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  1. 12951Unknown typeT-S AS 184.334

    Fragment with unidentified Arabic script, possibly poetry.

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  2. 12952Unknown typeENA NS 71.9

    Fragment of a text in Ottoman Turkish, probably a legal document or petition/letter with legal content. The opening lines mention the Ottoman legal system and …

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  3. 12953List or tableENA 3314.3

    Late list of commodities, with one entry instead listing the name: Ibrahīm al-Fīlālī. The dating is likely 16th or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some …

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  4. 12954LetterT-S AS 149.87

    Letter or note in Arabic script, fragmentary and faded, difficult to read. Seems to mention an Ibn Salama (l. 1). Also seems to contain a …

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  5. 12955Legal documentMoss. VII,37.1

    Legal document concerning the appointment by the court of an agent for orphans, who will collect what is due them from their mother when they …

    1. אן . . . . א וראינא תאכיר דלך וראו איצא עמומתהם דלך ורציו בה ורגענא
    2. . . . ] . וכם אלא מא קאלת אלאבא ועלמתנא והו קולהם פי אלפקה מאן דמיחייבי
    3. שב]ועה ל…

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  6. 12956Legal documentCUL Add.3417

    Recto: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Av 1543 Seleucid = 19 July 1232 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The young man …

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  7. 12957List or tableT-S NS 306.52

    Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if state or private. Mentions a couple of individuals, one of them is a certain al-Ṭarābulusī. Needs examination.

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  8. 12958Unknown typeENA NS 76.293

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  9. 12959LetterT-S 8J25.14

    Letter from Marduk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1046 (Gil). Information about a shipment that is still is Rashīd and …

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    1. כתאבי יאסיידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה

    2. וסעאדתה מן אלאסכנדריה אלנצף מן כסלו ערפך אללה ברכתה תם

    3. [אעל]מך אן כתבת לך עי…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך
    2. ואת אושרך, מאלכסנדריה, במחצית כסלו, יודיעך אלוהים …

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  10. 12960LetterT-S 24.38

    Verso: Mysterious page of notes in Judaeo-Arabic in at least two different hands. The items on this page include two recipes for staining (or dying? …

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  11. 12961Paraliterary textT-S K5.27

    T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …

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  12. 12962Paraliterary textT-S 20.111

    Poem in honor of the circumcision of Netanʾel, the younger brother of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. With much praise of the Nagid himself, especially …

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  13. 12963List or tableT-S Ar.30.292

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: first half of the 19th century based on the mention of Moshe Ben-Naʿim and the paleography (which …

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  14. 12964Unknown typeNLI 577.10/4

    Fragment in Judaeo-Arabic listing several names (e.g. Hilāl, Yūsuf, al-Skandarānī) and perhaps including names of witnesses. Needs examination.

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  15. 12965LetterAIU VII.E.42

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Menahem b. Yosef is named in the first line. ASE.

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  16. 12966LetterT-S 10J20.15

    Letter written in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic script. Various blessings and Bible citations are rendered in Hebrew script, whereas the main part is …

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  17. 12967LetterFrankfurt 24

    Verso seems to be comprised of two or three documents pasted together. One of them looks like an Arabic (state?) document. Another looks like an …

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  18. 12968Unknown typeENA NS 85.1171

    Table of some kind, with a grid and circles that appear sporadically throughout the cells. The table's purpose is unclear.

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  19. 12969LetterT-S 6J9.10 + T-S 6J10.13

    Recto and verso: Begging letter from Baqāʾ the cantor to the Nagid David Maimonides (who served intermittently between 1237–1300 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Touching on various …

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  20. 12970Literary textBodl. MS heb. d 33/1

    Masora.

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  21. 12971List or tableENA NS 83.252

    Extensive accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Large table, on both sides of the folio, with numerous names and numbers. Needs further examination.

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  22. 12972LetterBodl. MS heb. f 34/44v–46

    Copy of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to the community in Fez. The beginning of the 11th century, handwriting of Sahlan b. Avraham. …

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    1.         ישאו אחינו ש ממנו ומן יש סופר היש 
    2. בחורנו המהיר בתו יומן ר> הסדרים ור> המדרש 
    3. והפרקים והסיומין והסיעות ומן הא…

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  23. 12973LetterT-S AS 177.602

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "What have you done with the fūṭa?... please try to send it to her..."

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  24. 12974LetterMoss. III,72.2

    Recto: Fragment from the top of a letter or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions silver and sending something (עלי אלפצה אלדי לל . . . שי …

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  25. 12975State documentT-S Ar.38.95

    Fiscal or para-fiscal document (i.e., prepared by state officials or by the Jewish community for the government). List of indigent people equally divided between natives …

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    1. العديمين من اهل مصر والقاهرة الذي لا
    2. يقدروا على شي ويجب تاخرهم لاول السنة 
    3. ماىة وخمسين والذي تحتمل حالهم 
    4. ان لا يوخذ منهم اكثر من ديناريـ[ـن]

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    1. The impoverished of the people of Fustat and Cairo who
    2. cannot pay anything, whose payment must be postponed until the beginning of the year:
    3. O…

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  26. 12976Unknown typeENA NS 76.286

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  27. 12977Legal documentENA NS 3.9

    Marriage document. Fragment from a ketubah. No names or dates are preserved. Contains a few words from the monogamy clause. Hebrew and Aramaic. AA

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  28. 12978List or tableENA NS 12.26

    Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArus b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; alum; barley; Saʿīd; and the term dār several times.

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  29. 12979Literary textT-S 8J31.1

    IB II, 37. Poem by Avraham Ibn Yiju praising Madmun b. Ḥasan as a defender of the faith (and as a defender of Avraham Ibn …

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    ולה איצא ימרח אלשיך מצמון נגיד עם יי 

    בר יפת ירום הודו ויגדל יקרו 

    1. אני אשיר באיש עשיר נפש ועוד אכשיר 

    2. ואצפצף דברי שיר 

    3. כהימן וכלכול ו…

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  30. 12980Literary textENA NS 76.360

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  31. 12981LetterENA NS 83.158

    Recto: Petition or letter from Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ the Rabbanite Jew (al-Isrāʾīlī al-Rabbānī). Only the upper left corner has survived, with later jottings in Arabic …

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  32. 12982Literary textT-S AS 181.179

    Literary text, mainly in Ladino.

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  33. 12983Legal documentT-S AS 225.64

    Small and damaged fragment from a legal deed. Refers to Monday, the 19th or 29th of a month. The name Maḥāsin is preserved. Might also …

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  34. 12984LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/66–67

    IB I, 13. Draft of a letter from Yosef Lebdi, the India trader, to Ḥasan b. Bundar, 'the representative of merchants' in Aden, dealing with …

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    1. בשמך רחמ' 
    2. כאן קד תקדם כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך 
    3. אלגליל אבי עלי מר' ור' יפת הזקן היקר הנכבד
    4. שר הקהלות ואדאם תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה 
    5. וכ…

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    1. In Your name, O Merciful.
    2. Previously, a letter had been sent by me \\to your noble excellency//—may God lengthen the life of my lord, the i…

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  35. 12985Legal documentT-S Ar.20.24

    Recto: Legal document in Arabic script, probably a deed of sale. Mentions other landmarks including the house of Bū ʿAlī al-Urjuwānī and that of Fāris …

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  36. 12986Legal documentJRL B 7126

    Legal fragment, probably, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Mneashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very few words are preserved: bi-danānīr... ḥisābunā... raʾs al-māl...

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  37. 12987LetterT-S 8J18.18

    Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to his business associate Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim, in Fustat. Advising him to dispose of goods costing …

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    1. כתאבי ישיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
    2. ואתם נעמה עליך לד' בקי מן שבט וקד תקדם עני אליך עדה
    3. כתב ארג'ו וצולהא אליך וקד טמן אללה ק…

    ע׳׳א:

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך,
    2. ויהיה חסדו שלם עליך, בכ׳׳ז בשבט. שלחתי לך לפני כן מכתבי אחדים…

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  38. 12988LetterENA NS 7.41

    Recto with address on verso: Letter from a woman (ʿammat al-dayyān) to her brother-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. She asks him to deliver some goods or money …

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  39. 12989Legal documentT-S 12.463

    Legal document fragment, probably late 11th century, since witnessed by Yakhin b. Netanel who also signed T-S 13J5.2 ca.1085. Other witnesses: Shemuel b. Mevorakh; Avraham …

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  40. 12990Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.19

    IB V, 46. Legal record (#46). Discharge of debt. The court ordered Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān al-Kohen to purchase 1/8 of a house for 50 dinars …

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  41. 12991Literary textHUC 1296

    Piyyuṭ probably for the ʿAvoda section of the Yom Kippur service. Looks like the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi.

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  42. 12992Legal documentENA NS 83.376

    Brief note in Arabic script. Beginning with the glyph. Likely an order of payment, but it is difficult to read a single word.

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  43. 12993Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J249

    Formulary for a legal document of ḥaliẓa (rejection of levirate marriage). On vellum.

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  44. 12994LetterBL OR 5566D.31

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic probably from Ibrahim to Hayya ha-Kohen the teacher in Palermo (i.e. same writer and addressee as T-S 8J16.25). Nothing of substance …

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  45. 12995List or tableT-S NS 99.28

    Table of Judaeo-Arabic prognostications in a rough black grid. Possibly medieval.

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  46. 12996Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J43

    Power of attorney embedded in a letter. Yakhin b. Elʿazar of Minyat Zifta writes to Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā and instructs them to pay …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך
    2. ואדאם עזה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה
    3. ען] חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד אללה
    4. יסאהל קרב אלאשתמאע ברחמתה אנה ולי דלך
    5. ואלק…

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  47. 12997Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 68/102

    Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1188–1288 CE. Probably in the second half of this range, to judge by handwriting (which …

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  48. 12998LetterT-S NS 232.81

    Letter of recommendation, or maybe conveying the arrival of a certain Najīb al-Dawla. The writer introduces Najīb al-Dawla to the addressee and conveys his desire …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اتا نجيب الدولة على مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
    3. وتايده وسعادته ونعمته يسل الحاجة واذا عرضت
    4. وعيلتي(؟) عليك يسل حضوره …

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  49. 12999LetterT-S 6J7.19

    Fragment of a communal letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The middles of four lines are preserved, wide spacing between …

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  50. 13000Unknown typeENA 3970.23

    Arabic script (VMR)

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