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  1. 19851Legal documentAIU XII.149

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) by a certain Futūḥ b. Aḥmad. Mentions the judge in whose presence the iqrār took place, another person by the name …

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  2. 19852LetterBL OR 5566C.4

    Letter to a certain Abū Saʿd ('the dear boy') likely from his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century (paleographic dating). Contains inter alia a …

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    1. אלולד אלעזיז אלשיך
    2. אלאגל אבי סעד
    3. בר

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  3. 19853Legal documentBL OR 10653.1

    Ketubba. Dated: 9 Tammuz 2191 Seleucid = 18 June 1880 CE. Groom: Yos[ef] b. Sulayman b. Avraham al-Sabari. Bride: Ghina bt. Y[.]ya b. Yahya [...] …

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  4. 19854State documentBodl. MS heb. c 50/4

    Fragment of a petition or report probably to the vizier (ḥaḍrat al-wizāra... al-wazīr al-ajall... ). From the upper left corner; the ends of 9 lines …

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  5. 19855LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/85

    Calligraphic letter by a community leader who found out that the son of a scholar had married four couples, writing their marriage contracts and performing …

    1. ממלוך הדרת כקג מרינו ורבינו אור עינינו
    2. ומחמד נפשינו נשיא אלהים בתוכנו יהי אלהיו
    3. בעזרו ינהי אלי ולאלהא מא ענדה מן אלאסף עלי
    4. מפארקתהא ובעדה מן מלאחצתה…

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  6. 19856Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/86

    Legal document. The case involves a house worth 75 dinars and an orphan boy who has yet to come of age. People named include Mevorakh …

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  7. 19857Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 103/41

    Legal record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Tuesday night, 27 Kislev 1471 = 9 December 1159 CE. The blind woman Sitt Ṣāfī …

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  8. 19858Legal documentCUL Add.3417

    Recto: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Av 1543 Seleucid = 19 July 1232 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The young man …

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  9. 19859LetterCUL Or.1080 3.42

    Long Hebrew letter of condolence to Seʿadya ha-Ḥaver upon the death of somebody (his father?). The writer describes the physicial and emotional agony that came …

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  10. 19860Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J52

    Legal document. Mutual release from claims upon the dissolution of a partnership between Saʿīd b. Saʿadya and Shemuel b. Avraham. No details of the partnership …

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  11. 19861LetterCUL Or.1080 J84

    Letter(s) in Ladino, with occasional sentences in Hebrew. The sender of the main letter has had an attack of "mal de ojo" (evil eye? or …

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  12. 19862List or tableCUL Or.1080 J185

    Fragment of a dowry receipt of Sitt al-Kamal, written by Emmanuel b. Yehiel (ca. 1231-1279), containing details about a trousseau. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]שה דינרים גכאניה [. . . . . .]. . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  13. 19863List or tableENA 2727.48

    Detailed mercantile account with names and sums of money. Most names appear in connection to certain markets (including Sūq Barbar, Sūq Wardān, and al-Sūq al-Kabīr), …

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  14. 19864LetterENA 2808.28

    Upper fragment: Letter. Only the first eight lines (in poetic Hebrew) and the last 10 lines (mainly in Judaeo-Arabic) are preserved. Ismāʿīl sends his regards. …

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  15. 19865LetterENA 2889.50 + ENA 2889.49

    Two fragments of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Refers to al-Ṭarābulsī; something which Ibrāhīm sent; pepper; and probably saffron. Legible phrases: …

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  16. 19866LetterENA 3513.5

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th or early 12th century. From Salāma b. Shūʿa and Maḥfūẓ b. Būlus, in …

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  17. 19867Legal documentENA 3907.10

    Report or legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 1010 AH = Novembe/December 1601 CE. In the upper part mentions various people al-Ḥājj Muḥammad …

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  18. 19868List or tableENA 3925.13 + ENA 3925.14

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Contains the glyph. Mentions many names. Pinholes for binding, especially on verso, the part with the perforations has …

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  19. 19869LetterENA 3927.1

    Recto: Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Pleading for a loan of 20 dirhams against …

    1. مملوكه بن مملوكه صنيعته بركات بن الديان ابو الفرج

    2. يقبل يدي المولى السيد الاجل المنعم المحسن المتفضل الكريم الشيخ

    3. الجليل الفاضل الاصيل الكبير ال…

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  20. 19870LetterENA 4100.29

    Letter from Yeshua b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī from Alexandria, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1056. In the handwriting of Yeshua b. Isma’il, with an …

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    1. [                                          ] סלאמתה [                                                                                                     ]

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    1. (1–3) .... ושלומו .... אנשינו, יכתוב אותם לשלום .... שלחתי אותו, דהיינו כיס אחד עם ....

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  21. 19871Legal documentENA NS 13.27

    Legal record (one large piece and 5 smaller pieces) mentioning a wālī and a girl. Very damaged and difficult to figure out the story. Some …

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  22. 19872Legal documentENA NS 17.18

    Legal document. On top: legal document in which an uncle gives his possessions in equal shares to his dead brother's sons and daughters and appoints …

    1. חצר צדקה בר אברהם אלזגאג ושהד עלי מבורך ב. . . . .
    2. אנה דכל אליה והו עליל וסמע כלאמה פי מא אוצא בה פי צחת
    3. עקלה כסאיר אלנאס אלסאלכין פי אלאסואק אנה אס…

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  23. 19873LetterENA NS 36.2

    Right half of the end of a letter by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Mentions: the coats (al-shuqaq); his …

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  24. 19874LetterENA NS 47.5

    Letter in Ladino. The sender has an unskilled hand and sometimes makes numerous attempts to spell a word correctly (e.g., אין[[בייידו]] [[בייאדו]] ביאדו). Mentions R. …

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  25. 19875LetterENA NS 75.9

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business in brazilwood and two containers of kohl. Mentions Banīn the boy of al-Maḥālī (probably = al-Maḥallī). Greetings to …

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  26. 19876LetterF 1908.44B

    Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham, the judge of Minyat Zifta, to Yehuda b. Elazar ha-Kohen, the judge of Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1169–78 CE, based …

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  27. 19877LetterMIAC 79

    Letter from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo to Kẖawaja Elli Abimalor and Kẖawaja Shlomo Lijar requesting that they not give away any of the contents …

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  28. 19878LetterMIAC 207

    Announcement from the Or Ḥadashi association addressing a friend in Jerusalem to participate in the commemoration of the day of "outbreak of hardship on Shabbat" …

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  29. 19879LetterMoss. II,110.1

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or possibly early 12th century. Mentions logistics regarding ships; someone named [...] al-Fāsī; flax; someone named …

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  30. 19880LetterMoss. IV,12.1

    Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids addressed to a certain Avraham. In Hebrew. With an undeciphered motto in the header …

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  31. 19881LetterMoss. IV,53.1

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender may be named Abū l-Ḥ[asan]. Written on a reused scrap torn from an Arabic (state?) account. The sender seems …

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  32. 19882Legal documentMoss. V,380

    Debt contract. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: middle third of Av 1460 Sel. = July 1149 CE, under the jurisdiction of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …

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  33. 19883LetterMS L606, fol. 1 + MS L606, fol. 4

    Two fragments of a communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Resembles the hand of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, and headed by their motto הנה אל …

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  34. 19884Paraliterary textp. Heid. Hebr. 22

    Recto: Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic, presumably copied from an Arabic work previously copied by a Muslim. "Written in the mon{th} of Rabīʿ I of the year …

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  35. 19885LetterT-S 6J7.23

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Written by Hananel b. Shemuel. He exhorts the addressee to assist al-Shaykh al-Nafīs, evidently concerning a legal query which the latter …

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  36. 19886Legal documentT-S 8J19.30

    Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ṭevet 1504 = December 1192 CE, under the …

    1. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאול מחדש טבת שנת אלפא וחמש
    2. מאה וארבעה שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס
    3. נהרא מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו גאונינו שר שלום הלוי
    4. כן הוה ח…

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  37. 19887LetterT-S 8J22.25

    Letter from Ḥasan b. Muʾammal, Ramla, to Abū Naṣr the cockeyed (al-aḥwal), Fustat. Dating: September 1052 (Gil). Describes an incident in a synagogue on Yom …

    1. בשם ייי כתאבי אליך יאכי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם [עזך]
    2. ותאאידך ושלמתך ונעמתך מין אלרמלה סלך תשרי ערפך אל[לה ברכתה]
    3. וברכת אילאעיאד אלמוברכה אללה י…

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    In the name of God [ thisis] my letter to you, my brother and master, may God lengthen your life and establish your glory, protection, peace, and sweetness.

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  38. 19888Legal documentT-S 8J29.13

    Settlement after marital dispute between husband and wife, safeguarding her freedom of movement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Agreement between Ẓāfira b. …

    1. ]הי אלא]ן פי עצמתה הנקראת טאפרה בת מרור יפת החזן הזקן הנכבד סט
    2. אמור אשרפהא פיהא עלי אלטלאק ובעד דלך וקע אלשלום בינהמא
    3. ואצטלחא בעד אן אלתזם להא עלי נ…

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  39. 19889LetterT-S 8J38.9

    Letter of appeal for assistance. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to the elder Sāʿid (sic, probably intending Ṣāʿid = the parnas ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, …

    1. בשמ רח
    2. ונדיב נדיבות יעץ
    3. אל נין גיבורים ישרים ונכד טהורים
    4. נדיבים יקרים .זבזהב . . . . . . . .
    5. אשר צדקות ומעשים טובים אהב
    6. כ ג קד מר ור סאעיד הזקן
    7. היקר…

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  40. 19890Legal documentT-S 10J4.5

    Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . מוחסן . . . . . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] מא…

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  41. 19891LetterT-S 10J7.2

    Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Kohen, probably in Minyat Ghamr, to Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. The sender reports …

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    1. חצ'רת כ'ב' ג'ד' ק'ד' מרינו ורבינן רבי איליה הדיאן
    2. ש'צ' מן ממלוכה ושאכר תפצ'לה יוסף אבן יעקב אלכהן

  42. Say to him, "Thisloss .... is not of your doing". May God in heaven

  43. help me to reward you with what is good.

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  45. 19892Legal documentT-S 10J7.13

    Trousseau list enumerating items of a dowry which amounts to 30 dinars and part of a house. Dated ca. 1090. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: …

    1. מצרפה מקדם י מאכר ארבעין
    2. טובא מעליה (!)
    3. זוג אכראץ דהב וכאתם דהב וגלאלא דרי ומעגרהא
    4. וג מנאדיל תניסי ומנדיל רומי וסת מעארק ויזאר (!)
    5. וסת מכאדר מנהא מכ…

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  46. 19893LetterT-S 10J10.8

    Letter from Barakāt b. Hibatallāh al-Jaʿfarī to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā (ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the parnas in Fustat). Complete letter containing personal and …

    עלינא וילטף | בנא למען שמו | הגדול מולאי מכדום | אגל סלאם ומן תחוטה | ענאיתה אלסלאם וינעם עלי | כמא לם יזל יערפני חאל | מן יכוצני פאן קלבי | משגול בהם ואן יכון | כדמה יכוצני בקצאהא | ותכץ עני מולאי אלשיך | אבו טאהר באפצל | סלאם ויעז עליה אלנובה | אלכבירה ואלמציבה | אלעטימה אלדי(!) נאלתה | ואלבארי סבחאנה | יברד נארה ויחסן | לה אלצבר ויעוצה | עלי מא נאלה | פישהד אלכאלק | // ת . . // לקד קטע |

    צהרי | כברה |

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    לכן לא חילה | ויערפה מולאי אן אבנתה | קד חצלת פי עכא הי ואבנהא | ואלחצרה אלמתיבייה תכון נצח | קד אתלת כלאצהא וקד | כתבת אלי גביל עדה כתב | בסבב אלכמסין דינא והי | תצל והי אן שא אללה | תצעד צחבתנא הי ואבנהא | ערפת מולאי דלך | ליערף [[יש]] ושלום יהיה לו | לעד יב בעומר

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  47. 19894LetterT-S 10J12.12

    Recto: Letter fragment in which the writer complains that Abū Bishr al-Mushrif (the government supervisor) claims from him a payment which has already been paid. …

    1. . . . . . . . . ] אבו בשר אלמשרף וכאנה
    2. קד קתלת לה קתיל והודא אקאסי מנה
    3. מא לא אחסן אצפה מן סו אלעשרה
    4. ואלענת פי טלב אלחסאב ויטאלבני במא לא
    5. ילזמני מן ס…

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  48. 19895LetterT-S 12.666

    Letter from an unknown merchant, probably from the Maghreb, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: around 1036 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based …

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    1. [כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי] אלרייס אלגליל אלפציל ואדאם עזה ותאיידה

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי 'הראש' הנכבד האציל, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך
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  49. 19896Legal documentT-S 12.678

    Legal document. Dated: 1513 Seleucid = 1211/12 CE. The people involved: Thanāʾ bt. Bahāʾ known as אלוישי (the widow, childless); Abū l-Ghayth b. Hiba (her …

    1. דשנת אתקיג לשטרות למניאנא
    2. ונא דייני דמקצתנא חתימין
    3. תנא ברת בהא ידיעה אלוישי [ארמלה]
    4. אבי אלגית בן ] הבה ידיעה אלוישי סליקת לקדאם יה אולי מחיקה
    5. אבי אל…

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  50. 19897Legal documentT-S 13J6.14

    Fragment of a ketubba (marriage contract) which stipulates that the bride would move from Tyre to Akko in twelve months, ca. 1028-1037. The bride's father …

    1. רשותיה יתפלג בקרקע ומה
    2. ומה דאתותר מן נדונייתה לתרין חלקין בשוה פולגא יזכה בו בעלה
    3. ופולגא יחזור לבית אבהתה ואית הוא תניי ממון קיים והודה
    4. מנצור חתנא ד…

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  51. 19898Legal documentT-S 13J6.27

    Legal document written under the authority of Nathaniel ha-Levi concernning payment of fees for an orphan preparing himself for the profession of his late father, …

    1. נקול נחן אלמתבתין כטוטנא אכר הדא אלמחצר אננא כנא חאצרין במושב הדרת
    2. יקרת צפירת תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנו יחיד דורנו נסיכנו ונשיא
    3. אלהים בתוכנו…

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    We, the undersigned at the bottom of this document, declare that we were present in the court of … (12 titles) ... our lord Nethanel ha-Levi, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof — may his name last forever, when Mulūk, the widow of the cantor Khalaf, known as Ben al-Muṭarrī — m(ay he rest in) E(den) — appeared before us together with her boy Manṣūr.

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  52. 19899LetterT-S 13J15.18

    Family letter sent from Qal'at Ja'bar on the Euphrates River Syria, by a man to his brother, saying that he had learned about the death …

    אלסלם וגמיע [מ]ן סאל | עני אלסלם | ואלחמד ללה | וחדה | ואנא פי דכאן עטאר | ערפתה דלך

    Verso, top margin. Address.

    מולאי אלאחאל אל. . . . . . . . .א.ל. . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]אחוה דפס. . . .

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  53. 19900LetterT-S 13J23.7

    Beginning of a calligraphic letter in Hebrew rhymed prose by Shemuel ha-Levi b. Eli, the gaʾon ("head of the academy of the diaspora") in Baghdad …

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    1. שמואל הלוי ראש הישיבה שלגולה
    2. בן עלי ראש הישיבה שלגולה ז'צ'ל'

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