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  1. 1201LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/18

    Letter addressed to Aharon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th or 15th century. Alexandria is mentioned at the bottom, but it is not immediately clear …

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  2. 1202LetterENA NS 60.18

    Letter of appeal or recommendation addressed to Moshe ha-Kohen. The introduction is in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that the bearer …

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  3. 1203Literary textENA 2585.44

    Table of contents for a responsa collection in a late hand. arranged according to subjects.

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  4. 1204LetterT-S 13J19.17

    IB IV, 74 (ח77). Page from a letter sent by Abū Naṣr b. Avraham from Alexandria to Ḥalfon b. Netanel in Cairo on the Alexandria; …

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    1.                      עונך יארב
    2. ולם יתפק לה דכול ענד אחד אלא ענד אלזקן
    3. פי יום ראש השנה קבל אן וקע אלנהי תם
    4. ענד אנסאן יערף בכראם אלשמאע כאן וצל
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    1. בעזרתך, הוי אלי!
    2. ולא עלה בידו לבקר בביתו של שום אדם חוץ מביתו של ה'זקן'
    3. ביום ראש השנה, קודם שחל האיסור. וגם
    4. בביתו של אדם הידוע בשם כראם אלשמאע…

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  5. 1205Legal documentENA NS 77.253

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated Tammuz, but the year is missing. Signed by Ḥananya b. Shemaʿya and Menashshe b. Yosef.

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  6. 1206Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 13/21

    Verso: Engagement (shiddukhin) agreement. Since there are no betrothal (erusin/qiddushin) agreements in the Geniza before the twelfth century, this document is probably an engagement agreement …

    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. באחד בשבת שלהי ניסן
    3. אמלך שמעון בר חאתם לבנאת הבתולה בת שמואל
    4. בעשרה זהובים חמשה מוקדמים ידפעהם וקד
    5. אלדכול בהא וחמשה מאוחרים על תני וכאן
    6. אל…

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  7. 1207State documentAIU VII.D.32

    Verso (probably original use): Probably a small piece of a state document, "let it be copied. . . . God willing" (ينسخ ان شا الله …

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  8. 1208Legal documentT-S 20.110

    Draft of a partnership contract in the hand of David b. Daniel. Dated: Dated: 4846 AM = August/September 1086 CE. The parties are Ṣedaqa b. …

    1. שהד[ו]תא דהות באנפנא אנחנא שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא
    2. בשבה דהוא יומין בירח אלול דשנת [אר]בעת
    3. אלפין ותמני מאה וארבעין ושית שנין לבריאת עלמא ב[פסטא]ט
    4. מצרים…

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    The following was testified before us, the undersigned witnesses, on the 7th day of the month of Elul, in the year 4852 from …

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  9. 1209Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 703

    Unidentified text in Arabic script in a book hand, possibly literary. Hebrew script on recto.

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  10. 1210LetterT-S 8J40.2

    Fragmentary letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to a certain Avraham, concerning the affairs of a man, his wife, and a young boy, and …

    1. הדרת החכם הנכבד . . . . . . . . [ . . . . . .
    2. ורבנו אברהם עטרת החכמים [ . . . . . . .
    3. הוד החשובים ישמרו שוכן מעונים [ . . . . . .
    4. איתנים אנס יעלם בא…

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  11. 1211Unknown typeJRL B 7585

    Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.

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  12. 1212Literary textT-S Ar.19.8 + T-S Ar.41.52

    Daʿwat al-Aṭibbāʾ (The Doctors' Dinner Party) by Ibn Buṭlān. See also Yevr. Arab. II 1545 and BL OR 5565G.44–45 (PGPID 31347).

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  13. 1213Unknown typeENA NS 85.1308

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  14. 1214LetterT-S AS 183.264

    Top of a petition from a Damascene woman. Only the tarjama is preserved: al-mamlūka al-ṣaghīra al-dimashqiyya al-[...].

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  15. 1215LetterT-S AS 184.275

    Probably the beginning of a letter in Arabic (salām allāh . . . )

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  16. 1216Legal query or responsumT-S AS 150.33

    Legal query, addressed to Moses Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when he was active in Egypt. (Information from CUDL)

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  17. 1217LetterT-S AS 166.174

    Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov, unknown location, to an unidentified addressee, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Same writer …

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  18. 1218Literary textENA 3753.14

    A Hebrew-Aramaic-Yiddish biblical dictionary. Genesis 27:40–31:27. See FGP for further discussion and identification.

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  19. 1219Legal query or responsumJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/4b

    Legal query addressed to Yehosef ha-Rav. Small fragment.

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  20. 1220Legal documentENA NS 20.2

    Notes from a lesson given by Maimonides. There is a fingerprint. See analysis and edition in Friedman, "Notes by a Disciple in Maimonides' Academy Pertaining …

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  21. 1221Unknown typeENA NS 76.668

    Legal text of some kind, possibly documentary. Mentions "dīn ha-Torah" in line 3 and לחשבון גדו in line 5. Requires further examination.

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  22. 1222LetterAIU XII.135

    Badly damaged late document in Arabic script, probably Arabic language, probably a letter. Needs further examination.

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  23. 1223Paraliterary textT-S K6.78

    Colophon dated to a Friday in Av 1427 Seleucid = 1116 CE.

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  24. 1224Legal documentENA 4011.73

    Legal agreement. Sittān bt. Yefet, widow of Abū Naṣr, pays 40 dinars to Abū Kathīr, which her husband owed him from a business arrangement. (Information …

    1. וסאלנא סתאן בת יפת עמא ענדהא ממא כלפה
    2. ז[וגה]א אבו נצר פקאלת כאן לאבו כתיר צהרי ענדה
    3. ארבעין דינאר אסתופאהא פחצר
    4. אב(!) כתיר ואסתנטק ען הדה אלארבעין די…

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  25. 1225Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1442

    Karaite inheritance documents on a bifiolium. Date: c. 5505 AM (1744/1745 CE). The date Tishrei 5499 AM is given in line 21 (f.1r) as the …

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    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף חצ'ר כה׳׳ר שבתי כהן יצ׳׳ו נין המנוח
    2. משה כהן ידיע חאטום נ׳׳ע וכיל אליתומים והו הב׳ הי׳ 
    3. שמואל יחל(?) ואכת…

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  26. 1226Paraliterary textT-S AS 118.94

    Liturgical text in Hebrew; writing exercises; unidentified Arabic text (possibly an amulet). (Information from CUDL.) One of the sections lists names like Yiṣḥaq Kanzi, Yehuda, …

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  27. 1227LetterT-S 13J13.7

    Letter addressed to Yeshua b. Shabbetay in Alexandria from Elazar b. Ḥalfon in which the writer expresses his condolences, and those of his father, for …

    1. בש רח
    2. אטאל אללה בקא חצרה כבוד גדולת קדושת מר ורבאנא //ישועה//
    3. הזקן הנכבד בר כבוד גדולת קדושת מרור שבתי הזקן
    4. הנכבד נח בגן עדן וי . פלהא ואחיאהא ואדאם…

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  28. 1228LetterT-S AS 151.144

    Letter addressed to Ibn Shemarya al-Siqillī (the Sicilian). Little of the content remains. (Information from CUDL)

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  29. 1229LetterMoss. V,336.1 + Moss. V,338.1

    Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to Avraham ha-Sar (for the same addressee, see T-S Misc.28.64 and T-S 8J40.2). Dating to 1310–1355 CE based …

    1. [הנה אל ישועתי] וכול'     

    2. [.................................] [א?]מת           

    3. [..................] [מעלת הי]קר המכובד          

    4. [.........…

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  30. 1230Legal documentT-S Ar.41.68

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated (ll. 4–5): 20 Shaʿbān 441 AH = 17 January 1050 CE.The muqirr is the sharīf Abū l-Ḥasan …

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  31. 1231List or tableENA 2875.29

    Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Ṭayyib, Yūsuf, and Avraham. On verso there is a prayer in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  32. 1232Legal documentENA 3631.8

    Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …

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  33. 1233Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/12b

    Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment (upper left corner). Involving Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-Munā known as Ibn Naṭira, Yefet al-Zajjāj, and Shemuel. May be …

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  34. 1234LetterENA NS 57.24

    Letter fragment. Sent from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā al-Rayyis (probably Avraham Maimonides) several times. Also mentions a person named Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū l-Rabīʿ. …

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  35. 1235List or tableT-S Ar.20.30

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Detailing sums collected from various people (Maḥfūḍ, Bū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, Hilāl, Makkī(?)). Also detailing what is owed by …

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  36. 1236List or tableT-S AS 181.23

    Mercantile accounts.

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  37. 1237LetterL-G Misc. 43

    Letter sent by Yiṣḥaq the Jerusalemite to an old friend, judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah, excusing himself for traveling from Bilbays directly to Alexandria, without making …

    1. יצח]ק ירושלמי
    2. בשמ רח
    3. מושב הדרת כגק מרינו ורבינו אליה
    4. הדיין החכם והנבון שצ ינהי אלממלוך
    5. בעץ שוקה אלי אלפאטה אלמפידה וטלעתה
    6. אלסעידה פאסאל בורא עולם אן…

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  38. 1238Unknown typeENA NS 79.97

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  39. 1239Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 118

    Legal document or receipt, late, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 14 __78 AH. The dating is likely 1178 (1765 CE) or 1278 (1862 CE). The …

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  40. 1240LetterT-S 16.24

    Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: 1094–1111 CE. Shela reports that the local community was happy to hear that …

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    1. בש' רחמ'
    2. אתצל באלממלוך אדאם אללה חראסה חצרה סיידנא שר
    3. השרים נגיד הנגידים עוז כל בית ישראל חכם הישיבה
    4. אגתמאעהא פי אלמועדים אלמתקדמה מע שיוכנא …

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  41. 1241Legal documentT-S AS 176.207

    Likely the bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  42. 1242Legal documentT-S AS 17.30

    Ketubba, Rabbanite. (Refers to שטר כתובתא דא in the fifth line of the lower fragment.) Groom: ʿOvadya b. [...] Elishaʿ (spelled אליסע). Probably dated Elul …

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  43. 1243State documentT-S AS 181.18

    Small fragment from the top of a document opening with praises for someone important (wa-yuʾayyid bihi al-[...]). There is also a puzzling Judaeo-Arabic note at …

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  44. 1244LetterENA NS 48.25

    Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. On a narrow sliver of paper. Dating: probably 13th century. Recto: Letter addressed to Elʿazar, complaining about the addressee's delay in copying …

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    1. אעלם ר אלעזר שצ
    2. באני משתגל פי
    3. אלכראריס והם אן שא
    4. אללה ינתגזו סרעה
    5. וקד סירת לך אוקיה
    6. חבר וקד סירת אבו
    7. אלפרג ומעה אלדאבה
    8. פתכליהם יגו מעה
    9. סרעה וי…

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  45. 1245LetterT-S AS 200.453

    The fragment almost at upper right (three boxes above the yellow label) looks like part of a letter "min ʿind al-Muwaffaq," ca. 12th or 13th …

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  46. 1246LetterBL OR 5561B.6

    Letter from an unidentified Nagid to R. Abraham regarding an insubordinate cantor. Given this shelfmark's prior identification as late and Dotan Arad's attribution of the …

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    1. [ ה'עלאמה' של הנגיד] 
    2. [ ה'עלאמה' של הנגיד] 
    3. הדרת החכם הנעלה לשם ולתהלה ר' אברהם הי"ב
    4. מה שאמרת מענין ר' אברהם טרטושי וגם ר' פרץ
    5. ששלח הנני משתדל…

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  47. 1247State documentT-S Misc.22.233

    Fiscal account recording the revenue of wheat, barley and broadbeans produced in five villages of the Gharbiyya province (Basūṭ Nahīsah, Maḥallat Bū l-Haytam, Nawāj, Damshīt, …

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    1. نواحي ذلك
    2. بسوط نهيسه
    3. تصل منه
    4. الفي مايتي ثمنية ارادب ونصف
    5. قمح الف مايتي وسبعة وثمنين ار(د)با
    6. ربع وثمن
    7. شعير ماية وتسعة وسبعين ار(د)با
    8. ثلث وثمن
    9. ف…

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    1. Districts of that (account?):
    2. Basūṭ Nahīsah.
    3. Of which has come in:
    4. 2,208 ó irdabbs.
    5. Wheat: 1,287 irdabbs 
    6. ¼ and ⅛,
    7. barley: 179 irdabbs
    8. ⅓ and ⅛…

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  48. 1248LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/42

    Large fragment of an interesting family letter in the handwriting of Toviyya b. Eli addressed to Avraham b. Saadya and another recipient. Mentions a tax-farmer …

    1. האמור ה[. . . . . . .]. . . . .שיך. . . .[. . . . . .
    2. ורבנא אברהם הזקן הנכבד החכם והנבון [הירא
    3. את ייי הצדיק והחסיד בדורו ישמרו צורו ויהא
    4. בעזרו וישמח…

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  49. 1249Paraliterary textENA 492.8

    Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet

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  50. 1250Legal documentT-S Ar.38.20

    Recto: Deed of sale, probably. In Arabic script. Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties: [muʿtadi]l al-qāma asmar al-lawn wāḍiḥ al-jabha …

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