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  1. 16851Legal documentMS Roth 723.14

    Legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 9 Adar 5309 AM = 7 February 1549 CE. Loan contract between Avraham b. Masʿūd (creditor) and Avraham al-Ḥājj …

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  2. 16852Legal documentYevr. II K 37

    Karaite ketubba from Cairo, the date is mostly lost to damage but can be inferred as no earlier than Sivan 15 5519 AM (June 1759), …

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  3. 16853Literary textT-S AS 146.306

    Hebrew text, maybe liturgical.

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  4. 16854LetterT-S AS 146.362

    Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (with motto) to the cantor Faraj Allah urging him to collect the jibāya for Yom Kippur. Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides' …

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  5. 16855Literary textT-S 10J18.20

    Halakhic discussion concerning the arrangements for people who die without relatives (c. 18th century). Information from GRU catalog via FGP.

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  6. 16856Legal documentT-S 8J4.24 + T-S 8J7.8

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1422 Seleucid, = 31 January 1111 CE. Quittance of the debt of Shelomo b. Ḥayyim ha-Sheviʿi made …

    1. ]דיע אלשיך אבו אלמנא אבן חיים
    2. ] דכתיב ומפרש לעילא וכדלך אקנינא
    3. איצא מן [ ] מרנ ורב מצליח הזקן הנכ בר מרנ ורבנא
    4. יו]סף הזקן הנכ נע בקנין גמור חמור בכל…

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  7. 16857LetterHUC 1002

    Letter in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: probably 10th century. Written on the back of a scroll of Esther. Mann suggests that it was sent to …

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  8. 16858Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 2322

    Karaite agreement. No date preserved

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  9. 16859LetterT-S AS 122.222

    Recto: Probably the poetic opening a letter. Verso: probably the address in beautiful Arabic script, to Abū l-Khayr Salāma b. Yashuʿā b. Jadīd al-Iskandarānī. (Information …

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  10. 16860Legal documentENA 2735.12

    Deed (draft?) regarding a family legal dispute involving real estate under lien and trustworthiness. The wife of Ishaq is mentioned.

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  11. 16861Legal documentT-S Ar.42.174

    Bill of sale of a slave. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. [يقـ]ـول حنون بن علون النصراني الكاتب بدار الد[يبا]ج اننى بعت للشيخ عروس بن يوسف الاسرايلي
    3. [المـ]ـصرى جارية نصرانية وابنها قو…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  

    2. Ḥanūn ibn ʿAlūn, the Christian clerk in the Dār al-Dībāj, states that: I have sold  …

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  12. 16862LetterT-S 10J19.3

    Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ, Fustat, to [ ] b. Isḥạq b. ʿAlī Majjānī in Alexandria. Mentions an ullaba (container) holding bible codices, details about …

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    1.                  בסם אללה אלעטים
    2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך [וסלאמתך ונ]עמאך מן אל
    3. אסכנדריה לי'א' כלון מן תמו…

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  13. 16863Paraliterary textT-S Ar.42.166

    Text block in Arabic script as well as a rhymed Hebrew poem about the buying, stuffing, and marinating in wine of the greatest chicken in …

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  14. 16864Legal documentENA NS 77.317

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. On parchment. Deed of sale, likely for real estate. Excerpts: כאין מא כאן באלג מא …

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  15. 16865Unknown typeENA NS 51.14

    Verso: Note in Arabic script in a beautiful chancery hand: "That which is recited on Ruʾus al-Ashhā[.]." (Rosh Ḥodesh? In which case it should be …

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  16. 16866Literary textENA 2627.110

    Literary text in Judaeo Persian - ENA 2627.106, 110-111 appear related.

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  17. 16867Legal documentT-S 10K15.1

    Maimonides' decree on menstrual purity. Dated 1487 Seleucid = 1175/76 CE. See Eve Krakowski, "Maimonides' Menstrual Reform in Egypt," JQR (2020), 245–89.

    Build up, build up, clear the way! Remove a stumbling block from my people’s way.

    We, the scholars living in Egypt at this time, say: When we were …

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  18. 16868Legal documentT-S AS 152.111

    Likely a summary of a legal case, involving Umm Khalaf, Yosef b. Ḥus[ayn?], a payment of 26 of something, and ʿIwāḍ. (Information in part from …

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  19. 16869Unknown typeT-S NS 243.189

    Hebrew literary text. On one of the pages, there is a line in Arabic script from an earlier document.

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  20. 16870Legal documentT-S 13J9.5

    Document written in Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya with a validation written by the court of Fustat, as denoted in Hebrew אשרנוהו (in the validation of the court). …

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    1. [                                                כ]תאב סלמאן בן [שביב ]

    2. ידכר פיה אן קאל לה זכרי הדא אן אלעוד אלדי כאן פי אלעלאוה [       ]פ…

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    1. .... (2-1) .... השטר של סלמאן בן שביב.... ובו הוא אומר שאמר לו זכרי זה כי עץ הבושם שהיה ב'עלאוה' ....
    2. מי שיתבע אותו ממני. ועכשיו, בבקשה מכם,…

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  21. 16871State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 205

    State document in Arabic script. Dated: 1247 AH, which is 1831/32 CE.

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  22. 16872LetterT-S 13J18.2

    IB VI, 49. Letter from a Jewish trader in India to his partner in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Among many other matters, he mentions donations to …

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  23. 16873LetterENA NS 45.9

    Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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  24. 16874LetterT-S AS 147.221

    Small fragment from the bottom of a letter asking for a reply (and complaining about the lack of reply to a prior complaint). AA/ASE

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  25. 16875State documentT-S NS 271.51

    Verso (original use): Beginning of state correspondence possibly in the name of the caliph al-Ẓāfir. It is headed by the basmala, followed by the phrase …

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  26. 16876List or tableT-S AS 180.94

    Private accounts. On a tall sheet of paper. Headed 'tadhkira mubāraka.' Neatly written, mentioning many names and itemized expenses. Mentions the holiday of Sukkot (ʿīd …

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  27. 16877Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 70

    Legal document, in Arabic script, late. Receipt of payment of Dawūd al-Yahūdī.

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  28. 16878State documentT-S AS 122.46

    Official report in Arabic script. May mention Naṣr al-[...] b. al-Faḍāʾil b. [...] in the first line. Approximately 5 lines are preserved. On verso there …

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  29. 16879Literary textT-S NS 310.54

    Bifolio of a halakhic discussion about capital punishment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.

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  30. 16880LetterT-S Ar.39.22

    Possibly a letter (needs examination)

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  31. 16881Legal query or responsumMIAC 182

    Responsa regarding a Jewish family – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 182) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …

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  32. 16882LetterT-S Ar.35.116

    Recto: Deferent letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic to a R. El[. . .] called ha-paṭish ha-ḥazaq. The writer mentions that Ibn Bishāra arrived, then reports …

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  33. 16883LetterJRL B 3201

    The beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to an important woman addressed in hyperbolic terms: she who confounds minds and blinds gazes, al-mutafaḍḍila, al-ʿazīza, al-rashīda, al-mufīda, …

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  34. 16884Unknown typeENA NS 85.1167

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  35. 16885LetterT-S 12.425

    Letter from Menashshe the teacher, to Elazar b. Yehuda b. Elazar ha-Kohen, known as Sa'd al-Mulk, and to his wife, informing them that their boy …

    1. כאן קד תקדם כתאבי אלי ח[צרה מולאי סעד
    2. אלמלך אטאל אללה בקאה [ואדאם עזה ותאיידה
    3. וסעאדתה ונעמאה ער[פ]תה [פיה ען חאל
    4. זיין אלכתאב ומא וצל אליה מן קראתה
    5. א…

    Translated by Amir Ashur and Benjamin M. Outhwaite.

    A letter of mine was previously sent to [my esteemed master Sa‘d] al-Mulk—may God prolong his lif…

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  36. 16886List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 248

    Recto: Grid filled with diagonal Arabic script. Some readable words include - dirham, aswad, aṣfar and kitāb. Could be an inventory or accounts. Verso: Faded …

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  37. 16887LetterT-S 6J5.19

    Letter from a son to his father, concerned with traveling issues, sending greetings to many family members, and mentioning the sender’s uncle Abū l-Faraj Ibn …

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  38. 16888LetterT-S AS 203.79

    Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  39. 16889List or tableT-S AS 187.63

    Shopping list in Hebrew, the heading states "I want to go to the market and get." Late medieval or early modern, 15th-17th centuries. One of …

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  40. 16890List or tableT-S J1.53

    IB IV, 1 (ח22). Account of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, written for Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Bharuch, and the only account that survived in the …

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    1. חסאב מולאי אלשיך אבו סעיד חלפון בר נתנאל נ''ע
    2. לה קימה ח' כוארג וח' אתואב מקצור קצ''ח דינאר וי''ד קיראט
    3. ולה קימה 〚מחאבס זיאדִ〛עשרה כוארג מחאבס …

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    1. חשבון אדוני השיך אבו סעיד חלפון בר נתנאל נ"ע.
    2. לזכותו דמי ח' כורגות וח' יחידות תוב של בד כבוס: קצ"ח דינר וי"ד קיראט
    3. ולזכותו דמי ⟦מעטים ועוד⟧ עש…

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  41. 16891Unknown typeENA 3924.16 + ENA 3924.20 + ENA 3924.11 + ENA 3924.17

    Arabic script, much of the text is faded but portions are legible in red ink. Vertical lines are visible on the recto and verso that …

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  42. 16892List or tableENA 2687.4

    Book list. Published by Alloni, The Jewsih Library, p. 141-142

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  43. 16893Literary textT-S NS 298.55 + T-S 8Ka7.4 + BL Or. 6197.7–8

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, JA1 in Bohak's edition, Judaeo–Arabic translation, "Pilate" recension), opening of the text (from passage 1.1); read consecutively with T-S 8 Ka …

    Folio 1v, left side (first section)

    1. הדא? כת]אב יש֯[ו] אלמ֯[ארק אלדי נכת ב]ט֯א֯ע֯ת֯ ר֯ב֯
    2. [אל]ס֯מא ואסל אלנאס וראה והו מן֯ [מדינ]ה יקאל להא נאצרה.
    3. וכת…

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    1. [This is the Bo]ok of Yes[hu] the Her[etic who violated] the will of the Master
    2. of Heaven and misled the people…

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  44. 16894List or tableT-S AS 210.162

    Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals ("1498"). Late.

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  45. 16895Legal documentENA NS 17.31

    Legal record of an adoption in which a man 'sells' his newborn daughter, 16 days old, whose mother had just died after childbirth, to a …

    1. כן הוה חצר אלינא מר אליה בר פל שממד[ינה] פלונית
    2. והכדי קאל לנא ⟦קד תופית זוגתי ושבקת חיי⟧ ⟦//אנתם עלמין בופאה זוג. .\\⟧
    3. לכל בת לכל בר ישר⟧ אנתם עלמין…

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    This happened: Mr. Elijah, son of So-and-so from the city so-and-so appeared before us and made this declaration. ⟦My wife has died…

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  46. 16896List or tableT-S AS 206.212

    Bifolio of accounts, mostly blank. Dating: likely 16th-century based on the paleography. Mentioning Moshe Poreykh and probably an Ottoman military officer Khayr al-Dīn bölük başı …

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  47. 16897List or tableT-S AS 148.160

    Recto: Hebrew document listing important personalities, including [...] b. Yefet and Yosef b. Avraham (who also have many more titles). In the hand of Ḥalfon …

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  48. 16898List or tableFrankfurt 7

    Sundry jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script in the margins and on verso of a Hebrew literary text. The jottings include a draft or formulary …

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  49. 16899LetterT-S 12.74

    Recto: Letter from Yefet b. David, Tyre, to his father, David b. Shekhanya, Fustat, informing him of his arrival in Tyre and expressing his disappointment …

    1. בשמך רח
    2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ומן גועילת פדאה אטאל אללה לך
    3. בקאך ואדאם עזך מן צור לתסעה מצת מן שהר טבת
    4. ואעלמך אנני וצלת אלי צור יום אל/א/תנין וכאן באלע…

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  50. 16900LetterT-S AS 146.181

    Draft of a work on consolation or a letter expressing condolences. Mentions the loss of a son. (Information from CUDL.)

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