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  1. 14301LetterMoss. II,109.2

    As for the turban, it came out to 45 dirhams for Bishāra the ghulām of al-ʿArīf...." (Information in part from CUDL)

    1. . . . אן כליתני אמות בהדה אלחצרה
    2. ומא אעלם אלאנס אן מא יכון מנה אפתקד
    3. ביני ובינך ואשעלת פי קל[בי] נאר מא
    4. ינטפי ואמא חביב(?) ית . א(?) אלדי עלי
    5. דכאנך …

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  2. 14302LetterMoss. II,162.1 + T-S 10J13.8

    The sender chastises the addressee for his inappropriate behavior and speech, somehow concerning Avraham Maimonides (al-Rayyis, ll. 16-21) and the pietist movement.

    1. ואלעמל אעני בה מגלס סידנא ר אב(רהם)
    2. י)חיד הדור ואלגמאעה אלמשתג'לין ואלמתהגד(ין)
    3. אלצאימין אלקאימין ופקהם אללה תע ולאזמת
    4. אהל אלדניא ותעוצת יא מסכין ען…

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  3. 14303Legal documentMoss. VII,50.1

    The name of the seller or buyer is partially preserved in l. 3 but is damaged (Abū l-[...] al-[...]). The price appears to be 400 or 700 or 900 dirhams (עה מאיה...).

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  4. 14304Legal documentMoss. VII,70

    T-S AS 161.266 (PGPID 18549)); Abū l-Y[...]; al-Shām and ʿAkkā (Acre). Needs further examination.

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  5. 14305LetterNLI 577.8/15

    Letter from al-Ḥājj Muḥammad [...] to his son. In Arabic script.

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  6. 14306State documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.12 (Michaelides 12)

    Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...]

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  7. 14307State documentSt. Catherine, Atiya no. 8, Stern doc. 5

    Decree of Bahrām (1135–37), the vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130–49), safeguarding the monastery of St.

    1. وكذلك الحبوب والشعير و [
    2. والثمرة بالدير الاعلا المختص بالاسقف والرهبان
    3. خرج امر فتى مولانا وسيدنا
    4. الامام الحافظ لدين الله امير المؤمنين
    5. صلوات الله عل…
    1. [....] and similarly the corn, barley and
    2. fruit in the upper monastery which belong to the bishop and the monks;
    3. the order of the servant of our mas…

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  8. 14308LetterStras. 5138/22

    The sender insists that the qāḍī/muḥtasib is an ally of the Jewish community and tried to intervene, but there was nothing to be done, and this money must be raised immediately.

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    1. אמת
    2.   אלגמאעה אלכרימה . . . . . . צל חשוביהם
    3.    יברכם צורם . . . . . . . . . אלכרים אן סיידנא
    4. אלקאצי מתולי אלחסבה אלשריפה באלקאהרה
    5. אלמחרוסה מת…

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  9. 14309Legal documentT-S 8.197

    There is a unusual clause that reads "whether by oral witness or through a written document" (l.8) ([mā kāna] minhu be-ʿedut al pe wa-mā kāna minhu bi-sheṭar ve-qinyan). (Information from CUDL and Weiss's edition.)

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    1. [ ] ובין אלשי[ך ]
    2. [ ] מנהא בעד ופאתה מן [ ]
    3. [ ] או בסבב פאידה או בסבב חסאב או תצרף [ ]
    4. [ א]לאשיא גמיעהא עלי אכתלאף אגנאסהא ואנואעהא מ[ ]
    5. [ ] מ…

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  10. 14310Legal documentT-S 8.212

    Digest of a partnership contract for a period of one year between Abū ʿAlī b. David and Netanʾel b. Nadiv. Written mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, but with some Arabic script mixed in.

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  11. 14311Legal documentT-S 8J4.16

    Moshe and Shelomo ha-Kohen al-Bilbaysi dissolve their business and proposed family relations.

    1. אסתקר בין אברהם בן משה ובין שלמה הכהן
    2. אלבלביסי בעד אן אנפצלא מן גמיע מא כאן בינהם
    3. פי אמר אלמצאהרה וגירהא ולם יבק בינהמא
    4. גיר אתני עשר דינארא סוא אסתק…

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  12. 14312LetterT-S 8J13.7

    The sender says he is always trying to expedite it, and he will deal with the matter as soon as he is free.

    1. בר
    2. וצל אלמכתוב אלכרים וקבלה אלממלוך קבל אלוקוף
    3. עליה ואמא מא אשאר אליה אלמולי מן אמר אלברכה
    4. פאן מנד קלב אלמולי טב עלינא פאלברכה ענדנא
    5. ואמא אמר אלבסיק…

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  13. 14313LetterT-S 8J19.19

    Verso: List of about forty bible verses, not all suitable for laudatory introduction; perhaps for wall decoration only.

    1. שלום רב לאהבי תורתך
    2. ואין למו מכשול:
    3. שלומות אתויות וברכות קנויות ונחמות חנויות
    4. וטובות שתולות עלי מים שרויות וכל הברכות הנתמכות
    5. הנסמכות והנמתחות יהיו …

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  14. 14314LetterT-S 8J23.17

    The writer reports the dire conditions in Fustat, including the plunder of the Dār al-Fā'izī (in the Judaeo-Arabic portion) and conveys news of the sick children in the house who are worsening day by day (in the Arabic portion).

    1. من والدتهم لا عدمتهم
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. كتابي الى الولدين العزيزين الموفقين وفقهم الله تعالى وجمع الشمل بهم قريب في خير وعافية
    4. وسوى ذلك اني كثير…

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  15. 14315LetterT-S 10J10.28

    David b. Sighmar to Abu al-Faraj Yosef b. David) is seemingly unrelated.

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. שלום נכבדנו וחשובנו ר יהודה הזקן המיוקר ו . . . . . . . . ל יברכהו אלהינו
    3. וישמרהו ויעודדהו ויעזרהו ביר משה זכרו לברכה ירבה לעד . . . יברך
    4. א…

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  16. 14316Legal documentT-S 10J21.13

    It was customary to bring together the trousseau and estimate it in public. Bride: Sitt al-Fakhr. Groom: __ ha–Levi. The groom's early payment (muqaddam) is 30 dinars.

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    1. [... שמ]ו לעולמים יתעלה נצח אסבאב אלזואג אלמבארך בין מ[...]
    2. [...] השר הנכבד [נ]זר הקהלות נוח נפש ובין סת אלפכר הכלה הב[...]
    3. [...]רִ הלוי נוח נ…

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  17. 14317LetterT-S 10J25.8 + AIU VII.E.23 + T-S 16.95

    Bundār, probably a community leader in Northern Iraq. All letters mainly deal with financial matters; the first seven mention places in Yemen.

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    1.                והיינו מדמים [ 
    2. הרבה שנים ושנה אחרי שנה אנחנו גדולנו וזק[ננו 
    3. לקהל חשוב וזריז ומי שיש בו מעשים טובים [ 
    4. [        …

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  18. 14318Legal documentT-S 13J4.16

    Yeshuʿa the son of the late Nagid Yosef agrees to marry Faraj, the widow of his late brother Shelomo, even though Yeshuʿa is already married. The document lays out the conditions between the two wives and how Yeshuʿa will divide his time and maintenance payments between them.

    1. בינו עמי עשו
    2. למא כאן בתאריך יום אלארבעא
    3. תאמן עשר שהר סיון שנת
    4. אתשצג לשטרות למנינא
    5. דרגילנא לממנא ביה בעיר
    6. אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטאט
    7. מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מ…

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  19. 14319LetterT-S 13J10.3

    Yashar" (presumably Avraham b. Sahl al-Tustarī). (Information in part from CUDL.) In the margin there is a possibly unrelated text in Aramaic.

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  20. 14320LetterT-S 13J13.3

    Ṣedaqa, in Ashqelon, to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.

    1. כי רם ייי ושפל יראה
    2. חנינה וחמלה ורוח והצלה ופדות וגאולה ושנים רבות
    3. בשמחה וגילה מלפני שוכן מעלה ואתנון וחיון לכבוד גדולת
    4. מר ור נתנאל התלמיד שפת אמת א…

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  21. 14321LetterT-S 16.95 + T-S 10J25.8 + AIU VII.E.23

    Bundār, probably a community leader in Northern Iraq. All letters mainly deal with financial matters; the first seven mention places in Yemen.

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    1. לנקוב בשם טוב המתחזק עם החכמים להחנותם בכל יכלו הידוע במעשים 
    2. טובים הנדיב המשובח פל' שלום רב ועצם הברכות וכל הטובות יהיו לך [ 

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  22. 14322Legal documentT-S 16.223 + T-S 24.18 + T-S 12.634

    Join with T-S 16.223 identified by Alan Elbaum.

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו הזקנים החותמים למטה בכתב הזה בא לפנינו מר יהו[דה בר יוסף נע
    2. הנודע בן גנוני והוציא לפנינו שטר חוב מוחזק על ר מנשה בן מר דו…

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    1. …. (28–29) אומר אני עטיה בר לביב נ"נ .... תבעתי מה שהיה מגיע לאבו אסחק נ"ע בן אסמעיל ג'ו…

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  23. 14323Legal documentT-S 20.36

    ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Bride: Sitt al-Wafā b. Shela ha-Levi. Groom: Berakhot ha-Levi.

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  24. 14324LetterT-S Ar.18(1).107

    T-S Ar.18(1).107, T-S 13J13.6, and T-S 10J16.4 are all from the same woman concerning the same protracted dispute (connection noticed by Oded Zinger, "The Use of Social Isolation," footnote 37).

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  25. 14325LetterT-S Ar.30.103

    Then, "as soon as you receive this khidma, send after the 'aṣḥāb al-dawāwīn' and they should come to you." The continuation is not clear, and it may be interspersed with unrelated jottings (several names and Greek/Coptic numerals).

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  26. 14326LetterT-S Ar.34.332

    On verso there is a legal deed (see alternate listing).

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  27. 14327Paraliterary textT-S Ar.35.109

    First identified as alphabetic by Bohak. This fascinating fragment contains a transliterated listing of Greek letters in Hebrew script, an extensive Judaeo-Greek syllabary, and two Coptic abecedaria.

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    1. [     ]טא: ג'מא: דילטא אֵי זיטא [    ]
    2. [  ]וטא: קמבא: למדא: מִי נִי אכסי או פי רו
    3. טאוה: הוה פי: שי: אפּסי: אוטומיגה
    4. אלפאָה אַיא אִיחטַיִי אִיו…

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  28. 14328List or tableT-S Ar.38.137

    List of houses and their owners or tenants, On verso there is the note nusikha fī dīwān al-majlis. Verso contains the very beginnings of four lines of majuscule—this is a reused chancery petition.

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  29. 14329LetterT-S Ar.39.377

    The addressee may be called "al-qāʾid" (l. 2). Mentions Umm Abū ʿAbdallāh (l. 3).

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    1. وبعد ما خرجت ما عرفته فان[
    2. وذهابا(؟) درتها(؟) ويخص من ياخذ فيها و[

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الر[حيم
    2. اعلم القايد ادام الله عزه[
    3. [بـ]ـاعته…

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  30. 14330Legal documentT-S Ar.42.215

    Legal agreement between [...] b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī on the one hand (وهو فريق اول) and the brothers Yūsuf and Yaʿqūb and their mother on the other hand (وهم فريق ثاني).

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  31. 14331Legal documentT-S Ar.47.206

    Yosef ha-Kohen) concerning an oath incumbent on ʿArūs for Avraham about the 'fulfillment of the trust' (adāʾ al-amāna). The Rav states that this is tantamount to a de-ʾorayta oath, and the person taking the oath should be holding a Torah scroll.

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  32. 14332Paraliterary textT-S Ar.52.237 + T-S 13J11.3

    (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum

    T-S 13J11.3v

    1. כב גק מור הנשיא הגדול יאשיהו
    2. תפארת ישראל ועל כב גק מור
    3. בעז הנשיא הנהרג על ייחוד שם
    4. ייי שהלכו למנוחתם בשם טוב
    5. וזכר טוב ומעשים טובים אל
    6. ש…

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  33. 14333Legal documentT-S AS 145.66

    Avraham, with whom she had two sons, Avraham and Naḥum, now wishes to marry Yefet b. Hillel Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh. The court apparently investigates the plan for the maintenance and upbringing of the orphans.

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  34. 14334LetterT-S AS 145.139

    Mentioning a circumcision conducted by the sender, the cantor Elʿazar ha-Kohen, someone called Rosh ha-Qahal al-Zariz, ritual slaughtering, Sayyidnā, and Rabbenu ha-Rav ha-Gadol.

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  35. 14335LetterT-S AS 146.386

    Legible phrases include "May God 'write' his health. . . . Forgive me. I already paid. . . . the slave [i.e. the writer] to ʿAydhāb."

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  36. 14336Legal documentT-S AS 147.23

    Two brothers confirm in a Cairene court under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140-1159) having received from a maternal uncle, the physician Elazar ha-Levi,12.5 dinars, representing the price of a maidservant called Sumr (for Sitt al-Sumr), left to them by another maternal uncle.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא באלמעזיה
    2. אלק]אהרה דס[מוכ]א לפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה
    3. רשו]תיה דאדוננו שמואל ה[נ]גיד הגדול ירום ה…

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  37. 14337Legal documentT-S AS 147.188

    On verso, after stating that the excommunication will be imposed in Cairo, Fustat and Damuh, signatures of the sages approve it, but it seems that all were copied by the same person who wrote the document- Shelomo b.

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  38. 14338LetterT-S AS 148.17

    In which one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit flatters Eliyyahu by saying that in all the cases that come before him, he works to resolve the dispute between them in an amicable way.

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  39. 14339LetterT-S AS 148.30

    On verso mentions the provinces (al-Rīf). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  40. 14340LetterT-S AS 149.40

    The sender mentions greetings from and to Abū l-Ḥasan, Natan and Shemuel al-Baghdādī, and asks for things to be sent either with the carrier of the letter or with ‘the rayyis’, whoever travels first.

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    1. ולי דלך [
    2. כתב ולם [יצלני] גואב וקד . . . . [. . . . . . .] . את . אן אני
    3. קאל . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ולם יח…

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  41. 14341LetterT-S AS 149.41

    On verso there is a writing exercise of poetry in Arabic script (including إِذا كُنتَ في نِعمَةٍ فَاِرعَها فَإِنَّ المَعاصي تُزيلُ النِعَم which is known from other sources and attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib).

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  42. 14342Legal documentT-S AS 149.102

    Specifying the conditions of the betrothal (erusin) between Yefet al-Kohen and [... bt. ...]n b. Khalaf from Baghdād.

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  43. 14343Legal documentT-S AS 151.156

    Legal document concerning a partnership, mentioning Ṣedaqa and Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Basūṭī (?); signed by Abraham b. Saʿadya, Shelomo b.

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  44. 14344Paraliterary textT-S AS 152.3

    Ingredients mentioned include orange, musk, colocynth, and Galen's seed, along with the relevant quantities and weights. (Information from Goitein's index cards; and H.

    1. ב[
    2. ודאר צינ[י וכ]ולנגאן מ[ן] כל וחיד א זו ומסך . [
    3. יארג אלביקרה ד זו ויוברד . . ור נצף וזן ס
    4. קירח אלתרנג ולגץ מן ור[ד]ה ופרנג משך ו . . [
    5. וקרנפול וג…

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  45. 14345Legal documentT-S AS 159.170

    Abū l-[...] appears in court and declares something involving the supplier (al-mūrid) Abū [...] b. Elʿazar and having paid him 45 dinars.

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  46. 14346LetterT-S AS 164.228

    Not a great deal of content is preserved, except that he is talking about the capitation tax (al-jāliya) and refers to inflation (ghalā) and "the burning of Fustat" (ḥarīq Miṣr).

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  47. 14347State documentT-S AS 185.232

    The phrase in the middle appears to end with the name ʿAlī. Needs further examination.

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  48. 14348Legal documentT-S AS 200.289

    The undersigned seem to be pledging allegiance to a certain authority and agreeing to whatever he sees fit to reform (ואם יש שום דבר שיראה לאדוננו באשר צריך תיקון יתקן כחכמתו....).

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  49. 14349LetterT-S AS 206.256 + T-S AS 206.271 + T-S AS 206.260

    Yishmaʿel died (חביבין יסורין). Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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  50. 14350LetterT-S J2.66

    The addressee in unknown; it might be Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Contains instructions about payment deduction and details about different shipments and their expenses.

    Recto, right side

    1. תדכרה' וליה נהראי בן נסים נ'ע' 
    2. וצל כתאב אלאמיר יקול האת מן יגי יקבץ' אלצראר
    3. ואוגבת אלחאל אנחדארי ולם יתפק לי אלאגתמאע במול[אי]
    4. אל…

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    This is a memorandum from your close associate Nahray ben Nissim: A letter arrived from the amir saying: ‘Send someone t…

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