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  1. 12501LetterT-S 8J33.4

    There is no need for a miqve, as Yeḥiel has already made one in his own house. The rains have already ended, and the Gentiles do not permit bathing in the Shiloaḥ spring, so there is nowhere else to build one.

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  2. 12502Legal documentT-S 13J1.17

    Sason. acknowledged receipt from Moshe b. Yehuda Ibn al-Majjānī the 6 dinars due to her from her father for having maintained her orphan child Moshe during past 6 months. The sum as paid by her father on order of the court and transmitted through al-Majjānī (via ḥawwāla). Signed by Yaʿaqov b. Moshe and Menashshe b.

    1. קול מן אתבת שהאדתה אכר הדא אלכתאב אן חביבה
    2. אבנה מר נתן בן ששון נע אשהדתנא עלי נפסהא ברצאהא
    3. ושהותהא אנהא קד קצבת מן מר משה בר יהודה נע אל
    4. מערוף באבן …

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  3. 12503LetterT-S 13J18.20

    Letter from an army doctor, in Ashmūm Ṭannāḥ (present-day Ashmūn al-Rummān), to his son, in an unknown location. […] His son's letter informing him of his wife's labor, and her anger at his absence, reached him on Wednesday with al-Kohen (the same day he is writing the present letter).

    1. ואלדה כפי פיה אלאסוא
    2. וצל כתאב אלולד אלאגל אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה וכבת אעדאה
    3. וגמע שמלי בה עלי אסר חאל במנה וכפי לטפה ואלדי אעלמך בה
    4. אנני וצלת אלי ענד …

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  4. 12504LetterT-S 13J25.12

    Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abū Zakariyyā Ḥayyim b. […] Abūn first consoles Ḥayyim on the death of a son, and he then vehemently refutes allegations against his integrity (charges of debts to the government and the office of the inheritance up to 1000 dinars).

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ושיכי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר מן אלקדס
    2. אלמעמור אלנצף מן אדר ראשון סאעה וחק אלקדס וצול כתאבך אל…

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  5. 12505Legal documentT-S 18J5.10a + T-S 10J27.6 + T-S AS 115.22 + T-S 18J5.10b

    Maḥfūẓ (groom-to-be) and Amat al-Qādir bt. Efrayim b. Manṣūr b. Furāt (bride-to-be). […] Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe ha-Levi, ʿAllān b. Nahum, Yosef b. [...] b. Efrayim, David b. [...], and [...] b.

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    1. בשם אל [עולם] … |

    2. ואנחנו עמ[ך] … |

    3. וארשתיך לי ב|

    4. נתחיל בשעת רצ|

    5. עדן אלהים ובחיי ה|

    6. ככם אלף פעמים ויברך |

    7. זה ספר אר…

    1. In the name of the [Everlasting] God | who straightens the ways of the pious among the people ... 
    2. And we are [Your] people (Ps. 69:13)... | Let us …

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  6. 12506LetterT-S 24.65

    He is still endeavoring to free his son-in-law (שרנו אדירנו חתננו שר בית ישראל), whom Goitein identifies with Abū Saʿd the son of the Tustarī woman (mentioned as a Crusader captive in T-S 10J5.6 + T-S 20.113). Ṣadoq has also sent a letter to the Nagid (Mevorakh b. Seʿadya) reporting on his efforts for the captives.

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. לי מדה טוילה מא קראת ליקירנו השופט
    3. היקר אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה
    4. וחראסתה ונעמאה כתאבא ולא ערפת
    5. לה כברא מן גהתה בל ממן יצל פאסתעלם
    6. חאלה פי…

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  7. 12507List or tableT-S K24.15 + T-S K24.36

    Partial transcription: "son cunplidos los dichos xlviii mil dcxxvii s que valieron / [---] este dicho año en la cuenta que d su [---] / almox del algund el dicho año de 1426 años / 1 quento de trigo a vi ls ii fs et 1 quento de çevada / [---] testimonio signado de Ao Gs escribano publico del dicho."

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  8. 12508Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.17

    T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    3. יוצל ללכהן שצ` [[ען]] כמסה דרהם
    4. דפעה ללחזן עלאעמי תספיר
    5. ושלום

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  9. 12509LetterT-S Misc.23.5

    After much effort the sender eventually found another messenger to travel to Jūjar -- it is difficult because Jūjar is on a different branch of the Nile than al-Maḥalla, "for between al-Maḥalla and it are two rivers (baḥrayn) and a lake (buḥayra)."

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    1. הדרת יקרת רבינו ומרינו יצחק
    2. הרב המובהק יהי צורו בעזרו
    3. משרתו ותלמידו ומתפלל
    4. בעדו
    5. אהרן ביר ישועה הרופא זל

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב הדר…

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  10. 12510Legal query or responsumT-S Misc.27.3.2 + ENA 4020.41

    Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, and reportedly drowned in Fanṣūr, a Sumatran port famous for exporting camphor (Heyd, Commerce du Levant, ii, 592). The question facing Avraham Maimonides was whether or not this woman was allowed to remarry based on the testimony of the Jewish trader who reported the merchant’s death upon his return from Aden.

    1. מא תקול הדרת יקרת צפיר|ת תפארת מרנו ורבנו אברהם הרב המובהק
    2. הפטיש החזק נר המע|רבי דגל הרבני יחיד הדור אור העולם ירום הודו
    3. פי אנסאן מסאפר אלי בל|אד אל…

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  11. 12511LetterT-S Misc.28.131

    He reports that he has already requested a favor from 'my master al-ḥemdat' Avraham b.

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  12. 12512LetterT-S NS 225.110

    Letter from an unidentified merchant to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports on a shipment that he has sent with Jaʿfar: 62 wax moulds (qālib) weighing 51 1/2 raṭls in addition to 2 1/4 manns of violets (zahr banafsaj). […] The addressee, Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī, is known from numerous documents, including several in India Book II.

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  13. 12513LetterT-S NS 309.21

    Greetings from his father, his mother, his brothers Zakkay and Yehuda, his older and younger sisters. Greetings to Raḍiyy al-Dawla, Abū l-Maʿālī, two cousins, their mother, and the sister of Raḍiyy al-Dawla.

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  14. 12514LetterT-S NS 321.2

    Yehuda is worried about a tax in Egypt as he heard that a census had been taken of the poor with the idea of imposing the tax also on them. He expresses lofty praise and undying gratitude to Ḥesed b.

    1. גע מכתב החבר היקר והנכבד יהי צור עזרו וצל סתרו// יום יג בכסלו ובו ביום נכת[ב]ה תשובתו // וישים אחריתו שלום
    2. וכל ימיו שלום והשיש בשלומו והעצ[י]ב באשר …

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  15. 12515LetterT-S NS 324.17 + T-S 8J13.25

    Announcing that Meʾir ha-Sar and Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan will appoint all ritual slaughterers (טבחים) and guards in the community addressed and look after their religious needs. […] This is our inheritance and that of our forefather King Jehosaphat, as it is written in Scripture: 'And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah' (II Chronicles 19:5)."

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    1. ויעמ[י]ד שופטים בכל ערי יהודה הבצורות וככה | נעשה
    2. והניחוץ אינה טובה אלא מתון מתון ארבע מאה שויא
    3. והנה צוינו לאדירנו מרנו ורבנו מאיר השר היקר
    4. הח…

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  16. 12516Legal documentYevr. II A 1288

    Among the conditions is that the groom agrees not to move away from Fustat/Cairo for 20 years, "for example to Damascus or Istanbul," except to Jerusalem. He will also have to pay her 15 silver pieces if he ever beats her in the first 20 years of marraige.

    1. בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
    2. ביום ראשון בשבוע והוא עשרים יום מחדש סיון שנת חמשת אלפים וארבע מאות וארבעים ושמונה שנים לכריאת 
    3. העולם ואלף ותשע מאות ותשעים ושמונה…

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  17. 12517Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    The profit from the partnership is split into two equal shares and Moshe grants Yiṣḥaq authority to utilize the funds as he sees fits in commercial transactions. There is also a stipulation that 5 of the 70 peraḥīm will remain in the hand of Moshe and, in turn, Yiṣḥaq grants him authority to transfer the funds to his wife in monthly payments of 1 peraḥ to cover "the needs of her household."

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 37v

    1. בפ]ני עדים חתומים מטה איך בא כ׳׳ר יצחק ב׳כ׳ר׳ משה ידיע
    2. מ]גרבי(?) הקראי נ׳׳ע והעיד עליו ברצונו [[בלי]] כי קבל מיד כ׳׳ר מ…

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  18. 12518Paraliterary textAIU VI.B.2

    4 pages containing permutations of YWHW with various vowels, and on the last page, God's 13 attributes along with a prayer designed for invoking any given one of them (מדה פלונית) for any given time (שעה פלונית).

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  19. 12519LetterAIU VII.E.132

    Verso contains an Arabic note along with doodles and sums.

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  20. 12520List or tableAIU XI.73

    Accounts fragment in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic relying on alphanumerical figures and on the verso the term "soldi / שולדי" is in use likely indicating a specific coinage rather than its generic meaning in Italian as any type of money.

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  21. 12521List or tableBL OR 5566B.11

    interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE.

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  22. 12522Legal documentBL OR 10578G.38

    Contains formulae from an Islamic marriage contract (hādhā mā aṣdaqa al-Shaykh Bayān... Samawʾal...). Needs examination.

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  23. 12523LetterBL OR 10578R.94

    The sender states that he has written twice to the addressee "al-Mumḥe" to ask for the remaining 2.5 dirhams.

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  24. 12524Unknown typeBL OR 10656.15

    Recto is a cryptic text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic referring to the month of Adar, the ʿamida prayer, and supererogatory devotions (...ḥasb al-nawāfil...). Verso contains the names of two women: כל . .

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  25. 12525Legal documentBL OR 13153.4/3

    Mevasser. Fiancee: Sitt al-[...].

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  26. 12526List or tableBodl. MS heb. b 11/24

    List of many important people (e.g. a lineage of the heads of Yeshivat Gaon Yaʿaqov) with family trees. "This is the ʿitra of al-Rayyis Abū l-Najm and his siblings and his cousins (awlād ʿamm)."

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  27. 12527Legal query or responsumBodl. MS heb. d 74/35

    Legal queries from al-Maḥalla. The first one asks how to calculate the value of a marriage contract (ketubba) where there is no fixed rule concerning the additional marriage payment (ziyāda).

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  28. 12528LetterBodl. MS heb. f 101/42

    In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shām; 20 nuqra dirhams; dār sayyidinā in Fustat, and various people's names.

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    1.  ] . . . . . . . . . . . . ק
    2. ]לא . . חפטהם אללה ותקול
    3. ] . פי אלשאם גרת עאדתה
    4. ]ן ולא יבק פיה עלה
    5. ] . . . ה ועשרין דרהם נקרה מן
    6. ] אל . . בון אלד…

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  29. 12529LetterCUL Or.1080 J47c

    Asks the addressee to confirm receipt of some books (al-juzūʾ). On verso there is an imprint of CUL Or.1080 J47b (PGPID 19823).

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  30. 12530LetterCUL Or.1080 J54

    The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well in the "West" was lac.

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  31. 12531List or tableCUL Or.1080 J275

    A variety of names with Ottoman titles are mentioned, such as: Yosef Jalabī (Çelebi), dīwān (of the) Efendī, ʿAbd al-Raḥman Aga, Maḥ[mūd]/Muḥ[ammad] Efendī. Requires further examination.

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  32. 12532Literary textCUL Or.1081 2.75.19

    Syriac Memro for Palm Sunday. 14 lines, with a catchword at the bottom and the Garshuni heading yuqraʿ turjām ʿīd al-saʿānīn. This was edited by Siam Bhayro. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."

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  33. 12533List or tableENA 2592.9

    Memorial list for the family of "al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan, the family of our holy rabbi (Rabbenu ha-Qadosh.

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  34. 12534List or tableENA 2592.11

    (a) List of names and sums. Probably an alms distribution list. Entries include "the dyer"; "and her daughter"; Ṣedaqa; Umm Labwa; Ibrāhīm.

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  35. 12535List or tableENA 3039.13

    Abū l-Ḥassan b. Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad al-Q[...]?), then several figures in Greek/Coptic numerals, with a grand total written at the bottom.

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  36. 12536State documentENA 3695.5

    ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

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  37. 12537Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3906.1

    Receipt or legal document in Arabic script. Mīkhāʾil al-Dabbāgh (the tanner) sold cow hide(s) to Jaʿfar b.

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  38. 12538List or tableENA 3936.2

    The entries mostly begain "ḥāṣil yawm al-X. . . " Names include Gedalya; Dāʾūd; R. Natan;

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  39. 12539State documentENA 3942.3

    Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh, so written earlier than that.

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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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  40. 12540LetterENA 3949.4

    Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faraj concerning a settling of accounts in the Dār al-Wikāla, involving 10 dirhams and the months of Ramaḍān and Shawwāl.

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  41. 12541Paraliterary textENA 3956.2

    Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) fa-yakūn) alongside nonsense words.

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  42. 12542Legal documentENA 4010.3

    Power of attorney by Shemuel Ibn al-Lebdi from late tenth-early eleventh century Fustat.

    1. [עדות שהיתה בפנינו] אנו החתומים למטה בחמישי 

    2. [בשבת ... ] בחדש תמוז שנת אלף ושלש מאות 

    3. [... לשטרו]ת למנין שאנו רגילין למנות בו 

    4. [בפסטאט מצרים …

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  43. 12543LetterENA 4100.12

    Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. Written in Hebrew (the opening poem and formulae) and Judaeo-Arabic (the body).

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  44. 12544LetterENA NS 17.33

    Letter sent from Fustat by Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī to his cousin Barhun b. Musa. The letter deals with business dealing with Muslims and the collection of debts.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא

    2. ענך ברחמתה מן מצר יום אלגמעה ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך ותעליק קלב אלי ו…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ויסלק כל רע
    2. ממך ברחמיו, מפסטאט, ביום ו׳. שלומי טוב ואני מאושר, א…

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  45. 12545List or tableENA NS 77.180

    Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]

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  46. 12546List or tableENA NS 77.397

    Mentions Abū l-Bishr and his son; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Menaḥem b. Majd; Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib; [...]

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  47. 12547List or tableENA NS 83.282

    E.g., Abu l-[...] known as Ibn al-ʿAmm (cf. ENA 2744.1 for this family name) and ʿOvadya.

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  48. 12548Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 83.338

    Order or receipt in Arabic script with Judaeo-Arabic annotations for 2 dinars for [...] Makkī(?) al-Khabbāz from Yehuda b. Yosef (presumably this is Abū Zikrī Kohen).

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  49. 12549Paraliterary textENA NS 83.380

    One section seems to be for countering the evil eye ("kadhālika tatafaqqaʿ al-ʿayn wa-l-naẓra").

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  50. 12550LetterHUC 1018

    Conveying communal news and mentioning Abu ʿAlī and enemies. Should be checked against the previously identified Daniel b.

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