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  1. 19101LetterF 1908.44XX

    Letter (or rather three letters) from Mustaʿrib sages, in Safed, to the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal, in Fustat/Cairo. Dating: 1510 CE, based on the assessment of …

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  2. 19102List or tableJRL C 64 + JRL C 81 + JRL C 92

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from a broader ledger attested within the nearby joins: JRL SERIES C 81 + JRL SERIES C 92. On the recto there …

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  3. 19103LetterMoss. Va,11

    Letter written in Fustat on 6 Ṭevet (no year) from a son to his mother (l. 17, yā wālidatī). Very emotional. Mentions Alexandria and flax, …

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  4. 19104Legal documentPER H 93

    Legal declaration in which the witnesses attest to the victory of Mūsā b. al-Ahuv (alias Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) over Yiṣḥaq al-Siqillī in retaining the …

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    1. בש רח
    2. נקול נחן אלשהוד [אלוא]צעין כטוטנא תחת הדה אלאחרף

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  5. 19105Legal documentT-S 8J34.12

    Legal document in Hebrew, perhaps a draft or beginning of a copy. In a which a woman, possibly Jawhara bt. Maḥfūẓ (whose name appears at …

    1. גוהרה בת מחפוץ
    2. דויד בר סלמאן
    3. עבאס בר כלף
    4. הידוע בן אלזעתר
    5. משמנה שנים
    6. זכרון עדות שהית(!) בפנינו
    7. אנו העדים החתומים למטה
    8. בשיני בשבת בשלשה
    9. בחדש תשרי
    10. דעו …

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  6. 19106LetterT-S 8K6

    This polemical letter, in a manuscript of which only one sheet has been preserved (T-S 8K6), shares features in common with Letters 1 and 2 …

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  7. 19107LetterT-S 12.350

    Mercantile letter addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. ʿArūs had bought brazilwood and pepper for …

  8. . . . . ] א ואן כאן ננפץ לך מנהא לאן ענדי מנהא
  9. Bottom margin, straight lines written upside down. Address.

    מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אבי אלאפרח ערוס בן יוסף נע שאכר

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  10. 19108Legal documentT-S 12.427

    Recto: Draft of a legal testimony from Fustat. Dating: late 10th or early 11th century. Concerning the legitimacy of two cantors and slaughterers, the brothers …

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    1. [ ] ברורה שרירה וקיימת כי אנחנו יודעים
    2. [ ס]עדיה זכרו לברכה ידענוהו מקדם לכן
    3. [ ] ענין השחיטה ערום מבין תלמיד חכמים
    4. [ ]ם הטובים ולא מצרכי הציבור כי …

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  11. 19109LetterT-S 13J22.22

    Letter from Muslim to his son ʿIwaḍ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning sugar cane molasses (quṭāra) and wine. "Stop occupying yourself with marriage plans and such idle …

  12. עליכם ושלום
  13. verso, top margin

    1. יסלם לעוץ ולד מסלם

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    1. ואדא גא אחד מן אלרכאצין

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  14. 19110LetterT-S Ar.48.49

    Recto: Letter fragment from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi (who signs his name at the bottom). In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely to his brother. Greetings are sent to Abū ʿAlī, …

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  15. 19111LetterT-S AS 153.212 + T-S 6J6.20

    Letter from Bū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin) to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Bū l-Maḥāsin, in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Kislev 1528 Seleucid = November/December 1216 CE. …

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    1. עבדהא בו אלמגד
    2. חזן
    3. בר
    4. אלשיך אלמכין אדאם [אל]לה עזה

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  16. 19112Legal documentT-S AS 160.282

    List of legal documents, including: (1) For the purchase of a female slave. (2) "A copy of it" for the Rayyis Abū l-Karam. (3) Lease …

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  17. 19113Legal documentT-S NS 224.20

    Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …

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  18. 19114Literary textAIU VII.A.18

    Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and the Prophet Muḥammad. Probably a fragment of a larger Shīʿī text recounting attributes of …

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  19. 19115Unknown typeBL OR 10599.3

    Unidentified document or literary text in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions accounting and bringing gold to the dār al-[...]. Excerpts: אדם בעולם . …

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  20. 19116LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/25

    Letter from Ṣedaqa Nes, probably to Moshe b. Yehuda. Fragment: left half only. Reporting on business matters. Commodities include: cinnamon, nutmeg, indigo, materia medica, dār …

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  21. 19117LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/56

    Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im). In Hebrew. Only the introductory blessings and the address are preserved …

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  22. 19118List or tableBodl. MS heb. d 66/76

    Trousseau list for an upcoming marriage. Dating: ca. 1161 CE.The value comes out to 30 dinars. Bride: Milāḥ bt. Asʿad Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Groom: Abū l-Ḥasan …

    1. ואלדתה
    2. ]תה עלי ס דינאר

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    1. ] לת בת מלאח ברת בו סעד הנודע
    2. ] בן אל מכאטר עלי אבו אלחסן יפת בר יצחק
    3. ] אלמ

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    1. ] מתכת בק
    2. דביקי זרקא ג

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  23. 19119Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/133

    Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they …

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  24. 19120Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/2

    Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary, so difficult to figure out the details. Sets out provisions for the care of a minor boy until he comes …

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  25. 19121Legal query or responsumCUL Or.1080 15.62

    Recto: Legal query in Arabic script, in an unprofessional hand. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ. . . al-aʾimma", a jurisconsult, asking whether a beardless Jewish eye …

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    1. ما يقول السادة الفقها ائمة الدين وهداة المسلمين 

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    1. What do the masters, the jurisprudents, the 'imāms of the religion and guides of  the Muslims, say  
    2. regarding a Jewisheye-doctor, without a beard,  
    3. concerning whom Muslim certified witnesses have borne testimony that he is  trusted in the practice of his profession tovisit  
    4. the family of Muslims.

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  26. 19122Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J32

    Court record. Dated: Middle decade of Tammuz 1565 Seleucid = June/July 1254 CE . Conducted under the authority of Rabbenu Moshe the judge. Hilāl or …

    1. זכרון עדות
    2. חצר אלי מושב בית דין בע[יר
    3. ורבינו משה הדין המופלג . [
    4. הלאל ואקנא מנה ואשהד עלי נפסה
    5. אנה אבאע צהרה אלשיך אבו [
    6. צהרה נצף אלדאר אלדי לה מ. ב…

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  27. 19123State documentENA 1179.29

    Report or petition to a Fatimid caliph or vizier, opening blessings only. Dating: ca. 1100–71. Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal …

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  28. 19124LetterENA 2727.19

    Letter, fragmentary, from Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn ha-Tāhartī, al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. ʿAwkal, Fustat. Fragmentary, but what can be discerned contains some information about …

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    1. [כתאבי אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך ערובה ראש שנה געלה אללה עליך

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  29. 19125LetterENA 3910.6

    Letter from Abū l-Bishr to Abū l-Bahāʾ. Also addresses Abū l-Riḍā on verso. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely ca. 13th or 14th century, based on …

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  30. 19126Legal documentENA NS 4.6

    Fragmentary court record(s). The main entry involves an Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon and Netanʾel and family relationships (someone refers to "my sister"). The text at 90 …

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  31. 19127LetterENA NS 7.104

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions two legal queries for Rabbenu Elʿazar, one concerning [...] and the other concerning the children of Tamīm. The rayyis delivered …

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  32. 19128LetterENA NS 17.7

    Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen [b.] Shelomo ha-Shofeṭ and his son Yeshuʿa on behalf of the two congregations of Alexandria, addressed most likely to the community …

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  33. 19129LetterENA NS 31.12

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi to Ḥayyim. In Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman-era. Concerning business. The writer conveys a tale of underhanded dealings and bribes involving a çavuş, …

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  34. 19130LetterENA NS 35.17

    Recto (secondary use): Letter or letter draft in the hand of Efrayim ben Shemarya (d. ca. 1055). In Hebrew (possibly with Judaeo-Arabic toward the bottom). …

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  35. 19131Legal documentENA NS 67.21

    Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency muayyadi. This appears to be a rental contract for a portion …

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  36. 19132Legal documentENA NS 77.219

    Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to sums of money; pounds of silk; …

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  37. 19133Legal documentENA NS 77.341

    Small fragment of a legal document, probably a ketubba. On parchment. Crumpled and in need of flattening and conservation. Involves [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen; someone …

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  38. 19134List or tableENA NS 77.373

    Accounts related to the operation of a "press" (אלמעצרה) of some kind, possibly for sesame seeds given the mention of ṭaḥīna in line 5. Dated …

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  39. 19135LetterJRL A 546 + BL OR 10599.30

    Recto: Beginning of a letter of appeal for charity by an individual named Makīn who addresses his plea to an elder. Mentions the topoi of …

    1. אלממלוך מכין
    2. יכדם כבוד גדולת | מרינו ורבינו [
    3. אלהי ישראל יבר|כו וישמרו ויחי[
    4. שני חמודיו ויאר|יך ימיו בטוב וש[נותיו
    5. בנעימים אלדי | צדקתה עלי כל עו[בר…

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  40. 19136List or tableJRL B 3503

    Late donation list, or private accounts. Mentioning a variety of individuals, such as: Eliyahu Ṣahal, Aharon Ḥedef, Khalīfa Arūkh, Shelomo Sonina, Ḥayyīm Ḥazaq, Raḥamīm Ḥāmī, …

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  41. 19137LetterMIAC 95

    Personal letter from a Jew residing in Jerusalem to Mr. David ʿAntabi in Cairo referencing his daughter's ketubbah – c. 1900 – Museum of Islamic …

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  42. 19138Legal documentMIAC 202

    Receipt from the association of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – December 3 1950CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 202) – in French …

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  43. 19139LetterMoss. II,123.1.1

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of …

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  44. 19140LetterMoss. II,155.2

    Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (from the upper left corner). Verso: an order from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. He asks Abū l-Ḥasan to send 2 ounces …

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  45. 19141Legal documentMoss. VII,77

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving Abū l-Baqā' and the late Abū l-Riḍā, who had business dealings …

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  46. 19142LetterMoss. VII,134

    Fragment of a letter from an unknown person from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1060. Regarding pearls, silk, and cardamom. The writer …

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    1. [ ] ובלגנא יאסידי [ ]

    2. [ ] ארגו מן אללה אן יגעל [ לנ]א ולכל ישראל [    ]

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    1. (1–8) .... ונודע לנו אדוני.... אקווה מאלוהים שיעשה .... לנו ולכל ישראל ....

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  47. 19143Legal documentT-S 6J12.12

    Legal document from Fusṭāṭ in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyya, written under the authority of Avraham Maimonides and dated Tammuz 1531 Sel. (= 1220 …

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  48. 19144Legal documentT-S 8.217

    Small fragment from a legal document. Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl owes money to his nephew Moshe and gets another 4 weeks for installments on …

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  49. 19145Legal documentT-S 8J6.9

    Court record. Dated: 1 Av 1542 (1231 CE). Legal document concerning a loan of 215 dirhams between Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Abu Sa'd Sa'adya …

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    1. למא כאן פי יום אלגמעה אלתאלת מן אב יהפך לששון דשנת אתקמב לשטר[ות]  
    2. חצרנא נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא פא אכר הדא אלמסטור במא אש[הדנא] 
    3. פיה אלשי…

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  50. 19146Legal documentT-S 8J11.7

    Deposition in court by a woman that had sold her book to her former husband for thirty dinars and that her two sons had no …

    1. וסאלת חסן ואלדה אבו נצר אלמדכור ען אלמצאחף אלמדכורה
    2. הל להם או לואלתדהם פקאלת ליס לי פיהם שי ואקני מנהא
    3. [[עלי דלך]] עלי סביל אלאחתראז אנה אן כאנו להא…

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  51. 19147LetterT-S 8J22.11

    Informal note from an unknown writer to R. Ḥiyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer requests the excellent jug of wine (al-nabīdh al-mamzūj) that Ḥiyya had promised …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כאנת חצרה מולאי רבנא חייא תפארת היראים קד

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  52. 19148LetterT-S 8J23.22

    Letter mentioning Reuben the apostate. In a late hand. Alternate description: Letter, mentioning Reuben ‘the proselyte’ and greetings to many family members, including the writer’s …

    1. סלם אללה תעלה ורחמתהו וברכתהו וזכת
    2. חיתהו מן מחבך בעד ש מסלם עליך וסעא
    3. וסעא איחנא מא ענדנא שר גיר וחשכם
    4. ואנדר פי וגהכום וסעא אללה יעלם כיף
    5. גא ראובן א…

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  53. 19149LetterT-S 8J28.3

    Note on vellum sent on the evening following the day of Atonement, asking to return liturgical material for the feast of Tabernacles, which the writer …

    1. יתפצל מולאי אחסן אללה
    2. מסאה ויתקבל מנה הדא
    3. אלציאם ינפד לי אלכראם
    4. אלדי ללסוכות פקד תרד
    5. עלי מולאי אלחבר ואנא
    6. אעידה א.ה אן שא אללה
    7. יעניני אליהא אן פ. . …

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  54. 19150LetterT-S 8Ja1.2

    Letter of appeal for charity from Abū l-Majd to the physician (ḥakīm) Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer needs help paying 20 silver dirhams (nuqra) …

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