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  1. 1101Legal documentBL OR 5566B.29

    The verso, which was probably written two years later, includes a declaration, which apparently definitively absolves the qodesh from payment of the last five dinars still due to Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser. The recipient of the declaration, Isaac ha-Kohen b. Haggay, transfers the deed to Husayn b. Hillel (probably identical with Husayn al-Dhahabi). […] Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 144 #4)

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    1. ] وجوه واﻻ سباب كلها [ ] الخمس [ ] جمعها
    2. ]ه قليلها وﻻ كثيرها حق وﻻ طلب وكتب خطه مستهل ربيع اﻻ خرسنه اثنين و عشرين و اربعمائه
    3. ]ק נר בר חגי נע /…

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    1. (1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages… 

    2. (3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…

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  2. 1102LetterBL OR 5566B.30

    Letter from Netanel b. Moshe ha-Levi ha-Shishi to two of his friends (Yosef b.

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  3. 1103LetterBL OR 5566B.31

    Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. In addition to some words about the trade of clothes, Marduk asks Nahray to assist a man who is coming to Fustat soon; the man's name has been lost.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך מן [ 
    2. ] ען סלאמה ל[    ] בקין מן סיואן [
    3. ] כתירה [
    4. ] תחמלהא [
    5. לך ענדך מנהא [               ] ונצף ודלך יכון…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים, מ… 
    2. שלומי טוב… בסיון… 
    3. תשלח אותם… 
    4. מזה אתה חייב… 
    5. וחצי. וזה יהיה לזכות חסין אל… 
    6. ולי אתה …

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  4. 1104List or tableBL OR 5566B.33

    Account of building operations ca. 1216. Expenditures for construction materials and labor, as recorded in the course of several days. The work is done at …

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    1. מא אצרף [
    2. בולמנא אלפא[מי]
    3. בתאריך יום אלג
    4. אלסאבע ועשרין מן
    5. שבט שנת קכז לשט[רות]
    6. טין קפה סלבה
    7. ½9  ⅛  ½      1
    8. גבס גדא תבן
    9. 10    2      ½10 
    10. רקאצין ב…

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    1. Spent ….
    2. Abūʾl-Munā al-Fāmī,
    3. on the date of  Tuesday,
    4. the 27th
    5. Shevat of the year 127 of the documents:
    6. (6-7) Clay, 9½. A basket, ½ + ⅛. A rope (f…

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  5. 1105LetterBL OR 5566B.34

    Letter from a certain Yehuda to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Highly calligraphic.

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  6. 1106LetterBL OR 10112B.2

    Verso (original use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, written in an elevated register and with wide line spacing. Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Citing a …

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  7. 1107LetterBL OR 10112B.3

    Business letter, fragment. In Arabic script. "Have you sent me the maqṭaʿ (cloth) or not?"

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  8. 1108LetterBL OR 10112B.7

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. "The matter is out of my hands. . . . the situation is rotten." The rest is quite faded but potentially …

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  9. 1109LetterBL OR 10112B.10

    Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. Full of expressions of urgency (wallāh allāh al-surʿa. . . min kull …

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  10. 1110Literary textBL OR 10112B.11

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  11. 1111Literary textBL OR 10112B.14

    Literary work in Arabic script; commentary on something.

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  12. 1112Paraliterary textBL OR 10112B.15

    Recto: Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The first includes ingredients such as Indian salt, anise, and chicory water. The second (for headaches and for excessive moisture …

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  13. 1113LetterBL OR 10112B.21

    Letter of condolence. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known. No names or specifics preserved.

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  14. 1114Unknown typeBL OR 10112B.23

    Document with Arabic script. Possibly just jottings, possibly more. Needs examination.

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  15. 1115List or tableBL OR 10128B.1–11

    11 folios of writing exercises. The title page (BL OR 10128B.1) has a star of David with the name Eliyyahu Mosseri and the date 28 …

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  16. 1116Literary textBL OR 10578B.2

    Literary. Commentary on Kings.

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  17. 1117Legal documentBL OR 10578B.4

    Involves Sulaymān Bonan and Faraj Allāh b. Shabbat and various sums of muayyadis/medins.

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  18. 1118Literary textBL OR 10578B.6

    Literary. Fragment of a haggada.

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  19. 1119Unknown typeBL OR 10578B.11

    Verso: Two lines in Arabic script. Perhaps ʿUmar b. Yūsuf. . .

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  20. 1120Unknown typeBL OR 10578B.23

    Three lines of Arabic in a neat black grid.

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  21. 1121List or tableBL OR 10578B.29

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Names are prefaced by סי׳ = senyor.

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  22. 1122LetterBL OR 10578B.30

    Document or text in Arabic script. Resembles a letter because of the diagonal text going three different ways, but it is very difficult to make …

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  23. 1123Legal query or responsumBL Or. 5519B.1

    Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.

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  24. 1124Literary textBL Or. 5556B.11

    Biblical fragment in an old-Persianate Hebrew hand.

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  25. 1125Legal documentII Firk. Arab. 1

    Deed of sale in Arabic script. It "records on its recto the purchase of a portion of a house in Cairo (referred to as al-Muʿizziyyah …

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    1. ثبت والحمد لله موفق من توكل عليه
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده [وصلوته على سي]دنا محمد نبيـ[ـنا وا]له وسلامة
    3. هذا ما اشتري الشيخ سعيد ا…

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    1. It has been registered. Praise be to God. He who relies on Him is granted success.
    2. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate. Praise …

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  26. 1126Legal documentII Firk. Arab. 3

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 19 Jumādā II 638 AH = 5 January 1241 CE, recording the purchase of the same house as in …

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  27. 1127Legal documentp. Heid. Arab. 2

    Deed of a gift of a house in the Darb al-Silsila, Mamṣūṣa quarter, Fustat, in Arabic. A Jewish physician gives a house newly erected by …

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  28. 1128Legal documentRNL Arab. D 39

    Deed of purchase of a house in Jerusalem, from the Muslim court of Jerusalem. The buyer is Yūsf b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. ʿAbd al-Karīm, the Qaraite Jew, on behalf of his brother, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. […] The sellers are Ibrāhīm b. Farjallah, the Qaraite Jew, the Jewller (al-Ṣāʾigh), and ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā b. ʿAbd al-Latīf, the Qaraite Jew, the physician (al-ṭabīb).

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  29. 1129State documentT-S NS 125B.5h

    Original use: Bottom part of a state document in Arabic script, containing only the ḥamdala, taṣliya, and ḥasbala. There is also one more word written …

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  30. 1130Literary textT-S NS 125B.5h

    Secondary use: Hebrew poetry, possibly in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. There is an acrostic spelling out אברהמ.

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  31. 1131Paraliterary textT-S NS 125B.22e

    Literary fragment containing piyyuṭ in Hebrew and jottings underneath on recto, including "Abū l-Faraj wrote this in the year 1506 Sel. (=1194/95 CE)." Underneath there …

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  32. 1132Paraliterary textYevr. Arab. I 1404

    The colophon is that of Mevōrakh b. Moshe, a scribe known from other colophons in Dumyāt the time.

    1. [וכאן] אלפראג מן כתאבתה יום שלישי
    2. [..] כסליו שנת ד'תתקכ"ט ליצירה
    3. [באי] כפתור והיא שנת את[ף] לשטרות
    4. [סי]מן טוב על כל ישראל ועל כותבו
    5. [מב]ורך ברבי משה…

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  33. 1133Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 103

    Literary. Catalogued as a 15th-century copy of Sefer Teshuva, the polemical work against the Rabbanites by Yefet al-Barqamānī (13th c.).

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  34. 1134Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 148

    Commentary in Judaeo-Arabic on Psalm 80, which is called here "the Psalm for parshat Bamidbar."

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  35. 1135Legal query or responsumYevr.-Arab. II 354

    Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.'

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  36. 1136Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 458

    Commentary on Prophets. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  37. 1137Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 752

    Liturgical. Muqaddimat for parshiyot from Leviticus. "Muqaddimat ("Introductions" or "Prolegomena" in Arabic) are short homilies which introduce the weekly Torah reading (parashah). They usually also …

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  38. 1138Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 850

    The document is apparently written in the hand of Ṣafiyy b. Ibrāhīm himself. There are four witnesses: Menashshe b. Yosef ha-Kohen; someone whose name is too faded to read; Yisraʾel b. Eliyyahu b. Yisraʾel ha-Kohen; and Moshe b. David b. Yosef Ibn Kawjak/Kuchak. This may be the earliest dated document pertaining to the Dar Simḥa synagogue.

    1. בר
    2. אקול ואנא אלממלוך צפי בן אברהים אלחזאן אנה למא תפצלת
    3. אלגמאעה בר יהיו עלי באן יטלקו לי פי כל שהר כמסה דראהם
    4. נקרה בחכם אני אלאזם אלכניסה //ודאר בן …

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  39. 1139Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 858

    Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic on the laws of sheḥita. Discusses among other things the extent to which Arabic parallels are admissible as arguments for the …

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  40. 1140LetterYevr.-Arab. II 871.1

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains a very detailed account of the viewing of a new moon.

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  41. 1141Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 878

    Husband: Raḥamim Levi Ḥazzan b. Naḥum Levi Qayyim. Wife: Qamr bt. Seʿadya Levi Qayyim.

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    1.                           במותב בית דין
    2.                                 יר׳׳ה
    3. סבב תסטיר האדי אלאחרף ומוגב תחרירהא והוא אנהו חצ'ר אחי׳ ואהו׳ נס…

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  42. 1142Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 933

    "This work and its companion were written in the name of (=by?) אלהכ׳ b. Yehuda Ibn al-Khāzin. The most interesting element of this colophon is the subsequent statemen that the volume is dedicated to (part of the heqdesh of?)

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  43. 1143Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 946

    The protagonists include Sulaymān b. Dā'ūd b. Hārūn al-Maghribī and his daughter [...] the wife of Isḥāq b. Sulaymān b. Yūsuf known as al-Ḥaqqān ("the enema giver"), and a host of further characters.

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  44. 1144Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 954

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 13 Shevat 5501 AM, which is 1741 CE. Scribed and signed by Eliyyahu Rofe Ḥazan known as Ẓaʿir/Ṣaʿir. The document …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצרו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר אליאו רופא יצ׳׳ו -
    2. ואחיו החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר ישועה רופא יצ׳׳ו תם חצרו …

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  45. 1145Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 991

    Literary treatise mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Catalogued as the Book of Commmandments by Yefet Ibn Ṣaghīr.

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  46. 1146Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1051

    Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …

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  47. 1147Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 1060

    Literary work. Many pages. See FGP for identifications.

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  48. 1148LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1064

    Letter "to the Sulṭān regarding. . ." written in calligraphic and vocalized Judaeo-Arabic. The header is too faded to be easily read from the microfilm. …

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  49. 1149LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1064

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, late. From Moshe Ḥayyim Ḥayyūn (?) to Mordekhai Hannān (?) and another person whose name is effaced. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th …

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  50. 1150LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1077

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Dealing with business matters. Neither writer nor addressee appear to be named; the latter is addressed as 'my brother.'

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