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  1. 14251Legal documentT-S AS 146.415

    Involving [...] known as al-Ṣāʾigh. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef and a certain Yefet (whose signature is now lost).

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  2. 14252List or tableT-S AS 152.13

    Taḥanun for 15 and a half dinars, and ‘3 rubāʿiyya received for the tax collector (ṣāhib al-kharāj)’. (Information from CUDL.)

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  3. 14253Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 153.189 + T-S AS 156.259

    (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. (Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)

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  4. 14254LetterT-S AS 159.17

    Mentions people such as "his brother Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī"; ʿEli; Menashshe the cantor; and Efrayim.

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  5. 14255LetterT-S AS 166.22 + T-S AS 166.21 + T-S AS 166.20

    Mentioning people such as [...] b. Jaʿfar and Mubārak al-ʿAkkāwī. Mentions "the least lands of Egypt" and encourages the addressee to come "in the protection of God" (פי אמאן אללה).

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  6. 14256LetterT-S AS 167.5

    Containing tantalizing details: "his letter (arrived) with al-Nafūsī... and he mentions that he swore to him... the dinars, and he traveled by land... the journey, and I arrived in Fuwwa... they went... the qāḍī... the Christians... to the government... their price, and likewise... to the qāḍī and the wālī... what I suffered...

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    1. ] . . . . כתאבה מע אלנפוסי פי
    2. ]ה וידכר אנה חלף לה לא
    3. ] אלדנאניר וסאפר פי אלבר
    4. ] אלטריק וצלת לפוה
    5. ] . . . ומצאו
    6. ] . . אלקאצי
    7. ] . . אלנצארי
    8. ] לל…

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  7. 14257LetterT-S AS 176.187

    Reports on something to do with ʿAbd al-Salām; that some people were delayed in the addressee's location on account of the ḥajj pilgrims; then mentions Bilbays and a period of 15 days.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الى ست ابو العز
    3. اطال الله بقاها وادام
    4. عزها ونعماها ومن حسن
    5. التوفيق لا اخلاها جمع
    6. الله بيننا على اسر حال بمنه
    7. وكرم…

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  8. 14258LetterT-S AS 177.100

    Asks after the children (khabar al-ṣighār). Mentions sending various things, and 8 dirhams.

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  9. 14259State documentT-S AS 179.39 + T-S AS 177.217

    Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 5.3 x 8 + 6.7 x 8.1 cm.

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  10. 14260Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 179.204

    Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay a sum of money to someone.

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  11. 14261List or tableT-S AS 183.43

    The bottom entry of recto states that the balance owed to al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir is 2.5 raṭls and 1 2/3 raṭls. Verso contains a Judaeo-Arabic entry possibly concerning debts owed to Abū Yamīn (or Yumn?)

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  12. 14262LetterT-S AS 200.308

    Mentions: Moshe; a Cypriot commodity (? קוברסי); Yehuda al-Ashqar(?); "your maternal uncle Yaʿaqov ben Hini" (someone of this name appears in BL OR 5561B.20 (PGPID 19239) in 1803 CE); "the Indian khwājā"; "to the Ḥijāz"; something for Saʿadya ha-Kohen; Nissim; and cloth (jūkh).

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  13. 14263List or tableT-S AS 208.178

    An entry on the right side of the bifolio mentions the weight of a good with the unit ʿidl, along with its corresponding price. Requires further examination.

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  14. 14264Paraliterary textT-S K5.34

    (Information from Goitein's note cards) Writing exercises consisting of the Hebrew alphabet in atbaš, abag-bagad and other groupings, and biblical passages from Exodus 1:1 and Genesis 25:19-22, unvocalised.

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  15. 14265Paraliterary textT-S K6.186

    Only incipits of Exodus 19:2–4 in Hebrew are included. Full text of all verses in Aramaic is included. Verso: colophon mentioning Saʿadya b.

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  16. 14266List or tableT-S Misc.8.8

    The main text on the pages consists of tables of names along with numbers and sometimes the notation "baṭṭāl" (unemployed).

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  17. 14267Legal documentT-S Misc.10.15

    Groom: Yefet. Bride: Sitt al-Naẓar. There is an agent named Abū l-Khayr b.

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  18. 14268State documentT-S Misc.22.14

    Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 8.6 × 8.7 cm. The verso is blank.

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    1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف                يثبت بديوان العمل
    2. ان شا الله                                            ان شا الله
    3.                 …

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    Registration mark on right

    1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
    2. if God wills.

    Registration mark on left

    1. Let it be re…

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  19. 14269Legal documentT-S Misc.28.164

    Verso (original use): Remnants of three words of a state decree in enormous calligraphic Arabic script ("...ī maṣāliḥ al-musli[mīn]" (ى مصالح المسل[امين...).

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  20. 14270LetterT-S Misc.35.20

    Barukh of France had commended the Nasi to the local community, and that all the scholars would be there to meet the visitor.

    Address (fol. 2, verso)

    1. אל שער יקרת צפירת תפארת מרינו ורבנו אדונינו נשיאנו נשיא
    2. גליות כל יש אביר התעודה מלך העדה רבנו יהוד הנשיא הרב על
    3. כל בני מזרח …

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  21. 14271LetterT-S NS 108.21 + T-S NS 108.146

    Probable (indirect) join identified by Alan Elbaum.

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  22. 14272LetterT-S NS 150.127

    The sender leads with something about his (or her) late mother (anā wa-wālidatī raḥimahā Allāh), then refers to the addressee's benefaction (ان تتفضلي كما لم تزل عوائد...).

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  23. 14273LetterT-S NS 163.48

    "O you whose slave I am: the servant came to the house in the end, seeking you on account of the meat (al-laḥma) that is with me, since I didn't manage to make it, because it is low quality (muqāraba). . . . by God, get up and buy for me. . . from the market. . . . for seven(?)."

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  24. 14274Literary textT-S NS 213.19

    The wise man goes to the king and tells him that the prince must travel to China (balad al-Ṣīn) in order to see if his vision was true, and if so he will marry the woman.

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  25. 14275LetterT-S NS 225.97 + T-S NS 225.98

    Addressed to the judge (al-dayyān) Yo[sef?]. Contains long opening greetings, a prayer that a deceased person will find mercy and that God will "make his resting place cold" (يبرد مضجعه), i.e., not Hell.

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  26. 14276LetterT-S NS 264.55

    Little of the content remains apart from blessings and formulae. He reports that he already sent the tutty (zinc oxide) and that they "used them" and payed their price.

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    1. כי ייי יהיה בכסליך ושמר רגלך וג׳
    2. נחמו נחמו עמי יאמר אלהיכם וג׳
    3. שמחו את ירושלים וגילו בה כל וג׳
    4. בונה ירושלים ייי נדחי ישראל וג׳
    5. תחת היות…

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  27. 14277LetterT-S NS 322.145 + T-S NS 322.142

    A mirror imprint of another text, probably a piyyut, is visible between the lines. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  28. 14278Legal documentT-S NS 325.102

    The husband's name is missing, and the wife's name is Sitt al-[...]. On verso there is a note listing "Malīḥa bt.

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  29. 14279Legal documentT-S NS J113 + T-S AS 153.4 + Moss. VII,85.1 + T-S 6J8.11 + T-S AS 142.250 + Moss. VII,85.2

    Involves: Abū l-Barakāt; a small house (duwayra) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in Fustat; Abū l-Makārim. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  30. 14280LetterT-S NS J223

    Note from Abū Thābit al-Ṣayrafī to a certain Rabbenu Shemuel asking him to declare a ban of excommunication against whoever cast a spell on someone or willed him harm and does not reverse it immediately.

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  31. 14281LetterT-S NS J333

    Efrayim appears in the upper margin. Mentions Kanīsat al-Shāmiyyīn; moving from one place to another; a ḥaver; Kalev ha-Kohen (there is a Kalev ha-Kohen in several 13th century documents, but this document is 11th century); and ends with the phrase 'yeshaʿ rav.'

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  32. 14282Legal documentT-S NS J401o

    Fragment (bottom part). Involves Yaḥyā al-Kohen, Abū l-Maʿālī, Abū l-Karam b. Saʿdān, Abū l-Ḥasan, payment in installments.

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    1. [ ]ק[ ]
    2. [ ] דשטרי אילא כחומר וכחוזק כל שטרי [ ]
    3. [ ]נאין דמסירין לי ודמסרנא על שטרא [ ]
    4. [ ] מרור יחיי הכהן דנן ללשיך אבו אלמעאל[י ]
    5. [ ]טאלבאת ו…

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  33. 14283Legal documentT-S NS J561

    Yaʿaqov; Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. Ḥayyim [al-Nafūsī]; Avraham b. Shemʿaya ha-Ḥaver. The next line states that the contract was copied (perhaps this is the copy) verbatim and checked against the original.

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  34. 14284Paraliterary textYevr. II B 278

    It was later sold to Abū l-Faraj Hibatallāh Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon al-Ḥamawī (might be the same as in T-S Ar.18(1).51 (PGPID 8159) and T-S 16.244 (PGPID 3469)).

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  35. 14285Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.15

    Stating that a contract shall be written regarding a loan of 6 5/6 dinars to be paid back in weekly installments of 1 dinar. If the debtor Faraḥ al-Ṣabbāgh b. Bū l-Munā is late, the creditor Abū Yaʿqūb Yaʿqov(!)

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  36. 14286Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.17

    A woman by the name of Sitt al-Khawāt is known from another document. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)

    1. אלשרוט אלמסתקרה עלי אלשיך אבו סעיד
    2. אלחתן לזוגתה סת אלנצר בת נתנאל הכהן
    3. אנה לא יבדל עליהא שי מן אלאעיאד ואל
    4. מואכיל ולא ידכל דארה שי ממא יחרמוה
    5. טאיפה …

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  37. 14287Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1388

    Aharon Levi agree to repay a sum of guruş riyyal to Sitt al-Bayt bt. Shelomo Feyruz on a monthly basis. Signed by Aharon Feyruz, Shemuʾel Ḥazan and Yaʿaqov Berakha.

    1. למא כאן בתאריך לילה א[ן יספר צ]באחהא נהאר אלתלאת ראבע
    2. חדש ניסן המ׳ סנה הת׳׳ח לליצי[ר]ה ח[צ]רו כה׳׳ר אברהם לוי קודסי יצ׳׳ו
    3. בכ׳׳ר יעקב קיים נ׳׳ע ושריכ…

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  38. 14288Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1586

    The scribe Barūkh Rofe signed as witness along with ʿOvadya Feyruz as a consenting party and seven other witnesses.

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלארבע אלמבארך סבעה ועשרין יום פי חדש שבט סנה ה׳ת׳מ׳ו׳ ליצירה
    2. חצר כמה׳׳ר ישועה רופא יצ׳׳ו נין המנוח כמה׳׳ר מרדכי רופא נ׳׳ע תם את…

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  39. 14289Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1621

    They will remain partners and treat each other well ("one heart and one intention") for another year and will divide all profits evenly. Witnesse: None.

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    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצל אלתואפק בין -
    2. אלאתנין אלשורכה והם יוסף יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר גדליא ידיע צעיר
    3. יצ׳׳ו ושלום בכ׳׳ר יעקב ידיע פירוז יצ׳׳ו עלי אנ…

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  40. 14290LetterCUL Or.1080 J71

    Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria. The letter was dictated to Abū l-Faraj, who gives his name toward the end of the letter (v9-10); Gil suggests that he is their son.

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    1. על שמך

    2. וצל כתאבך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וען שוק אלי[ך]

    3. גמע אללה ביננא עלי אשר(!) חאל במנה וכרמה אנה ולי דלך וא[לקאדר עליה]

    4. אן…

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    1. על שמך.
    2. הגיע מכתבך, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך. אני מתגעגעת אליך,
    3. יפגישנו אלוהים זה עם זו בנסיבות משמחות ביותר, …

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  41. 14291LetterCUL Or.1080 J98

    Family letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Almost certainly from a woman, addressed to her cousin (ibn ʿamm). […] She has purchased garments for the woman and for her mother-in-law (apparently an effort to win her good graces so that she treats her daughter-in-law well, as he writes, "if I hear that she treats her well, God Almighty will reward her"). If the pregnant woman's own mother were not sick, she would have traveled to her.

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  42. 14292LetterDK 238.4 (alt: XIII)

    Remarkably, Avraham returns to this story in the last phrase of the letter: "It is a problem with the mind, to ask after someone who does not ask after you." He also conveys family news, including his delight that Mevorakh's wife has given him a daughter in his "old age."

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    1. אלי סיידי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאה מן מחבה ווא>ל<דה אברהם בר יצחק נע
    2. מבו/ר/ך בר אברהם אבן סברה נע בלג תוגר

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    1. אלי ולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אלל…

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  43. 14293List or tableENA 1822a.66

    The word "fīlī" in Arabic script may also appear at bottom left.

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי לה פ[י]ליה כולמי
    3. תסעה ותלתין פילי כול[מי]
    4. א //ען סבעה ונצף ותמן\\
    5. ופנמין קבץ מן דלך
    6. זבדה עשרה פיליה
    7. וקבץ זנגפר וברמה
    8. צפר כמסה עשר…

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    1. 1. In (Your) Name, Merci(ful One)
    2. What (I) owe him: Kūlamī f[ī]līs,
    3. thirty-nine Kūla[mī] fīlī(s)
    4. \\against seven and one-half and one-eighth//
    5. …

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  44. 14294Paraliterary textENA 2943.6

    He selects the nisba Ibn al-Daskarī, "because the family of my father is from Daskara" (most likely Dastagird, but there are at least three other possibilities). He ultimately reconsiders part of his plan, resolving to change only his own name and to leave his father's as is, yielding Abū l-Faraj Neḥemya b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Daskarī. See Lipa Ginat, "Rabbi Yosef Rosh ha-Seder," p. 45 for a brief discussion of the significance of this fragment.

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  45. 14295Legal documentENA 4100.18

    The buyer is Abū l-Makārim, who is purchasing the female slave for his sister (karīma), and the seller is Abū Saʿd al-Ṣayrafī. It is not clear how Abū Saʿd is related to the daughter of Shemuel. […] The buyer and seller may in fact be in-laws, e.g., maybe the sister of Abū l-Makārim is actually the wife of Abū Saʿd al-Ṣayrafī. Needs further examination. ASE.

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  46. 14296LetterENA 4101.10a

    The writer is now in unbearable financial straits (r31, v6) and asks the addressee to help defray his debts to the community of Gaza (v7–38). The writer has also turned to Yaʿaqov de Villareal and Moshe Porekh(?)

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  47. 14297LetterENA NS 34.22

    Fragment (lower right corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, conveying concern for the addressee, distress and anxiety of the writer, mentioning someone's arrival in and departure from Alexandria, and conveying good wishes for the High Holidays.

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  48. 14298Legal documentL-G Misc. 50

    Court records, all concerning the same persons. Recto: see PGPID 9011 Verso, top: see PGPID 41775 Verso, bottom: Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 1409 (12 April 1098 CE). […] In which Moshe reports that he traveled with the aforementioned goods entrusted to him by Sason b. Natan to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣāʿīd). He sold them and purchased other commodities with the proceeds and delivered those to Sason, with no further liabilities between them.

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  49. 14299LetterReinach

    He insists that he he does not correspond with them—he just received a single letter from the exilarch and sent a single letter to Hayya. He also denies that he asked Hayya about eating meat after the fast (probably referring to the 9th of Av).

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  50. 14300LetterT-S 8J15.17

    In the second part of the letter, the writer requests Maimonides to answer various questions on the study of the Law which he had previously asked him, and to which he now adds a question on the attitude to astronomy. He also asks him for some of his books, to be copied for him, the cost to be paid from the money due to him, if the debt is recognized.

    1. ביראת שמים ובאמונה פי מא כאן מתוליה לישראל
    2. ושהאדה אלדיינין אלקבועין פי דלך אלוקת מעי עלי דלך
    3. כט רבינו חייא ורבינו יעקב ומן אנצאף מעהם וחס
    4. לכבודו אן …

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    . . . (R. Isaiah ha-Levi was appointed to be in charge of the qōdesh since he excelled in) 

    1. piety and trustworthiness in his administration o…

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