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  1. 1051State documentENA NS 71.27

    Fiscal account, probably Fatimid.

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  2. 1052Legal documentDK 314

    Legal document, in Arabic script. The two Christians Barzūq b. Mufriḥ and Zurayn b. Makhlūf jointly lease (=shares) a vegetable garden (arḍ al-baqla) on the …

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  3. 1053State documentENA NS 2.33

    Verso: Draft (probably) of a petition. In Arabic script. "The slave... wishes to maintain the traditions... we wish to maintain our traditions and the traditions …

    1. بسـ[ـم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    2. العبد المملـ[ـوك
    3. ونشتهي ان نبقى عل رسمنا[
    4. ونشتهي ان نبقى على رسمنا وعلى رسم ابونا
    5. قبلنا وهـ[ ] ونحن في مكان وهو كنيستنا
    1. In the name [of God the merciful and compassionate]
    2. The slave [
    3. and wishes to maintain the traditions
    4. and wishes to maintain our traditions and the …

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  4. 1054State documentT-S NS 109.34

    State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?

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  5. 1055State documentT-S NS 139.36

    Small fragment from an official document, most probably a petition. The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and …

    1. الراي]العالي فيما يامر به ان [شا الله
    2. ]الاقطاع ان شا الله
    3. الحمد لله وحده و]صلواته على سيدنا محمد النبي واله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما

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  6. 1056LetterT-S NS 321.43

    Letter in Arabic script. Probably commercial. Needs examination. Reused on verso for Megillat Esther-related text in Hebrew.

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  7. 1057State documentT-S NS 306.162

    State document, in Arabic script. Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the beginning invocations and blessings. The name of the petitioner is Ṣandal …

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  8. 1058Legal documentT-S Ar.41.16

    Legal document, iqrār, in Arabic script. More than two-thirds of the document is preserved except for some tear on the top and left corner. Khalīfa …

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  9. 1059List or tableX893 Se62 pt. 4.9

    Accounts in Arabic script on a reused literary fragment. Late. Some of the mentioned commodities are medical ingredients. Needs examination.

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  10. 1060LetterT-S NS 226.6

    Letter recording commodity transactions, including the purchase of wheat. Mentions a food shortage and rise in prices "and we are in a massive crisis because …

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    1. קריב מאתין דרהם דין אכתרהא
    2. לאצהארה ואלבאקי לנאס מפרקה
    3. ואופינא אלבעץ ואלבאקי חתי תגי
    4. ונפיע אלמ. . ונחן פי שדה עצימה
    5. מן אלגלא גרארה אלקמח בסבעי…

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  11. 1061State documentT-S Misc.25.97

    Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. "...al-raʾy al-sāmī... bi-l-wuqūf ʿalā mā anhāhu... wa-yaqif ʿinda... in shāʾa llāh...." On verso there is piyyut.

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  12. 1062State documentT-S AS 149.91

    Probably a petition in Arabic script. The addressee is a dignitary (referred to with the honorific 'khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn'). The petition has something to do …

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  13. 1063LetterT-S Ar.42.13

    Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …

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    1. يخدم مجلس المولى السيد الاجل الحكيم الفاضل ادام الله ايامه

    2. وينهي لكريم عالم(؟) ان المانع له عن الحضور بخدمة المولا الان

    3. ما يعلمه المولا م…

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  14. 1064Legal documentT-S Ar.42.149

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), complete. In Arabic script. Dated: 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. The muqirr is Sayyid al-Ahl b. ʿAlī. The contract was drafted …

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  15. 1065Legal documentT-S NS 327.145

    Legal documents (one on recto and remnants of two on verso) in Arabic script. Might be a deed of sale on recto and deeds of …

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  16. 1066State documentT-S NS 338.69

    Documentary/administrative record? One page (verso is blank) with a Hebrew-script header and 8 lines of Arabic in a jagged/coarse hand--maybe from a badly cut nib? …

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  17. 1067State documentT-S Ar.42.88

    Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …

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  18. 1068State documentT-S NS 297.18

    Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard …

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  19. 1069State documentT-S NS 323.14

    Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.

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  20. 1070Legal documentMoss. VIII,268

    Muslim marriage contract. Fragment (upper right corner). Groom: Yazdād b. Balūl(?). Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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  21. 1071State documentAIU XII.5

    Fragment of a letter in Arabic, likely an official report or petition. The sender reports that he went up to the citadel (يقبل الارض وينهي …

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  22. 1072Literary textMoss. IXa,2.30

    Thousand and One Nights, from the chapter حكاية أنس الوجود مع محبوبته الورد في الأكما.

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  23. 1073State documentT-S NS 305.119

    Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …

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  24. 1074State documentT-S Ar.39.1

    Official receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dated: 556 AH (or kharājī?); if AH, this would correspond to 1160/61 CE. For Bū l-Ḥasan b. …

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  25. 1075State documentT-S NS 225.24

    Recto: Letter or petition, fragment. In Arabic script. It seems to be addressed to the director of the bureau of mosques (mutawallī dīwān al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid), …

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  26. 1076Legal documentT-S AS 177.218

    Legal document involving several amīrs, including ʿIzz al-Mulk Bahāʾ al-Dawla wa-Sadīduhā Dhū al-[...]. Also concerning Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī, the ʿArīf ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammmad, and another …

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  27. 1077State documentL-G Ar. I.105

    Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …

    1. ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [

    2. ] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه

    3. ] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [ 

    4. ] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت …

    1. ] al-Saʿīd. His correspondences in each [
    2. ] a dinar doesn’t generate from this in these [
    3. ]…every (?) installment, for the reason that these distric…

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  28. 1078State documentENA NS 83.352

    Petition to a state official. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). All that is preserved is some of the titles of the addressee. "al-majlis …

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  29. 1079State documentT-S NS 150.254

    Report (official state correspondence). 6 lines from the middle section are preserved. Refers to audiences with the caliph, the amīr Wajīh al-Dawla, and someone traveling …

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    1. اليوم كان عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه عاد بن هرون

    2. الى عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه الامير وجيه الدولة يعلمه

    3. انه ساير عن الرملة الى…

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  30. 1080State documentT-S NS 327.131

    Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. From three merchants. Opens with blessings for the caliph. None of the substance is preserved. The formula "ضاعف …

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    1. المماليك علي بن مسلم ومعمر بن
    2. ابراهيم ومبارك بن ابراهيم
    3. التجار
    4. [بسم الله الرحمن]الرحيم
    5. صلوات الله وبركاته وافضـ]ـل تحياته وسلامه على سيدنا ومو…
    1. The slaves ʿAlī b. Muslim, Muʿammar b.
    2. Ibrāhīm, and Mubāra b. Ibrāhīm
    3. the merchants
    4. [In the name of God the merciful] and compassionate
    5. [the benedic…

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  31. 1081LetterT-S NS 297.242

    Letter addressed to Abu l-Khayr(?) b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Nearly entirely preserved, except for the upper left corner …

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  32. 1082State documentT-S Misc.29.9 + T-S Misc.29.2

    Decree or petition. Portions of two lines are preserved, mentioning Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. [...], and a version of a raʾy clause: ...bi-khayri mā yarāhu …

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  33. 1083Legal documentENA 3963.1

    Legal document in Arabic script, central portion of either a contract or a deed of sale. Dating: Likely Mamluk or Ottoman era. The name of …

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  34. 1084Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 58

    Title verso and first page of an astronomical treatise entitled "Risāla kura dhāt l-kursī mukhtaṣara" in a beautiful book hand. Needs examination for identifying the …

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  35. 1085Paraliterary textENA 4193.18

    Astrological text in Arabic script, with interspersed words transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (late hand) in the spaces between the lines. This demonstrates that even some Jews …

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    1. من يوم الاحد وان اردت الهياجان

    2. ففي ساعة المريخ من يوم الجمعة وهي

    3. سادس ساعة منه وان اردت

    4. تحرق قلبه ففي ساعة الزهرة من

    5. يوم الثلاثا وهي …

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    1. On Sunday. If you intend to provoke/agitate (him/someone)

    2. then in the hours of Mars on Friday which is

    3. The sixth hour of the day and if y…

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  36. 1086State documentMoss. IXa,2.6

    Ayyubid state accounts related to military spending of two Syrian lords of the Ayyubid sultan al-Kāmil (d. 1238) or his successor, the sultan al-ʿĀdil Sayf …

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  37. 1087State documentT-S Ar.39.387

    Part of a preliminary draft of a chancery document addressed to a government official. ". . . bi-l-shadd minka fī istikhrāj al-māl ʿalā l-kamāl ʿalā …

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    1. المشارفات المشارفات ويقضيك

    2. بالشد منك في استخراج المال على الكمال 

    3. على الكمال والتمام وقصر يد من يدوم  الاحتما

    4. عليك والمنع من احداث رسم …

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  38. 1088LetterMoss. IXa,2.9

    Taqbīl clause, presumably scribal practice for a private petition: المملوك يقبل الارض بين يدي المولى الاجل المتفضل. Headed by the glyph (in this case, an …

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  39. 1089State documentMoss. VIa,1-2

    Letter or official correspondence, probably Ikhshidid, in Arabic script. Mentions two officials, Abū l-Faḍāʾil and Abū Bakr ʿAlī b. Sulḥ, and other people. Also mentions …

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  40. 1090LetterMoss. VIa,1-2

    Communal letter or epistle? Needs examination. Written on the back of an Ikhshīdid letter (or possibly two Ikhshīdid documents glued together), in a hand consistent …

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  41. 1091State documentMoss. VIII,326.1

    State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …

    1. ]. دولة……..

    2. المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه

    3. كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة…

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  42. 1092Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 446

    Literary text, poetry, in Arabic script. Mentions forbearance during harsh times and seekers of knowledge. Needs examination.

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  43. 1093Literary textT-S NS 274.48

    Arabic poetry. Needs examination.

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  44. 1094State documentENA 3926.5

    Receipt (fiscal?) for Abū l-Mūnā b. Ibrāhīm al-Malījī (?) Bū l-Ḥusayn b. Sulaymān [tawliya al-shadd??]. Ends with ḥamdala and ṣalwala, with no registration requests or …

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  45. 1095Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 7

    Quran fragment, in a beautiful and elegant Maghribī script with diacritical marks in red. The verses are from Sura al-Insān (76:7-14, 27-31).

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  46. 1096State documentENA 3926.8

    Fatimid document, probably fiscal, more than one hand, one large in shā allāh, and one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. Damaged and not easy …

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  47. 1097LetterENA NS 71.19

    Letter, in Arabic script. Starts with a basmala and contains the "inhāʾ" formula. Mentions difficulties; "ويشهد الله تعلى لقد صنعت علينا غاية الصعوبه والله تعالى …

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  48. 1098List or tableENA 3729.6

    Receipt, with a bunch of names of the contributors, dates, and days of the week on both sides. A few Hebrew characters also appear in …

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  49. 1099Legal documentENA 3913.4

    Legal document (iqrār). Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script. Needs examination for content and dating.

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  50. 1100State documentT-S NS 194.109

    Official correspondence. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. There are two fragments here which were glued together out of order. The top fragment mentions …

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