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  1. 13651LetterT-S 13J33.9

    Petition from the Jewish community of Alexandria to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). Complaining about oppressive and fraudulent collection of the capitation tax. …

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  2. 13652List or tableENA NS 77.227

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand. Mentions a farāsila of cumin and a qirsh (so Ottoman-era?). Mentions Sayyidī al-Nasab al-ʿAqīq Yosef.

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  3. 13653Unknown typeENA NS 78.41

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  4. 13654Legal documentT-S NS 163.66

    Small bifolio. Contains notes for legal purposes. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. ʿOvadya known as Ibn זונין (Zunayn?) acknowledges that he collected from the estate of …

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  5. 13655Legal documentT-S 12.565

    Power of attorney. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: Tishrei 1556 Seleucid, which is 1144 CE. Yosef b. Yeshuʿa known as Ibn …

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  6. 13656LetterCUL Or.1080 J34

    Letter from the office of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat, to the community of Alexandria (נאמון). Dating: ca. 1220 CE. He instructs them …

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  7. 13657LetterENA NS 33.8

    Letter or letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed perhaps to Ḥananel ha-Dayyan (but this is not completely clear). The writer complains about his poverty and unemployment. …

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  8. 13658Legal documentT-S Misc.27.4.21

    Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Not recorded, but somewhere outside of Fustat. Dated: First decade of Adar 1453 Seleucid, which is 1142 CE. Shemarya b. …

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  9. 13659State documentMoss. IXa,2.14

    Fiscal account, fragment from a bifolio. Items include names (Yūsuf [...], Faḍāʾil [...]) and quantities of dinars expressed in words.

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  10. 13660Unknown typeENA NS 85.1458

    Two tiny fragments with a few Hebrew letters visible.

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  11. 13661Legal documentBL OR 5543.9

    Ketubba for Yosef b. Aharon Shunina (or Sonina) and Esther bt. Avraham Shunina (Sonina). Currency: medin. Dated 22 May 1716 CE (1 Sivan 5476 AM). …

    1. בע׳׳הי׳׳ת
    2. ויהיה את יוסף ויהי איש מצליח ואשר הוא עושה המצליח
    3. [ב]שש[י] בשבת יום ראשון לחדש סיון שנת חמשת אלפים וארבעה מאות ושבעי[ם ו]שש לבריאת עולם --…

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  12. 13662List or tableENA NS 11.15

    List of items and sums. Commercial. Mentions the name Faraj several times. Jars (Ar. jarra) are mentioned several times. Several entries are circled.

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  13. 13663Literary textT-S AS 152.333

    Two lines in Judaeo-Persian, probably poetry. On verso there may be remnants of an earlier document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  14. 13664List or tableENA 3735.7

    Late accounts in an erratic scribal hand. Possibly dated on the recto, with the middle subheading ending in ٧٢٣/723(?) AH, which would be 1323 CE– …

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  15. 13665Unknown typeENA NS 85.808

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  16. 13666List or tableENA NS 83.30

    Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …

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  17. 13667Legal documentT-S 16.218

    Court record in which Mubāraka bt. ʿAṭiyya is promised 3 dinars per month by her husband, ʿAzarya b. Binyamin, but the reverse side shows a …

    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו [החתומים למטה]
    2. בכתב הזה איך עזריה בר בנימין [
    3. מעכשיו קנין גמור חמור וכתבו וחת[מו
    4. למבארכה בת עטייה ליהיות ביד[ה
    5. לא אנוס ו…

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  18. 13668Legal documentENA NS 77.254

    Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …

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  19. 13669List or tableBodl. MS heb. b 13/55

    List. Collection, jibaya, made on the first day of the holiday for the Maghribi, the Kohen. About 1115 contributions, mostly in Coptic numerals. Some of …

    1. $אלח' ר' עובדיה$ מוסי אבן $אלקוצי בזאז$
    2. --- ½
    3. שמואל גזא[ו]י ולדה מוסי יוסף אבן אלחזן$
    4. ½ ½
    5. נאצר אבן סב[.]ה? [[סעיד אבן]] שמואל לוי
    6. ½ ½
    7. [[יוסף עכאוי צ…

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  20. 13670Unknown typeT-S NS 305.187

    Unidentified document in Arabic script.

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  21. 13671LetterT-S NS 226.186

    Almost complete but faded and damaged business letter. To Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. [...]. Dating: 11th century. Handwriting of Nahray b. Nissim? Mentions buying something …

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  22. 13672Paraliterary textBodl. MS heb. d 65/17

    Verso (secondary use): Seems to be the liturgy for weekday Maʿariv (معريب للحل) written in Arabic script (Arabo-Hebrew).

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  23. 13673LetterT-S NS 163.93

    Short letter of appeal for charity from a poor and sick man

    1. בשם נוצר ידידיו ושומר נפשות חסידיו
    2. מציל עני מחזק ממנו וג
    3. הו תעאלי עלם בשדת אן אנא פיהא מן מרצא
    4. וקלת מכשב ואחב שי לא בד מנה וקד אני
    5. אקדר אן אחמל תקלי…

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  24. 13674Legal query or responsumAIU VII.D.20bis

    Legal query regarding Reuven from Const[antinople?] who asked his brother Levi of Toledo (?) to serve as his agent for marrying Leah of Toledo (?), …

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  25. 13675Literary textBodl. MS Arab. c 56.74 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.75

    Literary text, most probably a prayer copied in the 11th-12th C based on paleography and a Fatimid ḥamdala and taṣliya toward the end.

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  26. 13676List or tableT-S AS 190.115

    Preprinted accounting documents, unused. 19h-century.

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  27. 13677State documentT-S NS 315.134b + T-S NS 315.134a

    Official-looking report in Arabic script. Refers to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Mukhtār b. Bushayr (? cf. ENA 4020.62). Mentions the governors (ʿāmilīn) of various locations. Needs examination. …

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  28. 13678LetterENA 1177.65

    Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Needs examination.

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  29. 13679LetterT-S 12.357

    Letter in which a son acknowledges receipt of a shipment sent by his father, along with the statement, “And paid the dinar for the capitation …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] דעא
    2. קריב אלאגאבה ואלדי אעלם טולדי בה אן קד
    3. אתצל לי מן ענד אללה ומן ענדך תוב ועמאמה
    4. וא]ני…

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  30. 13680Legal documentENA NS 54.18

    Legal deed In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tammuz 5353 AM = Shawāl 1001 AH = July 1593 CE. It seems to be the copy of a reconciliation …

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  31. 13681LetterT-S AS 158.62

    Fragment of a letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310– d. 1355 CE), possibly a recommendation for Yosef al-Ṣabbān (the soap boiler).

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  32. 13682LetterT-S AS 184.12

    Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Refers numerous times to the sending of a chest (ṣundūq). Needs examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew scribal writing …

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  33. 13683LetterT-S Misc.28.231 + ENA 2804.16

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Mevasser, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when …

    Recto: B – ENA 2804, f. 16 ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp. 203-204 (Doc. #111) C.B. 02-24-88 (p)Letter from Solomon b. Judah to Abraham b. Mevasser, F…

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  34. 13684Literary textENA 4009.1

    Piyyutim, including one by Hayya Gaon 'on the name of' R. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Milqaṭa ha-Ḥazzan.

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  35. 13685Unknown typeT-S AS 177.164

    Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe an account, maybe official. Mentions the phrase "....ʿalā ḥukm al-muqaddam...."

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  36. 13686Legal documentT-S 16.77

    Recto: Copy of a Bill of release with several validations by the court in Fustāt. The original deed was given by Avraham b. Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbi …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] ולא משמע ולא מידן ולא מזכאר ולא תיגר
    2. ולא מצו ול]א טע]נהול…

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  37. 13687List or tableT-S H15.120

    Fol. 1: Jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late? Mentions fulūs. There are also jottings in other hands including poetic blessings in Hebrew for the new Nagid …

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  38. 13688State documentT-S H5.201

    Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions the term 'istikhrāj.' In the margin there are pen trials and/or endorsements, …

    1. انه قد هلك عن استخراج[
    2. وحمل في الوقت ست ..[
    3. ويردد بين العبد وبـ[
    4. طال ويردد امـ[
    5. تعلقت به جارية[
    6. ستـ[

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  39. 13689Unknown typeENA NS 85.759

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  40. 13690Legal documentT-S 24.15

    The verso of the ketubba of Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yefet, from 1125/6 (PGPID 7560). Contains two legal records that were added later, also in the …

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  41. 13691Unknown typeT-S K6.141

    A practice run and the final version of an inscription mentioning the qodesh of the community of ʿAbbāsiyya and the name Isaac Sāhayl (סאהיל). Late. …

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  42. 13692LetterENA 3616.11 + T-S NS 151.30

    Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Consists almost entirely of flattery and blessings. On verso there are words of …

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  43. 13693Legal documentT-S AS 149.49

    Small fragment of a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There is a first-person declaration, mentioning "this sum" and "unemployment."

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  44. 13694LetterF 1908.44KK

    Letter from Moshe b. Abudarham, probably in Rashid, to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …

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  45. 13695LetterJRL B 8588

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (India trade related?). May refer to owing somebody a rose-colored cooking vessel (? ṭājin warda); something …

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  46. 13696LetterT-S AS 206.204

    Letter to Karo y Frances, ca. 1800 CE. Fragment (top only). Needs examination.

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  47. 13697Legal documentT-S 16.23 + T-S AS 166.95

    IB VI, 5. Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). These two fragments are …

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    1. בין בדיני ישראל בין בנימוסי אומות העולם אד לם יבק לנא ענדה ולא פי גהת[ה ...]
    2. פי גמיע מא סלף בינה ובין מר ור שלה מורתנא נע חק מן גמיע…

    T-S 16.23 Recto

    1. whether in Jewish law or gentile law, since nothing remains for us with him, nor to [his] credit […]
    2. in all that which proceeded bet…

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  48. 13698LetterT-S AS 201.365

    Letter or legal query addressed to a dignitary: ha-paṭish ha-ḥazzaq. . . neṭaʿ shaʿashuʿim. . . Verso refers to "the poor and the indigent" (perhaps …

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  49. 13699LetterENA NS 11.20

    Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy to Nahray b. Nissim. Mentions goods and prices. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #457) VMR

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    1. [אטאל אללה בקא סידי ומולאי גד]ול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאיידה

    2. [                                ] אלול כתמה אל[לה] עלי[נא ועליה בא]חסן כאתמה ען …

    1. ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורבי גדול הישיבה, אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך 
    2. (2–3) .... באלול, יחתום אותו אלוהים עלינו ועליך במיטב חותמו. שלומ…

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  50. 13700State documentT-S Ar.40.107

    Draft of a letter/petition, in Arabic script. Addressed to Huṣām al-Dawla. The sender asks that 'you rescue me from this man' (bi-an tukhalliṣ ʿabdak min …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتبت هذه الى حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل حسام الدولة  ادام  الله
    3. عزه والمسموع من طيب اخباره والمنقول من جمل اثاره وما ت…

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