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  1. 14151Legal documentT-S AS 147.36

    Recto: Mentions Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf; [...] al-ʿŪdī b. Mevorakh; and a debt of 50 dinars. Verso: Mentions Mūsā b.

    1. יעקוב יוסף [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. וגואז אמרה טאיעא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. ודרכה וכאלץ מאלה לש[ . . . . . . . . . .…

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  2. 14152Legal documentT-S AS 148.19

    Iyov acknowledges having sold a house or a portion of one located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ to Abū l-Bayān Moshe b. Elʿazar. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

    1. ] אתפג לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל ניל[ום
    2. ]רב הגדול בישראל יהי שמו לעולם חצר אלינא [
    3. ]אע מ ור [ . . . . . . . ] הזקן היקר שצ בן מר איוב [
    4. ] מעכשיו [ . .…

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  3. 14153List or tableT-S AS 148.53

    In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef al-[...], Abū Yiṣḥaq, Abū l-Ḥasan, and Maḥbūb, and some other names.

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  4. 14154LetterT-S AS 148.94

    The letter was written on the sender's behalf by the scribe Yūsuf. Mentions al-Quḍāʿī ('the healer of stomach trouble') and Sayyidhum.

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    1. ואכוה וען אל[
    2. ותערפה סואלי ענה [
    3. אלקצאעי וסידהם מתגה [
    4. פתוציה באן יחמלהם מא נבכל(?) .
    5. ולא תק[ט]ע כתבך ענא קראת ע[ליך אלסלאם ועלי מן תחוטה
    6. ענא…

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  5. 14155List or tableT-S AS 153.180

    The upper heading on the recto mentions a year but its meaning is not completely clear. The final word is alf (1000) and the one preceding that may be a misspelling of 2 (th..nayn?)

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  6. 14156Legal documentT-S AS 177.3

    Recto: Bottom of a rental contract (mentions several times al-mustaʾjir). In Arabic script. One of the parties is Abū l-Ḥasan.

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  7. 14157LetterT-S AS 177.95

    Beginning with taqbīl, formal addresses/blessings, and a report ("anhā al-mamlūk..."). Dating: Probably Ayyubid or early Mamluk era.

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  8. 14158List or tableT-S AS 179.303–04

    The accounts deal with various different things, one of which is a storehouse of firewood (shūnat al-ḥaṭab). Merits further examination.

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  9. 14159List or tableT-S AS 183.199

    Below, another entry is headed "yawm al-khamīs" and various goods with quantities of raṭls are listed underneath, including costus.

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  10. 14160State documentT-S H15.62

    Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE.

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    1. العادلى المظفري [     ]ـي .[سلطان]

    2. جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...

    3. المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى

    4. رافته واحسانه …

    1. ... al-ʿĀdil, the victorious [ sultan]

    2. of the armies of the Muslims, (may God) cause his power to endure and exalt his word for ever.

    3. The slave…

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  11. 14161LetterT-S J2.25

    In addition to general admonitions, the epistle states specifically that anyone selected by lot to serve as a collector of alms and refuses to act as such, or anyone objecting to participate in the weekly collections for the poor was liable to be punished with the 'heavy ban'.

    1. וק[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ישראל [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. בהא אלעני[ים . . . . .…

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  12. 14162Paraliterary textT-S K6.134

    Hoshaʿna in Egypt during the rule of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021 CE). The title is followed by a Judaeo-Arabic poem, rhyming in -nī, written in red ink and vocalised with Arabic vowel signs.

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  13. 14163List or tableT-S K6.191

    Verso: an account from Qalyūb mentioning cooked food for 2.5 dirhams and alcoholic drinks (or more likely sugar, סכר rather than שכר) for 1 dirham.

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  14. 14164List or tableT-S K15.6

    One of the donors is the son of Bū l-Riḍā Ibn al-Lebdī (the father, Abū l-Riḍā, appears in Yevr.

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  15. 14165List or tableT-S K15.100

    An accounting of repairs in the tabaqa of the compound called shirkat al-Dayyan R. Menashshe. The accounting, as prederved, covers a period of four days, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, and refers mainly to the preparation of mortar, and carpentry work.

    1. תבת מבלג אלעמארה אל[תי]
    2. אעמרת פי אלטבקה אלכבירה
    3. שרכה אלדיאן ר מנשה [ש]צ
    4. סכן ולדה אלשיך יוסף
    5. אול יום והו יום אלה אלטו
    6. מן אייר טין ב גבס ב
    7. גבס יב ○ / …
    1. Record of the sum of the repairs
    2. made in the large ṭabaqa,
    3. Shirkat al-Dayyān R. Menashē, may God preserve him, (being)
    4. the apartment of his son, al-…

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  16. 14166LetterT-S K25.45

    The addressee and his wife and his son Barakāt are all asked to be good to the sender (perhaps by visiting?).

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  17. 14167Legal documentT-S K25.147

    Dowry items listed are worth 188 dinars (but note that all jewelry items are missing and only the end of the clothing list is preserved).

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  18. 14168Legal query or responsumT-S Misc. 28.186, fol. 5

    Responsum sent by Rav Sherira Gaon, head of the Pumbedita Jewish Academy in Baghdad, to Masīla (in modern Algeria). Dating (text): late 10th–early 11th century, based on the years of activity of Rav Sherira Gaon; this copy probably later.

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    1.                                וששאלתם
    2. קטנה שקידשה אמה ואחיה שלא לדעת אביה [ובא אביה] ממדינת
    3. הים ולא מיחה על ידם ו…
    1. You have asked:
    2. A little girl was married off by her mother and brother without her father's knowledge, and her father r…

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  19. 14169LetterT-S Misc.25.76

    (Information in part from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.)

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  20. 14170LetterT-S Misc.25.106

    The letter contains sundry reports about the Palestinian and Iraqi synagogues and dealings with the notables of Fustat. Among these, Abū ʿAlī, the caretaker of the Palestinian synagogue, has taken ill, so he has neglected his duties, and the synagogue has fallen into disrepair.

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    כי ביי תוחלתי

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלריס אלגליל ואדאם תאידה ועלוה וכבת
    2. עדאתה מן אלמסתקר במצר יום אלאחד ליד כלון מן אב ואלחאל סלאמה
    3. ועאפי…

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  21. 14171LetterT-S Misc.28.199

    Yaʿaqov tells Yosef that he has purchased two qirābs of olive oil and delivered them to Ibn al-Tuffāḥī in Jaffa (Gil, Palestine, 1:237).

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    1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
    2. [מן א]ל[ק]דס לה כלון מן אדר שני ערפך אללה ברכתה ויומנה ען סלאמה ואלחמד ללה
    3. […

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  22. 14172LetterT-S Misc.28.207

    Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (identified on the basis of the handwriting), probably writing from Qayrawān, to Yaʿaqov b.

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    1.               וסי]די בקאך ואדאם איאם סלאמתך ורעאיתך וציאנתך וכפאיתך וחראסתך
    2.     ] כתבת ישיכי וסידי ען אחואל אן תסרך ואמור אן תבהגך דלך פצ'ל אל…

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  23. 14173LetterT-S NS 70.112

    Small fragment of a letter addressed to Isḥāq b. ʿAllūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script on verso.

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  24. 14174List or tableT-S NS 83.11

    Some of the names mentioned are: Ḥanna, Aṣlān, and al-Qāvūqj[u]? (אל קאאוקג). The latter term may be an Arabophone spelling of the Turkish word kavukçu = "maker or seller of quilted turbans" (Redhouse Dictionary, p. 622).

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  25. 14175Legal documentT-S NS 288.185 + T-S AS 152.160

    The transaction involves many parties: Yahūda Provensal, Yiṣḥaq Foa, Moshe Salāma, Yiṣḥaq Menaḥem, Shemuʾel Arditi, Moshe Arditi, and al-Emīr Muḥammad Yerek Katkhūda of the Mustaḥfiẓān janissary corps.

    M. Dudley Dissertation, Appendix 6 /// T-S AS 152.160r + T-S NS 288.185v

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שהנבון וחכם והנעלה הגביר השר המרומם כה׳׳ר יאודה פרובינצאל נר׳׳ו…

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  26. 14176List or tableT-S NS 305.104

    Recto appears to be a magical text with magical names ('hādhihi al-asmāʾ...').

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  27. 14177LetterT-S NS 321.52

    Letter from Mūsā, in Damīra, to Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, an absent husband, reprimands his wifeʼs family for accusing him publicly of neglecting her (from Oded Zinger's PhD, p. 261).

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  28. 14178List or tableT-S NS 338.92

    Verso: Mentions a shipment of Persian cloth, cotton, a deal with Ibn al-Tarabulsi and rosewater. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #358) VMR

    recto - left side

    1. שרח מונה אלעדל בקם כלטה ישועה

    2. עתאלין ה דרא אגרה מכזן קיראטין

    3. תכויר > שחד          קיראטין

    4. חראץ > סלפה          ו דנא ותלת

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    1. (1–10, ימין:) פירוט הוצאות משאוי עץ האודם בשותפות עם ישועה: סבלים, ה׳ דרהמים, אריזה, חצי; שומרים, חצי; צבע, ב'; הקשירה, ד'; שכירות…

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  29. 14179Legal documentT-S NS 342.122

    Menashshe? The two sides (al-ḍiddayn) are Hiba b. Khalaf and the teacher Abū Kathīr.

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  30. 14180Legal documentT-S NS J94

    Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Maʿālī Shelomo al-Dhahabī. The witnesses to the declaration are ʿEli he-Ḥaver and Araḥ Ibn Kokhav (or Kawkab), and the judge is ʿEli b.

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    1. חצר אלינא אנן בי דינא ומאן דחתים עימנא [ ]
    2. ורבנא עלי החבר בס גד החכם והנבון יש[צו ]
    3. ומור ארח הזקן בר מרור כוכב הזקן נע ו[ ]
    4. וקאלו אלדי נעלמה א…

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  31. 14181LetterT-S NS J287

    Petition from Cairo to Gaon Sar Shalom (ca. 1177-1195) in which the wife of Abu al-Ḥasan, the miller, requests that the latter not be permitted to tell his wife to go and do embroidery in other people's houses and bring him her earned money, instead she should be permitted to retain her wages if she chose to work.

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    1. ור]בצת ואין מחריד וחלו פניך רבים:
    2. כי ייי יהיה בכסלך ושמח רגלך מלכד
    3. ייי ישמרך מכל רע ישמור את נפשך
    4. ייי ישמור צאתך ובואיך מעתה ועד
    5. עולם כי אורך ימים…

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  32. 14182LetterT-S NS J374

    Letter from Nissim b. Isḥāq b. al-Sahl, probably somewhere in the Maghrib, to Avraham b.

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    1. לסידי ומולאי אבי אסחק אברהם בן                      מן נסים בן אסחק ז'צ'ל' בן אלסהל
    2.                               ח…

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  33. 14183List or tableYevr. III B 639

    In the second each entry begins "balagha", and in the third each entry begins "al-thamn" and gives a price in dinars. It's not immediately clear what commodity or commodities are involved.

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  34. 14184Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1567

    The document ends with the signature of the scribe Eliyahu Rofe aka Ṣaʿīr, although there are jottings of various unrelated debts/payments below the signature.

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצרו אחי׳ ואהו׳ חזקיא יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר הז׳ הנ׳ פינחס ידיע
    2. נקאש יצ׳׳ו ואשהד עלי נפסה והו בחאל אלצחה ואלסלאמה ואלטועייא ואלאכתיאר

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  35. 14185LetterT-S 18J3.2

    Appeal to the public by a young woman to help her against her neglectful husband, her cousin Yosef b. Kulayb al-Kohen, the brother-in-law of Ibn Ṭarsūn the cantor. […] Translation: "In Your name, oh All Merciful. Oh Community of Israel, I appeal to God and to you. […] Then, three years ago, my mother died. I sold all my dowry and maintained myself by this, but now nothing has remained with me except turning to God and to you, oh Israel.

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  36. 14186LetterHUC 1119

    The sender explains that he will tell an abridged version of the story because he has already written several other letters but received no response. […] I said, 'Your son knew all this, that you were bringing a wife for your son? […] I checked his pubic area in front of other people and I didn't see any hair, he was like a young boy without hair. All this was on Passover when his wife fled. . . . there were no hairs and no follicles (?

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  37. 14187Legal query or responsumBL OR 5536.3

    Leaf from a dossier containing later (maybe 14th-15th c) copies of rescripts or responsa from Muslim and Jewish authorities concerning a scholar who allegedly had slandered a Jewish judge. The end of no. 8, from a Muslim amir, dated 575H (1179–80 CE), no. 9 (head of the yeshiva in Baghdad) and the beginning of no. 10 (same as preceding).

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  38. 14188Legal documentBL OR 10599.32

    The first words of eight lines are preserved; they mention two kosher witnesses and the consummation of a marriage (al-dukhūl bi-hā).

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  39. 14189LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/42

    Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl al-Andalusī, in Tunisia or Sicily (Goitein) or Tyre (Gil), to Abū l-Walīd Yūnus b.

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  40. 14190LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/63

    Shelomo sends his regards to his sister Sitt al-Riyāsa and her siblings and her mother.

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    1. כי שפתי כהן ישמרו דעת וג'
    2. לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי

    3. אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט

    4. אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר

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    1. For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.

    2. But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.

    3. The sl…

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  41. 14191Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/18 + Bodl. MS heb. f 56/14

    Saʿadya ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb. Containing many items of dowry with realistic values.

    F56 f.14 Verso

    1. ]סבעין ושיתא שנין למנין שטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהר[א
    2. ] מר ור מרדכי הלוי הזקן היקר שצ בן מר ור סעדיה הזקן היקר הלוי נע אמר [
    3. ] ק…

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  42. 14192LetterCUL Add.3345

    He wants to be on his way and to join Avraham al-Ger (the proselyte) on his journey to Ceuta, intending to make appeals (there).

    1. אברכה את ייי בכל עת תמיד
    2. תהלתו בפי
    3. בייי תהלל נפשי ישמעו ענוים וישמחו
    4. פודה ייי נפש עבדיו ולא יאשמו כל החוסים בו
    5. חונה מלאך ד' סביב ליריאיו ויחלצם
    6. חזקו…

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  43. 14193Legal documentCUL Add.3419

    Yiṣḥaq against Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Witnessed by Netanʾel b. Yefet, Nissim b.

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  44. 14194Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J56

    Seʿ[adya known as Abū l-Yumn Ibn al-Baṣal]. This is the same couple whose divorce proceedings are detailed in CUL Or.1080 J141.

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  45. 14195LetterDK 327 + DK 327 (alt: 13)

    Letter from Samḥūn b. Dāwūd ibn al-Siqillī (Qayrawān) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat).

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    1. ובעד יאסידי פמא אשך אנך תעמל פי שיי חסב מא ישבה מת'לך ואנא 
    2. ואתק בגמילך ודיאנתך ולו כאן [        ] באקי מאלך חאצ'רא ענדי מן כ'אצתך 
    3. לכנת נבעת …

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    1. יתר על כן אדוני, הלוא אין לי ספק שתנהג עם כספי כראוי לאדם כמוך, ואני
    2. סומך על הגינותך ויראת השמים שלך. אילו היה (חלק) מיתרת כספך נמצא אצלי, מחש…

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  46. 14196List or tableENA 2230.8

    Accounts on verso, with the heading titled "ḥisāb al-awrāq min ....[?]"– perhaps referring to paper production based on the number of times "awrāq" is repeated throughout the various accounts.

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  47. 14197Legal documentENA 2558.17

    Abū l-Riḍā [...] and the purchase of a shop with all its equipment and scales for a sum of 46[.].

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  48. 14198Legal documentENA 2747.12

    Aharon to sue Yefet b. [...] for all that her husband had left with him. Mentions "the city of חנס that is called אי כפתור," i.e., Damietta.

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  49. 14199Literary textENA 3015.8

    There are clear sewing marks along the inner margins of the recto and verso. Some of the terms listed include: לנא/לנו, מנא/ממנו, מעכם/עמכם, בעיד/רחוק.

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  50. 14200Legal documentENA 3030.6–7

    Possibly the fragment was better preserved at the time, or he deduced that 60 was the more likely alternative based on her socioeconomic status). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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