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  1. 11601Legal documentT-S AS 145.316

    Ownership note. "This pitaron (Interpretation of Dreams?) belongs to Nisan(?) ha-Ḥaver and his sons after him." Mentions Yehoshuaʿ ha-Haver (ZL).

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  2. 11602Legal documentT-S Ar.38.119

    Deed of rental. Dated: 531 AH, which is 1136/37 CE. ʿAlī b. Ḥassān b. Maʿālī al-Tarābulusī rents a small garden house on the Nile from …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده
    2. هذا ما استاجر على بن حسان بن معالى الطرابلسى الخراز وهو يومئذ رجل [كـ]ـلهل [اسـ]ـمر [اللون ]
    3. صافي السمرة تعلوه…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone  [ ]  

    2. This is what ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān ibn Maʿālī al-Tarābulusī, the sewe…

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  3. 11603LetterT-S AS 153.398 + T-S AS 153.396 + T-S AS 153.397

    Business letter, mentioning Mūsā, Abū Isḥāq and Avraham. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  4. 11604LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1417

    Letter to Eliyya Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. Recto consists of greetings. On verso the writer relates various types of bad news (violence, financial losses) …

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  5. 11605LetterENA 4020.59

    Upper fragment: Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yefet. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1094–1111 CE. About a sum of dinars which Mevorakh …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי אעלם בה מולאי אלכהן אבו אלפרג אדאם אללה עזה אן
    3. כאן וצל אלי כתאבה ואלי אלשיך אבו אלטאהר בקבץ תלך אלדנאניר
    4. אלדי תפצלת עלי חצרה סיי…

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  6. 11606Literary textAIU XII.41

    Recto: The last page of the Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (Saʿīd b. Baṭrīq al-Mutaṭabbib, d. 940), the Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria, discussing events in …

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  7. 11607Literary textENA NS 76.16

    Probably literary.

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  8. 11608Legal documentENA NS 77.328

    Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). The scribe has distinctive nun sofits and qofs that hook to the left at a 90 degree angle. The …

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  9. 11609LetterT-S 8.34

    Draft of the opening of a letter to a dignitary, praising him and asking him to 'hear the words of this Ṣedaqa,' presumably a petitioner. …

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  10. 11610Legal documentYevr. II K 24

    Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Zekharya b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The bride is Esther known as Sit al-Bayt d. Ya'aqov. AA

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  11. 11611List or tableT-S AS 202.274 + T-S AS 202.257

    Damaged list containing names, items and prices or amounts written in Coptic numerals.

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  12. 11612List or tableJRL L 138

    Fragment of a calendar in a red grid. Closely resembles (but not direct join with) BL OR 10578C.44.

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  13. 11613Literary textCUL Or.1080 3.49a

    Literary work in Hebrew and Aramaic citing biblical verses.

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  14. 11614Unknown typeENA NS 78.90

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  15. 11615LetterYevr. III B 1152

    Letter fragment from Saʿadya b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan to Shemuel ha-Sar. What remains is in Hebrew. Only the opening and address are preserved. The same sender …

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  16. 11616Legal documentT-S NS 33.148

    Very damaged and faded page, probably from a court record, regarding betrothal. From the various signatures preserved we can assume it was written between 1092-1132. …

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  17. 11617LetterCUL Or.1080 J92

    IB I, 32. Letter from Nahray b. Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to a certain Abū Saʿīd. Fragment (upper part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ'
    2. אטאל אללה בקא חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלא]גל ואדאם 
    3. תאיידה ועלאה ורפעתה וסנאה [ומן ח]סן תופיקה 
    4. לא אכלאה אעלמה אן כאן וצלני כתאב אלשיך 
    5. אבו…

    1. [Introductory phrases.] 

    2. …I have received a letter from Sheikh

    3. Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd Ibn al-Lebdi, who has also sent a memorandum.

    4. I have n…

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  18. 11618Legal documentT-S Ar.18(1).14

    Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. (Information from CUDL)

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  19. 11619List or tableJRL C 17

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerical figures. At least one currency is listed as "בנדוק / bunduq", which is the Venetian gold ducat, and based …

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  20. 11620Legal documentT-S Ar.38.86

    Legal document in Arabic script. Record of a donation. Faraḥ b. Natan b. ʿAllūn donates a newly erected olive oil press with a mill wheel …

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    1. بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم ]
    2. هذا [مـ]ـا تصدق به فرح بن ناثان بن علون الاسـ[ـرائيلي      ]
    3. الحجرة المعصرة المستجدة لعصر الزيت التي ياتي ذكرها [   …
    1. In the name of God, [the merciful and compassionate.]  

    2. This is what Faraḥ ibn Nāthān ibn ʿAlūn the Jew bestowed [ ...]  

    3. the press that has be…

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  21. 11621Legal documentMoss. IV,5

    Two parts: Fragment of a copy of a court record from Hayya Gaon’s court, and a fragment of a letter from Hayya Gaon to Elhanan …

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    1. [                            ] כתיב ומפרש ל[ 
    2. [                         ]תן בר ר' בשר [ 
    3. [                        ]ה ובין לכל ולית למילף מ[נהו…

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    1. העתק של מכתב מאדוננו האיי נ''ע אל ר' אלחנן.
    2. פתק שבו כתבת על הדברים בדבר מה שמבקשים להוכיח…
    3. מצוות התורה (מה שנא…

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  22. 11622LetterT-S Misc.35.8

    Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Mānī, in Constantinople, to his father-in-law Yosef al-Baghdādī, in Egypt. Dating: Probably first half of the 12th century, based …

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    1. לכבוד אדוני ומרי ומחותני מ׳ יוסף אלבגדאדי מני חתנך אבו ע[לי
    2. דע אדוני כי כשגזר הגוזר להראותנו צרות רבות נתננו ביד שובינו

    3. והביאוני עם כמה אנש…

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    1. To the honourable, my lord and my master, my father-in-law, Mar Joseph the Baghdadi, from me, your son-in-law Abū ‘Alī.
    2. Know, my lord, that w…

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  23. 11623LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/21

    IB VII, 58. Letter from a woman, in Aden, to her son Moshe b. Elʿazar (aka Mūsā b. ʿAyzūr), in Egypt. Dating: 1226–28, according to …

    1. בעד
    2. מן אלואלדה אלעזיזה תכץ חצרה אלולד אלעזיז אלמופק ופקה אלל : תע
    3. ואנא בטול בקאה וסהל סרעה לקאה עלי אסר חאל ואנעם
    4. באל במנה וכרמה ותנהי וצול כטך אלכר…

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  24. 11624Legal query or responsumT-S 12.206

    Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides with his autograph responsum. Two Jews were travelling together, and one had confided to the other some goods (qumāsh) …

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  25. 11625Unknown typeENA NS 78.13

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  26. 11626Legal documentJRL A 960

    A calligraphic get (bill of divorce). Location: Bombay/Mumbai (במתא במבי דעל כיף ימא). Dated: 10 Adar 5639 AM = 5 March 1879 CE. Husband: Sulaymān …

    1. ברביעי בשבת עשרה ימים לירח אדר שנת חמשת אלפים ושש מאות ושלשים
    2. ותשע לבריאת עולם למנין כאן במתא במבי דעל כיף ימא
    3. מותבה אנא סולי[מ]אן חיים [בן אלי]הו(?…

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  27. 11627LetterT-S K22.11

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Salāma b. Mūsā (al-Ṣafāqusī?); Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī. Very faded; uncited in the literature.

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  28. 11628List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.70

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mainly concerning transactions with Abū l-Surūr Ibn Yijū; this must be the father (rather than …

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  29. 11629Unknown typeENA NS 85.701

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  30. 11630LetterT-S Ar.43.213

    Note detailing instructions for performing a wedding ceremony.

    1. תם ידפע אלקדח ללחתן
    2. פיתסלמה מן אלחזן ופיה
    3. כאתם פצה או שי מן אלורק
    4. פידוק מזה אלחתן שי וידכל
    5. בה אלי אלכלה ויקול להא
    6. הרי את מקודשת לי אנתי
    7. פ בת פ לי אנ…

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  31. 11631Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 153.33

    Order of payment for Abū l-Surūr’s wages (6 dirhams), signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

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  32. 11632Legal documentENA NS 83.154

    Small official document of some kind. Resembles ENA NS 83.222.1 + ENA NS 83.222. Needs examination.

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  33. 11633LetterT-S 10J10.20

    Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov of Hebron to Shela the cantor, urgently inquiring about the fate of the body of his brother David, who had …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלעבד ינהי אלי הדרת יקרת כבוד גדולת קדושת מר
    3. ור שלה החזן המומחה החכם והנבון ישמרו צורו
    4. ויהיה בעזרו ויחיה את חמודו פדיתהו בנפשי
    5. הקשורה בנפשו …

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  34. 11634List or tableENA NS 12.13

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the second line of the recto: 5324 AM (השכד ליצירה), which is 1563/64 CE. Listing names and numbers such as …

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  35. 11635Unknown typeT-S NS 338.60

    Cryptic text in Judaoe-Arabic. Possibly Qaraite ("you will not find 'ahl al-Talmud' saying that...")

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  36. 11636Legal documentMoss. IX,217

    no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue a ketuba (?). AA

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  37. 11637Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#129) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 42r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Date lost to damage …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 42r

    1. ... ...]והם ויצפוהם ויחסבו [[חק ח׳]] תמנהם ויסקט
    2. ע׳אלכרים [[אל]] פלוסה אלדי //פי חק אלתראב וכרא אלכנאסין// כרגהם ואלבאק…

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  38. 11638List or tableT-S AS 203.23

    Distribution list for communal expenses and alms, probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Names include: Isḥāq; al-Muwaffaq; Abū l-Riḍā al-Ḥarīrī; Abū l-Maʿālī; Hiba …

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  39. 11639LetterT-S 12.17

    Letter to the Gaon, probably from Aleppo, complaining that the Gaon is paying too much heed to those who slander the writer, approximately 1035. Verso: …

    1. [ ] לב ונפש ומוח [
    2. [ ]ל ונפש אעיד בעצמי לפניו ובנערי [ ]
    3. דב[ ]לפני בוראינו כן לב האדם לאדם מרגישים ומגידים [
    4. ועתה אד גאון [והנ]ה לנצח תריב בלא חטא ו…

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  40. 11640Unknown typeENA NS 85.1120

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  41. 11641LetterT-S AS 177.247

    Letter fragment. Only the basmala and first line on recto are preserved. Reused for other jottings.

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  42. 11642Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/78

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 27 Tammuz 1472 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. The widow of Bunyān(?) b. Durra(?) testifies that she received 10 dinars …

    1. אשהדתנא ארמלה בניאן בן דרה אנהא קבצ'ת
    2. ותסלמת מן אלשיך אבו אלמעאלי בן בו אלחסן בן אסד
    3. מן אלעין אלואזן אלמצרי עשרה דנאניר דהב תפצילהא
    4. ברקעה סיידנא נתנ…

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  43. 11643Unknown typeT-S NS 111.100

    Fragment in Arabic script. Only the beginning of one line is preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

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  44. 11644List or tableT-S Misc.8.82

    Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic Hebrew, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as: Yehuda; Yefet Ḥalabī; the Jewish youth (al-ṣabiyy al-yahūdī); Ibn Sammūna; Avraham; Nissim; …

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  45. 11645Paraliterary textT-S AS 151.158

    Recto: amulet for Isaac b. Riḍā, using Psalms 121. Verso: magical spell to mend things.

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  46. 11646List or tableT-S AS 152.145

    Trousseau list in connection with a marriage document. Mentions Tinnisian cloth, Dabīqī linen, quantities of dinars, dyed wool, a menora, and an oil amphora. On …

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  47. 11647Legal documentT-S 12.491

    Recto and verso: Court records. The entries on recto are quite faded and need examination. On verso, the first record involves Mivḥar b. Ṣedaqa and …

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  48. 11648Unknown typeENA NS 85.1158

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  49. 11649LetterENA NS I.34

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking for a favor of some kind in a roundabout way. Needs further examination.

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  50. 11650Unknown typeT-S Ar.20.15

    Document in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Recording something which Umm Abū l-Ḥusayn said, possibly involving her children.

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