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  1. 19751LetterENA NS 18.31

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …

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    1. כתאבי יא שיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
    2. וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה יום אלכמיס

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  2. 19752LetterENA NS 22.14

    Letter addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Concerning the India trade. Giving details about 15 or so spices …

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  3. 19753Legal documentENA NS 29.20

    Marriage contract. Dated: Sunday, 14 Tishrei 5557 AM = 16 October 1796 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: David Gabbay b. Seʿadya. Bride: ביתו bt. Khalīfa Pinto. …

    1. בע׳׳ה בסימן טוב והצלחה ובנים ועושר והרוחה כיר
    2. באחד בשבת בארבעה עשר יום לחודש תשרי שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות וחמשים ושבעה [לי]צירה הכא
    3. בעיר אלקאהרה הס…

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  4. 19754Legal documentENA NS 44.31 + ENA 3765.7

    Guardianship document from the court of Daniel b. Azarya, Jerusalem. An unknown person b. Ezra appoints Ishaq b. Abraham to be the guardian and get …

    1. בחד בשובה עשרין וארבעה יומי בכסליו שתא [ בירושלים]
    2. קרתא קדישתא תתבני בפרע כן הוה ד[
    3. דאשתמודענה בתרי שהדי כשירי דחכמון יתי[ה
    4. עלאי בכל לישאני דזכואתא …

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  5. 19755LetterENA NS 63.13

    Letter from "Sāsī" to R. D[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1517 CE (uses the term 'basha' twice), but not long after (Avraham Castro appears in …

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  6. 19756Paraliterary textENA NS 77.365

    Minute fragment mentioning the name Sulaymān Kariyo/Kadiyo(?), possibly the Sephardi surname Carillo attested elsewhere in the geniza (AIU VII.D.62 - PGPID 30558). The design/drawing underneath …

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  7. 19757State documentENA NS I.31

    Recto: Fragment of a state document, possibly a decree. 2 lines preserved. In Arabic script. Some phrases read as "yanālu aṣḥābuhu mimman yaḍumm... wa-akhdh...", "wa-l-muṭālaba …

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  8. 19758Legal documentENA NS I.68

    Agreement of the Maghribi congregation written in a late Sephardi hand. The heads of the coomunity agreed that no Jew will enter the synagogue during …

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  9. 19759Legal documentFriedberg MSS 9-004/22

    Deed of sale, probably. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). For "the large dār with the square …

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  10. 19760LetterJRL A 619

    Small fragment from a letter, probably. The hand looks like that of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions the purchase of a censer with …

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  11. 19761Legal documentJRL B 4804

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Shemarya the Cretan (אלאקריטשי) and someone making a will. May be …

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  12. 19762Legal documentJRL B 5628

    Legal or state document, probably financial or fiscal. In Arabic script. After the basmala and the month of Ramaḍān: "[...] in the name of Jurayj(?) …

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  13. 19763List or tableJRL C 98 + JRL C 86

    List of names and corresponding monetary values in silver kuruş. Among those listed are: Yakov Qatawi, Yosef Bilobos, Yaʿaqov Akubas, David Dayyan, Nissim Ashkenazi, Moshe …

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  14. 19764Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 421

    A version of the muwashshaḥ known as "al-ʿArūs" ("The Bride") attributed to the poet Ibn Ghazala al-Maghribī, a contemporary (and vizier?) of the Almohad caliph …

    1. التا(؟) وامتـ[
    2. رب ذات ليلة ز[رتها وقد نامت والرقيب
    3. في غفلة والنجوم قد [مالت رمت منها قبلة
    4. عند ضمها قالت [قرقر واهدا لا تكون
    5. متعدي تكسر الـ[ـنبالة
    6. وت…

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  15. 19765State documentL-G Ar. I.105

    Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …

    1. ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [

    2. ] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه

    3. ] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [ 

    4. ] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت …

  16. ...I swear by God
  17. ] on this [vacat], his slave will correspond with
  18. ]……..and others
  19. and to the lofty presence] belongs the lofty opinion
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  21. 19766LetterMIAC 46

    Letter sent from the committee of the Jewish community in Jaffa and Tel-Aviv to Rabbi Yaʿacov Meʾīr on the occasion of reaching the age of …

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  22. 19767LetterMoss. I,80.3

    Letter from Moshe b. Binyamin Ashkenazi, probably in Fustat/Cairo, to Avraham Castro, probably in Alexandria or Jerusalem. Dating: 16th century. The sender describes how "from …

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  23. 19768LetterMoss. II,111.1

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic (16th century per FGP) from Yosef b. Adīda (?) to Yefet b. Farḥān regarding flax shipments. People named include ʿAbd al-Karīm …

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  24. 19769LetterMoss. II,123.1.2

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

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  25. 19770LetterMoss. II,164.1

    Letter from the raʾs al-kull (= rosh kalla) Isrāʾīl b. Dāniyāl / Yisraʾel b. Daniʾel to Abū l-Ḥasan Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-[...], in Fustat. In …

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  26. 19771LetterMoss. II,189

    Business letter (c. 1100 CE) from Abū al-Ḥasan b. Khūlayf Iskandarānī to the prominent purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. Asks …

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  27. 19772Legal documentMoss. VII,8.3

    Fragment of a partnership agreement. The trader [Abū l-Surūr] Peraḥya [b. Tiqva ha-Levi?] Ibn al-Amʿaṭ (known from several other documents from the second half of …

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  28. 19773LetterT-S 8J4.11 + T-S NS J6

    Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Probably related to the legal document on recto, since some of the same names appear. At the top the names …

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  29. 19774LetterT-S 8J18.8

    Letter from Avraham b. David b. Sughmār, probably in Alexandria, to his son, David, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. The father rebukes his son …

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    1. כתאבי יאולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן

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    1. אני כותב לך, בני היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך
    2. ואל ימנע ממך הצלחה, בראש חודש מרחשון, יחתום אותו אלהים עליך ועלינו במיטב
    3. חותמו ויקרב את פגישתי עמך וייטיב את האחרית שלך ושלנו וכל ישראל ....

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  30. 19775LetterT-S 10G5.8 + T-S 20.100

    No. 1: Letter of condolence from a Gaon on the death of the addressee's son. (Bamerkazim, pp. 69-72); No. 2: Letter from Hayya Gaon to …

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    1. ...ב..נ.ו ו.......... [עד אשר ימרט משער]
    2. ראשו ככת' ואמר[טה משער ראשי]................

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  31. 19776LetterT-S 10J15.8

    Letter from Shela bar Mevasser to 'The Rabbi' Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef, Rosh ha-Seder ('Head of the Row'). The letter was written before Shela's appointment …

    נזכר: גיל, א, סעיף 378; מאן, יהודים, ב, עמ' 101, הערה 2; גויטיין, חברה, ג, עמ' 431.

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    1. מוסר שלומי על מי זה [ ] לרוב חובי
    2. מי בחבורתו מרפא למכאובי

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  32. 19777LetterT-S 10J15.34

    Letter of condolence to Abu al-Faraj Yeshua b. Shabbatay on the death of his father. The letter starts with four Bible quotations (line 1, Dt. …

    1. הצור תמים פעלו כי כל דרכיו משפט וגו
    2. ראו עתה כי אני אני הוא ואין אלהים עמי וג
    3. זקנים משער שבתו בחורים וג
    4. צדיק ייי בכל דרכיו וחסיד וג
    5. אטאל אללה בקא חצר…

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  33. 19778Legal documentT-S 12.59.2

    Fol. 2: Deed fragment in which 'the people of Haifa's fortress' are mentioned, 11th century. CUDL description: Recto: the very beginning of a legal document …

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    1. ] ואנשי מבצר חיפה החתומים עידותם למטה ב[
    2. ]ה ימים בירח מרחשון בשנה הששי[ת שלשבוע
    3. ] שנים ליצירת עולם איך שבא לפנינו

    ....

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  34. 19779Legal documentT-S 13J4.17

    Recto: legal document in which Abraham Shami (שאמי) b. [...] Shelomo Abū l-Khayr b. Saʿadya affirms that the widow of Judah Abū l-Khayr owes money …

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  35. 19780LetterT-S 13J6.15

    India Book III, 57: Letter from Yosef b. Peraḥya Yijū, in Mazara, writing to an important merchant, also in Sicily., ca. 1154. Yosef states that …

  36. פי ... …
  37. פתח פיך לאלדי
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    1. פתח [...]
    2. [...] מן .צא
    3. ... יצל אלגמיע הנאך

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  39. 19781LetterT-S 13J20.11

    Letter from Zakkay b. Moshe to the ḍāmin (tax-farmer) Abū l-Bishr Mevasser ha-Kohen b. Salmān. The writer, a scribe in al-Maḥalla, describes his work of …

  40. ארטאל
  41. גיר רבע
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    1. ווזן דרהמין
    2. ונצף זבדה
    3. וכאן ר שלמה

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  43. 19782LetterT-S 13J25.10

    Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: end of the 10th or beginning of the 11th century. From Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Abitur, in Spain (either Merida …

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  44. 19783Legal documentT-S 16.4

    Recto: part of a ketubba for ʿAmāʾim bt. [...] and Shelomo b. [...]. The document stipulates that Shelomo agrees not to take a second wife. …

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  45. 19784Legal documentT-S 16.51

    Verso: transfer of the debt detailed on recto. Dated: last third of Ḥeshvan 1441 Seleucid = November 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. …

    T-S 16.51 1r

    1. ] בר מרור סעדיה הזקן נע דידיע בן סעדאן ואשהדנא עלי נפסה אנה קד והב
    2.  אלש]ראבי סט מן גמ[.............] //ארבע אמות קרקע מחלקו בארץ ישראל …

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  46. 19785Legal documentT-S 18J1.18

    The widow of the Cairene judge Avraham b. Natan confirms having received from her son-in-law everything that was owed to her from the estate of …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין לתחתא בתלתה בשבה
    2. דהוא עשרים וחד יומין לירח אדר שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ועשרין
    3. ושבעה שנין למניאנא דרגיליננא ביה בעיר א…

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  47. 19786Legal documentT-S 18J1.23

    Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b. …

    1. כאן לסת אלחסן בת סעדיה נע הידועה בנת אלחדבא ענד אבו אלמרגא אלטביב בן דינאל רצי אללה ענה עצאבה
    2. דהב פלמא תופי אלתמסתהא מן וראתה פי בית דין פסאלו ענהא …

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  48. 19787Legal documentT-S 18J2.5

    Incomplete legal document in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (active ca. 1066–1108 CE). The cantor Ghālib b. Ḥalfon al-Zayyāt claims that his sister Bārra …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה
    2. כאן מ גאלב החזן המכונה אבו מנצור בר מ חלפון אלזיאת נע תשאגר
    3. מע אכתה לאכיה ואמה בארה בת מ חלפון …
    My father gave me
  49. this house and it is mine!" The aforementioned elder Abū ‘Alī said to her: 

  50. “And the other house, the large one, which is adjacent tothis house, do you have 

  51. something with which you claim your father gave it to you also?"

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  53. 19788LetterT-S 18J2.6

    Letter from Simḥa Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Manṣūr. Dating: ca. 1205 CE. The writer complains about the extortions of a tax farmer who …

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    1. ואמרתם לחי ואתה שלום וביתך שלום
    2. וכל אשר לך שלום
    3. ממלוכהא אלדאעי להא שמחה כהן

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  54. 19789Legal documentT-S 20.41

    Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Milāḥ sells her Nubian female slave ʿAlam to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā for 23 dinars. Her …

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    1. [ ]
    2. [ ]
    3. [ ]
    4. [ ] לנא אשהדו [ע]לי ואקנו מני [ ]

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  55. 19790Legal documentT-S Ar.7.14 + T-S NS 163.84

    Recto: Draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after March 1066 CE. In which Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov, acting as agent for Moshe and Shelomo …

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  56. 19791LetterT-S Ar.18(1).107

    Letter written by a woman, introduced by Psalms 41:2, asking for assistance in a legal battle concerning the rights to a house. Both fragments at …

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  57. 19792List or tableT-S Ar.34.9

    Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably early 13th century. Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, …

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  58. 19793Legal documentT-S Ar.38.55

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: Likely 11th century if not earlier. Deed of release (שטר פיצוי) given by a woman named …

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  59. 19794Legal documentT-S AS 114.55

    Legal fragment (lower right corner). Involving a man and his wife Sitt al-A[...]; her giving up her right to something (אנהא נזלת ענה); and periods …

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  60. 19795Legal documentT-S AS 145.66

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Written under the rule of the Nasi David b. Daniel b. Azarya (1082–94 CE). Ḥasana bt. Shaʾul, the widow of Yiṣḥaq …

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  61. 19796List or tableT-S AS 145.241

    Accounting for an India trader, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions goods such as hyacinth and pepper, and their quantities, and many other …

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  62. 19797Legal documentT-S AS 145.328

    Legal document dated Monday 14th Iyyar (no year but probably late 12th or early 13th century), about the gift of half a house which Khibāʾ …

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  63. 19798LetterT-S AS 146.349

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.Refers to Rabbenu Simḥa he-Ḥakham; Cairo; [...] b. Abū Sahl; that …

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  64. 19799LetterT-S AS 147.4

    Long fragment of a letter by a man who, among other things, discusses the learning of his son and expresses outrage that, despite an impeccable …

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    1. כתאבי לסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    2. נעמאה ומן תופיקה לא אכלאה תקדם אלי כתאבך

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד
    2. את חסדיו לך ואל ימנע ממך מזל.

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  65. 19800Legal documentT-S AS 148.19

    Draft of a deed of sale for a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1483 Seleucid = 1171/72 CE, under the authority of "ha-Rav ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel" (probably …

    1. ] אתפג לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל ניל[ום
    2. ]רב הגדול בישראל יהי שמו לעולם חצר אלינא [
    3. ]אע מ ור [ . . . . . . . ] הזקן היקר שצ בן מר איוב [
    4. ] מעכשיו [ . .…

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