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  1. 14951Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/53

    Deposition made by Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen, that his step daughter owed him nothing with regard to the heritage of his wife, while he and his brother were in possession of certain ornaments belonging to the former.

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  2. 14952LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/45

    Mufarrij and Shūʿa the Bāniyāsī escaped from the enemy attacking Caesarea (although Goitein read this as Mufarrij and Shūʿa escaping to Bāniyās).

    1. וימצאו חן בעיני כל רואיו ויחזירו אל ביתו ב[לבא חדיא
    2. ו]כיסה מליה אמן אמן סלה ממא אעלם חצרתה אלסאמיה
    3. אנני אשתרית אלקמח ואלצביאן פי כל עאפיה ומולאי אלש…

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  3. 14953LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/16

    Mentions the arrival of goods from the West (waṣala min al-gharb...). Note that the small slip containing the beginning of the letter (on recto) and the address (on verso) has been joined incorrectly.

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  4. 14954List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 56/44

    The expenditures as listed first come to a total of 223 dirhams, but thereafter several other items totaling 189.6 dirhams are added, so that there is altogether a total expenditure of 412.5 dirhams, i.e., a deficit of 104.5 dirhams.

    a (f 56/44r)

    1. תצקיע אלרבע גבאיה אלשיך אבו אלביאן אלגאבי לשהר גמאדי אלאכר
    2. והו מרחשון אתצג דאר אלנגיד יו סכן אלרב זל ט דאר אלנדיב לט
    3. דאר אלזית יט דאר א…

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    1. The accounting of the Estate: The collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān al-Jābī for the month Jumādāʾl-ākhir,
    2. that is Marheshwan 1493: Dār al-N…

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  5. 14955LetterDK 323

    Perhaps this is meant to allude to Exodus 1:21 about God making the midwives houses, and the desired 'pieces' are intended for a house?

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  6. 14956LetterENA 1822a.61

    Avraham; being in great distress (wa-l-sāʿa al-shidda ʿaẓīma); lack of clothing for the writer and their child; talking to somebody about this on one of the nights of the holiday; and he says he is "sitting in the store" but no syrups or sugar are coming in (mā yajīʾ fīhā raṭl sharāb wa-lā sukkar).

    1. ר אברהם לאן מא. .[. . . . . . . . .
    2. לה שי לאנה יתפצל כתיר ולו //לי// א.[. . .
    3. כאן לי חיאה ואסעה אלשדה עטימ[ה
    4. אגל תוב לי ולצגיר ואלה אדא קלעת
    5. אלתוב א…

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  7. 14957List or tableENA 2591.8 + ENA 2591.11

    , containing about 55 names, followed by a column in Hebrew characters with about 23 names, some identical, including Abū l-Barakāt al-Mūrid, the purveyor of gold and silver to the mint (see Mediterranean Society, I, p.267).

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. الشيخ بو السرور                                   اخوه بو نصر
    3. الكوهان سعد . . . .
    4. بو الفضائل الطبيب   …

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  8. 14958Legal documentENA 3616.3

    Moshe Qalʿī from the Castro family and Shabbetay b. ʿAzrūn al-Masīnī (from Messina, Sicily). The other matter is the ketubba payment of the widow of R.

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  9. 14959List or tableENA 3669.3

    Gavizon's responsa (vol, I, 30-31). Although R. Gavizon was born to Sephardi refugees in Safed, he spent much of his career in Cairo.

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  10. 14960List or tableENA 3846.6 + ENA 3846.7

    List of the Pesiqa, upper part of three pages containing the names of contributors, headed by Abu al-Mufaddal, who pledges 1/8 dinar. The others give dirhams, namely: 1 party gives 3 d; 8 parties give 2 d; 16 parties give 1 d; 4 parties give 1/2 d;, 2 (sum not preserved).

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    1. תבת אלפסיקה
    2. אלשׁיך אבו אלמפצל תמן
    3. אלשׁיך אבו אלפצאיל ג
    4. אלשׁיך [אבו י]עקוב אלחכים ב
    5. אלשׁיך אבו אלחסן אבן מסעוד ב
    6. צהר אלחכים ב
    7. אלכהן אבן גאזליה…

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  11. 14961Legal documentENA 4020.11

    T-S NS 320.15 appears to be the final version of the same document (though the lower part along with any signatures are missing, and that too may have been a draft).

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  12. 14962Paraliterary textENA 4101.13

    At the bottom of verso there is a jotting with documentary value: "I borrowed from our rabbi ʿEli the w[ise] and the en[lightened] Kitāb al-Faṣīḥ [presumably the work by Thaʿlab] and a commentary on [...] by our rabbi [...]."

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  13. 14963Legal documentENA NS 17.21

    Adiyya who declares that his wife did not owe him anything, but that not all she was owed in her marriage contract had been delivered to her.

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנ[י]נו אנו העדים החותמים עדותינו
    2. מטה בכתב הזה בתלתה בשבא דהוא תלתה יומין לירח
    3. תמוז שנת אלפא ותלת מאה וחמשין וחדא שנין למנינא
    4. דרגיליננא ב…

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  14. 14964Legal documentENA NS 17.24

    Karaite deed of betrothal of Amat al-Waḥid אמה אלואחד daughter of Ḥalfon and Ḥaifon ha-Levi ben Daniel b.

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    1. וארש[תיך ל]י בא[מונה] …
    2. … אולמו וישיב כבודו להדומו וי…
    3. … [ש]מחתם ויקים כל בשורות[י]ו הצפ[ונות] …
    4. … סיון משנת אלף ושלש מאות וא[רב]עה …
    5. … הסמוכה…

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    1. And I have betrothed you to me in faith[fulness] (Hos. 2: 21) …
    2. … His hall, and he shall return His Glory to His temple …
    3. … their joy, and He …

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  15. 14965Legal documentENA NS 21.4

    The contract is described as muḍārabat al-tujjār, a merchants' commenda, which normally provides for a division of two-thirds and one third of the profit.

    1. [... ואקנו מ]ני מע[כשיו ו]אכתב[ו ואכתמו] 
    2. [עלי בג'מיע אלאלפאט אלמחכמה ואלמעאני אל] מוכדה ובכל לישאני ד[זכואתא]
    3. [וסלמו דלך אלי מר' ור' יו]סף בר מר' ד…

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  16. 14966Legal documentENA NS 50.8

    Based on the layout/letter forms, the document was likely recorded by Meʾir Ben-Naʿim. Although Nissīm Najjar includes "סו" in his signature (commonly = so[fer]), his autograph does not match the scribal hand throughout the rest of the document.

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. [בפע]ח׳׳מ הודו היקר נשא ונע׳ כה׳׳ר רחמים תאגירי יצ׳׳ו ואשתו היקרה וצנועה מ׳ מזל ת׳׳ם הודאה גמו׳ שרירא וקיימ׳
    3. מעכשיו מדעתם ורצונם הטוב והגמו׳ ב…

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  17. 14967LetterENA NS 52.10

    Dating: After 1425 CE, as one of the currencies mentioned is the ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. The addressee had sent 200 "maghribī" (dinars?).

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  18. 14968List or tableENA NS 55.25

    Among the names listed are: (recto) Sulayman Efendī Mustaḥfizan/מסתחפצן (the latter term was the title of the janissary garrison in Cairo), Abu ʿArabī Daūdī (verso) ʿUmr ___ Qapṭān wa-Çelebī Silaḥdar, ʿUmr Efendī Kātib, Emir __[?] al-Basha Ḥasan Agha, ___[?] Çorbacı, and others.

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  19. 14969List or tableENA NS 57.17 + JRL A 686 + JRL C 25

    In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 4 Jumāda al-Awwal '54 which could be 1154 AH (=1741 CE) or 1254 AH (=1838 CE) based on the mention of Ottoman kurush (ق symbol over monetary columns).

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  20. 14970Unknown typeENA NS 76.612

    This shelfmark is intriguing on a material level, based on the extent of compression it must have taken for so many texts to fuse together– at least 5-6 distinct layers of paper are visible on the recto alone (some of which a very fibrous). The format gives off the appearance of cardboard, but is likely an unintentional result of compression in the geniza chamber from the collective weight of its contents.

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  21. 14971LetterENA NS I.74

    The sender had sent an invitation with Hiba al-Kohen for the addressee to come celebrate the holidays in Damietta, and he is sad that he did not come.

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  22. 14972Legal documentENA NS I.81

    Legal testimony (maḥḍar) from al-Maḥalla regarding kosher butchering. It seems that Shemarya ha-Kohen was granted the right to be sole butcher and another man entered into a legal agreement and swore an oath that he would not butcher — but now he has been witnessed violating that oath.

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  23. 14973LetterHUC 1017

    NB: This was previously listed on PGP under the shelfmark HUC Geniza 17. Alternatively, it may be a literary text with an exegesis of the Merkava, somehow comparing the Ofanim to the heads of the congregation and the Negidim on earth.

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    1. שרי המלך הגבורים ואני התחזקתי ביד
    2. י'י אלהי עלי ואקבצה מישראל [ר]אשים
    3. לעלות עמי: ולמה נקרא כל אחד
    4. מן הראשים ראש לחמשה ענינים הענין
    5. הראשון כי …

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  24. 14974Paraliterary textJRL B 5664

    For a prescription that includes burnt goat-horn, see Sabur b. Sahl, Aqrabadhin al-saghir / The Small Dispensatory (trans. Oliver Kahl, 2003, p. 50).

    1. יוכד קרן מאעז מחרוק [..
    2. קאטר מתקאל ונצף ובאדנגאן [.
    3. קדח כמר ותשרבה והי מתק[אל

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  25. 14975List or tableJRL C 28

    There are two columns in eastern Arabic numerals alongside detailed entries each beginning with a day of the week.

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  26. 14976List or tableJRL C 55

    The paleography helps to estimate the dating of this document as 18th/early 19th-century. Along the far left side of the recto Jerusalem is mentioned (l. 6r) and the coinage "metaqil / מתאקיל" which may indicate gold for prices connected to the items listed (given the mention of "וזן / weight" in the same entry: l. 16-17r).

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  27. 14977List or tableJRL C 123

    , Benyamīn Curiel, Yosef Dasa, Khalīfa Pinṭo, Shelomo Morḥayyīm, Israʾel Abū-Drahem, Yosef al-Bīnda, Ṣulṭāna bt. Yiṣḥaq Qor..bīyal, Diyamante (Diamante) wife of Ḥayyīm Pesaḥ, the little daughter of Ḥabīb Sofriel, and the little daughters of Poeta[?]

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  28. 14978List or tableJRL C 151

    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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  29. 14979List or tableJRL C 185

    On images 44-45 it is clear these folios were recycled from legal document drafts bearing the signature of Shelomo Alyaqīm, who may be the same person that signed AIU VII.D.24 in 1842/43 CE (PGPID 30523) and BL OR 5561A.7 in 1842 CE (PGPID 19229).

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  30. 14980Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 204 + JRL Genizah Ar. 201

    Refers to Khwāja ʿAbdallāh, agents and powers of attorney, expressions of free will (برضا ورغبت خود), and Khwāja Sulṭān [...] b. Khwāja ʿAlī b. Khwāja Ḥaydar. Mentions 600 dīnārs. Dated 26 Rabīʿ II; the year is torn away.

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  31. 14981Paraliterary textL-G Misc. 73

    The calendar mentions intercalation, length of variable months, moladot of all months, days of the week of beginnings of months, festivals and fasts, and the time and date of the tequfot.

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  32. 14982Unknown typeLévi 1900b

    His collection was initially deposited in the Consistoire Israélite de Paris, and then transferred in 1945 to the library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), but haven't been located there.

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  33. 14983LetterMoss. II,188.1

    Nissim to Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl al-Qābisī, because Gil cited the document in question solely as "Mosseri II 188" without further specification (Kingdom of Ishmael, vol. 2, 762).

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  34. 14984LetterMoss. IV,41.3

    Some commodity was deposited with a distinguished man (rajul jalīl al-qadr), "and when he opened it for the buyer and it came out in this shape, he was embarrassed... and I was embarrassed even more...

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  35. 14985Legal documentMoss. VII,117.1 + T-S 8.145

    Document of sale for real estate, a quarter of a house, between Shelomo b. Moshe and Sitt al-Hanāʾ bt. Elʿazar ha-Levi. Possibly in the hand of ʿImmanuʾel b.

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  36. 14986LetterMoss. VII,207.1

    The addressee is asked to look into this (al-naẓar fīhā). The women's husband is missing (maʿdūm).

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  37. 14987List or tableMoss. X,118

    Immense communal list of alphabetized names. Dating: probably from the second half of the nineteenth century based on the paleography and usage of pencil.

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  38. 14988LetterNLI 577.10/3

    Eliyyahu (Abū l-Barakāt b. al-Dayyān) to Abū Saʿīd for a syrup of sorrel (?

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  39. 14989Legal documentRNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4816 fol. 205

    On the final page of a copy of copy of Kitāb al-Tawriyyah, the Book of Covert Ambiguity, by the 11th-century Qaraite scholar Jeshuʿah b.

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    1. בשם אל[     ]עת רצון מיי֗י
    2. נולד בן לאלע[זר] הלוי בן חלפון
    3. הלוי בן נחמאל הלוי נ֗נ֗ ושמו דוד
    4. הלוי ישימהו אלהינו לברכה בקרב
    5. הארץ אמן. ביום ראשון …

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    1. In the name of God [                ]  at a moment favoured by God
    2. a son was born to Elʿazar ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon
    3. ha-Levi b. Neḥamʾel ha-Levi, ma…

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  40. 14990LetterT-S 6J3.25

    Fragment from the opening of a document, either a letter or legal document. All that remains is formulaic praises for the Nagid Yehosef.

    1. אור עיני]נו גיה עפעפינו פרשינו רכבינו חלינו . . . [
    2. ]נשיא השם בתוכינו מרינו ורבינו יהוסף // הר//[
    3. המ]עוז המגדול הנגיד הגדול דגל הרב[נים
    4. ראש החכמ]ים …

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  41. 14991LetterT-S 6J7.17

    The ḥaver (probably the addressee) should judge between the sender and (presumably his rival) Menashshe the musician (? al-Mizmār). He then cites the saying of Yehoshuaʿ b.

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  42. 14992Legal documentT-S 8.150

    Middle fragment of a deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning a one-eighth share of a house held by him in partnership with a Muslim named Ahmad, as well as something worth 180 dinars which should not be taken away from him after his death.

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    1. ]ענדה מאיה ותמאנין דינאר מצר כאן קד או[. . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ].ב וביתה לא יוכד מנה שי מנהא בעד מותי ותוצלו בה א.[. . . .
    3. כת]אב אלטב אלדי בכטי …

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  43. 14993Legal documentT-S 8J5.20 + T-S 8J5.19

    The release is granted by Elʿazar b. Tamīm Ibn al-Raṣāṣiyya to Elʿazar b. Binyamin. Dating: prior to Nisan 4918 AM = 1158 CE.

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא [
    2. דנן כן הוה חצר בין ידינא ר אלעזר ביר תמים הידוע בבן אלרצאציה
    3. וקאל לנא אקנו מני ואשהדו עלי אני קד אברי…

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  44. 14994LetterT-S 8J7.13

    Someone said that Ibn ʿImrān brought a fatwā from al-Shām saying that people must only go to Yaḥyā b.

    1. . . . . . .] ופי הדה אלגמעה
    2. לקי חסן סעדאן בן אצבג אמיר
    3. אלמומנין על אלס קאל קד גאב אבן
    4. עמראן פתוא מן אלשאם עלי קאל
    5. כתאבה כל אלנאס לא אלחכם(?) אלא ליח…

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  45. 14995Legal documentT-S 8J10.18

    Recto: Short note about a court settlement from Fustat. An uncle allows his nephew to pay him back a sum of 10 dinars in 20 installments, the latter giving as security a 1.5-share in a house belonging to him (out of 24) in case he fails to pay for two consecutive months. 1134 CE.

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    1. חצר אלינא אנן חתומי מטה בו אלחסן בן
    2. שלה בן יפת ואקנא מן נפסה טועא מן גיר
    3. קהר ולא גבר אן ענדה וקבלה לכאלה ר הלל הזקן
    4. בר מ יופה הזקן עשרה // דנאנ…

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  46. 14996LetterT-S 8J16.3

    Same writer and recipient as T-S 13J21.5, which was written not long after this one (Goitein's note cards suggest ca. 1214). Alan Elbaum.

    1. תקתי באללה וחדה אלממלוך אלאצגר אברהם בירבי שלמה
    2. הרב אלימני זצ"ל
    3. יגדל שלומך וירבה נעמך ולעד צור ירוממך ואלהים יהיה (בעזרך)
    4. אתה הוא אדונינו ואור עינינ…

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  47. 14997LetterT-S 8J22.22

    Both the husband and the wife's father are tax farmers, the latter of Maḥallat al-Yumn. Verso: Postscript or possibly an addendum written while forwarding the letter, in a different hand, mainly in Hebrew.

    1. סעא אלי מצר
    2. מלאח בנת סרור בן
    3. צאמן מחלה אלימן
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    Dated: 20 Adar II 1535 Seleucid = 13 March 1224 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. Ṭahor b. Shelomo Ibn al-Labbān acknowledges that he has received 40 broken (mutaqaṭṭiʿa) dirhams from Mubārak b.

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  50. 15000Legal documentT-S 10J27.3.1

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