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  1. 13651Legal documentT-S 8J5.8

    Acknowledgement of receipt of money by Abu al-Faraj b. Shanuda the Christian seaman, leader of the sailors of "the weavers," from Abu Sa’d Daniyal b.

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اقر ابو الفرج بن شنوده النصراني البحرى مقدم نواتية الحاكة
    3. شركة الديوان الجبريرى عند شهود هذه الحجة واشهد على نفسه في صحة
    4. عقله…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    2. Abū al-Faraj ibn Shanūda, the Christian seaman, the leader of the sailors of ‘the weavers',  

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  2. 13652Paraliterary textT-S 8J15.20

    Prescription for pills against coughing; ingredients include red gum tragacanth, almond resin, licorice robe, and “bottled gourd seeds and quince mucilage, of each one mithqal.”

    1. נסכה דוא לשעל נאפע אנשא אללה
    2. כתירה ביצא וחמרא וצמג׳ ערבי וצמג׳ לוז
    3. ורב סוס ונשא קלב אביץ ולב קתא מקשור
    4. ולב יקטין ולעאב ספרגל מן כל וא׳ מתקאל
    5. ומר וכמ…

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  3. 13653LetterT-S 8J23.10

    (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 96.) Same hand and ʿalāma (בייי בטחתי) as DK 236 (PGPID 6573).

    1. בי בטחתי
    2. אלולד אלחזן משה שצ יעלם אנני
    3. אחאשיה מן הדה אלאכלאק אלרדיה
    4. אלמוגבה לקלק שדיד ולעדם אלמערפה
    5. ואלאנטיאע לשריעה אלחק ואלאן אנא
    6. אחדרך גאיה אלחדר …

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  4. 13654Legal documentT-S 10J2.14

    Husband: Moshe b. Siman Ṭov. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Ṣedaqa. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel; Shelomo b.

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  5. 13655LetterT-S 12.22

    Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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    1. חסבי אללה
    2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וסלאמתך
    3. ונעמתך מן אלמסתקר פי אלי אלאכר מן אב ואלחאל סלאמה וע[אפיה ] …

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    1. (2−1) מסתפק אני באלוהים. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי ומרי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך
    2. ואת אושרך, מן הבית…

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  6. 13656LetterT-S 12.38

    What prevented him was his illness and the fact that Cairo is "qalīlat al-khāṭir (or ḥāẓir?)"—a somewhat cryptic statement.

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  7. 13657LetterT-S 12.279

    He thanks Nahray for burning his last letter. He asks for news of 'al-kabīra' Sitt Muruwwa, who had been sick.

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    1. וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה בעד אשתיאק עטים אליה
    2. פבלג מני אלמבלג אלעטים ממא סררת בה גאיה אלסרור ודעות אלי אללה אל…

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  8. 13658LetterT-S 12.399

    From the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Shelomo b. Shela ha-Sar" On recto, the only part of the body of the letter that remains is the end of the right margin and the entirety of the upper margin, in which Yefet excuses himself for not having accompanied Shelomo somwhere.

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  9. 13659Legal documentT-S 12.465

    Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1181) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's name, Yahya ha-Levi, and the bride was probably Sitt al-Baha. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 120, 382, and from Goitein's index cards)

    1. מע[
    2. דינאר מרתבה [
    3. צדר דיבאג ומגנבין דיבא[ר
    4. חמשה דינארי חקה לטיפה ומבכרה ומ[
    5. תלתה דנאניר מקדמה וכרסי תרי דינארי והאוי כלל כתובת[
    6. יחיי הלוי חתנא דנן א…

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  10. 13660Legal documentT-S 12.468

    Kabīr asks for approval about a shipment of indigo to Qayrawan for the person who previously had the indigo in Fustat, Qimoy b. al-Ḥasan. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #106) VMR

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    1. בא לפנינו אנו בית דין אברהם בר כביר ומסר כן ואמר כי יצחק בר אברהם
    2. נ'נ' הניח עזבון אצל קימוי בר אלחסן במצרים והיא פרקמטיה ולאחר
    3. פטירת יצחק זה ה…

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  11. 13661LetterT-S 12.839

    Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī to a relative (probably his sister’s son, his nephew).

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    1. [                                                            ] ובאמת [ 
    2. [                                                              ] ווקף …

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  12. 13662Legal documentT-S 13J30.1

    Yehuda owes to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā the doctor al-Levi. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Jottings in Arabic and Hebrew script in the margin.

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  13. 13663Legal documentT-S 16.160

    Abraham renounces any claim against Saʿīd b. Yisraʾel al-Ṭustarī (Saʿadya b. Yisraʾel b. Yaʿaqov Tustarī), a scion of the famous Qaraite family.

    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה] לפנינו אנחנו העדים החתומים למטה בכתב הזה
    2. ] שהוא יום תשעה לחדש אב משנת אלף ושלש
    3. מאות . . . . . . . וש]מנה שנים למספר יונים בארץ מצר…

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  14. 13664LetterT-S 16.264

    Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Susa.

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    1. וצל כתאבך יאכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך ווקפת

    2. מנה עלי מא סררת בה מן סלאמתך ועאפיתך אדאמהא אללה לך ב…

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    1. הגיע מכתבך, אחי ואדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך וישלים לך את חסדו, וקראתי
    2. בו דברים משמחים על שלומך ועל בריאו…

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  15. 13665Legal documentT-S 18J1.2

    Ya'ish and his wife from all obligations regarding an inheritance. Dated Sivan 1395/1084 (date in document) or 1375.1064 (date given in Mediterranean Society II, p. 570 n. 34).

    1. שהד]ותא דהוה באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא בשטרא דנ[ן
    2. ב]תרין [ב]שבה דהוא חמשה ועשרים יומין בירח [ס]יוון דשנת אלפא ותלת מא[ה
    3. ותש]עין וחמש שנין למנ…

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  16. 13666Legal documentT-S 18J2.14

    The statements were written in India, almost certainly in 1145.

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    1. אלדי נשהד //⟦אנ⟧\\ בה //אנא\\ מצמון בן סאלם באן כתב אברהם בן ישו
    2. אלכתב מן קבל //מחאסבה\\ אלנאכדה בשיר באים אעדה וסלמנאהא
    3. אנא מצמון בן סאלם ואל…

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    1. This is what I testify, \\I//, Maḍmūn b. Sālim: Abraham b. Yishū wrote
    2. the letters a few days before \\he settled the account// with the nākhu…

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  17. 13667LetterT-S 18J3.14

    The writer thanks Faraḥ for his letter, praising him at length and sends greetings to Ibn al-Barakāt. (Information from CUDL.)

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  18. 13668Legal documentT-S 20.86

    Beginning of a ketubba.Location: Fusṭāṭ. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Moshe, a widow. Groom: Sason. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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  19. 13669Legal documentT-S 20.99

    Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and his children.

    1. [...........] מ[....................]
    2. [............]קא..[....................] 
    3. [...........]בד כאן אנפדתה מעה ב..מה [..........]
    4. [...........]ן [מ]…

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  20. 13670LetterT-S Ar.7.4

    The writer accuses her of having ruined the honor of her family and his family, although he does not believe the more serious rumors about her.

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  21. 13671Paraliterary textT-S Ar.29.190 fol. 13

    Perhaps intended as a aid for those who were already knowledgable about calendar calculations.

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  22. 13672Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.30.184.12

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 and a half dinars (and following that another) half dinar.

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  23. 13673Literary textT-S Ar.30.304

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic containing a chapter entitled "In praise of knowledge and in condemnation of ignorance and anger," which opens with a discussion of Quran 41:34 (وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ۚ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ) citing ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

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  24. 13674State documentT-S Ar.35.162

    Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto and the right margin of verso (the tax receipt side) contain a fiscal account (see PGPID 39214), suggesting that the paper for the tax receipt was cut from the account.

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  25. 13675List or tableT-S Ar.35.249

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic but mostly comprised of alphanumerical calculations. Mentioning the currencies mashṭ, corona, and kalb.

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  26. 13676State documentT-S Ar.35.370

    Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī and saqlāṭun), rock crystal, and a tall door made of date palm wood.

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. احضرت الثوب العتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل وادام علاه وسلامته بحضور مولاي

    3. الامير سيف الدولة ومرضيها ادام الله …

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  27. 13677Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.38.87

    Question addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult (faqīh) with regard to a man who was frightened by another man concerning the medicine that he had taken, so that he then feared a chronic illness (shayʾ min amrāḍ al-zamān) on account of the fright that he had received.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. ما يقول سيدنا الفقيه و فقه الله 
    3. في شخص شارب دوا من اول يوم و هوا
    4. في بيته و عرض عرض احوجه الخروج من
    5. بيته ليقضى حاجة لن…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  
    2. What does our lord, the jurisconsult, may God grant him prosperity, say 
    3. regarding the f…

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  28. 13678List or tableT-S Ar.39.202

    One of them mentions [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Dahrūṭī.

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  29. 13679LetterT-S Ar.39.254

    The sender orders acacia (aqāqiya) and mentions condensed walnut juice (rubb al-jawz) and the pressing of something. (Information in part from CUDL.)

    1. . . . . . . . . ويوم الثلثـ[ـا
    2. כרמי من بلبيس يقول ان [
    3. الذي خليته وخرجت هو الذ[ي
    4. تقصرون(؟) بما اعبد(؟) عندكم هـ[
    5. مضيه وانما انكسه(؟) كلام جرى [
    6. علم …

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  30. 13680State documentT-S Ar.39.278

    The nature of the request is unclear, but requests the issuance of a decree "bi-khurūj al-tawqīʿ". Refers to 'the aforementioned city.'

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  31. 13681Legal documentT-S Ar.42.184

    May concern the estate of a dead man (al-marḥūm). Various names are mentioned, including ʿĪsā Bey the nāẓir and [...] b.

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  32. 13682LetterT-S Ar.51.108

    Verso (secondary use): Letter which consists entirely of a versified Grace after Meals for Shabbat in Hebrew (this identification is from FGP) and the closing lines, in the same hand, in Judaeo-Arabic ("I greet you and all the friends, and may R. Natan and Rabbenu and his son be in perfect well-being").

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  33. 13683Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    The contents of the order are repeated at the top in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. All this is crossed out.

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  34. 13684Legal documentT-S AS 121.31 + T-S AS 121.32

    Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Abū ʿAlī, Aharon, Meshullam a.k.a. Musallam, Shela known as Abū l-F[aḍl?]

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  35. 13685List or tableT-S AS 146.136

    Mentions Barsime(o) Robaldo al-Janawī (=the Genoese). Sal ammoniac (nushādir) is mentioned a few times.

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  36. 13686Legal documentT-S AS 148.150

    Menashshe known as Ibn al-[...]. Refers to Yemen (maybe he died there); and another person [...] b. [...]n ha-Levi.

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  37. 13687LetterT-S AS 148.184

    Letter to the sender’s mother, in Cairo (yaṣil ilā maḥrūsat al-qāhira). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.

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  38. 13688LetterT-S AS 149.1

    Few names or specifics are preserved, but he mentions having recruited ʿAyyāsh al-Safāquṣī to help him. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . ] . ס[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]ס . . . [ . . . .
    2. . . . . . . ]צל אלינא פיבלגני מא יבלגני נובה [ . . . ]י פאראה …

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  39. 13689LetterT-S AS 149.69

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  40. 13690Legal documentT-S AS 149.189 + T-S NS 323.32

    Elʿazar. AA/ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum

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  41. 13691Legal documentT-S AS 149.247

    Mentioning the city of Maḥalla al-Kubrā; Abū l-Ḥasan; and Abū l-Munā Tiqva ha-Levi (possibly the same as the one mentioned in T-S 12.683 and Bodl.

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  42. 13692Legal documentT-S AS 150.19

    One side: Something involving Shemarya b. Yosef al-Iq[rīṭishī?] and his wife Malīḥa (cf. T-S NS 323.27 (PGPID 25606)).

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  43. 13693Legal documentT-S AS 151.236 + T-S AS 153.126

    (Information in part from CUDL) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  44. 13694Legal documentT-S AS 152.184

    Mentions Shabbetay the blind (סגיא נהור), a house (al-dār), quires (karārīs), and furnishings (athāth).

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  45. 13695Legal documentT-S AS 152.386

    Minute fragment from a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.

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  46. 13696LetterT-S AS 153.39

    Prefaced with ~10 biblical quotations (all missing except for the וגו at the end of each line).

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  47. 13697Legal documentT-S AS 157.268

    Dating: likely early 13th century. Involves Abū Manṣūr al-Shā[...], Ṭāhir b. [...], something being certified for a woman, and a sum of nuqra dirhams.

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  48. 13698LetterT-S AS 160.262

    אלטוב) for two months... saved the slave (=me) and after all this...." AA. ASE.

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  49. 13699Legal documentT-S AS 160.316

    Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a woman named Ḥākima (another version of her name may appear in line 7: [...]aba al-madhkūra). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  50. 13700LetterT-S AS 170.121

    Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Mentions Ṭāhir al-Kohen; tells the addressee to tell him that the only reason his brother Abu l-Ḥasan didn't go out to see him is that he was suffering from ophthalmia; mentions ʿImrān.

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