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  1. 18801LetterT-S AS 148.97

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from 'your father' (wālidak). mentioning a faqīh named ʿUbayd, instructions for the addressee to come, and the Nasi. (Information in part from …

    1. תעאלי ואל . . . . . [
    2. מן גהתך וכנת סירת לך גואב
    3. כתאבך אלתאני מע חאתם(?)
    4. ואלפקיה עביד גארנא וכנת
    5. וציתהם אן יחדרוך(?) מעהם
    6. פתתפצל תגי מעהם ואן כאן
    7. מא …

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  2. 18802State documentENA 684.2

    Decree to a lower official commanding him to retrieve bricks and everything belonging to the government from a certain location (a ruined mosque?); and from …

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  3. 18803LetterBodl. MS heb. f 101/42

    Letter fragment from Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shām; 20 nuqra dirhams; dār sayyidinā in Fustat, and various people's names. Dating: probably late 12th or …

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    1.  ] . . . . . . . . . . . . ק
    2. ]לא . . חפטהם אללה ותקול
    3. ] . פי אלשאם גרת עאדתה
    4. ]ן ולא יבק פיה עלה
    5. ] . . . ה ועשרין דרהם נקרה מן
    6. ] אל . . בון אלד…

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  4. 18804Legal documentT-S AS 153.465

    Small fragment of a partnership agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  5. 18805LetterT-S AS 160.262

    Letter from Ibrāhīm b. [...] to Zakkay b. Shelomo. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century, based on the hand. …

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  6. 18806Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Genizah Ar. 521

    Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Could be a receipt.

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  7. 18807List or tableENA 2968.4 + ENA 2968.1

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  8. 18808LetterENA 3768.2

    Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, the muqaddam of Bilbays (ca. 1170s–1218) to Pinḥas b. Meshullam, a judge of Alexandria in the time of Maimonides. …

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    1. כבוד הדר]ת י[קרת צפירת תפארת כבוד
    2. גדולת קדושת מרנא ורבנא פינחס הרב המבהק
    3. המעוז והמגדול יברכהו שומרו ויצילו מיד רודפו ומבקש
    4. רעתו כי יפול לא יוט…
    1. [(To) the honour, the glor]y, the grandeur, the diadem, the splendour, the honour,
    2. the greatness, and the holiness of our teacher and rabbi Pinḥas t…

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  9. 18809Paraliterary textT-S AS 162.51

    Spell of destruction. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic, with a postscript in Arabic script ("for killing, very useful"). See Niessen, F., & Bohak, G. (2007). ‘Destroy …

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  10. 18810Paraliterary textT-S 10J7.9 + T-S 10J31.15

    Two folios of a magical text in Judaeo-Arabic. The first page contains three recipes, including one for stopping the flow of tears and one for …

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    1. בשמך רח
    2. האדא אלגליאן יערף בגליאן סויד יה/ו/דין ואעלם
    3. רחמך אללה אן סויד הדא שיך אצפר נחיף אלגסם
    4. יאתי אלרגל פי מנאמה עלי הדה אלצפה …

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  11. 18811Legal documentT-S AS 146.202 + T-S NS 320.23

    Deathbed will of Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last third of Tammuz [1469] Seleucid = June 1158 CE. (The year in l. …

    1. . . . .]. . .מא לה[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. דנאניר ודכר אן ענדה הא[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  12. 18812Literary textT-S AS 184.351

    Literary narrative about Hārūn al-Rashīd and the Barmakids (al-Barāmika).

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  13. 18813List or tableT-S AS 186.184

    List of Ottoman-era coinage values. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and numismatic references to Ottoman jadid (one of which is specified as an …

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  14. 18814LetterT-S 8J10.20

    Short letter to 'the in-law' Yosef and 'the daughter Esther Yāqūta, also mentioning Khuḍayr,' in a crude hand and extremely colloquial language. Dating: ca. 15th-16th …

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  15. 18815Legal documentT-S AS 184.110

    Document in Arabic script, recounting the details of a legal case involving both Islamic law and the Jewish courts, and it seems a person who …

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  16. 18816Legal documentT-S 13J7.9

    Document containing a few names: Abu al-Faraj b. Asad, Shemuʾel b. Surur. Also mentioned are representatives of the Sultan, the destruction of houses, and the …

    1. ]ון כטוטנא פי אכר הדא [אלכתאב
    2. ] אלתלאתא פי אלעשר אלאכיר
    3. שנ]ת אלפא וחמש מאה וארבעין ושש
    4. ] במדינת צור דעל כיף ימא רבה
    5. ]דינא שמואל אבן סרור אלמלטי
    6. ]י ח…

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  17. 18817List or tableT-S NS J294

    Verso: 8 persons donate each 1/4 dinar, presumably for the needy mentioned on recto (poor hand, but not that of ʿEli the parnas). (Information from …

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  18. 18818Legal documentENA NS 31.23

    Marriage contract. Dated: 5579 AM, which is 1818/19 CE. Groom: Raḥamim ואפה(?). Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yaʿaqov Manīṣar (מניצר). Currencies: real, medin. The border of the …

    1. ...]ם ויהי ביתך כבית פרץ אשר ילדה
    2. ...] שנת חמשת אל[פים] וחמש מאות ושבעים ותשע ליצירה הכא בעיר
    3. ... דעל נהר ני]לוס מותבה אנן סהדי איך ה[יק]ר ונע׳ כה׳׳…

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  19. 18819LetterCUL Or.1080 J21

    Letter from Ṭoviya b. Moshe, in Jerusalem, to his daughter, in Fustat, April 1040 or 1041. "The following description of the writer's well-being is altogether …

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    1. כתאבי אליך יא בנתי מן אלקדס אלמחרוס לתלת בקי מן שהר רגאב (!) ממא אעלמיך יא
    2. בנתי מא פי קלבי מן אמריך אן פי קלבי אלנאר בסבביך ואללה ביניך ובין …

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    I am writing to you, my daughter, from Jerusalem, may God keep it, on the 27th of Rajab. I wish to tell you, my daughter, what I think about yo…

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  20. 18820LetterT-S 24.27

    Letter of appeal written by Menashshe, the Alexandrian school teacher, to Abu al-Barakat Yehudah ha-Kohen b. Elazar, Thiqat al-Mulk (Goitein translates 'Trusted Servant of the …

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    1. בשם שומע אל אביונים
    2. כי שפתי כהן ישמרו דעת וגו'
    3. ואומ' כהני יי' הקראו משרתי וגו'ִ
    4. וכהניה אלביש ישע ו[ ]יה רנן ירננו
    5. [ ]ר אומר ויקם לך ועלי דרכיך…

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  21. 18821Unknown typeCUL Or.1081 1.31

    Extremely faded, perhaps a letter.

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  22. 18822List or tableT-S AS 186.191

    Accounts in disorderly Judaeo-Arabic. Dating is 15th-17th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination.

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  23. 18823LetterENA 2560.5

    IB VI, 3. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef to a certain [son of] Natan he-haver. The letter mourns the passing of Madmun (the Nagid of …

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  24. 18824List or tableT-S NS 164.146

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic regarding sums of money owed by Umm Waḥsh. There are also jottings of accounts in Arabic script, probably the earlier use of …

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  25. 18825Legal documentBL OR 12369.27

    Engagement (shiddukhin) contract on recto. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5567 AM (התקסז), which is 1806 CE. Groom: Moshe Ẓvi. Bride: Simḥa bt. Barukh. Verso is a …

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    1. ב[סט׳׳ו] ובנים ועושר והרוחה
    2. שידך הבחור ונחמד החתן המפואר כה׳׳ר משה צבי
    3. את הכלה יעלת חן וכלילת יופי הבתולה הב[וג]רת מב׳׳ת שמחה 
    4. מב׳׳ת בת המ׳ ב…

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  26. 18826Legal documentT-S NS 205.43

    Small fragment of a draft of a legal deed concerning the sale of a female slave. The space for her name has been left blank. …

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  27. 18827Paraliterary textENA NS 47.8

    Calendar for the year 5424 AM in Hebrew (1663/64 CE). The month of Sivan (May-June) includes reference to the onset of the yearly Nile floods …

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  28. 18828State documentAIU XII.15

    Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …

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  29. 18829LetterT-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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  30. 18830LetterT-S 10J10.24

    Letter from Yisrael b. Natan in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. November 29, 1061. Concerning copying books and family matters. Mentions Zakkai ha-Nasi, …

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    1. כתאבך יאסיידי ומולאי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    2. נעמאך [ ] אל[נצ]ף מן סיון ואלחאל סלאמה
    3. ונעמה ללה אלחמד [ ] ואליום שהרין מא קראת
    4. לך כתאב …

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  31. 18831Unknown typeENA NS 85.1442

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  32. 18832List or tableT-S NS 340.20

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Hebrew script (for names of months and the year). Mentions the months Tammuz, Av and Tishrei …

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  33. 18833Legal documentT-S 16.115

    Legal document: deathbed declaration, made by a woman whose name is not preserved. The upper part of the document is missing, but the reconstruction, as …

    1. ומילולה נכ[ונים ולשונה סדור ומתוקן בפיה ושומעת ומדברת והיא יודעת]
    2. לישא וליתן [ודעתה מיושבת עליה כהוגן לשאול ולהשיב לומר על הן הן]
    3. ועל לאו לאו כשאר […
    1.  And her speech (was) correct and her language was right in her mouth and she could hear and speak and knew

    2.  what was being dealt with and her mi…

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  34. 18834LetterENA NS 76.304

    Possibly a fragment of a late Judaeo-Arabic letter: ויא אכי אנתה . . . יכון נדיב

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  35. 18835List or tableT-S AS 153.2

    Accounts of a woman named Umm Abū l-Riḍā. For the month of Nisan "143." This probably means 4800 + 143 = 4943 AM, which is …

    1. חסאב א. אבו אלרצי פי אלזמן
    2. ניסן קמו ענדהא נ
    3. להא מן סת עז ד . ולהא ג
    4. כרג קיראט נחאס ולהא א . .
    5. ולהא יום גמעה אלעיד מן פכריה
    6. ב ולהא מן פכריה א . .
    7. ואי…

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  36. 18836List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 536

    Accounts, bottom part. Needs examination.

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  37. 18837List or tableT-S AS 179.139

    Mercantile accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  38. 18838Unknown typeENA NS 85.1377

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  39. 18839Paraliterary textT-S Ar.34.177

    Sermon in Judaeo-Arabic attributed to the late "Rabbenu ha-Gaʾon." On verso there is the remnant of an Arabic-script document, which was torn and reused for …

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  40. 18840LetterENA 3241.6

    Letter fragment (vertical strip from the left side of recto). In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps ca. 16th century. Regarding communal matters and evildoers.

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  41. 18841List or tableT-S AS 146.63

    Accounts with Coptic numerals. Building expenditures. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  42. 18842LetterMoss. VII,162.3

    Letter fragment from a man to his wife. In Judaeo-Arabic. Partial translation by Joel Kraemer: "I have sworn an oath not to wash the clothes …

    Translated by Nadia Vidro

    And the . . . was destroyed . . . property that was owed by my brother—may his memory be blessed. And I did not depart from…

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  43. 18843Legal documentT-S NS J356

    Legal document. Written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1540 Seleucid = 19 April 1229 CE. Also signed by Ṣadaqa b. …

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  44. 18844List or tableBL OR 10589.16

    List of names (male and female) with numbers; alms distribution list. At the top of verso it says "recipients of charity in Jerusalem." Names on …

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  45. 18845LetterJRL B 3574

    Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably mercantile, including the phrase "I sent it to Qayrawan"; an item of a specific color; and perhaps someone …

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  46. 18846LetterT-S NS 321.13

    Informal letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to R. Ḥananel. He asks for a piece of rhubarb (rāwand), it seems for medicinal purposes.

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    1. אלממלוך אלאצגר שלמה ברבי אליה סט
    2. ינהי אלי אלמולי אלאגל אלאמין אלחנין אלשפיק
    3. הדרת אדוננו גאוננו מרנו ורבנו חננאל
    4. החסיד הוותיק המובהק הפטיש אור

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  47. 18847Unknown typeT-S AS 221.204

    Child’s drawing of a stick man. (Information from CUDL.)

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  48. 18848Legal documentT-S NS 225.42

    Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). The content is unclear but a certain Elʿazar is mentioned. an …

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  49. 18849List or tableT-S AS 146.398

    Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions firewood (ḥaṭab).

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  50. 18850Unknown typeENA 4032.1

    Document in Arabic script, possibly. Badly damaged. Requires further examination.

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