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  1. 51Legal documentMoss. VII,32.1

    Legal document dated 6 July 1564 CE (16 Tammuz 5324) in Cairo/מצרים, in which Sulaymān Ṣafiyy and the treasurers of the heqdesh of the Mustaʿrib …

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    1. בפנינו עדים חתו[מי] מטה [הו]דה סלימאן צפי שהוא חייב להקדש של 

    2. קהל המסתערב י"צ [מא]ה וש[לו]שה ועשרים מאידי מצד שכירות 

    3. העלייה ש[הוא] ד[ר ב…

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  2. 52List or tableT-S AS 209.199

    Large bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult early modern scribal hand. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The main heading on the recto …

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  3. 53Legal documentHalper 368 + ENA 2727.47

    Legal document. Partnership agreement in a press (?maʿṣara). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 4 Tamuz 5275 AM, which is 1515 CE. Currencies: Peraḥim. The …

    1. אנו בית דין חתומי מטה מכה המסור [בידינו מאת א]רבעה שותפים שהם
    2. כר׳ אברהם תלמיד וכר׳ יוסף שביליה וכר׳ שלמה אגילאר וכר׳ דוד אלפנדרי
    3. שכל מה שיראה לנו בד…

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  4. 54List or tableENA 3518.1 + ENA 3518.2

    Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage). The coinage types listed are the Spanish corona (קורונה) and the copper …

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  5. 55Legal documentBL OR 5543.1

    Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement. Fiance: Yosef b. Yehuda Menaḥem. Fiancee: Estīta bt. David ha-Kohen. Currency: Venetian ducats (פרחים זהב בנאדקה). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan [5]330 …

    1. בסימן טוב והצלחה
    2. בפנינו אנו עדים חתומי מטה שדך הבחור הנחמד כ׳׳ר יוסף בכ׳׳ר יהודה
    3. מנחם נ׳׳ע את הכלה הבתולה אסתיתה הבוגרת //בת כ׳׳ר [ד]וד הכהן // ואלו…

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  6. 56List or tableENA 3518.2

    Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). A variety of individuals are referenced along the right …

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  7. 57List or tableT-S AS 208.138

    List of incoming payments with the heading "[sic?]עלם אלחאסאל". Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The currency mentioned throughout is mashṭ (משט)– …

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  8. 58List or tableBL OR 10599.27

    A list of dozens of names arranged in two columns per side. Prefaced with "the names of the households who are invited (? maʿzūma)." Some …

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  9. 59Legal documentYevr. II A 1256

    Legal documents, one each on recto and verso. Both are from "the capital" Constantinople, both are signed by Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ashkenazi and Yosef b. …

    1. בפנינו אנו עדים ח׳׳מ באו כ׳׳ר אברהם ב׳׳ר יעקב ידיע נשו עם כ׳׳ר עובדיא
    2. ב׳׳ר אברהם יצ׳׳ו אחד מבני מקרא וכך אמר לנו ר׳ אברהם הנ׳׳ל הוו עלי 
    3. עדים וקנו מ…

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  10. 60List or tableBL OR 10578N.1

    List of payments, 16th century.

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    1. אלרייס יוס[ף] [ס]עד טויל יעיש גבאן

    טו לב ח

    1. שמסל [סע]יד קמאט יוסף סכנד[רי]

    יב ה ח

    1. מעאפה לוי ....סדיד נסים חזן

    ד י טו

    1. מוסי נק.. נצ…

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  11. 61List or tableENA NS 77.31

    Minute fragment of accounts. Dated Muḥarram 1003 AH on the verso. The recto mentions an Ottoman military officer Maḥmūd Çavuş in the heading as well …

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  12. 62List or tableENA NS 77.333

    Minute fragment of accounts, possibly dated in the ninth century Ḥijrī on the recto (סנת לטץ) but there may be a fourth letter after לטץ. …

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  13. 63Legal documentENA NS 30.10

    Partnership agreement between Moshe and Yiṣḥaq, specifying each party's liabilities. Written in Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Friday, 19 Av 5330 AM = 21 July 1570 …

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    [.........................................................]

    1. משה [...] ע. [......
    2. ושלשה מיטיקאליש ושני ש[...פרחים] ז…

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  14. 64Legal documentT-S 13J4.21

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Concerning a debt of 52 Venetian ducats (peraḥim) owed by Avraham Aripol (אריפול) to Yaʿaqov Castro (קשטרו). Dated: Monday, 20 Av …

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    1. בפנינו עדים חתומי מטה הודה היקר ומעולה כה׳׳ר אברהם אריפול יצ׳׳ו שאחר כל חשבון
    2. נשאר חייב להחכם הנעלה כמה׳׳ר יעקב הקש…

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  15. 65LetterENA 1822a.78

    Recto: Note in Portuguese. Mentions Jose Loise. There is further text underneath also Latin script. Verso: Accounts in Hebrew script. Currency: fulūs. 16th century?

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  16. 66LetterENA NS 35.7

    Late letter in Hebrew, mentioning Avraham Castro (line 5). Needs further examination.

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  17. 67Legal documentENA NS 49.31

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Thursday, 13 Heshvan 5311 AM, which is October 1550 CE. Witnesses: Seʿadya b. Yehuda קוננטיני and Yosef …

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  18. 68LetterENA NS 52.13

    Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …

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    1. [.........................] אדונ[י....................] ב׳׳ה
    2. [...] בשמו יתעלה אחר אשר יגמר הענין לטובה ב׳׳ה
    3. [...]ן ביאת אדוני למצרים צריך היות…

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  19. 69LetterF 1908.44UU

    Letter from Nissim, in Qaṭya, Sinai, to Shelomo Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. …

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  20. 70LetterF 1908.44VV

    Letter from Avraham Castro (the grandson of the well-known minter) to a certain Shelomo. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Deals with …

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  21. 71Legal documentF 1908.44NN

    Notebook of a marriage broker. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew with Coptic numerals. Dating: 1511/12 CE (1823 Seleucid). Enumerates the circumstances attending the marriage of certain …

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  22. 72Legal documentHalper 369

    Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday 26 Iyyar 5306 AM = 28 April 1546 CE. Currency: Peraḥim (Venetian ducats or another gold …

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    1. בפנינו אנו עדים חתומי מטה מכר כבוד
    2. רבי שלמה בר כבוד רבי ישועה ידיע גלטא
    3. החנות שלו שמוכר בה עצים וזולתו לכבוד
    4. רבי משה…

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  23. 73LetterT-S 10J17.33

    Recto: Letter from Abraham Sagis (סאגיש) in Safed to an individual in Egypt who had previously studied with the sage Moses di Trani in Safed. …

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  24. 74List or tableT-S NS 321.5

    Communal ledger fragment, part of a much broader chain of joins discovered by Dotan Arad (See PGPID 9952). Dated in variety of entries, for example …

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  25. 75Legal documentT-S 20.65

    Replacement ketubba. Location: Safed. Dated: 23 Adar 5299 AM = 11 February 1539 CE. Husband: Moshe b. Yosef ʿAynos (? עיינוס). Wife: Doña Hora Buena …

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  26. 76List or tableT-S Ar.30.279

    A list of payments from around 1550 CE describes a payment made for “visiting the sick (bīqqūr ḥōlīm)—3 jadīd; buying clothes for the poor (kesūt …

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  27. 77LetterMoss. VII,164.2

    Note from Yosef Tamish (? טמיש) to Namir. In Hebrew. The sender is in prison (שורתיים אלו להודיע לכה איך אני בבית הסוהר) and he …

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  28. 78LetterJRL SERIES A 1016

    Upper part of a letter in Hebrew dated 534[.] = 1580s CE. It is addressed to "my brother who is like my soul" and mentions …

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  29. 79Legal documentJRL SERIES A 1050

    There are several different entries, and each seems to involve rent payments for the qodesh of the Synagogue of the Mustaʿribim. Quite faded, merits further …

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  30. 80LetterT-S AS 153.214

    Late business letter in Hebrew from Shemuel Bahlul in Manzala (near Damietta). Information from Avraham David's transcription and notes.

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  31. 81LetterT-S Misc.20.166

    Fragment of a letter from Jerusalem to Egypt, beginning of the 16th century. The writer describes a financial/communal crisis that prevented the functioning of the …

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  32. 82LetterT-S Misc.24.187

    Letter from Rachel b. Avraham Zussman, in Jerusalem, to Yaʿaqov Katz, in Venice. In Yiddish. Dated: 16 Heshvan 5327 AM, which is October 1566 CE. …

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  33. 83LetterT-S Misc.28.143

    Letter from Me'ir Saragos, in Fustat/Cairo, to Yaʿaqov Mar Ḥayyim, probably somewhere in the Levant. The writer was a judge active in Cairo in the …

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  34. 84LetterT-S Misc.28.168

    Business letter in Hebrew. Late. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. Mentions currencies such as coronas and peraḥim. Most …

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  35. 85LetterT-S NS 298.11

    Letter in Ladino from a family member to Avraham Shalom: "... Know as it pleases you that Esther married. May you marry your sons with …

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    1. אי איגו מיאו קרידו אי אמדו טילאץ די מי קורסון שאבריש כומו אישטאמוש
    2. בואינוש די פאש אי די שאלוד מיגוראדו אוייגה די ווש אכיר
    3. שאביריש קומו אה ווי…

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  36. 86List or tableT-S AS 209.61

    Verso: Accounts in an early modern hand. 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The coinage referenced is fiḍḍa (likely Ottoman-era medin) and perhaps "kalb" …

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  37. 87List or tableT-S J1.6

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. Dated: 1004 AH, which is 1595/96 CE. In the verso note mentioning the year of recording, the scribe …

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  38. 88LetterT-S 6J4.31

    Letter from Moshe Binyamin to Isaac Luria (CUDL). "A certain Moshe Binyamin sent two letters from Rashid to Luria in Egypt, probably either in 1555 …

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  39. 89Legal documentT-S AS 151.164

    Bill of debt, from 1519 CE– this estimate from FGP was proposed by Avraham David on the basis of the coinage mentioned: ""תשעה ושלושים אלפים …

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  40. 90LetterMoss. I,80.3

    Letter from Moshe b. Binyamin Ashkenazi, probably in Fustat/Cairo, to Avraham Castro, probably in Alexandria or Jerusalem. Dating: 16th century. The sender describes how "from …

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  41. 91LetterENA NS 47.19

    Letter from Avraham Castro, in Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century (Avraham Castro died in 1560). The writer had …

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  42. 92List or tableT-S NS 83.7

    Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 16th-century, pre-1573 CE based on mention of the Radba''z (d. 1573). The accounts mention domestic and international currency: Spanish qorona, Ottoman …

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  43. 93LetterMoss. II,111.1

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic (16th century per FGP) from Yosef b. Adīda (?) to Yefet b. Farḥān regarding flax shipments. People named include ʿAbd al-Karīm …

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  44. 94Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1384

    Karaite betrothal deed from the 1 Sivan 5347 AM. The groom Yisrael Hakohen b. Shemuel. The bride Esther d. Shemuel Ibn Yahya. The groom is …

    1. בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
    2. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן ספר צבאח נהאר אלאתנין מסתהל חדש סיו[ן]
    3. סנה ה׳ש׳מ׳ז׳ ליצירה חצל אתפאק בארושים מן ישראל אלכהן אבן שמואל
    4. אלכהן א…

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  45. 95List or tableT-S AS 208.109

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very detailed. Dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and currencies referenced. There is a full date in the upper left …

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  46. 96LetterCUL Or.1080 J134

    Letter from David al-Qalʿī, perhaps in Minyat Zifta or nearby, to Yosef al-Faranji (it seems his uncle), perhaps in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: mid-16th century, …

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    1. אדוני ומארי ועטרת ראשי אור שמשי וצניף תפארתי כמה"ר     נר"ו
    2. הן זאת להודיע לאדון ממצבינו כי טוב ש"ל כן נשמע נתבשר מכם תמ[יד]    

    3. [א]נ"ס ורוב…

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  47. 97LetterENA 2727.45

    Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון). Probably addressed to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה) like his other two letters. Dated: Monday, 17 Ḥeshvan [5318 AM], which is 1557 …

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  48. 98Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1752

    Qaraite partnership agreement in cheese production. Dated: Friday, 12 Tishrei 5350 AM (1901 Seleucid) = 22 September 1589 CE. There are five parties: (1) ʿAbd …

    1. ב׳
    2. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר לגמעה י׳׳ב שהר תשרי המ׳ סנה ה׳ש׳נ׳ ליצירה ואלף תשע מאות שנים
    3. ושנה אחת לשטרות חצ'ר ע׳אלעזיז א׳ יחיא ואבן אכיה סלימאן א׳ ע׳ אלברי…

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  49. 99LetterBL OR 5561A.5

    Letter from Yosef Qolon b. Pereẓ, in Jerusalem, to Nissim Bibas, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: First quarter of the 16th century, almost certainly 1511 …

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  50. 100Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3942.13

    Document or receipt of some kind issued for al-muʿallim Salmūn al-Yahūdī. Dated: 10 Shaʿbān 997 AH = 24 June 1589 CE.There is a signature at …

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