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  1. 9951LetterT-S Misc.28.245

    Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, in Ashqelon, to ʿUlla ha-Levi ha-Parnas b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1110 CE per Gil. Mentions …

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  2. 9952Unknown typeENA NS 79.15

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined. Arabic script

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  3. 9953State documentT-S NS 305.182

    Tax receipt? Extremely faded.

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  4. 9954LetterJTS MS 8254.12

    Verso: Letter from Moshe Maimonides. Autograph. Giving instructions to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi) to go to the dyehouse (maṭbakh, maṣbagh) where Abū …

    1. [הדר]ת אלדיין אלמשכיל [אח]יאה אללה פי אל[כיר] אל[כלי]
    2. [           ] אל[אמ]ל[א]ך לליתו[ם] וכדלך ת[תפצל] אן
    3. [           ] . . . אעתראף [. . . .] אבו א…
    1.  הדרת הדיין המשכיל [יח]יהו ה' בטוב [מושלם]
    2. [. . .] הנכסים ליתום וכן תואיל ל. . .
    3. [. . .] הודאה [. . .] אבו אסחק בחצי
    4. בית המלאכה לעשיית צבע ליתום ואח…

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  5. 9955Legal documentJRL B 4324

    A very damaged bill of divorce. On verso very faded document, hardly legible. AA

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  6. 9956LetterENA NS 50.21

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the handwriting of Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Nīsābūrī. Dating: 11th century. Mentions ships from various places including three from …

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  7. 9957LetterENA 3776.6

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Efaryim b. Shemarya? The sender has sent 10 of something and urges the addressee to sell them. …

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  8. 9958LetterBodl. MS heb. e 101/18

    Letter from Zakkay b. ʿAzaryahu the Nasi to the community of Damascus. Only the introduction is preserved. This may be a draft that was abandoned. …

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  9. 9959Unknown typeENA NS 85.400

    Minute fragments. The only word preserved is בן.

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  10. 9960List or tableJRL A 57

    Writing exercises. Mainly in Hebrew, but with at least two lines in Italian, mentioning a sig[nore] Manor(?).

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  11. 9961LetterT-S NS 228.49

    Letter from Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī (al-Mahdiya?) to his son Wāfī (Fustat?), probably spring 1059. Badly preserved. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 114.)

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    1.                         ] להדא אלוקת פוצל כתאבכם מע
    2.            וז]נת עליהא ח דנא ושק עלי דלך ווצל אל
    3.                 ]יס טויל אלרוח כמא ת…

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    1. .... עד הזמן הזה, ואז הגיע מכתבכם בידי
    2. .... שילמתי בעדם ח' דינרים, והיה הדבר קשה עלי. והגיע
    3. .... בעל אורך רוח כפי שידוע לך. בני הוא כפי שהיה.

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  12. 9962List or tableAIU VII.F.44 + AIU VII.F.59

    Late, dense accounts, mentioning Karo. Merits examination.

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  13. 9963Legal documentJRL B 7532

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (or Natan b. Shemuʾel?). Invokes the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). [...] b. Yehuda and Shelomo …

    1. חצרא אלי מושב בית דין [
    2. גאון יעקב יהי שמו לעולם [
    3. יהודה נע ומ שלמה הכהן [
    4. חצרא ענד כרימה ר זכאי [
    5. סת אלאהל אלאבנה אלעאתק[ה
    6. בהא באוכד שרוט אלקני[נות(…

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  14. 9964Legal documentT-S NS 225.35

    Small fragment of a legal deed, probably a bill of release, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Name mentioned: [Ab]ū l-Ḥasan.

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  15. 9965Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 75/10

    Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Eliyyahu b. Zekharya and Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram. Dating: Avraham Maimonides is called Nagid, so 1213–37 CE. Quite faded. Quittance …

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  16. 9966Legal documentENA 2738.25

    Lower fragment: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to "our master the noble judge, the judge of judges (sayyidnā al-qāḍī al-ajall qāḍī al-quḍāh); a fight (munāzaʿa) …

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  17. 9967Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.4

    Leaf from a court ledger. On recto, written at 90 degrees to the other text blocks: Draft of the deathbed will of Abū l-Ḥasan. Dating: …

    1. אל]די אוצא בה אלש אבו אלחסן אן ידפע ללרייס בו אלנגס ה דנא
    2. ולולדה אבו אלנבא ב אלנזר א ולבשר //בן בו אלפצל// ידיע בן אלעאבד נע
    3. כמסה דנא וברדה ואן תכון…

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  18. 9968LetterENA NS 67.6

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for …

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    1. ואן דלך אלשכץ אקאם פי אלבלד כמסה
    2. איאם ותוגה אלי עדן אעלמת מולאי
    3. בדלך ובאללה עליך יא מולאי אן אחוגת
    4. עבדך אן יבטל אלדכאן אלי אן נסאפר
    5. למצר לאנך …

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  19. 9969Unknown typeENA NS 85.1180

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  20. 9970State documentT-S AS 183.342

    Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …

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  21. 9971Legal documentENA NS 77.343

    Legal document on parchment, probably a deed of sale. Concerning Abū l-Barakāt and a blind woman (al-mara al-kafīfa) and a sale. Also a woman named …

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  22. 9972LetterT-S Ar.53.35

    Leaves, on vellum, from a medical notebook with notes of names of simples, apparently in no particular order. P3 recto mentions a certain Abū l-Ḵayr …

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  23. 9973State documentT-S Ar.39.428

    Sugar accounting from the administration of the Ayyubid sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (al-Dīwān al-Ṣāliḥī al-Saʿīdī ...). The dating is established by comparison with TS AS 183.83 …

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  24. 9974LetterT-S AS 184.415

    Letter in Arabic script. Portions of four lines are preserved on recto mentioning somebody's son. Verso contains the address: yaṣil hādhā l-kitāb ilā [...]. It …

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  25. 9975LetterT-S AS 150.7

    Letter sent to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century, or possibly 12th. Reporting that some merchants perished when their ships were …

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    1. כתאבי י]א סתי ואלעזיזה עלי אטאל אל[לה בקאך ואדא]ם עזך
    2. וסעא]דתך וסלאמתך ותם נעמתה עליך ען חאל
    3. סלאמ]ה וען שוק שדיד ותוחש יז[יד] למפארקתך
    4. גמע אלל…

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  26. 9976Literary textT-S AS 210.122

    Maimonides autograph.

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  27. 9977LetterJRL A 1118

    Horizontal strip from the middle of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. "Al-Parnas al-Kohen went to Bilbays two years ago and lived there and made a living with …

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  28. 9978Unknown typeENA NS 85.1375

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  29. 9979Legal documentT-S AS 147.75

    Legal fragment. There are several interlinear corrections. Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate …

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  30. 9980Unknown typeENA 3966.15

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  31. 9981LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1452

    Letter draft from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. Regarding a marriage-related legal case that reached …

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  32. 9982LetterT-S AS 155.255

    Recto (secondary use): Letter or petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya and the term ṣayrafī (banker). Faded.

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  33. 9983LetterT-S AS 153.113

    Recto: Letter fragment in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Mentions antimony (rāṣakht) and asks for news, including any news of the wife of …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم حضرة مولاي الشيخ ابو عمران
    3. ادام الله عزه انني قد سيرت لك
    4. على يد صبي قفتير(؟) ثياب
    5. ثلثين كل شهر
    6. شرى كل ثلـ[
    7. درهم الثمن[
    8. ع…

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  34. 9984LetterCUL Or.1080 J224

    Letter from an unknown writer in al-Maḥalla to Sar ha-Sarim (Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya) in Fustat. Written in Hebrew, with the address in Arabic on …

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  35. 9985List or tableT-S NS 264.58

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Dhahabī; and al-Naṣrānī.

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  36. 9986LetterT-S 8J17.5

    Note from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi probably to his brother Yedutun, in which he repeats five times that the recipient is urgently invited to a …

    1. ג
    2. שלום רב לאוהבי וג' אללה תעאלי יזכיכם שנים
    3. רבות ושנים נעימים מבורכים וטובות
    4. ואלדי תרידו עלמה אני מן [[צ]] פצל אללה תעאלי
    5. עלי גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעאפיה …

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  37. 9987Legal documentT-S 18J1.10

    Verso: Will of Maymun b. Khalfa. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 Tammuz 1383 Seleucid, which is 5 July 1072 CE. Witnessed by Yosef b. Elʿazar …

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    1. חצרנא נחן אלשהוד אלכאתמין לתתא ענד מ' מימון בן כלפה אלמגרב[י]
    2. אלמערוף באבן אליתים נע והו מריץ פסאלנאה ען מא ענד אלנאס
    3. ומא ללנאס ענדה בחכם כונה…

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    1. באנו אנו העדים החתומים לתתא אצל ר' מימון בן כלפה המגרבי
    2. הידוע (בכינוי) בן היתום נ"ע, והוא אז חולה. שאלנו אותו אפוא על מה שחייבים לו אנשים 
    3. ומה…

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  38. 9988LetterENA NS 36.20

    Fragment of a late business letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  39. 9989Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 32/51

    Deed of sale. Location: Ḥamida/Ḥamuda, Yemen. Dated: 24 Av במ״ד, which is likely 2044 Seleucid = 5 August 1733 CE. The parties include [..] and …

    1. אקרו ואעתרפו וצאדקו אלד'י הם ע.[...
    2. ן׳ יוסף וסעיד אכ'יה באן קד אבאעו ר׳
    3. אברהם אכיהם הד'י אלברך אלד'י הו -
    4. ארבעה ועשרים באמל במא צאר - 
    5. מבלג'הו ארבעה…

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  40. 9990Legal documentT-S 24.80

    Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 2 October 1039 CE. Groom: Faraḥ b. Raḥmūn. Bride: Sittūna bt. Naḥum, a virgin. Marriage payments: 10 + 20 = …

    1. מצא א[שה ] א
    2. ב]תלתה בשבא דהוא תרסר יומי [בירח] תשרי שנת אלפא ותלת [מאה
    3. [[וח/מ/שין]] וחמשין וחדא שנין למנינא [דרגיליננא] בי'ה בפסטאט מצרים
    4. ד]על נילוס…

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  41. 9991Legal documentT-S 6J10.8

    Recto: note to Abū l-Maḥāsin, asking for guidance in a personal problem (probably in relation to the query on verso), which also involves the fact …

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  42. 9992Unknown typeT-S AS 153.199

    Unidentified document with the name or signature Moshe b. Ḥizqiyya at the bottom.

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  43. 9993LetterENA NS 45.2

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely in the same hand as T-S 13J7.24. Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars …

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    1. ] יכתב(?) מכאן(?) כלפה(?) . . . .
    2. פיה אללה יעינך ויגע{ל}ני פדאך מן כל באס
    3. ומא וצל מן ענד אלמולא כתאב מן חין(?)
    4. סאפרת אלא פרד כתאב וגמ/י/עהם מ…

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  44. 9994LetterT-S 18J2.3

    Letter in the handwriting of the Ascalon scholar and scribe Natan b. Mevorakh, from Avraham (Ibrahim) b. Ḥalfon b. Nahum to Eli ha-Kohen b. Yahya …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב כגק מרנא ורבנא עלי הכהן הפרנס נאמן בית דין אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם ת[איידה ונ]עמאה וחרס
    3. חובאה וכבת באלדל חסדתה ועדאה עלי שוקא מני אליה…

    In [your] name, O Merci[ful].

    I received the letter of [his] h[onor], g[reatness, and] h[oliness], our master and teacher Eli ha-Kohen the parnas and…

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  45. 9995List or tableT-S K15.73

    List of names in a childish hand

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  46. 9996Paraliterary textT-S K6.47

    Colophon of a codex, probably a Bible. Yosef b. Yaʿqov b. Yosef b. Shemarya b. Menahem (the latter three were all judges) buys the codex …

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  47. 9997Unknown typeENA NS 85.624

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  48. 9998Literary textAIU IV.A.241

    Prayerbook in Spanish. 6 folios. Dating: Perhaps 15th or 16th century, based on the langauge.

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  49. 9999Legal documentAIU VII.E.162

    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He wrote this quickly, not with his careful handwriting. The text on …

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  50. 10000LetterJRL L 269

    Hebrew document(s) of some kind, dated Adar 5579 AM = 1819 CE. Probably epistolary writing exercises.

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