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  1. 10251LetterT-S 20.107

    A letter to a notable, consisting almost entirely of blessings, some quite eloquent and in rhymed prose. The sender asks for help for rent and …

    1. . ג . אלפטאיל פצ[. .]ה אלעקל ינבוע אצל אלמ[
    2. מערפה אלדי מנהא מואד אלדין ובדלך תמיז מול[אי]
    3. אלשיך אלגליל אלמכמל באלתפציל מן בין האדא
    4. אלעאלם אטאל אללה …

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  2. 10252State documentENA NS 83.366

    Fiscal accounting, possibly. Needs examination.

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  3. 10253Paraliterary textJRL Genizah Ar. 135

    Writing practice, several basmalas and a few Hebrew alphabets.

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  4. 10254LetterT-S NS 327.73

    Letter fragment concerning delayed news and communications from a high-ranking addressee, probably a lower state official. The writer expresses concern for the addressee’s safety and …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. تاخرت عني اخبار حضرة وسجلات العالية اطال الله بقاها وحرس عزتها[
    3. واشغل [   ]...لحضور سلامته منعم عبد… يحل هذه الخدم…

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  5. 10255LetterMoss. V,342.2

    Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ (Gil, on the basis of handwriting) from Alexandria to an unknown recipient, ca. 1055. Mentions various wares – raisins, clothes, …

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    1. [וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך] אטאל אללה בק[אה ואדאם עזה מ]ע אלפיג דכר אמר אלזביב ובקיה [                     ] פי כתאבה
    2. [מולאי] אלשיך אבו סעיד דאוד ב…

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    1. הגיע מכתבך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך, בידי נושא המכתבים. כתבת על עניין הצימוקים ושאר .... במכתבו
    2. אדוני ורבי אבו…

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  6. 10256State documentT-S NS 297.36

    State document, probably. In Arabic script. Dated: 517 H. (This might also be a kharājī date.) The document has a basmala; a block of text …

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    1. بسم ا]لله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. ]رى ذكره من مزارعي الناحية المعروفة بالجرش(؟)

    3. ]واخذها مما استخرجها القاضي رشيد واحضره

    4. ]. ورقاع الشيخ ابوا طاهر…

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  7. 10257LetterT-S AS 168.183

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much is preserved. Mentions "we are worried" (naḥnu masghūlīn)...

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  8. 10258List or tableT-S Ar.35.278

    Account in Arabic script.

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  9. 10259Legal documentT-S AS 180.270

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Portions of 2 witness signatures are preserved. Dated: [.]27 AH.

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  10. 10260LetterUnknown (excavation registration number 74/12; photograph 27)

    Letter to the Nubian eparch Īsū in Ibrīm from the qāḍī Abū l-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Fātiḥ. The qāḍī is writing from Aswān, where he has …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. اعلم صاحب الخيل [ووزير الملك] اطال الله بقاه وادام تاييده وحراسته 
    3. وسلامته ورفعته وصولي الى ثغر اسوان حماه الله [     …

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. I inform the Master of the Horses [and vizier of the king]—may God prolong his life, cause…

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  11. 10261LetterENA 2556.2b

    Verso: Letter from Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Qayrawān, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1010 according to Gil. Mentions consignments …

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    1. כתאבי יאכי וסידי ועצרתי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך לארבע איאם בקין מן [ 
    2. ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ללחאל(!) חמד וחדה וקד [   …

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    1. מכתבי, אחי ואדוני ומשענתי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את כבודך ואת תמיכתו ואת סיועו לך ואת שלומך, כשנותרו ד' ימים (מחודש) …
    2. שלומי טוב ו…

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  12. 10262State documentT-S 16.16

    State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …

    1. . . . . . .بالجري في الديوان [

    2. اطال الله بقاك المعدية(؟) [

    3. وكانت اخره فوقها وما ا . . [

    4. وقطعات الجسر مضمنة(؟) . . .[

    5. الثاني من صفر سنة تسع…

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  13. 10263LetterDK 228.1

    Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī. Dating: Probably Mamluk era. 'warada l-musharraf al-karīm al-ṣādir ʿan al-majlis al-ʿāl... wa-ʿalima jamīʿ ma sharaḥahu wa-ammā …

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  14. 10264LetterYevr. II A 1636

    A letter to Shmuel b. Aharon

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  15. 10265LetterAIU VII.A.26

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  16. 10266Legal documentT-S 16.172

    Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Mentions a period beginning Iyyar 1542 Seleucid, which is April 1231 …

    1. ] . . .תה איצא [ . . . . . . ]צף מן [ . . . . . . . . . . קצר] אלרוס מערוף בקצר אלשמע פי
    2. ] אלמדכור פיהם מן אל. . וחדודהא [ . . . . . . . . . . . ]דה…

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  17. 10267List or tableT-S AS 145.221

    Recto: Probably the end of a literary text, signed by Menaḥem ha-Kohen Abū ʿAraqiyya(?). Late. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  18. 10268Unknown typeENA NS 85.688

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  19. 10269Unknown typeENA NS 85.713

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  20. 10270LetterENA 4045.9

    IB II, 45a. Letter in the hand of Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār, probably in Aden, to Abū Zikrī Kohen's son Sulaymān, in Fustat. Dating: …

    IB II, 45a recto

    1. ראס [א]לספט [...]
    2. כטי ופיה מכתוב וגדת אלשדה מא ערפת מן
    3. אודעהא ענדי תבקא אלי //אן\\ יצלני טאלבהא פלדלך
    4. ערפו אלגמאעה אנהא אלדי לחצרתה…

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    1. [...on the package at] the top of the container [there was a note]

    2. in my handwriting, on which was written: “I found this packag…

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  21. 10271LetterENA 2559.10

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat, to his 'brother' Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address both in …

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    1. מחבה ואכוה שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין סט
    2. אלי אלאך אלעזיז אבו אלברכאת אלמבארך אלחאל אטאל אללה
    3. בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה
    4. וגמעני …

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  22. 10272LetterMIAC 268

    Personal letter expressing desire for a friend to meet with an American Sulaymān Basha, and other personal news – Ismaʿilīya (Cairo) June 18 1948CE – …

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  23. 10273Legal documentENA NS 59.10

    Recto (secondary use): An inventory of legal deeds in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the heirs of Barakāt; a woman and Baqāʾ the orphan girl of Bunyām al-Malījī; …

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  24. 10274Legal documentYevr. II A 506

    Formula of a Karaite ketubah.

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  25. 10275Literary textDK 74

    Seliḥot.

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  26. 10276Legal documentENA 4020.11

    Bill of sale for a female slave. Dating: Perhaps second half of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century, based on the hand. …

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  27. 10277List or tableT-S AS 202.243

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto: Rabīʿ II 953 (גנץ) AH = June 1546 CE. Requires further examination.

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  28. 10278Unknown typeENA 3728.11

    Verso: A few lines in extremely faded Arabic script. Unidentified. On the other side there is Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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  29. 10279Unknown typeENA NS 76.381

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 10280LetterT-S AS 149.30

    Letter from Yeshuʿab. Avraham ha-Kohen, the cantor of Shubrā Damsis to his maternal uncles, sons of Moshe ha-Kohen, perhaps in Fuwwa. With introductory citations, such …

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  31. 10281Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3973.19

    Small receipt or order for 2 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …

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  32. 10282Legal documentT-S AS 177.178

    Bottom of a legal document. Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Dated in the month of Rajab but the year is missing.

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  33. 10283List or tableJRL L 259

    Two tables, one headed al-kabīr and the other a-saghīr (= al-ṣaghīr). Dating: probably late, no earlier than 13th century. The first table consists of all …

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  34. 10284Legal documentPER H 31

    Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Karīma, known as al-Wuḥsha al-Dallāla (l. 18), releases Sitt al-Ḥusn (l. 21) …

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    1. ( )בוס לא מן אלאת אלרגאל ולא מן אלאת אלנסא ולא מא יפרש ולא
    2. ( )נסיה ולא רהן ולא כפאלה ולא רסאלה ולא וכאלה ולא אצל
    3. ( )נה ולא טלב בימין אן אדא אמ…

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  35. 10285LetterBL OR 5542.22

    Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Iṭrābulusī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Gives information about ships arriving in Egypt, their consignments and passengers. …

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    1. אטאל אללה יאשיכי וריסי וגלילי בקאך ואדאם נעמאך

    2. תקדמת כתבי אליך יאשיכי עדה ארגו וצלת אליך

    3. וגהת אליך אלכתב מע אלצרה מע בוצחק בן נסים אלקרוי

      …

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  36. 10286Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r

    1. בהיות שהר׳ שלמה הלוי סכנדרי יצ׳׳ו והר׳ יוסף הלוי יצ׳׳ו בכה׳׳ר יצחק יצ׳׳ו שניהם יחד קבלו סך חמשה ושבעים אלף מאידי
    2. כ…

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  37. 10287LetterT-S AS 131.137

    Recto: letter in Arabic. Verso: traces of a word in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

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  38. 10288Unknown typeJRL A 968

    Recto: A Hebrew poem, perhaps in praise of a recipient of a letter. Verso: Remnants of a few words in Arabic, along with two lines …

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  39. 10289Legal documentT-S NS J159

    Recto: Legal document headed "testimony" (שהדותא). Ibrāhīm/Avraham b. Yehoshuaʿ owes Hilāl Sheʾerit 200 dirhams from 'the old Egyptian cash/currency (al-wariq al-qadīm al-Miṣrī). He will repay …

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  40. 10290LetterENA 3765.10 + T-S 18J4.16

    Letter from Shemarya b. Maṣliaḥ, in Fustat, to the Nagid Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram, in Qayrawān. Dating: probably spring or summer of 1039 CE, and in …

    A: ENA 3765, f. 10r B: TS 18 J 4.10v ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.332-335 (Doc. #192) C.B. 02-03-88 (p) Rough draft of a letter written by Ghalib Ha…

    [ . . . ] He spoke to him in a manner the likes of which are not [per]mitted, and gathered about him a group of young men like himself [and] assumed …

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  41. 10291LetterT-S 12.44

    Recto: Letter from the Palestinian Gaon, Daniel b. Azarya (1051-1062), to the head of the Palestinian congragation in Fustat, Eli b. Amram, concerning ‘what was …

    1. [ ] וינצרהו ויעודדהו ביר עמרם זכרו
    2. [לברכה לע]ד נתאחרו כתבי נכבדנו החבר המעולה
    3. [ ]קדם ולא עוד אלא שאנו שואלים
    4. [בשלומהו ודור]שים ב[ש]קטהו וכשמע השלום …

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  42. 10292LetterT-S NS 324.117

    Recto (secondary use): Informal note from Sitt Abū l-Ḥasan to Ṣadaqa, asking him to [...] for the old woman by coming up to Cairo tomorrow.

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  43. 10293Unknown typeENA NS 76.529.1

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  44. 10294Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J58

    IB I, 19. Legal document: testimony on the date of a bill of divorce written by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, Yosef Lebdi's travel companion. Dated: Thursday, …

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    1. תאריך אלגט 
    2. [בחמש]ה בשבא דהוא עשרין ושבע[ה]
    3. יומי בירח ניסן דשנת אלפא 
    4. וארבע מאה ושית שנין למנ' 
    5. קאבלנא נחן אלשהוד אלכאתמין
    6. לתתא בהדא אלתאריך ו…

    1. Date of the bill of divorce:
    2. [Thurs]day, the 27th
    3. day of the month of Nisan,
    4. 1406 E.D.
    5. We, the undersigned witnesses, have checked
    6. this date a…

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  45. 10295LetterBL OR 5542.12 + T-S 8J40.11

    Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Surūr Isḥāq b. Barhūn, it seems in Alexandria, mentioning the arrival of the recipient …

    Recto: T-S 8J40.11:

    1. על שמך ייי תוכלת עלי אללה
    2. כתאבי יאמולאי וסידי ושיכי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
    3. וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ואלחמד לל…

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  46. 10296LetterBodl. MS heb. c 50/20

    Fragment of a family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. Mentions: a wālī; business dealings and losses; small sums of money between 3–10 dirhams; …

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    1. . . . 
    2. ענד אלואלי וקאל לי קם אחסר(?)
    3. צהרך וכסרנא אלגעל ואקסמנא
    4. באנה יגי אלגמעה אלגאייה ואמא
    5. חדית אלראונד מא וגדת ענד
    6. בן אלעודי אלא שוי מסוס ול…

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  47. 10297Credit instrument or private receiptJRL A 1181

    Short note by the gabbai Avraham Yuʿbaṣ affirming that Kasīm (?) Meyuḥas will rent a house on "darb al-midrash" (on the street of the beit …

    1. ווצל מין אל סי׳ נסיים(!) מיוחס
    2. אוגרת מנזאל בצ'רב(!) אלמדרש
    3. תועלוק ק׳׳ק מוסתערבים שהור
    4. ٧ מין אדר ב׳ לסופ שהר אלול
    5. שנת תקצט ען כול שהר מ׳ ٣٠٠
    6. נצפהום  …

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  48. 10298LetterAIU XII.70

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Addressed to a certain Fakhr al-Dawla (al-shaykh al-ajall, 'the esteemed elder'). The sender met with Muḥyī …

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  49. 10299List or tableENA NS 46.15

    List of names on recto and verso with corresponding figures expressed in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th-16th-century based on the paleography. …

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  50. 10300Legal documentENA 2855.16 + T-S Ar.47.245 + ENA 2855.15 + T-S Ar.43.272 + T-S G2.60 + T-S Ar.49.33

    IB I, 27-28. Legal rebuttal regarding the lawsuit between Yosef Lebdi and Wuhsha over the possession of 22 bales of lac. So far, six bifolia …

    ENA 2855.16 recto (IB I, 27a)

    1. נצר הדא בשום פנים בעולם ולקד כאן יג'ב
    2. איצא עלי אבו נצר לו כאן לה שיא עלי מא
    3. זעמת וארתתה אן יכתב כתאב במא יכתץ 
    4. בה פי ה…

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    1. You refer {alt. tr.: He refers} to the letter

    2. of [Fara]ḥ and… {read: Faraḥ, which was sent} fro…

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