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  1. 10351List or tableT-S AS 204.26

    Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Nūtī.

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  2. 10352Literary textT-S Misc.10.9

    Alchemical recipes in Hebrew. Very well preserved, with interesting details.

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  3. 10353Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 297.211

    Official (tax?) receipt for Bū ʿAlī. Dated. Needs examination.

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  4. 10354State documentT-S NS 327.33

    Tax receipt for Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Mufaḍḍal in Fustat.

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  5. 10355Literary textT-S NS 329.140

    Literary text in the hand of Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Ṭabīb.

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  6. 10356List or tableUU 1626

    Accounts, goods, and salaries, in Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals. Late.

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  7. 10357Literary textYevr. II A 159

    24 fragments under this shelf mark all of them literary.

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  8. 10358Legal documentAIU VII.D.77

    In which Abū l-Khayr Mubārak b. David and Sitt al-Bayt release each other from all claims. This is contingent on Abū l-Khayr giving a certain woman minimum of 1/2 dirham on a weekly basis, it seems depending on how much money he has made that week.

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  9. 10359LetterAIU VII.E.244

    The first part of the letter concludes here, and then there is a new section (in the same handwriting) in the voice of Umm al-Banīn addressing her brother Nissim. She bemoans her prolonged separation from all her siblings and her isolation.

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  10. 10360LetterAIU XII.48

    with the people designated to take care of them (ṣuḥbat al-mandūbīn ʿalayhimā). Verso is blank except for a few Hebrew letters.

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    1. فاما ما اتمنته في معنى التمر والصباغ [------]ـين

    2. صحبة المندوبين عليهما فمنها صح بلا عنبار

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  11. 10361Legal documentBL OR 5543.2

    The prospective bride's name is also listed as Simḥa in line 8. Currency: medin.

    1. בסיעתא דשמיא ובמזלא מעלי׳
    2. בפנינו עדים חותמי מטא שדך הבחור כה׳׳ר אפרים
    3. קארו יצ׳׳ו בכה׳׳ר שמואל נ׳׳ע את הכלה
    4. הבתולה הבוגרת כואנדה ת׳׳מ בת הכה׳׳ר אליאו…

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  12. 10362State documentBL OR 5557B.17

    Abdallāh; Abū l-Faraj b. Sayyidihm; Khalīl al-Naṣrānī; Sulaymān b. Maḥāsin b. Naṣr al-Naṣrānī.

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  13. 10363LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/25

    The story conveyed in the letter is difficult to follow, involving a disagreement, writing a letter but not sending it, someone arriving to the synagogue, someone leaving for Alexandria, and sad news that made the writer and Yosef cry and scream.

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    1. וכל רכבותיו וחיילותה לך יובל חיל כל פתרוסה
    2. ומבשר טוב יצא מולך אל אי כפתור אם חנסה
    3. ובתוך צען אברך תושם ורביד [[תוש]] זהב בצואר
    4. יקם ייי דברי כי …

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  14. 10364LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/11

    Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס) writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, based on the associated fragments.

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  15. 10365LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/25

    (Information from Goitein's note card.) Mentions "either in Aleppo or in Hama" (אמא פי חלב ואמא פי חמא רבתא) near the bottom of verso and how "I would have to cross the sea (to come to you)"; the context is not fully clear, but likely the sender is somewhere in Syria.

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  16. 10366Legal documentCUL Add. 3414.2

    Legal document. Shelomo b. Yefet al-Qudsī owes 102 dinars to Mevorakh b. Elʿazar. […] Meanwhile Mevorakh will sell 70 garments (thawb) for Shlomo in Damietta. If he cannot provide all of the garments, he will pay 1 1/3 dinars for every garment.

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  17. 10367LetterENA 1822a.4

    The sender asks him to help the bearer, Ibrāhīm b. Abū Dāwūd al-Ashqar al-Bilbaysī, who betrothed (amlaka) a woman in Bilbays years ago.

    1. קריב.[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. חצרה רבינו אלנגיד [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. וקד סבבך אללה תע לכל [. . . . . . . . .…

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  18. 10368Legal documentENA 1822a.56

    The term of the partnership is also specified, though not preserved. The date has not been preserved, but the incomplete titles on lines 23-24 suggest that it falls during the headship of Avraham Maimuni (active between 1204-1237).

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    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כט[וטנא אכר הדא אלמסטור]  
    2. אללה תע בין אלשיך אלסדיד כגק [מר ור פינחס …] 
    3. מר ור אלעזר הכהן בר הזקן החכם []
    4. מר ור משה ה…

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    1. We, the witnesses whose sig[nature] appears [at the bottom of this document] said […]
    2. exa(lted) God, between the Elder, the Sound, (his) h(onor,…

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  19. 10369LetterENA 2716.34

    The writer asks for more of a certain collyrium (ashyāf al-natwā), possibly because it is selling well. […] DK 316, a letter from the physician Ibrāhīm to the physician Yaʿqūb, in which Ibrāhīm divulges the recipe for the collyrium for "al-natwā" that he obtained from Abū l-Bahā. There is no clear evidence that the two letters are directly connected, but both are referring to the same medicine.

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    1. יע]קוב
    2. אור זרוע לצדיק
    3. וגו
    4. יכדם מגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אל[מ]ולוי אלחכימי
    5. אלע]אמלי אלאכצי אלאוחדי אלדיני אלורעי אל . ה
    6. י . . . ה הס . . . . . . …

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  20. 10370Paraliterary textENA 3235.1 + ENA 3235.2

    This text confirms that Palestinian calendar rules were preserved for well over a century after the controversy of 921/2. It also provides us, for the first time ever, with explicit evidence of a different version of the Four Gates, based on the month of Nisan.

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  21. 10371List or tableENA 3909.1 + ENA 3909.2

    Another term, possibly an abbreviation, that appears in some entries is "صو" which could also be read as "حو". On the recto there is evidence that this fragment was glued to the remnant of an unknown printed work from which the number "5" is clear as having been left by a mechanical type-script.

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  22. 10372LetterENA 3910.7

    Letter from Khalaf b. Muḥammad(?) al-Ṭarābulsī (the Tripolitan), unknown location, to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market (sūq al-ʿaṭṭārīn). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century.

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  23. 10373LetterENA 4101.16a

    The purpose of the letter is to advocate for herself in her marital dispute that has already come before the addressee in court. "They brought [...] to my master and said, 'Here are some of my possessions that she has destroyed,' but my master knows that when we came before you in court, he did not mention that I destroyed this shawl, and all of this is 'Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually, he sows discord' (Proverbs 6:14)."

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  24. 10374LetterENA NS 43.4

    He tells Moshe what he will send him to Egypt with two men, one of whom is Yehuda Masʿūd. He also reports on what he has spent in Jerusalem to repay the debts of Rachel.

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  25. 10375Legal documentIOM D 55.6

    Dated: Kislev 1452 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. Sayyid al-Ahl b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥazan known as Ibn al-Kāmūkhī receives 14 dinars from the banker Abū l-Bayān b.

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  26. 10376List or tableJRL C 64 + JRL C 81 + JRL C 92

    On the recto there are also a variety of other individuals mentioned, such as: Maḥmūd Eksek[?]

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  27. 10377List or tableJRL C 153

    Among the six entries, the mention of "gasto" is helpful and may suggest that the list is related to expenses. There is also mention of "mercado" which is likely a literal "market" in this case, rather than a male first name.

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  28. 10378List or tableJRL C 157

    This first series of sales is in dirāhim and related to four individuals: Sayyid Aḥmed al-Sāde[?], Manṣūr al-Jihāmi, Nasla[?] Yūsuf, and Aḥmed Sa'ūdi.

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  29. 10379List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 197

    A translation of these lines is "My benevolent, generous, gracious, powerful, almighty, Sultan, His Excellency. Divine guidance and assistance is always close to you, and in this context of prayers [for your] health and strength, showing that our affection is manifest."

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  30. 10380List or tableNLI 577.2/7

    Natan; Shelomo b. ʿEli al-Baghdādī(?) ha-Shulḥani and his brother-in-law Yeshuʿa b. […] Ḥujayj ha-Kohen. On verso: Abū ʿAlī Ḥasān b. Yeshuʿa; Ḥusayn b. Sahlān(?).

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  31. 10381Legal documentT-S 6J2.25

    Unusual format. The trustee ("al-neʾeman") Yefet b. Elʿazar, who is the representative of al-Maḥalla, and the 4 undersigned elders of Fustat (ʿUlla b.

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  32. 10382LetterT-S 6J4.31

    Lawrence Fine, Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship, 33. Moshe also mentions "the other person who left for Ancona."

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  33. 10383Legal query or responsumT-S 8.251

    Verso: Copy of a court record from Alexandria (אלכסנדריא שלמצרים) from a court appointed by Mevorakh [b.

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  34. 10384LetterT-S 8J17.29

    Evidently Eliyyahu brought these to Avraham Maimonides (Sayyidnā al-Rayyis), who wrote his response at the bottom of the query but who did not sign the masṭūr or the pisqei din. […] Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Rayyis al-Yahūd support an inferred date range estimate of 1205–1237 CE.

    ממלוכה אבראהים אבן מצבאח

    1. בר
    2. מושב הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרינו ורבינו
    3. אליהוא הדין המפלא החכם והנבון ראש הקהל שצ
    4. וינהי אלי גלאלה חרס אללה מעאליה ואדאם …

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  35. 10385LetterT-S 12.248

    The letter contains many details about the last phase of arranging the linen for business: the lack in paint to paint the strings and flax growers that did not deliver the goods although they already received the payment. The writer asks Nahray to contact the special Diwan who was in charge of the linen, through Yehuda b.

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    1. על שמך

    2. תקדם כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה עלי יד עלי בן

    3. גלפיוה אלנותי וטיה כתאב אלי בן מנארה בתסלים י תלאליס קמח …

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    1. (2−1) על שמך; אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת חסדיו לך, שלחתי לך לפני כן מכתב בידי עלי בן
    2. גלפיוה הספן, וכרוך בו …

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  36. 10386Legal documentT-S 13J1.1

    Legal document concerned with a case of slander. Location: Aleppo. Dated: Tishrei 1326 of the Seleucid Era (= 1014 CE).

    1. ]ח[
    2. ]ר אלחנן
    3. ]ח וגרר בדמה וקאל לגל[אם
    4. ]כד גלאם מסלם ו[ר ?]ודה (צ"ל וראודה ?)
    5. ]ן אלפנדק ודכרה בכל קביח
    6. ] מעאיתה מצא אלי אלבגדאדי
    7. ] אלחנן גלאם אלחאכם …

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  37. 10387Legal documentT-S 13J3.14

    Concerning the installments of payments of the delayed wedding gift from Surūr b. Ghālib al-Dajājī to his divorcee Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. Shemarya.

    1. חצרא אלינא נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא באכרה סרור בן גאלב אלדגאגי הזקן
    2. נע' פי אלעשר אלאכיר מחדש אדר דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ותמאנין וחד שנין
    3. לשטרות באלמע…

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  38. 10388LetterT-S 13J29.7

    Israel writes that if he decides to come to the Maghreb he will have to decide to stay there. Also mentions Israel’s brother in-law or son in-law, which took from Yisrael a Mishna book and 1,000 dirhams and traveled to Israel.

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    1. וצל כתאבך [יא אכי] וסיידי ורייסי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן תופיקה

    2. לא אכלאך ב[אלקאפ]ל[ה ווקפת מנה עלי מ]א אסרני מן חסן חאלך וסלא…

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    1. הגיע מכתבך, אחי ואדוני וראשי ומרי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך 
    2. ואל ימנע ממך הצלחות, עם השיירה, וקראתי בו דברים משמחים על מצ…

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  39. 10389Legal documentT-S 16.43

    On verso there are pen trials or magical amulet, in a crude hand, followed by the Hebrew alphabet. Verso has been pricked all around the edge.

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    1. שהדותא דהות ב[ ]
    2. דידיע בן כוגך [ ] 
    3. ואלמעאני אלמוכ[ ]
    4. החזן נע דידיע [ ]
    5. פי צחה מני וגו[ ]
    6. אלשהאדה אנני ק[ ]
    7. מא גרי ביני ובינה [ ]
    8. מני ואנא פי …

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  40. 10390Legal documentT-S 16.76

    Dated: Ḥeshvan 1604 Seleucid = October/November 1292 CE), under the authority of David I Maimonides, also with a blessing for his son Avraham. Goitein notes that the document distinguishes between the titles מרינו and מורינו, a distinction which later became lost (including in modern Hebrew).

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  41. 10391Legal documentT-S 18J1.23

    (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 259) Recto: Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b.

    1. חצר אלינא אנן חתומי מטה אלשיך
    2. אבו אלחסן בן כגק מ ור נתנאל ראש
    3. הקהילות וקאל לנא והו פי צחה
    4. עקלה וגואז אמרה טאיע מן גיר
    5. קהר ולא גבר אשהדו עליי
    6. ואקנו מ…

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  42. 10392Legal documentT-S 20.63

    Dating: First third of Ṭevet 1445 Seleucid, which is 29 November–8 December 1133 CE. Isḥāq b. Makhlūf al-Nafūsī acknowledges that he received money and goods (pearls and coral) from Barakāt b. Mūsā al-Ḥalabī. Witnesses: Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi; Avraham b.

    1. [...] מא ̈מ̈א כאן לה ענד אלשיךִ [בר]כאת בן מוסי אלחלבי והו מא כאן סלמה אליה
    2. [עלי יד אלשיך אל]א̇גל אלנאכדאًה מ̇צמון בן אִ[ל]חִסִן יזכר בטוב והו מתבות…

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  43. 10393Legal documentT-S 24.44

    Mevorakh sells to Turfa, the daughter of the late Ṭayyib al-ʿIblānī, half of a house in the Ḥarrānī street in Qaṣ[r al-Shamʿ] (l. 8) for 51 dinars.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא] כן הוה חצר אלינא אבו סעיד מר חלפון המלמד סגיא נהור בר מבורך נע
    2. וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו מני מעכשו ואכ…

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  44. 10394Legal documentT-S Ar.30.263

    Sharāḥīl in Kawlān (مسجد مالك بن شراحيل). [Khan, ALAD: "a document recording the granting of a loan ʿāriyya of property, in which the offeree of the loan acknowledges and accepts the terms of the document, 'aqarra bi-dhalika kullihi wa-qabila minhu'."] […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card, and Khan, ALAD).

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  45. 10395List or tableT-S Ar.30.284

    Note that the scribe uses a variant of the aleph-lamed ligature (ﭏ) to represent 1/2 dirham.

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    1. תבת מא תחצל מן מביע אלדכאן
    2. בנצר אבו עלי למדה אולה ארבע
    3. עשר בקין מן גמאדי אלאכר ואכרהא
    4. יום אלאחד לארבע כלון מן גמאדי
    5. אלאכר שגצ קבץ דלך אב…

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  46. 10396LetterT-S Ar.42.45

    Addressed to 'the dear boy Naṣr al-Dawla' and mentions another person with an official-sounding title, Wafiyy al-Dawla.

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  47. 10397LetterT-S AS 142.223

    Mentions something "in Arabic." Verso is also a shorter note in a similar handwriting that appears to have been written after the page was torn in half.

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  48. 10398LetterT-S AS 153.113

    Verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to Abū ʿImrān (presumably the same paternal uncle mentioned on recto). Possibly also from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, but more specimens of his Arabic handwriting need to be collected.

    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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  49. 10399LetterT-S AS 155.443 + T-S AS 155.431

    Letter addressed to Yaʿaqov b. al-ʿAbbās al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment.

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  50. 10400Legal documentT-S AS 156.185

    Several distinct entries, each terminated by a circle with a dot in it (هـ for انتهى). One has to do with allotting funds from monthly rent payments for bread; another has to do with Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥātim and a woman; on verso there is a reference to a property probably adjacent to the Palestinian synagogue along with the tower or dovecote (burj) to its east.

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