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  1. 1801List or tableBL OR 10126(1).1

    List of accounts for the bread distribution. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the paternal aunt of the judge, the Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī, and Maḥfūẓ the khādim …

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  2. 1802List or tableBL OR 10126(1).2

    Calendar for maḥzors 258 (starting 1122 CE) through maḥzor 261 (ending 1199 CE). Will be a useful resource for dating the handful of Geniza documents that contain only the maḥzor and the year within the maḥzor.

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  3. 1803Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).4

    Legal record(s). Dated: 1608 Seleucid = 1296/96 CE. The first involves Ḥayyim b. Ḥananʾel, (his wife?) Shamsiyya bt. Ṣadoq, and a delayed marriage payment of …

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  4. 1804Unknown typeBL OR 10126(1).5

    Note to Moses Gaster, in Hebrew, concerning a delay in the delivery of a crate.

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  5. 1805Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).6

    Legal document. Loan terms. Dated: September 1239. Location: Bilbays. Between Amram b. Ḥalfon and Avraham b. Efrayim. Initially described as commenda (qirāḍ) but re-negotiated into …

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    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצין כטוטנא אכר הדה אלמסטור אן למא כאן פי אלעשר
  6. He testified concerning it in Jewish law with a (valid Jewish) document and a qinyan, to the effect that whenever he paid him the thirty-six dina[rs]
  7. of Fusṭāṭ coinage, he or his heirs, within 12 years, the residence would revert to him or his heirs.
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  9. 1806List or tableBL OR 10126(1).7

    List in Judaeo-Arabic, neat and well-preserved, with quantities of food items and materia medica on the recto. There are three columns from right to left …

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  10. 1807Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).8

    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū Naṣr Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen was going to make a declaration, but …

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  11. 1808Unknown typeBL OR 10126(1).9–10

    Copy of the first verse of Genesis, probably by a child. Interesting because the original binding appears to be preserved.

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  12. 1809Literary textBL OR 10126(1).12

    Literary. Psalms and Job.

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  13. 1810List or tableBL OR 10126(1).15

    Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic that express figures in western Arabic numerals. Dated 19 Kislev [54]97 or less likely 55[97]– so 1736CE or 1836CE. Some …

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  14. 1811Paraliterary textBL OR 10126(1).17

    Recto: Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Purpose unclear. The second recipes involves red hairs, a cloth, and lamp oil (zayt ḥār). Verso: Hebrew poem.

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  15. 1812LetterBL OR 10126(1).19

    Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Needs examination

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  16. 1813Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).24

    Legal document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In Aramaic. There is also one line in Arabic script on verso. Location: Fustat. Dated: 137[.] Seleucid, …

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  17. 1814Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).25

    Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …

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  18. 1815List or tableBL OR 10126(3).2

    Jottings in Hebrew script. Maybe accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The word thawb appears.

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  19. 1816List or tableBL OR 10126(3).4

    List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic where the object "עדה" is being expressed in various quantities of the unit of weight "ratl", here expressed in plural …

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  20. 1817List or tableBL OR 10126(3).7–8

    See tag.

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  21. 1818LetterBL OR 10126(3).12

    Letter from ʿEli b. David ha-Kohen to Abū l-Qawām Thābit. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic opening and the address are preserved.

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  22. 1819LetterBL OR 10126(3).14

    Document in Judaeo-Arabic, apparently summarizing a petition. Headed ב, then "in which your slaves Abū l-Riḍā al-Abwānī asked Sayyidnā (=you) . . . the letter …

    1. ב
    2. אלדי סאל חצרה סיידנא פיה ממאליכהא אבו אלרצא אל
    3. אבואני א . . כתאב מן אלמעטם אלי אלקאצי אלמכין [[אל]]
    4. משארף אלאסכנדריה באלוציה פי אן יטלק לה רבע אל …

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  23. 1820Legal documentBL OR 10126(3).15

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 4846 AM = 11 February 1086 CE. Mentions a Peraḥya and a Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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  24. 1821List or tableBL OR 10126(3).17

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Based on the paleography the dating for these accounts possibly is possibly 16-17th-century. The recto and verso account for payments "אל ווצל" …

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  25. 1822Literary textBL OR 10126(3).19

    Literary text, in Hebrew

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  26. 1823Unknown typeBL OR 10578C.26

    A few Judaeo-Arabic words in large script.

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  27. 1824Legal documentBL OR 10589.26

    Account in Arabic script, seems to be private though the layout resembles official documents. "Account of the soap which arrived on the date of [...] of Muḥarram of the year [...] to the shop of Tāj al-Mulūk with Abū l-Qāsim b.

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  28. 1825State documentBL OR 10599.26

    Document with a few lines of Arabic script on each side. Probably a fiscal account. Mentions 200 dinars on verso, and possibly a dīwān. Needs …

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  29. 1826LetterBL OR 12369.26

    Interesting letter with a conspiratorial tone, apparently from a father to a son. The writer reports that he has heard that Barakat the son of …

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    1. אלדי אעלמך בה אנך נזלת
    2. וקלבי ענדך ואמא גיר דלך
    3. פאני בלגני אן ברכאת בן אלרייס

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  30. 1827Literary textBL OR 13153.26

    Literary work on the blowing of the shofar.

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  31. 1828List or tableCUL Or.1080 4.26

    Late accounts in Arabic, possibly a bifolio from a broader defter. One of the account headings on the verso mentions al-ṣarrāf. Merits further examination.

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  32. 1829List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.26

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  33. 1830LetterCUL Or.1080 J26

    Letter in which an heir informs his correspondent that no one, the government included, had any claim on his inheritance and adds that his case …

    top margin, diagonal lines at 180 degrees to main text

    דינ ויכרמוה ויתם עילה | מא ינפק | ושיך אבו | אלקאסם בן סבק (!) יסאל |

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  34. 1831List or tableCUL Or.1080 J126

    (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 267 #53)

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    1. [ ] ובעד [ ]ק[ ]מגי [
    2. [ ] אביה עלי מא שהד עלי כט[
    3. [ ] ועליה מן בעד ⟦חסוב⟧ //חסאב\\ אביה פי כט אלדי
    4. [ ]מנה אבוסעד בן חאתם 16 שהר אולה[א
    5. די [אלח…

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    1. …. and after ….
    2. …. his father, according to the deposition, to the section (?) ….
    3. …. and tohis debit, after the account with his father, according to the record
    4. …. from him (by) Abū Saʿd b.

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  35. 1832LetterCUL Or.1080 J226

    Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Calligraphically written. The subject matter is communal strife; some wicked person is stirring up trouble, and the results are government decrees …

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  36. 1833Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J260

    Marriage contract (ketubba). On parchment. Long vertical fragment, 21 in. in height; looks like a backbone. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli. …

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  37. 1834List or tableCUL Or.1080 J261

    Accounts. Perhaps in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Many familiar names on the list. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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  38. 1835Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J262

    Court deposition. The widow Salāma bt. Furayj b. Abī l-Gharīb appoints the Baghdādī Ḥasan/Yefet b. Ṭoviyya/Ṭayyib as her attorney to claim anything due to her …

    1. . . . . . . .]כה וטובה משוכה וחנ[י]נה ערוכה
    2. . . . י]פת הנקרא חסן אלבגדאדי בן מרי טוביה
    3. לא נעלם ממנו אחינו הטובה שגמלתה את נתן
    4. הלוי הנאסף אצלכם נוחו …

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  39. 1836LetterCUL Or.1080 J264

    Letter from Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to his father-in-law, Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060s CE according to …

  40. באל וא[ 
  41. א]כרית מן
  42. Recto,top margin:

    1. [ולא]
    2. ת[קטע כתאבך
    3. עני לאני אגד

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  43. 1837LetterCUL Or.1080 J265

    Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to the sons of Mevasser, Fustat, perhaps 1025.

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    1. אברהם החבר בן [ג]און
    2. שלומות תדורים: וברכות סדורים: וטובות שגורים:

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  44. 1838List or tableCUL Or.1080 J265

    Accounts in Arabic script, with some interesting details, e.g., mentioning a ḥaver and possibly food items such as mulūkhiyya and zirbāj (a type of stew) …

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  45. 1839LetterCUL Or.1080 J267

    Letter from the copyist Shemuel to the notable Yeshuʿa. In Hebrew. Asking for a gift. During the six months in which Shemuel has stayed “here,” …

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  46. 1840LetterCUL Or.1080 J268

    Second leaf of a long letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of both recto and verso). Partially concerning a dispute of religious scholars. Continuous reference …

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  47. 1841LetterCUL Or.1080 J269

    Letter of appeal from Moshe to R. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  48. 1842Literary textCUL Or.1081 1.26

    Poetry: a leaf from a diwan of Hebrew poetry, with Judaeo-Arabic headers giving the occasions.

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  49. 1843Literary textCUL Or.1081 2.75.26

    Garshuni poem rhymed on -nī (e.g., al-awṭānī, insānī, ikhwānī), each section punctuated by a refrain (qufl). Cf. Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern …

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  50. 1844LetterCUL Or.1081 J26

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Tinnīs. He wants to borrow from “the Great Rav” (a Tunisian rabbi in Egypt) his copy of the …

    1. מן תניס ויגברא(?) אלי חצרתך והי אן שא אללה
    2. תצל אלי חצרה רבנו פי הדה אלמדה וכנת
    3. קד סאלת חצרה ר[בנ]ו הרב הגדול המובהק שמרו
    4. צורו אן תרסל לעבדהא מגלת סת…

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  51. 1845Literary textENA 2700.25–26

    Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mainly love poetry. One of them has a blazon of the beloved along with references to …

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  52. 1846List or tableENA 2712.25–26

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Late. Among many other entries: soap: 1/4... fennel: 1/2 raṭl... cumin: 1 qadaḥ. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  53. 1847List or tableENA NS 7.26

    Recto: a child's writing exercise in Judaeo-Arabic, presumably from a commercial apprenticeship: numbers, halves, possibly sums, the word wakkāla, the name Yūsuf or Yosef. Verso: …

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  54. 1848List or tableENA NS 8.26

    Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing many goods and their values. Many but not all are fabrics and garments (mandīl, miʾzar, miqnaʿa, ghalāla, maṭraḥ).

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  55. 1849Legal documentENA NS 9.26

    Legal document, probably. Faded/damaged. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sums of money, the paternal uncle of a wife, Abū l-Bahā' (or Abū l-Baqā'), and a teacher.

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  56. 1850Legal documentENA NS 10.26

    Legal deed in large square thick letters

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