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  1. 18201State documentENA 3731.4

    State document, Fatimid. Mentions "al-khidma" and "al-muṭāʿ" or maybe "iqṭāʿ" (but less likely). Just a few words preserved in each line and difficult to glean …

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  2. 18202Unknown typeENA NS 85.1222

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  3. 18203State documentT-S Ar.39.164

    Upper part of a tax receipt? Multiple hands/endorsements in the upper margin. The main text mentions Yūsuf b. Hiba and a jahbadh. Needs examination. On …

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  4. 18204LetterT-S 8J40.11 + BL OR 5542.12

    Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Surūr Isḥāq b. Barhūn, it seems in Alexandria, mentioning the arrival of the recipient …

    Recto: T-S 8J40.11:

    1. על שמך ייי תוכלת עלי אללה
    2. כתאבי יאמולאי וסידי ושיכי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
    3. וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ואלחמד לל…

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  5. 18205Unknown typeENA 3972.1

    Arabic script (VMR) Verso: Greek/Coptic numerals

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  6. 18206Legal documentT-S 20.34

    Ketubba for Mikhal bat Sason b. Yefet and Saʿadya b. Nathan, in the hand of Nathan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Verso: part of another document …

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  7. 18207Legal documentMoss. VII,125.2

    Legal document. The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved. Almost no details preserved.

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  8. 18208Legal documentT-S AS 155.138

    Legal document; involves [...] Peʾer ha-Qahal; signed by ʿAmram b. Shemuʾel. Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. (Information from CUDL)

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  9. 18209LetterBodl. MS heb. f 107/52

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Addressed to someone important, possibly the Nagid, and possibly specifically Maṣliaḥ Gaon (based …

    1. ראש ישיבת גאון יעק]ב יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון [עולם אדאם אללה
    2. גאההא וידים סעאדתהא ויזידהא אצעאף [
    3. אולאדהא ויוצל איאמהא ואיאמהמא באיא[ם אלגואל
    4. ולא יכל…

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  10. 18210List or tableHalper 473

    List of commodities and amounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Items include saffron and pepper. Information in part from Penn catalog.

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  11. 18211LetterMoss. VII,159.1

    Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …

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  12. 18212Paraliterary textENA 3370.4

    Paraliterary text. Ink recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. The recipes are for making iron gall ink using gum Arabic and vitriol. Needs examination.

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  13. 18213Legal query or responsumT-S NS 342.11 + T-S NS 342.82 + T-S NS 342.104 + T-S NS 342.72 + T-S NS 342.75 + T-S NS 342.73 + T-S NS 342.1 + T-S NS 342.70

    Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon (probably Maṣliaḥ) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning a man who remarried after …

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  14. 18214LetterENA 3616.19 + CUL Or.1081 J3

    IB II, 25 + 26. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: two fragments. Aden, 1134. See also T-S AS 173.380 (PGPID 38566).

    IB II,25 (ENA 3616.19) recto

    1. שלום עד אין קץ וברכה עד אין
    2. מספר ליקר אדוני מר ור אברהם
    3. בר כגק מר ור יגו נעג אהבך מצמון
    4. בר חסן נעג וצל כתאב מולאי
    5. וקראת…

    IB II,25 recto

    1. Peace without limit and blessings without 
    2. number, to my esteemed lord, our master and teacher Abraham 
    3. the son of his honor, great a…

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  15. 18215Legal documentT-S 8J29.10

    Settlement agreement as part of which golden rings worth forty dinars were exchanged (one with a pearl) before the consummation of the marriage which was …

    1. ] מן . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ] . . . בין לר נתנאל
    3. ]פצאיל התלמיד החכם
    4. ] אלמצמודי זכ לב ונתן
    5. ] .ח מרנ אבו עמר ונתן
    6. ] כאתמין דהב אחדהם
    7. ] וכאתם אכר לולו ו…

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  16. 18216LetterT-S AS 165.189

    Small fragment from the upper right corner of a legal document. Most of what remains consists of honorifics for the Head of the Jews (מפי …

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  17. 18217List or tableJRL B 8386

    Mercantile accounts, probably, in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century?

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  18. 18218Unknown typeENA NS 85.534

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  19. 18219Legal documentT-S NS 306.118

    Bottom part of a torn court record involving a widow, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1439 Seleucid = September/October 1127 CE.

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  20. 18220Paraliterary textT-S Misc.29.49a

    The scorpion amulet. On the other side there are calendrical calculation tricks.

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  21. 18221LetterT-S 13J20.4

    Calligraphic letter requesting help for a man who is out of work and has a large family which would be satisfied with getting a mere …

    1. בש רח
    2. והיה מעשה הצדקה שלום ועבודת הצ וג
    3. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ייי ג
    4. אללה תעאלי דכרה יסתגיב פי מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    5. צאלח אלאדעיה ויאריך ימיו …

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    1. In (your) n(ame, O) Me(rciful) 
    2. "For the work of charity shall be peace, and the effect of ch(arity, calm and confidence forever)" (Isaiah 32:…

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  22. 18222LetterT-S AS 202.330

    Minute fragment from a end of a letter

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  23. 18223Unknown typeENA 3965.18

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  24. 18224List or tableT-S AS 175.10

    Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic on recto. Medieval-era.

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  25. 18225State documentMoss. I,101

    Fragment of a petition or at least a letter to a high official. ~9 lines are preserved. "... al-amīrī al-kabīrī al-ʿaḍudī al-nuṣayrī al-dhukhrī al-humāmī al-isfahsalārī …

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    1. الاميري الكبيري العضدي الـنصيري
    2. الذخري الهمامي الاسفهسلاري 
    3. المؤيدي الظهري العوني [
    4. مجد الاسلام والمسلمين سيد الامرا  
    5. في العال…

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  26. 18226LetterT-S NS 149.1

    A letter from a man from Palermo in which he described the hardship of the Jews in Sicily during civil war and invasion of foreign …

    To be read in front of our lord, highness, excellency, . . . sereneness, president, king and son of king, father . . . son of . . . of heaven [ . . .…

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  27. 18227Unknown typeENA NS 85.454

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  28. 18228LetterBL OR 5566B.11

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. This is a long, dense, and well-preserved family/mercantile letter. Mentions grains and produce in large quantities: 400 irdab wheat, and …

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  29. 18229Unknown typeENA NS 79.9

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 18230State documentT-S AS 183.25

    Official receipt of some kind. For Bū Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm. Very busy. Quite faded, too. There is the remnant of an earlier document on verso. …

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  31. 18231Unknown typeENA NS 85.1210

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  32. 18232Legal documentAIU VII.D.1

    Recto: Qaraite betrothal (erusin) document. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 11 Kislev 1360 = 20 November 1048 CE. Groom: Maḥfūẓ b. Menaḥem. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Avraham …

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    1. בשם אל עולם נעשה ונצ[ליח]
    2. כי מה טובו ומה יפיו דגן בחו[רים]
    3. וארשתיך לי לעולם וארש[תיך]
    4. לי בצדק ובמשפט ובחסד
    5. וברחמים : וארשתיך לי בא[מונה]
    6. וידעת…

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    1. In the name of the Everlasting God, let us do and [succeed].
    2. For how great is his goodness and his beauty; corn shall make [young men] (Zach. …

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  33. 18233Legal documentT-S AS 150.129

    Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)

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  34. 18234List or tableENA 4047.4

    List of expenses regarding building according to date? ENA 4047.3 is related.

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  35. 18235LetterMIAC 79

    Letter from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo to Kẖawaja Elli Abimalor and Kẖawaja Shlomo Lijar requesting that they not give away any of the contents …

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  36. 18236Legal documentNLI 577.8/6

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Probably a waqf document, describing the specifications of the entire property along with size dimensions. Mentions several amounts in …

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  37. 18237State documentENA NS 13.3

    Original use: Decree? Two faded lines in a chancery hand containing a ṣalwala (wa-l-ṣalā ʿalā al-sayyīd Muḥammad al-muṣṭafa wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn) which suggests that it is …

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  38. 18238LetterT-S 8J39.9

    End of a letter from the Iraqi Gaʾon Shemuel b. Ḥofni to a friend who traveled to Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan [1]310 Seleucid, which is November …

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    1.                                                       ] אלסאלמין ויגמעה 
    2. מע אהלה עלי אסר אלאחואל ואסרעהא ואנא אחב אן יכון    לי 
    3. הנאך כמא כאן…

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  39. 18239LetterT-S NS 305.108

    Letter from a father to a son. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). Recto contains only the formulaic opening greetings. Verso contains closing greetings …

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  40. 18240Literary textUPenn RAR MS 82.313.1.7a

    Text in Judaeo-Persian. Biblical commentary? There is also some ink transfer from another fragment.

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  41. 18241Unknown typeENA NS 85.1201

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  42. 18242LetterT-S 6J7.6

    Letter from an unidentified sender addressed at least in part to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is the second (or at any rate final) folio …

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    1. אלקלב פהו מא אבצרה מנה סאעה סאעה פיבקא
    2. קלבי מרגוף פאללה יחסן אלעון ולא שך באן
    3. זוגה סרור אלקליובי אנצרת מן אגל עאקת
    4. אלחריר פתסיירה מע אלסאגן ומ…

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  43. 18243LetterENA 4101.5

    Verso (original use): Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to ʿEli b. ʿAmram in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 (Gil). Mentions Marwān b. Saqīr and Yosef b. …

    ENA 4101, f. 5v ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, p. 690 (Doc. #373), C.T., 6-24-86 (P) Letter from Daniel b. Azarya (ca. 1055) to Eli b. Amram in Fustat.

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  44. 18244State documentT-S AS 168.208 + T-S AS 168.207

    Two fragments of a letter in Arabic script. Hard to tell if it is a state document, a mercantile document, or both. Refers to "al-ḥujaj …

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  45. 18245Literary textENA 3015.8

    One folio of a blingual Judaeo-Arabic–Hebrew glossary of terms, possibly a page from a broader bound dictionary. Medieval-era. There are clear sewing marks along the …

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  46. 18246LetterMoss. V,350.2

    Remnants of a letter in Ladino. AA

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  47. 18247LetterT-S NS J365

    Recto: Letter from Bū Zikrī (b. Eliyyahu the Judge?) to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening is preserved and a couple words from …

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  48. 18248List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.59

    Bifolio. Two of the pages contain a Hebrew ṣidduq din (funeral piyyuṭ) for the death of a boy. The other two pages contain accounts in …

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  49. 18249Legal documentT-S NS 342.81

    Fragment from list of court records written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138), one involving Khalaf al-Levi b. Yeshu'a. AA

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  50. 18250LetterT-S 13J22.16

    Letter fragment from the cantor Khalfa Ibn al-Qafṣī (i.e., from Qafṣa/Gafsa, in Tunisia; Abramson and Golb incorrectly read "al-Qifṭī," from Qifṭ in Upper Egypt). The …

    1. עבדה כלפה אלחזן בן
    2. אלקפצי
    3. ]צרה ישגבך שם אלהי
    4. ]ייי ישמרך מכל רע
    5. ]ך לעד
    6. ]ת וחמלה ורנן ועטרת
    7. ]ת ורנן הדר הכרמל
    8. ] חשוקות ובכל
    9. ]ר בעשרים וארבעה
    10. ] ראש כבו…

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