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  1. 12351LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/1

    Letter from Eliezer Zussman, in Jerusalem, to his son Avigdor. In Hebrew. It has an unusual form for a letter: there are no greetings and …

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  2. 12352Unknown typeENA NS 76.419

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  3. 12353LetterT-S AS 155.101

    Mercantile letter. Very faded. Mentions Aden in l. 7 and ʿAydhāb in l. 10. Later (l. 18) reports that Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī traveled this year to …

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  4. 12354LetterT-S AS 219.129

    See T-S AS 219.131.

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  5. 12355Legal documentYevr. II A 1317

    Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Adar I 5377 AM, which is 1617 CE. Also dated 1929 Seleucid, which should be 1618 CE. Contains a …

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  6. 12356State documentENA 2386.10

    Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt or other state document.

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  7. 12357LetterT-S AS 209.361

    Fragment from a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a landlord (ṣāḥib al-dār) and a garment (shuqqa muthallath).

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  8. 12358Legal documentMoss. VII,94.1

    Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Partnership agreement between Abū l-Riḍā Moshe and Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa (presumably Nīsābūrī). One partner is in Alexandria and the other in …

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  9. 12359Legal documentIOM D 55.7

    Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: 1115. Location: Al-Maḥalla. ʿOvadya b. Efrayim ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal empowers 'ḥemdat ha-yeshiva' Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi to money owed …

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    1. שהדותא דהוו[ת באנ]פנא אנן שהדי דחתימין ידנא לתחתא בשטרא דנן 
    2. חצר אלינא אנן שהדי מ ור עובדיה הלוי הזקן הנכבד ביר אפרים הלוי הזקן ראש הקהל נע
    3. וק…

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    1. Testimony which wa[s given bef]ore us—we, the witnesses who have fixed our hand below on this document.
    2. (Our) t(eacher) and m(aster) Obadiah ha…

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  10. 12360Paraliterary textT-S Ar.41.81

    Two medical prescriptions in Arabic script, written on cloth on the back of a court record or deposition in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yiju …

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  11. 12361List or tableAIU VII.F.58

    List of donations Maghrebi congregation collected for the year 5590 = 1829/30 CE. The entries include recurring mention of "the little [daughter] of various community …

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  12. 12362Paraliterary textT-S NS 324.111 + T-S AS 146.92

    Secondary use (probably): Calendar in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū for the years 1463–68 Seleucid (=1151–57 CE). Resembling Ibn Yijū's other calendars but with …

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  13. 12363Legal documentT-S Misc.29.59a + T-S 13J36.14 + T-S NS 324.135

    Verso: halakhic text, possibly part of a responsum, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), dealing with excommunication and repentance. (Information in part from …

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  14. 12364Paraliterary textT-S NS 261.133

    Writing exercises, probably. In Hebrew script and Arabic script.

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  15. 12365LetterMIAC 268

    Personal letter expressing desire for a friend to meet with an American Sulaymān Basha, and other personal news – Ismaʿilīya (Cairo) June 18 1948CE – …

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  16. 12366Legal documentT-S NS 190.77

    Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)

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  17. 12367Legal documentT-S 16.171 + T-S AS 146.459

    Recto: Upper part of a draft of a Qaraite legal document concerning inheritance due to minors. Dated: Tammuz 1315 Seleucid = June/July 1004 CE. Three …

    . וי[ט]ה ביוםלחדש תמוז שנ[ת] אלף ושלש מאות וחמש עשרה למספר

    2. [...]ם כבוד גדולת הזקן אבו אלחמין רב יוסף וכבוד גדולת אבו אלטיב רב בשר וכבוד גדולת אבו…

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  18. 12368List or tableT-S NS J441

    List with Coptic numerals, apparently of contributors. (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 2:497) EMS

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    צפי אבראהים אבו אלמגד

    ½ ¼ + ½ ⅛ + ¼ [[ ½ ]]

    אבו סעד אבו אלתנא ואליה

    ¼ + ½ ½ 1 ½ 1

    [[אבו אלפכר]] מפצל פצאיל

    ¼ + ½ ¼ + ½ ½ 1

    [[ר מנחם]] [[אבראהים…

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  19. 12369Literary textCUL Or.1080 6.22

    One side contains a Judaeo-Arabic poem in the name of Abū Naṣr b. Faḍlūn.

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  20. 12370LetterMIAC 34

    Invitation to the Jews of Egypt to donate and assist 1200 Torah students in the cities of Palestine in their poverty or because they are …

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  21. 12371List or tableT-S AS 183.335

    Accounts. Mentions Abū l_Faraj and Ṭayyib. Mentions sums in dinars and dirhams. Mostly crossed out.

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  22. 12372Literary textT-S Misc.8.35 + T-S Ar.51.88

    Folios from a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  23. 12373State documentENA NS 83.68.3

    Six small fragments with Arabic. One of them is state related and seems to say "māl al-dīwān al-dīwān" which is probably not right.

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  24. 12374State documentT-S Ar.42.129

    Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …

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  25. 12375Literary textBL OR 12186.41–44

    Several folios from the Torah in Samaritan script.

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  26. 12376Legal documentT-S AS 148.50 + T-S NS 292.84

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from a bill of release regarding a shipment of tamarind to …

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  27. 12377List or tableBL OR 12369.29

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including dates and names. Late.

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  28. 12378Legal documentNLI 577.1/49

    Deed of sale for Wahab b. Asʿad b. Naʿīm al-Naṣrānī, in Arabic script. Dated: 18th Rajab al-Aṣab (...). The document is ripped off in two …

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  29. 12379Legal documentT-S AS 153.393 + T-S AS 153.382

    Marriage document? Minute fragment, on velum, probably from a ketubah . the words נדוניה ובליות can be read. Verso is blank. AA

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  30. 12380Legal documentENA 2557.148

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Kislev 1390 Seleucid = 26 November 1078 CE. Ghālib b. Avraham comes before the court with a power …

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  31. 12381LetterMIAC 259

    Personal letter from individuals named Rafael, Yosef, and Shemuʾel asking for the issuance of citizenship papers for their father because the Egyptian government acknowledged it …

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  32. 12382State documentT-S AS 176.133

    Fiscal document. With the registration notes at the top "li-yuqābal bihī in shāʾa Allāh" and underneath "qūbila." Then the mark that may say "nuqila" which …

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  33. 12383LetterT-S 10J14.29

    Letter from Shelomo (Abu l-Barakat) in Alexandria to to his brother, the physician Abu Zikri son of Abu l-Faraj (Eliyyahu the Judge), in Fustat. Only …

    1. הנה אל ישועתי וכל
    2. שלום רב לאהבי תורתיך וכל
    3. שלום שלום לרחוק ולקרוב וכל
    4. לכ ג ק מר ור זכריה השר הנכבד החכם והנבון המשכיל האהוב
    5. הרפא האח היקר נט רח ופלל…

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  34. 12384LetterT-S 13J13.19

    Letter from Mūsā (or Musallaḥ?) b. Ṣāliḥ to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew and in Arabic script. Appealing for help from the addressee. (Cf. Geoffrey …

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    1. [עבדה] מוסא . בן צאלח
    2. אלבגדאדי
    3. דודי שכלולו יצריח: ואהלו יפריח: בכתר כילולו:
    4. והוא מבין ונעלם יאמצנו: ויהי בעזרו ויחלצינו רבות עוז
    5. יקר וה/י/לו…

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  35. 12385Unknown typeBL OR 10112B.23

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

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  36. 12386Legal query or responsumT-S AS 181.91

    Responsum in the hand of Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when he was active in Egypt. See Ben Outhwaite, "Two New …

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    1. לא אסמיה [...]
    2. [  ]ון בני אדם ולא יגוז לה אלדכול [להונ]א
    3.                             אלגׁואב
    4. ל[א י]גׁוז לה אלדכול ללבית אלמדכור
    5.               …
    1. I won’t name him […]
    2. [   ] people and he is not allowed to enter [there]
    3. The answer:
    4. He is not allowed to enter the aforementioned house.
    5. Moses wrot…

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  37. 12387LetterAIU VII.E.235

    Recto: late letter in Hebrew by Yehuda Leib Efendi to a respected person. Some geomancy markings at bottom left. Verso: Astrological diagram.

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  38. 12388LetterT-S AS 151.163

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf and issuing instructions about commodities such as fine Andalusian …

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  39. 12389Legal documentENA NS 83.209

    Unidentified document in Arabic script. Contains some typically legal phrases (mā yaswā shayʾ... mustawiya jamīʿ mā.... baʿd yamīnihī aʿnī... ʿalā... wa-jarā baynī wa-baynahū...)

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  40. 12390Literary textAIU VIII.B.3

    Bifolium from a late Hebrew medical treatise.

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  41. 12391List or tableT-S AS 180.167

    Accounts. Mentions rose water.

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  42. 12392List or tableT-S AS 209.255

    Short lists of names along with numbers (Coptic numerals?) arranged according to parshiyot.

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  43. 12393LetterT-S AS 183.146

    Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Addressed to 'my brother' ʿAbd al-Salām (r3). The sender reports that he or she obtained a maymūn (a kind of …

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  44. 12394Legal documentT-S 16.222

    Lease of a date plantation owned by the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1150 CE and, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when the …

    1. [לקנית מעכשיו ברצונו ]קנין גנור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו
    2. בלי אונס כלל בביטול כל מודעין ותנאין אנה קד אסתאגר אלבסתאן אלמדכור מדה תמאניה סנין כואמל אל

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    (We acquire from Hiba) 

    1.  . . . . as a complete and solemn acquisition, with an instrument that is proper to acquire with, 

    2.  (from now on, w…

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  45. 12395Literary textUPenn RAR MS 85.126.21b

    Literary work (biblical commentary?) in Judaeo-Persian.

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  46. 12396LetterT-S K11.68

    Letter formulary in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary: כגק מר ור פ אור עינינו מנהיג דורנו . . .

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  47. 12397Legal documentT-S K23.3.2

    Ketubba, Palestinian, dated to the 10th or early 11th century. Reused for a magical text in Hebrew. Unusually, the later scribe also wrote over the …

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    1. והוות לצלח בר [...]
    2. לה מהר חולקיה [...]
    3. בדרתה דאברהם [ה...] בר חות[ם(?) ...]
    4. צפונה [דמיגו(?)] תרעא אתריה [...]
    5. [ ] רשות הרבים ולעל […
    1. And she become [the wife] of Ṣulḥ b. […]
    2. [and he gave/wrote] her as mohar the portions/his portion […]
    3. in the house of Abraham […] b. Ḥota[m(?) …]
    4. t…

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  48. 12398LetterT-S Misc.20.225

    Nearly complete family and business letter from a father Mawhūb b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-[...] to his son. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …

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  49. 12399LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 664

    Address of a letter, in Arabic script. The addressee is "مولاي الشيخ الجليل ابو المنا يوسف اليهودي" and the letter is from Abū Mūsā al-Maghribī(?).

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  50. 12400LetterT-S 12.435

    Business letter by a young Spanish merchant writing from Fez to his father Yefet b. ʿUlla ha-Levi in Almeria, Spain, revealing that he preferred not …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אערף חצרה סידי ומולאי ועדתי ומעתמ[די . . . . . .
    3. אטאל אללה בקאה וא[דאם עזה ונעמאה . . . . . . . . . . . .
    4. וסנאה וכבת חסדתה [ . . . . . . . .…

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    IN (YOUR) NAME, O MERCI (FUL).

    To my master and lord, my succor and supp[ort], may God prolong your life and m[ake permanent your high rank] a…

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