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  1. 11451LetterT-S AS 147.158

    Only the top is preserved along with part of the address on verso. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  2. 11452Legal documentT-S AS 149.68

    Legal document mentioning Abū l-ʿAlā, Yaʾir, and Avraham and several sums of money in the currency dinar.

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  3. 11453List or tableT-S AS 150.112

    son of the elder Abū l-Fakhr al-Sharābī (‘the wine trader’). (Information from CUDL)

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  4. 11454Legal documentT-S AS 151.118

    Legal document, small fragment. Possibly a ketubba. All that is preserved is the date: [4]846 AM, which is 1085/86 CE.

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  5. 11455LetterT-S AS 151.134

    Recto: Informal note in Arabic script addressed to Shams al-Dīn. Asking for [...] for a period of 2 months because the need is pressing.

    1. لى (glyph)
    2. اشتهي من تفضل المولى شمس الدين ادام الله [
    3. الى مدة شهرين فقد دعت الضرورة اليها وا[
    4. ما تحققت من كريم اخلاقه ومن ورقة(؟) لا يسال [

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  6. 11456List or tableT-S AS 152.363

    Legal document, probably a trousseau list in a ketubba, mentioning a wardrobe, cloth and the bride Sitt al-Gharb. (Information from CUDL)

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  7. 11457Legal documentT-S AS 152.376

    Recto: legal document mentioning Moshe ha-Kohen b. [...], [...] al-Ḥusayn, sister-in-law of [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  8. 11458LetterT-S AS 156.229

    Beginning of a letter or possibly a literary work (iʿlam arshadaka allāh. . .) The content involves (calendrical?) calculations.

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  9. 11459Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 161.146

    Orders of payment, mentioning Abū ʿAlī. (Information from CUDL) The one on verso, in Arabic script, is written by a certain Isḥaq.

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  10. 11460Legal documentT-S AS 167.274

    Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.

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  11. 11461Legal documentT-S AS 167.274

    Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.

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  12. 11462LetterT-S AS 176.367

    Referring to the sale of rice in Fustat, something blue (al-azraq), and Abū ʿAbdallāh.

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  13. 11463State documentT-S AS 176.394

    Mentions "explaining the situation" and "the fleet" (al-usṭūl).

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  14. 11464List or tableT-S AS 177.68 + T-S AS 177.83

    Needs examination. Indirect join: Alan Elbaum.

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  15. 11465List or tableT-S AS 177.140

    Mentions someone called 'al-ḥikrī,' i.e., the collector of the ḥikr (ground rent) tax (cf.

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  16. 11466List or tableT-S AS 177.458

    One of the columns is headed "al-mustakhraj." Needs further examination.

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  17. 11467State documentT-S AS 178.23

    Mentions the name Makhlūf and "al-[...]ūn annahum raʾaw jamīʿ...")

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  18. 11468State documentT-S AS 178.224

    Document in Arabic script, maybe an official/fiscal account. "... bi-mablagh al-mustakhraj wa-l-maṣrūf...." Needs examination.

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  19. 11469LetterT-S AS 179.160

    The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Refers to Tāj al-Dawla the son of Abū l-[...].

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  20. 11470LetterT-S AS 179.270 + T-S AS 179.274

    Reused for Judaeo-Arabic accounts on the back (recto). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  21. 11471Legal documentT-S AS 183.252

    Small fragment from a legal document in Arabic script, likely Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. Mentions ʿAbd al-Qādir.

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  22. 11472List or tableT-S AS 183.278

    Probably accounts, listing names and numbers, mostly crossed out. Mentions Jamāl al-ʿAṭṭār.

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  23. 11473Unknown typeT-S AS 183.299

    Document in Arabic script, unclear if it's a piece of an account or an order or receipt. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū Manṣūr b. Bū [...].

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  24. 11474Paraliterary textT-S AS 184.109

    Magical text in Arabic script invoking magical names to "not leave alone" a certain woman "even one hour of the night or day."

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  25. 11475Legal documentT-S AS 185.338

    Small fragment of a legal document. Almost nothing preserved other than two partial witness signatures: [...] b.

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  26. 11476List or tableT-S AS 186.5

    The verso is mostly Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a different scribal hand. Requires further examination.

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  27. 11477LetterT-S AS 200.53

    Small fragment from the upper part of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides, in the hand of his clerk and bearing his ʿalāma.

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  28. 11478List or tableT-S AS 208.102

    The first section mentions Ibrahīm al-Yahūdī and the "Qaraite quarter" (חרית אלקריין).

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  29. 11479Unknown typeT-S K12.36

    Addressing somebody in the second person; might be prognostications or ethical instructions, alternatively might be a letter.

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  30. 11480List or tableT-S NS 92.56

    Mentions the name Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and various numbers. On verso there is a piyyuṭ based on the 10 commandments.

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  31. 11481Literary textT-S NS 164.140

    Interesting poem in Judaeo-Arabic about lost beauty and youth, apparently of a woman (referred to as Sitt al-Maʿālī in l. 14).

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  32. 11482State documentT-S NS 202.36

    A portion of one line is preserved: ʿalayka wa-hādha maʿdūd(?)... Reused for piyyuṭ.

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  33. 11483List or tableT-S NS 204.32

    Headed "[...] Dār Muḥammad b. al-Akh[...]." Many materia medica.

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  34. 11484List or tableT-S NS 239.55

    Mentions Abū Naṣr, Abū Kathīr, Ibn al-Makḥūl. On the other side there is Hebrew poetry.

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  35. 11485LetterT-S NS 304.20

    Mentions: Abū l-Khayr Mubārak(?) Ibn al-Dayyān; flax; "in the hands of the agents."

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  36. 11486Paraliterary textT-S NS 325.71

    Menaḥem (may he rest in Eden), the judge of Denia in al-Andalus."

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  37. 11487List or tableT-S NS 327.112

    Difficult to identify the genre. Mentions a person - al-Shaykh- with honorifics. And then five pages (awrāq) of an epistle (rasāʾil).

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  38. 11488Legal documentT-S NS J418

    Legal fragment (lower left corner). Almost no details are preserved. Signed by: [...] b.

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  39. 11489Literary textYevr. II A 188

    There are numerous items sharing this shelfmark. All appear to be piyyutim, except for an ethical will in the name of a certain Shelomo to his son (188/30).

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  40. 11490Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.1

    Giving only a date (Wednesday, 3 Adar [1467] Seleucid) and a name (Yaʿaqov al-Maghribī).

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  41. 11491Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 103

    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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  42. 11492LetterMIAC 23973.49

    Letter from Lāmiʿ b. Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh in Ibrīm, the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses. […] Lāmiʿ claims credit for alleviating these problems: "I took some haircutters (and opened sacks of produce) and gave relief to the people," with Nubians being the first beneficiaries. […] Karūk was used as a form of currency. MR Alternate readings (ASE): - in r8–9, instead of مجزز شعر, it is possible to read مخزن شعير ("a storehouse of barley"), as in doc. 36 (PGPID 40708) where the same sender uses the same phrase (fataḥtu makhzan) in the same context.

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    2. [ا]علم الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه
    3. وادام حراسته وس?مته ونعمته انه يعلم ان
    4. في كل سنة تتوجه الى بلادكم عدة كبيرة…

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    1. In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. I inform the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses—may God prolong his life
    3. and cause his protect…

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  43. 11493LetterMoss. IXa,2.20

    The sender excuses his absence by explaining that he has been preoccupied with the illness of the boy (maraḍ al-saghīr(!)), who has turned toward health (qad tawajjah ilā l-ʿāfiya qalīl). […] He complains of his situation (wa-anā fī aḥwāl nāqiṣ), there is no wine (lā nabīz), no vinegar (wa-lā khall), and no harvest at all (wa-lā ḥaṣīda wa-lā shayʾ). He reports about people who came to him and their discussions about money and business affairs. Toward the end he writes that "all the little ones miss you" (wa-l-sighār(!) kullhum mushtāqīn) and that his eye is hurting as he writes this letter, so that he can hardly see what he writes, so the addressee must not blame him for failing to come (وما كتبت لك هذالكتاب … [الا] وعيني توجعني ما قشعت ايش كتبت فلا توخذ عليه (=عليّ) في كوني ما حضرت عندك).

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  44. 11494LetterT-S 6J6.18

    The expression "a son, her liver" (ולד כבדהא, if read and understood correctly) may derive from the Arabic expression "our children are our livers" (awlādunā akbādunā), which in turn derives from a poem by Ḥiṭṭān b. al-Muʿallā al-Ṭāʾī cited in Dīwān al-Ḥamāsa: وإنّـمــا أولادُنــا بيننـــا أكـبــادُنـا تمشــي علــى الأرضِ / لو هَبّتِ الريحُ على بعضهـم لامتنعتْ عيـني من الغَمْضِ.

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    1. מא ילזמהא אן תדכלי להא ולא ⟦ה⟧לה ולא
    2. תבצריה ולא תריה ולא תדכלי לה
    3. בית ירבט הדא פי אלשרע אן תרבי
    4. ואחדה ולד כבדהא ומא יכון
    5. להא אחד פי אלדניא אלא…

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    1. …is it not obligatory for her that you (f. sg.) enter to her, and not to him, and
    2. you (f. sg.) do not look at him or see him or enter his
    3. Hous…

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  45. 11495LetterT-S 8Ja1.3

    Someone had arranged for their salvage/release and deposited them in Fustat, in the presence of Avraham Maimonides, with al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq (‘Successful’). The writer’s business partner later encountered some difficulties in getting Muwaffaq to deliver the bundle, and he made a public report on these difficulties in Aden in Maḍmūn b. […] The Tripolitan merchant ʿAlī the Maghrebi was instructed to bring the merchandise with him when he came to Aden or have an oath imposed on Muwaffaq for breach of trust.

    1. ווצל [...] 
    2. באנה כלץ אל[לולו ...]
    3. מצר וסלמה אלי אלשיך מופק[... בחצרה]
    4. גמאעה פי מצר מנהם אלרייס אלאגל אלמולא אלמאלך
    5. אלרייס אבו אלמנא סלאלה רבינו משה …

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    1. והגיע [פלוני לעדן ... והודיע]
    2. כי הוא חילץ את ה[פנינים ... והביאן ל–]
    3. פסטאט ומסרן לשיך' מופק [... במעמד]
    4. קהל בפסטאט, ובהם ה'רייס' המפואר ביותר …

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  46. 11496List or tableT-S NS 324.111 + T-S AS 146.92

    If the mention of ʿAbd Allāh in l. 2 refers to Ibn Yijū's associate the nākhudā Abū ʿAbd Allāh who died in 1146, then these accounts would date to 1146 or earlier. […] But it is not implausible, given that he often reused scrap paper later for calendars and/or accounts years later. Identified by Alan Elbaum.

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  47. 11497Legal documentAIU VII.D.82

    appoints Yiṣḥaq Khabbāz as his agent to pursue a claim against Moshe b. Shemuel ʿAllūsh.

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  48. 11498LetterAIU XII.115

    Letter in Arabic addressed to al-Muʿallam ___ Ghālī. Dated [12]53 AH which is 1837/38 CE.

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  49. 11499Legal documentBL OR 4684.8

    Contract of sale between Mīnā b. Jirja al-Ṭuṭūnī and ... concerning an enslaved woman (jāriya) dated Muḥarram 384 AH.

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  50. 11500Literary textBL OR 5558B.26

    Almost too damaged to identify. Possibly Talmud or Talmudic commentary, since among the surviving words are "the [priest] anointed for war" and "with a vow to annul."

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