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  1. 14901Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 13/1

    Peraḥya ha-Levi known Ibn al-Amʿaṭ sells to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Peraḥya one-half of four gunny sacks (shakā'ir) of flax for 18 dinars and a mat with a scrap of flax (ḥuṣayra mushāqa) for 4 dinars.

    1. [...] .. [
    2. אלכתאן אלדי [
    3. כגק מרור [
    4. ואבעתה איצא גמיע אלחצירה אלמש[אקה 
    5. חמדת הישיבה ראש הנדיבים נט ר[...............]ין גמי[................]
    6. וקיימין…

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  2. 14902LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/56

    He has sent many letters already with the same purpose. Apart from a hidden illness that he cannot divulge in a letter lest it fall into the hands of his enemies, he suffers from a weak liver, an enlarged spleen, indigestion, lack of appetite, and fatigue with the smallest exertion.

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    1. ולדה געל פדאה
    2. אבו זכרי
    3. בה שויתי ייי לנגדי תמ׳ כי מי׳ בל אמוט
    4. קד עלם אללה סבחאנה תע מא עלי קלבי
    5. מן אלשוק ואלוחשה ואלתאסף וכתרת אלתלחף
    6. אלי נטר …

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  3. 14903LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/2

    Now, the government is demanding a payment if 15,000 of a certain currency (line 7). They already sent their shaliaḥ Yosef ha-Levi, and this letter is intended to encourage them to be generous with him.

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  4. 14904LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/29

    The writer raises charges against the muqaddam of Damira ("he does not deserve to be the rear (mu'akhkhar), let alone the head (muqaddam)," r18) and refuses to take on additional duties in order to avoid conflicts with the local community leader.

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלקדים סבחאנה יעלם מא ענדי מן אלשוק ואלארתיאח אלי חצרה
    3. מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אדאם אללה עזהא ומא מן סאעה //אלא// ואדעו להא
    4. פאללה תע יסתגיב …

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  5. 14905LetterBodl. MS heb. e 105/47

    Letter addressed to Naḥum b. Sulaymān al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. The writer is unidentified.

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    1. ל ק י
    2. אלי אלאך אלעזיז אלמופק אלסעיד אטאל אללה בקא[ה ואדאם
    3. עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה וגמעני ואיא[ה
    4. עלי אסר חאל במנה וכרמה וכפי לטפה ו…

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  6. 14906List or tableCUL Or.1080 J122

    Verso: List of collections for the Jerusalemites (tafriqat al-maqādisa). Dated: Sivan 1553 Seleucid = May 1242 CE.

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  7. 14907LetterENA 2556.2b

    Verso: Letter from Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Qayrawān, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי יאכי וסידי ועצרתי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך לארבע איאם בקין מן [ 
    2. ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ללחאל(!) חמד וחדה וקד [   …

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    1. מכתבי, אחי ואדוני ומשענתי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את כבודך ואת תמיכתו ואת סיועו לך ואת שלומך, כשנותרו ד' ימים (מחודש) …
    2. שלומי טוב ו…

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  8. 14908List or tableENA 2562.2

    The upper section lists nearly a hundred names, neatly listed in roughly alphabetical order, each paired with the sum of money they contributed that year.

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  9. 14909LetterENA 2808.26b

    The writer is under duress from difficult times (awqāt al-shadā'id). There is a sick person in his household who has had a nosebleed (ruʿāf) for the entire week (the word "sick person" could plausibly be emended to "maraḍ" from "marīḍ," meaning that the writer himself has a nosebleed, but the next line, "I was away," suggests that it was rather someone in his family).

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  10. 14910List or tableENA 2958.12 + ENA 2958.13

    The figures for entries are alphanumerical and on the recto a unit of volume for grain is mentioned "irdab/ארדב" (l.6v).

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  11. 14911LetterENA 4020.59

    Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn קדורה came and told Shela that he had mistakenly given the money to Abū Sahl (probably Menashshe) Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. The addressee is asked to wait for Abū Sahl and obtain the money.

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי אעלם בה מולאי אלכהן אבו אלפרג אדאם אללה עזה אן
    3. כאן וצל אלי כתאבה ואלי אלשיך אבו אלטאהר בקבץ תלך אלדנאניר
    4. אלדי תפצלת עלי חצרה סיי…

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  12. 14912LetterENA NS 36.3

    He offers his excuses in this letter: that he was in a great rush when he wrote his earlier letter, and that the addressee will receive all his money. He names amounts in Venetian gold coins (dhahab banādiqa) and Ibrāhīmīs.

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  13. 14913LetterENA NS I.6

    Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  14. 14914LetterHalper 398

    Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be').

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    1. מן [ממ]לוכה א[בי] אלמנצור ומן .......
    2. לא אוחש אללה מן חצרה מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן אלתופיק לה אכלאה גמע אללה ביננ…

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  15. 14915List or tableJRL C 150

    In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest / ארגז" is mentioned.The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the paper's extensive length is still apparent and suggests that this was possibly a part of a broader communal charity register.

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  16. 14916Legal documentMoss. VII,53

    May be a copy or a version of a document originally produced in a Muslim court: mentions "the Mālikī court of al-Ṣāliḥiyya" in line 2– which was one of the ~15 qadi courts that operated in Cairo during the early modern period.

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  17. 14917Legal documentMoss. VIII,446.1

    The prozbol is a legal mechanism that technically changed the status of individual private loans into the public administration, allowing the poor to receive interest-free loans before the Sabbatical year while protecting the investments of the lenders.

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  18. 14918Legal documentMoss. Xa,3.70

    Verso: Addendum (faṣl) for another transaction relating to the same property (mentions something "al-musammā bāṭinahu). Refers to the different boundaries including the western boundary.

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  19. 14919LetterMS AJ

    This is a private manuscript acquired by Alain Jacquet of Nanterre, France, in Cairo, summer 1972.

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    1. ואמרתם כה לחי ואתה שלום
    2. אלממלוך מהני למולי
    3. באלאי{א}ם אלשריפה אל
    4. יזכיך שנים רבות נעימות
    5. לחזות בנעם ה ולבקר בהיכלו
    6. וקד עלם אל כתרה שוקי
    7. אליך פא…

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  20. 14920Legal documentNLI 577.7/3

    Involves a woman named Sitt al-Milāḥ whose husband committed "obscenities" (fawāḥish) against her.

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  21. 14921State documentPER K 8314

    Fatimid state decree to a lower official, reused for a Coptic text dated 408–410 AH, hence datable to earlier than that; probably from the reign of al-Ḥākim, possibly even earlier. The Coptic text was partially published as CPR II 1 and MPER XVIII 55, and will be re-edited by Vincent Walter; full bibliography at https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?

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  22. 14922Legal documentT-S 8.133 + T-S 16.210

    (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 339.) Alternate description: A fragment of a ketubba stitched to another vellum fragment (thread still remains) and reused as a rotulus for liturgy on dew.

    1. [ב]יום חמשתה בארבעת יומין לי[רח ...]
    2. לחרבן בית מקדשא קדישא [...]
    3. אתריה למחזי יקריה בבניין ב[...]
    4. די על ימה תריהון יחדון וי[...]
    5. ומן רעותי ומן טבותי …

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  23. 14923Legal documentT-S 8J5.24

    Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī b. Mevorakh and Avraham al-Najīb, a community official. Avraham accused Abū Zikrī of an unspecified sin (פעל עבירה).

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנן העידים אנן
    2. חתומי מטה אן למא כאן בחדש
    3. מרחשון שנת אתפד לשטרות יום
    4. אלסבת גרא בין אבו זכרי בר מבורך
    5. ובין אברהם אלנגיב מפאוצה
    6. וכלאם …

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  24. 14924Legal documentT-S 10J7.6

    (II) Addendum (faṣl) probably to an unrelated legal record concerning a deceased father who stipulated that his daughter and all she possesses resides with the father's brother who has been appointed her trustee.

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    1. לִ[...]ת פצל מן כתובה אבנה אלשיך אבו אלסרור אלטביב
    2. וקביל עלוהי מר [ור] ששון הלוי אבוהא דכלתא דיהיב לה לברתיה דא
    3. רביע החצר הגדולה [שה]יא שלו ושל אח…

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  25. 14925Legal documentT-S 10J7.11 + T-S NS J81

    (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. Additionally, T-S 10J7.11 + T-S NS J81 (PGPID 7858) and T-S NS 292.10 (PGPID 8651) are related and potentially an indirect join.

    T-S 10J7.11 recto

    1. [ ]לך א[ ]
    2. דנן בקנין גמ[ור ]
    3. ותנאין אן אלת[ ]
    4. עליה אלסלטאן לל[ ]
    5. אלשרוט אלמשרוח[ה ]
    6. טלב עלי אלשיך אבו אל[ ]
    7. מסתכלאצהא לא גיר בח[ ]…

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  26. 14926LetterT-S 12.142

    You know the vow I swore regarding the lamb (? al-khurayyif), and let this not be something that distresses you, for your magnanimity is greater than this, and it distresses me that it weighed upon your soul."

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  27. 14927Legal documentT-S 12.714

    She then married a man with sons from a previous marriage to whom he allegedly owed money. He passed away before his wife, resulting in a long and complicated legal process.

    1. יאשיה ואכוה //ולה אכתין// אזוג אכוה
    2. אכת אלכהן [צאח]ב אלפנדק
    3. ורזק אולאד ומאת
    4. אכת יאשיה אלואחדה
    5. תזוגת בעם אבו יוסף בן זכרי
    6. ורזק מנהא בנתין ומאתת //ומא…

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  28. 14928Legal documentT-S 13J3.26

    The document is about the origins (and implicitly, eligibility for marriage) of Akramiyya, who grew up in the house of the physician al-Asʿad. Goitein understood that she was purchased as a slave when she was still an infant and that she was later freed, however these facts are not stated explicitly.

    עדויות על יחוס.

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא אכר הדא
    2. אלמסטור אן נחן מחקקין בשהאדה לא ריב
    3. פיהא ולא אלתבאס יחתוי עליהא אן אלצבייה
    4. אלמסמאה אכרמיה אל…

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  29. 14929LetterT-S 13J37.10

    He warns him that he cannot preserve his reputation (jāh) as one of the 'elders of the nation' (shuyūkh al-milla) when his grandchildren marry like paupers.

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  30. 14930Legal documentT-S 16.116

    sells nine parts out of eighteen of a house in the Qaṣr Edom (Qaṣr al-Rūm), which he had inherited from his wife Salma bt.

    1. [..] עדות שהיתה בפנינ[

    2. [..]ת ועשרים ואחת שנין לשטרות למ[.......] מותבה

    3. [..א]יך אמר לנו שלמה בר אברהם בר מלכי הי[......]ל

    4. לשון שלזכות ותנו…

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  31. 14931LetterT-S 16.278

    He expresses his yearning and describes his depressed state in great detail, seeking to refute her assumption that he is remaining away because life is good for him. He alludes to his "many illnesses and sundry pains" but doesn't go into them to spare her.

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    1. ב[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. הנכבד והנורא וממא [תרידי עלמה אנני
    3. אלאן עלי גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעאפיה בעד מקאסאת
    4. אמראץ מכת…

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  32. 14932Legal documentT-S 18J1.24

    On a Saturday, a dying man, Salim al-Halabi, a dyer was visited by friends, among them a creditor, who reminded him of a sum of 16 dinars and 4 qirats still owed to him.

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא אכר הדא אלמסטור אן למא כאן יום אלסבת
    2. פי אלעשר אלאוסט מחדש אייר שנת אתסז לשטרות דכלנא אפתקדנא אלשיך
    3. אבו אלמרגא סאלם א…

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  33. 14933LetterT-S 20.45

    The letter mentions Elijah’s compatriot, Abū ʿAlī, who had visited Fusṭāṭ and brought back letters from Elijah's brother, and letters for a community leader, Elijah b.

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  34. 14934Paraliterary textT-S Ar.37.7

    On the other side, there are verses of poetry from Arabic sources, some attributed to Ibn al-Rūmī. At the bottom of the page there is a verse that is attributed to Bahlūl on some websites: "My soul hangs from your camel's saddlebag; if you intend to kill me, urge her on" (روحي معلقة في كور ناقتكم أذا عزمتم على قتلي فحثوها).

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  35. 14935LetterT-S Ar.47.139

    A person named Abū l-Faraj al-Levi features in the story. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic; unclear whether it is related to recto.

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  36. 14936Legal documentT-S Ar.52.177

    Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b.

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    1. אִחצרת [אלינ]א אנן בי דינא סת אלכל בת אליה זוגה [          יכין] בן שבת הנקרא מ֗ [...]ןִ
    2. נ֗ע֗ שטר כתובה עלי זוגהִאִ יכ[ין] בִ[ן] שבתי הנזכ…

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    1. (1-2) Sitt al-Kull bt. Elijah, wife of [... Yakhīn] b. Shabbat called Mr. [....] m(ay he rest in) E(den), presented to us, the court, the dee…

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  37. 14937LetterT-S AS 146.279

    Ṣadoq (aka Efrayim b. Ṣedaqa al-Muʿallim), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 980, according to Gil.

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    1. [. . . ראש הי]ש[יבה שלגו]לה בן משוי נכד יצחק ראש הישיבה שלגולה 
    2. [. . .] . . . ם המשמחם בנאמו ומשעשעם ומלמדם דרכי יושר 
    3. [. . .] . . אשר לא יועם…

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    1. יימסר .... בבית החולים אלצולי(?), אל … הרופא,
    2. ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתו ואת עזרתו לו ואת שלומו ואת אושרו,
    3. כדי שימסור אותו למ…

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  38. 14938Legal documentT-S AS 151.166

    Involves Yefet and the late Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣabbāgh. There will be a payment in installments due during over the following year (1461 Seleucid).

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  39. 14939Literary textT-S AS 177.633 + T-S AS 177.628 + T-S NS 340.56 + T-S NS 305.208

    Joins: Geoffrey Khan and Alan Elbaum. The first two pieces read roughly as follows: יתב]רך חסידי(?)

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  40. 14940LetterT-S AS 183.314

    Verso: List of mainly materia medica along with amounts. Seems to be the same hand as recto.

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  41. 14941List or tableT-S AS 207.1

    Underneath there is a header: "that which was sent from al-Maghribī." Various names, commodities (mainly garments), and quantities are then listed.

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  42. 14942Paraliterary textT-S K2.107 + T-S NS J609

    Qaraite calendar listing the dates of the new moon by observation, along with correspondences between the Qaraite, Rabbanite, and Islamic calendars.

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  43. 14943List or tableT-S K15.15 + T-S K15.5 + T-S K15.39 + T-S K15.50

    Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50). Fol. 15.5 has a title page; “List of the Poor of Fustat.”

    T-S K15.15, r, left side ["col. I" per Cohen]

    1. ואנפק פיהם איצא
    2. יום אלגמעה אלואחד ועשׁרין מנה
    3. כמסה קנאטר עדדהא
    4. כמס מאיה סבעה וסתין
    5. אלחזן אלקצאעי ו' אל…

    T-S K15.15, r, left side ["col. I" per Cohen]

    1. Dispensed for them also

    2. on Friday the 21st of that (month)

    3. five qinṭārs, numbering

    4. five hundre…

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  44. 14944LetterT-S Misc.35.93

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Ibn Ghyyāth, in al-Andalus, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1138/39 CE.

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    1. [איש] שכל ̇ר חלפון הלוי ̇נ̇ר̇ו אוהבו הדורש שלומו
    2. יצחק ב̇ר יוסף ̇נ̇ע אבן גיאת2
    3. [...] עמדי ומן אטאל אל רבִ תעאלי בקאה פי
    4. [אעלי מראתב אלעז]3 כתבת…

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  45. 14945Legal documentT-S NS 190.107

    Mentions the names Abū ʿAlī Yefet and Abū l-Ḥasan. T-S AS 153.73 (PGPID 16645) and T-S NS 190.107 (PGPID 23844) may join.

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  46. 14946LetterT-S NS 225.12

    On verso the sender seems to complain about a lack of news: he heard something about a marriage, a (newborn?) boy, Sitt al-Kull, and Daniel, but was not informed. He ends the letter, "Do not blame me, for my vision is weak."

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  47. 14947State documentT-S NS 273.85

    Mentions news of a letter from Ḥisn al-Dawla b. ʿĀrij(?) to his son and his companions which recognized gratitude for a service provided and promised a disbursement of funds from the treasury (وانه موعود باطلاق من الخزانة).

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  48. 14948LetterT-S NS 321.21b

    The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the Jews" (though כלפוה might be kallafa "tasked" rather than khālafa "opposed," in which case he is being tasked by the people to forward their legal queries to sayyidnā al-rayyis). He asks Eliyya to forward the legal queries and/or responsa from where they have been deposited with "a certain perfumer."

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  49. 14949Legal documentT-S NS 342.140 + T-S NS 342.109 + T-S NS 342.m

    However, if a year goes by without the annual payment of 5 dinars, the entire sum must be repaid all at once. AA/ASE. Joins: Oded Zinger. NB: Further context is needed for which minute fragment among the many in T-S NS 324.m relates to this particular document (perhaps the fragment in the fourth column/fourth row in image 1r).

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  50. 14950LetterT-S NS J393

    Then he asks the addressee to obtain for him a copy of Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn ("The Oculists' Handbook") in the best handwriting possible.

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