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  1. 13701Legal documentT-S AS 148.65

    Legal document from Tyre between Musāfir b. Pinḥas (?) and ʿAmram b. L[...] regarding a payment of a debt. Refers to "leaving this copy in …

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  2. 13702Legal documentT-S 8.274

    Recto: Legal document. Dated: beginning of Ṭevet 1457 Seleucid = December 1145 CE. In which Yaḥyā b. Ṣedaqa confirms that a house which he had …

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  3. 13703LetterT-S AS 147.114

    Letters in Hebrew. Narrow vertical strip. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Recto: Mentions Sar ha-S[arim]. Verso: Communal letter, written in a different …

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  4. 13704Legal documentHalper 359

    Legal document (debt settlement) issued by a qāḍī court in the Musallamiyya madrasa of Damietta. In Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Dated: 10 …

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    1. الحمد لله وهو حسبي هلك حساده
    2. كتبه [؟] الفقير عبد الرحمن الاقصراي الحنبلي
    3. المولى قضا دمياط وخلافتها

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    1. باس…

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    1. Praise to God ... until his Day of Judgement.

    Verso, left, main text

    1. Praise be to God.

    2. In the law court referenced on the re…

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  5. 13705List or tableJRL C 15

    Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dated: 19 Sivan and 24 Av 5569 AM, which is 1809 CE. The heading mentions a "wikala" (commercial …

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  6. 13706List or tableT-S AS 183.237

    A few words in Arabic script, possibly including "dhahab" and "dīnār" on the back of Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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  7. 13707Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79.15

    P15: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a certain Abū ʿAlī. Likely a join with P14. T-S Misc.28.79.2 and T-S Misc.28.79.15 …

    T-S Misc.28.79 15

    1. אכתלאף אגנ[אסהא 
    2. ולא יעדל אחד [
    3. ענהם ורצי[
    4. מא אלתזמה ע[לי 
    5. סוף ולא אלא [
    6. אלשיך אבו על[י 
    7. ודון וראתי ב[עד 
    8. [פי ו]סט הדה אלש[רכה 
    9. [.…

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  8. 13708Literary textT-S NS 160.11

    Literary: prayers. This unusual fragment from the Cairo Geniza contains an Aramaic version of the Hebrew prayer Ve-ilu finu (“Were Our Mouths [Filled with Song]”). …

    Translated by Avi Steinhart.

    Were our mouths filled with thanksgivings and ancient psalms,   our tongues like stormy winds that know no rest, Our l…

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  9. 13709Legal documentT-S AS 150.153

    Legal document mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥalf[on], [...] b. Ḥabīb the elder, Nissim, and someone's death. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?

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  10. 13710LetterT-S AS 153.215

    Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with widened space between the lines.

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  11. 13711LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 210

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 18th or 19th century. Needs examination.

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  12. 13712LetterT-S 8J21.8

    Letter from Salāma b. Ismaʿīl to Ismaʿīl b. [...] concerning business affairs. Dating: 11th century. (Information from CUDL.)

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  13. 13713Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 131.193

    Receipt for a faqīh, possibly for an apartment compound (min māl rabʿ al-[...]). This might be followed by a year ([.]57?). His companion (ṣāḥib) Rajā …

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  14. 13714LetterT-S AS 212.25

    Letter fragment from which only the address has been preserved. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The letter recipient, Shemuʾel Ḥefeṣ, is …

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  15. 13715LetterT-S NS J604

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged/faded. The addressee is evidently an important person, as recto consists mostly of poetical praises. The substance of the letter …

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  16. 13716Unknown typeENA NS 85.1480

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  17. 13717LetterT-S AS 146.121

    Letter fragment (lower part of recto). Very faded, reddish ink, distinctive (late?) hand with long sweeping strokes at the ends of words. Mentions dinars and …

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  18. 13718Unknown typeENA NS 76.335

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  19. 13719LetterJRL B 3493

    Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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  20. 13720Literary textENA 4193.37–38

    Literary text about al-Khansāʾ and her brother Ṣakhr. ٍSeems like an adapted narrative with few a selected elegiac verses from al-Khasāʾ’s dīwān, could be pages …

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  21. 13721Paraliterary textENA 3773.4

    Magical fragment. From top down: 1 line of names in Hebrew (Elʿazar, Hillel, Shela, Yefet, ʿEli); 4 rows of magical symbols; 1 line in Judaeo-Arabic, …

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  22. 13722LetterT-S NS 325.26

    Probably a letter of praise in rhymed Hebrew for [...] Shemarya ha-Rosh. Written in a beautiful scribal hand in square characters on a lined piece …

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  23. 13723LetterT-S F3.132

    Letter in Hebrew. Late. Possibly embedded within a literary text. It begins on line 5 of recto. See FGP for further information.

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  24. 13724LetterT-S AS 146.109

    Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlī al-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and …

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  25. 13725State documentENA NS 12.26

    Verso (original use): "Commercial receipt" for ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  26. 13726Legal documentT-S AS 152.198

    Legal fragment (upper right corner). Dated: Iyyar 14[..] Seleucid = 1089–1188 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Acknowledgment made by Abū Saʿd Shemuel ha-Levi. The handwriting is distinctive …

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  27. 13727State documentT-S AS 183.338

    Small fragment of Arabic document(s). Recto looks like part of a line from a state document. Verso has a mirror-image imprint of text from another …

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  28. 13728LetterJRL AF 50.11–12

    Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. The names Avraham and Nissim appear.

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  29. 13729Legal documentT-S Ar.50.57 + T-S 8J4.20

    Legal document. Declaration made by Peraḥya b. Natan for Ḥiyya b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen concerning potential claims of the latter against the orphan son of the …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא] אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא 
    2. כן הוה חצר אלינא פרחיה הזקן ב]ר נתן נע וקאל לנא אשהדו
    3. עלי ואקנו מני בכל לישאני] דזכואתא ואכתבו ואכתמ…

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  30. 13730LetterBodl. MS heb. f 101/41

    Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant). In Judaeo-Arabic.The writer congratulates the recipient on his recent marriage and mentions …

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    1. רקעתי אליך יאמולאי וסידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה
    2. בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וסעאדתך
    3. וסלאמתך ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק
    4. אליך שדיד גמע אללה ביננא עלי אפ…

    recto

    1. (2-1) אני כותב לך פתק זה, אדוני ורבי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך 
    2. (4-3) ואת שלומך, כאשר שלומ…

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  31. 13731Legal documentJRL P 1270 + T-S 8.229

    Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Sharaf (סת אלשרף). The part preserved here consists mainly of the dowry list. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: …

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  32. 13732Paraliterary textT-S AS 144.7

    Fols. 1r–2r: Geomancy castings in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew: (1) "If a man will come from outside of Egypt and take over justice and religion …

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  33. 13733Unknown typeT-S AS 150.61

    Unidentified. Scattered words mostly in Judaeo-Arabic; may be pen trials.

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  34. 13734Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.14

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1156. An unsigned and undated non-compete contract between Abū al-Makārim al-Dimashqī Nadiv b. Mevaser and an unnamed party. Nadiv agrees …

    1. יכתב שטר עלי אבו אלמכארם אלדמשקי נדיב בן

    2. מבשר אנה לא יתעארץ לשרי חריר ולא לביעה

    3. לא כאם ולא מצבוג ולא ישארך פיה ולא ירסלה ומתי מא

    4. תביין עליה ש…

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    1. A document was written concerning Abu al-Makārim al-Dimashqī Nadiv b.
    2. Mevaser, that he will compete in neither buying silk or selling it,
    3. neith…

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  35. 13735Legal documentT-S 20.22

    Bill of release. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1459 Seleucid = September/October1148 CE. in which Yeshuʿa ha-Levi releases Netanʾel and Menashshe b. Ḥalfon. Signed by …

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  36. 13736Literary textT-S AS 204.72

    Literary fragment of Qaraite interest. "We have completed . . . [Binyamin] b. Moshe Nahāwandī."

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  37. 13737LetterT-S 12.493

    Letter from a woman to the Head of the Jews, in Fustat. Dating: Early twelfth century (see explanation below). The writer asks the addressee to …

    1. לנצח אן [
    2. סתהם קד [תופית וליס מן]
    3. ידברהם גי[רי ] אן הדה אלדינארין אלדי תוכד
    4. פי מאונת[הם מא יחצל] מנהא גיר כסרה כבז פקט עלי
    5. מ]וצע אלאמור ואיצא אן הונ…

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    [ ... May your rule last] for ever. 

    The grandmother [of the orphans so-and-so and so-and-so has died and there is now no one] who looks after …

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  38. 13738Legal documentT-S Misc.28.61

    Legal document. Dated: Probably [16]11 Seleucid, which is 1299/1300 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham (II) Maimonides. Location: Fustat. (Avraham I served 1204–37, …

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  39. 13739LetterMoss. II,181

    Letter from Shemuel he-Ḥaver b. Moshe, Tyre, to Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver b. Yosef, Aleppo, ca. 1025.

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    1. שלום אפוד חן אזור חסד מצאוי תפארת מיכלל יופי ליקירי ברוב שבח
    2. כב גד קדו מר ור יעקב החבר בסנהדרי גדולה יגדל ברוב עוז ושלום ברבי
    3. יוסף בי די אלדיו…

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  40. 13740Legal documentAIU VII.D.61

    Recto: Legal document. There is a single signature from the scribe Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm, which he must have included before discarding this document as an unfinished …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שהמנוח חיים לוי בכ׳׳ר ה׳׳מ (name omitted) בחיים חייתו היה שותף עם היקר ונע׳ כה׳׳ר משה סבייע יצ׳׳ו מבני מקרא
    3. וערל אחד ושמו אלמעלם (name o…

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  41. 13741Legal documentT-S AS 147.281

    Very damaged fragment of a ketubah. The bride's name is Husn. AA

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  42. 13742Unknown typeT-S NS 209.31

    One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is …

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  43. 13743LetterJRL B 4351

    Begging letter in Hebrew addressed to the 'community of foreigners (loʿazim) from a widow with five children. Already a recipient of communal charity, the writer …

    1. שלו
    2. שלום רב וישע יקרב לכבוד הקהל הקדוש המשובח הזה קהל
    3. הלועזים חכמי ונבונים גדולי וקטנים ישמרם צורם והשם יהיה
    4. בע[זר]ם אנס שפחתכם העניה האלמנה הדלה אג…

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  44. 13744Literary textT-S AS 131.12

    Halakhic text text on betrothal and marriage. Damaged

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  45. 13745LetterT-S 13J29.4

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentioning Abū Sulaymān and Ibn al-Qafaṣ (?). (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription.

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  46. 13746Legal documentT-S 13J4.7

    Legal document in which Aharon b. Abū al-Riḍāʾ and his wife, Labwa (“Lioness”) bt. Abū Ghālib, release each other from all claims. Labwa releases Aharon …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין לתתא למא כאן פי אלעשר
    2. אלאוסט מן חודש תמוז שנת אלפא וחמש מאה וחמשין וחמש שנין
    3. למנין שטרות למנינא דרגילנא לממני בי…

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    1. The testimony which took place before us, we, the undersigned witnesses: On the middle ten days 

    2. of the month of Tammūz 1555AG (June 1244) 

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  47. 13747Unknown typeJRL B 2583

    Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.

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  48. 13748Unknown typeENA NS 78.39

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  49. 13749LetterT-S 10J12.27

    Verso (original use): Letter. Request to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to write a recommendation to the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (which at that …

    1. להדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כגק מרינו ורבינו אדונינו
    2. הודינו והדרינו עטרת ראשינו אברהם השר האדיר
    3. המבהק החזק [הרב] הגדול בישראל בר כגק מר ורב
    4. אדונינו משה ה…

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  50. 13750Unknown typeT-S NS 298.52

    Booklist?

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