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  1. 19601Legal documentT-S AS 153.489 + T-S 16.109

    Recto (original use): Two fragments of a Qaraite betrothal deed. Dated Elul (year not preserved) in Egypt. Bride: Naʿama bt. Nissi b. Yaʿaqov. Groom: Barakāt …

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    1. זה ספר ארוש שהיה ביו[ם] ... 
    2. יום מחדש אלול משנת ... 

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    1. Thisis the deed of betrothal which took place on the day ... 
    2. day of the month Elūl, of the year ... 

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  2. 19602List or tableT-S NS 165.79 + T-S NS J188

    Mercantile accounts from the circle of Nahray b. Nissim. Headed אלחאפץ אללה והו אלמסלם, as in T-S NS 323.1 (PGPID 4275). The upper portion lists …

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  3. 19603LetterT-S NS J213

    Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he received the letter of Segulat ha-Yeshiva (the addressee?), which contained the news regarding the letter of the …

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  4. 19604LetterHalper 384

    India Book VII, 46. Business letter relating to the India trade. In Judaeo-Arabic. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. Goitein initially …

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  5. 19605Legal documentT-S 16.196

    Draft, in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), of an addition to the last will of the parnas Eli ha-Kohen …

  6. דלך פקאל לנא מר ור עלי הכהן הפרנס הנאמן וג
  7. Bottom margin, straight lines written upside down.

    1. אלדי תא . . . א וגדת ענדהא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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  8. 19606LetterT-S Ar.41.79

    Letter in Arabic script. Written on particularly thin paper. "In which the widow of Mubārak b. Mundhir b. Sābā asks a ḥaver in the name …

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  9. 19607LetterT-S NS 99.41

    Copy of Maimonides' letter to Yosef b. Yehuda which comprises the introduction to the Guide for the Perplexed. In the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel …

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  10. 19608Legal documentT-S NS J215

    Document concerning the sale of shares in sugar refinery. At the top appears the name Saʿadya b. Shelomo b. Yefet ha-Levi (all given titles such …

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  11. 19609Legal documentT-S K25.284

    Draft of a legal document written on a long vertical strip of parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing a …

    The payment incumbent upon the buyeris in proportion tohis share in the property.

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    The price 220

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  12. 19610State documentAIU IV.A.211

    First eight lines of a letter addressed to a dignitary ("mawlāya ʾadāma llāh ʿizzah fi ʾamrihi wa-masʾalat mukātabat"), in a chancery-trained hand. Possibly dealing with …

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  13. 19611Literary textAIU VI.B.121

    Bifolium from a Hebrew philosophical work extremely similar to, but apparently not identical with, the Guide for the Perplexed. Perhaps a commentary? It compares the …

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  14. 19612Literary textAIU VII.A.7

    Narrative text about the destruction of the second temple — Yossipon? Mentions Titus, bayt al-maqdis, al-Quds (Jerusalem), and "a village called Maṣitā" (Masada?) to which …

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  15. 19613LetterAIU VII.E.52

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Written on behalf of somebody begging for charity from …

    1. ואלכאלק תעאלי געל[
    2. וללעבד דיון כת[ירה
    3. אלי מולאי אלדיאן [
    4. יעישו בה ומן  . . [
    5. וש]הד אללה אן ל . [
    6. יגמז עליה פי . [
    7. אליום שהרין מגלוק [
    8. כאיף מן דלך לא…

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  16. 19614Legal documentAIU VII.E.116

    Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …

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  17. 19615Legal documentAIU XII.96

    Recto: The first few lines of an Ottoman-era legal document, bearing two seals and an annotation in a different hand, opening with an invocation of …

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  18. 19616LetterBL OR 4856.1

    Recto: Hebrew letter of appeal from the old, poor man Yosef b. Elazar ha-Kohen to Avraham ha-Sar b. Elazar. The body of the letter occupies …

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  19. 19617Legal query or responsumBL OR 5563G.27

    One folio from a compendium of Judaeo-Arabic legal queries (but no responsa), including numbers 96-103. The first several queries have to do with laws of …

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  20. 19618Literary textBL OR 5565F.31

    Leaf from an Arabic treatise, calligraphic and vocalized. It appears to be a literary anthology, with quotations and verses cited from various Abbasid-era caliphs and …

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  21. 19619Legal documentBL OR 5566D.11

    Settlement between the two brothers Muhadhdhab b. Shemuel (appears also in T-S 8.112 (PGPID 7086)) and Amīn al-Dawla after a long litigation. Muhadhdhab ultimately agrees …

    1. וגרא בינהם כלאם וכצאם [. . .].ה . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ובעד דלך תוסטו בינהמא באן אלשיך מהדב יקום לאכיה
    3. אלשיך אמין אלדולה בתלאתין דינאר מצריה אכר חדש תמ…

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  22. 19620Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/4

    A confirmation of the Beit Din that there were no obstacles to the marriage between Sālim al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣabbāgh and Sitt al-Kuttāb b. Yefet. Location: Fustat. …

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  23. 19621Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/10

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[.]61 Seleucid, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE. Zayn b. A[...] gives a release to Abū l-Barakāt Hibat …

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  24. 19622Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 12/10

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Avraham b. Moshe ha-Kohen releases his cousin Sāda (i.e., Sitt al-Sāda) b. …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לת(חת)א כן (הוה חצר א)לינא מרור אברהם הכהן בר מרור משה הכהן נע וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו

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  25. 19623Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 64/9 + Bodl. MS heb. c 64/8

    Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) in which the community of Safed appoints Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyīm Mordechai Būnan as their sheliḥim. See previous shelfmark. There …

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  26. 19624Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 94/25

    Jayyida, wife of a scholarly grape-presser, gives two-thirds of a house in the Hudayji street, which was her share, as a collateral against a loan …

    1. פאגבנא סואלהא ומצינא [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ואגלקת עלינא גמיענא ומצת אחצרת מ דויד אלמדכור וגלסת
    3. הי והו לציק אלגאב אלדי נחנ…
    She said to him: "Da'ūd [David], listen, no one is between us. Return to God [i.e. behave as a man should], and do not claim something on which you have no right.

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  27. 19625Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/12

    Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139) in which a man …

    1. אלי דלך אד כאנת תברעת באן תנפק עליה מן ענדהא אלי . . . .
    2. גמיע אהלי ואקרבאי והי אלוצייה לי עליה מן בעדי . .מ. . . . .
    3. פי מא יפעלאה נאמנים כשני עדים(!…

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  28. 19626List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 56/49

    Inventory of the books and furnishings of the Palestinian Synagogue received by Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ the beadle (al-khādim). Dated: Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid = October/November 1186 …

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  29. 19627Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 101/46

    Draft of of a legal document in which Sitt al-ʿIzz bt. Yeshaʿyahu b. Yefet appoints 'Amat al-Qādir' Sitt al-Milāḥ Turfa as her representative with regard …

    1. במותב תלתה כחדא הוינא כי
    2. אתו ר כוכב ואלשיך אבי אלמני
    3. אלדבאח ושהדו ענדנא אנהם
    4. אקנו מן אמה אלקאדר סת אלעז
    5. בת ישעיהו בר יפת אנהא והבת
    6. סת [[אלתרץ]] אלמל…

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  30. 19628Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J62

    Fragment of a will, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), in which the donor, an old man being in good health, specifies the …

    1. ] שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצרנא ענד אלשיך [
    2. ] אעלמו אנני שיך כביר טאען פי אלסן ומא אעלם מא [
    3. ] לאנני לא אמן אלופאה בגתה ואכלץ איצא זוגתי אלת[י

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  31. 19629Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J96

    Power of attorney. In Hebrew. Dated: Location: Aleppo. Dated: Thursday, 16 [...] [13]48 Seleucid = 1036/37 CE. Ḥaggay appoints Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov to collect 1,750 …

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  32. 19630LetterENA 1822a.55

    Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer reports that a Jew coming on a boat from Tyre …

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    1. עלקת אליך הדה אלרקעה יאסידי ומול[אי] ען סרעה אע[ל]מך פיהא אן וצל אלינא מן

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    1. אני מחבר פתק זה, אדוני ודבי, בחיפזון, להודיעך בו שהגיעה אלינו
    2. מצור אונייה ובה אדם יהודי שהודיע לנו כי רב' נעים בן עמראן יצא לחניס והוא
    3. עלה לפסטאט.

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  33. 19631Paraliterary textENA 2420.1

    Blessings for Emperor Francis II of Austria in Italian and Hebrew. The Italian portion reads in part: "Dia Sempre Gloria e Vittoria al Nostro Sovrano …

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  34. 19632LetterENA 2738.12

    Recto (secondary use): Receipt in Judaeo-Arabic written on the back of a fragment of an Arabic-script letter (see separate record). The writer (maybe Shelomo b. …

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  35. 19633Legal documentENA 2741.2

    Letter from an unknown sender, in Jerusalem, to Samḥūn b. Yaḥyā al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Spanish" layout, including shape of the right margin and …

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  36. 19634Legal documentENA 4010.5

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [Sitt al-Sāda bt.?] Evyatar ha-Kohen and [Shelomo b. Abū] al-Riḍā al-Wakīl and Sālim …

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  37. 19635LetterENA NS 43.13

    Letter, fragment (lower left corner), from Shalom b. Sīd. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. The writer reports on business progress to …

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    1. ...] ויחיהו יצילהו מכל דבר רע עם כל החיים
    2. ...] כתבו המפ[יי]ס קבלתי והיה לי לכבוד ולתפארת
    3. ...] האדון כי טוב שלות כן י…

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  38. 19636LetterENA NS 45.30

    Letter fragment from Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century. Reused for business accounts on verso. On …

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  39. 19637Legal documentENA NS 77.351

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Widened line spacing. Specifying the conditions for a marriage, including that "he …

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  40. 19638List or tableENA NS 85.1110

    Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Seems to be dealing with sums in excess of 1000 dinars. Also mentions …

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  41. 19639LetterENA NS I.59

    Business letter from (or possibly to) Yehuda Ibn Sughmār. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed "tadhkira muwajjaha(?) = "memorandum sent(?)." The sender expresses his longing for the addressee, …

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  42. 19640LetterHalper 378

    A letter from Eliyyahu al-Qustantini b. Shelomo, writing to Efrayim he-Haver b. Shemarya, head of the Ben Ezra congregation (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Eliyyahu was held …

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  43. 19641LetterHalper 420

    Letter from Meir Messina to his employer or business partner in Gaza. Written in Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century or beginning of …

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  44. 19642List or tableJRL A 552

    Recto: Excerpts from Ecclesiastes. Verso: A list of books that the writer was asked to prepare (or obtain?) for somebody. The Talmud, printed in Salonica …

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  45. 19643List or tableJRL B 2003 + AIU VII.F.9 + AIU VII.F.88 + JRL B 3546 + AIU VII.F.12

    From a ledger of donations arranged by the parshiyot of the year 1803/1804 (5564); most of the ledger ended up in Paris, but this fragment …

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  46. 19644Credit instrument or private receiptJRL B 4066

    Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) to pay the bearer …

    1. אמת
    2. בשמ
    3. ידפע אלשיך אבן אלחסן //אלהוד// למוצלהא נצף רטל
    4. שראב ורד לא גיר
    5. אבו זכרי כהן

    { Below, upside down, and in a different hand. }

    1. .............…

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  47. 19645LetterJRL B 6459

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains, "I suffer from this city and its inhabitants unspeakable suffering. May God for the sake of His great …

    1. קד לחקני מן אלצגר מן הדה אלבלד ואהלהא מא לא ימכן
    2. שרחה אללה למען שמו הגדול יחסן כלאצי מנהא במהרה
    3. ובזמן קרוב          אעלם מולאי אנה קד וצל אלי ההנא […

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  48. 19646Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 91

    Ottoman-era iqrār document, in Arabic script. al-Ḥāj Muḥammad and Muḥammad al-Shaykh, both of whom reside in Alexandria acknowledge to pay the bureau of tax looms …

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    1. ن اقسمها (؟) ابي حنيفة رضي الله عنه

    2. سبب تحرير الحروف وموجب تسطيرها 

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  49. 19647LetterL-G Ar. II.87

    Letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066-1108 CE) to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. [...] (possibly his son, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel). …

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  50. 19648LetterMIAC 7

    Request presented by the president of the religious school in Jerusalem to the director of one of the synagogues in Egypt asking especially for monetary …

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  51. 19649LetterMIAC 100

    Letter from Monsieur Yosef Raḥmīn and Atūrī in the Nile textile company to the Jewish charitable society of Ḥeberāt Māzūn containing a check with the …

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  52. 19650LetterMIAC 222

    Letter to a doctor of general clinic under the supervision of the Agudat Israel explaining that the treatment of the patient will be completed with …

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