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  1. 12851Legal documentT-S AS 153.110

    Minute fragment with only a few words in Hebrew (נצב איש . . . הם צואות(?) . . . לא ליתן כלום). Probably from a …

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  2. 12852LetterJTS MS 8254.12

    Recto: Letter fragment, probably in the hand of the judge Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq, addressed to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the arrival …

    1. [                                             ] תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדוננו נגידנו
    2. [                                      מרד]כי הזמן…
    1. [. . .] תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדוננו נגידנו
    2. [. . . מרד]כי הזמן ועם קדושים נאמן אור עולם ופלאו ממזרח
    3. [שמש עד מבואו עבדו מנשק את] רגליו …

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  3. 12853LetterT-S 16.216

    Letter from David Kohen to the Nagid R. Natan Sholal, the penultimate Nagid of Egypt. Dating: end of the 15th century.

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    1. הוא אדונינו כג[ק]
    2. מר ורב אור עינינו מ
    3. נתן הכהן הנגיד... רועה....
    4. המן מרדכי הזמן ישמרו צורו ויהיה בעזרו ויר[ום
    5. הודו וירבה הדרו וינשא מעלתו ויי…

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  4. 12854Legal documentT-S 12.688

    Ketubbah of Hillel b. Yeshuʿa (groom), dated [..] Tishri 4[... A.M.]. It is probably a ketuba de'irkasa - replacement for a lost ketubah based on …

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  5. 12855List or tableT-S AS 207.115

    Much damaged, faded and rubbed. Seems like a list. On verso might be a letter or other document. The state of preservation males it almost …

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  6. 12856Literary textMIAC 297

    Selections from the poetry of Ḥayyim Nahman Bialik – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 297) – in Yiddish. (information from Ḥassanein …

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  7. 12857Legal documentT-S NS J2

    A mother buys her little son the privilege of reading the book of Esther in public, Damira in the Nile Delta, February/March 1244.

    1. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאוסט מן חודש אדר שנת
    2. אתקנה לשטרות בעיר דמירה הקטנה דעל
    3. נילוס נהרא מותבה חצר אלשיך אבו אלפכר
    4. בן אבו אלפרג נע ואקנא מנה קניין שלם ק…

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    In the second decade of the month of Adar, in the year 1555 of the era of the documents, in the town of Little Damīra, which is situated on the…

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  8. 12858Literary textJRL A 764

    List of parshiyot.

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  9. 12859Unknown typeT-S AS 186.15

    Minute fragment in Arabic, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

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  10. 12860Unknown typeJRL A 1599

    Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.

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  11. 12861Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 176.446

    Receipt or order of payment. The name ʿAbdallāh b. Musāfir appears.

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  12. 12862Legal documentENA NS 54.26

    Legal fragment. Mentions a ḥerem stam and coral and various sums of money. Mentions the year 1410 Sel. (1098-1099 CE). Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel. …

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  13. 12863LetterT-S Ar.38.100

    Letter from someone, probably in Barqa, to his or her "father" the judge Mūsā b. ʿImrān (or else this Mūsā is simply mentioned in the …

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  14. 12864List or tableJRL C 69

    List of names and monetary contributions received by the Rambam Synagogue congregation in Cairo (ק׳׳ק הרמבם). Dated 5603 AM which is 1842/1843 CE. The heading …

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  15. 12865List or tableJRL B 3897

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as Abū l-Faraj, Abū Saʿd, and Munajjā.

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  16. 12866Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.60

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and two ūqiyyas of sorrel. (Information …

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  17. 12867List or tableT-S AS 183.259

    Accounts, probably.

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  18. 12868Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79.27

    Fragment, acknowledgment of debt by an agent to an investor while forming a partnership. Yosef ha-Kohen was appointed to act as an agent of b. …

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    1. 1 ( )קת אכת( )
    2. 2 ( ) אלמעזלין מן אלמסלמין מבלגה ( )
    3. 3 ( )א דכרת וקאל לא סביל להא ( )
    4. 4 ( ) אלא בעד אסתיפא דינהא ( )
    5. 5 ( )ה דנן וקאל אמא חאל אלמ…

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  19. 12869List or tableT-S Ar.34.147

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions 'the Turk' (אלתוגרמי). Dated in the lower left corner of the verso, possibly with a month and year but these …

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  20. 12870Paraliterary textT-S K25.77

    Astrological or astronomical table.

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  21. 12871LetterT-S AS 157.68 + T-S AS 157.67

    Letter, probably, though the layout is literary. Might be a literary text conveying the text of a letter. The addressee is Yaʿqūb ("yā muʿallim Yaʿqūb"). …

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  22. 12872LetterT-S NS 320.84

    Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to [Mevorakh] b. Seʿadya. Essentially nothing is preserved apart from these names. (Information from Cohen, Self-Government, p. 243n110, where similar …

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  23. 12873LetterT-S Ar.30.103

    Note (the sender calls it a 'khidma') in Arabic script. Instructing the addressee to give 'the thing which I told you about' to the bearer …

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  24. 12874LetterT-S 8J18.12

    Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to someone with the title al-Shaykh al-Rashīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1218–38 CE, based on the name of the …

    1. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ וינהי בין ידין חצרה מולאי וסיידי אלשיך
    2. אלאגל אלמאלך אלמנעם אלמתפצל אלגליל אלפאצל אלכרים
    3. אלגליל אלסייד אלנביל אלעאלם אלרחים אלרשיד…

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  25. 12875LetterT-S 8.35

    Letter from Sason b. Shemuel to a notable named Elʿazar (or perhaps [...] b. Elʿazar). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender alludes to his bad …

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  26. 12876Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 11v-12r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v

    1. הבת הנז׳ קודם כניסה לחופה נתחייב למסור להר׳ אליהו כל החפצים הנז׳׳ל ואין לה בהם שום מין כח וזכות
    2. כלל בעולם - והודה…

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  27. 12877Legal documentT-S 13J25.22

    Copy of a gift deed concerning properties that are part of the estate of the deceased Avraham Castro. The original gift deed was issued on …

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    1.                                          בע׳׳ה
    2. ...]..ס -- בהיות שחזקת שבדרב אל מ[ע]לם(?) [קש]טרו זלה׳׳ה שהם המרבע שהיה [ד]ר בו מקדמת דנא החכ…

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  28. 12878LetterT-S NS 97.52

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half only). The sender is planning to travel to al-Shām the next day and he asks for money to cover …

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  29. 12879LetterENA 2558.2

    IB VII, 52. Recto: Letter likely sent from Aden to Fustat. (The locations are not specified in the document; this is Goitein's assessment.) In Judaeo-Arabic, …

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  30. 12880LetterReinach I

    A long and flowery communal, formal letter in Hebrew, addressed to the elders of the community of Malīj, probably from the leaders of the Jewish …

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  31. 12881Literary textJTS MS 8254.1

    Literary texts. Possibly a Maimonides autograph. See FGP for identifications.

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  32. 12882LetterENA 3845.4 + ENA NS 16.2

    Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic comprising the lower right corner of recto. The handwriting is elegant and distinctive. Dating: likely 12th century. Various …

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  33. 12883Unknown typeENA 2481.24

    Blank. May belong together with ENA 2481.21 and/or ENA 2481.22.

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  34. 12884Unknown typeAIU VII.E.39

    Possibly a Hebrew letter. Late. Needs further examination.

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  35. 12885LetterT-S Misc.35.4

    Letter by Israel Gaon b. Shemuel b. Hophni to an unknown community.

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    1. ולכן אנו חייבין להודות לו ככת'
    2. הודו ליי כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו
    3. ותחלת טובו וחסדו כי בראנו
    4. חיים מתאוים ומתענגים ככת'
    5. חיים וחסד עשית …

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  36. 12886LetterT-S AS 202.334

    Business letter in Ladino. Very faded but the paper is fully preserved. Mentions Yisraʾel Ashkenazi. Needs examination.

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  37. 12887Legal documentT-S AS 147.132

    Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: 16th century. Debt contract in which Masʿūd acknowledges a debt of 23 ducats (peraḥim zahav dīwānī). Also mentions …

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  38. 12888LetterMoss. II,182

    Interesting fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with wide space between the lines, addressing al-Mukhtār Muntajab al-Dawla Badr. There is a date and …

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  39. 12889Literary textT-S AS 165.143

    Small fragment containing Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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  40. 12890LetterT-S AS 151.131

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf. CUL …

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  41. 12891LetterT-S AS 152.317

    Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic to "our master" (sayyidnā/adonenu). Probably a letter of appeal for charity or help. Verso: Arabic jottings. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  42. 12892Legal documentT-S NS 324.123

    Bifolio. One page (the right side of recto) contains a draft or copy of an Aramaic deed of gift given to a woman named Karīma.

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  43. 12893LetterBL OR 10587.3 + T-S Ar.36.137

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with interspersed Arabic script (header, footer, and sliding blessings). Eloquent and formal style, possibly copied from or for a literary source. Seems …

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  44. 12894List or tableT-S Ar.30.284

    Account, day-to-day, of the income of a textile store. Location: Fustat. Dating: Jumada I and II 393 AH, which corresponds to March/April 1003 CE. After …

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    1. תבת מא תחצל מן מביע אלדכאן
    2. בנצר אבו עלי למדה אולה ארבע
    3. עשר בקין מן גמאדי אלאכר ואכרהא
    4. יום אלאחד לארבע כלון מן גמאדי
    5. אלאכר שגצ קבץ דלך אב…

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  45. 12895Legal documentBL OR 10578A.32

    Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment, containing the last couple lines and at least one witness statement.

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  46. 12896List or tableT-S AS 146.393

    Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Recto lists a sum of 32 dīnārs owed to Abū l-Makārim (well known from the corpus of …

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  47. 12897State documentENA 3905.3

    Drafts or copies of phrases from official correspondence. Medieval-era. The two main sections both seem incomplete and unrelated to each other. The first has to …

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  48. 12898LetterDK 306

    Letter addressed to a certain Daniel. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. The sender asks to be forwarded any letter or news …

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  49. 12899Literary textENA NS 76.16

    Probably literary.

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  50. 12900Legal documentCUL Or.1080 4.45

    Fragment of a quittance (שטר פיצוי). On parchment. Dating: maybe 11th century.

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