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  1. 12901LetterT-S 13J16.3

    He induced an orphan boy to allow him to act as his representative against his mother, who then complained about this. […] The elders of the community have now sent a report (mahdar) to 'our lord' via someone traveling (to the capital), and the addressee will learn all about what the evildoers have done. The Barqi Jews refuse to have anything to do with the person because of his stupidity (jahl)).

    1. [ אל] כניסיה מחלקת ואנא אהדי אלקהל
    2. ואסוסה אלי אן טמע פיי וצאר יגבהני באלקביח ואתגאצא ענה
    3. ואקול לעלה ירתגע והו ינתסב אלי אלברקיין ואקול אלוקת צעב
    4. ולי…

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  2. 12902LetterT-S 13J20.7

    The Judeo-Arabic section provides the news that Moshe has set sail, collected 17 dinars, sent letters via Avraham Ibn al-Qurayẓ and Avraham al-Mahdawī. When Moshe had sent his previous letters from Tyre, he was terribly ill, and people had despaired of his recovery; but on the fifth day, God acted for the sake of His name, and Moshe was cured (see 2 Kings 20:5, "on the third day I will cure you").

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. שוש אשיש בי' תגל נפשי באי כי הלבישני בגדי ישע מעיל צדקה וג'
    3. אים מושיב יחידים ביתה מוציא אסירים בכושרות ⟦ו ⟧
    4. אים לנו מחסה ועוז עזרה בצר…

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    1. הריני מודיע לך, אחי, שאני
    2. כבר החלטתי, אם ירצה ה', לבוא. ולקחתי פטור שונה מן הפטור של בנים,
    3. כי גם הוא עולה אל פסטאט. וכבר…

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  3. 12903LetterT-S 13J21.18

    Hillel, the deputy overseer (nā'ib al-nāẓir) of Bahnasa. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] She reports in the margin on the sad condition of Sitt Ikhtiyār, who has been bedbound (rāqida lāzima) for three months with hectic illness (ʿillat al-diqq). "There is nothing left in her but that we say, 'right away, right away'"—does this mean they wait on her hand and foot?

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. לו דהבת אן אשרח לך יא כאלי אחיאך אללה מא [
    3. ולא חמלתה מכאתבה ואלי מן [ידה] מקאליד אל[
    4. שמל אלסאר ברחמתה פהו קריב אלאגאבה ומ[
    5. שהור כואמל ואנא …

    Translated by Amir Ashur and Benjamin M. Outhwaite.

    In Your name, O Merciful One.

    If I tried to express to you, my uncle—may God preserve you—what [h…

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  4. 12904LetterT-S 16.100

    Information from Ben Outhwaite, "The letter of ‘The Convert’: T-S 16.100," Cambridge Genizah Research Unit Fragment of the Month (July 2020). See also T-S NS 323.31 + T-S 12.532 (PGPID 7257), written by the same scribe and likely referring to the same events.

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  5. 12905Legal documentT-S Ar.38.11

    On this document, see also N. Golb, ‘A Marriage Deed from ‘Warduniā of Baghdad,’ Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43.2 (1984), pp. 152–56.

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  6. 12906Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.71 + T-S Ar.30.81

    Specific ones conjured include the Cloudy Maymun, the Black Persian Maymun, Shamhorash, and 'Abd al-Rahman. It continues, "O tribe of the Jinn... residents of the wind and the valleys and the deserts and the graves...." […] There is at least one missing line between the two fragments (T-S AS 145.71 + T-S Ar.30.81), but the subject matter of recto and verso are exact matches. Join: Alan Elbaum. Cf. T-S AS 170.173 + T-S AS 170.174 (PGPID 38415).

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  7. 12907LetterT-S AS 166.174

    "As for the female slave (al-waṣīfa), we have not found anything"—it is not clear if they are looking to purchase a slave or if they are looking for one who has run away. […] The final two lines are a complaint about the sender's condition (loneliness and ḍīq al-ṣadr ('constriction of the chest')). AA/ASE

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  8. 12908Legal documentT-S J1.42

    In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods which he sent to the Maghrib in partnership with ʿArūs b. […] ʿArūs claims that he has fully settled all accounts. If ʿArūs proves to be lying, then he will be considered accursed and will not earn merit (?

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  9. 12909Legal documentT-S NS 321.54

    Testimony confirming that a freedwoman named Mubāraka, originally from the lands of Rūm (Byzantium), who had converted to Judaism after being freed by Ibn al-Watīd, a former dyer, may marry any Jewish man she pleases. […] With this document, he receives a guarantee from the mother of someone with the official government title Saʿd al-Mulk to vouch for Mubāraka should difficulties arise.

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    1. בחד בשבא דהוא עשרין ותלתא יומי בירח אב ד[שנת אלפא]
    2. וארבע מ[איה ו]תרתין שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטא[ט מצר]
    3. דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה [דכל…

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    1. On Sunday, the 23rd day of the month of Av of [the year one thousand]
    2. four h[undred] forty-two according to the calendar to which we are accus…

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  10. 12910List or tableT-S NS J317

    The price: 5 1/4 [dirhems]. Also beef, five [pounds. The price:] 2 dirhems and 4 fals.

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  11. 12911Paraliterary textBL OR 5565C.17

    Recto: An amulet or talisman for protection, beginning with a chapter on charms and protections "bāb al-ḥirz l-aʿẓam". Verso: Magical recipe or charm involving an egg, writing something 49 times on it which leads to someone's birth in hell.

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  12. 12912LetterBL OR 5566C.3

    Mentions receiving the addressee's letter sent with 'the teacher' (al-melammed); "dogs" and people who are "hungry and naked."

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  13. 12913LetterBL OR 10578C.6

    Refers to the addressee's benefaction and to something which occurred to 'the nation' (al-umma).

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  14. 12914List or tableBL OR 12369.22

    Late writing exercises and sums, with a note on verso mentioning the neighborhood of the Karaites (Ḥārat al-Qara'iyyīn) in connection with Aṣlān Kohen and David Ibn Darwīsh.

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  15. 12915Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 14.25 + CUL Or.1080 14.13

    Mysterious strings of Arabic letters and numbers along with two diagrams. One diagram has a caption, stating that it protects a person against iron and guns (banādiq) and spears and anything else which a person fears.

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  16. 12916LetterCUL Or.1080 15.54

    Very efaced letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shelomo al-Maghrebi to a family member. He may be trying to decide if he will come to Fustat or not and seeking the recipient's help in something.

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  17. 12917Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J49

    Court record containing a complete list of items of a trousseau (without prices) returned to Sitt al-Hasab on the order of the Nagid. Dated Tishri 1458/ September 1146.

    1. אלדי תסלם אלשיך אבו אלסרור רב פרחיה
    2. ה]לוי הזקן בן רב בנימין הזקן שצ
    3. ב]אמר הדרת הנגידות ה ירומם
    4. ואמר בתי דינים מן אלנדוניא אלמכתצה
    5. בסת אלחסב אבנה שרנ…

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  18. 12918LetterCUL Or.1080 J155

    Very little is preserved: only the first line, the address, and the last word in the right margin (al-ḍurūra / "distress" / "need").

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  19. 12919State documentDK 246.2

    Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Rabīʿ I 404. Written one day after PGPID 35734.

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  20. 12920List or tableENA 2099.15

    Items include three kinds of aloe (ʿūd), ambergris (ʿanbar), perfume (? ʿabir), ben oil (bān), and two kinds of saffron.

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  21. 12921State documentENA 2591.3

    The preserved text reads as "wa-l-īrād ḥāfiẓan lī amwāl al-dīwān bādilan fī ".

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  22. 12922LetterENA 2808.40b

    Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the ashrafī is mentioned– a coinage type that was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. The sender orders a raṭl of cheese (last line).

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  23. 12923LetterENA 3017.13

    The writer mentions his heartsickness and praying for the addressees over the Torah scroll in Kanīs al-Shāmiyyīn and in Cairo.

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  24. 12924Legal documentENA 3901.7

    Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Involves Yaʿaqov ʿAllūsh and Raḥamim Amarillo and a business deal that might involve selling coral, valued at 25 fonduclis, on commission.

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  25. 12925LetterENA 3917.5

    Dealing with business matters, mentions Indian coral (marjān al-hind), and lead (raṣāṣ). Needs examination.

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  26. 12926State documentENA 3971.23

    Some contain the mystery glyph (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971.13–24, 31 and 34.

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  27. 12927LetterENA NS 8.34

    Includes the phrase "I would have made him vow." Regards to all of "aṣḥābunā" present with the addressee. The name Yehuda b.

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  28. 12928LetterENA NS 14.25

    Tiny fragment: preserves only the opening and part of the Arabic-script address. The hand is almost certainly the same as several other known letters: see tag.

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  29. 12929State documentENA NS 24.11

    "irtifāʿ mā. . . lā yadillu ʿalayhi. . . ʿabduhu." Reused for Hebrew literary text (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63 and many others).

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    1. ارتفاع ما يتولاه ولايدل عليه حسابه ولامير[
    2.                                                  ]عبده

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  30. 12930Unknown typeENA NS 51.14

    Verso: Note in Arabic script in a beautiful chancery hand: "That which is recited on Ruʾus al-Ashhā[.]." (Rosh Ḥodesh? In which case it should be ashhur or shuhūr, but it is not clear what else it could say.)

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  31. 12931LetterF 1908.44DD + F 1908.44BB

    Dating: No earlier than the 15th century, based on the use of muayyadis (minted by al-Mu'ayyad, beginning in 1415 CE). and ashrafīs.

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  32. 12932Legal documentHalper 402

    A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of her brother, Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa al-Bazzāz. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)

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  33. 12933Legal documentHUC 1016

    Shela ha-Levi (maybe the same as in Halper 391 and JRL Gaster heb. ms 1861/14). Wife: Sitt al-Rashīda bt. Moshe ha-Levi.

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  34. 12934LetterJRL A 1784

    Mentions "their mother (sitthumā)" and Saʿd al-Mulk. AA. ASE.

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  35. 12935LetterJRL B 2878

    Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes David in it.

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  36. 12936Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Genizah Ar. 590

    In Judaeo-Arabic. "Our master al-Rayyis Abū l-Makārim" orders the addressee to give a quarter wayba (of wheat?)

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  37. 12937LetterMoss. IV,21.4

    The writer asks the addressee (al-Muʿallim) to go to Abū l-Ḥasan, because the writer needs him to do something for him.

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  38. 12938LetterMoss. IV,60.3

    Probably addressed to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Refers to someone coming to Cairo and possibly mentions a stable (אלאסטבל).

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  39. 12939Unknown typeMoss. Xa,3.93

    Legible words on recto include "al-iḥtimāl" and "fulāna aw fulāna." A phrase is crossed out on verso.

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  40. 12940Legal documentSassoon 1055b

    Document that is a continuation of Sassoon 1055A. Aharon al-Araki, who received a part of a house in Sana'a, sells his part to his brother Salam and his niece Badra for 150 Rial (75 for each); 1667.

    1. בתרין בשבא דהוא תשעה יומין לירח כסלו שנת אלפא ותשע מאה ושבעין ותמני שנין לשטרי [במדינת
    2. צנעא דעל בירין דמין נבעין מותבה ביומא דנן אתא לקדמנא אנן סהדי…

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  41. 12941List or tableT-S 6J2.15 + T-S 10K8.13

    Verso: accounts, mentioning a variety of materia medica, such as rose, Levantine coriander, Celebes sandalwood (ṣandal maqāṣīrī), mastic gum, musk, bamboo chalk, aniseed, chebulic myrobalan, Indian myrobalan, aloeswood, and wild spikenard (asārūn). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  42. 12942LetterT-S 6J6.17

    The cantor Abu al-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin) asks a father when he wants to celebrate his son's circumcision.

    1. עבדהא אלחזן
    2. בו אלמגד
    3. אברך אלאולאד יקר אלעיון
    4. בנצרה כתר אללה מן אל ביתה
    5. אלשריפה ממלוכה מהני
    6. לה באלולד אלנגיב אלסעיד יהי
    7. אח לשבעה וגם לשמונה אמן
    8. אעלם …

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  43. 12943LetterT-S 6J11.9

    Two lines further down, mentions a term for a doctor or wound specialist (al-jarāʾiḥī) and the number 70. Needs further examination.

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  44. 12944Legal documentT-S 8.92

    Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī, a virgin. Location: Fustat. Date: Tammuz 14[..]

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  45. 12945LetterT-S 8J7.17

    Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a third person. The letter is torn off here, and the bottom part is missing.

    1. בשמך רחמ שאכר תפצלה אבו אל
    2. מושב אדוננו ורבינו אליה הדיין המגדול ישמריהו צור
    3. עולמים אעלם חצרתהא אן אלשוי אלחריר אלקרמז
    4. אלדי ענדך אלמפתול ואלשקיק תסיי…

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  46. 12946Legal documentT-S 8J11.11

    Mentions people including al-Dhahabī, Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (called Zayn), and Ibn Ghazāl.

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    1. [ ]ון הנקרא זין דנן והי[ ]
    2. אלדהבי נע ואודעו בעד ופאתה [ ]
    3. מ צדקה הכהן הנקרא זין דנן מן ג[ ]
    4. וראתהא בעדהא פי דלך עליה א[ ]
    5. אכתלאף אגנאסהא ואנוא…

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  47. 12947LetterT-S 10J12.19

    Toviyya informs Eliyyahu that he found no buyers for lac in al-Mahalla and so he sold it in Damietta. Reused on verso for a poem in Judaeo-Arabic about mortality.

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    1. אנא מהני לחצרה אלמולי אלאגל אלתלמיד אלגליל כ'ק' מר' ור' אליה השר היקר
    2. הח' והנ' בהדא אלשהר אלשריף ירח האיתנים תכתב בספר חיים בספר
    3. זכרון ותבושר …

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    1. I greet the dignity of the august patron, the great scholar, the honor and holiness of our master and teacher Elijah, the dear prince,

    2. the …

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  48. 12948Legal documentT-S 12.70

    T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Husband: ʿAmmār al-Khāṭirī. Witnesses: Yefet Kohen b. ʿEli; Mevorakh b.

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  49. 12949Legal documentT-S 12.516

    Verso: Formulary for a deathbed release (or at least a release in the setting of old age and frailty) granted by a woman to a male in-law. All the names are left as place fillers. Location: Fustat.

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  50. 12950LetterT-S 12.840

    In the last line refers to 'kitāb mawlāy al-sayyid,' probably a prior letter from the addressee.

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