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  1. 10751Legal documentENA 2559.6

    Bifolio of a court notebook with legal and communal entries. (1) In which the goldsmith Bū l-Faraj b. Bū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī grants permission to …

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  2. 10752Legal documentNLI 577.2/25

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 11 Rabiʿ I 852 AH = 15 May 1448 CE. Possibly a deed of sale for a property. Needs …

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  3. 10753Legal documentENA 3492.15

    Fragment of a legal document. The terms sāiʾba (endowment/waqf property more generally ) and mūwāqafa (safeguarding waqf/endowment properties) are suggestive that the document could be …

    1. و حفظ سائبة ولا زالت

    2. وموافقة ولا مواقفة

    3. من الادعية الصالحة له والشا……

    4. الفاضل الاجل الاسعد

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  4. 10754Legal documentT-S 8.243

    Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba) containing a detailed description of part of a house given to the bribe. Mentioning the names Avraham b. Natan, …

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  5. 10755Literary textENA NS 76.166

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  6. 10756Legal documentT-S Ar.19.4

    Deed regarding the endowment of a small house in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Babylonian synagogue. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده كفى وصلواته على عباده الذين اصـ]ـطفى
    2. [هذا ما تصدق به                  ] علة ومرض جسم وثبوت فهم وجواز ام…
    1.  [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He  is sufficient His blessings be upon his servants, whom he has cho…

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  7. 10757List or tableT-S NS 297.311

    Small fragment - needs examination.

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  8. 10758Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.11

    Legal record (#19). Engagement contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Goitein notes that both fiance and fiancee must be very poor; neither has a …

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  9. 10759Legal documentMoss. VII,15.3

    End of a legal document concerning the sale of flax, signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq, and Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe. (Information in …

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  10. 10760LetterT-S 13J21.3

    Recto: Letter from the teacher Abū Yaʿqūb to an unknown recipient. Written in a good hand and pleasant style. This letter implores the addressee to …

    1. כאדם חצרתה
    2. אלמעלם אבו יעקוב
    3. . . . . . ]ת אלכאלק תעאלי וחצרה
    4. מול]אי אלשיך אלגליל אלהי ישראל
    5. יצלח חאלה ויוסע רזקה ויכפיה
    6. מוונה כל אדם //רע// ויגן עליו…

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  11. 10761LetterT-S NS 321.38

    Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, in Būṣīr, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1045 CE. ʿAyyāsh is about to finish the phase …

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    1. [יאשיכי וסי]די אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף

    2. [ אלאסוא] ענך מן בוציר //מסתהל כסליו// ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך קרב אללה

    3. [אל…

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    1. אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ויסלק
    2. ממך את הרעות, (אני כותב לך) מבוציר, בא' בכסלו. שלומי טוב ואני בריא, אבל…

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  12. 10762Unknown typeT-S AS 78.20

    Unidentified notations. Small fragment.

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  13. 10763List or tableJRL C 139

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mostly dealing with commercial activities of Ḥayyīm and Moshe Bibas. Dated halfway down the recto as Shaʿbān 1193 AH which is 1779 …

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  14. 10764LetterJRL B 3968

    Letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions two sacks of flax; someone's brother Yaʿaqov who went down to …

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  15. 10765State documentT-S AS 177.482

    Small fragment of an unclear nature. Two lines of Arabic script, the top of which reads "Dīwān al-Ishrāf."

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  16. 10766Legal documentT-S Ar.51.104

    Legal agreement regarding the Rabbanite Jewish communal pious endowment of Cairo (al-Qāhira al-Maḥrūsa) and Old Cairo/Fustat (Miṣr al-ʿAtīqa). In Arabic script. Date: 26 Ramaḍān 9[04] …

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    1. باسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اشهد على الريس ابراهيم المدعو ناتان بن سعيد بن ناتان اليهودي الربان ال[م] غربي ريس... [اليهود]
    3. والمتحدث عليهم شهوده وا…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.

    2. The [lit., ‘its’] witnesses [to the case] testified on behalf of Raʾīs Ibrāhīm, called…

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  17. 10767List or tableT-S Ar.35.30

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Mentions several baked goods and associated items: bread (khubz), cake (kaʿk), raisins, taḥīna, qaṭāʾif.

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  18. 10768List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1636/14 + T-S K21.98

    Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and revenues from rent, ca. 1037 (specifies expenditures for the years 426–30 AH = 1034–39 CE). The expenditures listed …

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    1. [ ]ק[ ]א[
    2. מן [ ] דאר אל[
    3. בנאיין אלאגרה [
    4. ואתני עשר רקאץ לאבת[ ]ה תלתה
    5. ותלתין דר' מא סבעה דר'
    6. תמן טין אסוד מע אלקופתין תמניה
    7. דר' ורבע' תמן שוחת…

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    1. (1-2) .... From … Dār al- .... 

    2. Masons, the wages ....

    3. (4-5) 12 helpers for . . . . , 3 dir. Water, 7 dir. 

    4. (6-7) Paid for black cl…

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  19. 10769LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1478

    Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. See tag for other letters by her.

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  20. 10770List or tableJRL B 5571

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Very faded. Mainly foods: ṭaḥīna, leek (karrāth/kurrāth), carrot (jazar), onion (baṣal), pepper (filfil), taro flower (zahr qulqās), almond (lawz), …

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  21. 10771Legal query or responsumT-S NS 306.60

    Legal query to a Muslim jurisconsult regarding certain houses that have been made pious foundations by Jewish people and that should preserve their status until …

    1. ما يقول السادة الفقها وفقهم الله لمصالح خدمته وافاض
    2. عليهم مواد رزقه في يهود لهم ادر موقوفة برسم سعاليكهـ[ـم
    3. وشرط وقافهم ان لا تخرج تلك الوقوفات الا …

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    1. What do our lords the jurisconsults, may God grant them success in his honourable service and bestow  
    2. upon them the substance of his bounty, …

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  22. 10772Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.5

    Legal record (#8). Lease of part of a house. Dated: Monday, 5 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān leases to Abū l-ʿAlā …

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  23. 10773List or tableENA 3930.1

    Accounting in Arabic script. Likely a dār receipt (see tag). Dating: 11th or 12th century. On verso in Judaeo-Arabic, "the account of al-[...]."

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  24. 10774List or tableT-S K11.39

    Recto: business accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic (على مولاي اخي اجرة حمولة وبرطيل . . . . )

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  25. 10775List or tableENA NS 52.7

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone named Ṣibyān several times.

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  26. 10776Legal documentT-S NS 226.87

    Small fragment with few words from a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Possibly related to the shelfmark T-S NS 226.84 …

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  27. 10777Legal documentT-S AS 153.419

    Minute fragment from the top of a legal deed.

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  28. 10778Literary textT-S Ar.49.146 + T-S Ar.49.139

    Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.

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  29. 10779List or tableENA 3517.4

    Verso: List of sums of money related to properties in the communal qodesh Fusṭāṭ, with a variety of names: Hillel b. Moshe, Avraham b. Pinḥas, …

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  30. 10780Legal documentT-S 13J3.8

    Shelomo b. Adaya, known as Ben ‘Adi, receives a loan of 45 dirhams from Hibat Allah, the orphan of the recently deceased Abu al-Faraj, in …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בסוף
    2. שטרא דנן כן הוה חצר אלינא מרור שלמה בר עדיה נע דדיע (צ"ל: דידיע)
    3. בן עאדי פי צחה מן עקלה וגואז אמר…

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  31. 10781Legal documentT-S NS 329.79

    Documentary; draft document appointing Joseph b. Benjamin as epitropos for a minor, named Abraham. (FGP)

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  32. 10782LetterT-S NS 342.31

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only the endings of the top two lines, and the address …

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  33. 10783Legal documentT-S 13J5.2

    Legal document. Transfer of money to the poor of Jerusalem, 1085 CE. Shelomo b. Hayyim, one of the leaders of the Palestinian Jews, had forwarded …

    1. בשמך רחם
    2. יקול שלמה בן כגק מרנור חיים השביעי בחבורה זצל אן קבצת מן מר
    3. ור עלי הכהן הפרנס הנאמן ביר יהיה נע עשרין דינארא גיאדה עינה ואזנה
    4. נקד מצר מן גמ…

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    1. In Thy Name, oh Merciful! 

    2. Solomon, the son of His Honorable and Great Sanctity, our Master and Leader, Ḥayīm, “the seventh of the ḥavūrā”,…

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  34. 10784Legal documentHalper 363

    A court record detailing an attack on a ḥazzan, his wife, and his children with a shoe (Information from Goitein’s index card) Upper part of …

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  35. 10785Legal documentT-S 12.525 + T-S 8J22.16

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and bearing his signature on the verso. Dating: 1100-1138. Location: Fustat. In bad …

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    1. [.............................................]הין  
    2. [.........................................צ]אחבה  
    3. [.........................…

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    1. …
    2. […] his [p]artner
    3. […] any court anywhere
    4. [… r]ather the most perfect and certain
    5. […of what] the Sages m(ay their memory be) f(or a blessing) [out…

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  36. 10786LetterT-S NS 338.58

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions lāsīn silk and Fustat and someone who has spent 2 years somewhere. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?

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  37. 10787LetterENA 2730.4

    End of a communal letter with signatures. The surviving signatures are [..]riya b. Ḥasan, [...] b. Ḥasan, Daniel b. Yishaq Shaʾul. [...] Kohen b. Bundar. …

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  38. 10788Paraliterary textMoss. VI,9.3

    Magical text in Hebrew and Arabic script.

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  39. 10789Legal documentT-S NS 225.25p

    Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (middle of the right side). Faded and smudged. Verso blank.

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  40. 10790Legal documentMoss. Va,13

    Draft of a legal claim issued by Avraham b. Hayyim to the Jewish court in Cairo against his partner, whose name is not mentioned, regarding …

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  41. 10791Legal documentT-S NS 190.121

    Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Something involving a woman and her father; profit; half of a house. Dated: Monday, 18 …

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  42. 10792Legal documentT-S AS 146.71

    A fragment from a beginning of a ketubah. 11th century. AA

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  43. 10793LetterT-S AS 86.170

    Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Dating: 15th–17th century. Addresses Aharon and Mordekhay, one or both of whom may be the sender's maternal uncle (khālī). …

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  44. 10794Literary textCUL Or.1080 14.6

    Bifolium from an Arabic literary treatise, including the pious opening and, on the other two pages, several (al)chemical recipes.

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  45. 10795Legal documentYevr. II K 64

    Karaite ketuba. The groom's name is Eliyahu b. Avraham and the bride is Esther known as Rina d. Avraham

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  46. 10796List or tableENA 3735.5

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic whose paleography helps to date this fragment as sixteenth- or seventeenth-century. In the opening lines a Muslim qadi (אלקאצי) is mentioned but …

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  47. 10797State documentENA 3962.2

    Verso: Remnants of a state document (two lines partially preserved, wide line spacing) mentioning Alexandria. In the large blank space someone has practiced writing لا …

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  48. 10798List or tableENA 1822a.76

    Three columns of contributors, giving fidda, 'silver' (a late equivalent for 'dirham'). Characteristic names: Somekh (assistant cantor, Heb.) Furaykh ('Little Chick,' twice), Frjlh (also twice, …

    1. ברברי[
    2. מביע [
    3. יום טוב פ[צה
    4. חזן י׳ פצה
    5. ½ ½
    6. אלשטר פצה
    7. א א
    8. משה רב פצה
    9. א א
    10. יוסף פצה
    11. ½ ½
    12. פרגלה פצה
    13. ה ה
    14. יעקב פצה
    15. יא י
    16. מנצור פצה
    17. ½ ½
    18. משה רב פצה
    19. א א
    20. .......…

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  49. 10799Legal documentAIU XII.95

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: The year is effaced, but it looks Ottoman-era. There is a faded filing note in Judaeo-Arabic on verso. Involves …

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  50. 10800LetterT-S 10J14.17

    Letter from Farah b. Yosef Qabisi in Alexandria to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Naja al-Dimashqi ('Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef). Dating: ca. 1065. Concerns the dispatch …

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    1. לי מדה טוילה לם ארא למולאי אלשיך אלגליל
    2. כתאב אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתה ונעמאה
    3. אללה ישגלה פי אלכיר ויגעלה פי חיז אלסלאמה ואנא
    4. [א]עלם אנני אכד…

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    1. זה זמן רב לא קיבלתי ממך, אדוני הנכבד, 
    2. מכתב; ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת חסדיו לך,
    3. אלוהים יעסיק אותך בדברים טובים וישימך במ…

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