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  1. 15001List or tableT-S AS 187.65

    On verso a small fragment with a list of jewelries, possibly from a dowry list. On recto a list in Arabic, probably by the same …

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  2. 15002Legal documentT-S AS 145.85

    Legal document written and signed by Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya (חברייה). Dating: 16th century. Record of debt with values measured in Venetian zecchini (Ar. bunduqī, …

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  3. 15003LetterENA 4020.60b

    Letter from Avraham al-Muʿṭī and Yosef b. Ezra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Most of the substance of the message is lost.

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  4. 15004LetterENA 2713.51

    Recto: Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Dating: late, probably 18th or 19th century. Addressed to the judge Moshe Anhori (or Ankori?) and a …

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  5. 15005Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 817

    Palimpsest. This parchment contained an Arabic legal document, which was scraped. The part on recto refers to [...] b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAfṣī (the gallnut merchant) and …

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  6. 15006Legal documentT-S Ar.54.69

    Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan. Abu al-Faraj renounces his rights …

    1. אלתלאת אכמאס אלדי לי פי אלטאחון ואתאת אלבית וגמיע מא יכון
    2. לי תחת כל שמיא אן תאכדה עלם [[מן]] זוגתי מן אלחק אלדי עלי
    3. לאן . . להא . . . קאל לנא בעד דל…

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  7. 15007LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/21

    Letter from Abū Faraj to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has some unusual spelling habits, e.g., אא for آ; and ת for ד; …

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    1. בש רח
    2. אלממלוך אבו פרג
    3. סבב אצדאר האדא אלאחרף
    4. אלשוק אלא אלמולא אלסייד
    5. רבי אליה שצ הדיין החסיד
    6. זצל אלממלוך מסתוחש מן
    7. אלמואלי אלסאד…

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  8. 15008List or tableT-S Ar.35.259 + T-S Ar.35.311 + T-S Ar.35.253

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. List of names, commodities and amounts, in a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Some …

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  9. 15009List or tableT-S NS 264.54

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, giving names and how much each person owes. The naems include Ḥannā b. Najjār, Manṣūr al-ʿAbasni (?), ʿAlī al-Anṭālī (?), and Abū …

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  10. 15010Literary textENA NS 76.309.2

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  11. 15011LetterT-S 12.133

    Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī and his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn, in Qayrawān, to the senior Tustari brothers (Abū l-Faḍl Sahl (Yashar), Abū Yaʿaqov …

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    1. כתאבי יאשיכי וריסי וכבירי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וזאד פי א[חסאנה] 
    2. אליך וענדך ו ט' מרחשון ען סלאמה ועאפיה ללה אלחמד וצלת כתבך יאס…

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    1. אני כותב, אדוני וראשי וגדולי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך וירבה את חסדו
    2. לך ולאשר לך, בט׳׳ו במרחשון. שלומי טוב, ואני …

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  12. 15012LetterDK 333 (alt: 18)

    Letter from Ḥayyim he-ḥaver b. Shelomo/Salāma, Jerusalem, to Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov he-ḥaver, Fustat, regarding a debt owed to the latter from someone named Thābit who …

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    1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מן
    2. אלקדס עמרה אללה ען סלאמה ללה אלחמד ולה אלשכר עלי
    3. אחסאנה קד עלם אללה תעאלי שגל קלבי באכבארך ומא
    4. …

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    My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your strength—from Jerusale…

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  13. 15013Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 159

    Concluding fragment of a 39 paged bilingual Arabic-Ottoman Turkish language primer entitled "al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah".

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  14. 15014Credit instrument or private receiptBL OR 5561B.27

    Approximately 7 lines in Judaeo-Arabic and a couple lines of writing exercises on a large, otherwise blank leaf. Perhaps a filing note or a summary …

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  15. 15015LetterT-S NS 304.41

    Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a qāḍī and camel drivers. The sender is preparing for the winter. They ask ʿAbd …

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    1. ] . ע לקאצי אלגמאלין יאכד מנה אחד ואר/ב/עין
    2. ]אקף אלא אן נחן מסתקבלין אלשתא פאן
    3. ] אן נחן פי עאפיה ומא נשתהי מנכם
    4. ] ותכלו עבד אלרחמאן ידעו לנא
    5. ]…

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  16. 15016List or tableENA 3714.4

    Small fragment probably from a list. Verso and recto are written in differnet hands. AA

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  17. 15017Unknown typeT-S NS 226.174

    Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Possibly calendrical: consists mainly of a list of dates in the months of Shawwāl, Dhū l-Qaʿda, and Dhū l-Ḥijja.

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  18. 15018State documentT-S Ar.34.88

    Numerous drafts of the opening of a petition or an otherwise formal letter to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir. In Arabic script. It is not clear …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل 

    3. تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام

    4. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    5. بسم الله…

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  19. 15019LetterBodl. MS heb. f 101/43

    Recto and verso: Letter from Meir (b. Yakhin) to a certain Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The identification is based on …

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  20. 15020LetterT-S 10J32.5

    Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the communities, first half of the 11th century.

    1. אללי לי כי הייתי כאספי קיץ וג אבד חסיד מן הארץ וג
    2. [ש]בר על שבר נקרא כי שודדה וג הוה על הוה תבוא וג
    3. אמרה אוי נא לי כי יסף יי יגון על מכאובי וג
    4. אל איל…

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  21. 15021LetterT-S AS 176.209

    Letter fragment. Refers to the arrival of a raqqāṣ (runner/courier) in search of the sender (ʿabduhā).

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  22. 15022Unknown typeENA NS 77.113

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  23. 15023State documentT-S AS 154.106

    One line from the bottom of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

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    الراي الاعلى [في ذلك] ان شا الله

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  24. 15024Legal documentT-S NS 321.54

    Legal document. Dated: Sunday, 23 Av 1402 Sel. (10 August 1091). Testimony confirming that a freedwoman named Mubāraka, originally from the lands of Rūm (Byzantium), …

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    1. בחד בשבא דהוא עשרין ותלתא יומי בירח אב ד[שנת אלפא]
    2. וארבע מ[איה ו]תרתין שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטא[ט מצר]
    3. דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה [דכל…

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    1. On Sunday, the 23rd day of the month of Av of [the year one thousand]
    2. four h[undred] forty-two according to the calendar to which we are accus…

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  25. 15025Literary textT-S 12.47 + T-S K25.162 + T-S AS 159.195 + T-S NS 224.176 + CUL Or.1081 2.41

    Story of illicit love involving a woman named Hind and her husband, a man named Bishr and an old woman. Cf. H. T. Norris, "The …

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    1. פמתא מא ראך ואנתי שאבה לא יצבר קלבהו ען אלשהוא
    2. . . רי מנה מא תחבין ולאכן סלי זוגיך מתא יכרג אלא ציעתה
    3. פאכברני פטאבת נפס הנד בכלאם אלעגוז פקאלת…

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  26. 15026Unknown typeENA NS 85.1356.1

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  27. 15027LetterJRL B 5331

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Opening only. The writer is pained because someone is sick (perhaps al-Rashīd?).

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  28. 15028Paraliterary textT-S NS J479

    Both sides of this folio are filled with miscellaneous jottings mainly in Judaeo-Arabic written in an idiosyncratic (unique?) cipher. Dating: no earlier than mid-13th century, …

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  29. 15029LetterT-S AS 116.390

    Unidentified, possibly a letter. The name Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm appears in Arabic script, possibly the address of a letter. Another of the Arabic words is …

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  30. 15030Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/1

    Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid, which is 1082 CE. Shaʿyā b. David b. [...] makes a declaration concerning the parnas Mevorakh …

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  31. 15031Legal documentT-S H10.173

    Legal document: deed of sale in Arabic for the purchase of part of a house. Abū l-Faraj Ṣemaḥ b. Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ the money-changer buys …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفی

    2. هذا ما اشترى صيمح ويكنى أبا الفرج بن صدقة بن صيمح الاسرائيلي الـ[ـ…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God and peace be upon his servants, whom he has chosen.  
    2. This i…

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  32. 15032Literary textENA 1810.6

    IB II, 69b. Drafts of a panegyric in honor of Madmun II. Cairo, after 1186. A fuller fragment of the panegyric can be found on …

    1. אני אודה לעל נורא עלילה / ואשפוך לו בכל עודי תפילה:

    2. עלי תובו וחסדו הגדולה / אשר יעש לאום יפה מעולה

    3. ומושיע בכל עתים יקימו / להצילם בעת דוחק סגול…

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  33. 15033LetterT-S NS 338.37

    Informal note from Bū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side). Mentions something that happened yesterday at the physician's shop (dukkān al-ḥakīm); the sender may be …

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    1. כאדמה בו נצר
    2. ] . ה מסתוחשה מנה
    3. ] . רה ליטמאן קלבה
    4. ] . יכן נהאר אמס פלם
    5. ] נצר(?) אלי דכאן אלחכים
    6. ] . תין וגדת אלמולא שגיל
    7. ]מסלה ואלקצד מן אל
    8. ]מ…

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  34. 15034Unknown typeENA NS 85.1353

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  35. 15035Legal documentENA NS 56.6

    Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Tammuz, 5562 AM = July 1802 CE. Yisraʾel leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שחזקת החנות שבמקום היהודים שכנגד חארת אלצקאלבה היא להיקר ונע׳ כה׳׳ר ישראל פינטו יצ׳׳ו הן עתה
    3. השכיר הר׳י הנז׳ החזקה הנז׳ עם כלי(!) תשמיש …

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  36. 15036LetterENA 2750.3

    Business letter in Hebrew. Mentions bandits (lisṭim). Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. Needs examination

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  37. 15037LetterT-S NS J292

    Verso: Letter to the judge Avraham ha-Ḥaver, perhaps Avraham b. Natan Av. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is a complaint and an appeal for help against …

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  38. 15038LetterENA 2805.20

    Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Mentions silk and business concerning dresses. The addressee is unknown although it seems his father’s name …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך [ואדאם עזך ותאיידך
    2. ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה לח כלון מן אדר כת[מה אללה עליך באחסן
    3. כאתמה ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד…

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  39. 15039Legal query or responsumT-S AS 145.339

    Legal queries and/or responsa.

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  40. 15040LetterENA 1490.7

    Letters dealing with communal matters surrounding the dispute between Shelomo b. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, glued together and reused for the epistle of Sherira …

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  41. 15041Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J59

    Fragment of an agreement for a planned engagement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי [...]
    2. דהוא עשרין וחמשה יומי בירח ניסן שנת אלפא וחִ[מש]
    3. [מאות] ותרִתִיִן שנין למנין שטרות למנינא דרג[יליננא ביה]
    4. בע…

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  42. 15042Legal documentENA NS 83.88

    Fragment of a legal document in Arabic, probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era.

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  43. 15043LetterENA NS 72.13

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic ending is preserved. Regards to Abū Zikrī b.(?) Sar Shalom.

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  44. 15044LetterMIAC 21

    Letter sent from Barūkh Rafūl Serūr to his father updating him on the circumstances of the family – 17 Tishrīn al-ʾAwwal 1929CE – (number 21) …

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  45. 15045LetterAIU VII.E.238

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim, Damietta, to Me'ir ben Naʿim, Cairo/Fustat.

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  46. 15046Legal documentENA 3968.9

    Deed of lease in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Lessee: ʿAlī b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī al-Shawwāʾ. Lessor: al-faqīr ilā llāh taʿālā …

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  47. 15047Unknown typeJRL A 968

    Recto: A Hebrew poem, perhaps in praise of a recipient of a letter. Verso: Remnants of a few words in Arabic, along with two lines …

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  48. 15048List or tableT-S K6.26

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing mainly foods, such as sumac, ṭaḥīna, meat, and pomegranate. Written on a bifolium, on the bottom right …

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  49. 15049Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 15.62

    Halakhic text (the subject is not clear) as well as Judaeo-Arabic practical instructions for dealing with copper and iron (possibly alchemy or metallurgy). 12th-13th century. …

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  50. 15050List or tableT-S NS 327.89

    Three different text blocks. (1) Possibly official accounts, in Arabic script. Looks Ayyubid or Mamluk. (2) Draft of a letter in Arabic script, similar hand …

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