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  1. 101Legal documentNLI Ms. Ar. 276.20

    For document images and information on provenance, see the 2009 NLI catalogue entry by Ephraim Wust: https://www.nli.org.il/ar/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990029250640205171/NLI#$FL188116337 NLI Ms.

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    1. حي الله وك.ي

    2. ..را فية عنه …إليه سبحانه

    3. عثمان بن احمد المنهاج(؟) الحنبلي

    4. (seal)

    5. بالباب العالي اعلاه الله تعالى وشرفه بالقاهرة المحروسة…

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  2. 102Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 1

    Same sender and purpose as recto (PGPID 7038), but different addressee. See also ENA 3927.1 (PGPID 10296), which has the same sender, addressee, and purpose. […] III 42, and verso was edited by Werner Diem (https://www.apd.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/apd/show2.jsp?

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  3. 103LetterT-S NS 324.118 + T-S NS 264.56

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, August 2009]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48227

    T-S NS 264.56 Recto

    1. .......................................................................... נפשו ועזרנוהו .....................
    2. ..........נו ער<ב…

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  4. 104Legal documentT-S NS 226.48

    The wife is permitted to leave the house only for the well-known places (that is, the bathhouse and to visit her family). See Ashur, Engagement and Betrothal, p. 69, 120. 364.

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  5. 105Legal query or responsumT-S AS 181.91

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, April 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.34048

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    1. לא אסמיה [...]
    2. [  ]ון בני אדם ולא יגוז לה אלדכול [להונ]א
    3.                             אלגׁואב
    4. ל[א י]גׁוז לה אלדכול ללבית אלמדכור
    5.               …
    1. I won’t name him […]
    2. [   ] people and he is not allowed to enter [there]
    3. The answer:
    4. He is not allowed to enter the aforementioned house.
    5. Moses wrot…

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  6. 106Literary textENA 3252.19–20

    Discovered by Amir Ashur and Shulamit Elizur; see https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragments/posts/qa-wednesday-amir-ashur-finding-lost-poem-judah-ha-levi.

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  7. 107LetterMoss. V,361.1

    The writer insists that the addressee come visit him on Shabbat at the end of the day as he had promised, otherwise he will never talk to him again.

    1. בר
    2. יא מולאי אלרייס אבו אלמכארם מא רגעת
    3. אבצרתך פהכדא יכונו אלנאס פוחק
    4. אבי לא בד אד לם תגי אלי ענדי יום אלסבת
    5. אכר אלנהר לאנך קלת עליה ימין מא
    6. אכרג יום…

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  8. 108LetterT-S 16.290

    Verso: Maimonides’ reply is gracious but firm: he is exhausted, frail, and ill, and has no time or energy to meet with the writer. He may, however, see his correspondent on Shabbat at the house of study. […] As Kraemer notes, Maimonides occasionally invoked ill health and fatigue to deter visitors and preserve his privacy. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based the years Maimonides was active in Egypt.

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  9. 109Literary textENA 3960.5

    This work may be derivative of عمدة الكتّاب وعدة ذوي الألباب, which is attributed to al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs (https://al-maktaba.org/book/31950). But there are also substantial differences.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. صفة عمل المداد الاحمر
    3. يوخذ زنجفيـ[ـل وصمـ]ـغ
    4. صفة عمل المداد الا[صفر]
    5. يوخذ زرنيخ احمر وصمغꙨ
    6. صفة عمل المداد الاخضر
    7. يوخذ …

    Recto

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    2. Recipe for making red ink
    3. Take red mercury sulfide and gum arabic.
    4. Recipe for making yello…

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  10. 110Paraliterary textT-S AS 162.51

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, September 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40296.

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  11. 111Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated 7 Nisan 5324 AM (March 1564 CE). This incomplete entry was added to the lower part of the page one year after the upper entry. […] Aharon al-Qudsi testifies that she will no longer visit her co-wife Rivqa bt. ʿAbd al-Karīm Ibn Maʿānī (or the latter's children) without Rivqa's consent. Sarah also agrees to terms involving her husband ʿAbd al-Maʿaṭī al-Fulādī and her clothing/alimony, but the entry cuts off here. MCD.

    Yevr.–Arab. I 328, folio 21r

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלגמאעה כ׳׳ד פי שהר אדר שני סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ג׳ ליצירה
    2. חצרו לולד [[פל]] פרגא׳ אללוי א׳אלאך ע׳אלבאקי אללוי וא…

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  12. 112Literary textT-S 12.207 + T-S AS 207.54

    Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 24 (1902): p. 329-331. and https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m534/

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  13. 113Legal documentT-S K23.3.2

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, December 2009]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55272

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    1. והוות לצלח בר [...]
    2. לה מהר חולקיה [...]
    3. בדרתה דאברהם [ה...] בר חות[ם(?) ...]
    4. צפונה [דמיגו(?)] תרעא אתריה [...]
    5. [ ] רשות הרבים ולעל […
    1. And she become [the wife] of Ṣulḥ b. […]
    2. [and he gave/wrote] her as mohar the portions/his portion […]
    3. in the house of Abraham […] b. Ḥota[m(?) …]
    4. t…

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  14. 114LetterT-S NS 298.18 + T-S AS 202.383

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, October 2009]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55277.

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  15. 115Legal documentT-S 12.141

    T-S NS 305.206, T-S NS 297.103–06, and https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/manuscript-of-the-month-manuscript-waste-not-or-a-case-in-fragmentology/.

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  16. 116Literary textT-S Ar.1a.136

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, November 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40721.

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  17. 117Literary textT-S AS 184.23

    In another source (e.g. https://al-maktaba.org/book/3610/17): الْمُجَاهِدُ مَنْ جَاهَدَ نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ.

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  18. 118Literary textT-S NS 163.57

    Identification of the scribe was made by José Martínez Delgado and Amir Ashur in 2022. See https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragments/posts/qa-wednesday-maimonides-hiding-plain-sight-jose-martinez-delgado.

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  19. 119Legal documentT-S NS 305.206

    A comb spine lining? Cf. T-S 12.141 and https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/manuscript-of-the-month-manuscript-waste-not-or-a-case-in-fragmentology/.

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  20. 120Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 752

    A few muqaddimat include some liturgical poetry." Informaton from https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0021/html/GasterHebrewMss1324.html.

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  21. 121LetterENA NS 31.15

    Reporting on family and business matters. "Bābā" visited the sender for the holiday. Needs further examination.

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  22. 122LetterT-S AS 145.22

    The letter concerns practical matters as well as excuses for why he had not visited his mother on the holidays. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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  23. 123LetterENA NS 8.13

    The sender mentions fear on account of the addressee and plans to travel to Ibrāhīm and "visit the country" (nazūr al-bilād) "if we live till next year."

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  24. 124Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 169

    Remnant of an Arabic poem attested in literary sources (رمى الحدثان نسوة آل حرب بمقدار سمدن له سمودا فرد شعورهن السود بيضا ورد وجوههن البيض سودا) and attributed to various different poets (https://shamela.ws/book/9904/429#p1). There is also a colophon in the margin, specifying the name of the poet (Ibn ʿ[...]n), the date (mostly missing), and the city of Alexandria.

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  25. 125Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 153.189 + T-S AS 156.259

    (Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)

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  26. 126Literary textX893 J785

    Gaster's translation of some of the other manuscript versions may be found here: https://sacred-texts.com/journals/jras/1893-15.htm.

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  27. 127Unknown typeENA NS 40.22

    Verso: Abbreviated version of Avraham Ibn ʿEzra's poetic dispute between animals and man (אל בוראי); full text available at https://benyehuda.org/read/21446. The portion preserved here: ארים קול ולא אירא / בן אדם מה עוצמה שאתו ישתרר על אריה בחניתו יך פרעוש גם כינים בחמתו ונמלים ירמוס בהליכתו / געה שור ויצעק שמעו לי מה פשעי לאיש או מה מעלי כי חנם הכביד מטות עלי Translation: I raise my voice and am not afraid. […] MS heb. d 61/55, T-S NS 96.55, T-S K16.20, and the printed fragment T-S Misc.17.27 (found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473).

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  28. 128Legal documentT-S AS 111.164

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, April 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.34048.

    verso

    1. ...
    2. ... ולא יקדר אלחמו ימנע
    3. דלך בוגה וכתב משה

    verso

    1. ...
    2. ... And the father-in-law cannot prevent
    3. this at all. Moses wrote this.

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  29. 129Legal documentNLI CAHJP ET-Ca. 61

    A photocopy of a Muslim court deed documenting various endowed properties of the Qaraite community of Jerusalem. […] This property, as well as the supervisor's son, who was also a supervisor on the Qaraite endowments, are mentioned in a court deed from 1583 CE (PGPID 40646). […] The file at the NLI includes, besides the photocopy, a full translation to Hebrew, approved by an Israeli notary (in 1976) and bears a stamp of "the Qaraite community of Israel". https://www.nli.org.il/he/archives/NNL_CAHJP990044048430205171/NLI#$FL276083466

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  30. 130Literary textAIU XII.41

    See the Beirut 1905 edition: https://books.google.com/books?id=b6MIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT336&lpg=PT336.

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  31. 131Legal documentNLI 4°9463.10

    (Information in part from NLI catalogue: https://www.nli.org.il/he/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH997007966688005171/NLI#$FL128464585.)

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  32. 132LetterNLI 4°9463.11

    (Information from OZ and NLI catalogue: https://www.nli.org.il/he/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH997007966687405171/NLI#$FL128020286.)

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  33. 133Legal documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.13 (Michaelides 13)

    NB: Michaelides 13 corresponds to image #41 at https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9945255593506421.

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  34. 134Legal documentT-S AS 176.1

    Related to ONB A. Ch. 28032 (https://www.apd.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/apd/show2.jsp?

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  35. 135LetterT-S AS 169.251 + T-S AS 151.205

    The sender mentions that he was sick with a fever and cold and nobody (or nobody [except ...]) visited/asked after him (mā iftaqadanī [...]). Mentions 'my master al-Ḥemdat' and 'my master, the rayyis, our rabbi Avraham (Maimonides?).'

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  36. 136State documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.12 (Michaelides 12)

    Fatimite" ; on a separate small piece of paper : " A complaint against a man from the tribe of Kutama (from the Fatimite period)"]. Link to the image: (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9945255593506421#view).

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  37. 137LetterT-S Misc.28.98

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, 2010]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55278.

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    1. ממלוך הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת הוד ועטרת
    2. וצניף כותרת מרנו ורבנו משה הרב ה[גדול]
    3. הפטיש החזק ה[...]ו שמים יאריך אלהינו
    4. ימיו בטוב ושנותיו בנעימים בז…

    Verso

    1. The slave of the excellent, honourable, precious, diadem of glory,
    2. the crowning turban, our master and our teacher Moses the Great Rav,
    3. the st…

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  38. 138LetterT-S 13J19.17

    The letter includes a report on the social uproar caused by Yehuda ha-Levi’s visit in Alexandria when everybody was eager to invite him. […] Abū Naṣr complains about his eye illness: "I only wrote these few letters as I was housebound with a flare of ophthalmia that came over me." At the end of recto and beginning of verso, this proves relevant: "The account is in the shop and I am at home, so I do not have the precise details to inform you."

    recto

    1.                      עונך יארב
    2. ולם יתפק לה דכול ענד אחד אלא ענד אלזקן
    3. פי יום ראש השנה קבל אן וקע אלנהי תם
    4. ענד אנסאן יערף בכראם אלשמאע כאן וצל

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    1. בעזרתך, הוי אלי!
    2. ולא עלה בידו לבקר בביתו של שום אדם חוץ מביתו של ה'זקן'
    3. ביום ראש השנה, קודם שחל האיסור. וגם
    4. בביתו של אדם הידוע בשם כראם אלשמאע…

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  39. 139Literary textT-S NS 268.93 + T-S Misc.16.20

    See detailed analysis in Julia Krivoruchko, "A Sixteenth-Century Trilingual Dictionary of Hebrew," Genizah Research Unit Fragment of the Month, January 2021 (https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fotm-2021/fragment).

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  40. 140LetterENA 1822a.60

    Goitein's translation (Med Soc III, p. 457 n. 12): "My lady, Sitt Ṣalaf visited me and reported to me what you have said to her. Now, my lady, I have children; so if you deem fit that he (or: it) should be left in my engagement agreement (or: possession), it is fine with me; but if you transfer him (or: it) for me to someone else, you would do me a great favor.

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  41. 141LetterCUL Or.1080 J143

    Also, "Take your wife and come visit Dammūh." On verso, the addressee writes back in Judaeo-Arabic: "May whoever wrote such a letter never enjoy health!

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  42. 142Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 421

    See, e.g., Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī in Bulūgh al-Amal fī Fann al-Zajal (https://shamela.ws/book/567/2#p1).

    1. التا(؟) وامتـ[
    2. رب ذات ليلة ز[رتها وقد نامت والرقيب
    3. في غفلة والنجوم قد [مالت رمت منها قبلة
    4. عند ضمها قالت [قرقر واهدا لا تكون
    5. متعدي تكسر الـ[ـنبالة
    6. وت…

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  43. 143LetterL-G Misc. 102

    Reporting that he had intended to pay him a visit on the occasion of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, however the Nasi Yoshiyyahu came to visit the community for Sabbath, thus he had no time for the visit.

    1. . . . . . . . .]בש רח לשלמה אלם(!) משפטיך למלך תן וצ ל מ
    2. שלום לך שלום לעזריך כי ע ייי אל יתן לך כלבבך וכל עצתך ימלא
    3. . . . . . .] בימיך אתה אדוננו או…

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  44. 144LetterT-S 8J19.13

    Nissim in which the writer mentions a letter received from Nahray from his brother, and that Nahray had visited Caesarea. He discusses various business matters and writes that Abu Sa‘d al-Halabi is supposed to carry a mula’a to Nissim, and that Abu al-Surur sends his greeting and is now in Tripoli (Libya).

    1. בשמך רח'
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה רבנו גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאיידה

    וסעאדתה

    1. וכבת אעדאה וכאן וצל סררת בה אלסרור אל
    2. וקראתה ושכרת אללה תע' עלי מ…

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  45. 145LetterENA NS 34.14

    The writer has been forced to stay in a funduq due to an illness, and there is no one there to help him. At one point he visited the house of al-Kohen al-Ṣiqillī, presumably a physician, to take a medicine.

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    1. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך
    2. קד עלם אלכאלק יתב שמ מא אגדה מן אלשוק ואלוחשה אלי חצרת אלאך אלעזיז גמע אללה
    3. אלשמל בה עלי מא יסר אן שא אללה וסוי דלך פלא…

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  46. 146LetterT-S 13J21.22

    The judge, accompanied by the young son of the Nagid, had visited a village and summoned complainants to Fustat.

    1. בה
    2. || אלממאליך יקבלו אלארץ
    3. בין ידי רבנו ישצ וינהו מא
    4. ביעמלו הולא אלקום בנא
    5. קד אגתמעו עצבה יפעלו
    6. מענא שי אדא חצרו בין
    7. ידי רבנו אשד קוה מן [[גמ]]
    8. גמלת…

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  47. 147LetterT-S NS 321.34

    The first meeting was a visit to Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204), who discussed medical topics with the writer, who intends to being a course of study in medicine as soon he sorts out an issue with his brother and maternal aunt. The second was with another physician who visited the writer, checked his pulse, examined a flask of his urine, and prescribed barley water (kashk shaʿīr).

    recto

    1. פי קלבי אלנאר ולא תסאלו מא [עלי קלבי מן ציקה]
    2. אלצדר וצאקת עלי . מ . ך ואלקא . . []
    3. מנך ולעלי מא אנא גריב אלא ב[אפתראקי מנך?]
    4. ולא כן בפרקתי מנך…

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  48. 148Literary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110b/17

    Scans of the full book may be readily found online, e.g., https://archive.org/details/1164pdf2228/page/n137/mode/2up.

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  49. 149Paraliterary textT-S 12.740

    (Information mainly from Sebastian Richter via FGP.) See also https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m933/.

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  50. 150Paraliterary textT-S AS 157.50

    [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, April 2008]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48226. The reading and translation of kummara are uncertain.

    recto

    1. …ב כירא
    2. …אר גמיעא
    3. … [אד]א אכתלג
    4. … [וי]ציב כירא כבירא
    5. … [אכתל]גת אל כُמّרה ולד
    6. … ואדא אכתלג
    7. …ה אלאימן פאנ[ה]
    8. … ואדא אכתלג
    9. …קאל עליה …
    10. … דלך כיר…

    Recto

    1. … good fortune (khayra)
    2. … entirely
    3. … [i]f it twitches
    4. … he will [ob]tain great good fortune.
    5. … [if] the head of the penis (kummara) twitch, a …

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