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  1. 11051LetterT-S K25.106

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is reminiscent of some of the 12th-century India traders, but it awaits proper identification. This is a large section from …

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  2. 11052Literary textAIU VIII.B.20

    4 pages from a Hebrew collection of proverbs and advice. For example, "There is no cure for the madman except to go far away from …

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  3. 11053Unknown typeENA NS 76.335

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  4. 11054LetterJRL B 8445

    Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged and faded. Recto: Possibly a legal document or a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the end of the …

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  5. 11055Unknown typeENA NS 85.839

    Minute fragment, mostly blank with a potential pen stroke of ink on the recto.

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  6. 11056State documentT-S AS 181.9

    Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Perhaps the writing exercises or drafting of a chancery scribe, or else …

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    1. والحمد لله]وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد واله والسلام
    2. حسب المملوك الله ونعم الوكيل

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    1. ويسئل في الانعام عليه والا…

    Verso

    1. Praise be to God] alone, and his blessings be upon our master Muḥammad and his progeny, and peace
    2. God is sufficient for his slave and it is up…

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  7. 11057LetterT-S NS J303b

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. With instructions about the sale of kohl, …

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    1. ] וצרף טי מן הי פאן כאן פט חתי [ ]

    2. ] בה ובביע אלכחל ושרא מא סאלתך פיה ואן כאן אדא לזמה

    3. ]ב אוקפהם קדאמה תעלמני בדלך ובעד הדא כלה מא

    4. ]מא …

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    1. .... והמרת (כספים), באיזה מקום הכניסום, ואם יהיו פ"ט ....
    2. .... בן ובמכירת הפוך וקניית מה שביקשתי ממך, ואם יהיה נזק, הוא חייב
    3. .... (אם) העמידם …

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  8. 11058Unknown typeT-S AS 177.169

    Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, maybe a legal document or official correspondence. Mentions a qāḍī.

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  9. 11059LetterT-S 8J23.17

    Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …

    1. من والدتهم لا عدمتهم
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. كتابي الى الولدين العزيزين الموفقين وفقهم الله تعالى وجمع الشمل بهم قريب في خير وعافية
    4. وسوى ذلك اني كثير…

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  10. 11060Unknown typeENA NS 85.772

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 11061List or tableT-S H12.1

    Bifolio with one page of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Also writing exercises in Arabic script (with some Judaeo-Arabic transliteration). Also Hebrew poetry.

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  12. 11062Legal documentMoss. IXa,2.18

    Legal document, late Arabic script. Dated 1243 H. Probably regarding the transfer of ownership of something "al-taslīm al-sharʿī". Mentions the province of Damietta and three …

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  13. 11063Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 J277

    A miscellany. On recto there are very elaborate praises for God in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are three different keys to Hebrew ciphers. The first …

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  14. 11064List or tableT-S K6.173

    List of 28 people, some of whom are known to have been active in the middle of the 11th century, including Abū Isḥaq b. Ḥujayj, …

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  15. 11065Legal documentT-S Ar.7.2

    Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥayyān(?) b. Jamāl al-Tājir makes a declaration. The Fātimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 495–525 AH = 1101–1130 CE) …

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  16. 11066Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 151.199

    Recto: order of payment addressed to the collectors (jubāt) of the compound of the Jerusalmites (גבאה רבע אלמקאדסה) over 9 dirhams to be given to …

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  17. 11067Legal documentT-S NS 226.12

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 1529 Seleucid, which is November 1217 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The virgin Sitt …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדיא דחתימי לתתא אנה למ[א כאן פי א]לע[שר
    2. אלאכיר מחדש כסליו שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ועשרין ותשע ש[נין לשטרות בפסטאט
    3. מצרים דעל נילוס…

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  18. 11068LetterCUL Or.1080 J87

    Letter sent by the community of Fustat to a place in the Egyptian Rif, asking to help a Palestinian named Daniel, as the local people …

    1. וחית וצל דניאל דנן אלי מחרוסה מצר והו //ועיאלה// כאנו
    2. כאנו אלגמאעה ברוכים יהיו משגולין ענה בגואלי אלעניים
    3. נייף עלי תסעין עני //אלי אלאן// וזנו גואלי…

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  19. 11069Legal documentENA 3958.10

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …

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    1. غروش
    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
    3. ١٥٠٠٠
    4. فقط خمست عشر الف غرش لا غير
    5. وجه تحريره
    6. ص [١] وله.... لما كان يوم الاربع المبارك في تلاتة وعشرين خلت من …

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    1. ghurūsh

    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]

    3. 15,000 .3

    4. Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.

    5. The reason for its [the document’s] compos…

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  20. 11070Legal documentT-S 16.125

    Marriage contract of Hayyim b. Moshe and Aziza b. Shelomo. Dated July 1492 (24 Tammuz 5252 AM). Location: נקאוץ "on the water springs," likely Naqāwūs …

    1. בעת רצון והצלחה וזמן ישועה והרוחה ושעת ששון ושמחה
    2. והשקט ובטחה
    3. ברביעי בשבת בארבעה ועשרים יום לחדש תמוז שנת חמשת אלפים ומאתים ושנים וחמשים
    4. שנה לבריאת …

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  21. 11071Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 110

    Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: 26 Jumādā II 1205 AH, which is 1791 CE. Involves Mīkhāʾīl Nāyūtī(?) al-Kātib(?) and Yaʿqūb Ḥarrāf(?). There are four …

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  22. 11072List or tableJRL A 1072

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Writing practice.

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  23. 11073Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 209.101

    Debt acknowledgment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen for three awāqi of soap (צאבון) owed to Sibāʿ. The document lacks the common invocation attested in other …

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  24. 11074Legal documentT-S AS 183.351

    Legal document in Arabic script. Describing the borders of a house or property. Perhaps a document of sale. Mentions a house known by the name …

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  25. 11075Unknown typeT-S AS 181.33

    Unidentified text mainly in Arabic, transitioning to a new section in Hebrew at the bottom. Needs examination.

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  26. 11076Legal documentT-S NS 297.98

    Legal document in Arabic script. First two lines only.

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  27. 11077LetterT-S 10J14.5

    Autograph letter from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to his "dear son" (i.e., congenial pupil) Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Avraham excuses his absence from a student's …

    1. [עבד?]הא אלדאעי ל[הא]
    2. אברהם
    3. הדה אלאחרף צאדרה אלי אלחצרה ע[לי סב, ro שאן]
    4. אלולד אלעזיז אלתלמיד מ יוסף הנבון ש'צ'
    5. מצמנה עדה אגראץ אולהא אלוציה עליה
    6. וע…

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  28. 11078Legal documentT-S AS 148.146

    Legal deed of quittance (שטר פצוי), parts of only 8 lines preserved. (Information from CUDL and from Marina Rustow)

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  29. 11079LetterT-S 8J9.23

    Business letter mentioning Ismāʿīl and conveying greetings to him (on recto). The writer informs the addressee that he has sent him some wares and instructs …

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    1. וקתי מא . . . אלא כל יום תדכל עלי אלדואכל וכל סאעה
    2. ערפתך דלך פלא תכליני מן אלדעא אללה יתקבל מנך
    3. וינפעני בצלח דעאך ו . ל . . ינפד אליך תנפד אל…

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  30. 11080LetterT-S 18J3.24

    Letter in Ladino from Sidon from Joseph b. Joyya and Masʿūd Bunan to Abraham Monson and Judah Aseo in Cairo concerning community financial matters. Dated …

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  31. 11081Legal documentT-S NS 324.50

    Small fragment from the top of a marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 12 Nisan 1453 Seleucid = 9 April 1142 CE. Groom: Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: [...]ār. …

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  32. 11082State documentMoss. VIII,243.1-2

    State document, in Arabic script, wide spacing, maybe a petition. Mentions a wazīr but the portion of his name is cut off in the lacunae. …

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  33. 11083Legal documentT-S NS 320.52

    Legal document. In which Yeshuʿa b. Avraham enumerates before the court the items that he has in his possession from the estate of the late …

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. אלדי ענד מ ישועה בר אברהם מן תרכה מ תמאם בן אלישע
    3. חסב אקרארה פי בית דין נטע וכסא ובסאט ותובין
    4. ומרגונה פיהא חואיג אלספר ודכר מ ישועה דנן אן …

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  34. 11084LetterT-S NS J216

    Business letter from Abū l-Surūr b. David to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Fragment. Mentions the late Abū Saʿīd and the Muslims who claimed they …

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  35. 11085Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/10

    Legal document. Quittance/release (שטר אביזאריה). Mivḥar b. Ṣedaqa releases Moshe b. Moshe known as Ibn Majjān from all obligations except for an ounce of זבאר(?), …

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  36. 11086Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J128

    Legal document. Looks like the handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Involves someone close to the government (יתעזז באלמלכות); someone who obtained a governmental …

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  37. 11087Literary textT-S K17.1 + JTS MS 8998.7 + JTS MS 8998.8

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb3 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 6.10–9.5 (recto); join with New York, JTS 8998, fols. 7r–8v (PGPID …

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    1. ועשה את הילד לאבן בתוך בטנה שלבת קיסר ויפול מן תחתה
    2. אבן והיתה אשה נפשה למות. ענה קיסר ואמר להם הלא זכר
    3. היתה הרה ולמה יצא ממה אבן ענה ישוע ו…

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    1. he turned the child into a stone in the belly of Caesar’s daughter, and a stone fell down below her,

    2. and she was about to die. Caesar an…

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  38. 11088Legal documentENA NS 16.10

    Legal document. Only portions of the last few lines are preserved. The name Abū ʿAlī may appear. Location: Fustat. Signed: Yosef b. Menashshe. Apparently written …

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  39. 11089State documentBL OR 5553.1 + BL OR 5553.2 + T-S Ar.51.49 + BL OR 5553A.1 + BL OR 5553A.2

    Official memorandum with the signature of an official called al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad. Belongs together with ENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T- S Ar.31.58 + …

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  40. 11090Legal documentT-S 12.170

    Legal document. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: 966–1011 CE, because the qiyyum is signed by Shemarya b. Elḥanan. Involves Yiṣḥaq b. Sha'ul and his wife …

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    1. פקאי ר[.......]

    2. הודאה זו לאשתו זו רמלה באילו שתי [......]

    3. באגב בין רב למעט מטלטלי א[......]

    4. שטוענת וכל מה שפוש[ט]ת [.....]

    5. נאמנת…

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  41. 11091LetterT-S AS 203.58

    Possibly a fragment of a late letter in Hebrew, and maybe some Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "woolen clothing", possibly being sent aboard "a ship of Venice" but …

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  42. 11092Paraliterary textT-S K6.157

    Ownership notes: Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Daniʾel b. Yiṣḥaq. Then it was purchased by Avraham b. Yaʿaqov …

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  43. 11093Paraliterary textMoss. V, 59.2

    Scribal practices, administrative formula.

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  44. 11094Legal documentMoss. VII,9.5

    Small fragment of a legal document. Dated: [1]454 Seleucid = 1142/43 CE, under the authority of Shemuʾel ha-Nagid (Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya) and referring to Abū …

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  45. 11095Paraliterary textT-S AS 147.125

    Possibly a medical text, mentioning illnesses. Very dark and damaged

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  46. 11096LetterT-S Ar.39.207

    Scrap of a letter, only few words preserved.

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  47. 11097List or tableT-S AS 188.73

    Mathematical calculations with the labels maḥ[būb] and qurush on the verso. The dating is post-1703 CE based on the mention of the gold maḥbūb, so …

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  48. 11098Unknown typeBL OR 10578R.69

    Apparently an invitation to a hesped. Information (and transcription) from Goitein's notes attached to BL OR 10578C.1 (PGPID 6310).

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  49. 11099Paraliterary textMoss. VIII,214.2

    Beautifully calligraphic and ornamented title page for a quire written for the brothers Yehuda, Ghālib, Abū l-Wafāʾ, and Yeshuʿa.

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  50. 11100Legal documentENA 3926.1

    Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom. One of the parties is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. …

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