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  1. 1201Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.264 + T-S AS 145.263

    Small fragments with various jottings. There is a block of Judaeo-Arabic text referring to the lunar and solar calendars. There are brief jottings in Arabic …

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  2. 1202LetterT-S AS 146.262 + T-S AS 146.261

    Probably two fragments from the same document, but too dark to read. Seems like a letter. AA

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  3. 1203Literary textT-S AS 183.261 + T-S AS 183.262

    Bifolio from a medical textbook, notable for being written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.

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  4. 1204State documentT-S AS 206.261 + T-S AS 206.262

    Small fragments of state correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of two lines are preserved, with very wide line spacing. There are numerous nearby small fragments …

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  5. 1205LetterT-S NS 226.2b + T-S NS 226.2a

    Two fragments of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a shameful matter (ואפזע מן …

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  6. 1206Legal documentT-S NS 226.33 + T-S NS 226.31

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Two fragments, probably an indirect rather than direct join. Concerns a guarantee …

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  7. 1207LetterT-S NS 226.116 + T-S NS 226.114

    Two small fragments from a business letter. Worth noticing the term [tashtarī] bi-mā qasama Alāhu wa-razaqa , literally ‘purchase for whatever price God apportions and …

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  8. 1208LetterT-S NS 226.185 + T-S NS 226.162

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps late 11th century or early 12th. This is a long and fairly well-preserved letter from somebody close to the Jewish …

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  9. 1209Legal documentT-S NS 264.18b + T-S NS 264.18a

    Two fragment of a bill of divorce, from Fustat, from Tishrei [1]331 sel. (1019 CE), signed by Ya'aqov b. Yosef beit-din and Shelomo b. [...]. …

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  10. 1210Unknown typeT-S NS 315.263b + T-S NS 315.263a

    On verso remains of Arabic document- needs examination

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  11. 1211LetterUnknown (excavation images 1966A_P06_25A-26 and 1966A_P06_26A-27)

    Letter to a dignitary. Concerning travel and business transactions, including in military gear and enslaved people. Alternate readings (ASE): - instead of الحتة in r10 …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاها وادام تاييدها

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    1. If none of you comes to me, I shall go.
    2. Best wishesto you and likewiseto all our companions.
    3. Praise be to God alone, and His blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, His prophet.

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  12. 1212Legal documentT-S NS 320.124

    Then: "...[that] I would/should buy her a female slave..."

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  13. 1213Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 1

    Official document in Arabic script. Dated: 1231 AH, which is 1815/16 CE.

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  14. 1214State documentT-S AS 177.303

    Small fragment of an official letter. A few words from the beginnings of two lines are preserved, wide space between the lines.

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  15. 1215State documentT-S AS 179.166

    Document in Arabic script. Probably an official report or petition, based on the hand and layout.

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  16. 1216LetterT-S AS 154.416

    Official letter in Judaeo-Arabic, ordering somebody to appear before the court.

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  17. 1217Legal query or responsumENA 2607.11–12

    Responsa collection

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  18. 1218List or tableENA 2634.11–12

    Accounts in Hebrew script. In Judaeo-Persian? Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century.

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  19. 1219List or tableENA 3945.12

    Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official.

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  20. 1220State documentT-S AS 176.370

    Small fragment (upper left corner) of an official receipt.

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  21. 1221Legal documentT-S AS 177.203

    Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal or official.

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  22. 1222State documentT-S AS 177.219

    Possibly an official receipt, or simply a private account.

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  23. 1223List or tableT-S AS 179.321

    Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official.

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  24. 1224Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 297.211

    Official (tax?) receipt for Bū ʿAlī. Dated. Needs examination.

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  25. 1225State documentENA NS 9.21

    Tiny fragment in Arabic script, with wide line spacing and chancery script. Official Correspondence. On verso, there is mirror image text, probably from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (presumably the imprint of another fragment).

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  26. 1226Legal documentT-S AS 145.307 + T-S Misc.29.58a + T-S NS 324.143 + T-S NS 311.130

    Qaraite deed of betrothal. Fiance: Jābir b. Azhar. Fiancee: Ḥusn bt. Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh. The witnesses to the appointing of the bride’s agent - probably …

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    1. ... [א]מר היתה …
    2. ... [קדו]שת שמו ויבנה מקד[שו] …
    3. ... [רנו ורבנו אדוננו הנשיא הג[דול] …
  27. ...the good one, may God bless him, Ḥayyim son of his Glory, Holiness, our Lord and Master 
  28. …to be my wife in purity and holiness, according to the custom of Israel 
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  31. 1227LetterStras. 4038/9

    Everyone is dying of hunger because "I only buy the bread of the market." He then cites the maxim that the poor of your household precede the poor of your city who precede the poor of another city, "So consider me as the poor of your household."

    Our lord is aware of the situation of your slave and what happened to him. Every year my master has urged the elder, "the Nafīs" ("the Precious One") every year, with regard to (my) poll-tax payment.

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  32. 1228State documentMoss. Xa,3.121

    The top preserved lines read "15 even" (خمسة عشر سوا) followed by a quantity of irdabbs (either 26 or maybe 226). This is followed by the phrase هذا المبلغ جملة كافية "this amount is a sufficient quantity."

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  33. 1229Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J48

    Verso: A woman pawns pieces of her trousseau against loans. The date 26 May 1050 CE appears in lines 4–5. Information from Goitein's note cards.

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  34. 1230State documentAIU IX.A.3

    Likely a decree to a lower official, to judge by the sloppy hand. The section toward the end contains inshallāh, then kutiba, with the date ripped off, as is nearly universally the case with decree fragments.

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  35. 1231Legal query or responsumT-S AS 153.226 + T-S NS J326 + T-S Ar.18(2).73

    Legal query sent to the Judge Anaṭoli about a debt. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. See Mordechai Akiva Friedman, "Responsa of Abraham Maimonides …

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  36. 1232LetterENA NS 69.20

    In this letter he conveys his terrible distress ('the waters have reached the seat of breath') on account of imprisonment and lack and inability to buy food. He is evidently asking for money. Verso: Recipes in Arabic script.

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  37. 1233State documentENA 684.2

    Decree to a lower official commanding him to retrieve bricks and everything belonging to the government from a certain location (a ruined mosque?)

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  38. 1234LetterT-S 8J24.13

    Letter from Abu Ishaq Ibrahim dealing with business matters.

  39. יצל מנה שצ [[ק]] ולד
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    1. אמר פאמתתלה וארסלה וקד אנפדת קליל

    top margin, diagonal, at 45’ to main text, upside down

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  41. 1235Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 769

    Unidentified text, in an official looking hand, in Arabic script.

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  42. 1236LetterMoss. II,134.2

    Letter, fragment, in Arabic script or official correspondence. Needs examination.

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  43. 1237State documentT-S AS 151.162

    Original use: official account (makhzūma) in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  44. 1238Legal documentT-S 24.3

    Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 26 Adar II 1426 Seleucid, which is 1115 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b.

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  45. 1239State documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/10

    Fragmentary. Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk mawlānā amīr al-muʾminīn...).

    1. مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه واهلك[عداه

    2. ]ـل بالتسبيح والتمجيد عند اعلانه به وشفع دعاء [

    3. و[د]عا جميع الحاضرين بالابتهال من الله تعالى والرغبة اليه

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  46. 1240List or tableT-S AS 159.239

    The hand seems to be by Hillel b. Zadoq, a communal official in Alexandria. AA

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  47. 1241LetterMIAC 29

    Announcement prohibiting the purchase of mezuzot other than from trusted individuals – June 26 1954CE – Museum of Islamic Art – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35).

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  48. 1242LetterT-S Ar.18(1).164

    Yūsuf writes that because of the high price of the gall nuts he decided not to buy them. (Information from CUDL and Mediterranean Society, I, p. 213; IV, p. 405)

    וזיבק(!) מן בל אלי גל אלי דל די אלקנטאר אלחאציה . . א . . | אלצ . . .

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    ואן כאנת לה | חאגה ישרפני | ולא יקטע | כתבה עני | סאעה בסאעה | ושלום

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  49. 1243Legal documentT-S AS 86.219 + T-S NS 264.89 + T-S NS 264.90

    Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's house; a deceased …

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  50. 1244State documentT-S AS 146.265 + T-S AS 152.269 + T-S AS 152.236

    Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …

    1. خلد الـ[ـله ملكها

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  51. 1245Legal documentT-S AS 146.265 + T-S AS 152.269 + T-S AS 152.236

    Draft of legal document(s) written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). There is writing on both sides. Reuse of an earlier Arabic state document. …

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  52. 1246List or tableT-S NS 306.1b

    The list is written in Arabic characters and contains 26 items. Four of the compounds have the added notation that the sums owed by their tenants have been paid.

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    1. ثبت
    2. الادر الجارية في احباس اليهود لمساكينهم
    3. من جملتها ما اورده المتولى لجبايتها

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    1.  Record 

    2.  of the compounds that are at present foundations of the Jews for their poor 

    3. (3-4) as cited in their entirety and specified by the administrator (in charge of) collection: 

    4.  the compound known as (of) al-Rayyis Abūʾl-Manṣūr, paid its debt, 30 dir. 

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  53. 1247Legal documentT-S 13H4.5 + T-S NS 140.22 + T-S Ar.39.169 + T-S Misc.7.150 + T-S NS 110.10

    Legal document: bill of sale in which Makhlūf b. Jābir b. Nāṣir buys a house in al-Muʿizziyya (Cairo) from […] b.

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  54. 1248LetterENA 2806.5

    The writer is asking from the official (maybe the head of the Jews himself) to support Mevaser ha-Parnas, who claimed that he had an inheritence owed to him from his brother Sedaqa ha-Parnas, being held by Mevorakh.

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  55. 1249State documentJRL B 7366

    Verso (original use): The last words of two lines of a letter with wide line spacing, possibly official: خادمها . . . واجباتها . . . . On recto there is Hebrew text, possibly piyyuṭ.

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  56. 1250Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 340.23

    Official receipt in Arabic. For a physician (al-ḥakīm) possibly named Abū ʿAlī.

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