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  1. 15451Legal documentJRL B 4817

    Legal fragment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning "if the two of them provide for our funeral shroud/clothing" (fa-innahumā in kafanānā); also mentions the term istiḥlāf (making …

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  2. 15452Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1367

    Deed of lease. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 27 Tammuz 1613 Seleucid = Shawwāl 701 AH, which is June 1302 CE. The elders of the Qaraite …

    1. בשם ייי אל עולם.

    2. הדא מא אתפקו עליה משאיך אליהוד אלקראיין ברוכים יהיו והו אן יאג'רו ללשיך

    3. אלאג'ל אלצאפי אבו אלמחאסן ופקה א-ללה תעאלי אבן אלשיך א…

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  3. 15453Legal documentT-S AS 184.272

    Legal document in Arabic script. There is a date and witness signatures. Refers to a sum of 5 1/2 dinars and a monthly payment schedule. …

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  4. 15454LetterNLI 577.3/6

    IB III, 16. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Mangalore, dated July-August 1148. The letter contains information about their …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי ומאלכי
    3. חרס אללה נעמתה וסרמד גבטתה ומכן
    4. בסטתה ואעלי כלמתה ורפע פי אלדארין דרגתה
    5. וכבת אעדאה וחסדתה ומא ד…

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    1. (To) His excellency, the most illustrious Sheikh, my master,
    2. Abū Isḥāq Abraham, son of
    3. his honor, great and holy master Peraḥya b. Yi…

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  5. 15455Legal documentT-S 12.458

    IB III, 40b. Instructions for manumission of a female slave written by Avraham Ibn Yiju. IB III, 40a is the top of the page. III, …

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    1. כשם ש[אין] גט אשה כשר אלא בסופר מזומן ועדים מזומנין לחתום ועידי מסירה שהם
    2. שלוחי האיש כך גט חירות הזה צריך האדון ליתן רשות לסופר לכתוב ולעדי…

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  6. 15456Unknown typeENA NS 85.383

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  7. 15457LetterBL OR 5544.5

    Letter, probably. In Hebrew. On one side there is a poem (panegyric?). On the other side there is the lower part of an elaborate letter, …

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  8. 15458Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#8) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

     :(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r     

    1. הערער ההוא כל חלקו ונוגע לו בבתים ובחובות הנז׳׳ל על פרעון הנזק וההפסד ההוא שיגרום לאחיו
    2. שעבוד גמור מעכשו כדין וכהלכה…

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  9. 15459LetterMoss. IV,69.3

    Small fragment of an unidentified text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a letter. Includes many biblical citations and refers to the prophet (al-sayyid) Eliyyahu. (Information …

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  10. 15460LetterT-S 8J19.5

    Fragment of a letter probably addressed to Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (“ha-Nagid ha-Gadol”). In Judaeo-Arabic. Uses an unusual variant of a blessing formula: khallada allāh suʿudahā …

    1. עליה ימין [
    2. מא ביע [
    3. הדא אלאסבוע [
    4. יריד יטרח עליהם [
    5. כלד אללה סעודהא ב[
    6. אלאגל אבו אלפכר ותסתנגז [
    7. באן לא י[ט]רח עליהם לא עוד ולא עסל ואלמשרף פהו אלס…

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  11. 15461Literary textT-S Ar.47.180

    Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.

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  12. 15462LetterHalper 420

    Letter from Meir Messina to his employer or business partner in Gaza. Written in Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century or beginning of …

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  13. 15463Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 774

    Bottom fragment of a literary document, in Arabic script.

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  14. 15464LetterT-S AS 144.122

    Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 9 lines are preserved. The tone is urgent (...جواب الكتاب سرعة فيالله عليك...). Mentions that the boy Abū l-Wafāʾ has …

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  15. 15465LetterT-S Ar.39.188

    Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The sender mentions requesting the 'marsūm' and something which came out to 700 dirhams; …

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  16. 15466List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 56/1

    Calendar, beg. מחזר ר̇ס̇א̇, continued on Bodl. MS heb. f 56/4–5. There is also the text of Exodus xx. 12-26 in shorthand writing. (Information from …

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  17. 15467LetterT-S 13J14.20

    Letter probably from the leaders of the Jewish community in Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fusṭāṭ (fl. 1007–1055 CE), describing the ransoming and generous …

    1. לאחר כן בא שלוחו אל מושב אדירנו ונכבדנו כק מרנא ורב'
    2. נתנאל הכהן הפחה השר הנכבד [י]חייהו אלהים ויברכהו ועמו אחד
    3. מהשבויים במנחה אליו וקבלו מי[די]נו בס…

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  18. 15468LetterT-S 10J1

    Letter copy from Sherira Gaon to the Maghrib, ca. 970. The writer describes the importance of the Yeshiva (Pumbedita) and asks to renew the communities’ …

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    1. מש[ה רב]ינו ומנהגות סנהדרין מהנה יוצאין 
    2. וגלוי וידוע לפי קדושינו כי מתוך דחק וצער 
    3. אנחנו אוספים את האלופים ואת החכמים בכל 
    4. כלא וכלא וגורסים…

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  19. 15469Literary textAIU VIII.B.54

    Page from a Hebrew medical treatise.

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  20. 15470Paraliterary textT-S AS 153.156

    Recipe or preparation instructions, probably halakhic or medical, mentioning sieving, kneading, heat and a period of 10 days.

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  21. 15471Unknown typeENA NS 85.242

    Minute fragment, perhaps with extremely faint text visible on the recto.

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  22. 15472LetterT-S NS 338.88

    Letter fragment. Beginning only. Dating: Late. There is a dear brother-in-law Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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  23. 15473LetterT-S 13J31.8

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham. Dating: 1048 (per Gil) and ca. 1034–1049 CE based on the years when Sahlan b. Avraham …

    1. ליקר פאר הנקוב בשבעה כינויין לרוממו על כל בני גילו
    2. להקדימו [עליהם] בבינו ושכלו גדל שמו כגק מר ורב סהלאן
    3. דמתקרי ישרן בכל אשר יפנה יצליח ישכיל מהאל המ…

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  24. 15474LetterMIAC 279

    Personal letter to Menāḥem Mizraḥī – 19 Tishrei 1933CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 279) – Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …

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  25. 15475Legal documentT-S AS 153.72

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very faded/rubbed. Seems to be describing a house.

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  26. 15476Literary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 1771/4

    Guide for the Perplexed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely 13th century, based on handwriting, which may be known from other documents. Looks like the hand of Yedutun …

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  27. 15477Unknown typeENA NS 85.1478

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  28. 15478State documentT-S AS 182.296

    Fragment of state correspondence in Arabic script. Legible words include muṣṭanaʿ, mustakhdam, in shāʾ allāh. Approximately 2 lines are preserved. On verso there is adidtional …

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  29. 15479Unknown typeENA NS 85.738

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  30. 15480Legal documentT-S K25.240.51

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to give someone …

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  31. 15481LetterT-S 8.82

    Business letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions merchants such as אבן אלטבני, Mūsā Ibn al-M[ajjānī?], and ʿAmmār …

    1. בסם [אללה] אלרחמן אלרחים
    2. אטאל אללה יא שיכי וריסי אלעזיז עלי בקאך ו[אעזך] ואכרמך ואיד[ך
    3. כתאבי אליך לח איאם בקין מן אלול ען חאל סלאמה ועאפ[יה וען שוק

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  32. 15482State documentENA 2917.31

    State document, in Arabic script. Fatimid petition or report. Mentions a state official by the name Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd, a partnership, and …

    1. ]من امره [   ]ـلى ما يجري ان[
    2. ]الشيخ ابو الحسن علي بن حديد ادام الله عزه[
    3. ]الحضرة الجليلة ادام الله سلطانها واحق ذكرها
    4. ]ـناله وحمى .[]بها وال…

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  33. 15483LetterT-S NS 264.20

    Draft of a poetical Hebrew letter to a head of a community

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  34. 15484Unknown typeENA NS 85.950

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  35. 15485State documentENA 2917.1

    Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …

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  36. 15486Legal documentNLI 577.3/14

    Four court records from Fustat, August - September, 1132. Record A: Complaint, followed by retraction thereof, about a load of caraway deposited with a representative …

    Verso, right-hand page: Record A, complaint against a representative of the merchants in Fustat

    1. ח]צר אל[ינא אנן חתומי מטה אבו אל]מנא מ' תקוה הכהן בי…

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  37. 15487LetterT-S 20.171

    Fragment of a calligraphic letter from the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva in Tyre (located there in 1090 CE), to the dignitary Shemuel b. Yehuda …

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  38. 15488State documentSt. Catherine, Istanbul Metochion, Stern doc. 4

    State document, in Arabic script. Probably another decree of ʿAbd al-Majīd (al-Ḥāfiẓ) concerning the monks at Mt. Sinai, however, he is not mentioned by name. …

    1. عادات السادات لا يزال سالكا مناهج ابايه الكرام واجداده
    2. ومتبعا اثار عدلهم في بلاد الله وعباده وقاصدا مرضاة الله
    3. سبحانه في اصداره وايراده ومجريا احوال…

    1. … the customs of lords, never ceases wandering upon the path of his noble fathers and ancestors

    2.  and following the traces of their justice in Go…

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  39. 15489LetterENA NS 63.5

    Letter from Eliyyahu b. Seʿadya, in Fustat/Cairo, to the Ḥakham Avraham ha-Levi b. Moshe ha-Levi the Qaraite, in Jerusalem. Scribed by Yaʿaqov Ḥayna (? חיינה) …

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  40. 15490Paraliterary textT-S AS 42.44

    Deuteronomy 34:3-12, with a colophon in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1665 Sel. (= 1353/54 CE). (Information from CUDL.)

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  41. 15491Legal documentT-S AS 153.91

    Cutting from a legal document. (Information from CUDL)

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  42. 15492Unknown typeENA NS 79.200

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  43. 15493Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 182.119

    Small receipt in Arabic script, unclear for what.

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  44. 15494LetterT-S AS 178.110

    Letter addressed to Abū ʿImrān, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Reporting that the addressee's son (also named Abū ʿImrān?) arrived with nothing but [...] and …

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  45. 15495LetterT-S NS J171

    Detailed letter sent by Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq Av, written in between the lines and on the remaining blank spaces of a letter he …

    1. ]לסאמיה אלאגליה אלעאליה תבת אללה
    2. ] עדוהא וצדהא יקבל אלארץ וינהי שדה
    3. ]תיאחה נחוהא וכונה לא יפתר לסאנה
    4. ] ונהאר אללה תע יסתגיב מנה ומנא גמיע
    5. ]להא ולא ת…

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  46. 15496State documentENA 3971.22

    Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …

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  47. 15497Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1644

    Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.

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  48. 15498LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1501

    Letter from Ibrāhīm al-Ḥakīm, unknown location, to ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Maʿānī(?), in Cairo. The letter is in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic …

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  49. 15499Unknown typeENA NS 85.834

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  50. 15500LetterT-S AS 145.89

    Letter fragment (bottom half). In Hebrew. It is not entirely clear how this relates to the letter on verso. Both recto and verso are appeals …

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