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  1. 15251Legal documentENA NS 16.35

    Legal fragment. In Aramaic. Portions of five lines are preserved, with abbreviations, indicating that this is a draft or formulary. On verso there are geomancy …

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  2. 15252LetterT-S 6J4.19

    Letter seeking to pawn a ring for a loan of three dirhams until after the holiday. (Information in part from CUDL)

    1. מולאי אלשיך אלאגל [
    2. וגמיל אחסאנהא מא [
    3. ויחמלני עלי אלתתקיל עליהא
    4. ועבדהא יסאל אנעאמהא אן
    5. תקרצני עלי אלכאתם תלתה
    6. דראהם אלי בעד אלעיד אופיהא
    7. גמיע מאלהא…

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  3. 15253LetterT-S 13J31.3

    Letter written on behalf of and signed by the Gaʾon Sar Shalom b. Moshe ha-Levi ("Head of the Yeshiva of Ereṣ ha-Ṣevi"). In Hebrew. Dating: …

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  4. 15254Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 2/4

    Marriage contract in the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat (a previous PGP description said Jerusalem). Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid = 14 October …

    1. בנחשא טבא . .[. . . . . . .]מעליא ויבנו ויצליחו
    2. בתלתה בשבא דהוא ארבעה [. . . .] לירח מרחשון שנת אלפא ותלת מאה
    3. וארבעין וחד שנין למנינא דרגיליננא [. .…

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  5. 15255State documentT-S Ar.39.470

    Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also …

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    1. [علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن  [وعلى ابائه]

    2. الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي

    3. الحضرة ا…

    1. [... upon our master and lord the imām al-Mus]tanṣir bi-Allāh, commander of the faithful [and upon]
    2. his pure ancestors. The slave of our master, the…

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  6. 15256Legal documentT-S 8J18.9

    Document containing mostly signatures, above a few lines of faded text. Signed by Ezekiel b. Avraham, Shemarya b. Shelomo, Shelomo b. Thabit, Avraham b. Farrah, …

    1. שלמה בר מנחם ננ
    2. יחזקאל בר אברהם סט שמריה בר שלמה
    3. שלמה בר תאבת
    4. י]פת(?) המלמד בר חיים נע אברהם בר פרח ננ

    י ג ד ל

    1. צדקה בר יוסף יהודה בן יצחק ננ

    ב(?)…

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  7. 15257Legal documentT-S NS 305.204

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The name ʿAllūn b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīlī al-[...] appears in the last line of the …

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  8. 15258List or tableT-S Ar.6.28

    Genealogical lists of Levites. According to Alan Elbaum, in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (late 12th–early 13th century), and part of a cluster with T-S …

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    1. כלף אלדגאגי לוים אולאדה ג
    2. מעאני ועמראן ובהא אמהם יש בנת אלמחמרה אלעזר
    3. מעאני לה זוגתין אלא שפחה משוחררת לה מנהא
    4. בנת ואבן ואלב בן כאלה אבו אלרצ…

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  9. 15259LetterT-S AS 145.56

    Letter sent by a certain Shelomo, mentioning the Nagid [...] b. David, Moses, Egypt and Cairo. (Information from CUDL.) Same sender: T-S 8J24.16 (PGPID 3702).

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    1. עבדו
    2. שלמה
    3. ] ותעאלי אן יתקבל
    4. אלמג]לס אלסאמי אלאגלי
    5. ] . . . נגידנו הנגיד
    6. ]נו דויד ירום הודו
    7. ] . וא . . . ותכתב
    8. ]ד מחילה וסליחה
    9. ]הו קצד אליום אלכ…

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  10. 15260List or tableT-S K8.50

    List of valuable goods with prices in the tens of dinars. The name Shemuel b. Moshe appears twice. Evidently jottings of accounts (or part of …

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  11. 15261LetterENA 2727.6c

    Letter fragment from [...] b. Mūsā to sent to Abū l-Ḥasan Ṣedaqa b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Might be the same addressee as …

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  12. 15262LetterJRL B 7834

    Letter fragment? In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that some people say about someone "that he came to live among us to rule/preside over us" (וקאלו תקד . …

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  13. 15263LetterT-S NS 321.103

    Strong censure from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) that the addressee had left a guest recommended by him without food on …

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  14. 15264LetterUnknown (excavation images 1974_V09_36–36A and 1974_V09_37–37A)

    Letter to the Nubian eparch Īsū in Ibrīm from Al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad [ ] ibn Naṣr [ ]. The sender reports that the eparch's slave …

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    1. بسم الل ه الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. وصل كتاب صاحب الخيل ووزير الملك اطال الل ه بقاه وادام 
    3. عزه وسلامته وحراسته ووقفت عليه وسررت بوصوله 
    4. ووصل غلامه بشر يو…

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    1. In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. The letter of the Master of the Horses and vizier of theking—may God prolong his life and c…

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  15. 15265Legal documentT-S NS 324.107

    Beginning of a ketubah dated 133[.] Era of documents = ~1020s.

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  16. 15266Unknown typeCUL Or.1080 11.14

    Fragment with an elaborate illustration, perhaps for the frontispiece of a book. Above it there is a line in Aramaic from the beginning of a …

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  17. 15267LetterBodl. MS heb. e 94/26

    Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. The writer urges the addressee to come back …

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    1. יהמה אנת . . מן . . [
    2. מעוק הכדא ואנא פי כל וקת
    3. אהדיה ואקול לה לא תשגל קלבך
    4. כלמא בקי טא . ומן בעד [[רצמ]]
    5. רמצאן ית/נ/פד פי סעה ואנפדת תקול
    6. לי .…

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  18. 15268Unknown typeENA NS 85.961

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  19. 15269Legal documentT-S Ar.30.30

    Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Khalaf, a Jew from Tyre, renounces all of his monetary claims against Isḥaq b. …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما
    2. اقر حسن ويدعى ابا على بن خلف اليهودى الصورى واشهد على نفسه طـ[ـائع غير مكره ول…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless our lord  Muḥammad, his prophet, and his family and save them.  

    2. Ḥasan, called Abū …

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  20. 15270Legal documentJRL B 4781

    Draft of a court record. Location: Fustat. Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the …

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  21. 15271Literary textENA 2593.1

    Medicine: The letter of Ibn Butlan to Ibn Ridwan. Before the letter there is another medical tratise.

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  22. 15272LetterT-S AS 145.258

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Probably an 11th-century mercantile letter. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  23. 15273LetterT-S 13J28.3

    Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿya ha-Kohen to Yiṣḥaq Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva. The addressee might be Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi who was also known as …

    1. שלום משמי מ[רום] וברכה כ[פ]ולה ורוח . . . . . . . . [ . . ]
    2. והצלה וחיים ארוכים וטובים נעימים . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. עים כלל הנחמות וההצלחות יחולו…

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  24. 15274Unknown typeENA NS 85.552

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  25. 15275Legal query or responsumJTS MS 8254.10

    A legal query to Maimonides written by Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya and an autograph reply by Maimonides. Published in Maimonides Responsa (Blau) no. 273. …

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  26. 15276Unknown typeENA 3973.20

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  27. 15277LetterT-S 13J33.1

    IB V, 1 (ח15). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dated: Monday, 1 Shevaṭ 1444 Seleucid, which is 9 January …

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    1. ב̇̇̇ש
    2. כתאבי אלי ח̇̇צר̈ה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה פי אלכיר
    3. בקאה ואדאם תאיידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה
    4. ואחיאה וכבת באל ̇̇דל חסדתה ואעדאה ומן חס…

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  28. 15278Legal documentMoss. III,257

    no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue this MS contains 25 pages, in a late hand. Including formulas of legal deed according to the custom …

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  29. 15279LetterBL OR 5557J.50

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~9 lines near the end are preserved. Concerning wheat and shipping arrangements. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …

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  30. 15280LetterT-S AS 204.197

    Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.

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  31. 15281State documentT-S NS 134.39

    State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report. Mentions al-Sayyid al-Ajal al-Isfihsālār. "...wa-shawqahu ilā naẓrihi... yuwaffiq maqāṣidak wa-yujrī fī... al-majlis... muḥtāj ilayhi...." Dating: Ayyubid or …

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  32. 15282List or tableT-S NS 327.112

    List, in Arabic script. Difficult to identify the genre. Mentions a person - al-Shaykh- with honorifics. And then five pages (awrāq) of an epistle (rasāʾil).

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  33. 15283LetterENA NS 77.287

    Fragment, Arabic script, four lines in a chancery hand. Starts with a basmala and ḥamdala and mentions al-Najm al-Yahūdī. " بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد …

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  34. 15284State documentT-S NS 102.155

    Beginning of a petition beginning "mamlūk al-ḥaḍra. . . ." This seems to be pasted on to a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ in a rudimentary …

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  35. 15285Legal documentENA 2607.6

    Table of contents of a responsa collection - Geonic responsa - mentioning questions from Fez to Rabbi Sherira and others

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  36. 15286List or tableAIU VII.F.49

    Recto: Fragment of a clearly written document in Arabic, having to do with business deals and payments. Ottoman or khedival era since the title khawāja …

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  37. 15287LetterT-S Misc.8.71

    Letter. "Discussion or record concerning the case of a man, Sulaymān, who is suspected of being an informer (מוסר). His testimony is given verbatim, ‘in …

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  38. 15288LetterT-S AS 145.401

    Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. Most of the content is missing. Written at the end of Sivan. The sender's name seems …

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  39. 15289Legal documentT-S AS 145.136

    Probably the end of a legal document, with signatures by Saʿadya b. Nathan, ʿAmram b. Yefet and Isaac ‘the pauper’ b. Abraham. (Information from CUDL)

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  40. 15290List or tableT-S Ar.42.136

    Table of phrases in Arabic script, probably for purposes of divination/prognosticating. Needs examination.

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  41. 15291Legal documentT-S Misc.8.98

    Legal formulary, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  42. 15292Legal documentT-S Ar.30.202

    Draft of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1507 Seleucid = 1195/96 CE. In the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Involves Abū …

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  43. 15293List or tableT-S AS 183.120

    Accounts. Many names are listed, e.g. [...] al-Ṣabbāgh; Futūḥ; Isḥāq; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī; Abū Saʿd al-Ṣayrafī; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū l-Faḍl b. Nuʿmān; Mūsā; Abū …

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  44. 15294Legal documentT-S 12.697

    Legal document, probably a bill of release. Fragment: lower left corner. Dating: Early 13th century. In which Shela b. Berakhot acknowledges that he has no …

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  45. 15295LetterBL OR 5561B.8

    Verso: Letter from an official (motto: yeshaʿ yuḥash). In Hebrew. Written between the lines of the Arabic document. Evidently a response to a letter soliciting …

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  46. 15296LetterT-S 8J21.28

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerned with the sale of ambergris. Dating: 12th century. Polite request to the addressee to sell 1.5 bayʿa of ambergris, sent to …

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  47. 15297List or tableJRL B 5843

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly materia medica: sharāb (syrup); ṭabāshīr; samgh (=ṣamgh, gum); sabr (=ṣabr) soqoṭrī (=Socotrene aloe). Also mentions [...] b. al-Rūmiyya ('the son of …

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  48. 15298LetterT-S NS 321.11

    Letter of petition from a man to a potential benefactor: 'I hereby inform you that I have been in good health, "concealed" among the people …

    Middle of the page, Arabic, 180˚:

    1. بسم الله [الرحمن] الرحيم
    2. عبد حضرة مولى . . .

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    1. בש
    2. עבד חצרה מולאי
    3. אלשיך אבו סהל
    4. יקבל ידיך וינהי אליך
    5. אנה כאן …

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  49. 15299List or tableENA 2763.20

    Alms distribution list. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Late, probably 13th or 14th century. Lists about 30 recipients of small sums, mostly fractions (type …

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  50. 15300LetterT-S AS 172.352

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as a wrap (izār), two pairs of clogs (zawjayn qabāqīb), possibly henna, and soap. In …

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