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  1. 14201LetterT-S AS 199.308

    Letter to a notable. Fragment. The opening lines are in poetic Hebrew. The sender expresses his happiness receiving a letter from the addressee: "seeing your …

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  2. 14202LetterT-S 8J13.1

    Letter on the topic of friendship between two educated young men. In Judaeo-Arabic, possibly with influence from Judaeo-Persian in the iḍāfa constructions, as ציק אלצדר …

    1. ]לך [
    2. ואני מא טב לי עיש בגיבתך פבלה עליך לעלך
    3. תרחם גרבתי וצעפי ומא אנא פיה מן ציק יצדר
    4. ותשבעני בנצרך קבל אן אמות וסעא לא תגיב
    5. עני אכתר מא גבת פמא כא…

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  3. 14203Legal documentT-S AS 151.213

    Legal document, unfinished. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 27 Sivan 1817 Seleucid = 19 June 1506 CE. No other details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  4. 14204List or tableT-S Ar.30.223 + T-S Ar.30.267

    Two bifolios of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Partially written in red ink and with large letters. The Arabic script may be an …

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  5. 14205List or tableDK 284.3

    Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions gold, Sunday, ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣā'igh. Needs examination.

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  6. 14206LetterReinach

    Letter draft probably from Efrayim b. Shemarya probably to the Palestinian Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda. (Identifications are according to Bareket.) In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender defends …

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  7. 14207Paraliterary textT-S Ar.46.137

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Advice on how to succeed against enemies, on a journey, etc. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. ירידו. גמך ומתלך מ/ת/ל באב מגלוק ואלנגאר
    2. קאעד יצלחה ואנת תרי אנך רגל באזל ולאכן
    3. אחדר אעדאך לאנהם אקוא מנך ואדעו אללה
    4. יכפיך מונתהם ויכלצך מן כל שרהם …

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  8. 14208Legal documentT-S Ar.38.81

    Legal document. Deed of acknowledgment dated 449/1058. Ṣadaqa b. Ṭayyib al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī receives from Ḥasan b. Ishaq al-Isrāʾīlī al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī a loan of 150 dirhams. …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله وحده
    2. اقر صدقة بن طيب الميازرى الرملى وهو شاب معتدل القامة اسمر تعلوه حمرة بادي الجبهة
    3. مقرون خفى اشهل اقنى كزم وقلت…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone.  

    2. Ṣadaqa ibn Ṭayyib al-Ramlī, the maker of waistcloths, who is a youn…

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  9. 14209LetterT-S AS 183.1

    Letter in Arabic script. Recurrent phrases like "allāh allāh" and "surʿa" and "mā taḥtāj waṣiyya"—all standard phrases urging prompt action in accordance with the sender's …

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  10. 14210Legal documentBL OR 10655.24

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Muharram 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.25. Mentions Da'ūd (?) …

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  11. 14211LetterMoss. VII,145.1

    Letter in Hebrew with wide space between the lines. Fragment.

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  12. 14212Unknown typeYevr. IV 31

    Non-Geniza. Merchant's notebook in Yiddish. 19th century. Nearly 100 pages. Information from NLI.

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  13. 14213Legal documentENA NS 10.22

    Legal query, probably to Avraham Maimonides and possibly in Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliyyahu's hand.

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  14. 14214Legal documentT-S NS 342.68

    Legal record(s) in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (lower left part of recto). The main record concerns a dispute over …

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  15. 14215State documentENA NS 18.26

    Response to a letter of complaint concerning taxation of the Jews of Tiberias. The letter refers to a sijill mukarram (noble decree) of the caliph …

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    1. واصلنا الشكوى فيما نفعنا معه [
    2. وورد السجل المكرم من الحضرة المجيدة يذكر فيه ما
    3. انهاه سباع بن فرج اليهودي من حال اليهود الذمة
    4. بطبرية وان في…

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    1. The complaint reached us regarding the benefit we had from him. [gap]
    2. The sijill mukarram came down from the glorious presence, mentioning wha…

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  16. 14216Literary textT-S NS 38.32

    Judaeo-Arabic composition in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Narrates a scuffle, with the refrain "but they didn't leave me" (wa-lam yakhrujū min ʿindī). Then, …

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  17. 14217Unknown typeENA 3970.16

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  18. 14218Paraliterary textT-S AS 148.27

    Recto: Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Describes the preparation of a rob containing nard, raisins, berberis and jalap.

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  19. 14219List or tableT-S K15.63

    Payroll account similar to T-S Misc.8.100, App. B 41, partly in the same hand and noting mostly the same names and sums for the 28th, …

    1. שׂבת אחרי מות וקדושׂים אלגאב[י
    2. אלשׂיך אבו אלחסן אלטביב ס ½ ר
    3. כבז אלחזן ר ידותון מן ען אסבועין
    4. יד ½ יד
    5. אלשׁמשׁ אבי אלטאהר מחאסן השׂמשׂ
    6. ד ב
    7. בית אלמבין…

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  20. 14220Legal documentT-S AS 145.161

    Fragment from a bill of release, or rather a receipt ("sheṭar shover ze" / שטר שובר זה). AA. ASE.

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  21. 14221LetterT-S 13J17.12

    Letter to the cantor Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) about the bad behavior of his son Abu al-Ḥasan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. וצלני כתאב חצרה מולאי אלנזר אלאגל אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עזהא
    3. וכבת עדוהא והו ישרח לי מא הו עליה מן אלהם וציק אלצדר וחמל אלהם
    4. ממא טרא עליה מן…

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  22. 14222Literary textJRL A 14

    Hebrew piyyut.

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  23. 14223Legal documentT-S NS 305.48

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Needs examination for content.

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  24. 14224Legal documentENA NS I.83

    Legal document concerning the divorce of a woman Sitt al-Dār, who refused to receive her bill of divorce. The procedure was supervised by “sayyidnā al-nagid" …

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  25. 14225LetterBodl. MS heb. e 94/27

    A bashful pauper informs the judge Rabbi Eliyyahu b. Zechariah who was in charge of public charity, that he had not eaten anything for two …

    1. ממלוכה . . .
    2. . הבה.
    3. אלדי יעלם בהי ר אליה הדיי[ן
    4. באן ממלוכה יקים הונא ומא
    5. לי שי יקום בי ולי אליום יומי[ין
    6. מא אכלת שי ואלממלוך [ליס
    7. לה וגה יכלם אחד ול…

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  26. 14226Paraliterary textT-S AS 160.197

    Medical. From a work on materia medica, listing simple medicaments, their function and use (from CUDL).

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  27. 14227Unknown typeENA NS 79.75

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  28. 14228LetterReinach IV

    A letter to a certain Ḥaver, Yosef b. Ya'aqov, probably residing in Tyre. The letter itself is in Hebrew, and inculde a long a flowery …

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  29. 14229Legal documentT-S AS 153.273

    Small fragment from the bottom of a l legal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1502 Seleucid = 1190/91 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …

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  30. 14230Legal documentT-S NS 190.106

    Damaged legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Regarding manufacture of wine between [...] b. Yeshuʿa al-ʿAkkāwı known as Ibn Bunān (appears also …

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  31. 14231Unknown typeENA NS 85.450

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  32. 14232Legal documentT-S 8J10.17

    Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to …

    1. חצר אבו אלפרג בן גזאל אל
    2. קיסראני אקני מן רוחה טאיע
    3. גיר מגבר אנה יקום ל[זוגתה
    4. אם אולאדה פי כל שהר בכ
    5. דרהם כל אס //ביע// ה דראהם וובתין(!)
    6. קמח טייב וח…

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    1. Abual-Faḍl, son of Ghazal the Alexandrian, came

    2.  And obligated himself with a qinyan of his own free will

    3. And not under duress, (so) that…

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  33. 14233Paraliterary textT-S Misc.22.303

    Calendar fragment from the year [5]404 AM (1643/1644 CE). Very well-rendered, on a grid drawn with a straight edge.

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  34. 14234LetterT-S AS 182.108

    Letter in Arabic script. Very faded.

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  35. 14235LetterMoss. II,183.1

    Recto: A Hebrew letter begging for charity on Purim, invoking the tropes of hunger and nakedness. The writer suggests that the addressee himself 'or one …

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  36. 14236Legal documentENA NS 49.26

    Trousseau evaluation in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dated: not long before 28 Elul 1594 Seleucid = 21 September 1283 CE, which is set as the …

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  37. 14237Legal documentT-S 8J5.2

    Court register; two folios containing two legal records. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. (1) Engagement contract between a divorced man …

    T-S 8J5.2 1 recto

    1. כאן קד חצר אלי בית דין מ עואץ אלאסכנדראני ביר משה הזקן נע
    2. ואחצר בידה שטר מוחזק בכט ר צדקה הלוי החזן ישצו דידיע
    3. בן נפ[ ] טל[א]קה לז…

    Mr. ʿIwāḍ, from Alexandria, son of Manasseh the elder, may he rest in  Eden, came to the court and brought with him a legal deed [shetar] written by …

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  38. 14238Legal documentYevr. II K 24

    Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Zekharya b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The bride is Esther known as Sit al-Bayt d. Ya'aqov. AA

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  39. 14239List or tableAIU XII.133

    List or table in Arabic script, probably a private account. Needs further examination.

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  40. 14240LetterT-S Ar.42.50

    Recto: Barely legible short note. Verso: Jottings. - needs examination.

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  41. 14241LetterJRL B 8330

    Recto is probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is accounts in a different hand, where the word רסם recurs ın almost every entry.

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  42. 14242Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/53

    Deposition in court. Location: Fustat. Dated: 24 Sivan, 1541 Seleucid = 6 June 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Deposition made by Abū …

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  43. 14243LetterT-S 12.703

    Letter from a community in an unknown location addressed to the community in Fustat. Fragment: bottom part only. In Hebrew. Written by a scribe. The …

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  44. 14244Legal documentT-S AS 176.44

    Unidentified document in Arabic script. Upper right corner. Moderately wide spacing between the lines. Might be legal or a letter (may begin with the word …

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  45. 14245Literary textAIU VI.B.105

    Leaf from a treatise on divination in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks pre-1500 (unlike most of the material in the AIU collection).

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  46. 14246Unknown typeBL OR 10124.25

    Fragment in Arabic script. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary text.

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  47. 14247Paraliterary textMoss. I,85

    Megillat Miṣrayim

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  48. 14248State documentBodl. MS Heb. d 76/61

    Original use: Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions sums in dirhams and mithqāl. Reused for a literary text in Judeo-Arabic on recto and verso.

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  49. 14249LetterAIU VII.E.59

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 29 Sivan, without mention of the year (but probably 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography). The letter was sent …

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  50. 14250List or tableJRL B 7549

    Recto may be a letter in Hebrew. Mentions the name Ḥasan b. [...]. Verso appears to be accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic …

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