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  1. 15151List or tableENA 2958.12 + ENA 2958.13

    The figures for entries are alphanumerical and on the recto a unit of volume for grain is mentioned "irdab/ארדב" (l.6v).

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  2. 15152LetterENA 4020.59

    Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn קדורה came and told Shela that he had mistakenly given the money to Abū Sahl (probably Menashshe) Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. The addressee is asked to wait for Abū Sahl and obtain the money.

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי אעלם בה מולאי אלכהן אבו אלפרג אדאם אללה עזה אן
    3. כאן וצל אלי כתאבה ואלי אלשיך אבו אלטאהר בקבץ תלך אלדנאניר
    4. אלדי תפצלת עלי חצרה סיי…

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  3. 15153LetterENA NS 36.3

    He offers his excuses in this letter: that he was in a great rush when he wrote his earlier letter, and that the addressee will receive all his money. He names amounts in Venetian gold coins (dhahab banādiqa) and Ibrāhīmīs.

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  4. 15154LetterENA NS I.6

    Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  5. 15155LetterHalper 398

    Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be').

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    1. מן [ממ]לוכה א[בי] אלמנצור ומן .......
    2. לא אוחש אללה מן חצרה מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן אלתופיק לה אכלאה גמע אללה ביננ…

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  6. 15156List or tableJRL C 150

    In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest / ארגז" is mentioned.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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  7. 15157Legal documentMoss. VII,53

    May be a copy or a version of a document originally produced in a Muslim court: mentions "the Mālikī court of al-Ṣāliḥiyya" in line 2– which was one of the ~15 qadi courts that operated in Cairo during the early modern period.

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  8. 15158Legal documentMoss. VIII,446.1

    The prozbol is a legal mechanism that technically changed the status of individual private loans into the public administration, allowing the poor to receive interest-free loans before the Sabbatical year while protecting the investments of the lenders.

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  9. 15159Legal documentMoss. Xa,3.70

    Verso: Addendum (faṣl) for another transaction relating to the same property (mentions something "al-musammā bāṭinahu). Refers to the different boundaries including the western boundary.

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  10. 15160LetterMS AJ

    This is a private manuscript acquired by Alain Jacquet of Nanterre, France, in Cairo, summer 1972.

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    1. ואמרתם כה לחי ואתה שלום
    2. אלממלוך מהני למולי
    3. באלאי{א}ם אלשריפה אל
    4. יזכיך שנים רבות נעימות
    5. לחזות בנעם ה ולבקר בהיכלו
    6. וקד עלם אל כתרה שוקי
    7. אליך פא…

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  11. 15161Legal documentNLI 577.7/3

    Involves a woman named Sitt al-Milāḥ whose husband committed "obscenities" (fawāḥish) against her.

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  12. 15162State documentPER K 8314

    Fatimid state decree to a lower official, reused for a Coptic text dated 408–410 AH, hence datable to earlier than that; probably from the reign of al-Ḥākim, possibly even earlier. The Coptic text was partially published as CPR II 1 and MPER XVIII 55, and will be re-edited by Vincent Walter; full bibliography at https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?

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  13. 15163Legal documentT-S 8.133 + T-S 16.210

    (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 339.) Alternate description: A fragment of a ketubba stitched to another vellum fragment (thread still remains) and reused as a rotulus for liturgy on dew.

    T-S 8.133 1r

    1. [ב]יום חמשתה בארבעת יומין לי[רח ...]
    2. לחרבן בית מקדשא קדישא [...]
    3. אתריה למחזי יקריה בבניין ב[...]
    4. די על ימה תריהון יחדון וי[...]
    5. ומן רעו…

    T-S 8.133 1r + T-S 16.210 1r

    1. [On] the fifth day (of the week), four days in the m[onth ...]
    2. from the destruction of the holy Temple [...]  
    3. His plac…

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  14. 15164Legal documentT-S 8J5.24

    Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī b. Mevorakh and Avraham al-Najīb, a community official. Avraham accused Abū Zikrī of an unspecified sin (פעל עבירה).

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנן העידים אנן
    2. חתומי מטה אן למא כאן בחדש
    3. מרחשון שנת אתפד לשטרות יום
    4. אלסבת גרא בין אבו זכרי בר מבורך
    5. ובין אברהם אלנגיב מפאוצה
    6. וכלאם …

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  15. 15165Legal documentT-S 10J7.6

    (II) Addendum (faṣl) probably to an unrelated legal record concerning a deceased father who stipulated that his daughter and all she possesses resides with the father's brother who has been appointed her trustee.

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    1. לִ[...]ת פצל מן כתובה אבנה אלשיך אבו אלסרור אלטביב
    2. וקביל עלוהי מר [ור] ששון הלוי אבוהא דכלתא דיהיב לה לברתיה דא
    3. רביע החצר הגדולה [שה]יא שלו ושל אח…

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  16. 15166Legal documentT-S 10J7.11 + T-S NS J81

    (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. Additionally, T-S 10J7.11 + T-S NS J81 (PGPID 7858) and T-S NS 292.10 (PGPID 8651) are related and potentially an indirect join.

    T-S 10J7.11 recto

    1. [ ]לך א[ ]
    2. דנן בקנין גמ[ור ]
    3. ותנאין אן אלת[ ]
    4. עליה אלסלטאן לל[ ]
    5. אלשרוט אלמשרוח[ה ]
    6. טלב עלי אלשיך אבו אל[ ]
    7. מסתכלאצהא לא גיר בח[ ]…

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  17. 15167LetterT-S 12.142

    You know the vow I swore regarding the lamb (? al-khurayyif), and let this not be something that distresses you, for your magnanimity is greater than this, and it distresses me that it weighed upon your soul."

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  18. 15168Legal documentT-S 12.714

    She then married a man with sons from a previous marriage to whom he allegedly owed money. He passed away before his wife, resulting in a long and complicated legal process.

    1. יאשיה ואכוה //ולה אכתין// אזוג אכוה
    2. אכת אלכהן [צאח]ב אלפנדק
    3. ורזק אולאד ומאת
    4. אכת יאשיה אלואחדה
    5. תזוגת בעם אבו יוסף בן זכרי
    6. ורזק מנהא בנתין ומאתת //ומא…

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  19. 15169Legal documentT-S 13J3.26

    The document is about the origins (and implicitly, eligibility for marriage) of Akramiyya, who grew up in the house of the physician al-Asʿad. Goitein understood that she was purchased as a slave when she was still an infant and that she was later freed, however these facts are not stated explicitly.

    עדויות על יחוס.

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא אכר הדא
    2. אלמסטור אן נחן מחקקין בשהאדה לא ריב
    3. פיהא ולא אלתבאס יחתוי עליהא אן אלצבייה
    4. אלמסמאה אכרמיה אל…

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  20. 15170LetterT-S 13J37.10

    He warns him that he cannot preserve his reputation (jāh) as one of the 'elders of the nation' (shuyūkh al-milla) when his grandchildren marry like paupers.

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  21. 15171Legal documentT-S 16.116

    sells nine parts out of eighteen of a house in the Qaṣr Edom (Qaṣr al-Rūm), which he had inherited from his wife Salma bt.

    1. [..] עדות שהיתה בפנינ[

    2. [..]ת ועשרים ואחת שנין לשטרות למ[.......] מותבה

    3. [..א]יך אמר לנו שלמה בר אברהם בר מלכי הי[......]ל

    4. לשון שלזכות ותנו…

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  22. 15172LetterT-S 16.278

    He expresses his yearning and describes his depressed state in great detail, seeking to refute her assumption that he is remaining away because life is good for him. He alludes to his "many illnesses and sundry pains" but doesn't go into them to spare her.

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    1. ב[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. הנכבד והנורא וממא [תרידי עלמה אנני
    3. אלאן עלי גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעאפיה בעד מקאסאת
    4. אמראץ מכת…

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  23. 15173Legal documentT-S 18J1.24

    On a Saturday, a dying man, Salim al-Halabi, a dyer was visited by friends, among them a creditor, who reminded him of a sum of 16 dinars and 4 qirats still owed to him.

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא אכר הדא אלמסטור אן למא כאן יום אלסבת
    2. פי אלעשר אלאוסט מחדש אייר שנת אתסז לשטרות דכלנא אפתקדנא אלשיך
    3. אבו אלמרגא סאלם א…

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  24. 15174LetterT-S 20.45

    The letter mentions Elijah’s compatriot, Abū ʿAlī, who had visited Fusṭāṭ and brought back letters from Elijah's brother, and letters for a community leader, Elijah b.

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    1. [...] אחי חביבי ושים לבך שתשיב לי תשובה באיגרתך
    2. החשובה בעד התשובות שכתבתי אליך על עסק אותם
    3. האיגרות ששיגרת לי ביד אבו עלי כי לא כתבתי אותם
    4. ב…

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  25. 15175Paraliterary textT-S Ar.37.7

    On the other side, there are verses of poetry from Arabic sources, some attributed to Ibn al-Rūmī. At the bottom of the page there is a verse that is attributed to Bahlūl on some websites: "My soul hangs from your camel's saddlebag; if you intend to kill me, urge her on" (روحي معلقة في كور ناقتكم أذا عزمتم على قتلي فحثوها).

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  26. 15176LetterT-S Ar.47.139

    A person named Abū l-Faraj al-Levi features in the story. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic; unclear whether it is related to recto.

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  27. 15177Legal documentT-S Ar.52.177

    Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b.

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    1. אִחצרת [אלינ]א אנן בי דינא סת אלכל בת אליה זוגה [          יכין] בן שבת הנקרא מ֗ [...]ןִ
    2. נ֗ע֗ שטר כתובה עלי זוגהִאִ יכ[ין] בִ[ן] שבתי הנזכ…

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    1. (1-2) Sitt al-Kull bt. Elijah, wife of [... Yakhīn] b. Shabbat called Mr. [....] m(ay he rest in) E(den), presented to us, the court, the dee…

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  28. 15178LetterT-S AS 146.279

    Ṣadoq (aka Efrayim b. Ṣedaqa al-Muʿallim), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 980, according to Gil.

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    1. [. . . ראש הי]ש[יבה שלגו]לה בן משוי נכד יצחק ראש הישיבה שלגולה 
    2. [. . .] . . . ם המשמחם בנאמו ומשעשעם ומלמדם דרכי יושר 
    3. [. . .] . . אשר לא יועם…

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    1. יימסר .... בבית החולים אלצולי(?), אל … הרופא,
    2. ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתו ואת עזרתו לו ואת שלומו ואת אושרו,
    3. כדי שימסור אותו למ…

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  29. 15179Legal documentT-S AS 151.166

    Involves Yefet and the late Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣabbāgh. There will be a payment in installments due during over the following year (1461 Seleucid).

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  30. 15180Literary textT-S AS 177.633 + T-S AS 177.628 + T-S NS 340.56 + T-S NS 305.208

    Joins: Geoffrey Khan and Alan Elbaum. The first two pieces read roughly as follows: יתב]רך חסידי(?)

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  31. 15181LetterT-S AS 183.314

    Verso: List of mainly materia medica along with amounts. Seems to be the same hand as recto.

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  32. 15182List or tableT-S AS 207.1

    Underneath there is a header: "that which was sent from al-Maghribī." Various names, commodities (mainly garments), and quantities are then listed.

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  33. 15183Paraliterary textT-S K2.107 + T-S NS J609

    Qaraite calendar listing the dates of the new moon by observation, along with correspondences between the Qaraite, Rabbanite, and Islamic calendars.

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  34. 15184List or tableT-S K15.15 + T-S K15.5 + T-S K15.39 + T-S K15.50

    Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50). Fol. 15.5 has a title page; “List of the Poor of Fustat.”

    T-S K15.15, r, left side ["col. I" per Cohen]

    1. ואנפק פיהם איצא
    2. יום אלגמעה אלואחד ועשׁרין מנה
    3. כמסה קנאטר עדדהא
    4. כמס מאיה סבעה וסתין
    5. אלחזן אלקצאעי ו' אל…

    T-S K15.15, r, left side ["col. I" per Cohen]

    1. Dispensed for them also

    2. on Friday the 21st of that (month)

    3. five qinṭārs, numbering

    4. five hundre…

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  35. 15185LetterT-S Misc.35.93

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Ibn Ghyyāth, in al-Andalus, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1138/39 CE.

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    1. [איש] שכל ̇ר חלפון הלוי ̇נ̇ר̇ו אוהבו הדורש שלומו
    2. יצחק ב̇ר יוסף ̇נ̇ע אבן גיאת2
    3. [...] עמדי ומן אטאל אל רבִ תעאלי בקאה פי
    4. [אעלי מראתב אלעז]3 כתבת…

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  36. 15186Legal documentT-S NS 190.107

    Mentions the names Abū ʿAlī Yefet and Abū l-Ḥasan. T-S AS 153.73 (PGPID 16645) and T-S NS 190.107 (PGPID 23844) may join.

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  37. 15187LetterT-S NS 225.12

    On verso the sender seems to complain about a lack of news: he heard something about a marriage, a (newborn?) boy, Sitt al-Kull, and Daniel, but was not informed. He ends the letter, "Do not blame me, for my vision is weak."

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  38. 15188State documentT-S NS 273.85

    Mentions news of a letter from Ḥisn al-Dawla b. ʿĀrij(?) to his son and his companions which recognized gratitude for a service provided and promised a disbursement of funds from the treasury (وانه موعود باطلاق من الخزانة).

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  39. 15189LetterT-S NS 321.21b

    The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the Jews" (though כלפוה might be kallafa "tasked" rather than khālafa "opposed," in which case he is being tasked by the people to forward their legal queries to sayyidnā al-rayyis). He asks Eliyya to forward the legal queries and/or responsa from where they have been deposited with "a certain perfumer."

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  40. 15190Legal documentT-S NS 342.140 + T-S NS 342.109 + T-S NS 342.m

    However, if a year goes by without the annual payment of 5 dinars, the entire sum must be repaid all at once. AA/ASE. Joins: Oded Zinger. NB: Further context is needed for which minute fragment among the many in T-S NS 324.m relates to this particular document (perhaps the fragment in the fourth column/fourth row in image 1r).

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  41. 15191LetterT-S NS J393

    Then he asks the addressee to obtain for him a copy of Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn ("The Oculists' Handbook") in the best handwriting possible.

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  42. 15192LetterT-S NS J432

    In addition, the writer mentions that he expects to receive letters from the Maghreb. Mentions the death of al-Muʿizz b. Badīs, the ruler of Ifrīqiyya. Menashshe has heard that Akhlābū has traveled to Fustat, and he conveys his worry and prayers because of what he has heard about the epidemic (amrāḍ) currently in Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי ישיכי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאס סלאמתך מן ד⟦      ⟧
    2. [ד]מסיס לג' בקין מן טבת ערפה אללה כאתמתה ואסעדה במא יליה ואל 
    3. חאל סלאמ[ה] תקדמת כת…

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    1. אני כותב לך אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך,
    2. מדמסיס, בכ"ז בטבת, יודיעך אלוהים את סיומו וייתן לך אושר במה שבא אחריו.
    3. שלו…

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  43. 15193Legal documentYevr. II A 1241/3

    Mordekhay Rofe issues the get to Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yosef b. Elʿazar Rofe. Both of their nomenclature ends with "and every name that [they] and their family have."

    1. ביום חמישי בשבוע והוא שלושה ינים מחדש אייר שנת אלפים וארבע
    2. מאות ושלושים ושבעה שנים לבריאת העולם ואלף ותשע מאות ושמונים ושבע שנים
    3. למספר יונים בעיר אל…

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  44. 15194LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1143

    It tells the tale of persecution and imprisonment; it seems that the captive Rabbanites had the wherewithal to advocate with the Pasha for their release, but not so the Qaraites, and the Rabbanites gloated tremendously (wa-yā shamātat al-rabbānīn!). Needs further examination.

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  45. 15195Legal documentHalper 347

    Interestingly, the court merely forbids future use of sacred objects of collateral, but does not enjoin the congregation officers to restore or place the sacred objects already taken. The court puts "under the ban" anyone who violates the decree in the future; in this context, such a ban is akin to excommunication, and would have put a violator outside the protection of the community. […] (Information from David Werner Amram's article "An Injunction of a Jewish- Egyptian Court of the Thirteenth Century" from the July 1901 issue of The Green Bag legal magazine, which also includes a full translation by Professor Richard Gottheil of Columbia University, as well as further analysis)

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  46. 15196Legal documentAIU VII.D.86

    Legal document (right side only) dated 1701/2 CE (5462 AM) involving Yosef Yedid and an orphan girl Sitt al-Bay[t] and payments on the order of 2000 medins.

    1. ב׳׳ה
    2. [בהיות ש]ראינו שטר וענינו הוא שנפלו דברי ריבות [...
    3. [...] החכם הנעלה כה׳׳ר יוסף ידיד נר׳׳ו מצד עז[...
    4. [...]עות וטענות והלואות ושאר ערעורים ש[..…

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  47. 15197List or tableAIU VII.F.23

    The heading may be dated as [5]565 (1804-1805CE) but this estimate is inconclusive given that lack of clarity in the appearance of the alphanumerical figures קסה (which may not be part of the heading or intended as a year).

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  48. 15198LetterBL OR 5544.13

    Letter from Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Algiers (ארגיל), to Daniel Cafsuto (דניאל קאפסוטו) and perhaps his son (?

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  49. 15199Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    The bride's grandmother Najma and a certain Yaʿaqov Saragosi act on her behalf in the engagement proceedings (her father is already deceased) in transferring dowry items and monies.

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    1. שאייה מסח     סאבורי     גלמאש      זוג'יין קאלסאש
    2.     אבייץ          אבייץ        ימני                 קודם
    3.     …

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  50. 15200LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/19

    the ḍāmin; Abū l-Maʿālī al-Qaysarānī; Aḥmad b. Ghūrī(?). See Goitein's attached notes for a transcription.

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