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  1. 13301LetterBodl. MS heb. b 13/52

    Family letter from Natan b. Yehuda (Alexandria, ca. 1160) to Moshe b. Ṣemaḥ and his brother (Fustat), the writer’s cousins-in-law. Natan b. Yehuda reports that …

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  2. 13302LetterT-S AS 147.97

    A letter, torn on top and bottom from the widow of [Moshe] Kastro to her brother Yaakov Toledano in Alexandria. 16th century. She report various …

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  3. 13303State documentT-S AS 181.2

    Fragment of a petition. Hard to piece together the story but contains various interesting references such as to the judges (al-quḍāt) and to عبد يشوع …

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  4. 13304LetterMoss. IV,11.1

    Copy of a letter sent from one of the Syrian communities to Damascus. In Hebrew. Conveying their distress at the imminent arrival and encampment of …

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  5. 13305State documentBodl. MS heb. f 107/36

    State document, in Arabic script in a chancery hand. The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "wa-lammā uṭliqat al-[...]... wa-ʿalā kāfat al-mamālīk...." Reused for Hebrew …

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  6. 13306Legal documentBL OR 10118.6

    Late proclamation, on vellum, ornate, in flowery Hebrew, with remnants of a black and red illumination at the top of the page. It opens with …

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  7. 13307List or tableT-S NS 320.112

    List of names with numbers. Probably an alms distribution list. The scribe who wrote the two lines in bolder ink may be known—the hand seems …

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  8. 13308Legal documentMoss. VII,45.1

    Two fragmentary legal documents on both sides of the fragment. Recto is dated "[14]96 Seleucid which equals to the month of Ṣafar [5]81 AH", which …

    1. ללשיך אבו אלמכארם אלמדכור ולוראתה [..
    2. ולא שרט יפסכהא ושרטנא עליה אנ[..
    3. בית דין ושיוך אלגמאעה ללסכן פיה [..
    4. עין מצריה ונצף ותמן דינאר [..
    5. דינאר פי בק…

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  9. 13309Literary textMoss. Xa,3.17

    Recto: Ottoman-era manuscript title page (?) in Judaeo-Arabic with an owner's stamp. Verso: Arabic-script text dated 19 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1094 AH (9 December 1683). Needs …

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  10. 13310LetterT-S 13J18.17

    Letter of recommendation for charity. Addressed to the ‘Head of the Congregations’ Yakhin b. Netanʾel, in Fusṭāṭ. The introduction quotes from Genesis 50:23, in the …

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  11. 13311State documentT-S NS 325.232

    Fatimid state document. Report to al-Malik al-Afḍal from al-thaghr al-maḥrūs (probably Tyre). Ca. 1108 CE. Related fragments are as follows (the clusters are defined based …

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  12. 13312State documentT-S H12.17

    Fragment of a state document in Arabic. Beautiful hand. Mentions الحاج . . . واحضر الحجة على . . .

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  13. 13313LetterT-S 13J25.2

    Letter from Abū l-Faḍl and his mother, perhaps in Fustat, to his father Abū Naṣr, in Asyūṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Much of the letter is in …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כתאבי אליך יא ואלדי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל אללה
    3. בקאך ואדאם עזך ומן חסן אלתופיק לא א[כלאך
    4. גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וכר[מה
    5. אן שא אללה ו…

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  14. 13314Legal documentBL OR 10578G.38

    Document in Arabic script, five lines preserved, possibly a draft. Contains formulae from an Islamic marriage contract (hādhā mā aṣdaqa al-Shaykh Bayān... Samawʾal...). Needs examination. …

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  15. 13315LetterT-S AS 40.269

    Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  16. 13316LetterT-S G2.24

    Communal letter likely originating from the gaʾon in Jerusalem in the late 10th or early 11th century, concerning the appointment of local officials in an …

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  17. 13317Legal documentMoss. VII,30

    Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b. Namir concerning money owed from the ketubba. Signed by Moshe b. Yehuda …

    1. [ ] כן הוה
    2. [ אלמ]ערפה >בהא< אשהדו עליי
    3. [ אלמח]כמה ואלמעאני אלמוכדה ובכל לישאני
    4. דזכואתא וסלמו דלך אלי זוגי מרור טהור הלוי אלמנגם בר מר ור נמר נע ליכו…

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  18. 13318Legal documentENA NS 63.9

    Letter fragment, 20 lines, well preserved. The writer at the beginning of the letter mentions a sale that did not reap any profits (lam yūlij …

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    1. …………………………………………………………………

    2. . ـعه اليه ووجهي منه يسقط حيا{ء} لانه يعلم كيف جرى امره في ابتياعها

    3. وانه لم يولج في شي منها حبة واحدة وبالله لو…

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  19. 13319Unknown typeENA 3969.16

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  20. 13320Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 275

    Pen trials, mentions al-amīr al-ajall ʿIzz al-Dīn. Needs examination.

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  21. 13321Paraliterary textENA 2148.94

    Trial of the pen consisting of several basmala-s

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  22. 13322State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 709

    State document, probably capitation tax receipt, in Arabic script. Contains two registration marks "الحمد لله وبه استعين" and "الحمد لله لما انعم". The first line …

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  23. 13323LetterCUL Or.1081 J22

    Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-Ḥusayn Ṣedaqa b. Nissim al-Mukallifī (אלמכלפי ?) in Alexandria. The letter is written on a fragment torn from …

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  24. 13324State documentENA 3931.5

    Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …

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  25. 13325Unknown typeAIU VII.E.39

    Possibly a Hebrew letter. Late. Needs further examination.

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  26. 13326Legal 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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  27. 13327LetterT-S AS 150.233

    Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter on parchment, quoting Nehemiah 9:33. Dating: likely 11th century. AA/ASE

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  28. 13328LetterMoss. V,333.1

    Letter fragment from the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe known as Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, in the Rīf, to the elder and cantor Yakhin b. …

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  29. 13329List or tableT-S Ar.54.15b

    Private account of Barhun b. Yishaq ha-Tāhartī. Around 1050. Contains financial report with Abu al-Khayr, who is Musa b. Barhun ha-Tāhartī, the writer’s uncle. (Information …

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    1. אלבאקי עלי מולאי אלשיך אבי אלכיר בעד

    2. אלמחאסבה תקכו ותלתיי וקיר וען צרף ק דינ מה שאמיה מדורה דינ>

    3. וען יד דינ ותלת אטראבלסיה יב…

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    1. (1–2) היתרה לחובת אדוני ורבי אבו אלכיר, לאחר ההתחשבנות, תקכ"ו ושני שלישים וקיראט; בעד המרה של קמ"ה דינר שאמי 'מדור', דינר וחצי; 

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  30. 13330List or tableENA 3740.2–3

    Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Dating: 11th century. A sum of 180 dinars appears. Mentions goods such as: …

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  31. 13331Unknown typeYevr. IV 130

    . Not digitized? Catalogued as a document from Yemen.

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  32. 13332List or tableENA 3929.10

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions a violet (banfasajī) velvet (mukhmal) kufiyya apparently for a certain ʿAlī. Also mentions al-ʿAjamī.

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  33. 13333Legal documentMoss. III,79.2

    Ketubba fragment, with a lovely decoration in the header. The groom's father is named Shelomo. On verso there are magical remedies/incantations, including one against polyuria.

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  34. 13334List or tableCUL Or.1080 J122

    Recto: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: List of collections for the Jerusalemites (tafriqat al-maqādisa). Dated: Sivan 1553 Seleucid = May 1242 CE. The holiday of …

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  35. 13335State documentT-S AS 177.108

    Tax receipt, probably. Cramped and difficult to read. Mentions [...] b. Ṣāliḥ, the ḍāmin of the dīwān.... Needs examination. On verso the beginning of a …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. مملوك الحضرة السامية الاجلية[

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. مملوك الحضرة السامية الاجلية[

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  36. 13336LetterMoss. II,141.3

    Letter fragment (the end only) from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, referring to a debt. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years …

    1. [לכב] מר ורב אפרים החבר בסנהד גדולה ישמרהו
    2. [בור]אהו ויצליחהו בכל מעשהו ושלום רב ישקיטהו
    3. [ומחר]ב יצילהו ובסתר כנפיו יסתירהו וארך ימים [ישביעהו]
    4. [בן מ…

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  37. 13337Legal documentAIU VII.D.29

    Ketubba. Dated: 15 Ḥeshvan 54[8]9 AM, which is 1728 CE. Badly damaged yet the bride's name is legible in line 4 as Sulṭāna bt. Shelomo[?] …

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  38. 13338Legal documentT-S NS 184.35

    Formulary of a legal document. On parchment.

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  39. 13339Legal documentT-S AS 179.20

    Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Damaged and faded.

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  40. 13340Literary textJTS MS 8998.4–6

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb2 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 1.1–8.7 (breaks off incomplete); preceded by a Judaeo–Arabic commentary on the …

    Folio 4v (first section)

    1. זה ספר גזיר דין שנגזר על ישוע בן פנדירא ויהי בשנת
    2. {אר} שתים לטברינוס קיסר מלך אדום כרתו משפ{ש}<ט> על
    3. ישוע בן פנדירא אשר מרד…

    Folio 4v (first section)

    1. This is the book of the sentencing that was decreed upon Yeshuʿa son of Pandera. And it was in the year
    2. two of Tiberinus…

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  41. 13341Legal documentT-S Ar.39.237

    Attestation written by Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā in the name of Yārūkh (or possibly Bārūkh) b. Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) …

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    1. بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اشهدني ياروخ بن جوشن
    3.  … … انه ال
    4.   بالناحية المعروفة بسنورس
    5.  بالـ     الشرقية الاستعمال 
    6. الحادي عشر من شوال…

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  42. 13342Literary textT-S NS 325.231

    Bottom of a literary text or possibly poetic letter in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. Concludes with an intriguing (presumably metaphorical) mention of a "deed …

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  43. 13343List or tableT-S Ar.35.175 + T-S Ar.35.179

    Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Bifolio with one column per page. The ink is quite smudged in places. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  44. 13344Legal documentT-S AS 145.304

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Fragment (lower left corner). Late. Involving a certain Yehoshuaʿ. Signed: Yaʿaqov b. Tibbon(?).

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  45. 13345Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 766

    Unidentified text in Arabic script, in red ink. Mentions flour and "al-ḥajar al-...".

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  46. 13346LetterT-S 13J8.18

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that …

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    1. כתא]בי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך ונעמתך
    2. וחמאיתך מן מצר לו' בקין מן כסליו כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא [באחסן כאתמה ען
    3. חאל סל…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת חסדו
    2. ואת חסותו לך, מפסטאט, בכ"ד בכסלו, יחתום אותו אלוהים עלי…

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  47. 13347LetterT-S AS 124.204

    Fragment from the top of a letter in Arabic script. Addressed to 'sayyidnā al-rayyis.' Reused on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part …

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  48. 13348List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 418

    Accounts, in Arabic script. Verso: basmala, and three dirhams? Needs examination.

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  49. 13349List or tableT-S NS 225.83

    Bifolio of mercantile accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 11th century, maybe 12th. Fol. 1r may be headed by a biblical verse. Mentions the date Tuesday, …

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  50. 13350Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/12

    Legal document. Very damaged. Location: Probably Cairo; only ''אל" is clearly legible of the location's name, but only three common locations begin with "al" (al-Qāhira, …

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