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  1. 1201Legal documentENA 2738.35

    Legal document. Record of release. Dated: 1480 Seleucid (1168/69 CE). Location: Fustat. Likely in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. Onetime business partners …

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    1. [...........................................................] .אלף וארבע מאה ותמנין ... 
    2. [ .שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהר]א מותבה רשו…

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    1. [...] one thousand four hundred and eighty (years) …
    2. [(of the Era) of Documents, in Fusṭāṭ Egypt,] situated [on the Nile Rive]r, in the jurisdic…

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  2. 1202State documentENA 2927.12

    Original use: Verses from Leviticus. Secondary use: The margins are entirely filled with Arabic-script text from documents, mostly or entirely petitions or official-sounding letters. The …

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  3. 1203List or tableENA 3150.4

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in several locations according to the Islamic calendar, probably in the year 968 AH (חסץ) but this alphanumerical designation is backwards …

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  4. 1204Legal documentENA 3844.9

    Recto: Legal notes, or maybe formularies and legal procedure. The top entry is a bill of divorce dated 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111/12 CE. Location: …

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  5. 1205State documentENA 3942.3

    Recto: fiscal document or state memorandum mentioning a ḍamān and the name Maʿālī b. Yūnā (?). Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written …

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    1. …. وعبده سىله
    2. والـ…. المجموعة معها وبني
    3. …. الـ… وبني …
    4. على الغرب والشرق ودخول 
    5. والعصير بالضمان من معالي بن يونى 
    6. ..      …     .     .     .

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  6. 1206State documentENA 3982.56

    Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.

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  7. 1207Legal documentENA 4011.37

    Legal document. Fragment (upper right piece). Faded. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1492 Seleucid = 1180/81 CE. Possibly a debt contract for the repayment of 1 dinar. …

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  8. 1208Legal documentENA NS 18.4

    Legal deed in Aramaic. Dated: 133[.] Seleucid = 1018–29 CE. Shemuel b. Avraham ha-Levi ha-Sefaradi is appointing Mevorakh b. Yosef ha-Kohen. as his agent. Above …

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  9. 1209Paraliterary textENA NS 19.15

    Bifolium. Two of the pages contain rhyming and/or poetic Hebrew text, calligraphically written. Apparently the colophon to the book this used to belong to. It …

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  10. 1210Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 71.5

    Financial receipt (waqf related) with a seal. Dated [1]256 AH which is . Issued to Hārūn al-Yahūdī and another name appears with the title Hoca.

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  11. 1211List or tableENA NS 77.333

    Minute fragment of accounts, possibly dated in the ninth century Hijrī on the recto (סנת לטץ) but there may be a fourth letter after לטץ. …

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  12. 1212Legal documentJRL A 374

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Elul 5579 AM, which is 1819 CE. The widow of Avraham Yedid invests 9000 medins with Yeḥezqel …

    1. בע׳׳ו
    2. בפעח׳׳מ הודה הכה׳׳ר יחזקאל חפץ יצ׳׳ו הודאה גמורה שריר[א וקיי]מת מעכשיו מדעתו ורצונו 
    3. הטוב והגמור מבלי זכר שום מין אונס וכפייא כלל אלא בלב טוב …

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  13. 1213Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Genizah Ar. 9

    Receipt of rent, late, Ottoman era, in Arabic script. Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī paid two months of rent from Shaʿbān to Shawwāl for the shop he rented …

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  14. 1214Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 335

    Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …

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  15. 1215Legal documentL-G Misc. 49

    Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1409 Seleucid, which is February 1098 CE. Dealing with a lawsuit of Mevasser/Bishāra b. Ḥalfon against Shelomo …

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    1. יכתץ בבשארה ואבו אלעלא אלחלביין
    2. ובאבן מגאן ואבו אלסרור בן עטייה
    3. חצר בית דין יום אלאתנין אלתאמן עשר מן אדר
    4. שנת אתט בפסטאט מצרים בשארה בר חלפו…

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  16. 1216State documentMoss. IXa,2.72

    Probably a fiscal document "وصول", in Arabic script. Dated 525 H. The document seems to have been reused for personal accounts. Mentions revenue of a …

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  17. 1217Legal documentMoss. VII,9.5

    Small fragment of a legal document. Dated: [1]454 Seleucid = 1142/43 CE, under the authority of Shemuʾel ha-Nagid (Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya) and referring to Abū …

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  18. 1218Legal documentMoss. VII,84.2

    Beginning of a legal document, possibly a will or a deathbed declaration, ‘we the undersigned testify...' Dated: Monday, 6 [...] 1556 Seleucid = 1244/45 CE. …

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  19. 1219State documentMoss. Xa,3.34

    Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Bū l-Naṣr, written by the jahbadh Hibat allāh. Date: 503 AH. Verso blank.

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    1. يثبت في العمل

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    1. اثبتو المبلغ ثلثي دينار وثمن
    2. الحمد لله وحده

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    1. اثبتو والمبلغ ثلثي دينار
    2. وثمن
    3. وال…

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  20. 1220State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.21

    Petition (formula: al-mamlūk yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya), 1106H (?)

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  21. 1221Legal documentT-S 8J4.1

    Court record in which the wife of Bishr b. Semah, who had stood security for her husband, declares in the presence of two witnesses to …

    1. [חצר אלי] בית דין פי יום אלאתנין
    2. מן אייר שנת אשלט לשטרות במצר יוסף
    3. בר אלמערוף
    4. המכונה ושהדו גמיעא אן
    5. בשר בר צמח וזוגתה סאלוהם אן ימצו מעהם
    6. אלי דאר ה]…

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  22. 1222Legal documentT-S 8J11.12

    Legal document dealing with inheritance issues (a gift followed by a release). The parties are Eliyya b. Shelaḥya and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Shelomo ha-Levi. …

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    1. [ ]
    2. [ ] פי דלך כצוץ מן יום אן תסלמה מן אלרייס אלמדכור
    3. [ ]ה באלמתנה אלתאבתה לי בבית דין ובעד דלך אלי חין
    4. [ ]ק בה אלי תאריך הדא אלשטר ומן סאיר א…

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  23. 1223Legal documentT-S 16.123

    Ketubba for the remarriage of a couple, Ramla, 1051. Groom: Marwān b. Toviah. Bride: Sarwa bt. Mevorakh. This ketubba is cancelled, implying that the couple …

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    1. שמיה דבריין נעשה ונצליח
    2. ביום חד בשובה דהוא עשרין יום ותרן יומין בירח טבת בשתא תליתיתא דשבועא מה דהיא שנת ארבעה אלפין ותמני
    3. מאוו[ן ו]תרן עשר שנ…

    Friedman #13

    1. By the name of our Creator. May we build and prosper.
    2. On the first day of the week, which is the twenty-second day of the month Tevet…

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  24. 1224Legal documentT-S Ar.34.127

    Legal document, (iqrār), in Arabic script. Ḥusayn b. Yaḥyā testifies. Refers to the year 501 H which would be 1107/08 CE. Needs examination.

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  25. 1225State documentT-S Ar.34.275

    Fatimid state document with an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ka-mā huwa ahluhu). Many text blocks, many hands. On one side, l. 4 mentions al-Imām al-Mustanṣir Billāh …

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  26. 1226State documentT-S Ar.39.82

    Tax receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. [...] in Fustat for the year 525 AH (=1130/31 CE).

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  27. 1227State documentT-S Ar.40.13

    State document, in Arabic script. Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief …

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    1. بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم

    2. حضر الى ديوان الاشراف بالاعمال

    3. الفيومية ابي فتح اللـه سوار بن يوسف

    4. الناىب عن البيادير المستوفي في خزانة\خزان

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  28. 1228Legal documentT-S Ar.41.92

    Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). …

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبیه وسـ]ـلامه 

    2. [هذا ما ا]شترى منه صفقة واحدة وعقدا واحدا جميع الحصة التي مبل…

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    1. [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and  his blessings upon our Lord Muḥammad and] his peace.  
    2. [This …

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  29. 1229Legal documentT-S Ar.41.95

    Rental contract in Arabic script. Lessee: Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abū l-Ḥasan the baker (? al-khabbāz). Lessor: Barakāt b. Abū l-[...] the Jew. The …

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  30. 1230Legal documentT-S Ar.42.140

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. أقر بو سعد بن هبة الله الاسرائلي التاجـ[ـر (؟) واشهد على نفسه في صحة منه وجواز امر من] 
    3. غير قهر ولا جـ[ـبر ولا اكراه ول…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
    2. Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh the Jewish trad[er] acknowledged [and testified, in sound health an…

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  31. 1231Legal documentT-S Ar.42.149

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), complete. In Arabic script. Dated: 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. The muqirr is Sayyid al-Ahl b. ʿAlī. The contract was drafted …

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  32. 1232State documentT-S AS 126.17

    Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to glean much context but mentions sending something with someone "مع موصلها".

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  33. 1233Legal documentT-S AS 145.294

    Legal document. Dated: 1454 Seleucid = 1142/43 CE. Mentions 'the seat (moshav) of our master'; 6 dinars; a woman; and an inheritance. (Information mainly from …

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  34. 1234Legal documentT-S AS 149.266

    Small fragment of a legal document. Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1435 Seleucid = 1123/24 CE.

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  35. 1235Legal documentT-S AS 151.35

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated Thursday, [...] 1435 Seleucid = 1123/4 CE. Mentioning [...] bt. Shelomo and Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. …

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  36. 1236Legal documentT-S AS 153.139

    Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123/24 CE. None of the substance of …

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  37. 1237LetterT-S AS 155.259

    Verso (original use): Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥāsan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yijū, in India. Mentioning Bama and Abū l-Khayr (probably Ibn Yijū's maternal …

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  38. 1238LetterT-S AS 173.53

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 444, probably 444 AH = 1052/53 CE, but could theoretically be [1]444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Approximately three lines on …

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  39. 1239State documentT-S AS 176.164

    Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū l-Ḥasan b. [...] the Jewish silk trader for the year 525 AH.

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  40. 1240State documentT-S AS 178.311

    Small fragment of a state document, it seems referring to the year 595 AH = 1198/99 CE.

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  41. 1241State documentT-S AS 179.323

    Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Ibrāhīm the Jewish garment mender (al-raffāʾ) in Fustat for the year 567 AH = 1171/72 CE (if …

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  42. 1242State documentT-S AS 183.168

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam in Fustat for the year 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. Needs further examination. See T-S …

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  43. 1243Legal documentT-S AS 183.180

    Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Might be dated 760 AH = 1349/50 CE, but this needs to be checked.

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  44. 1244State documentT-S AS 184.249

    Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat for the Jewish oculist (al-yahūdī al-kaḥḥāl) Makārim b. Isḥāq, known from several other documents. Dated: 637 AH = …

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  45. 1245Paraliterary textT-S K2.4

    P1: f. 1r: description of a dream dated 525 AH (= 1130/1131 CE); f. 1v: alchemical recipe called ‘the operation of mixture’; f. 2r: invocation …

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  46. 1246Legal documentT-S Misc.10.15

    Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, Dated: 1435 Seleucid = 1123/24 CE. The delayed marriage payment is …

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  47. 1247Legal documentT-S Misc.10.170

    Apprenticeship agreement between David Dayyan (the instructor) and an apprentice whose name is badly damaged but his surname can be inferred as Karo because his …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. לפנינו עדים הודה הר׳ דוד דיין יצ׳׳ו הודאה גמו׳ וכו׳ קיבל ללמד את הבחור
    3. ינ׳׳ח ב.׳׳[...] ... קארו יצ׳׳ו מל[אכת] הנוצה כידוע לו ב[ש]למות שלא יח[.…

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  48. 1248Legal documentT-S Misc.36.151

    Bill of emancipation of a slave (גט שחרור). Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1396 Seleucid, which is 1085 CE. Owner: Mudallala bt. Shelomo. Freedman: …

    1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרין

    2. וחמשה יומין בירח אייר דשנת

    3. אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין ושית

    4. שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט

    5. מצרים דעל נילוס נהרה מותבה

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  49. 1249Legal documentT-S NS 173.78

    Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions 525 AH and [144]2 Seleucid, corresponding to 1130/31 CE. Mentions …

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  50. 1250Legal documentT-S NS 225.25n

    Small and damaged fragment from a deed of gift to a woman(?), written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two dinars. Dated: 1435 …

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