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  1. 101Legal documentT-S NS 320.114

    Formal letter of resignation from the judge Nissim al-ʿAnqarī. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 16 Iyyar 5301 AM, which is 1541 CE. He says …

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    1. בהיות כי הסבות המונעות אותי מלחפוץ בדיינות מהם נגנות וידועות ומפורסמות
    2. ...]רות וטמירות ונעלמות ועל כלם בעת שקרה לי מ…

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  2. 102List or tableT-S NS 321.5

    Communal ledger fragment, part of a much broader chain of joins discovered by Dotan Arad (See PGPID 9952). Dated in variety of entries, for example …

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  3. 103Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1384

    Karaite betrothal deed from the 1 Sivan 5347 AM. The groom Yisrael Hakohen b. Shemuel. The bride Esther d. Shemuel Ibn Yahya. The groom is …

    1. בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
    2. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן ספר צבאח נהאר אלאתנין מסתהל חדש סיו[ן]
    3. סנה ה׳ש׳מ׳ז׳ ליצירה חצל אתפאק בארושים מן ישראל אלכהן אבן שמואל
    4. אלכהן א…

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  4. 104Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1752

    Qaraite partnership agreement in cheese production. Dated: Friday, 12 Tishrei 5350 AM (1901 Seleucid) = 22 September 1589 CE. There are five parties: (1) ʿAbd …

    1. ב׳
    2. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר לגמעה י׳׳ב שהר תשרי המ׳ סנה ה׳ש׳נ׳ ליצירה ואלף תשע מאות שנים
    3. ושנה אחת לשטרות חצ'ר ע׳אלעזיז א׳ יחיא ואבן אכיה סלימאן א׳ ע׳ אלברי…

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  5. 105LetterBodl. MS heb. b 13/45

    Letter from Yosef b. Ezra to Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (not necessarily Luria, as more than one Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi was active in trade at this time). In …

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  6. 106LetterCUL Or.1080 J193

    Letter from Moshe Castro, in Jerusalem, to Avraham Ibn Shānjī, in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Hebrew. Dating: 1513/14 CE, based on the assessment of Avraham David. …

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  7. 107State documentENA 3924.5

    State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …

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  8. 108LetterJRL A 852

    Fragment of a letter in Hebrew from the second half of the 16th century, mentioning attempts to prevent a certain edict, in which R. Yosef …

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  9. 109Legal documentT-S 8J35.2

    Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: 1512 CE, at the earliest. Stating that 93 peraḥim (ducat equivalents) of the coinage of the Sultan Selim which were …

    1. אנו עדים חתומי מטה יודעים [
    2. גדולי הקהלות שבמצרים . . . . [
    3. על ענין לבקש קצת מעות שהיו צריכים . . . [
    4. איזה ריוח למי שילוה אותם המעות שהיו צריכים מ [

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  10. 110LetterT-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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  11. 111LetterT-S NS 99.48

    Bottom of a letter in Ladino from Damascus to Cairo, addressed to Yosef Pisho (?) the student of Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (very possibly Isaac Luria). The …

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  12. 112List or tableT-S NS 99.77 + T-S NS 99.78 + T-S NS 99.79 + T-S NS 99.80 + T-S NS 99.81

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolium that is suggestive of the existence of a broader ledger (which is also attested to by this fragment's …

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  13. 113LetterAIU VII.E.142

    Late letter in Hebrew from Natan Hefez to Aharon Beirav. Further information available on FGP in Avraham David's transcription and notes.

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  14. 114LetterBodl. MS heb. c 64/1

    Letter from Eliezer Zussman, in Jerusalem, to his son Avigdor. In Hebrew. It has an unusual form for a letter: there are no greetings and …

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  15. 115Legal documentENA 3965.11

    Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …

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  16. 116LetterENA NS 34.24

    Letter from an anonymous writer in Jerusalem to a certain Elʿazar, probably 16th century. The writer seems to genuinely yearn to travel to the addressee's …

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  17. 117LetterF 1908.44KK

    Letter from Moshe b. Abudarham, probably in Rashid, to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …

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  18. 118LetterMoss. IV,93

    Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון) to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה). In Hebrew. Dating: Thursday, 12 Kislev [5318 AM], which is 1557 CE (see A. David's article …

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  19. 119Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. VIII,479.8

    Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …

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  20. 120LetterT-S 6J4.32

    Letter from Moshe Binyamin to Isaac Luria (CUDL). "A certain Moshe Binyamin sent two letters from Rashid to Luria in Egypt, probably either in 1555 …

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  21. 121List or tableT-S NS 83.22

    Commercial accounts, perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography and names listed. Some of the entries are crossed out. The names listed include: (recto) Shelomo ʿUraybī, …

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  22. 122List or tableT-S NS 83.24

    Commercial accounts, 16th-century. Many names are listed, first and foremost: R. Yiṣḥaq Luria, who appears with the correct honorifics (כמה׳׳ר) for this to be the …

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  23. 123Legal documentT-S NS 99.59 + CUL Or.1081 2.26

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century based on the people mentioned; strangely, no date appears in the document itself. Involves …

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  24. 124List or tableT-S NS 99.78 + T-S NS 99.77 + T-S NS 99.79 + T-S NS 99.80 + T-S NS 99.81

    Bifolium from a notebook. One and a half pages are filled with a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with …

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  25. 125List or tableT-S NS 99.79 + T-S NS 99.77 + T-S NS 99.78 + T-S NS 99.80 + T-S NS 99.81

    Bifolium from a notebook. One page has a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with refrains which are different from …

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  26. 126LetterENA NS 43.13

    Letter, fragment (lower left corner), from Shalom b. Sīd. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. The writer reports on business progress to …

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    1. ...] ויחיהו יצילהו מכל דבר רע עם כל החיים
    2. ...] כתבו המפ[יי]ס קבלתי והיה לי לכבוד ולתפארת
    3. ...] האדון כי טוב שלות כן י…

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  27. 127LetterF 1908.44XX

    Letter (or rather three letters) from Mustaʿrib sages, in Safed, to the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal, in Fustat/Cairo. Dating: 1510 CE, based on the assessment of …

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  28. 128Legal documentT-S NS 292.79 + T-S AS 146.283 + T-S AS 147.159 + T-S AS 146.104

    Legal deed involving R. Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi and Rafa'el Kalonymos. Location: Egypt. Dated: Tevet 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. The deed details the terms …

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  29. 129LetterCUL Or.1080 5.6

    Letter in Hebrew (peppered with Arabic, Turkish, and Italian), addressed to two unnamed merchants (one the uncle of the writer), written almost certainly in Alexandria …

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  30. 130LetterJRL B 3655 + JRL B 3656

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Reuven [Najjar y Feliz?] to Moshe Najjar y Feliz, probably his brother, dated 4 Settembre '56. It deals …

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  31. 131LetterJRL B 3656 + JRL B 3655

    Almost certainly the address of the letter in the previous shelfmark: from Alexandria (מנאמון) to Cairo (למצרים), to Fratelli Najjar. Again mentions Moshe Castro in …

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  32. 132LetterT-S 13J7.30

    Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …

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    1. בעה [. . . . . . .] יום []
    2. [. . . . . . . . . . . . .] תמוז []
    3. אבא מרי ועטרת לראשי כה״ר נר״ו
    4. דישפואיש די ביזאר וואישטראש מאנוס שירה האזיר ווש

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  33. 133List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.45

    List from 1593 CE dated Elul 5353 and early 5354, headed as "the remainder of the houses of the qodesh of the Musta'rib congregation." It …

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  34. 134LetterENA NS 35.12

    Hebrew letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Zeraḥya known as Faryol (?), a physician, to Avraham Talmid (known from other letters, fl. ca.1600). The first part of …

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  35. 135LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/16

    Late letter that begins in Hebrew and transitions into Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified merchant to Yosef Muḥibb. He writes that he traveled this year to …

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  36. 136LetterT-S 20.149

    Letter from the Egyptian physician ʿAfīf b. Ezra, in Gaza (detained there en route from Cairo to Safed), to Shemuel b. Yequtiel al-Amshāṭī, in Cairo. …

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    1. בש' רח'
    2. יחנ'
    3. אשרי תמימי דרך ההול'
    4. אשרי תמימי דרך ההול
    5. והמשכילים יזהירו כזו'
    6. וידע כל יש מ כ נ שמואל
    7. יוי עוז
    8. קומי אורי כי בא אורך וכ[בוד] יוי ע…

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