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  1. 12701LetterT-S 13J11.4

    Letter from a woman named Malīḥa, in Byzantium (called Romaniya/רומניאה), to her brothers Abū Saʿīd and Shelomo, probably in Egypt. In Hebrew. She writes of …

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    1. תובל איגרת הלז בשמחות 
    2. וגיל אלי כגק אחיי אבו סעיד 
    3. ושלמה הנאים
    4. מני אחותכם
    5. הנקראת מליחה

    Recto:

    1. שלום ממרומים וברכות כעשבי הדומים וכט…

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  2. 12702LetterT-S 13J16.11

    Letter probably from Sahlan b. Avraham instructing his uncle, Aharon 'the appointed', to make peace between a husband and a wife, or to bring her …

    1. אחינו ותלמידנו ויקירינו מר' ור' אהרן הממונה ישמרך צורנו ויעזרך
    2. ויעודדך לעד .. בא בקא //כהן// בן יוסף לפנינו לבית דין וחמותו
    3. ואפוטרופוס שלאשתו חסן בת…

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  3. 12703LetterT-S 13J18.4

    Business letter from Seʿadya b. Avraham b. Sasson of Alexandria to his relative Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ of Fustat, a maker of Sūsiyāt textiles. Seʿadya opens …

    1. לו דהבת אצף מא ענדי מן אלשוק אלי מואליי אלאכוה למא וסע
    2. כתאב וכנת סאכן אלנפס בתואתר כתבכם פלמא אנקטעת
    3. אנזעגת לתגויזי אלמרץ ומא סואה אללה תעאלי יכפינא…

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  4. 12704LetterT-S 13J28.7

    Letter from a certain Saʿadya to the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya. Conveying information about a legal case. The case has to do with a warehouse …

    1. וצל כתאב חצרה הנגידות ירום הודה ויגדל כבודה ויאבד שונאה
    2. ומשנאה הנשעינת על כסא מעלה הו ירוממה מעלה מעלה ביד
    3. אבו סעד בן אברהם נע הנודע בבן אלבסוטי ומע…

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  5. 12705Legal query or responsumT-S 13J31.2

    Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon Moshe (b. Netanʾel) ha-Levi concerning the claims of a creditor against the widow of the man who owed him. …

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  6. 12706Legal documentT-S 16.15

    Recto: part of a deed of sale in which Michal (מיכל) bat Yeshuʿa the dyer sells her female slave Riḍā to Yaʿaqov b. Abraham b. …

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  7. 12707Legal documentT-S 20.17 + T-S 12.704

    Deed of sale bearing many signatures. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel (dated documents: 1128–64). A few words from the reshut formula are preserved, …

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  8. 12708LetterT-S Ar.35.300

    Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is in Sammanūd. On recto, there are greetings and expressions of longing, "We have not enjoyed a day of …

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  9. 12709State documentT-S Ar.40.107

    Draft of a letter/petition, in Arabic script. Addressed to Huṣām al-Dawla. The sender asks that 'you rescue me from this man' (bi-an tukhalliṣ ʿabdak min …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كتبت هذه الى حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل حسام الدولة  ادام  الله

    3. عزه والمسموع من طيب اخباره والمنقول من جمل اثاره وما …

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  10. 12710State documentT-S Ar.42.129

    Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …

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  11. 12711State documentT-S Ar.42.162

    Petition, or an official letter in Arabic script. The sender may be named Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. The addressee's name appears in the first line; …

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  12. 12712State documentT-S Ar.42.195 + T-S Ar.38.128

    Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …

    1. [. . .]

    2. ابو الفرج الكرخي المبتاع لهذه الدار وقال[

    3. الا باطلاق من مولاي الشيخ //الجليل// لا على الحـ[

    4. اعتابا(؟) له بسبب حق واجب       وعند مولا…

  13. ...Because in the slave’s experience of these properties (?), they are for the ……..
  14. And to our illustrious master, may God perpetuate his high status, belongs the lofty resolution, in seizing his slave’s reward
  15. Right margin

    1. [ ] God willing.

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  16. 12713Legal documentT-S AS 148.213

    Recto: Bottom of a legal document containing various release formulae applied to Mawhūb b. Ḥusayn. The context is almost entirely lost. A couple other partial …

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  17. 12714LetterT-S AS 153.163 + T-S AS 153.160 + JRL B 6028

    India Book I, 13a. Letter fragment from Yosef b. David Lebdi to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Bundār, the representative of the merchants in Aden, written …

    JRL SERIES B 6028 1 / 1 leaf recto (I, 13a)

    1. [... אטאל א]ללה בקאה ו[אדאם עזה ...]
    2. וכבת אעדאה [ע]רפתה אן כאן אלשיך אב[ו ... ואלשיך אבו יעקוב יקותיאל]

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  18. 12715Legal documentT-S AS 154.1

    Verso: bottom part of a beautifully illuminated ketubba, signed by Yaʿaqov b. Simḥa. It seems to be too damaged to extract much of the content. …

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  19. 12716Paraliterary textT-S AS 159.167

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon. Mentions: "my master Aaron... his lineage... the other tribes of the sons of (Israel)... in the Torah... (Moses …

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  20. 12717Legal documentT-S AS 159.169

    Recto (secondary use): Narrow vertical fragment containing notes for drawing up a legal deed. In a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. At the very …

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  21. 12718List or tableT-S H5.119 + T-S AS 122.8 + T-S NS 289.132 + T-S AS 132.176 + ENA 2954.6 + ENA 2954.7

    Accounts in Arabic script, in large letters with wide line spacing. Reminiscent of state accounts, but likely private. E.g., "Owed by Ibn al-Kaʿkī...." Various dates …

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  22. 12719LetterT-S K6.40

    P4: Letter from Ismaʿīl to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) al-Shaykh al-Ḥaver David ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Mentions Mūsā al-Ashmūnī attending …

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  23. 12720List or tableT-S K15.64

    List of around sixty "houses" (bayt) and of eight male individuals, each followed by Coptic numerals. Includes an entry for "the house of the rayyis, …

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  24. 12721Literary textT-S K17.1 + JTS 8998.7–8

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb3 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 6.10–9.5 (recto); join with New York, JTS 8998, fols. 7r–8v (PGPID 41702); followed on the verso by a short Hebrew list of relatives ineligible as witnesses (ואלו הן עידי קרובים, 'and these are the relatives who are (ruled out as) witnesses', based on m.

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    1. ועשה את הילד לאבן בתוך בטנה שלבת קיסר ויפול מן תחתה
    2. אבן והיתה אשה נפשה למות. ענה קיסר ואמר להם הלא זכר
    3. היתה הרה ולמה יצא ממה אבן ענה ישוע ו…
    misleading with magic, and he asked
  25. them for powerful vinegar and he drank (it). They stoned him on the tree. They brought him down and buried him under

  26. a deep water- [    ] inside the orchard of Yehudah the orchard-man. 

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  28. 12722LetterT-S K25.106

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is reminiscent of some of the 12th-century India traders, but it awaits proper identification. This is a large section from …

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  29. 12723LetterT-S Misc.27.4.19

    Letter in the hand of the judge Shela b. Mevasser on behalf of the community of Alexandria addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in …

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  30. 12724LetterT-S Misc.28.244

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm addressed to 'ha-Rav ha-Gadol,' someone close to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dealing entirely …

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    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. סבב הדה אלכדמה מן עבד חצרה מולאי אלרב אלגל[יל
    3. אדאם אללה תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה וכבת אעדאה
    4. סואל הדרתו הקדושה פי אן תרכב אלי חצרה סידנא
    5. ה…

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  31. 12725Literary textT-S Misc.35.22

    Maqāma-like work in rhymed Hebrew prose by a certain Shelomo b. Yehuda (not the 11th-century gaʾon, as this fragment is probably 12th–13th century), describing how …

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  32. 12726Legal documentT-S NS 204.14

    Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (a) ʿAzzūz bt. Yefet/Ḥasan known as Ibn כתרתאן(?) al-Zajjāj, the widow of [...] …

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  33. 12727Legal documentT-S NS 224.162

    Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script involving Jewish silk traders (al-qazzāzīn al-isrāʾīliyyīn). Two signatures are preserved. Underneath, the tops of the letters are …

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  34. 12728Legal documentT-S NS 292.81 + T-S NS 290.73 + T-S NS 290.75

    Elbaum, "Assembling a Life: Several Dozen New Fragments on Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi" (FOTM April 2020).

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  35. 12729LetterT-S NS 306.112

    Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī in Cairo to his father. He reports that he has sent 50 dinars' worth of …

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    1. العبد المملوك ابو الحسن بن علي
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. كتابي اليك يا والدي والعزيز علي وعندي اطال
    4. الله بقاك وادام عزك وتاييدك وسعادتك
    5. وسلامتك و…

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  36. 12730List or tableT-S NS 338.28

    Bifolio from an account ledger in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly accounts of a grocer, or grocery lists and other notes of a customer. Dated: There are entries …

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  37. 12731List or tableT-S NS J205

    Since 2 persons are listed as living at the Gate of the Breach, Kharq, of (New) Cairo, the list might refer to that city. MR Cohen: in right margin, many entries preceded by a final mem, in a more faded ink, presumably standing for tasallam, paid.

    1. ש ויהיו
    2. ם יעקב סכנדרי צהר אלחזן ( ½ 12 או ½ 112) 105
    3. ם שמואל בן סעדון ( ½ 12 או ½ 112) 105
    4. ם עבדאללה צהרה 30
    5. ם יצחק צהר שמואל אלפרנאס 30
    6. ם יוסף נשאד…

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  38. 12732Legal documentYevr. II A 1283

    Incomplete draft of a Karaite betrothal deed. Dated: 17 Sivan 5423 AM (1663 CE). Location: Cairo. Bride: Zahra bt. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq Rofe. Groom: Yosef …

    1. ביום ראשון בשבוע והוא שבעה עשר יום מחדש סיון שנת חמשת אלפים וארבע מאות ועשרים ושלשה שנים לבריאת העולם
    2. ואלף ותשע מאות ושבעים ושלשה שנים למספר יונים ב…

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  39. 12733Legal documentYevr. II A 1288

    Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 5448 AM, which is 1688 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Avraham ha-Ḥakham ha-Rofe b. Aharon ha-Rofe ha-Ḥakham. …

    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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  40. 12734Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#54) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 19r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 2 Shevat 53[..] …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 19r

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאחד תאני שהר שבט שנה הש[..
    2. ליצירה חצרו אכתר אלגמא׳ פי בית אד׳ הנ׳ הג׳ שמואל הדי…

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  41. 12735Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#68) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 23r

    1. ופי תא׳ אשהד עליה //יצחק// אלכהן אבן אלמד׳ דוד הכהן אן ענדה ופי דמת[ה
    2. ללמולי אלאגל יוסף א׳אלמר׳ צדקה אלנקאש מאיה דהב גד…

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  42. 12736Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 8v-9r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Tevet [5321] …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 8v (ll. 1-16 from Ben-Shammai's edition of record #20)

    1. ... מ]ן הבת[ים] ויבנו כל הבתים בשלימות ואחר שישלימו הבתים לראות כל ה…

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  43. 12737Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#92) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 31v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated at the beginning …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 31v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלגמעה מסתהל שהר אדר ראשון על דרך פוגה סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ה׳
    2. ליצירה אשתרא ע׳אלרחמאן א׳אלמר׳ כצ'ר אלפולאדי מן א…

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  44. 12738Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700

    Court notebook from the year 1467 Seleucid = 1156 CE. 29 folios, ~66 documents. Also contains non-legal items. See individual PGPIDS for individual documents. "The …

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  45. 12739Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1378

    Recto: Qaraite legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 25 Av 5335 AM, which is 1575 CE. The context is a communal struggle over who would …

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אל אתנין כ׳׳ח שהר אב יא׳׳ל סנה ה׳ש׳ל׳ה׳ ליצירה חצל קאל וקיל 
    2. וצ'ראב וכנאק ובקי //כל// מן קאם יחב יתקדם אלי וטאיף אלמר׳ כ׳ר׳ יעקב ה…
  46. Judah al-Tawrīzī was brought, and heard all of what is written about him above, and he agreed with all that was mentioned above, 
  47. and accepted it for himself, according to what is mentioned above for the aforementioned period. After that, the aforementioned judges assigned
  48. that it is not possible for any of the congregation (members)—may they be blessed—to be appointed instead of him, nor to replace him, because he is doing it only "in the name
  49. of heaven" [= with pure intentions], and there is no option for any to object to him with obstinancy.
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  51. 12740Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1616

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Kislev 5422 AM, which is 1661 CE. Location: presumably Cairo, based on the witness signature of Barukh Rofe– a …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף סאבקא שבכה בין אדו׳ הנ׳ הג׳ כה׳׳ר ברוך נשיא יצ׳׳ו נין המנוח
    2. אדו׳ הנ׳ הג׳ אליעזר צמח נ׳׳ע ובין אלמד׳ אהרן כהן נ׳׳ע אבן אלמר כה׳׳…

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  52. 12741LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1744

    Letter from Avraham Ẓaʿir, Jerusalem, to the Qaraite community of Fustat/Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer greets a great many people by name, including the …

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  53. 12742LetterENA NS I.29

    There is the bottom part of one letter and then halfway down the page a new letter begins from a son to a father. The upper letter deals with poverty and dangerous times ("the Arabs (Bedouin) are at odds").

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  54. 12743LetterT-S 16.255

    (Nathaniel Moses) Old IB number: 350. New IB number: VII, 64

    1. נז[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. מרע אדונינו ומ[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  55. 12744Legal documentT-S NS J346

    Interestingly, the word "taqlīb" is used in the section where the recipient accepts all the blemishes in the new acquisition. This word often appears in the context of inspecting slaves, but maybe it simply means physical inspection in general.

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  56. 12745LetterCUL Or.1081 2.49

    Letter of appeal for assistance. In Judaeo-Arabic, with many phrases in Hebrew. Dated Nisan 5562 AM which is 1802 CE (= the 9th of the …

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    1. בע׳׳ו היום יום ט למ׳׳ט מונים משנתינו תקס׳׳ב
    2. אל מול פני אהובינו חמודינו ה׳׳ה הגביר נשא ונעלה לשט׳׳ו כמה׳׳ר נסים
    3. מולכו נר׳׳ו לעד לעולם כיר׳׳א

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  57. 12746Legal documentT-S 8J6.8 + T-S 13J30.3

    Fragment of a Hebrew deed in which witnesses testify that Ezra b. Shemuel b. Ezra, the representative of the merchants, came to them to complain …

    T-S 13J30.3 recto (Gil edition)

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    1. ושיבדי[ל]וה מעדת ישראל והניחה
    2. מבארכה זאת דברינו והלכה אל שופט
    3. השופטים ולקחוהו הרגלים וביזת אתו
    4. והצרך לברוח מפני…
    The footmen seized him (i.e. her brother) and she humiliated him.
  58. He was thereforeforced to flee from her. She insists 

  59. on her claims and is stubborn in her insolence, demand- ing 

  60. her father's inheritance from her brother in Muslim courts. 

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  62. 12747LetterT-S 20.97

    Copy of a long letter sent by Ḥananya b. Yosef ha-Kohen, Av Bet Din. Dating: ca. 1020 CE, according to Gil. Probably addressed to the …

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  63. 12748Legal query or responsumT-S G1.21

    Two drafts, in two different hands, of legal queries concerning whether a teacher who took an oath not to teach his clients can be released …

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  64. 12749List or tableT-S K15.48

    Two lists of recipients of clothing, in two different scripts, the first part, extending from col.I, l. 1, to col. II, l. 14, the second …

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    1. אמראת אכו גוכאנ'
    2. אלפרנאס הבה ם
    1. __________________________
    2. מערפה אבו אלפרג גוכאנ'
    1. __________________________
    1. רבי יצחק אלרומי מקדר
    2. אברה…

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  65. 12750Legal documentENA 2727.13b

    Shabbat; the ground rent (ḥikr) payment which is somehow connected to Nārūz (the Coptic New Year); a raqqāṣ possibly named ʿIwāḍ.

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