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  1. 13801List or tableT-S NS 271.191

    Reused for various jottings including the qaddish, little circles (geomancy?), and someone's name (Bū ʿImrān b. al-Shaykh [...]).

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  2. 13802Legal documentT-S NS 320.106

    Mentions a codex; a partnership (sharika); payments in installments. Names listed in the qiyyum: [...] ha-Parnas b. Shelomo; Yosef b.

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  3. 13803LetterT-S NS 324.8

    'Amram the cantor to a notable named Abu [...] b. Masliah, asking him to assist David b.

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  4. 13804Paraliterary textT-S NS 324.82

    Possibly a dedication or ownership page from a book. "Written in the name of the youth . . . ha-Levi ha-Yaqar the noble groom . . .

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  5. 13805List or tableT-S NS 325.181a

    On verso a Bible citation possibly written by Natan b. Avraham Av. At the bottom: "ḥazaq li-Makārim b.

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  6. 13806LetterT-S NS J281

    Dating: late 12th or early 13th century. The sender's name originally appeared in the right margin.

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  7. 13807Legal documentT-S NS J622

    Informal note of the court, likely in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to write out the will that has been sent so that a comparison of two copies can be made.

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  8. 13808LetterAIU VII.A.17

    Draft of a letter/petition from an official to the Nagid Mevorakh. In Judaeo-Arabic. Same sender, same addressee, and same subject as T-S 18J4.12 (PGPID 3534). […] There are two chief complaints. (1) "Members of the (larger) Palestinian synagogue had enticed many of those belonging to the Iraqi one to join their house of worship They held out lures, such as a promise that children would be able to participate more often by being called up to the Torah, since the Scriptural readings in the Palestinian rite were short (and, hence, required less preparation)." (2) "The second reason for the desolate state of the synagogue was the despotic behavior of the beadle (khādim), named al-rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ghazāl. This Abū l-Ḥasan had been lording it over the congregation, acting more like a rayyis than a beadle, giving orders, taking charge of litigations, and even forcing Mevorakh's own muqaddam (he is called muqaddam in one letter and nāʾib in the other) to cower in his presence. […] Living with the beadle on the synagogue premises were about fifteen of his relatives, who regarded him as the local boss (shaykh al-mawḍiʿ wa-ṣāḥib amr wa-nahy)." In the AIU letter, the sender describes what may be a further deterioration: "Only a few people... remain in the Babylonian congregation, and they are mainly indigents," as this sender witnessed for himself when he attended services on the previous Shabbat together with Ḥalfon b.

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  9. 13809Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#47) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 12r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

  10. והשאיר אחריו אלמנתו היקרה מ׳ בואניא (Buena) ת׳׳מ בת הר׳ מרדכי יצחקי נ׳׳ע ושני בניו יצחק הנז׳ והבחור יעקב יצ׳׳ו
  11. ונשארו חזקת הקאעה והעלייה שעל גבה הנז׳ בכלל קרקעות אחרים משועבדים לממותו בעד סכי כתובתה
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  13. 13810LetterT-S 13J16.2

    Letter sent from Alexandria by Hayyim b. Eli ha-Kohen to his father in Fustat, asking him to complete a number of errands, in particular in …

    לי מן עלי בן אלטבני מא וצא לי בה ויעלמני פי כתאבה פקד כאן לי ענדה פי אלדוכאן תוב דביקי

    Top margin, diagonal lines written upside down.

    מפצל | ומקטעין | עמל | עסקלאן | תסאלה לי ען | אלגמיע | וקד אנפדת | מע חסן | צאלחכם . | . . . . . |

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    1. אני כותב לך, אבי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך
    2. ואת שלומך ואת חסדו לך, מאלכסנדריה, בכ"ח בטבת; שלו…

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  14. 13811List or tableT-S K15.96

    List, eight columns, of more than 180 names receiving alms. Many payments of 1/8 dinar.

    c, left, line 10: dot over first gimel

    1. dot over name in right hant page,so perhaps a dhal, or kha
    1. Khiyar stands surety for Nissi, so payment goes to him

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  15. 13812Legal documentAIU VII.D.64

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Yehuda b. Shelomo ha-Sofer is one of the witnesses.

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  16. 13813Literary textCUL Or.1080 J160

    Of documentary interest because there are a great number of biblical place names given their Judaeo-Arabic equivalents (Kittim = Cyprus(!)

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  17. 13814LetterCUL Or.1080 J163

    The content is mostly faded or lost. The name [...] b. Yeshuʿa appears on verso; perhaps this is the address.

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  18. 13815LetterCUL Or.1081 1.28

    Recto: Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Yefet ha-Nadiv Zaqen ha-Qahal and R. Yosef ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Qahal (both are also mentioned in T-S 13J6.21, ca. 1100).

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  19. 13816Paraliterary textCUL Or.1081 J39

    Prescription in Judaeo-Arabic for Abū Yaḥyā, including instructions for both medicine and diet. The name of the recipient at the beginning and the phrase "effective if God wills" at the end are written in Arabic script.

    1. الشيخ ابو يحي
    2. יוכד אהלילג כאבלי דרה תרבד וגאריקון ויארג פיקרא מן כל א נצף דרה
    3. ראונד ואפתימון ואפסנתין מן כל א דאנקין מקל אזרק ומלח דראני
    4. ומצטכי מן כ…
  20. ...Diet: chicken
  21. ASBĪD BĀḠ (spinach?) and replace the water while skimming with white wine. Beneficial if God wills.
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  23. 13817LetterHUC 1007

    On verso there appears the name of the ḥaver Saʿdaya b. Yisraʾel the cantor.

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  24. 13818LetterJRL B 4538

    Menashshe (Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, early 12th century). The addressee's name seems to contains Yaʿaqov in it. AA/MR/ASE/OZ.

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    1. בשמ
    2. אלדי אעלמך בה .[                ]
    3. עזך אן יום כרוג[ך                   ]
    4. ווצלת באב אלקדי[ם(?)             ]
    5. אלוצטאניה אלי אלק.[           ]

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  25. 13819Legal documentJRL B 6162

    Recto contains the upper portion of a legal testimony, possibly a record of a purchase, in the name of Hibat Allāh b. Abū l-Riḍā. Verso contains another portion of a legal testimony.

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  26. 13820Legal documentJRL B 6590

    On verso: Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe (ZL) and Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (fl. 1128–1164 CE).

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  27. 13821List or tableJRL C 91

    In the Ladino notes there is reference to the name Abraham and the Ottoman monetary term "para" may appear in labeling one portion of the numerical figures.

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  28. 13822Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 393

    A portion of a date and several names are mentioned, including one Jewish judge (Dāʾūd b. [...] al-Yahūdī al-Dayyān).

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  29. 13823LetterMIAC 283

    Personal letter for someone named Yosef Ḥirāz – (number 283) – in Judeo-Arabic.

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  30. 13824LetterMoss. IV,12.2

    Nissim and his wife, the daughter of Joseph (the space for her name has been left blank), in the handwriting of Yefet b.

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  31. 13825Legal documentMoss. VII,50.2

    Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning payments in installments, and the names Yefet and Benaya(?). Dating: mentions Sivan 1434 Seleucid (= May/June 1123 CE).

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  32. 13826State documentMoss. VIII,243.1-2

    Mentions a wazīr but the portion of his name is cut off in the lacunae. Some of the preserved text reads as: ..والمواريث ولمولاي الوزير الاجل الصدة (؟)اطال الله بقاه.

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  33. 13827LetterNLI 577.1/36

    Possibly a letter of appeal or a divorce document narrating the writer's circumstances. He was married for 14 years until on Saturday the 14th of Jumādā l-Ūlā (of an unspecified year), he divorced his wife.

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  34. 13828Literary textPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.10 (Michaelides 10)

    Religious text mentioning the name of Saʻīd ibn Ḥasan al-Talimsānī. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "Poeme religieux d'un poëte inconnu" ; on a separate small piece of paper : "Poems of an unknown poet" ; [next line, in red] : "religious"].

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  35. 13829List or tableT-S 8J8.9

    Signed by Yakin b. Ḥalfon and Nahum b. Hiba. EMS

    1. אלדי אצבנא ענד אבו אלכיר צדקה מן גמלה אלענזרות
    2. ג ורדאת ענזרות וזנהא מאיה כמסה וסתין רטל
    3. ואיצא מזודין מאיה וכמסתעשר רטל זיתיה כרג מנהא
    4. ביד אלפראנסה ג…

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  36. 13830Legal documentT-S 8J10.10

    Yefet. Fiancé: [...] b. Natan.

    1. [בפנינו אנו בית דין הק]בוע בפסטאט מצר[ים] ו[מן] דִ[ח]תִ[י]םִ עימנא
    2. [לתחתא למא סהל אלכאלק תעא]לי דכרُה ותקדّסת אסמאה [אס]באב אלוُצלה
    3. [... ב]ר נתן הזק…

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  37. 13831List or tableT-S 8J17.18

    Ṭarīf and Abū l-Maʿālī in the provincial towns (al-Rīf) by order of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1142–59).

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  38. 13832Legal documentT-S 10J2.34

    This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. It has no names. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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    1. בתרי בשבה דהוא עשרין יומי לירח אלול דשנת
    2.  אלפא וארבע מאה ותשעין ותרתין שנין ל לשטרות
    3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מאתבה אנא פל׳
    4.  בר פל׳ וכל שום…
  39. ...Monday], which is the twentieth day of the month of ʾElul of the year
  40.   one thousand, four hundred and ninety-two years according to the (Era of) Documents, 
  41.    in Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, which is situated on the river Nile [Nilus], I , ‘so and so’ 
  42.     son of ‘so and so’, and all the names and nicknames that I have, do desire of my own
  43.     free will, without coercion, to divorce, to release, to let go
  44.     you, ‘so and so’ daughter of ‘so and so’, and all the names and nicknames that you
  45.     have, who have until now been my wife.
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  47. 13833Legal documentT-S 10J3.4

    Part of a geṭ in which [...] divorces his wife, [...] (names not preserved). Dated 1[.]th Sivan [...]7 (= [...]6 CE).

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  48. 13834Legal documentT-S 13J2.8

    Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, Shelomo b. Natan ha-Haver, and Yeshu'a b. Yakhin.

    1. חצר אלי בית דין ר עלי
    2. בן כבוד גק הלל החזן הגדול
    3. וטאלב ר משה הזקן ביר אפרים
    4. בעמאמתין סקיליה שראהא סתה
    5. דנאניר ורבע מנד יב סנה ונחוהא
    6. פסאל מר משה דנן ע…

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  49. 13835LetterT-S 13J22.21 + T-S 8J22.14 + T-S 13J16.11

    Letter from the Rosh ha-Seder to a cantor named Aharon, instructing him to appoint Ghalib b.

    1. ראש הסדר
    2. אהובנו ר' אהרן החזן תבורך
    3. ויחי חמודך ויפרה וירבה לעד
    4. חצר מן ערף אן מרה אבו אלחסן
    5. צירפי מעה תחת צרר ואדיה
    6. וחכי אנהא תותר אלתחכיל עליה
    7. פתמצי …

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  50. 13836LetterT-S 16.68

    Shemuel writes to introduce the young Natan b. Avraham. (Information from CUDL)

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    1. שלום לשוחר [טוב ]ממון [ ] כל המון ראש כברוש אסקובטר
    2. גם חכמון יקר שמו במקהלות פאר ערמון הולך וגדל כרקח בשמון קנמון
    3. ככוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו שמ…

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  51. 13837State documentT-S Ar.19.5

    Document in Arabic script, an official receipt for expenses in the name of the ship captain Raʾīs Muḥammad Barakāt.

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  52. 13838State documentT-S Ar.34.192

    Probably a small piece of a state document, or perhaps a legal document due to the mention of witnesses.Contains an oddly placed basmala at the center of the fragment, and a name Yūnus b. Yūnus b. Qarfūra (or Furfūra). Needs examination.

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  53. 13839Legal documentT-S Ar.50.88

    On verso there are some lines in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in two different handwritings. Mentioning the name Ibn al-ʿŪdī.

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  54. 13840LetterT-S AS 142.55 + T-S AS 203.161

    A sale of wheat and cheese is mentioned, and few names such as PYMH פיימה, David Shamno, Elya the minister and Rabbi Shelomo.

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  55. 13841LetterT-S AS 149.191 + T-S AS 149.122 + T-S AS 149.216

    Letter in Hebrew addressed to a notable named Yaḥyā b. Menashshe (יחיה בן מנשה). Likely a letter of appeal for charity.

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  56. 13842LetterT-S AS 150.65

    Dating: 13th century (the hand is probably known). Narrow vertical strip of paper. The sender asks the addressee to send him the notebook (kurrās) containing the midrash about Yom Kippur in his own handwriting.

    1. צבח אללה אלמגלס אלסאמי
    2. יר הו בכל סעאדה
    3. ובכל נעמה
    4. ינעם יסיר ללכאדם
    5. אלכראס אלדי פיה
    6. מדרש עלי אלכפור
    7. והו בכטי וכאן
    8. אערתה לסידנא
    9. פי אלכ . . . ית כנא
    10. מגת…

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  57. 13843List or tableT-S AS 152.14

    Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning names such as Ibn al-Ghaniyy (?) and Yosef b. Yehuda al-Levi.

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  58. 13844Legal documentT-S AS 152.170

    Ṣadoq Av Bet Din and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver, both known from other documents from the middle of the 12th century.

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  59. 13845LetterT-S AS 152.305

    Verso: addendum by another family member, Abū l-Surūr, with greetings for various people including Sitt Naʿīm. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  60. 13846Legal documentT-S AS 153.137

    Verso contains some crossed out text; portions of names; the words bayt din, istiḥqāq, a quarter and an eighth, and a guardian (אפטרופא).

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  61. 13847Legal documentT-S AS 153.395

    Legal document mentioning ʿImrān al-Nafūsī and Moshe the elder and a partnership (commenda) contract (sheṭar al-muḍāraba).

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  62. 13848LetterT-S AS 160.273

    Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. There is an 'emet' header and the letter addresses itself to "the community" (al-jamāʿa).

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  63. 13849Legal documentT-S AS 185.114

    Ṣadoq Av Bet Din and Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1467 Seleucid = 1155/56 CE based on the letters around Mevorakh's signature.

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  64. 13850Unknown typeT-S AS 185.154

    Notable for jottings possibly copied from a legal document (והכל שריר ובריר וקים) including the names of witnesses: Yosef b. Shelomo and [Bera]khot b.

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