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  1. 1301List or tableBL OR 12369.24

    Communal accounts for two synagogues in Cairo. Dated 5584 AM (1823/24 CE). The right side of the bifolio mentions the Ḥayyīm Capoussi Synagogue and the …

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  2. 1302Legal documentBodl. MS Arab. c 56.9

    Acknowledgment for the pawning of an enslaved woman by Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (or Wuhayb), ḍāmin for dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm, for a period of …

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  3. 1303List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 54/21

    Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.

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  4. 1304LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/6

    Letter in Hebrew dated 1747/48 CE (508 = בשרו), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid …

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  5. 1305LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/7

    Letter in Hebrew dated 1759/60 CE (520 = תהֿלה לכֿל), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …

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  6. 1306LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/10

    Letter in Hebrew dated 1778/79 CE (539 = ותקוה טובה) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial …

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  7. 1307Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/11

    Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1456 Seleucid = June/July 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid …

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  8. 1308Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 76/54

    Legal document, probably contract of debt. Unfinished. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver? Dated: Elul 1456 Seleucid = August/September 1145 CE, under the …

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  9. 1309LetterCUL Or.1080 J24

    IB IV, 69 (ח79). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Middle of Adar 1451 …

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    1. בשמך רחמ'
    2. קד עלם אלבארי גלת קדרתה מא וגדתה לפראק
    3. חצרה מולאי כבוד גד' קד' מרנ' ורבנ' חלפון
    4. הלוי הקהתי החכם והנבון הירא שמים מנעוריו
    5. אטאל אללה ב…

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    1. בשמך רחמ[נא].
    2. אמנם יודע הבורא, תתגדל יכולתו, כמה מצר אני בגלל עזיבתו של
    3. הדרת אדוני כבוד גד[ולת] קד[ושת] מרנ' ורבני חלפון
    4. הלוי הקהתי החכם והנבו…

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  10. 1310Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J63

    Fol. 2: Legal document. Location: Damsīs. Little remains except for the date: Tevet 1424 Seleucid = 1112/13 CE. One of the witnesses is Aharon b. …

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  11. 1311Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J65

    Legal deed. Release given to Ṣedaqa ha-Levi by his divorcee. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel, Elul 1145 CE. Cosigned David ha-Paliṭ b. Yosef …

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  12. 1312Legal documentENA 972.10

    Bill of divorce from a betrothal (erusin). Very faded. No signatures. Dated: Looks like [4]903 AM, which would be 1142/43 CE.

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  13. 1313Legal documentENA 3902.5

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …

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  14. 1314State documentENA 3935.11

    Recto (secondary use): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: …

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  15. 1315Credit instrument or private receiptENA 4011.4

    IB V, 34g. Verso: Cheque written and signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Dated: Tishrei 1454 Seleucid, which is 1142 CE. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār is to …

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  16. 1316Legal documentENA 4011.18

    Bottom of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. Mentions the rent of a …

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  17. 1317Legal documentENA 4011.65

    Settlement of a debt to be paid in installments starting Ḥeshvan 1435 Seleucid = October 1123 CE. The parties are Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli ha-Kohen and …

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  18. 1318Legal documentENA 4020.9

    Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Ṭevet 1462 Seleucid = December 1150 / January 1151 CE. Location: Fustat. Written in the jurisdiction of Shemuel b. Ḥananya …

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    1. [.........................................] לקנות קנין גמור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו מעכשיו  וכאלץ מאלה
    2.  [.....................................…

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    1. […] to effect a complete and weighty qinyan, with an item suitable for doing so, effective immediately
    2. […] that he owes him, and that he has in …

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  19. 1319LetterENA NS 53.23

    Form letter from the community of Hebron. In Hebrew. Dated: 5539 AM, which is 1778/79 CE. The name Refa'el Ḥannuka is filled in in big …

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  20. 1320LetterHUC 1117

    Letter sent from Sandūr (in Kurdistan) to Yaʿaqov Binyamin, in Jerusalem. Late and non-Geniza. Dated: 5462 AM = 1701/02 CE. The sender devotes a lot …

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  21. 1321List or tableJRL B 3139

    Extensive accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: labeled twice along the upper margin of the recto "Y[ear] 5414" and "Account [of the year] 5414 AM" (1653/1654 CE). …

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  22. 1322List or tableJRL C 12

    Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dated Rajab 1237 AH (1822 CE) in the upper right corner of the recto. Written across four column …

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  23. 1323List or tableJRL C 32

    Lists in Judeo-Arabic of monetary contributions for children that were recorded in 5576 which is 1815/16CE. The contents of this shelfmark may be related to …

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  24. 1324List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1636/14 + T-S K21.98

    Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and revenues from rent, ca. 1037 (specifies expenditures for the years 426–30 AH = 1034–39 CE). The expenditures listed …

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    1. [ ]ק[ ]א[
    2. מן [ ] דאר אל[
    3. בנאיין אלאגרה [
    4. ואתני עשר רקאץ לאבת[ ]ה תלתה
    5. ותלתין דר' מא סבעה דר'
    6. תמן טין אסוד מע אלקופתין תמניה
    7. דר' ורבע' תמן שוחת…

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    1. (1-2) .... From … Dār al- .... 

    2. Masons, the wages ....

    3. (4-5) 12 helpers for . . . . , 3 dir. Water, 7 dir. 

    4. (6-7) Paid for black cl…

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  25. 1325Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 50

    Late Arabic Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Dated: 28 R[abīʿ] I 1226 AH (1811 CE). Mentions al-Muʿallim Ibrahīm b. Amīn and Khwājā Yūsūf. Name …

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  26. 1326LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 217

    Business letter. Addressed to Shimʿon Frances and Merkado Karo (شمعون فرانسيس والمعلم مركادة كارو) in Fustat/Cairo (Miṣr). In Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 1223 AH, which …

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  27. 1327Legal documentMIAC 58

    Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …

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  28. 1328Legal documentMoss. VII,96.1

    Legal document. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the upper left corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: [..]61, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE, …

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  29. 1329Legal documentNLI 577.1/27

    Arabic legal document, iqrār, bottom left corner. There are two fragments under this shelfmark, and it is not immediately clear whether they belong to the …

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  30. 1330Legal documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.27

    Bill of sale for property to Yuḥannis ibn Saqina and his wife. Buljusuq (Fayyum), Rajab 369 [Jan.-Feb. 980]. Parchment ; 16 lines ; 170 x …

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  31. 1331Legal query or responsumT-S 8.251

    Recto: legal query signed by Nahray b. Nissim and Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq (the signatures are copied by the scribe who wrote the document). Location: Fustat. …

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  32. 1332Legal documentT-S 8J6.12

    Legal deed. Location: Qūṣ. Dated: Shevaṭ 1527 Seleucid, which is 1216 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. In which the physician Abū l-Manṣūr Elʿazar …

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    1. למא כאן [ ] שבט סנה אלף וכמס מאיה
    2. וסבעה ועשרין לשטרות פי מדינה קוץ דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה
    3. רשותם דאדונינו הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כבוד גדולת
    4. קד…

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  33. 1333Legal documentT-S 8J11.18

    Legal declaration. Dating: refers to the year 4826 AM, which is 1065/66 CE. (The document itself may be later.) Concerning Nahray b. Nissim's occupancy of …

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    1. כא[ן] רבינו נהראי ביר נסים ז''ל אנפדני 
    2. אנא ועמאר בר פראח נ''נ אלאטראבלסי 
    3. פי שהור סנה תתכ''ז לעולם אלי אבן עלי בן 
    4. אלכהן צהרה לנכן לה גמיעא ש…

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    1. רבינו נהוראי בי"ר נסים ז"ל שלח אותי 
    2. ואת עמאר בר פראח נ"נ אלאטראבְּלֶסי,
    3. בחודשים של שנת תתכ"ז לעולם, אל בן עלי בן 
    4. הכוהן גיסו, שנהיה לו שנינו …

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  34. 1334Legal documentT-S 8J17.9

    Court notebook. Location: Fustat. Betrothal (erusin) contract. Fiancé: Yosef b. ʿEli Ibn Qashqūsh. Fiancée: [Sitt al-]Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo, a virgin. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet …

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    Joseph ben Eli, who is known as Ibn Qashqūsh, betrothed Jamī‘ bat Solomon, virgin, for the sake of a complete betrothal. Her…

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  35. 1335Legal documentT-S 8J39.2

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic Verso: Upper part of a legal testimony. Dated: Sunday, [..] Iyyar 1535 Seleucid = April/May 1224 CE, under …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . מתה והמתה פי כתאב . . . . . . . . .
    2. א. .ה אלשכר לה ואלפצל עלי מא פעל יישר כוחך
    3. וירבהו ואמא קולה אלעדאוה פמעאד אללה מן דל…

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  36. 1336Paraliterary textT-S 8K20.3

    Colophon of Eliyyahu b. Aharon b. Yoshiyyahu, grandson of Yoshiyyahu Av Bet Din, writing his name and the year (4800 AM) at the end of …

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  37. 1337Legal documentT-S 10J21.14 + T-S 8J32.9

    Legal testimony (קבלת עדות). Location: the testimony was collected in Sunbāṭ and the document was drawn up three months later in Minyat Ashna. Dated: Middle …

    1. . . . . ]א אנה אלדי גמו בהא עלי לסאן אבו אל
    2. . . . ] . ראפע ללאסתאד וקאל איש יכאלי סלום בן
    3. יצחק ב . . .ן הדה אלעיאלה מא כסר אלי הדה
    4. אלסאעה רבע //ויבה…

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  38. 1338Legal documentT-S 12.592

    One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). …

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  39. 1339Legal documentT-S 13J2.25

    Court minute, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Legal document concerning the Sicilian Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Moshe al-Kohen who has …

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין כן הוה בחדש טבת דשנת אלפא וארבע מאהוחדא וחמשין
    2. שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים למא אלתמס אלשיך אבו יעקוב יוסף אלכהן אלסקלי בן …

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  40. 1340Legal documentT-S 13J7.3

    Fragmentary record of testimony. Dated: [1]339 Seleucid = 1027/28 CE. Mentions Yosef b. Hārū[n] and "al-Līwānī." The preserved witness signatures are: Yosef b. Ḥātim, Ḥasan …

    1. יקול מן אתבת כט[ה
    2. אנא נחד יום טלא[
    3. אלליואני אלתי כאנת [
    4. [[יוסף]] יוסף בן הד[
    5. אלארבעא סלך סי[נן
    6. נשך פיה פלמא [
    7. כטוטנא בה וכ[
    8. שנת שלט
    9. יוסף בן חאתם ע[ד
    10. …

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  41. 1341Legal documentT-S 16.181

    Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of …

    1. בה בשבת ביו יום בחדש אדר הראשון שנה ג שלשבוע שנת עיבור ושנת
    2. ארבעת אלפים ם צג שנים לבריות עולם בדמשק נתן חותם ערבון מנצור
    3. בן [...] יצחק בן סעיד בן פי…
    1. On the 5th of the week, 16 days in the month of Adar I, year 3 of the sabbatical cycle, an interculated year, which is year  
    2. 4,693 A.M., in Damascu…

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  42. 1342Legal documentT-S 16.181

    Betrothal register (53c according to Friedman) between Hillel b. Aharon haLevi and Tāma bt. Yiṣḥaq. One of four fragments from the court ledger of the …

    1. בה' בשבת ביד יום בחדש אדר השני שנה ג' שלשבוע שנת עיבור ושנת ד אלפים ם' צ''ג שנים [לביריות]
    2. עולם בדמשק נתן חותם ערבון הלל הלוי בר' אהרן דמן מעזיה על …
    1. On the 5th of the week, 14 days in the month of Adar II, year 3 of the sabbatical cycle, an interculated year, which is year 4,693 [A.]
    2. M. , in Dama…

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  43. 1343Legal documentT-S 16.183

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated Shevaṭ 1356 Seleucid = December 1044 / January 1045 CE. In which 3 sisters, Badr (בדר), Ḍiyāʾ (ציא) and Sittūna …

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  44. 1344Legal documentT-S 16.187

    Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority …

    1. ונפוד אלחרם בדלך חסב מא שהר פלמא עלמנא אנו החכמים
    2. והזקנים החתומים למטה אן דכר אלרשות סבבא לתעטל אלגמאעה
    3. מן אלחצור אלי בית הכנסת ואבטאל עמל אלמצוות א…

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  45. 1345Legal documentT-S 18J2.12

    Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. A woman named Muluk claims to be the only heir of Tiban, the grandson of her maternal uncle. …

    1. מעשה שהיה בפנינ[ו אנו בית דין הקבוע] במצרים מפי בית דין הגדול אחייה רחמנא
    2. וקימה איך אשה [שמה מלוך בת נ]חומה בר והב שהי(!) אשת מרב יוסף הסופר בר מנשה
    3. …

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  46. 1346List or tableT-S Ar.35.39

    Accounts in Arabic script. Several names are mentioned. Dating: Mentions the end of Ramadān 556 AH = 1161 CE.

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  47. 1347Legal documentT-S Ar.50.86

    Drafts of legal documents. (I) Verso: Template for a legal document, with several blanks left. Location: Fustat. Dated: Shevaṭ 1394 Seleucid = December 1082/January 1083 …

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  48. 1348Legal documentT-S Ar.51.110

    Recto: deed in which ʿUmar b. Mūsā, a dealer in oil, leases the lower floor of a house in Fusṭāṭ from Yaʾʾāsa bint Ismaʿīl al-Kohen …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
    2. هذا ما استاجر عمر بن موسى الزيات وهو يومئذ رجل معتدل القامة
    3. اسمر اللون رقيق السمرة تعلوه حمرة واضح الج…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God with the praise of those who give thanks.  

    2. This is what ʿUmar ibn Mū…

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  49. 1349Legal documentT-S AS 130.79

    Unusual genre of legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), stating that Abū l-Karam must pay to the orphan Abū …

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  50. 1350Legal documentT-S AS 145.111

    Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 5462 AM =1701/02 CE. Regarding a transaction between Shabbetay b. Masʿūd ____(?) and his father-in-law Yiṣḥaq Fer[..]ez. Both …

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    1. [ב]פנינו עדים חותמי מטה [....]ק כה׳׳ר שבתי .ר..[...] בכה׳׳ר מסעוד נ׳׳ע ואמר לנו הוו ע[לי]
    2. ע[דים] וקנו ממני קנין ושבועה ח[מורה] בשי׳׳ת [...] שפ…

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