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  1. 13451LetterT-S NS 320.77

    Mostly consists of especially deferential phrases: ...wa-fa-qad ʿalima l-khāliq anna ʿinda samāʿī... wa-tanwīh ismih wa-ḥusn thanāh min kull ṣādir... wa-anā uqabbil yadayhi wa-akhdumuh...

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  2. 13452LetterT-S NS 320.110

    Letter from Abū ʿAbdallāh to Abū l-Ṭayyib Mevasser al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ~12th century.

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  3. 13453LetterT-S NS 321.26

    Reused on recto for alphabetic blessings for a bride and groom (each line beginning חתן וכלה).

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  4. 13454LetterT-S NS J303c

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto).

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    1. [ ] אבנה געל פדאה ולא עדם
    2. [ ] בקאה יפת בן משה נע
    3. [ ] אלקטאיף אמאנה מודאה

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  5. 13455Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1612

    The estate is connected to the income of various shops and, although, the name of the deceased is unmentioned his son Yaʿaqov appears throughout the document as well as a certain Shabbetay.

    1. עלם אלי וצל מן יעקב בעד
    2. ופאת אלמר[חו]ם ואלדו אבי פי גמעה
    3. ראשה פי ט׳ פי חדש אב שנה
    4. [ה]׳ת׳ק׳כ׳ג׳ אול דאלך אלמצרוף [..] מן אל
    5. מדכול פי אלדוכאן פי גמעה …

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  6. 13456LetterAIU IX.B.18

    The word כוכור that appears several times may also be a name. The sender mentions "a bride to marry" in ll. 6–7.

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  7. 13457Legal documentAIU VII.A.42

    They are both describing a convoluted case involving a Muslim named Muḥammad al-Wakīl and the Jews Yaʿqūb and his companion and perhaps a dairy maker or bricklayer (al-Labbān).

    1. בפנינו ב׳׳ד חמ׳ בא הח׳ הש׳ כהה׳׳ר אהרן זיתון נר׳׳ו והעיד בעדות 
    2. ברורה גמורה אחר האיום והגזום איך בהיותו חולך בשוק פגם(?)
    3. בו גוי א׳ ששמו מח׳ אל וכיל …

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  8. 13458Legal documentAIU VII.D.90

    The other pages on the recto and verso are filled with neatly organized accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, arranged according to the Coptic and Islamic fiscal calendar with names of Muslims such as Muhammed ʿAbd al-ʿĀtī (l. 5-6r, 28-29r) Muṣṭafa al-Qabbānī (l.13-14v).

    1. [ב]היו׳ שראינו שטר //חוב// שנכתב בעיר קפוטקיי[א ...
    2. הוא שה׳׳ר אברהם מנשה תושב עיר קפוטקייא הנז׳ [...
    3. למ׳ צהור אלמ׳ יצחק סכנדרי ולבנה שלמה יצ׳׳ו תושב
    4. …

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  9. 13459Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 27/87

    See Redhouse's dictionary (p. 262) for these terms. Verso is also filled with text, in at least different hands, apparently a halakhic discussion.

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שהגביר נשא ונעלה הגבאי הנהדר כמהר׳׳ר אברהם שיראנו נר׳׳ו וחבירו הגביר נשא ונעלה החכם המרומם כמהר׳׳ר משה מיוחס נר׳׳ו
    3. והגביר נשא ומאד נעלה …

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  10. 13460LetterBodl. MS heb. c 50/24

    Letter sent to Sitt al-Ghazal, wife of the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah (?)[…] Mentioned in Rustow, "Formal and Informal Patronage," Al-Qantara (2008), p. 363. [Goitein's identifications here are not completely certain.

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    1. יקבל ידי אלסת אלואלדה
    2. אדאם אללה צונהא וכתר
    3. מן מתלהא ומגמלת בהא
    4. אלנסואן ואלבלדאן אללה יפרחהא
    5. באלולד אלנפיס אלסיד אלאך ואלמאתור
    6. מן אחסאנהא אלנצר…

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  11. 13461List or tableCUL Or.1081 J71

    The next section is headed "the effective" (al-nāfiʿa) and may be a recipe involving different kinds of meat, pomegranate seed, sumac, sour grape, and barberry, bread, and lemon. The next section is headed "syrups" (al-ashriba) and lists raw quince and one or two other items.

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  12. 13462List or tableENA 2713.53

    This dating is feasible as well because on the verso there is a letter cluster that may be alphanumerical indicating the year [5]558AM or roughly 1797-1798CE (l.14v). […] Some names may be authors of printed books and/or bound manuscripts, among them: Moshe Altaras (l.6-7v) and Reʾuven b. David Bavli (l.21v).

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  13. 13463List or tableENA 3931.14

    Of the 50 dirhams which were collected, the following sums were earmarked, 'in the hand of the Rav and in the presence of the judges': 10 dirhams for Tamīm, 3.5 dirhams for laundering the [...] of the brocade curtain (al-sitr al-dībāj), 3.5 dirhams for laundering the two white covers (?

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  14. 13464Legal documentENA NS 2.41

    Barhūn promises to feed Yosef for the entire period, subtracting the cost of maintenance from his wages. He also promises that Yosef will learn the craft. Yosef must have been quite young since it is his father rather than he who makes the contract, but the parties clearly thought that Yosef’s acceptance and understanding of the terms of the contract to have been important, because the contract's conditions were read to him and he agreed with them.

    1. חצר פי בית דין פי יום אלכמיס לה וכ יום מצא מן
    2. תשרי שנת אשלט לשטרות בכניסת הירושלמים
    3. בשר בן אפרים וברהון בן יחיה ואעתרף בשר הדא אנה
    4. קד אגר ולדה יוסף …

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    On Thursday, the 25th of Tishri of the year 1339 according to the Era of the Documents there appeared before the court in the Synagogue of the …

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  15. 13465Literary textHalper 329

    The two folios under this shelfmark also contain half a page of a Hebrew poem and a full page of a macaronic Hebrew/Arabic poem consisting of verses rhyming on "حو/חו."

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    1. תרא אי אקלים סאפר תרא אי בלדא
    2. תרא הל נעוד נשתגמע תרא הל לו עודא
    3. יא דויד פר/א/קך כלא כל קלב מקרוח
    4. יא דויד פר/א/קך כלא כל גפן מגרוח
    5. יא דויד פ…

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  16. 13466Legal documentL-G Glass 40

    He sends greetings to Avraham’s son Yefet (Abu 'Alial-Ḥasan), who is to be married soon. The date is unknown but must be earlier than Avraham's death in 1047 CE.

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  17. 13467LetterLehnardt 6

    Greetings to 'the dear sister,' to Isḥāq and his wife, to al-Ḥedvat (cf. ENA NS 53.5, ENA NS 58.14, T-S NS J420, T-S NS J76), Bū Saʿd, others, and Bū l-Faraj al-Makīn b.

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    1. []ן . רותך פי נכדך . . . .
    2. תכתב לי אנך פי שדה מן אכלאקהא
    3. פאשתהי תכתב לי אלנכד איש נועה פמא
    4. אעלם דא אלנכד איש הו ערפני איאה איש
    5. הו חתי אזילה ענ…

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  18. 13468LetterT-S 8J18.20

    Fifteen days were pIenty of time for a letter going to Cairo and coming back with Abū Naṣr's instructions to the qadi. The writer mentions also that he did not feel well that day (wa-anā wajiʿ).

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    1. גמע אלד ביננא קריבא אן שא אלד ווצלת מן אלקדס אלמעמור
    2. ודכלת אלי אלקאצי אשאורה פי ביע אלרחל פרסם עלי רגל
    3. בכמסה דנאניר פי יום שתא ואנא וגע לא יפאר…

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  19. 13469Legal documentT-S 8J32.3

    Shelomo and (Abū) Manṣūr El’azar b. Yishaq al-Dimashqī. Shemu’el b. Shelomo attests to the existence of a partnership agreement, which stipulated that profits were to be split 1/3 to 2/3, the bulk going to El’azar. […] The funds are invested with local workers in various towns in the Nile Delta (Sammanūd and al-Maḥalla) as well as in longer-distance investments (such as in Tyre).

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    1. למא כאן פי יום אלתלאתא אלראבע מחדש אב 
    2. אתעג לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא 
    3. מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כבוד
    4. גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנ…

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    1. On Tuesday the fourth of the month of Av
    2. 1473 (of the Era) of Documents, in Fusṭāṭ Egypt, situated on the Nile River,
    3. jurisdiction of his glorio…

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  20. 13470LetterT-S 10J9.4

    "The anonymous poet, who laments that he could not offer a real “gift” (teshura), calls his composition a type of sacrifice pleasing unto God: 'May the Lord of praises prepare healing balm and all types of remedies . . . and strengthen the respected, beneficent leader, the choice of His people, a turban upon all of the communities.

    1. بسم
    2. חן וחמלה ורוח והצלה וחכמה עם נחלה ושם ותהלה ויקר וגדולה ורנה
    3. וגילה ושמחה כפולה ורפאות תעלה והסרת מחלה ומילוי כל שאלה משוכן מעלה
    4. אל יסוד המעלה לי…

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  21. 13471LetterT-S 12.436

    the language and script also support a late date). The economy is depressed.

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  22. 13472Paraliterary textT-S Ar.29.102 + T-S K2.59 + T-S K2.22

    The position of a year in the jubilee cycle, Sabbatical cycle and the 19-year cycle are also noted. For each year, the calendar specifies whether it is plain or intercalated and the length of the variable months Ḥeshvan and Kislev, and gives the day of the week of beginnings of months, festivals and fasts and the day and time of the tequfot.

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  23. 13473Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.40.96

    Is it possible that she will marry after all this time, and no news were heard from him, since he is in India (fī bilād alHind)?"

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  24. 13474List or tableT-S K15.60

    With the exception of two scholarly persons, a banker, entitled haver, who gives nine, and a goldsmith, styled rabbi)--the only one in the list besides the collector--who contributes five together with his partner, all the others content themselves with gifts of one-half, one, or at most one and one-half. […] This is an example of one of several lists of contributors that do not show a wide scale of social or economic differentiation, with craftsmen by no means always in the lower categories. The letter resh stands for rubaʿ (1/4) and the letter tav for thumn (1/8) (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 490-491, App.

    1. גבאיה ר ברוך שׁ בראשׁית
    2. ר יוסף ושׁריכה ורקא ה
    3. אלשׁיך מפצל צאיג ורקא א
    4. אלשׁיך אבו אסחק אלשׂאמי ורקא א
    5. אלתקה הבה דרב אלבקאלין א
    6. אלרשׁיד אבי אלפצל בן א…
    1. Collection by R. Baruch, w(eek of) “In the Beginning” (Genesis 1:1)
    2. R. Yosef and his partner in waraq 5
    3. the Elder Mufaḍḍal the goldsmith (or silvers…

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  25. 13475List or tableT-S K15.66 + T-S K15.14

    T-S K15.66 forms the upper part and T-S K15.14 the lower part, of one list of about a hundred persons, contributing or being asked to contribute from 1/6 to 3/4 dinar, as partial payment of the capitation tax, the community making up the balance. These are all male, foreigners, laborers, craftsmen mostly of lower standing, community officials, persons called ghulām or ṣabiyy, that is, slave, freedman, or employee, and five others designated as ḍamīn, persons for whom security was given. Alternatively, the sums following the names may indicate the amounts to be paid by the community.

    T-S K15.66r, righthand page:

    1. מ]סלם אבן גלאב ואבן מימון
    2. רבאעיין
    3. הבה אכו מסלם רבאעיין
    4. הבה אכו יעקוב רבאעי ונצף
    5. אבן אלחבראוי רבאעי
    6. הבה אלארגואני רבאעי
    7. …

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  26. 13476LetterT-S NS 99.23

    Letter from the brothers Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Avraham Cesana to Merkado Hayyim Avraham ha-Levi (although this looks like a single name, it may actually be 2 or 3 people). […] Neither arrangement seems to have gone well with the Cesanas reporting that they "did not benefit" from either partnership: with Yosef al-Qōrīṣṭī or with the brothers Naṣrallah and Jubrān מסקי (Msqī).

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    1. ב׳׳ה היום ١٨ חשון שנת ٥٥٦٥
    2. אלסי׳ מרקאדו חיים אברהם הלוי ה׳ נר׳׳ו יצ׳׳ו
    3. אחדש׳׳ו סבב דיל כ'טין נערפכום אן יום תא׳ ווצלנה מכתובכם
    4. ת…

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  27. 13477LetterT-S NS 315.244 + T-S NS 321.33

    The scribe has a distinctive shorthand for Allāh (antepenultimate word of last line of recto & penultimate word of second line of verso). […] He reports on the prices of goods in his location and tells the addressee not to come, alluding to the danger of the road. He has enclosed another pair of letters to be forwarded to Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b.

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  28. 13478Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Marital dispute case resulting in the divorce of Avraham b. David al-Levi and Hanā bt. Moshe al-Maghribī. The record notes that a "quarrel and beating" took place between the couple and, thus, Avraham grants his wife a divorce.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 29r 

    1. [[למא בתא׳ נהאר אלתלאת]]
    2. למא בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלגמעה י׳׳ז פי שהר אלול המכו׳ סנה
    3. ה׳ש׳כ׳ה ליצירה חצל כנאק ו…

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  29. 13479List or tableYevr.-Arab. I 328

    The Karaite communal oven is also mentioned (אלפרן), as well as some kind of space for sesame oil production (אלסירגה).

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 7r

    1. הדה תקוים ביות אלקדש אלדי לליהוד אלקראיין יצ׳׳ו בתאריך שהר תשרי שנת הש[..
    2. בית יעקב          שמואל   ע׳אללטיף    פרגא׳   …

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  30. 13480LetterAIU VII.A.39

    VII A 39), but it has been lost (according to information from the Director of the Library of the Alliance israelite universelle in Paris, from 18 April, 1978) (information From Gil, Palestine, 756n178).

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  31. 13481LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/71

    Only three lines are preserved of the body of the letter. The writer alludes to a woman (or to the ḥaḍra=addressee?) who was staying with him in S[...].

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  32. 13482List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 56/50

    Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Saʿd al-Miṣrī takes over the service of the Iraqi synagogue, receives from Maḥfūẓ what was listed before and many additional items.

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  33. 13483Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 59/83–85

    Referring to many battles including a mention of al-Sufyānī. There is a cryptic header on Bodl. MS heb. f 59/84 אנצאף אלי דלך אלקראן אלאשהב אלמנסוב אלי עבד מוהאב(!)

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  34. 13484List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.26

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mostly alphanumerical calculations. One of the entries on the recto mentions Avraham ʿAṭiyya.

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  35. 13485LetterENA 2806.4

    Petition from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He reports that he has opened a shop in Suwayqat [...] near the shop of Ibn [...].

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  36. 13486State documentENA 3191.12

    At the top there is an endorsement with instructions for the reported payment to be registered in the Dīwān al-Nafaqāt (يثبت في ديوان النفقات بعد موافقته ان شا الله).

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  37. 13487List or tableENA 3347.16

    Some of the entries on the verso begin with names: Masʿūd B...un, Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar, and Shemuʾel .....iel(?). Requires further examination for content.

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  38. 13488List or tableENA 3922.8

    Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the currency ashrafī which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Pinholes in the margin (like the other folios in ENA 3922), and traces of glue and/or leather.

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  39. 13489List or tableENA 3970.1

    E.g., sesame oil, linseed oil, olive oil, soap, lemon, onion, chickpea, leek, mastic, sugar, sulfur, [...], cumin. On verso alphabetic writing practice in both Hebrew and Arabic script.

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  40. 13490State documentENA 3971.16

    Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.

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  41. 13491State documentENA 3971.17

    Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.

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  42. 13492LetterENA NS 2.10

    He asks that the addressee send him 'the note' (al-ruqʿa) in return.

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי נערף אוהבינו ויקיר[נו
    3. אלשיך אבו אלחסן יעזריהו
    4. מעוזינו על דבר כבוד
    5. שמו אננא בלגנא [מא
    6. אחוגנא אלי אלטלוע
    7. אלי אלקאהרה ועאודנא
    8. טלענא …

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  43. 13493LetterENA NS 29.22

    This shelfmark was previously listed with the date 1 Tammuz 5439, but the third alphanumeral is clearly צ rather than ל in התצט. Mentions several people, including Yaʿaqov b.

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  44. 13494List or tableENA NS 38.7

    Two entries on the verso provide the dates 11 Sivan and 16 Sivan, followed by the alphanumerals ת׳׳ג possibly denoting [5]403 AM (1643 CE).

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  45. 13495List or tableENA NS 47.26

    The accounting style is terse and structured mostly by alphanumerical figures. Based on the paleography, the dating is likely 15th- or 16th-century.

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  46. 13496State documentENA NS 74.3

    Simwāl, one under "lahu" 'he is owed' and second under "ʿalaihi" 'he owes'. 'ʾAjr' in the upper right hints that it could be related to rent.

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  47. 13497List or tableJRL A 113

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a couple practice signatures of David Ben-Naʿīm, whose dated documents are from the first half of the nineteenth century.

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  48. 13498List or tableJRL A 634

    Legal notes, possibly for a dowry list. Name: Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abū l-Munā. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE.

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  49. 13499Legal documentJRL A 1390

    Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew signed by Moshe Abū Shaʿra, alternate reading: Moshe Bekhar (בכר). Below the main document and signatures someone signed in the first-person as a guarantor to the above legal arrangements: איך אני עאבן קבלן פרעי...

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  50. 13500List or tableJRL B 3265

    Late account of sorts, using western Arabic numerals: "What was collected from the mother: first, ashrafiyya coins: 3; second. . . . " The mention of ashrafi coinage makes it possible to estimate the dating of this fragment as 1425 CE or later– the year in which it was first minted by Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay.

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