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  1. 14051LetterT-S K25.75

    Reused on verso for what may be the responsum —the layout resembles a letter, but the content is all explication of halakhic things.

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  2. 14052Legal query or responsumT-S Misc. 35.90 + T-S Misc.35.104 + T-S Misc.35.105 + T-S NS 310.64 + T-S NS 329.445 + T-S Misc.35.103

    Index of Geonic responsa and their subject matter, numbered and organised by authority or questioner where known (‘questions of the people of Wādī al-Qarī to rabbenu Šerira Gaʾon’). ;Belongs with T-S Misc. 35.90, T-S Misc. 35.104, T-S Misc. 35.105, T-S NS 310.64 and T-S NS 329.445.

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  3. 14053State documentT-S Misc.9.29

    Headed with a paragraph naming ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Ismāʿīl and mentioning the dīwān. Likely state/tax related.

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  4. 14054State documentT-S Misc.22.252

    One column is probably a petition and the other the rescript (identical format to T-S NS 96.66, which was edited by Khan). Mentions Saʿd al-Mulk in l. 3 of the right column. This fragment may have been turned into a book binding, based on the mottled splotches and brushstrokes on it.

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  5. 14055LetterT-S Misc.28.245

    Evyatar ha-Kohen and the flax of Abū l-Barakāt al-Jaʿfarī. (Information from Gil.)

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  6. 14056List or tableT-S NS 83.37

    Mentions names such as Abū l-Khayr b. Tammām and Yosef al-Ḥazzan. Most of the books seem to be religious in nature.

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  7. 14057List or tableT-S NS 99.78 + T-S NS 99.77 + T-S NS 99.79 + T-S NS 99.80 + T-S NS 99.81

    One and a half pages are filled with a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with refrains which are different from each other but which all end with "yo." The remaining two and a half pages are filled with accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the year 1581 (Elul 5341) and 1582 CE (Elul 5342).

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  8. 14058List or tableT-S NS 226.35

    The elegant scribal hand is distinct and more cursive than many other 16th-century fragments in this genre. Old Cairo (Miṣr al-Qadīma) is referenced at least three times on the recto and verso.

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  9. 14059Legal documentT-S NS 226.97

    , "5 for Furayj who is in Malīj and 5 for Saʿīd who is in [...], and the children all release each other, and everything in the house belongs to Dāʾūd."

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  10. 14060LetterT-S NS 226.116 + T-S NS 226.114

    It is worth noting the term [tashtarī] bi-mā qasama Alāhu wa-razaqa , literally ‘purchase for whatever price God apportions and grants as a livelihood (and send it).

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  11. 14061Legal documentT-S NS 264.35

    The first part is in Arabic script: "What remains (owed) to al-Shaykh Abu l-Faraj...." The sum is 25 wariq dirhams.

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  12. 14062List or tableT-S NS 264.39 + T-S Ar.34.270

    Dated in the upper left corner of folio T-S NS 264.39v and T-S Ar.34.270: Jumāda al-Awwal 960 AH (1553 CE). Mentions many names, many of them Muslim (Aḥmad, Muḥammad, etc.).

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  13. 14063Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 297.76

    Receipt for rent of for house for a period of one year, Ramaḍān through Shaʿbān. The tenant is Manṣūr al-Dajājī (same as in Bodl. MS heb. d 68/104?).

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  14. 14064LetterT-S NS 305.61

    Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. From Ibn al-Miṭrān ('son of the bishop'). Seems to be recommending the bearer (muwaṣṣilhā, l. 5) for charity or some other kind of support (isʿāf... muʿāḍada...).

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  15. 14065LetterT-S NS 306.5

    Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh Asad on Sunday, sums of 10 and 3 dirhams, and a request of the addressee, perhaps involving the sender's wife (or just his house).

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  16. 14066LetterT-S NS 314.6a

    Dating: No later than 1038 CE, since it mentions a letter from Hayya Gaon, who is still alive. Refers to somebody who fled into 'the lands of the Turks' and then into 'the lands of the Persians.'

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  17. 14067Legal documentT-S NS 320.140

    The name Abū Naṣr Ghazāl(?) al-Kohen may appear toward the bottom. Much of the text remains, but the content is opaque.

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  18. 14068LetterT-S NS 321.112

    Yosef, who asks the addressee to return books which he had lent to Rabbi David and which, he learned from Mūsā b. Abū l-Manṣūr al-Kohen, David had lent to the addressee. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.

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    1. ] . . . . . . . . . . . [
    2. בעלצון סואה כאן אלממלוך קד אעאר לר דויד החכם והנב[ון
    3. כראריס פיהא פירוש ונפד לי בעצהם ובקי אלבאקי וכנת קד
    4. וצית אלשיך …

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  19. 14069Legal documentT-S NS 327.146

    Document in Arabic script. It seems imposing alimony of 1/2 dirham per day on ʿEzra b. Menaḥem, the ex-husband of Jawhara bt.

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  20. 14070LetterT-S NS 338.74

    Mentions: receipt of the addressee's letter; news of a terrible thing (akhbār al-ʿaẓīma); something from the recipients student in his handwriting (min tilmīdhika bi-khaṭṭihi); something that will lead to corruption (fasād); an admonishment that the addressee should have written about something; greetings to Abū l-Faraj b.

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  21. 14071LetterT-S NS J207

    Letter from an unknown writer, in an unknown location, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Isḥāq al-Talmid, in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic and the address is in Arabic script.

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  22. 14072LetterT-S NS J290

    Know that if you do not close the yearly account that you owe to me, on the morning of the holiday I will send you the messengers of the house of the Ṣāḥib [al-Dīwān, the official in charge of the capitation tax]."

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  23. 14073List or tableT-S NS J400

    At bottom, a line followed by 'al-shamiyyin b' no doubt meaning that this collection was made on a Monday morning in the synagogue of the Palestinians.

    1. בשמך רח'
    2. אלשיך אבו אלעלא ב
    3. אבו אלסרור ב א]סמאעי[ל? ב
    4. סלאמה ב אבו אלטייב ב
    5. אלזביבי ב בן נוציר א
    6. הל]וי?[ א אבו גאלב ב גאלב א
    7. יוסף א סילימאן א יוסף אלפ…

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  24. 14074Legal documentYevr. II A 1308

    He should treat her well and not harm her or her relatives. She is allowed to visit her relatives after getting permission from him.

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  25. 14075Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    The little boy's (קטן) father is still alive but he is listed as an orphan, implying that his mother (Gentil's daughter) was already deceased.

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    :(Documents 19-20) Folio 5v

    1. להר׳ אברהם הנז׳ ולא לשותפו הר׳ יאודה הנז׳ לא לשניהם יחד ולא לשום אחר מהם לבדו על הר׳ מרדכי הנז׳ ול[א]
    2. על שום א׳ מב…

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  26. 14076Legal documentBL OR 12369.10

    The document BL OR 12369.10 bears two witness signatures, one very stylized Yiṣḥaq Shelomo[?] al-____[?] and the other more legible: David ha-Levi Caraso. […] Due to the damage at the opening of line 13, one of the key operative words in this document is illegible– making it difficult to ascertain what specific legal action the first group of individuals is taking with reference to the second group (although "transferring" (מוסרים) is clearly visible just before the damaged word).

    1. [בע]׳׳ה 
    2. לפ[ני]נו עדי[ם] החתומים מטה בא היקר 
    3. כה׳׳ר סי׳ אברהם שאש[א]נו(?) יצ׳׳ו והיקר כה׳׳ר
    4. ח׳ דוד בירא יצ׳׳ו והיקר כה׳׳ר משה הכן יצ׳׳ו והודו
    5. הודאה(…

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  27. 14077Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/57

    The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document was composed. […] Vol. 3, pp. 92. } The father of the groom vows to take care of all the bride's expenses for five years after the marriage.

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    1. בחמשא בשבא דהוא תלת עשרי יומי לירח תשרי
    2. שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ותשעין ושית שנין לשטרות
    3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה
    4. דאדונינו גאונינו ש…

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  28. 14078LetterENA 2558.29

    The letter reports on a man who came from Alexandria and said that he had litigation against his wife and that he sued his wife using responsa of rabbi Yosef (?)

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  29. 14079State documentENA 4193.19

    But if the situation changes — if a guarantor steps in to pay the debt, or the treasury (al-māl, short for bayt al-māl) steps in to seize the debtor's assets, the petitioner will inform the vizier.

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  30. 14080Legal documentF 1908.44SS

    Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yosef Ibn al-Dhahabī, his daughter, and her husband Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Avraham b. […] Price: 34 dinars. 2 dinars will be paid in Tishrei 1454 Seleucid = 1142 CE, and the remaining 32 dinars in monthly installments of 1 dinar. The guarantor is al-Labbān b. ʿAbdallāh. Jinān has a 2-year-old daughter named Wafāʾ, who will remain with the seller (separated from her mother).

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  31. 14081LetterIOM D 55.3

    Mentions people such as David ha-Dayyan, Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn Nufayʿ, and Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Maqdisī. "In an eloquent letter a traveler details all he had sent: 6 irdabbs of wheat (making 36 waybas per year, or 3 per month, as so often reported up to now), 4 "gold dinars," and several smaller remittances in silver, totaling 51 dirhams; here one or two lines are lost, no doubt containing the remaining 30 or so dirhams which could make a grand total of 6 dinars, again half a dinar per month.

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  32. 14082Legal documentMoss. VII,125.1

    Per Maimonides, the partners have the flexibility to create such a profit and loss sharing agreement only if they have multiple concurrent business relationships; otherwise the percentage of profits allocated to the active partner must exceed the percentage of losses by at least 1/6 of the total profit, in which case Avraham would have been allocated no less than 2/3 of the profit (since he is to share losses equally with Seʿadya).

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    1. סעדיה הכהן בר מנשה נע  
    2. לה מע כאלה  
    3. אבו אסחק אברהם בר אפרים נע  
    4. כו דינ יעמל בהא שרכה בינהמא  
    5. עלי אן אלכו [[פי דמתה]] לא יסלף מנהא  
    6. שי אלא …

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    1. Saadiah ha-Kohen b. Manasseh (who) r(ests in) E(den)
    2. has with his maternal uncle,
    3. Abū Isḥaq Abraham b. Ephraim (who) r(ests in) E(den,)
    4. 26 din(ars…

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  33. 14083Legal documentT-S 8J4.13 + T-S 20.92

    Yefet known as ha-Gizbar ("the Treasurer"), i.e., he was a government officer. (This Maṣliaḥ is also known from Megillat Evyatar as the man who brought up David b.

    A: TS 8 J 4, f. 13 B: TS 20.92

    1. אלגרב מלכה איצא (ומן) אלשרק מלך נהאיה ברת סקר זוגה / חפאט בן
    2. אלחבאל ומן אלשמאל איצא רואק משתרך ופיה אלבאב ואמא אלמרבט
    3. …

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  34. 14084Legal documentT-S 13J3.5

    The partners, Khalaf b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Damsīsī and Yosef b. Ḥassān al-Mahdawī, traveled to Upper Egypt to produce purple dye and dye purple textiles.

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    1. יוסף בן חסאן מהדוי   אלדין דינא דין    פבקא אבו אלחסן    כסליו וטבת    וליס עליה ימין  
    2. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנן חתומי מטה כן הוה בחדש מרחשון דשנת…

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    1. Joseph b. Ḥassān (al-)Mahdawī The debt was (two) dina(rs) as a (complete) debt Abū al-Ḥasan remained Kislev and Ṭevet He was not obligated in a…

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  35. 14085LetterT-S 13J25.14

    The writer describes his difficulties. He almost did not collect the debt from al-Ḥarīrī (the silk merchant) in Damsīs.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה
    2. וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן תניס נצף אלול כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא

    3. ועלא כל ישר' באחסן כאתמתה אעלמך יאמו…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך 
    2. ואת שלומך ואת חסדו לך, מתניס, בחצי אלול, יחתום אותו אלוהים …

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  36. 14086List or tableT-S AS 153.317

    The word שולטאני appears twice, which may be Arabic sulṭānī, which may also refer to currency. The word דוראקא (Arabic for "peach") and the phrase דוראקא מחרוקא (Arabic for "burnt peach") appear, but presumably not referring to actual peaches, burnt or not.

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  37. 14087Literary textT-S AS 202.372

    Verso is catalogued on FGP as a commentary on Daniel. There is also some Judaeo-Arabic on verso including various names of God.

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  38. 14088Legal documentT-S NS J51

    The second is a court record in which Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, called al-Zamin (‘the ailing’) obliges himself before the court of al-Sahrajt to pay his divorced wife Ra’isa bt.

    1. מן שהר אלול שנת [אשלח] לשטרות בפ[סטאט . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. שמואל הכהן בר אברהם הידוע בן אלמזויק וכיל חסאנה
    3. בת עלון אלמערוף בן אלמנפוכה ות.ל וכא…

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  39. 14089List or tableT-S NS J438

    Four pages of drafts of communal accounts, all crossed out [vertical and diagonal strokes], which was usually done after a clean copy was made. Page one is almost entirely identical with the T-S NS J251. The other pages are highly interesting for they contain many instructions by the Nagid Abraham Maimonides showing administrative practices in times of severe hardship.

    verso, right column

    1. [                            ] א'
    2. [                 ]אלפאצל ב'
    3. שבת במדבר אלגאבי צאחב אלמילה
    4.      לו >
    5. כרג כבז אלחזן אלמנקי אלשמש…

    right side (column b)

    1. 1.
    2. Balance, 2.
    3. (3-4) For the week of be-midbar, to al-Jābī, the circumciser, 36½.
    4. (5-6) Less bread, 14½ dir. And 1 kharrūb…

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  40. 14090LetterDK 232.1 (alt: II)

    Even a ruling of the Nagid was subjected to a process of negotiation at the local level until it was watered down to ineffectiveness. The same matter is also mentioned briefly in T-S 10J17.22. (Information from Zinger, "Women, Gender and Law" (PhD diss), 248n139, lightly revised by MR.) Alternate description based on Goitein's notes: Complaint to Shemuel ha-Nagid (his titles occupy 7 lines) by the wife of Abū l-Faraj, the silkspinner (qazzāz).

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    1. הדרת אדונינו ואור עינינו ומחמד לבינו ועטרת
    2. ראשינו ותפארת דורינו //אדונינו// שמואל הגיד (!) הגדול
    3. שר השרים ונגיד הנגידים ועז כל בית ישראל
    4. הקדוש…

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  41. 14091Legal documentHalper 159

    Berlin : Ḥevrat Meḳits nirdamim, 1910-, v. 2, p. 167 and also in Harkavy's edition: Yehudah ha-Leṿi / Albert Harakvy [ed.].

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  42. 14092Legal documentAIU VII.D.114

    Moshe ha-Levi; and Nahray; one of these men left a daughter named ʿĀliya(?).

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  43. 14093Paraliterary textBL OR 5566D.20

    Recto: elegant Judaeo-Arabic rhymed prose on the theme of memento mori, interspersed with verses from Job in Hebrew (21:32: 'For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb' and 34:15: 'All flesh shall perish together and man shall return unto dust').

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  44. 14094Legal documentBL OR 13153.4/8

    Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves Sitt al-Kull bt. Ḥalfon. Mentions a sum of 900 (dirhams?

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  45. 14095List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 28/47

    Abū l-Riḍā (Yosef III) Ibn al-Lebdī pledged one-half a dirhem (per week) (verso, l. 18), as most middle-class people did.

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  46. 14096Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/30

    Verso: A line of Arabic text in faint, but fairly legible ink above Hebrew alphabetical practice. EMS

    1. ביום ב ב י יומין בירח ניסן שתא ה דשבועא דהיא שנת ד אלפין וז מאוון
    2. ושת י שנין לבריתה דעלמא בדמשק מדינתא מודי אנא ישראל חתנה
    3. בר מ יצחק סט להתנסבה להדא…
    1. On day 2 of (the week), 10 days in the month Nisan, year 5 of the sabbatical cycle, which is year 4 thousand and 7 hundred
    2. and 16 A.M., in the city …

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  47. 14097LetterBodl. MS heb. d 68/107

    Calligraphic letter from the cantor Thābit Ibn al-Munajjim to Maṣliaḥ Gaon begging for charity, complaining about poverty and his dependents.

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  48. 14098Legal documentCUL Add.3337

    Yeshuʿa testifies to having received all due him from Abū Ghālib Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, working for him in the jahbadha (office of fiscal cashier), and to having no claims against him, his sons or brothers.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין ידנא לתחת לשטרא דא
    2. כן הוה חצר אלינא מר ור משה הבחור הטוב בן מרנא ורבנא ישועה
    3. הזקן נע וקאל לנא גיר כאפי ענכם אנני…

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  49. 14099LetterENA 2700.34

    Informal note from Umm Ḥasan bt. al-Shofeṭ (or at least written in her name) to a certain judge.

    1. . . .
    2. יא מולאי אלדיין אללה יכמל
    3. עאפיתך ויסתגיב פיך
    4. צאלח אלדעא ממלוכת[[ת]]ך
    5. אם חסן בנת אלשופט
    6. תקבל ידיהא אלכרימה
    7. ותסאל חצרתהא אן תנפד
    8. להא רסמהא אלדי …

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    Moshe and his brother the silk merchant (al-ḥarīrī) Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b. Moshe, something involving their mother.

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