1. .....]. ומרתה ב'
    2. ..].יעקב אלצבאג ב'
    3. ...]ם אלמנגם ג'
    4. בן אלשׁאמיה וחמאתה ד'
    5. ..]אח טבראני שׁומר ד'
    6. .....]..ר אלחרירי ד'
    7. ........]..[........
    8. בן אלמ.[..…

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