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  1. 19201List or tableENA 3580.6

    Document in Arabic script, perhaps accounts of some kind. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic love poetry (يا سادتي... انا مغرم بهواكم \ جودوا ... ارحموا وتعطفوا بي...), …

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  2. 19202State documentENA 3635.7

    State document, four fragmented lines in a chancery hand, later reused for Hebrew text. Starts with a basmala followed by a Quranic verse 'Naṣrun min …

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  3. 19203Legal documentENA NS 18.8

    Legal deed. Location: Damietta. Dated: 4840 AM = 1079/80 CE. Peraḥya b. Yona ha-Kohen and Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi appoint Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli as their …

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  4. 19204Legal documentENA NS 35.17

    Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from near the bottom. Dated: 41[.] AH, corresponding to the range 1019–29 CE. Mentions a …

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  5. 19205LetterENA NS 42.30

    Business letter, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The writer crossed out the first three lines (following the Arabic-script basmala) and began …

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  6. 19206Legal documentENA NS 77.275

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Declaration by a woman connected to Evyatar ha-Kohen the Palestinian Gaon (likely his …

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  7. 19207LetterENA NS 85.1212

    Letter fragment in Ladino. Seems to be discussing somebody's (Eliyya's?) illness for the last 6 months: סון 6 מיזיס קי נו איי ריפואה קון אילייא …

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  8. 19208Legal documentHalper 354

    Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030 CE. It was given to Efrayim …

    1. זכרון ע' ש' ב' אי העדים ה[חתומים למטה בסוף שטר זה
    2. איך אתא קדמנא מ[ר פלוני בן פלוני
    3. מן מדינת צובה וכן [אמר לנו פלוני
    4. והלל בני נחמן הרופה [עשאוני שליח…

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  9. 19209LetterHUC 12

    Letter from חזהו(?) b. Avṭalyon, in Amadiya, to Yona, in Mosul. Mainly in Hebrew with some words in another language (neo-Aramaic?). There are also a …

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  10. 19210Legal documentJRL A 1050

    There are several different entries, and each seems to involve rent payments for the qodesh of the Synagogue of the Mustaʿribim. Quite faded, merits further …

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  11. 19211LetterJRL B 6427

    Small fragment of a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Dating: 12th century. Mentions [...] …

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  12. 19212LetterJRL B 7173

    Letter fragment to Avraham ha-Kohen (חמדת הכהנים . . . המשובח בכל ענינים אשר לבש ענוה. . . .) or his son. This may be …

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  13. 19213LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 31

    Letter in Arabic script. Written in a shaky hand. Describing a legal case, involving a Jew and 10 dinars. On verso there are greetings and …

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  14. 19214LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 395

    Letter or order addressed to [...] Quṭb al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: Might be late, perhaps 14th century or later. The sender asks for a …

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  15. 19215LetterMIAC 146

    Letter from the association of charity and brotherhood to Kẖawaja Murād Shem Tov on his weakening participation in the association – undated – Museum of …

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  16. 19216LetterMIAC 246

    Invitation from the Jewish community of Maḥallah al-Kubra for a visit to the synagogue of "Ḥayyim al-Amshaṭī" – 5 April 1950 – Museum of Islamic …

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  17. 19217LetterMIAC 292

    Request from the World Zionist Organization to the Zionist Histadrut of Egypt for the revitalization of Herzl's thought – 1921CE – Museum of Islamic Art …

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  18. 19218LetterMoss. II,170

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Probably recommending a poor man for charity ("[give him] something to nourish himself with"). Mentions 'my master …

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  19. 19219State documentNLI 4°8333.27

    Decree fragment, probably Ghaznavid, containing the order clause and the beginning of the date clause; date cut off. From an 11th-century archive or Geniza of …

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  20. 19220LetterNLI 577.4/102

    Palimpsest. Undertext: Unidentified text in Greek. Identification may be possible even without multispectral imaging. Some phrases may include: εν τω ιερω (in the Temple) and …

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  21. 19221LetterT-S 6J6.9

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender complains that no one except the addressee helps them. The addressee should help ʿAmmār Ibn Shamshūrī …

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  22. 19222Legal documentT-S 8.285

    Recto: Extract from Ruth 1. Verso: Fragment of a deed signed by Moshe ben Maymun, Damascus, late tenth century. The document includes a description of …

    1. [...]דב[...]
    2. [...]גלי וכסי [......]. .ע. .[...]
    3. [...]קושט דאית להון ומניית הדה [כלתה ...]
    4. [...]מימון השולחני ורצת ביה וקנינא [...]
    5. [...]ננ
    6. [...] משה…

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  23. 19223Legal documentT-S 8J4.14

    Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them …

    1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא שבעה יומי בירח כסלי[ו
    2. אתי חצר אלינא מ עלי הכהן הפרנס ומ ש.[
    3. המומחה ביר יפת החבר ושהדא ענדנא באן אוצל
    4. אברהם בר מנשה הלוי לג בנאת מב…

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  24. 19224LetterT-S 8J14.1

    Letter/petition. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century, during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The sender asks the addressee to assist him …

    1. ] פודה אליסורים בעונות[ינו ה]רבים ואלדין
    2. ]ד אלשי פי מתל הדא אלמועד ואסעה
    3. חצר אלממ בין ידין סידנא יסתמטר
    4. אנפאדה באן יעטדה ענד בעץ אלגמאעה
    5. בתדביר ס…

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  25. 19225LetterT-S 8J16.24

    Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥāq ʿAmmānī (i.e. from the Ibn al-ʿAmmānī family), who calls himself "the small" (קטן) to Elʿazar ha-Levi ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th …

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    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. עמי עשו
    3. אלממלוך יצחק
    4. קטן עמאני

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  26. 19226LetterT-S 8J21.30

    Letter from Yosef "the poor foreigner" (al-miskīn al-gharīb) to the Nagid David Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender sold his garment which he had bought for …

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  27. 19227LetterT-S 8J23.1

    Letter, consisting mainly of greetings, from Yehuda Levi to his family, including his brother-in-law Sulaymān, his brother Raḥamīm, his cousin Sawād, and the addressee’s sister, …

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  28. 19228LetterT-S 8J38.3

    Letter from Avraham b. Hillel to Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Talmid. Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. Beginning with a biblical quotation (Shemuel I 25:6). …

    פאלחצרה . . . . | והי אל. . ב . [ | א. . .רה | אכתהא ל. . . . . אל[ |

    Top margin, diagonal lines written in same direction.

    מנצור בן אל . . . | רב כבוד במניה | עשפ. . אלכדי | . . . . . . | . . . . . |

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  29. 19229LetterT-S 10J16.13

    Recto (secondary use): Letter from an unknown writer to the brothers Mevorakh b. Saadya (in office 1078-1082 and 1094-1111) and Yehuda b. Saadya (in office …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. יערץ הדה אלאחרף בחצרה סידנא הנגיד הגדול [נ]ט[רוהי מן
    3. שמיא וגברוהי למזליה ואוריכי ואור . . . נהי ליומי [ו]לשניה
    4. ובחצרה רבנו החבר המע/ו/לה אלו…

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  30. 19230LetterT-S 12.15

    Letter from an unknown merchant from Fustat to his partner Yahya in the Maghreb. Around 1050. The writer complains about his partner and his work …

  31. ולא אדר[י]

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    1. כתבת ל[ ]

    2. בשי וכנת עלמת

    ואני כולי אש להבה בגלל הסבון, ואינני יודע ....

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    .... (לא) כתבת לי כלום, ומה שכתבת היה ידוע לי. קנה לי ק"ק נאדות.... לחשבוני הפרטי

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    1. ותהיה תמורתם ק' בעד ס', במשאוי.

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  33. 19231Paraliterary textT-S 12.105

    Alchemical recipes describing methods of preparation of metals (copper, sulphur), how to burn them, wash them, dry them and grind them. Mentions a crucible, a …

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  34. 19232Legal documentT-S 12.198

    Document of authorization from Sitana bt. Avraham to Yosef b. Sad'el. With the signatures of Efrayim b. Zadok and Sar-Shalom b. Yitzhak. In the handwriting …

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    1. מיכייל המסומנית ב...
    2. גבולתיהן בשטר כתובתי עם הנדוני[א]
    3. אני סתאנה בת אברהם את יוסף בן סעדא[ל]
    4. מכירתם שתיהן וקחת דמי…

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  35. 19233LetterT-S 12.258

    Letter addressed to Sar Shalom, written by a man whose wife and son had been in captivity by Edom (Christians) and who had lost all …

    1. שפא [ . . . . . ] . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ראש לו . לי לתפא[רת . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. ורבנא …

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  36. 19234LetterT-S 12.311

    Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the judge Natan b. Shelomo of Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1140 CE. Very damaged/faded. Mentions …

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  37. 19235Legal documentT-S 12.529

    Legal document involving Abū l-Ḥasan and Refaʾel and Abū l-Muʿāfā (who may be the same as Refa'el), possibly a dissolution of a partnership. The pressing …

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  38. 19236LetterT-S 13J14.22

    Letter in Hebrew to all congregations, mentioning David, “Head of All Diasporas of Israel.” Directions on verso in Arabic script, mostly lost. (Information from Goitein's …

    1. בשמ רח מן כדמה אלחזן [יו]סף [ . . . . . . . . . ] מולה
    2. ולו אני לי אך כאן יכון אליה
    3. אל אחינו יקרינו ברורינו בעלי בתינו שומרי משמרתינו קהלות
    4. הקודש גאו…

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  39. 19237LetterT-S 13J21.33

    Letter addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the currency ashrafī. Mentions goods like saffron and …

    1. שילת לקי ת.אמיי
    2. אלדי יעלם אלאך אלעזיז אלמופק אלסעד אלח יוסף יל
    3. אבקאה אללה תעאלי פי כיר ועאפיה ונעמה אן שאפיה
    4. אנס אללה תע אן יגמענא נחן ואיאך פי מסתק…

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  40. 19238LetterT-S 13J27.1

    Letter from the Nagid David I Maimonides (d. 1300) to the community of Ashmūm. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning someone named Yosef who was in …

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    1. הנה אל ישועתי וכול
    2. אל הקהל הקדוש הנכבד קהל אשמום
    3. ישמרם צורם ויאדרם יוצרם ויהיה

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  41. 19239LetterT-S 16.64

    Letter from Yosef and Nissim, the sons of Berekhya, in Qayrawan, to the merchant, Yosef b. 'Awkal, in Fustat (was written after Avraham b. 'Ata' …

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    1. אטאל אללה יאכינא וכבירנא וגלילנא בקאך ואדאם צ[יאנתך
    2. וכאן לך ולייא כתבנא לי' כלון מן טבת ען חאל סלאמה אדא[מהא אללה לך

    ע׳׳א:

    1. ייתן לך אלוהים, אחינו וגדולנו ונכבדנו, אריכות ימים ויתמיד את הגנתו עליך ….
    2. וישגיח עליך. אנחנו כותבים בי׳ בטבת. שלומנו טוב, יתמיד אלוהים לך את…

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  42. 19240LetterT-S 16.186

    In the form of a legal document (see lines 3-4), a fragment of a petition to a Nagid from a small town, signed by twenty-six …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . נא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]פה טאע[ . . . . . . ] דא [ . . . . . . . .

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  43. 19241Legal documentT-S 16.221

    Opening lines of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 1 Shevaṭ 4746 AM = 1297 Seleucid = 14 January 986. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Shelomo b. …

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  44. 19242State documentT-S 16.304

    State document, in Arabic script. Heavily blurred. The left halves of 7 lines are preserved (which seem to comprise the entire document). Opens with formulaic …

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  45. 19243LetterT-S 20.166

    Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter in poor handwriting, including alephs that are often separated by internal spaces and gimels that extend well below the baseline. …

    1. דינאר ורבע  ו . . . . . תלת מאיה דינאר
    2. וקד כאן אלשיך אבו אלברכאת אכרג
    3. אלמסאח(?) ואלעדול ומסחו(?) יתראצו הדה
    4. אלאמלאך פלמא וגד אלאמר ינתקל
    5. אלי אלשיך א…

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  46. 19244LetterT-S Ar.18(1).34

    Letter draft from Hillel b. ʿEli, in Tyre to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1094 CE and, broadly, 1094–1108 CE based …

    א

    1. כת אטאל אללה בקא חצרה סידנא אלריס [א]ל[גלי]ל //שר השרים// אלוף הבינות 
    2. חכם בינו סנהדרא רבה נגיד עם יי צבאות [ ] בבקאיהא
    3. סנד אלאמה ורפע בעזהא בנד א…

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  47. 19245LetterT-S Ar.18(1).49

    Letter from Ezra b. Hillel, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. December 28, 1063. The writer informs Nahray about businesses he has in …

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    1. וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמאה

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    1. הגיע מכתבך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך ואת שלומך ואת חסדיו לך,
    2. ממש היום, שהוא יום א' ו' בשבט; וקראתיו ושמחתי להיוודע את דבר שלומך,
    3. יתמידו לך אלוהים.

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  48. 19246List or tableT-S Ar.18(1).127

    Accounts, dated October 1230 CE, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, referring to a cellar (maṭmūra) in his father’s house with 117 jugs of …

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  49. 19247List or tableT-S Ar.30.2

    Private account by Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Dating: ca. 1080. Concerning shipping goods from the Maghreb to Alexandria. Mentions different expenses in the ports and …

  50. סעד ב ו> וקיטרין סוא

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    1. וצח פי אלסנבל ג אמנא [        ]

  52. recto, right side

    1. (3-1) הסתכם בעד הארגמן; המשקל ה' קנטארים; בניכוי שני רטלים וחצי...

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  53. 19248LetterT-S Ar.30.76

    Fragment (middle part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. The writer describes his woe and distress, and how he and his wife and children are perishing, but …

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  54. 19249Legal documentT-S Ar.39.30

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, first five …

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  55. 19250LetterT-S Ar.39.56

    Letter/note from Ismāʿīl(?) al-ʿAṭṭār to Maḥfūẓ. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. After the tarjama and basmala, it opens abruptly, "Yā shaykh …

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