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  1. 16051LetterT-S 10J18.18

    Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, mentioning a realease valid in both Muslim and Jewish courts. A third person is asked …

    1. בשמך רחמ[נא
    2. קד ערף סידי אלחבר אל[מעולה] יברכהו אלהינו
    3. וישמרהו ויעזרהו וינצרהו מא גרי ביני
    4. וב[ינ]ה יום אלגמעה פי קצה בן מכתאר
    5. ואנה ועדני(?) אן אמרה ק…

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  2. 16052List or tableT-S K15.55

    Private account of Yisrael b.Natan. Around 1045. Regarding is business with Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #410) VMR

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    1. שרח מא קבצת מן ספתגה

    2. כתבהא בן אלאסכ<נד>ראני עלי

    3. אבי אלפרג ישועה

    4. מן דנאניר אלנפוסי עליה

    5. עח דינ אלא קירטין

    6. דפע מה דינ אלא…

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    1. (5−1) פירוט מה שקיבלתי בעד ההמחאה שכתב בן האלכסנדרוני לחובת אבו אלפרג' ישועה, מן הדינרים של אלנפוסי, החייב ע"ח דינר פחות שני קיראטי…

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  3. 16053List or tableJRL A 824

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Tishrei [5]605 AM (1844 CE). The main heading mentions that the entries are a "list of expenses for the procurement …

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  4. 16054Legal documentAIU VII.D.54

    Legal document from Cairo, dated 1777 CE (end of Tamuz 5537 AM) in which Menaḥem Abzaradel (אבזראדיל) makes arrangements for his 7 1/3 qirats that …

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    1. בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ בא היקר נשא ומאד נעלה להתהלה כה׳׳ר מנחם אבזרדיל יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו הוא עלי עדים גמורים וקנו ממני ק…

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  5. 16055Paraliterary textT-S AS 149.160

    Colophon for a prayerbook dated to 1476 of the Seleucid Era (= 1164/65 CE). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  6. 16056Legal documentMoss. VII,90.1

    Qaraite ketubba. Dated: [13]52 of the Seleucid era, which is 1040/41 CE). Mentions the names Ṣemaḥ, Ḥizqiyya, Mevorakh b. Barhūn, and Ṣedaqa b. ʿAllūn. (Information …

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    1. … [ג]דלת קד' מר ור צמח
    2. … קשר טירת אפריון
    3. … [כל ראי]הם יכירום כי הם זרע ברך יי'
    4. … [מ]אות ושנים וחמשים שנים למספר
    5. … עדים בסופו חזקיהו הבחור הטוב…

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    1. … his [Glory], Highness, Holiness, our Lord and Master Semah
    2. … [?] the guard of a palanquin
    3. … [all those who see] them will recognize them, be…

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  7. 16057Legal documentT-S AS 157.247

    Partnership agreement. Looks like the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Mentions Moshe; Abū l-Makārim; 10 + 1/3 + 1/8 dinars; conditions; and 60 dinars. (Information …

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  8. 16058LetterJRL A 1021

    Opening of a letter in Hebrew.

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  9. 16059LetterENA NS 60.12

    Verso (probably the original use): Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Written in a formal style and reporting that the bearer (al-wāṣil bihā), a certain Muḥammad, …

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  10. 16060LetterDK M75

    Fragment of an opening to a letter to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal. The letter was written in Jerusalem. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …

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    1. ] אחלי שלום ונחלי חכמות וחוסן ויקר ושלות השקט 
    2. וזר]ע נכון ועטרת צבי וצפירת תפארת וחיי בשרים 
    3. ] ורנה ותשועת אלד'ים ועז ותעצומות יהיו ליקירנו 
    4. ]…

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  11. 16061List or tableENA NS 76.302.2

    Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  12. 16062List or tableENA 2197.1

    Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions 1 dinar and a Jewish druggist (yahūdī ʿaṭṭār).

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  13. 16063Paraliterary textT-S F14.89

    A copy of masekhet ʿeruvin. Fol. 2r contains several ownership notes, including for its scribe (musaṭṭiruhā) Elʿazar b. Saʿadya b. Yosef; then Nadiv al-[...] b. …

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  14. 16064Literary textNLI 577.1/10

    Literary document, in Arabic script, folio from the Quran. The preserved text is from Sūra al-Shuʿarāʾ (26:216-227) to Sūra al-Naml (27:1-9).

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  15. 16065List or tableT-S NS 69.4

    Densely written mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand: T-S NS 69.4 (PGPID 26151) T-S NS 223.74 (PGPID 23973) T-S AS 158.155 (PGPID 41643)

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  16. 16066Legal documentT-S 10J28.2

    Court deposition testifying that Naḥum b. Yeshuaʿ Ibn al-Shāmiyya showed a caliphal rescript (ruqʿa mutarjama ... wa-fihā tawqīʿ) to Yehuda b. Yosef al-Rumi to the …

    1. יקול מן אתבת שהאדתה פי הדא אלכתאב אנא כנא מגתמעין פי סוק
    2. [אלצ]פין חתי ראינא יהודה אלרומי בן יוסף גאלס פי דכאן נחום בן ישועה
    3. אלמערוף באבן אלשאמיה ואן…

    Lost Archive, pp. 403-4

    1. Those who have authenticated [athbata] their signatures on this document say: We [the undersigned witnesses] happened to be …

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  17. 16067LetterT-S AS 202.393

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, ca. 14th–16th century. Mentions the purchase of raisins.

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  18. 16068Legal documentT-S J2.65

    Fragment from a Karaite betrothal formulary, for use in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)

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    1. … [ח]דש פלוני שנת
    2. … יונים בירושלם
    3. … לקח פלוני בן פ'
    4. … מאת אביה
    5. … [ל]היות לי לאשה
    6. … כי רציתי
    7. … [ח]פצה ולקחתי
    8. … חמשים כסף ככ'
    9. … הבתולות וא ||
    10. … …

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    1. … the month so-and-so, of the year
    2. … of the Greeks, in Jerusalem
    3. … so-and-so son of so-and-so took
    4. … from her father
    5. … to be my wife
    6. … that I …

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  19. 16069LetterT-S 13J24.1

    Recto: Letter sent from Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein describes it as a lovely family letter praising the town for its opportunities to make a living …

    1. . .]. . עלי [. . . .]ן מן אמי . . .
    2. מנך לאנהא כאיפה מן אללה וכל
    3. שוקהא [[ל]] בכם ומא ביעוזנא אלא
    4. נצרך והי מחתרקה אלקלב עלי נצרכם
    5. גמיע פלא תכשי אמר ומ…

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  20. 16070LetterENA NS 13.15

    Recto (probably the secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of the same supporter of Daniel b. ʿAzarya who also wrote T-S K25.244. Probably …

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  21. 16071LetterENA NS 42.17

    Letter in which members of the Sholal family are mentioned

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  22. 16072Literary textIOM D 55.10

    IB II, 40. Three poems by Avraham Ibn Yiju in honor of Madmun b. Ḥasan, Aden, ca. 1140, who was expecting his third son.

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    [ל]ה קול איצא תאני ימרח פיה אלשיך מצמון בן חסן נע[ג] 

    1. [...]היום והשמחה לנו תאות 
    2. באדני מצמון נגיד עם יי צב[אות] 
    3. [אספ]ו אחי וחדשו המלוכ…

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  23. 16073LetterT-S NS 184.48 + T-S NS 184.85

    Note from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38 CE) to 'my master the diadem (al-Nezer).' He needs to write a validation for a legal document and …

    1. יא מולאי אלנ|זר תושמר לעד תנעם
    2. תעלמני מ|א יצלח יכתב פי אלקיום
    3. ליוסף בן ע|טאף ולאלעזר הכהן בר אברהם
    4. וסע|דיה בר נתן וכיף יכון אלכיבוד לכל
    5. מנה|ם ושלומך…

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  24. 16074LetterT-S AS 148.49

    Fragment of a letter from Sherira Gaʾon to two brothers, probably al-Ḥasan and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. Yūsuf. Dated: Elul 1282 Sel. = September 971. …

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    1. [שרירא ר]אש [ה]ישיבה [ש]לגולה 
    2. [בן חנניה רא]ש הישיבה שלגולה 
    3. [              ]ינו ואנשי סוד[ינו ובעלי] בריתנו ונושאי [דג]לנו ומורשי לבבנו וידיד…

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  25. 16075State documentMoss. VIII,479.4

    Verso: Probably a fragmentary state document, mentions al-Majlis and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh". Recto: Regarding selling of a slave girl. (AA)

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  26. 16076LetterT-S NS 325.31 + T-S 8J22.3

    Petition addressed to Masliah Gaʾon, requesting that he allow Abū l-Riḍā b. Yehuda he-Ḥaver to lead services in the synagogue of the Palestinians (אלשאמיין), because …

    1. צדק ממרומים וחסד מהרומים לאמצו פת מ
    2. להעטו כצדיקים הולכי תמים : עם כל מבטח ותקוה
    3. הנואמים הגלויים והסתומים יהיו זר ונזר ועטרה על
    4. ראש כגק מרנו ורבנו וא…

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  27. 16077LetterENA NS 45.31 + T-S 20.90

    Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya possibly to Yoshiyyahu b. ʿAzarayahu ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1055 CE (per Gil). Verso is covered with Arabic-script jottings …

    1. הדא אלכבר ענד אלקהל באלתהניה לי ואלמסרה אלעטימה וכאן דאך
    2. לגמאעתנא כיום טוב וגדרו באלצום כמא וגב עליי ואן כנת אקצר ען קצא
    3. מא יגב עליי ב[ ] אלנעמה אלת…

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  28. 16078Legal documentT-S 12.519

    Ketubba fragment. Dating: ca. 1130 CE(?). Grand total: 322 dinars. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  29. 16079Legal documentT-S Misc.24.5

    Court record of three sessions concerning the same case dealing with two merchants, Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Saadya and Saadya b. Ishaq. Shelomo had sued Saadya …

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  30. 16080LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/42

    Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl al-Andalusī, in Tunisia or Sicily (Goitein) or Tyre (Gil), to Abū l-Walīd Yūnus b. Dāʾūd b. Zablān, probably in Fustat. …

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  31. 16081Unknown typeENA NS 85.762

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  32. 16082LetterT-S 13J35.12

    Letter from Sahlān b. Avraham to a Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1035. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 622-623, #339). Goitein …

    1. אלכמסה פקא [
    2. ואפיה בלא נקץ [
    3. שהאדאתנא וקד ע[לם?
    4. אלה צחה קולי פאן אמרני מו[לאי
    5. פעלת וקד כתבת אלי חצרה גאון [
    6. אעלמת מולאי אלחבר שצ דלך ל[א
    7. מוכלא לאבו …

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  33. 16083Unknown typeT-S AS 178.255

    Unidentified document in Arabic script.

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  34. 16084List or tableT-S NS 99.36

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. One of the entries mentions Yosef Shuwaykh(?). Requires further examination.

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  35. 16085Legal documentAIU XII.137

    Legal document in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Surūr(?) b. Ibrāhīm the Jew. Might be dated 578 AH. Signatures at the …

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  36. 16086Legal query or responsumENA 2607.16

    Responsum of Maimonides. Blau edition #310

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  37. 16087LetterT-S AS 153.271

    On verso small fragment from the bottom of a letter by Peraḥyā ha-Kohen. On recto a dirge, might also be from a letter of condolence.

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  38. 16088LetterT-S 10J17.33

    Recto: Letter from Abraham Sagis (סאגיש) in Safed to an individual in Egypt who had previously studied with the sage Moses di Trani in Safed. …

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  39. 16089State documentENA 3969.4

    Tax receipt, Fatimid.

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  40. 16090LetterT-S NS 69.6

    Letter in Arabic script. Large script, moderately wide space between the lines. Recommending the bearer of the letter, a poor man named Salam(?), for charity …

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  41. 16091State documentENA NS 83.249

    Fiscal account? Small fragment.

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  42. 16092State documentT-S AS 181.205

    Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …

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  43. 16093LetterENA NS 77.285

    Letter fragmet, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a man, a woman, and divorce.

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  44. 16094LetterT-S 13J6.6

    Beginning of an official epistle to a community headed by [Goitein left empty] b. Shela the judge (הדיין), the fifth judge in the group (Havura) …

    1. ]עזרו קדושינו
    2. עודדו משגבינו בר כבוד גדלת קדשת מרנו ורבנו שלה
    3. הדיין החמישי בחבורה זכ ל[ב] ואחריהם החזנים המומחים
    4. הקבועים לשרת עם יי ולהוציאם ידי חובה…

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  45. 16095LetterT-S 10J29.8

    Business letter addressed to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. [Dāʾūd?]. The hand appears to be identical with that of Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq (not the Tāhartī one) …

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    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . מולאי וריסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בק[אה] . . . . . . . . . . ומן . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . ת . . . . .נצף סיון ערפך אללה ברכת…

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  46. 16096LetterT-S AS 205.47

    Letter fragment. One of the addressees is Yosef on the verso. In Judaeo-Arabic, with part of the address or a postscript in Arabic script.(it looks …

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  47. 16097List or tableT-S Misc.8.102

    Large list of contributors paying 2 dinars (two people), 1 dinar, 1/2 dinar, 1/4 dinar, 1/6 dinar, or 1/8 dinar. Headed by Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, like …

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  48. 16098Legal documentT-S NS J231

    Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Dated: Thursday, 7 Tishrei 1537 Seleucid = September 1225 CE. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Shammāʿ al-Ḥazzan, who is mature and …

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  49. 16099LetterT-S Misc. 35.45

    Letter from the Jewish communities in France (“We, the congregations of France”) to Ḥisdai ibn Shapruṭ concerning the ill treatment of Jews in Cordoba during …

    [You are] a disk [sahar] that the Rock polished for us, standing at the breach to strengthen, to repair, and to fence up our rifts, opening a hand to…

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  50. 16100State documentENA 2818.46

    Letter/petition in Arabic script. Dating: likely mid- to late 12th century, based on paleographic grounds, the mention of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rav who may be …

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