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  1. 12501LetterT-S NS 149.1

    A letter from a man from Palermo in which he described the hardship of the Jews in Sicily during civil war and invasion of foreign …

    To be read in front of our lord, highness, excellency, . . . sereneness, president, king and son of king, father . . . son of . . . of heaven [ . . .…

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  2. 12502Legal documentENA NS 16.27

    IB III, 30a. Rental contract for an apartment in Sicily for 40 years, paid in advance, rented by a Jewish woman named Umm al-ʿIzz bt. …

    1. חצרת אלינא נחן אל כאתמין פי הדא אל כתאב אם אל עז בנת זרעה
    2. וקאלת לנא אשהדוא עלי ואקנוא מן ידי מעכשיו בכל לסאן חגה 
    3. ואכתבוא ואכתמוא עלי דלך במא הודא א…
    1. There appeared before us, we the signatories to this document, Umm al-{Izz d. Zur{a.
    2. She said to us: "Testify to me and perform with me the symboli…

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  3. 12503List or tableT-S AS 208.2

    Minute fragment of a list in Judaeo-Arabic, with a variety of figures in gold dinar and various fractional values. Medieval era.

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  4. 12504List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 18

    Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions names of people, sums of money and dates.

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  5. 12505Unknown typeENA NS 79.66

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  6. 12506Unknown typeENA NS 76.296

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  7. 12507Legal documentT-S 16.156

    Badly effaced legal document dealing with inheritance and a financial settlement - probably a deed of release. Mentions 40 dinars, Salāma bt. Mubārak, Khalfa b. …

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  8. 12508LetterT-S 10J12.25 + T-S 13J18.1

    Letter in the hand of Shemu’el he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle b. Moshe he-Ḥaver, in Tyre, to Efrayim he-Ḥaver b. Shemarya he-Ḥasid, in Fusṭāṭ. In Hebrew. Dating: approximately …

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    1. שלום להכלילה וברכות להכפילה וטובות להקהילה והצלחות
    2. להקבילה ושם טוב להתלילה ויושר מעש להצהילה וחיים ארוכ[ים]
    3. להובילה ותעדודי היקר להסלילה ומנעמי עי…

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  9. 12509List or tableT-S AS 182.155

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  10. 12510State documentT-S AS 155.274

    State document, probably a report. The sender ('the slave of my master the vizier') states that he received a 'noble letter' (probably from the vizier) …

    1. ووصل الى عبد مولاي الوزير[
    2. ادام الله سلطانه وقدرته امس هذا اليوم كتاب كريم عـ[ـن
    3.                                ]السجل الـ[ـكريم

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    1. ووصل الى عب…

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  11. 12511List or tableT-S AS 204.229

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions irdabbs.

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  12. 12512State documentT-S Misc.9.29

    Document in Arabic script. Dated, but the date is difficult to read. List of crops (qamḥ, shaʿīr, fūl, others) and quantities. Headed with a paragraph …

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  13. 12513State 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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  14. 12514LetterCUL Or.1080 J99

    Family letter, partly in Hebrew and partly in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting seems to be that of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan (possibly making this one …

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  15. 12515LetterT-S NS 226.4

    Letter from Meir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Meir signs only his first name …

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  16. 12516LetterENA 3955.5

    Document in Arabic script. Possibly a business letter; mentions goods (al-baḍā'iʿ) and something being sent to Alexandria (irsāluhu ilā thaghr al-Skandariyya). Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era.

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  17. 12517Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 149.53

    Probably an order of payment, carried by a woman, which mentions 22 dinars. This is the result of a legal proceeding. Dated Adar 1455 of …

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  18. 12518State documentENA 402.2 + ENA 402.1

    Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation …

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  19. 12519LetterENA 2348.1

    Complaint of the daughters of the Dosa family who were deprived of their rights to the community, perhaps from Jerusalem or another place in Palestine.

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    1. [ ]... זרע ישראל
    2. ביי יצדקו ויתהללו וג מכלפי דוסא רחמה אללה
    3. בשם אל רחום וחנון
    4. נחן מסתגיתין באללה תעאלי ובכם יא מעשר ישראל
    5. לא תכלו אידיכם ענא אנת…

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  20. 12520Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/12

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dating: 11th century. Groom: [...] b. Ḥusayn. Bride: [...] bt. Yiṣḥaq. Marriage payments: 15 + 25. (Information from Goitein’s index …

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  21. 12521LetterAIU XI.43

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Some space between the lines. The sender expresses his great distress upon hearing bad news; even "packages of paper" would not …

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  22. 12522LetterT-S AS 203.78

    Fragment from the end of a letter in Arabic. Including greetings for Bū Naṣr(?).

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  23. 12523LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/85

    Calligraphic letter by a community leader who found out that the son of a scholar had married four couples, writing their marriage contracts and performing …

    1. ממלוך הדרת כקג מרינו ורבינו אור עינינו
    2. ומחמד נפשינו נשיא אלהים בתוכנו יהי אלהיו
    3. בעזרו ינהי אלי ולאלהא מא ענדה מן אלאסף עלי
    4. מפארקתהא ובעדה מן מלאחצתה…

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  24. 12524LetterT-S 16.186

    In the form of a legal document (see lines 3-4), a fragment of a petition to a Nagid from a small town, signed by twenty-six …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . נא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]פה טאע[ . . . . . . ] דא [ . . . . . . . .

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  25. 12525LetterT-S 13J7.18

    Letter from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, possibly in Bet Guvrin (verso, l. 16), to a certain Shemuel, in Jerusalem. The letter is in Hebrew for the …

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  26. 12526Unknown typeT-S AS 183.56

    Unidentified text in Arabic, may be calendrical (mentions "day" and "the first hour").

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  27. 12527LetterT-S 13J19.27

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Egypt, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Isma'il.

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ונעמתה מן מצר לז'
    2. כלון מן תשרי בהדה אל אעיאד אל מבארכה בלגנא אללה אמתאלהא
    3. ששים ושמחים במשכנת מב…

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    1. אני כותב, ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורבי, אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך, מפסטאט, בז׳
    2. בתשרי. הריני מחוך אותך בחגים האלה, יהיו …

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  28. 12528List or tableENA 2425.33

    Two damaged fragments of accounts, possibly fused together and/or from the same original document. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

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  29. 12529List or tableT-S NS 107.13

    Recto: a Hebrew piyyut in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Overlying it and between the lines, in the same hand, some accounts in …

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  30. 12530Literary textAIU XI.200

    4 pages of late magical prescriptions in Hebrew.

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  31. 12531Unknown typeENA NS 76.404

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  32. 12532LetterT-S 6J1.5

    IB VI, 18. Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains …

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  33. 12533Legal documentT-S 8.284

    Recto: deed of partnership between Aharon b. Baqāʾ and a certain Saʿadya. Dating: likely 11th century. Verso: jottings including an ownership note with the name …

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  34. 12534Legal documentT-S 10J21.2

    Sale by two women, presumably cousins, in al-Mahdiyya, of a Bible codex worth 20 dinars. The sellers confirm their willingness to sell, accept receipt of …

    1. הדא מא אשהדנא [בה אסמ]על(!) ביר [ . . . . . . . . . ]ן חית[ה . . . .
    2. אבנת תנחום בן אליתים ומן [רחל אבנ]ת יחיה [ . . . . .
    3. אבא ימות אשתרא מנהם אלמצח[…

    Translated by Dora Zsom.

    This is what was testified before us by Ismā‘īl ibn Mūsā:

    He bought from Ḥiyuna bint Tanḥum ibn al-Yatīm and from Rachel bin…

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  35. 12535List or tableENA 3905.4

    Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions pepper.

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  36. 12536List or tableENA NS 77.392

    List of weeks (shin = shabbat) of the year, by weekly readings from the Torah, with a number in Coptic numerals for each, representing revenues, …

    1. ...........ש'] אחרי מות [
    2. ................... ½ 12
    3. .........] ש' נשוא ש' בה[עלותך
    4. ..] 22 30 [
    5. ש'] זאת ש' וירא בלק ש' פינח[ס
    6. 28 22 ? ½ ½ 16
    7. ש' אלה הד…

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  37. 12537Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1586

    Karaite agreement regarding a payment for two apartments (תבקתין) in a house. Date: 27 Shevat 5446 AM (1686 CE). ʿOvadya Feyruz receives a payment of …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלארבע אלמבארך סבעה ועשרין יום פי חדש שבט סנה ה׳ת׳מ׳ו׳ ליצירה
    2. חצר כמה׳׳ר ישועה רופא יצ׳׳ו נין המנוח כמה׳׳ר מרדכי רופא נ׳׳ע תם את…

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  38. 12538Unknown typeENA NS 85.670

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  39. 12539Unknown typeENA 3923.3

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  40. 12540State documentT-S 16.16

    State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …

    1. . . . . . .بالجري في الديوان [

    2. اطال الله بقاك المعدية(؟) [

    3. وكانت اخره فوقها وما ا . . [

    4. وقطعات الجسر مضمنة(؟) . . .[

    5. الثاني من صفر سنة تسع…

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  41. 12541LetterENA NS 77.153

    Draft of a flowery letter in Hebrew with wide line spacing, possibly a communal epistle. The draft was abandoned in the first line of salutations. …

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  42. 12542LetterT-S NS J429

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender waited all afternoon in the synagogue for the addressee; he assumed that the latter had gone up to Cairo. He …

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    1. בש רח
    2. יחיט אלעלם אלמולוי יר הו אנני
    3. חצרת אמס פי אלכ[ניס]ה וקעדת
    4. פי אלכניסה אלי בעד אלעצר
    5. ומא ראית אלמולי וטננת אנה
    6. יכון קד ראח אלי אלקאהרה וסמ…

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  43. 12543List or tableENA NS 76.302.2

    Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  44. 12544Legal documentT-S AS 148.1

    Letter consisting entirely of instructions to a notary for drawing up a legal document. Dated: Sunday, 28 Muḥarram 547 AH = 5 May 1152 CE. …

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    1. لے
    2. חצר אבו אלרצא וקבץ מן מולאי אלרב
    3. יש צו כמסה ועשרין דינאר ואשהד עלי
    4. נפסה אנה יקים לה במ[א]תין [מן] נשאדר מתי
    5. מא אשתהי מן אליום ואמהלה מולאי …

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  45. 12545List or tableYevr.-Arab. II 1490

    Accounts in Arabic script.

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  46. 12546Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 103/38

    Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Shevat 1442 Seleucid, which is 1131 CE. Husband: Ḥalfon b. [...].

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  47. 12547List or tableT-S NS 99.80 + T-S NS 99.77 + T-S NS 99.78 + T-S NS 99.79 + T-S NS 99.81

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably belongs with the preceding shelfmarks.

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  48. 12548LetterT-S 13J27.4

    Business letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi, a wholesale silk-dealer, to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Nissim ha-Levi in Fustat, dealing with goods …

    1. בשמך רח
    2. . .] כתאבי אלי [מו]לאי [. . . .] אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. עזה ונעמאה ותא[י]דה [ו]תמכינה וכבת אעדאה
    4. ארגו וצולה ודכרת פיה מן אלשוק אליה וחש…

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  49. 12549Unknown typeT-S NS 102.41

    Arabic jottings including "ḥaḍrat mawlāy" in the blank space on a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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  50. 12550Literary textT-S Misc.16.119

    Printed treatise in Ladino and Hebrew. Commentary on Genesis (parashat Noah).

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