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  1. 12801LetterT-S AS 145.301

    The second letter is from Faraḥ b. ʿAllūsh to Abū l-Munā.

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  2. 12802Legal documentT-S AS 146.406

    Bride: Tujjār (i.e., Sitt al-Tujjār). Groom: Ḥalfon. On verso there is a trousseau list.

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  3. 12803LetterT-S AS 148.156

    Letter to Elḥanan "Rosh ha-Seder of all Israel." In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.

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  4. 12804Legal documentT-S AS 149.243

    Fragment of a legal deed (or less likely from a halakhic discussion): ...jamīʿ mā... wa-min kull ḥaqq... shimmush wa-shahida fī... wa-qad istaqarra... qawl al-Mishna, "ʿEved..." AA. ASE.

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  5. 12805List or tableT-S AS 151.268

    Including the house of Khalaf al-Qazzāz, and the "family of Kohanim," Saʿadya, his son Elʿazar, his son Ḥalfon, his son Saʿadya, and his son Ḥalfon.

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  6. 12806LetterT-S AS 161.11

    Mentions a return from somewhere; Purim; the capitation tax (al-jāliya); a severe illness (marḍa shadīda); entering Fustat; Sammanūd; "my hand and my body" (?)

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  7. 12807LetterT-S AS 166.220

    There are two lines in the same hand on verso along with additional jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script.

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  8. 12808LetterT-S AS 166.274

    Mentions bussiness dealings; a great outrage (bahdala kabīra); and the countryside (bilād al-rīf).

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  9. 12809Legal documentT-S AS 171.86

    Reporting that Maḥāsin Ibn al-Rabbāṭ agrees to stand surety for his mother in a case involving inheritance and the government.

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  10. 12810LetterT-S AS 176.73

    Mentions something distressing (al-shida). Hard to read much more apart from the concluding greetings.

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  11. 12811Legal documentT-S AS 179.309

    (The date may appear explicitly.) With a huge ʿalāma at the top. There is a brief nte in Judaeo-Arabic on verso, maybe a filing note.

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  12. 12812Legal documentT-S AS 182.203

    The buyer is Ibrāhīm b. [...] b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī known as Ibn [...]. Nahray (b. NIssim?)

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  13. 12813Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 182.297

    Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (mawlāya al-dayyān) is instructed to give 5 dinars to the bearer Abū l-ʿIzz on a certain date.

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  14. 12814Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.15

    Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 304 Kāmilī dirhams. See T-S AS 183.14 (PGPID 37526) for a list of related documents.

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  15. 12815State documentT-S AS 183.168

    See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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  16. 12816List or tableT-S AS 187.65

    On recto a list in Arabic, probably by the same hand and pen of verso. Mentions al-Makīn and Mūsā. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century.

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  17. 12817Literary textT-S AS 206.302 + T-S AS 206.303

    (Information kindly provided by Lluís Sales i Favà and Alfonso Sánchez.)

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  18. 12818List or tableT-S AS 207.10 + T-S AS 207.11

    Commercial account with monetary values and a few names (e.g., Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and al-Iṭrābulsī) listed throughout the recto and verso.

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  19. 12819List or tableT-S F5.149

    Mentioning several scribes and skins (presumably as writing surface). The remaining text is all literary - see FGP for identifications.

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  20. 12820State documentT-S H7.25

    Mentions a few places in the upper Nile valley like the village of Būsh (near the Fayyūm), the village of Dār Umm ʿAlī, and Dumyūṭ(?) in the precincts of Mālīj(?).

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  21. 12821Paraliterary textT-S K6.190

    In Judaeo-Arabic: "property of al-Muwaffaq b. Moshe." In Arabic script at the bottom, a much later note indicating transfer of ownership to Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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  22. 12822List or tableT-S K15.74

    The first line: Ibn Jalāl al-Mulk, as in Bodl. MS heb. c 28/47 (PGPID 9586).

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  23. 12823List or tableT-S Misc.8.14

    Each of the three entries is a neighborhood in or around Fustat: al-Jazīra (ʿinda Bū Isḥāq, 2), Ḥabs Bunān (ʿinda Bū l-Baqā', 2) and Sūq Wardān (ʿinda Bishr, 3)

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  24. 12824LetterT-S Misc.22.191

    Letter from Yeshuʿa al-Ḥāmī to Namir ויריוטי (?). In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  25. 12825Literary textT-S NS 126.39 + ENA 3368.4 + T-S NS 103.9 + T-S NS 146.73

    The first three fragments join directly; T-S NS 146.73 is a probable indirect join. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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  26. 12826Legal documentT-S NS 225.25k

    The fiance is Avraham and the fiancee is ʿĀliya. She is young, having just reached puberty (הגיעה לפירקה).

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  27. 12827List or tableT-S NS 271.191

    , and someone's name (Bū ʿImrān b. al-Shaykh [...]).

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  28. 12828List or tableT-S NS 317.22

    Mentions the death of somebody (all these payments may be related to the aftermath of the death); Masʿūd; the cantors and teacher; and "my passage to Damascus."

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  29. 12829Paraliterary textT-S NS 324.82

    "Written in the name of the youth . . . ha-Levi ha-Yaqar the noble groom . . . Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-ʿŪdī. There are decorations, and the whole fragment is in a mixture of red and black ink.

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  30. 12830Legal documentT-S NS 342.33

    Small fragment of a legal deed regarding sugar refining (ṭabīkh al-sukkar). Involving Yeshuʿa b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen.

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  31. 12831LetterT-S NS J281

    Letter/petition to a certain David ha-Sar in which the writer asks him to intercede on his behalf with al-Sadīd. Dating: late 12th or early 13th century.

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  32. 12832Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1394

    Involves a variety of shareholders in connection with a sum held by a certain Mordekhay, such as: Yiṣḥaq Kohen, Mūsa al-Shāmī, Ibrahīm Ṣaghīr, among others.

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    1.                            ב׳
    2. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה יספר צבאחה נהאר אלאחד תאמן שהר תש[רי]
    3. המב׳ סנה ה׳נ׳ש׳א׳ ליצירה ואלף ץ׳צ׳ב׳ לשטרות חצ'רו לואצ'ע…

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  33. 12833LetterENA 2558.30a

    The letter continues on verso with a "ḥasbī Allāh"; a report on the price of clove; the sender says he didn't go out to Aden this year, but rather sent a bit of lac with Yūsuf b. Abū l-Munā. (This could also mean that he *only* went out to Aden this year with a bit of lac with Yūsuf but that makes less sense.)

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  34. 12834LetterENA 3959.1

    He is apparently a client of Maḥmūd Ketḫüdā, almost certainly an officer in Egypt’s Janissary regiment. […] Thus, this petition probably dates from the middle years of the sixteenth century, and the disposition of the estate almost surely follows on an execution.... Ibn Baghdād’s estate seems to consist largely of clothing or, perhaps more accurately, textiles (Egyptian colloquial aswāb, standard Arabic athwāb, literally ‘robes’). […] Sixteenth-century chronicles note Bedouin populations hiding their textiles or depositing them with peasants, along with livestock and money, when under attack."

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    1. Huve

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    1. Sulṭānım ḥażretlerinin ḫāk-ı pāy-ı şerīflerine ʿarż-ı bende-i bī-miḳdār ve zerre-i ḫāksār budur ki ben ḥaḳīr…

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    1. He [i.e., God]

    Recto, main text

    1. This is the petition of the worthless slave, who is but a speck of dust, to the noble dust under t…

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  35. 12835Legal documentT-S 8K13.11

    Friedman, who edited the document, could not decipher the name or title and suggested אלמשוק, but the reading אבן אלמשנקץ is confirmed by the memorial list which mentions "the house of the sons of al-Mushanqiṣ", headed by Sa'adya, one of whose sons is Shelomo (PGPID 19556), and also other 13th-century documents which mention this family (PGPID 4617, PGPID 4520, PGPID 40229).

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    1. בכך וכך בשבא וג׳ עד עד ס[ו]ף שמותם ש[י]דך ופייס
    2. כלתא יק[י]רתא >עיין בעניינה במקום האחר< >>דאישת<<>>דשמה פלונית דאישתביא<<
    3. >>במדינת עכ…

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  36. 12836LetterT-S Ar.46.97

    .]: 'I desire from your bounty, my lord--since you, together with God, can heal my soul and its organs, so that it can employ itself in the study of the sciences--to prescribe for me what I should eat, since this is necessary, so that I can more easily understand these matters [the philosophical problems described in the first part of the letter]'. That letter has also in common with ours the fact that Maimonides' reply is written on the back of the sheet." - S. […] There are two blocks of text in Maimonides's hand on verso, at ninety degrees to each other. One is almost entirely illegible, does not appear to relate to the question on recto, and (very speculatively) could be a responsum for a legal question that the writer sent separately (though Stern would differ, as he read "dirham of lemon" where I read "shall be bound by a vow").

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    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . אחת שאלתי
    2. מאת ייי אותה אבקש אל ישוב דך נכלם תם
    3. אשתהי תדברני פי מא לאח לי אן אפעלה והו אני
    4. אכון אכל אלקדר…

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    1. . . . One thing I have asked
    2. of the Lord, that will I seek after (Ps. 24:7). Do not turn away the oppressed shamefaced.
    3. I desire you to advise…

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  37. 12837Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Some key details of the case are missing in the opening lines but it seems that the conduct of multiple community members is in question in connection with Jindiya, who is probably the wife of Rabbi Yaʿaqov al-Ḥazzan. In the final lines of the draft entry, the judges tell Yaʿaqov that he "should divorce his wife and give her her ketubba because she does not have any witnesses." […] These issues may relate to (over)consumption of alcohol based on the next record in the court register, where several wine merchants agree to new and more prohibitive terms for buying/selling alcohol after an unnamed crime took place in "the house of the wālī."

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328 recto, folio 47r

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    1. ויכפיהא פגנדיה //אלמד אע׳// כאפת מן אלה שהדת…

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  38. 12838Literary textAIU VI.B.111

    Page 1: Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic giving two prescriptions for pediatric ophthalmia (ramad), the second of which is prefaced, "The doctors in Fusṭāṭ use this. . . " Pages 2–4: Calligraphic and vocalized verses, mostly or all from Psalms.

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  39. 12839State documentAIU XII.3

    At the top, registration marks related to the diwān al-jawālī. Dated: 2 Rajab 502 AH = 5 February 1109 CE.

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  40. 12840Unknown typeBL OR 10599.3

    Mentions accounting and bringing gold to the dār al-[...]. Excerpts: אדם בעולם . . . . חשבון שנחשב . . .

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  41. 12841Legal documentCUL Add.2586

    Deed of sale in which a father sells to his son a quarter of the apartment belonging to him in a house in the al- Mu'tamid passage of the Tujib quarter for seventeen dinars.

    1. מעידים אנו חתומי מטה מה שהיה בפנינו באחד בשבת יום אחד ועשרים מחדש סיון בשנת אתקמד לשטרות
    2. למניננו אשר הורגלנו למנות בו פה בפסטאט מצרים אשר על נהר ניל…

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  42. 12842LetterCUL Or.1081 J7

    From a woman, Umm Shemuel of Tyre (al-Ṣūriyya). Dating: no earlier than ca. 1120 (includes taqbīl clause).

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    1. אלממלוכה אם שמואל אלצוריה
    2. תקבל אלארץ טאיעה ללה תע אמאם מגלס סיידנא
    3. אלנאצר לצעפנא אלמשתרף עלי אמראצנא אלעאלם
    4. במא נחן פיה //אלדיי// געלה אללה תע…

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  43. 12843List or tableENA 1822a.27

    Names include Abū Zikrī, Dāwūd, Benaya, al-ʿAfṣī. Commodities include pepper and lac. Dating: 11th or 12th century.

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  44. 12844Legal documentENA 2727.7a

    Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), regarding a property in Qasr al-Sham'. One of the parties is a convert to Islam.

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  45. 12845Legal documentENA 2743.2

    Marriage agreement of Perahya b. Natan and Sitt al-Ghiyār, daughter of Mevorakh. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 405, and IV, p. 342, and from Marina Rustow [reading the second half of the bride's name])

    1. בסימנ טבא
    2. אלחתן פרחיה בר נתן אלחיפי סת אלג. . בת מבורך ש[.
    3. אלמקדם ארבעין ומוכר כמסין [. . . .] עצאבה . . .קד[הב
    4. מכללה שויה כמסין דינ זוגין דהב ס[א]ד…

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  46. 12846Legal documentENA 3905.1

    Mentions the Mālikī court (majlis al-ḥukm) in the Ṣāliḥī mosque in l. 2. Needs further examination.

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  47. 12847Literary textENA 3916.10

    An extract from the Egyptian-origin physician ʿAlī b. Riḍwān's (d. 1060s) citation of Galen's views on the four humours and the causes and effects of imbalances between them.

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  48. 12848LetterENA 4020.59

    On the other side, there is a title of a piyyut for Yom Kippur written by Rav Nisi (רב ניסי) Aluf

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  49. 12849LetterENA NS 8.31

    Legible phrases: "...idol worship... I have no way to... all kinds of death... he behaved excessively... and peace.

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  50. 12850List or tableENA NS 40.13

    One of the headers on recto may refer to "the foundry" (al-masbak). On verso there is the glyph. At upper left a year may be named.

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