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  1. 1101Paraliterary textENA NS 16.7

    Colophon or ownership note for a bible codex (muṣḥaf). The names Yosef b. Yaʿaqov and Abū l-Riḍā appear. On verso there are mirror image imprints …

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  2. 1102Legal documentENA 2727.8a

    Trousseau list. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Arye b. Yehuda. Bride: Karīma bt. ʿAmmār. Marriage payments: 10 + 15. The latter …

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. אלחתן אריה בר מר ור יהודה סט
    3. אלכלה כרימה בת עמאר נע
    4. אלמקדם י אלמוכר טו
    5. אלרחל אלדהב
    6. זוג דמאלג דהב צאמת ק דינ
    7. זוג אסורה דהב ל דינ
    8. פרדה תסתינק…

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  3. 1103LetterAIU VII.E.176

    Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 7 Nisan 5568 AM, which is 4 April …

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  4. 1104LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 158

    Letter, or official document. The only readable phrase is "ويشهد بسرعة الفرج". Ḥamdala and Ṣalwala towards the end of the preserved text.

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  5. 1105Literary textENA 3955.9

    Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably literary.

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  6. 1106State documentT-S NS J227

    Original use: Fiscal account in Arabic script, mentioning wheat and various districts and an ʿāmil. Needs examination.

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  7. 1107List or tableT-S NS J320

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, the mother of al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Faraj Ṣabbāgh, and Abū l-Ṭāhir Ḥarīrī.

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  8. 1108Literary textT-S NS 152.177

    Liturgical instructions in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.

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  9. 1109List or tableENA 3905.9

    Detailed accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with at least one word in Judaeo-Arabic (al-Kohen). Mentions 'al-maṭbakh' several times - the sugar factory? Mentions …

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  10. 1110LetterT-S AS 149.36

    Opening of a rhymed Hebrew letter. On verso a drawing. AA

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  11. 1111LetterAIU XII.37

    Letter in Arabic script. Dated: Ramaḍān 1148 AH = January/February 1737 CE. Mentions ʿAbdallāh al-Ajhūrī and a power of attorney. There is a seal on …

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  12. 1112LetterT-S NS 321.11

    Letter of petition from a man to a potential benefactor: 'I hereby inform you that I have been in good health, "concealed" among the people …

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    1. בש
    2. עבד חצרה מולאי
    3. אלשיך אבו סהל
    4. יקבל ידיך וינהי אליך
    5. אנה כאן מסתור בין
    6. אלנאס באלעאפיה
    7. פלמא אן אנפלגת
    8. ידי בטלת מן מעיש
    9. ובקית פי חאלה אללה
    10. תעאלי…

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  13. 1113List or tableT-S AS 184.434

    Accounts, probably

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  14. 1114Unknown typeT-S NS 99.81 + T-S NS 99.77 + T-S NS 99.78 + T-S NS 99.79 + T-S NS 99.80

    Blank. Probably belongs with the preceding shelfmarks.

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  15. 1115State documentT-S AS 183.158

    Fiscal document. Challenging to read. May mention sugar. Needs examination.

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  16. 1116LetterT-S 8J28.9

    Detailed postscript to a letter sent one month before this one with someone who had gotten stranded while traveling on the sultan's ship. This second …

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    1. כנת כתבת הדא אלכתאב יאסידי וריסי וכבירי אדאם אללה סרורך וח[ראסתך]
    2. פי אכר שהר תשרי מע אכינא אבו אברהים אסחק בן אסהל אל[
    3. ורכב פי מרכב אלצלטאן אל…

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    1. כתבתי תחילה מכתב זה, אדוני וראשי וגדולי, יתמיד אלוהים את שמחותיך ואת שמירתו עליך,
    2. באחרון של חודש תשרי, עם אחינו אבו אברהים אסחק בן אלסהל אל ……

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  17. 1117List or tableT-S AS 152.221

    Late accounts, mentioning the month Shaʿbān. (Information from CUDL)

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  18. 1118Legal documentENA 4101.3b + JRL B 7252

    Legal deed concerning an enslaved woman, who is probably sold (mentions the figure 1[.].5 dinars). Mentions people including a woman named Sitt al-Nās, Mevasser b. …

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  19. 1119Legal documentT-S AS 152.280

    Legal document mentioning Abū Saʿīd Ḥal[fon] and probably Abū Naṣr, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from …

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  20. 1120List or tableJRL C 61 + JRL C 62

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic which are a clear join to the neighboring shelfmark C62, in which a European consul may be mentioned. Here in C 61 …

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  21. 1121Legal documentT-S 12.647

    From the book of contracts of Saadya Gaon. On parchment. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  22. 1122State documentT-S Ar.34.308

    Fiscal cocument(s) in Arabic script. Probably 12th C Fatimid based on paleography. Mentions the town Raʾs al-khalīj on the lower Nile delta, and a string …

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  23. 1123Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 14.25 + CUL Or.1080 14.13

    Mysterious strings of Arabic letters and numbers along with two diagrams. One diagram has a caption, stating that it protects a person against iron and …

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  24. 1124Legal documentT-S 8.84

    Halakhic treatise by Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel, concerning laws of divorce. (Information from CUDL)

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  25. 1125Paraliterary textT-S K5.22

    T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …

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  26. 1126LetterENA 3433.3

    Drafts of letter text in Arabic script. On verso there is Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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  27. 1127Legal documentT-S 16.57

    Court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1432 Seleucid, which is December 1120 CE. Detailing …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים הממונים מפי הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת
    2. כבוד גדלת קדשת מרנו ורבנו שהיה מנהיג דורינו ועטרת ראשי…
    1. Report of what happened in our presence — we, the two permanent judges of Fustat, Egypt, who were officially appointed by his Eminence, dignity, cro…

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  28. 1128Paraliterary textAIU VI.C.4

    Page with a magical spell for being loved and silencing enemies.

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  29. 1129LetterENA NS 77.148

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Seems to refer to a shipwreck (cf. …

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  30. 1130Legal documentT-S Ar.30.57

    Late legal document in Hebrew having to do with a widow, the payment of a ketubba and other property arrangements. Needs further examination. ASE.

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  31. 1131Legal documentT-S AS 152.277

    An agreement between husband and wife. The wife. d. of Perhaya, is declaring that she gave what she had ro five from the gift given …

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  32. 1132List or tableJRL C 184

    Account ledger. 34 bifolia. Dating: 18th or 19th c.

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  33. 1133Unknown typeT-S AS 151.264

    Unidentified, only few words are visible

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  34. 1134Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#33) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 32-33) Folio 8v

    1. הכהן הנז׳ לחיי עד נשארה חזקת ה[[ק]]עלייה הנז׳ משועבדת לאלמנתו הרבנית מ׳ זהרה בעד סכי כתובתה שהיה לה .[.]
    2. בעלה הנז׳…

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  35. 1135List or tableT-S K3.11

    Account for Tammuz and Av 1494 sel. ca. 1183. Only the revenue part of this account is presevred. It contains the sums from 22 apartments …

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    1. טאהר בן מחפוט
    2. מכארם
    3. זית טייב רטלין
    4. סאס וורק ¼
    5. בקיה זית חאר
    6. ביד אלמבין ג ½
    7. חראסה רביע
    8. אלאול לקצר אלשמע
    9. וגרירה ט ¼
    10. אלגמלה קס
    11. ⟦ואלי…

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    1. Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ
    2. Makārim,
    3. olive oil, two raṭls.
    4. Oakum and paper, ¾.
    5. The balance for oil for burning
    6. paid to al-Mēvīn, 3½.
    7. Nightwa…

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  36. 1136LetterENA NS 18.14

    Letter addressed to Moshe b. Ghālib ha-Kohen. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Discusses the education of 'the children of the community' (awlād al-ṣibbur). Only …

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    1. אלשי]ך אלגליל כב גד קד מרנ ורבנ משה
    2. הזקן] הנכבד | [. . . . .] ינצרו יוצרנו ויעזרו מגננו בר כגק מר ורב
    3. גאלב הכהן ה|זקן הנכבד . . | [. . . . .]…

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  37. 1137Literary textT-S Ar.37.99

    This silluk (a term for the last of a series of piyyutim written for the first three blessings of the Amidah), preserved in the Cairo …

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    Time to rebuke the beast of the forest, to whirl it up in a storm and whirlwind, for it has chewed up the vine o…

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  38. 1138LetterT-S 6J6.19

    Letter from Makhlūf b. ʿIwāḍ the judge, maybe somewhere in Ifrīqiyya, to his brother Ṣedaqa b. ʿIwāḍ the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some …

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  39. 1139LetterT-S 16.342

    Late letter from Yaʿaqov Bagilyer to his brother Aharon. Dealing with financial matters (amounts in peraḥim/ducats). (Information from CUDL)

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  40. 1140Literary textT-S NS 306.90

    Verso: Story in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. Involves a man, a wife, and a son. The man purchases a female slave/concubine (jāriya) and tries to sleep …

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  41. 1141Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J40

    Verso: Legal record that Abū l-Surūr b. Ghanya(?) remarried his divorced wife Maʿānī bt. Karīm al-Aqraʿ ha-Levi. Dated: Wednesday night, 29 Tishrei 1541 Seleucid, which …

    1. תזוג אבי אלסרור אבן גניה במטלקתה מעאני
    2. בנת כרים אלאקרע לוי לילה אלכמיס אלתאסע
    3. ואלעשרין מן שהר תשרי אתקמא ורד מוכרהא דינארין
    4. ונצף דינאר מקדם בעד טו ו…

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  42. 1142LetterT-S 8J18.28

    Letter from Yahya b. ‘Ammar (basis for identification unclear), who had reached Jerusalem with the help of a benefactor in Fustat, petitioning for assistance so …

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    1. קצדתך וקצדת פצלך אן תעינני באיש מא סהל אללה עלי אלמקאם פי
    2. הדא אלמוצע אלשריף פאסל אללה תע יכתר כירך ויזידך מן דלך מזיד
    3. כל כיר ויכתר פי אלאמה מ…
    1. [...] I turn to you and ask you that you kindly assist me with anything that God provides so that I might remain in
    2. Har-El, the noble place. I ask G…

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  43. 1143Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/55

    Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th or 16th century. Unfinished and unsigned. Esther bt. Elʿazar b. Pinḥas, the wife of …

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    1. בפנינו וכו׳ <באה> הדרת אסתר בת ר׳ אלעזר <בכ׳׳ר שלם>
    2. ן׳ פנחס נ׳׳ע אשת כ׳׳ר יוסף בכ׳׳ר
    3. משה ן׳ אשר נ׳׳ע איך ואמרה הוו ע…

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  44. 1144LetterT-S 12.710

    Recto: Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Shemarya (the father of Elḥanan b. Shemarya). In Hebrew. Contains blessings for Elḥanan to take the place of …

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  45. 1145Legal query or responsumMoss. VIII,405

    Legal query addressed to Moshe Maimonides with his autograph responsum, signed Moshe. The query is about a debt between brothers; whether it is permissible for …

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    1. [מא ת]קול הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מ[ר]נו ורבנו
    2. ‏משה הרב הגדול בישראל ישמרה אלהינו ויברכ[ה]
    3. ‏פי שכצין מן ישראל קויין סויין לאחדהמא ענד א[ל]
    4. ‏אכר …

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  46. 1146Literary textT-S NS 306.104

    Historical chronicle.

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  47. 1147Legal documentT-S 16.143

    Part of a ketubba for [...]rta bt. Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen and Mevorakh. The date and location are not preserved. Witnessed by [...] ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver …

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  48. 1148List or tableT-S AS 149.136

    Accounts, mentioning several sums of dirhams. (Information from CUDL)

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  49. 1149Literary textT-S Ar.48.300

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

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  50. 1150Literary textT-S AS 174.73

    Text in Judaeo-Arabic, late. "The rose said, 'I am the ruler of all the flowers. My thorn...'"

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