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  1. 19601Legal documentENA NS 20.4

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving Abū Saʿīd Makhlūf ('al-Neʾeman'), [...] b. Moshe ha-Zaqen, and ʿAmram b. [...]. …

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  2. 19602LetterT-S NS 321.21a

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Fully preserved but the content is obscure. The sender is upset about some misunderstanding involving a collection (jibāya). …

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  3. 19603LetterCUL Or.1081 J11

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The name Yosef b. Seʿadya appears on the other side (technically recto); perhaps this is the name of the sender. The sender …

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  4. 19604List or tableT-S NS 305.30

    List of spices in Arabic script. There is also another kind of accounting in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, in a different hand. Needs further …

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  5. 19605List or tableT-S NS 31.15

    Commercial accounts, including a number of items made of silk. Sefardi hand of the 15th c. or later. (Information from CUDL.)

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  6. 19606LetterT-S AS 150.199

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā and silk. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  7. 19607LetterENA 1679.22

    Note signed by Yaʿaqov Ṣarfati stating that Shimʿon will give 8.5 of something to the holy congregation of בטאת(?). Dated: Wednesday, 3 Rabīʿ II, דעצה(?). …

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  8. 19608Legal documentAIU VII.D.16

    Betrothal document dated 11 October 1841 (26 Tishrei 5602) for Yosef the son of the late Moshe ha-Levi, represented by Avraham Jawhar "of the villages" …

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  9. 19609List or tableBL OR 13888.3

    List of people who have donated to the synagogue (? the second line of the header is a little unclear). Dating: ca. 1505 CE based …

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  10. 19610Literary textENA 3734.12 + ENA 2643.12 + ENA 2643.11 + ENA 3734.13

    Four consecutive folios from the introduction to an anonymous philosophical-polemical treatise defending Jewish prayer and law against the criticism of Muslims. Contains the only known …

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    1. אלמבני קדסה ומ/נ\צבה פי וצט אלצאלחין. אל/נ\אצר
    2.  אוליאה עלי אעדאיה ודואם מלך מלוכהם אל
    3.  סאמע מן קד אכלץ נ/י\יתה וקאבל צלואת אוליאה

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    1. [God], whose holy Temple and place will be rebuilt amidst the righteous; who grants
    2. his adherents victory over his enemies and sus…

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  11. 19611Legal documentENA NS 39.13

    Mysterious document. In Hebrew. Late, probably 17th century, after the death of ʿAzarya Ze'evi. The document itself is extremely faded and nearly imposible to read …

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  12. 19612Paraliterary textT-S AS 153.251

    Magical text, mentioning ‘the people of Babel’ (ahl Bābil) and the Neguš. Magical drawing on verso. Looks like the same hand as T-S AS 145.71 …

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  13. 19613Legal query or responsumT-S NS 320.44

    Document in the form of a legal query addressed to ha-Dayyan ha-Mufla. Asking about the meter (min ayy al-aʿārīḍ/al-buḥūr) and any metrical deviations (ziḥāf) of …

    1. בר
    2. מא תקול הדרת יקרת [צפירת מר ור . . . . . . .
    3. הדין המופלא החכם ה[מעולה . . . . ירום הודו
    4. ויגדל כבודו פי אלקצידה [לשלמה בן גבירול
    5. זל אלדי אולהא    …

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  14. 19614List or tableT-S AS 209.245

    List of names and Hebrew alphanumerical values, extensive and well-preserved. Dating: 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. The list may be communal given that …

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  15. 19615Literary textJTS MS 8254.17c + JTS MS 8254.17b

    Kifāyat al-ʿĀbidīn by Avraham Maimonides. Information from FGP.

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  16. 19616List or tableT-S J1.40

    Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Much neater than his usual. Commodities include pepper and ginger. Many details of bales, shipping, fees, …

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  17. 19617List or tableT-S NS J609

    Verso: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Mevorakh.

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  18. 19618LetterT-S Misc.28.254

    Letter from the ḥaver Yehoshuaʿ b. ʿEli al-Lādhiqī(?), in Jerusalem, to Abū l-ʿIzz(?) b. ʿEli Abū Manṣūr, in New Cairo. The letter consists of a …

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  19. 19619Unknown typeENA NS 85.1312.6

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  20. 19620LetterT-S Ar.30.228

    Letter from a man to his son. In Judaeo-Arabic. In rudimentary handwriting and orthography. He reports that the 10 dirhams have arrived and that he …

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  21. 19621LetterT-S 13J33.8

    Letter from Menashshe the Alexandrian teacher to (Saʿd al-Mulk) Elʿazar b. Yehuda ha-Kohen. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in a very flowery style. Dating: Late 12th …

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  22. 19622LetterT-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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  23. 19623Literary textMoss. I,82.1

    Tale in the style of A Thousand and One Nights, told partly in the first person, mentioning a period of seven years, robbers who took …

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  24. 19624Legal documentMoss. V,375

    Fragment from a ketubba written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The bride’s name is Diyār. There is another minute fragment bound together …

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  25. 19625State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 305

    Petition, possibly, or a report. In Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. The document concerns the execution of an official decree (manshūr …

    1. على ايديهما منشور كريم يومر فيه المملوك احضار..[
    2. ـ]ـريس الموان(؟) عني سلطانهم(تسلطهم؟) من جهة(؟) الذين هاربوا
    3. ]اني الوالي والضامن كانا خرجوا ل…

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  26. 19626LetterT-S AS 148.207

    Possibly a letter in a flowery language or a blessing, mentioning the majesty of king Solomon: היבה סולימאן אבן דאוד עלי . . . אלמא …

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  27. 19627State documentT-S AS 102.76 + T-S AS 102.77

    Report or letter between officials. In Arabic script, written in a chancery hand. Four lines remain. Surrounding the text and on verso there is a …

    1. ا]طال الله بقاك حرجة (حرد؟) الطنساوي بذكر ما عاملته به من اخراج ار[
    2. ]عنه والزامه من البقاع ما لاينتفع به ويتظلم من ذلك ويستغيث
    1. وما يعود عليه بعضه …

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  28. 19628State documentT-S Misc.34.5

    Petition in Arabic. T-S Misc.34.5 (4r) includes the opening formula: "المملوك يقبل الارض". There are 12 folios under the shelfmark T-S Misc.34.5– three of which …

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  29. 19629List or tableT-S AS 212.50

    Much damaged fragment from a list of names and items.

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  30. 19630Legal documentT-S 10J28.15

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the left side). In which a wife releases her husband from …

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    1. [ ] ..
    2. [ ]עשרין מן חדש
    3. [ ]שהדתנא עלי
    4. [ ]א ואברת זוגהא
    5. [ ]ן קזאזי וככא[ ]
    6. [ ] אלתזמתה פי גמיע
    7. [ ] לעילא ואקנינא מנהא
    8. [ ] מודעין ותנאין וענד
    9. [ ]…

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  31. 19631LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 394

    Letter of appeal from Yefet addressed to al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. In Arabic script, with the sender's name in Hebrew script. He begs for a small sum …

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  32. 19632LetterT-S K25.111

    Informal note from Seʿadya to an unidentified addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send a 'khidma' informing him whether it is the 3rd or the …

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    1. צעיר עבדיו סעדיה

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    1. ]ארס(?)
    2. יא מולי ועד אלכרים דין ישתהי
    3. אלממלוך מן תפצל אלמולא
    4. באן ירסל לממלוכה אלכדמה
    5. ויערפה אלסנה הל הי…

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  33. 19633LetterT-S NS J566

    Fragment of a letter from Ḥayyim b. 'Ammār al-Madīnī, probably from Palermo, to Barhun b. Ishaq al-Tāhartī, Qayrawan. Around 1045. Information about civil rebellion in …

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    1. ] בקאר ואדאם //נעמאה// וסלמה ואכלאה
    2. ] עזך ועלוך וארתפאעך וסנוך וכאן
    3. ] וינצורך ובלגך מן אלמראתיב אעלאהא ומן
    4. ] גמע יאסידי ביננא אלהי ישרא…

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    אדוני ורכי ונכבדי והטוב שבאנשים אלי .... אבו אסחק אברהים בן אסחק השולחני, שומרו אלוהים; יגיע לקירואן, ברצון האל.

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    1. (5-1) (אני כותב לך, וכ…

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  34. 19634LetterENA 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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  35. 19635Legal documentBL OR 10653.8

    Typewritten transcription of BL OR 10653.9, which is the poetic introduction of a "Yemenite Ketubah" dated Nisan 1368 (=1057 CE?).

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  36. 19636LetterT-S 13J17.12

    Letter to the cantor Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) about the bad behavior of his son Abu al-Ḥasan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. וצלני כתאב חצרה מולאי אלנזר אלאגל אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עזהא
    3. וכבת עדוהא והו ישרח לי מא הו עליה מן אלהם וציק אלצדר וחמל אלהם
    4. ממא טרא עליה מן…

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  37. 19637State documentJRL B 3845

    State document, in Arabic script. Decree, interspersed with Hebrew text on recto and verso. Only two legible words are preserved.

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    1. ]ـا. وخياره ورباب

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  38. 19638LetterMIAC 23973.25

    Letter from Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān, the pilgrim, to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. The purpose of the letter is to update Uruwī on various …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. وصلتني كتب حضرة مولاي الاكشيل وزير الملك ثبت الله
    3. سعادته وحرس من غير الزمان مكانته وكبت حسدته
    4. وعداته ووقفت عليها واحطت …

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. The letters of my honourable lord the Ikshīl, vizier of theking—may God establish
    3. his happ…

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  39. 19639List or tableT-S AS 148.24

    Small bifolio of private accounts with dates, commodities (including garments), names and numerals. Rudimentary hand and spellings. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  40. 19640LetterT-S 10J16.31

    Letter from Avraham to his brother, Mordekhay Kohen. Dated: 17 Sivan [5]646 AM = 20 June 1886 CE. Either to or from Alexandria (סקנדרייה יעא). …

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  41. 19641List or tableT-S Ar.30.169

    Accounts, probably. In Latin script, unidentified language. Needs examination.

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  42. 19642LetterAIU VII.E.107

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  43. 19643State documentT-S NS 322.71

    Original use: Accounts in Arabic script, official-looking. Mentions al-Qāḍī al-Asʿad; Ṣafiyy al-Dawla; Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāliḥ Nūrī(?); Sayf al-Mujāhidīn; Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī; ʿAṭiyya; al-Faqīh. The headers …

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  44. 19644LetterT-S 10J15.21

    Letter from Daniel b. Aharon in Jerusalem to Shemuʾel (Shemuel) b. Aharon, 11th century.

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    1. כתאבי יא ולדי אלעזיז עלי [אטאל אללה בק]אך ואדאם [עזך מן אל]
    2. קדס עמרה אללה מסתהל אלול ערפך אל[לה] ברכתה ומא [יליה מן אל]
    3. שהור ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפ…

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  45. 19645LetterT-S AS 160.406 + T-S AS 160.240

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with one phrase in Arabic script (a formulaic blessing/prayer). Little of the substance of the letter is preserved. The sender expresses longing …

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  46. 19646Unknown typeENA NS 79.156

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  47. 19647Legal documentT-S AS 211.81

    Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Damaged. Mentions Tamīm ha-Kohen and the sale of pepper. (See description for …

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  48. 19648LetterT-S NS 322.134 + T-S NS 322.143 + T-S NS 322.123 + T-S NS 322.124 + T-S NS 322.133

    Letter from Shemarya b. Aharon ha-Kohen the descendant of Eliyyahu ha-Kohen to Avraham b. Natan Av Bet Din (and his brothers Aḥiyya and Berekhya?). In …

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  49. 19649List or tableENA NS 76.435.8

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of the same scribe as adjacent fragments (see especially ENA NS 76.435.1 + ENA NS 76.435.3).

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  50. 19650Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J183

    Beginning of a court record dated Shevat 1411/ February 1100. On parchment. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. בתלתה בשבה דהוא עשרין וחמשה
    2. יומין בירח שבט דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה
    3. וחד עשר שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה

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    1. בתלתה בשבה דהוא עשרין וחמשה
    2. יומין בירח שבט…

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