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  1. 14501LetterF 1908.44V

    Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Safāqusī, probably in Būṣīr, to Abū l-Ḥayy Khalīla (the father of Mūsā), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1048 CE. Deals …

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    1. תקדם כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך

    2. ונעמאף ואעלמתך פיה חאל בוציר וגמהא ותעבהא ואנה

    3. בלד אן כתיר אלשגב ואלתעב ולו חלפת …

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    1. כתבתי לך לפני כן, אחי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך
    2. ואת חסדיו לך, והודעתי לך במכתבי את המצב בבוציר, ואת המצוקה והסבל …

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  2. 14502Legal documentT-S AS 181.233

    Legal declaration or promissory note. In which the faqīh Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Abū ʿAlī acknowledges that he owes a debt of [...] to …

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  3. 14503Legal documentT-S NS 338.81

    Legal document. Not signed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning Shelomo b. Shabīb ha-Kohen and Yosef b. Khalfa; the latter is trustworthy (to handle the mercantile …

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  4. 14504LetterT-S 8J16.7

    Letter addressed to Abu Sahl b. Moshe, the cantor, in which the writer requests aid in a mixture of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. In a post-scripted …

    1. תו שלום וג'
    2. שלום רב לאהבי תורותך
    3. שלום שלום לירחוק (!) ולקרב
    4. סבב הדה אלרקעה ולכבר מן מר' ור'
    5. אלשיך אבו // סהל // החבר השר ה/א/דיר החכם
    6. והניבון (!) ומ…

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    1. "[Say] as follows: '[To life!] Greetings to [you],'" etc. (1 Samuel 25:6).
    2. "Those who love Your teaching enjoy well-being" (Psalm 119:165). 
    3. "…

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  5. 14505Literary textT-S AS 50.153

    Psalms 34:14-23 with a חזק at the end. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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  6. 14506LetterMoss. II,179

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to retrieve all of the writer's books that are currently with the 'Rav.' They include parts of …

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  7. 14507List or tableT-S AS 183.133

    Account, potentially fiscal.

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  8. 14508List or tableT-S NS 83.35

    Recto: Accounts in Spanish mentioning the year 1747 (5507). The righthand side of verso appears to be the same, also in Spanish. The lefthand side …

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  9. 14509LetterT-S AS 152.298

    Letter mentioning a judge and Faraḥ b. Faḍāʾil. Seems to be addressed to Yaʿaqov, in Bilbays, though the address is in a different hand. The …

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  10. 14510Unknown typeMoss. IXa,2.70

    Scribal practice with a few odd signatures.

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  11. 14511LetterT-S 13J15.16 + T-S 13J15.20

    India Book (IB) IV,68 (ח74). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Dating: 24 Elul [1451] Seleucid = 8 …

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    1. אלמרגלית מולאי אלנזר השר הנכבד החכם
    2. והנבון תנצב''ה ואלא ויסמעו אלנאס אלצדיק ואלעדו⟦.⟧
    3. בינהם הדה אלמקאמאת מע שיך …

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    1. בשמך רחמ[נא].
    2. מכתבי נשלח אל כבוד הדרת יקרת תפארת
    3. גדלת קדשת מרנ' ורבנ' חלפון הלוי הקהתי השר
    4. הנכבד החכם והנבון הירא שמים מנעוריו בן כבוד
    5. גדלת קד…

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  12. 14512Unknown typeJRL A 1229

    An extremely faded document in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  13. 14513List or tableENA NS 38.4

    Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic naming people such as Barhūn and Abū l-Khayr and Yūsuf. Dating: shortly after 1047/48 CE. The hand may be …

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  14. 14514Unknown typeENA NS 85.248.3

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  15. 14515LetterENA NS 38.18

    Business letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj (Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb?) Ibn ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. This document appears to have been overlooked by past Ibn ʿAwkal scholars. …

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  16. 14516LetterENA 3935.14 + ENA 3935.13

    Left fragment: Letter in Arabic script. Not a chancery hand, but it sounds like a petition or official letter in some ways. Conveys praises and …

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  17. 14517List or tableT-S AS 183.13

    Table of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a very disorderly scribal hand. Medieval-era.

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  18. 14518State documentT-S AS 180.143

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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  19. 14519Unknown typeENA NS 85.594

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  20. 14520LetterENA NS I.30

    Letter. It looks like this piece of paper had another piece glued to it on top. In any case, what remains is a lower part …

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  21. 14521Legal documentMoss. VII,73

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: 12th century, under the reshut of the Gaon Netan'el ha-Levi. Needs examination for content. Witnesses: Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi and …

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  22. 14522Legal documentT-S AS 146.79

    Fragment from the top of a ketubah, from the month of Elul. The bride is Jamila d. Yosef. AA

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  23. 14523List or tableBodl. MS heb. d 76/53

    An inventory of books. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. The list includes books in the hand of R. Anaṭoli and al-Dayyān al-Maskil (identified by Friedman …

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  24. 14524Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …

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    :Right side of bifolio 2r (Documents 14-15)

    1. שימסור הר׳ פינחס הנז׳ כל הנכסים של הר׳ משה הנ׳ אשר בידו
    2. ליד אינו נאמן כפי ראית עינינו בתורת עסקא ל…

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  25. 14525List or tableENA NS 48.21

    Note concerning the wages of the teacher Abū Isḥāq for four weeks (Teruma through Vayaqhel). Each week he taught 3 boys and earned 1.5 dirhams.

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  26. 14526Legal documentMoss. VII,54.1

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.

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  27. 14527LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 269

    Formal note, in Arabic script. Probably in answer to a question "innaka saʾltanī". Mentions a strong vow "bi-akhaṣṣ al-yamīn".

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  28. 14528Legal documentT-S 18J1.6

    A religious slaughterer, Khalaf b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥallāl, who was careless in the exercise of his duties is flogged and forced to make a public confession. …

    1. מעשה שהיה בפנינו בבית דין מושב שלושה בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה
    2. לפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס //הנה[ר]// מושבה בשלישי בשבת בתשעה ימים
    3. לחודש אייר שנת אלף ושלוש מאו…

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  29. 14529Legal documentMIAC 225

    Receipt for the rent of a residence valued at 88 qirsh in the waqf of Deir el Moukhalles in Cairo – 1 March 1947CE – …

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  30. 14530LetterT-S AS 200.163

    A short note written by Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Ordering Eliyyahu the judge to pay capitation tax to R. Zakkay the teacher and Ibrāhīm …

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  31. 14531LetterT-S NS 226.6

    Letter recording commodity transactions, including the purchase of wheat. Mentions a food shortage and rise in prices "and we are in a massive crisis because …

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    1. קריב מאתין דרהם דין אכתרהא
    2. לאצהארה ואלבאקי לנאס מפרקה
    3. ואופינא אלבעץ ואלבאקי חתי תגי
    4. ונפיע אלמ. . ונחן פי שדה עצימה
    5. מן אלגלא גרארה אלקמח בסבעי…

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  32. 14532Legal documentT-S AS 184.442

    Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions someone reaching maturity and taking possession of something from his mother, and quotes the verse 'لا …

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  33. 14533LetterT-S 13J15.13

    Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel b. Avraham (perhaps a Qaraite), to Abū Saʿd (i.e. Abū Saʿd b. Sahl al-Tustarī, also known as Avraham b. Yashar), …

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  34. 14534LetterT-S AS 185.19

    Note addressed to Muʿallim Mordekhay. Probably Ottoman-era. It begins, "Why do you say that I went to the synagogue and didn't pray?" (ליש תקול אני …

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  35. 14535Legal documentT-S NS 225.44

    Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Possibly involving a certain Netanʾel.

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  36. 14536LetterT-S AS 151.198

    Verso: Drafts of the opening of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to R. Yosef. Dating: early 13th century.

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  37. 14537Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 181.89

    Receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdi.

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  38. 14538LetterT-S 12.323

    Letter from Fustat/Cairo to the communal leaders of Damietta, Yiṣḥaq Beirav and Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen. First half of the 16th century. Mentions Avraham b. Shānjī and …

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    1. זרע הקדש השומרים משמרת ה[קדש] [...]
    2. זאת להם תורה וחוקה ויד חזקה בק[..] האמת [......] [נ]דיבי[ם][?] 
    3. ונדבות יועצים להציל לחוצים מי[ד] מוחצים [.…

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  39. 14539Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 146.88

    Recto: order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay Abū l-Barakāt (dated 7 Nisan 1450 = 1139 CE). (Information from …

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  40. 14540LetterT-S NS J327

    According to Goitein's attached notes, this is a letter from Hillel b. [...] to Nahray b. Nissim. There is no digitized image on FGP ("missing …

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  41. 14541LetterMIAC 76

    Letter issued by a merchant in al-Mūskī in Cairo – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 76) – in Hebrew. …

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  42. 14542Legal documentJRL B 3857

    Fragmentary record of testimony from the 'Permanent Court' in Fustat dated Sivan 1367 = May/June 1056 CE.

    1. זכרון עדות שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצרים וה[עדים
    2. החותמים עדותם למטה בשטר הזה בתרין בשבה ו
    3. יומ]י[ן] בירח סיון אלפא ותלת מאה ושתין ושב[עה] שני[…

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  43. 14543Legal documentT-S NS 323.27

    Legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Very faded, but complete. Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1448 Seleucid = 1 February 1137 …

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  44. 14544List or tableT-S Ar.52.213

    A catalogue of a private library, including titles from rabbinic and medieval Judaeo-Arabic literature.

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  45. 14545LetterT-S NS J119

    Letter from Jerusalem addressed to Efrayim b. Shemarya (Maḥfūẓ), concerning the revenue from the Compound of the Jerusalemites in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1040 CE (per …

    1. ]דמה אלחבר אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    2. ] מגוצה למקדראת קאירה ען וצף
    3. ]ל להם אלי אכתר מן אלמסלה(!) ללה
    4. א]גאבה דעאיהם לה חרסה אללה
    5. ]לתהם באלגמיל וקד כאן כתאבה

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    1. …the Ḥāvēr, may God give you a long life and everlasting (favor and grace) 

    2.  … your diving into abominations too enormous to be described 

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  46. 14546Legal documentT-S NS 323.22

    Court record in Hebrew. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). (Or at least about Damietta.) Dated: Nisan 1360 Seleucid, which is 1049 CE. Concerns a debt of …

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  47. 14547LetterT-S K25.240.14 + T-S K25.240.54 + T-S K25.240.17

    Recto: Three fragments of a letter from from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he fulfilled the …

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  48. 14548LetterENA 3941.11

    Letter in Arabic script. Or maybe a petition—the second block opens with "yuqabbil al-arḍ wa-yunhī." Needs examination.

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  49. 14549Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 2: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl of oxymel.

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  50. 14550LetterT-S 10J11.8

    Letter from a mother to her children, sent to the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd. She is writing from Rashid (Rosetta) on her way …

    1. בשמ וחמ
    2. כתאבי אליכם יא אולאדי ואלעזיזין עלי וענדי אטאל אללה [בקאכמם ואדאם עזכם
    3. ותאיידכם וסעאדתכם וסלאמתכם ונעמתכם וכב[ת אעדאכם ואלשוק
    4. אליכם שדיד אסא…

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