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  1. 101Legal documentENA 3631.8

    Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …

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  2. 102Legal documentENA NS 29.9

    Legal. Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this …

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  3. 103LetterENA NS 31.5

    Letter, possibly a draft, from a man to his family members Moshe and דאני(?). The relationship is unclear: at one point he addresses "my father" …

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  4. 104LetterJRL B 1999

    Beginning of a late Judaeo-Arabic business letter (abandoned after 6 lines), listing a number of sums of currency the writer has to sent to his …

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  5. 105List or tableJRL C 28

    List in Judeo-Arabic from which only the bottom right corner of the page is portrayed in this fragment. The paleography helps to estimate the dating …

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  6. 106List or tableJRL C 86 + JRL C 98

    Accounts in Judeo-Arabic with a variety of coinage types including dirham, kuruş (aka guruş) and zingirli– of which the latter two suggest a dating of …

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  7. 107Legal 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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  8. 108List or tableT-S NS 99.57

    List of accounts on a bifolium that may have once comprised a broader financial ledger. The method of bookkeeping is terse but relies on a …

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  9. 109LetterAIU IX.B.29

    Letter in Spanish from Jacob Nuñes de Paz in Alexandria to Los S[eñore]s Alpalas & Costa Aires in Cairo (see tag for others in the …

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  10. 110LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/10

    Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Damietta, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. The writer signs only his first name on this letter, …

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  11. 111LetterENA 2176.14

    Letter fragment from an unknown writer in Syria to 'Rabbenu' in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the capitation tax (... al-jawālī) in al-Shām and specifically mentions …

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  12. 112LetterENA 2716.10 + ENA 2716.11

    Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or nineteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …

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  13. 113Legal documentJRL B 2628

    Late betrothal document between Esther [...] bt. Se. Yaʿaqov ʿAdda and Se. Yosef פיחה (?), listing conditions. The word "contante" indicates what is "counted" or …

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  14. 114Credit 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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  15. 115List or tableT-S J1.17

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Currencies: riyal, fundukli, maḥbūb, qurūsh. The mention of Ottoman fundukli coinage makes it possible to date this fragment as post-1725 CE.

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  16. 116List or tableT-S J1.37

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in Hebrew. Late. Some accounts are related to building expenses(?). One entry on the verso mentions a Jewish legal "apotropos" guardianship for …

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  17. 117LetterT-S Misc.20.153

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …

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  18. 118LetterT-S Misc.25.59

    Recto: Letter from Ṭurfa, in Fustat, to her sister Esther in the house of Subayʿ (?), unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1422 …

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  19. 119LetterT-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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  20. 120Legal documentENA 3904.2

    Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …

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