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  1. 10801LetterT-S 10J12.13

    Medical prescription mentioning lemon, sugar, almonds, rose, lily, chicory, licorice, coriander.

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  2. 10802LetterT-S 12.223

    Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Atrablusi, Qayrawan, to Yosef b. 'Awkal.

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    1. [כתאבי יאשי]כי וגלילי וכבירי אטאל אללה בקא[ך ואדאם לך  
    2. וציאנתך וזאד מן פצ'לה ואחסאנה אליך [ 
    3. שהר אלול ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה וללה אלחמ[ד 
    4. בך יאסי…

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    1. מכתבי, אדוני ומכובדי וגדולי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים, ויתמיד… 
    2. ואת הגנתו עליך ויעניק לך רוב חסד וטובה…
    3. חודש אלול. שלומי טוב ואני מאושר, תוד…

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  3. 10803State documentT-S Ar.35.198

    State document, probably accounts of some sort. Mentions "al-mustakhdimīn". Needs examination.

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  4. 10804State documentT-S Ar.39.133

    Receipt of the capitation tax payment of al-Qāhira and Fusṭāṭ.

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  5. 10805LetterT-S Ar.39.262

    Beginning of a document or letter mentioning a sultan and ahl al`afaf - needs examination. (FGP)

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  6. 10806Literary textT-S Ar.47.200

    Fragment of Saʿadya Gaʾon's treatise on biblical hapax legomena (Kitāb al-Sabʿīn Lafẓa).

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  7. 10807Legal documentT-S Ar.49.13

    Involves someone named al-Sarūjī.

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  8. 10808Literary textT-S AS 127.63

    Part of Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-ʾUsquf (‘The Polemic of Nestor the Priest’).

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  9. 10809Legal documentT-S AS 139.91

    Recto contains an alphabetical list (of piyyuṭim?).

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  10. 10810LetterT-S AS 151.68

    Letter mentioning Abū l-Faraj the dyer (al-ṣabbāgh). (Information from CUDL)

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  11. 10811Legal documentT-S AS 152.32

    Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the name [...]el al-Lādiqī. (Information from CUDL)

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  12. 10812LetterT-S AS 152.294

    Letter mentioning Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn and Abū Ibrā[hīm]. (Information from CUDL)

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  13. 10813LetterT-S AS 153.311

    Mentions a Sabbath garment (thawb al-sabt).

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  14. 10814Unknown typeT-S AS 165.237

    Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-[...].

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  15. 10815LetterT-S AS 170.102

    Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dīn and a Jewish physician.

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  16. 10816LetterT-S AS 176.198

    Informal note mentioning Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Kāzarūnī and quires (kurrāsa/kurrāsāt).

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  17. 10817List or tableT-S AS 176.349

    Refers to a ruqʿa and 'kātib al-muwaffaq.' Needs further examination.

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  18. 10818Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 176.451

    Receipt for Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm (same as in T-S AS 176.444 (PGPID 37330)).

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  19. 10819LetterT-S AS 177.182

    Small fragment from the end of a letter. Greetings to Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāʾigh (the goldsmith) and others.

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  20. 10820Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 178.133

    The next dozen or more shelfmarks are all very similar, should be studied together.

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  21. 10821State documentT-S AS 182.225

    Registration, probably from the top of a capitation tax receipt, as it refers to Dīwān al-Jawālī.

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  22. 10822List or tableT-S AS 183.74

    Ayyubid-era? Mentions Jamāl al-Dawla and [...] b. Yūḥannā.

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  23. 10823State documentT-S AS 186.140

    Verso (original use): Tax receipt, Ayyubid? For [...] al-Yahūdī in Cairo. Needs examination.

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  24. 10824List or tableT-S AS 187.82

    Minute fragment of accounts mostly in Hebrew alphanumerals. 16th-century or later based on the paleography.

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  25. 10825List or tableT-S AS 200.437 + T-S AS 200.416

    For Jumādā and Rabīʿ I. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  26. 10826Unknown typeT-S AS 202.434

    Unidentified document in Arabic. May mention ʿAbd al-Karīm. Reused for a book binding.

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  27. 10827List or tableT-S AS 204.209 + T-S AS 204.81

    Unclear if accounts or calendrical. Late. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  28. 10828List or tableT-S Misc.8.11

    Mentions Nahray b. Nissim and Yūsuf b. al-Ghazzāl.

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  29. 10829LetterT-S Misc.25.124

    Letter from Shelomo b. Moshe al-Safāquṣī, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim.

    1. כתאבי אליך יאסידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ועלוך ונעמך
    2. מן אלקדס אלמבארך דרכנא אללה ואיאך בנאה ועמארתה בכל ישראיל (!)
    3. ינם אלגמעה לי בקין …

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  30. 10830List or tableT-S NS 264.12

    In Judaeo-Arabic, with some Arabic script. Headed "awlād al-nākhudhā."

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  31. 10831List or tableT-S NS 267.19

    Many names are mentioned, including Qāsim and Ibn al-ʿAṣṣām.

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  32. 10832List or tableT-S NS 292.75

    Lists various dates and items such as rose water and almond oil.

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  33. 10833Paraliterary textT-S NS 309.14

    Colophon for a literary text discussing the halakhot of ransoming, written by Tammām b. [...] al-Qarawī.

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  34. 10834Literary textT-S NS 327.28

    Probably Christian, based on the reference to ʿĪsā ʿalayhi l-salām.

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  35. 10835Legal documentYevr. II A 508

    There are few documents under this number. Fols. 2-4 are all fragments of Karaite ketubahs.

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  36. 10836LetterAIU VI.B.100

    , the secretary in Dīwān al-Isti'nāf. Page 6: Writing exercises. Page 7: Judaeo-Arabic formulary for a legal document dated Thursday 3 Rajab. […] Page 9: Draft or copy of a legal document involving the shaykh Mūlṭafa (=Muṣṭafa?) al-Damanhūrī, dated Tuesday 27 Muharram. Page 10: Writing exercises and the date 8 Rajab. […] Page 16: Writing exercises (Hebrew alphabet).

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  37. 10837Legal documentAIU VII.D.105

    The opening lines deal with inheritance arrangements and property transactions between the brothers Yiṣḥaq, Mordekhay, and Binyamin Gaʿdī (and also the son of Mordekhay, Moshe Gaʿdī). Some or all of these arrangements were recorded in an earlier document (שטר חלוקה/division of shares deed) before the beit din of the "Portugal" Congregation (ק׳׳ק פורטגאל).

    1. ב׳׳ה
    2. להיות שהיה(?) ימים ושנים קודם [..]רפה נפל להאחים הר׳ יצחק והר׳ מרדכי והר׳ בנימין געדי נ׳׳ע מירושת אביהם
    3. הר׳ משה געדי נ׳׳ע בית א׳ עליה ען התקרה …

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  38. 10838LetterAIU VII.D.108

    One witness, Ṣāliḥ b. Yūsuf al-Ṣabbāgh, witnessed and took an oath that it was a partnership. Abū Zikrī's brother-in-law is attempting to mediate a settlement involving a transfer of 20 gold coins and 800 qelafim (sheets of parchment?), which have already been sent with Nissim b. Menaḥem. Ismaʿīl is now to draw up a document in Arabic ("let it be witnessed by Gentile witnesses in Mahdiyyah and Qayrawan") and in Hebrew ("in the beit midrash of rabbenu," i.e., the recipient) releasing Abū Zikrī from all claims relating to the store and the courtyard.

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  39. 10839Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Barūkh Ben-Barūkh and together the couple sold and quickly bought back the property shares from a certain Esclarona bt. Yaʿaqov Albo (an Italqī and/or Sephardi surname), the widow of Yaʿaqov Ashkenazi. […] The final buyer Ḥabība also appears in document #21 of the same court register (PGPID 40899).

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    :(Documents 25-27) Folio 7r

    1. וזכות וחזקת הר׳ יצחק אחיה הנז׳ ובאי כחו לדור ולהשכיר ולמכור ולמשכן ולתת כמתנה ולעשות
    2. בהם כפי חפצו ורצונו ככח המכיר…

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  40. 10840Literary textBodl. MS heb. d 36/13–16bis

    This is the famous epistle/sermon generally attributed to Daniel al-Qūmisī, in Jerusalem, to his "brethren" the Qaraites, urging them to come to Jerusalem (along with a great many other matters). One passage: "Since the beginning of the exile, the Rabbanites were princes [sarim] and judges, in the days of the kingdom of Greece, the kingdom of the Romans and the Persian Magians, and those who sought the Torah could not open their mouths with the commandments of the Lord out of fear of the rabbis . . . until the arrival of the kingdom of Ishmael, since they always help the Qaraites to observe the Torah of Moses, and we must bless them [for it].

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  41. 10841Literary textENA 2808.56

    The target audience is Jewish (i.e., this isn't simply a transcription of a more widely circulating Arabic poem) since it contains the Hebrew term מועיד/holiday. However it also talks about the prohibition on wine, which makes sense only in a Muslim context. The main punchline at the end is that the jurisprudents spend all their time sermonizing and issuing fatwas about how wine is forbidden — and as soon as a party starts they say 'forget about the fatwas, pass the wine!'

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  42. 10842Paraliterary textENA 4011.76

    There are further details here about the date and the day of the week (he notes in the margin that it is a good sign to die on erev shabbat) and the Torah portion that coincided with the shiva in both Fustat and al-Maḥalla (parashat Vayishlaḥ). The sermon begins on recto. "One Friday, 13 Kislev 1460, I was sitting in al-Maḥalla copying books as is my custom, with the boys studying Torah before me. […] I sent for Maʿānī, and as God knows, I was present but absent, estranged, alone, and lonely due to the remnants of an illness and [due to being] surrounded by enemies who await my public downfall..."

    1. [untranslated]
    2. [untranslated]
    3. On Friday,
    4. (26 November 1148),
    5. I was sitting in al- Maḥalla to copy books
    6. as is my custom and the children were readin…

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  43. 10843Legal documentENA NS 54.7

    Binyamin b. Shoshan transfers all of the debts owed him to the ownership of the court. Written and signed by Moshe ha-Levi Porekh(?). Also signed by Yehuda Qastro. (II) Underneath there is apparently a template for another prozbul document.

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    1.                        ב׳׳ה
    2. אנו עדים חתומי מטה אמר לנו כה׳׳ר בנימן ן׳ שושן יצ׳׳ו
    3. מוסר אני בפניכם שכל חוב שיש לי שאגבנו בכל זמן
    4. שארצה והיה זה ב…

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  44. 10844LetterJTS MS 4391

    (Longer version: Gil published the text on the basis of the editio princeps, made by Alexander Marx in "Studies in Gaonic History and Literature," JQR n.s. 1 (1910): 101, having copied it from what Marx calls Codex Steinschneider 29, "which for the most part contains liturgical fragments," folios 19-20 — although apparently Steinschneider himself designated it CnP1.

    1. שלוחה עם אגרת מר רב יעקב החבר נר אל
    2. אצילנו נכבדינו ידידנו איש בריתנו מרי ורבנא יעקב
    3. אלוף ינצרהו משגבינו ויגוננהו בן מרי ורבנא יוסף עוכל
    4. זב לב כי יש …

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  45. 10845LetterT-S 6J7.1 + T-S Ar.13.16

    Refers to a group of people traveling (יסירו ויטלעו קאצ[דין); that they had obtained a rescript for/against the Ṣāḥib al-Sayyāra (could refer to the head of a specific caravan, but see T-S K25.32 (PGPID 34397) for the government post Mutawallī al-Sayyāra); that the rescript confirmed their rights to continue as before (מקר בידיהם באן יגרו עלי מא קד גרת בה עאדתהם ולא יגדד עליהם מא לם יעהדוה); and strengthening the hand of the sender of this letter (ואעזאז אלעבד אלממלוך ואלשד עלי ידה). […] He now asks the addressee (אלחצרה אלעאליה) to write to Abū l-Munā the nāẓir in order to thank him and convey the gratitude of the sender and the community. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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    1. וכאנו קד עולו . . [
    2. יסירו ויטלעו קאצד[ין
    3. תע ולחצרה אדונינו באן [
    4. להם תוקיע עלי צאחב אלסיארה
    5. מקר בידיהם באן יגרו עלי
    6. מא קד גרת בה עאדתהם ולא
    7. יג…

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  46. 10846Legal documentT-S 8J11.9

    Ḥātim was in charge of collecting 118 dirhams rent monthly from the "estate of the Jerusalemites." He also was in charge of collecting 110 dirhams per month from a place whose name is lost. The document seems to be a ḥawāla from this parnas to another parnas Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafi. Three members of the court (Yaʿaqov b.

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    1. אלדי עלי אלשיך אבי סעד אלפרנאס בן חאתם לרבע
    2. אלמקאדסה מן מסתהל רביע אלאכר סנה סתה
    3. וארבעין וכמסה מאיה ללתאריך אלערבי אלמואפק
    4. [מסת]ה[ל] אב משתא ד…

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    1.  Owed by the elder Abū Saʿd the parnās, b. Ḥātim to the Estate

    2.  of the Jerusalemites: from the beginning of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year 

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  47. 10847LetterT-S 8J24.17

    Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good wishes for Tabernacles. […] He then admits that he has no money even to buy bread, but all will end well. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 87, 351.) […] The addressee's brother Abu l-Ḥasan is doing well, in spite of all that he suffers. He mentions something that the wife of the addressee's paternal uncle said, but it is not clear what.

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    1. וצל כתאבכם לא עדמת בקאכם
    2. אללה תעאלי יזכיכם שנים רבות ושנים
    3. נעימים ותזכו לחזות בנועם ייי
    4. ולבקר בהיכלו ותזכו לשמחת
    5. בית השאובה(!) ואתם שמחים
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  48. 10848LetterT-S 8J24.17

    Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good wishes for Tabernacles. […] He then admits that he has no money even to buy bread, but all will end well. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 87, 351.) […] The addressee's brother Abu l-Ḥasan is doing well, in spite of all that he suffers. He mentions something that the wife of the addressee's paternal uncle said, but it is not clear what.

    1. בש רח
    2. אללה תעאלא לא יוחשני
    3. מנך ולא מן כתבך ואלדי
    4. תריד עלמה אנא קלבנא
    5. ענדך כלנא ואנך קלת
    6. אנך תדכל אליום אללה יוחש
    7. מנך ואננא מן פצל אללה
    8. סלמין ורוסנא …

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  49. 10849LetterT-S 10J17.12

    .; 1 pound antimony, approximately 3¼ or 3½ d. or less; 2½ pounds cosmetic cream (mathāth), approximately 2¼ d.or less. The writer also sends three drafts of dirges (qinnot) and asks his brother Abū l-Ḥasan (Yedutun ha-Levi) to correct them. Verso: Petition draft in Arabic script to the Amir Sharaf al-Dawla (?). The handwriting is that of Moshe b.

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקאכם ואדאם //עזכם//
    2. ונעמאכם ומן חסן אלתופיק לא
    3. אכלאכם ואמא אלדי אעלמכם
    4. בה אני כתיר אלשוק לנצרכם ואלאן
    5. קד בעתת לכם מע חאמלהא כמס
    6. עשר…

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  50. 10850LetterT-S 10J24.1

    Aharon and the elder Abu ʿAlī Ḥasan are also mentioned, and "my son-in-law ʿAmram ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle Yesod ha-Yeshiva, of Jerusalem."

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    1. ויעצימהו [ ] אין להא[ר]יך מיל[ים] לחכם כמוך אבל להזכיר כבודך ותורתך
    2. מה שא[נו] כולנו חייב[י]ם לעזור מטים ומכים כל שכן עיר אלוהינו מקום תהלתו
    3. ה…

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