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  1. 19451List or tableT-S K25.184

    Recto: from an Arabic medical textbook, including the opening of the chapter on phlebotomy of the basilic vein. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic list of members of various …

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  2. 19452Legal documentT-S K25.240.56

    Recto: Legal fragment in Arabic script. Involves a trader (al-tājir), a miller (al-ṭaḥḥān) named Nuṣayr b. Abī l-Maʿālī b. Ḥasan, Avraham Maimonides (Abū l-[Munā] Ibrāhīm …

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  3. 19453State documentT-S NS 110.157

    Small fragment of a state document. Very large writing, wide line spacing. Refers to someone who "severed the ambitions of the en[emies?]" ...سرم فطم مطامع …

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  4. 19454State documentT-S NS 184.65

    Verso: Fragment of a state document that was reused for a legal document that was written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There …

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  5. 19455Legal documentT-S NS 225.27

    Verso: Fragment of a legal deed, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (fl. 1128–1164 CE). Probably an agreement between a husband and wife …

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  6. 19456LetterT-S NS 225.105

    Letter fragment (upper left corner). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Refers to a period of …

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  7. 19457State documentT-S NS 238.55

    Fiscal document in Arabic script. May mention a year at the top ([..]9), and elsewhere mentions various other numbers. In the main text block refers …

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  8. 19458Legal documentT-S NS 305.207

    Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a will (refers to the testator, hādhā l-mūṣī). The details concern real estate; mentions Qaṣr al-Rūm; …

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  9. 19459LetterT-S NS 306.5

    Recto (secondary use): Letter from Yosef b. Nadiv ha-Ḥazzan(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh Asad on Sunday, sums of 10 and 3 dirhams, …

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  10. 19460List or tableT-S NS 320.33

    Notes on communal expenditures, with a summation of first five lines: 82.5 dirhams, besides the capitation tax. Also some names of notables: al-Samawʾal, al-Nafīs, probably …

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  11. 19461Legal documentT-S NS 324.100 + T-S 16.104

    Part of the heading for a highly decorated ketubba (in Hebrew, although the ketubba text would likely have been in Aramaic). All of the main …

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  12. 19462LetterT-S NS J312 + T-S 6J6.16

    Letter addressed to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Containing elaborate expressions …

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  13. 19463LetterT-S NS J329

    Letter addressed to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions a caravan; meeting with Ibn al-Ghardīs (there was a judge by this …

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    1. . . . 
    2. ]טרו אלקאפלה ונעד [
    3. ]לקינא בן אלגרדיס ובן ואסילן(?)

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  14. 19464List or tableT-S NS J548

    List of names in Judaeo-Arabic. They are numbered, from 1 to approximately 28. Several of them are family members of the scribe (e.g., Mūsā the …

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  15. 19465LetterYevr. II A 1293

    Non-Geniza. Letter from Crimea to Jerusalem. Dating: Catalogued as 1783-1796 CE. Names קלעא = Chufut-Kale, כפא = Kefe = Feodosia, and גזולויא = Gözleve = …

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  16. 19466LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1404

    Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to ʿUzziel Fayrūz, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. The writer's son Avraham Levi b. Shemuel added his own signature …

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  17. 19467List or tableT-S NS 320.3

    Draft of an account for shipping flax, by Nahray b. Nissim and his partners. Around 1059. The account contains details about the purchase expenses, for …

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    1. בשמ רחמ

    2. אשתרית עלי ברכה אללה תעא[לי]

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    1. (1–2) בשמר"ח ; קניתי, תבוא על זה ברכה מאלוהים יתעלה. 
    2. (3–4) דברים שחציים בשביל ר' ישועה וחציים ליוסף ולנהוראי, מן הקאלוס: ו' 'שכארות' פשתים 
    3. (5–6) 'בוצירי', משקלם הנקי י''ו קנטאר ושליש, לית'י; המחיר ד' דינרים פחות שישית, התמורה 
    4. (7–8) ס"ב דינר וחצי.

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  18. 19468Literary textENA 2555.1 + T-S 10K3 + T-S NS 175.57 + ENA 2556.1

    Manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to calculate the calendar year …

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  19. 19469LetterENA 1490.7

    Letters dealing with communal matters surrounding the dispute between Shelomo b. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, glued together and reused for the epistle of Sherira …

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  20. 19470LetterENA NS I.73

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly concerning the execution of a will. Mentions "the people of Egypt and the people of [...], among them [...]," followed by …

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  21. 19471State documentMoss. IXa,2.37

    State document, in Arabic script. The perfumers/druggists (ʿaṭṭārīn) petition the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Ṣālīḥ (Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb) about the injustice of the notables (ʿurafa) who …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. المماليك يقبلو الارض بالمقام العالي المولوي الملكي الصالـ[ـحـ]ـي خلد الله
    3. ايامه واجعله منصور ابدا     وينهو ان المماليك العطا…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. 

    2. The slaves kiss the ground in the lofty, lordly presence of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, may God perpetuate

    3. his rule and make him victorious forever, and inform (him) that the slaves, the chemists of Fusṭāṭ,

    4. have been impoverished by the injustice of the notables in the construction of the garden of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, may God glorify him. 

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  22. 19472Legal documentT-S 8.108 + T-S 12.843 + Moss. VII,69.1

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Two fragments from the bottom. In which Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Saʿadya b. Shelomo ha-Kohen acknowledges to have …

    1. ] בראה כאמלה [
    2. ] בראה קבץ ואסתיפא בראה [
    3. תא]ויל יעלהא בראה מני פי חיותי ומן
    4. ] אלציניה אלפצה באוכד מעאני אל
    5. ]הא מנה וברית דמתה מנהא וכתבת
    6. ] עלי וראתי…

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  23. 19473Legal documentT-S 16.246

    Recto: Marriage contract, fragment. Groom: Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot. Bride: Milāḥ bt. Abū l-Faraj (from verso). Dating: Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel …

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  24. 19474Paraliterary textT-S AS 159.167

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon. Mentions: "my master Aaron... his lineage... the other tribes of the sons of (Israel)... in the Torah... (Moses …

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  25. 19475Legal documentT-S NS 292.81 + T-S NS 290.73 + T-S NS 290.75

    Legal document in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Location: Cairo. Dating: No later than 1195 CE, as it was written under the authority …

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  26. 19476Legal documentBL OR 5542.5

    Will of Yaʿaqov b. Dunash b. Yehuda Resh Sidra, dealing mainly with expenses for his burial in Jerusalem. He appoints his brother-in-law Natan b. Shelomo …

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  27. 19477Legal documentBL OR 8696.4

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Location: Fustat. Refers to the ending of a man's period of …

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  28. 19478State documentBodl. MS Arab. c 56.23

    Petition from ʿUmar b. ʿAbdallāh al-Miṣrī, in Asyūṭ (l. 7), to a notable with a long string of titles (ll. 4–6). He reports on his …

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  29. 19479Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 2/10

    Fragment of a marriage contract of the groom Elʿazar and the bride Sitt al-Dar, in which the bride undertakes to bring up the groom's children. …

    1. . . . . . . . . . .]ע[. . . .]דינרין מנדיל אזרק תלתא דינרין מכתומה [ות]וב שיתא דינרין קט. . . .דינר פוטה תרין דינרין נצף רד[א
    2. גו]כאניה זרקא ותוב ומע…

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  30. 19480Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/9

    Court notebook. Two entries, each dated 7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid = 9 October 1331 CE. Recto: Record of a divorce. (Sitt al-)ʿArab bt. ʿAbdallāh received …

    1. בתאריך סאבע מרחשון
    2. שנת אתרמג לשטרות
    3. קדש מוסי מופקה ואתפקא
    4. עלי מוקדם כמס דנאניר
    5. ומאוחר עשר דנאניר
    6. וסנהא בידה פי אי מוצע
    7. אראד
    1. בתאריך סאבע מרחשון שנת…

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  31. 19481LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/22

    Letter written by Nissim b. Ḥalfon on behalf of Mardūkh b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī (Gil) and sent from Alexandria to Abu Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī …

  32. ואלסלאם עליך
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    1. ותקרא
    2. עלא
    אל תפסיק לכתוב לי מכתבים, כי אני מודאג. דרישות שלום לך…

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    ומסור ממני דרישות שלום לאדוני ורבי אבו סעיד; ולאדוני אבו יחיא ולאדוני אבו אברהם עיאש דרישות שלום, ולכל אנשינו דרישות שלום.

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  34. 19482List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 13/6–8

    List of 36 names, all beginning with al-Shaykh Abū […]. Written on three vertical strips of paper. Goitein estimates the date to be from the …

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  35. 19483LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/39

    Letter from a son to his father; same writer and addressee as T-S 10J7.3 and T-S 13J21.13 and T-S 13J21.14. He reports that Abū Isḥāq …

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  36. 19484Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 101/13 + Bodl. MS heb. f 102/43

    Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …

    Bodl. MS heb. e 101/13

    1. נקול מן אתבת כטה אכר הדא אלמסטור אנה למא כ[אן פי יום
    2. שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין ותרתי שנין לשטרות [
    3. מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו נגידי…

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  37. 19485LetterCUL Or.1080 6.25 + T-S 13J17.16

    Letter from Yosef b. Kulayb, Ramla, to the gaonic pretender (here titled ra's al-mathība) Natan b. Avraham, probably in Tyre, May 1041. He reports the …

    CUL Or.1080 6.25 - recto

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي اطال الله بقا سيدنا راس المثيبة وادام عزه وتاييده وكبت عداه وحساده وزاد في فضله

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  38. 19486Literary textCUL Or.1080 14.46

    Qaṣīda, ending, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ al-Makkūdī (d. 1405 CE), with a colophon giving the date: 11 Rajab 989 AH = 11 …

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  39. 19487LetterCUL Or.1080 J30

    Letter. Letter concerning a girl who had been regarded as being a Muslim and when she appeared before the Qāḍī, declared she was Jewish, whereupon …

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  40. 19488LetterENA 2713.30

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions "his pure intention with me, in the document/petition" (من نيته الخالصة لي في الرقعة) and then "... the document/petition …

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  41. 19489Legal documentENA 2747.6

    Upper fragment: Copy of a contract of betrothal (erusin) according to the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: Before 1037 CE. Written by Yosef b. …

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  42. 19490LetterENA 3788.1

    Letter from Yeḥiʾel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-̣̣Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to an unknown addressee, in Alexandria. The letter consists of a halakhic discussion, mostly in Aramaic, perhaps …

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  43. 19491LetterENA 3788.7

    Business letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahim b. Bundār to Abū Zikrī Kohen (aka Yehuda b. Yosef Sijilmāsī). In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew, with the address …

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  44. 19492Legal documentENA 3904.2

    Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …

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  45. 19493List or tableENA NS 9.17

    Commercial accounts for Abū Yaḥyā Nahray (b. Nissim). Heading: מערפה מא וצל ל . . . . אבי יחיי נהראי. On verso: حساب نهراي ايده …

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  46. 19494Legal documentENA NS 16.33 + ENA NS 68.21

    Legal document. In Hebrew and some Aramaic. In the hand of Yefet b. David. Attests that Fāʾiza bt. Yaʿaqov b. Shuʿayb appeared in court after …

    1. . . .] אנו העדים החותמים עד|ותינו מטה בכתב הזה איך פאיזה בת יעקב
    2. אמרה לפנינו] דעו רבותי כי מאחר פט|ירת אבי יעקב בן שועיב נוחם עדן קנה
    3. . . .] משה חצי…

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  47. 19495Legal documentENA NS 49.19

    Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Heshvan 5294 AM = 20 October 1533 CE. Yaʿaqov b. Moshe בכוש and his brother Efrayim …

    1. בפנינו אנו עדים חתומי מטה מכרו יעקב בכ׳׳ר משה ידיע בכוס
    2. אפרים אחיו ספר תורה למ׳ מסעד בכ׳׳ר דוד ידיע דוארה 
    3. [ש]לש מאות וחמשה ועשרים מאידי גדולים והוד…

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  48. 19496LetterHUC 24

    Fragment from the end of a family letter (at least in part) in Judaeo-Arabic. Neḥemya greets the paternal uncle Elʿazar and Efrayim. Also mentions various …

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  49. 19497Legal documentJRL A 220

    Deed of sale of an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-Kull and notably …

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  50. 19498List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 656

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto mentions the name Bū l-Mufaḍḍal b. [...] and commodities such as rhubarb, turpeth, beleric myrobalan (balīlaj), …

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  51. 19499LetterMIAC 97

    Announcement from the council of teachers of the Jews of Cairo to parents on the matters of the beginning of the school year in 1954/55 …

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  52. 19500LetterMIAC 123

    Statement to the youth of the Jewish community in Cairo explaining the vices of its members, their selfishness, and that the interests of the community …

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