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  1. 1751List or tableT-S J1.26

    The sums refer to the silver coin dirhem. Expenditures: Daily: Bread—3/4; on Saturday a larger amount: 7/8 or 1.

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    1. שבט
    2. אלדי כרג יום אלגמעה
    3. מזונות ר אלעזר אלגריב
    4. מלחפה ללרפאיד ג ורבע
    5. שראב לגמעה ואלסבת ב
    6. דגאגתין ד דר ורבע
    7. זעפראן רבע דרהם
    8. סקא רבע דרהם
    9. זי…

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  2. 1752LetterT-S J2.26

    Almost poetic letter of a Gaon, perhaps Shelomo b. Yehuda. This bifolio was possibly bound as part of posthumous(?) collection of letters. A woman deserted …

    1. שקר ואחר ימלא פיהו חצ[צים
    2. וכמה מעשיות יש בחסידים שניסרו
    3. בבניהם אבל אשרי מי שנלקח בנו
    4. והוא רצוי לפני בוראו ואיך להרהר
    5. אחר מידות יוצרנו המשאל ממנו
    6. לכב…

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  3. 1753Legal documentT-S J3.26

    Draft of a ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1400 Seleucid = 1089 CE. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Yefet ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanʾel. …

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  4. 1754LetterT-S K3.26

    Recto: Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a letter of recommendation for the bearer, a Persian man (ʿajamī), who is suffering …

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  5. 1755Paraliterary textT-S K5.26

    T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …

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  6. 1756List or tableT-S K6.26

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing mainly foods, such as sumac, ṭaḥīna, meat, and pomegranate. Written on a bifolium, on the bottom right …

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  7. 1757List or tableT-S K6.126

    Recto: a mainly grammatical commentary on Ruth 3:15–4:8. In the following colophon, the text is referred to as Alfāẓ Megillat Rut and the scribe’s name …

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  8. 1758List or tableT-S K15.26

    Recto: Short genealogical list of the Ghuzūlī family and another family.

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  9. 1759Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K15.26

    Verso: Order of payment in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 13th century. From Abū l-Riḍā to Burhān al-Dīn. Headed with the glyph-basmala, the total of money …

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  10. 1760Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.26

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer 30 dirhams from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab for somebody for …

    1. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    2. יוצל למוצלהא //תתמה// עשרין דרהמא
    3. מן גהה וקף אלמהדב שצ` עמא
    4. יוהב? (יותב?) עליה ר` ישועה נע` ען תעלים
    5. אלפקרא ואליתומים…

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  11. 1761Literary textT-S K25.262

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic in two columns about Alexander the Great. Narrating how when Alexander went east to wage war on Persia in a place …

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    1. קאל למן סאר אלסכנדר אלא
    2. אלמשרק אלא מחארבת דארה
    3. אבן דארה על(?) עלי אלפרס פי מוצע
    4. אן יקאל להו יקטריאי(?) פלמא בלג
    5. דארא כברה כתב אליה כתאב

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  12. 1762State documentT-S K25.263

    State document, fragment, in Arabic script. Six lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Might be a draft, since there are words crossed out …

    1. عبد عبيدها ويبدو والقسم وجزيل العطا والنعم

    2. فما ينفك عن عبد خلص ولاوه وحسن تلاوة وانعقدت على

    3. المسابغة عقايده واراوه وتقلب في الطاعة بين سلف

    4. مش…

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  13. 1763LetterT-S K25.265

    Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Ya’aqov b. Nahum, Fustat. Around 1045. Regarding a very large amount of goods and deals. …

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    1. ומא [

    2. וראית אנה מ[

    1. (1–3) .... וראיתי שהוא .... פרשה זו ... פרשת ה'קארב' הארור הזה; וקשה לי מה (שנאמר במכתב) על אנשי .... 
    2. ואימצתי את כוחי והתמסרתי כולי; יעשה אלוהי…

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  14. 1764Legal documentT-S K25.269

    Trousseau list. Mentions the elder Abū l-Faḍl, the groom. Goitein dates it to the late 12th or early 13th century. There are also several unidentified …

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  15. 1765Legal query or responsumT-S K26.24

    Legal query, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the purchase of half of a house in Muslim courts. On a reused Aramaic Targum.

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  16. 1766List or tableUU 1626

    Accounts, goods, and salaries, in Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals. Late.

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  17. 1767Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.25r–26r

    II NS 1700.24-25) in accordance with the foliation written in pen; but the correct folios are 25 (recto and verso) and 26 (recto), as written in pencil (the librarian with the pen gave two folios the number 8).

    תקוים אלשיך אבו אלכארם

    1. תקוים אלש בו אלמכארם אלצאיג
    2. יוסף בן שמואל אלכלה סת אלריאסה הבתולה בת שלה
    3. הלוי נעאלמקדם כמסין מתנה
    4. אלמוכר מאיה דינאר מחקקה
    5. ושר…

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  18. 1768Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.26v–27v

    Abū l-Faḍā’il, that he will trust her financially; that he will neither marry a second wife without her permission nor keep a female slave against her wishes; that if she dies before bearing children, he will claim only half her dowry as inheritance and return the rest to her birth relatives; that she may continue to live in Fustat rather than Cairo; and that he will not object if she sells off any of her dowry items and buys other property with the proceeds" (Krakowski, Coming of Age, p. 241). NB: Goitein and Krakowski referred to this document as folio 25b–26b (Firk. II NS 1700.25b–26b and Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.25b–26b respectively, with the 'b' indicating verso) in accordance with the foliation written in pen; but the correct folios are 26–27, as written in pencil (the librarian with the pen gave two folios the number 8).

  19. מכחלה פצה ומלענהב
  20. Firkovitch II NS 1700 26a

    1. מש פצה
    2. דרג פצה
    3. ואנבובתין פצה וג כואתים דהב וכאתמין פצה וכאתם ענבר ה

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  21. 1769State documentT-S 13J8.27

    Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript.

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    1. [              ] ولما وصل الارتفاع المتوج بالعلامة ا[لشريفة                                        ]
    2. [              ] على ظهر كتاب متولى الترت…
  22. [Praise be to God alone, his benedictions be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and] save him.

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  24. 1770List or tableT-S NS 83.35

    The lefthand side of verso appears to be a note in Italian as it is headed "26 Lug[lio] 1747" and "di" is used instead of "de." […] At least one of these commercial entries deals with coffee "il caffe ... 30 zechini"–the latter term is Venetian coinage. Ottoman gold "mahbub" coinage is also referenced on the verso.

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  25. 1771Legal documentT-S 13J1.15

    Maḥfūẓ, to collect a debt owed to him by Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Jabbān ('son of the cheese-maker'). Dated: Thursday, 26 Tammuz 4816 AM (=11 July 1056 CE). Location: Bānyās ("Dan that is Pamyas/פאמיס").

    1. [מה שהיה לפנינו אנו הזקנים הח]תומים למטה [בשטר ה]רשא[ה זה]
    2. [בחמישי בשבת] בעשרין וששה יומין בירח תמוז שנת השמטה שהיא שנת
    3. [ארבעת אלפי]ם ותמאניה מאה ו[…

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  26. 1772Legal documentT-S Ar.39.276

    Official document. Likely torn from the corner of a larger document.

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  27. 1773State documentT-S Ar.41.83

    Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee).

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  28. 1774Legal documentT-S Ar.35.251

    Jottings of a hamdalah Verso: Part of an official state document? - Needs examination

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  29. 1775State documentT-S AS 41.74

    Recto: Leviticus 23:9-17. Verso: official Arabic document concerning monetary matters.

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  30. 1776State documentT-S AS 183.45

    Small fragment from a piece of official correspondence: wa-qad sayyara ilayhimā min al-[...]....

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  31. 1777State documentT-S NS 297.205

    Official looking accounts in Arabic script. Listing names and quantities, presumably of money.

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  32. 1778List or tableJRL A 430

    Account calculations. Dated 26 Elul 5539 AM (1779 CE). It may not be in the same scribal hand, but the date probably coincides with the usage of this fragment for Hebrew poetry drafts where the scribe notes on the verso "שיר שהיו אומרים".

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  33. 1779List or tableT-S Ar.6.1a

    One tailor (khayyāṭ), one carpenter (najjār). 26 who receive wheat and 1 who receives barley. 7 women.

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  34. 1780State documentT-S Ar.35.170

    Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 AH = 26 September 1138 CE. Same man: T-S AS 182.90, T-S AS 182.186, T-S Ar.35.170, and T-S Ar.35.204.

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  35. 1781List or tableCUL Or.1080 J190

    Page of the account book of ʿArūs b. Yosef, containing accounts and a note about the beginning of a pregnancy, birth and weaning. (Information from …

    right margin, continuation of lines 14-15 in straight lines at 90 degrees to main text

    1. ניסאן

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  36. 1782LetterT-S AS 164.266

    He sent 23 dirhams with the bearer and gives instructions for its disposal. The recipient is to buy lemons (?) for one dirham and give them to the Rayyis Abu Zikri (the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi?!).

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    1. קד עלם אללה תע כתרה שוקי אלי אלמואלי אלסאדה תבת
    2. אללה מגדהם וצאעף סעדהם ואהלך עדוהם

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  37. 1783State documentCUL Add.3336

    Bottom part of a decree of a Fatimid Amīr titled Surūr al-Malikī to a provincial governor or fiscal official, dated 2 Jumāda II, no year. Concerns collection of the kharāj on the refining of sugarcane (qaṣab) and taro (qulqās) in the village of Jūjar, where there was a press. The men of a high official (amīr muntakhab) titled Dhukhr al-Mulk wa-Sadīduhā (Treasure and Bulwark of the Realm) should be allowed to collect tax as the latter sees fit, while allowing the iqṭāʿ holders their income.

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    1. ذخر الملك كوكب الدولة وسديدها  ابو منصور بختيار الجيوشي ادام الله تا[يـ]ـيد[ـه]

    2. مكاتبتك بإزالة الاعتراض عن قنده الذي في المعصرة

    3. بجوجر وان…

    We are issuing an order to you with regard to all this
  38. (commanding) what must be done about it.

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  40. 1784LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/141

    Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the dated …

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    באגל סלאם | וכרימתי | ואבו אלחסן

    וואלדתה באגל | סלאם ויום פורים | וצל אלינא בעל

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  41. 1785State documentT-S Ar.39.339

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in a chancery hand; official correspondence? May mention al-faqiḥ al-wakīl ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn.

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  42. 1786State documentT-S NS 137.79

    Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script; portions of 3 lines are preserved with wide space between them.

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  43. 1787List or tableT-S J1.53

    In addition to coral, whose value reached nearly one third of the shipment's value, precious metals were used for this purpose: gold coins and silver (ingots or tools). He gives prices in the coin of Aden, the Malikī dinar, corresponding to 24 qīrāṭs, while textiles are traded in units of kawragha (pl. kawārigh), which is a bundle of twenty thawb (pl. athwāb; the word means not only cloak, but the unit of fabric of the size needed to make one).

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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
  44. Tohis credit: the value of 6 lifāfas (head-wraps) —  4 dinars and 16 qīrāṭs.
  45. Tohis credit: the value of 2½ dinar-weights of cotton and the value of two cloaks —  2 dinars.
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  47. 1788State documentT-S Ar.39.372

    Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir named ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Maḥmūdī; a granary (shūna); a complaint about another official's irregular behavior; how the sender took the aforementioned sum of money to the treasury, but the Dīwān al-Murtajaʿ (Bureau of Reclamation) interfered. […] Apparently the petitioner was an official who had collected taxes in kind and sold them for 1400 dīnārs, but a group of Mamlūks came along and one of them, ʿIlm al-Dīn Sanjar al-Maḥmūdī, took 29 dinars from what the petitioner had collected, and now the group of Mamluks was withholding the 29 dinars from the fisc.

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    1. [       ] . . . عنده لاحد المماليك يسمى علم الدين سنجر المحمود[ي]

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  48. 1789Legal documentBL OR 4684.15

    Maybe he had sold it a while ago due to financial problems and now he has managed to buy it back. It is also likely that prior to this he had rented the house from Baqām for a long time and the house had become known by him and now he finally buys the house. He buys this house for nine dīnārs. (information from Shomali, "Arabic Legal Documents")

    1. صح ذلك عندي وكتب
    2. الحسن بن ابراهيم وكتب بخطه
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. هذا ما اشتری بندلوس بن بطرس الخياط من بقام بن كيل بن قوريل و هما جميعا من سكان ال…
  49. ...He bought all of this living room and its passageway and its storehouse and the passageway belonging to the storehouse for (a sum of) money which amounts in Muʿizzī gold coins of full weight
  50. to nine dīnārs, half of which is four and a half dīnārs in gold minted coins of good alloy.
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  52. 1790List or tableT-S Ar.30.163

    Instructions in Avraham Maimonides' hand to R. Eliyyahu to give them bread for Sabbath. Also: List of contributors (in the judge's hand) and names of …

    אבי אלמעאלי בן אלתקה

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    סמיסמה אלכראז

    ב א

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  53. 1791LetterENA 3944.12

    The addressee is a high official as he is referred to as the protege (ṣanīʿa) of the caliph (ʾAmīr al-Muʾminīn).

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  54. 1792State documentT-S Ar.39.103

    State correspondence, probably from a lower state official to a higher subordinate because a rescript (tawqīʿ) is mentioned in the last line, but it could also be a fiscal document based on the layout.

    1. ـ]ـع ماية وتسعة وخمسون راسا
    2. مـ]ـن الشعير ثلثماية وستة اقفزة
    3. ونصف وربع وثمنه
    4. ]...وينشا التوقيع

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  55. 1793Legal documentT-S 12.150

    Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 26 Nisan 4765 AM = 1316 Seleucid = 9 April 1005 CE.

    זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו החתומים למטה בשיני בשבת

    בעשרים וששה לירח ניסן שנת ארבעת אלפים ושבע מאות ושש[ים]

    וחמש לבריאת עולם היא שנת אלף ושלש מאות וש…

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  56. 1794LetterBL OR 5542.26

    Letter of appeal for charity from Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Nafūsī to Moshe Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim. He states that he is an old man from Nafūsa (Libya) and …

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  57. 1795Literary textBL OR 5558B.26

    Almost too damaged to identify. Possibly Talmud or Talmudic commentary, since among the surviving words are "the [priest] anointed for war" and "with a vow …

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  58. 1796Legal documentBL OR 5561B.26

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 15 Sivan 5590(?) AM, the final digit is unclear and this document may be older than 1830 CE based on …

  59. שמואל מלכי נ׳׳ע היות אמוץ שקבלתי ונטלתי מידה העמלק אלישאן (=Alişan) סך שבע מאות 
  60. מאות אריות לערך אמ׳׳ב מהמעות אשר היה להעמלק מורישו (=?Mauricio) כ'וואגה אגייאזאר בארגז
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  62. 1797LetterBL OR 5566B.26

    Letter from a judge to Avraham Maimonides, reporting about a case that came before him in Adar I 1529 Seleucid (which is 1218 CE). About …

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  63. 1798LetterBL OR 5566D.26

    Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting and spelling addressed to 'my mother' (yā sittī) Sitt Ghazal. After the blessings, the writer says he/she received …

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    1. בשמך רחמנה
    2. יא סתי סת גזאל
    3. געלני אללה מן כל סו פדאך
    4. וגמלני בבקאך וצאנך ווקאך
    5. ואחיא לך ואלולד ואלגליל
    6. ואלפרע אלנגיב ויבלגך
    7. פיה אמלך אלסארה אן שא

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  64. 1799List or tableBL OR 10118.26

    List of names. Tiqva ha-Kohen; Yakhin b. Yeshuʿa; ʿEli b. Shelomo; Elʿazar b. Araḥ; Berakhot; Avraham b. She'erit; ʿEli ha-Ḥaver(?).

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  65. 1800Paraliterary textBL OR 10126(1).1

    Prognostications? In Arabic script.

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