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  1. 19901LetterT-S 18J4.13

    Letter from Jalal al-Dawla in the name of Yishay b. Shelomo to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay, Fustat. January 10, 1254 (Gil). Regarding a book …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ' אלממלוך אלמשתאק ישי
    2. תקדמת כתבה אלי כרמה אלמג'לס אלסאמי
    3. אלאגלי אלעאלמי אלפאצ'לי אלסיידי אלמכדומי
    4. הוא כבו' גדו' קדו' נשיאנו נסיכנו מלכ…

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  2. 19902List or tableT-S AS 146.148

    Bifolio of accounts, mentioning quantities of dirhams and names such as Ibrahim al-Kohen and Abū l-Ḥasan. Very crude hand. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  3. 19903State documentENA 3959.12

    Letter(s) or official document(s) in Arabic script. Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines …

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  4. 19904LetterBL OR 10578B.1 + T-S 8J15.28

    IB VI, 45. Description from BL OR 10578B.1: Letter from Maʿānī, in an unknown location, to his brother Mūsā, in Fustat. The letter is in …

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    1. אכוה מעאני
    2. لے
    3. אלדי אערף בה אכי אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
    4. וגמע שמלי בה קריב אן שא אללה וסוא דלך
    5. בחק אללבן אלדי אתראצענאה ואלבטן
    6. אלדי חמלנא ובחק . ב…

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  5. 19905Credit instrument or private receiptENA 4011.35

    Money order of the Qodesh. Ca. 1162-63. The judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi wrote and signed an order to pay 9.5 dirhams to the children …

    1. ידפעו גבאה רבע אלמקאדסה לאולא[ד]
    2. הבה אכו אבו אבוסחק אלמכארי תסעה דראהם
    3. ונצף ען נציבהם פי רבע אלמקאדסה
    4. שנת אתעד ושלום
    5. שמואל בר סעדיה הלוי בע

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    1. The collectors of the Estate of the Jerusalemites shall pay to the children 

    2. of Hiba, the brother of Abū (I)sḥaq al-Mukārī, 9 1/2 dir.

    3. fr…

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  6. 19906Legal documentMoss. IXa,2.61

    Legal document, in Arabic script. The hand is not very readable but contains two testimonies at the bottom. Needs examination for content.

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  7. 19907Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#42) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tammuz 5321 AM …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 15r

    1. פיאלתראב לם ימסכה בידה ולא יתסבב פיה דון אן יופי הדה אלמבלג אלדי כ[..]ה
    2. אתנין ועשרין אשרפי דהב צלאטנה אלמד׳ אע׳ תם אשהד…

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  8. 19908List or tableT-S Ar.7.35

    Recto: List of names. In Judaeo-Arabic, followed by quantities of grain in waybāt. Very faded. Names include Abū l-Surūr; Abū Zikrī b. Moshe; Abū ʿImrān; …

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  9. 19909Literary textDK 108 (alt: 66)

    Liturgical.

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  10. 19910Legal documentYevr. II K 76

    Marriage contract with an exquisite floral border illustration. Location: Calcutta, India ('on the river Ganga' (=Hooghly). Dated: Sunday, 12 Adar II 5611 AM, which is …

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  11. 19911List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 819

    Accounts, probably, in Arabic script. A name "Abū ʿAlī", beginning of a date "yawm al-ʿarbiʿā" and a sum "arbaʿ wa......" Needs examination.

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  12. 19912List or tableT-S NS 64.43

    Accounts, probably. List of various items and values in Judaeo-Arabic. The items include tin (qazdīr), violet (zahr banafsaj), and sulfur (kibrīt).

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  13. 19913LetterT-S 13J27.5 + T-S 13J13.13

    Testimony in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya concerning a dream of Yosef al-Sijilmasi. Dating: c. 1030 (Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the …

    1. פי אלכניס תין יגב אן תקרא א / ב
    2. עדות זכרו / ן זכרון עדות ב / א
    3. בשם יי
    4. ראי יוסף אלסגלמאסי א/בדין פי אלקדס כאנה
    5. ימשי פי אלמקאבר אלעת/יקה באלרמלה ווג…

    This testimony should be read in both synagogues

    Commemorative testimony  Testimony of commemoration

    In the name of God

    The chief judge, Joseph al-Si…

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  14. 19914LetterT-S AS 146.187

    Address of a letter to the elders Yehuda, Yosef, and someone else, who are asked to deliver the letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. On verso …

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  15. 19915List or tableT-S NS J225

    Verso and bottom of recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is headed: "inventory of that which I brought with me to Būṣīr." Mentions names such as …

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  16. 19916LetterT-S 13J27.4

    Business letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi, a wholesale silk-dealer, to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Nissim ha-Levi in Fustat, dealing with goods …

    1. בשמך רח
    2. . .] כתאבי אלי [מו]לאי [. . . .] אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. עזה ונעמאה ותא[י]דה [ו]תמכינה וכבת אעדאה
    4. ארגו וצולה ודכרת פיה מן אלשוק אליה וחש…

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  17. 19917State documentT-S 10J13.23

    Verso: Remnants of an official Arabic document with wide line spacing. Mentions witnesses and an agent. Legible words: وقال . . . الشاهدين شهادته انه …

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  18. 19918LetterMoss. II,163.3

    The beginning of the second page what is probably a petition, written by a boy who was abandoned by his father before he was born. …

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  19. 19919Legal documentT-S AS 153.427

    Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed with partial signatures.

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  20. 19920List or tableT-S AS 202.197

    Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning goods including copper and אלקשר and people including Abū l-Fatḥ b. Marzūq and the amīr ʿAlam al-Dawla.

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  21. 19921Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/41

    Recto: Legal record of a sale of an upper-story apartment made by Surūra bt. Shelomo ha-Rofeʾ to Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham al-Qābisī. In the margin mentions …

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצרים והעדים החותמים עדותם
    2. מטה בכתב הזה איך מרב יוסף המכונה אבו אלפצל [ב]ר מרב פרחיה /אתא קדמנא/ קובל על מרב
    3. צבי…

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  22. 19922LetterT-S AS 134.189

    Fragment of a letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of five lines are preserved, with words stacked at the end. Reused on …

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  23. 19923List or tableMoss. Ia,38.2

    Verso: private accounts, in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto there is a Hebrew prayer. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  24. 19924List or tableAIU VII.F.92

    Accounts in Ladino that are part of much broader chain of related fragments. Dated Heshvan 5633 AM (November 1872 CE). For related fragments see: T-S …

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  25. 19925Unknown typeT-S NS 38.45

    Possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. Opens with a basmala and "Hādhā..." Mentions copper and lead (or a coppersmith and a leadsmith). Also "the …

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  26. 19926Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/17 + Bodl. MS heb. b 11/18

    Three distinct documents in Arabic script, chopped in half vertically and then probably glued together into a rotulus in order to be reused for the …

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  27. 19927Legal documentT-S 6J2.23

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].

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  28. 19928LetterENA NS 48.25

    Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. On a narrow sliver of paper. Dating: probably 13th century. Recto: Letter addressed to Elʿazar, complaining about the addressee's delay in copying …

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    1. אעלם ר אלעזר שצ
    2. באני משתגל פי
    3. אלכראריס והם אן שא
    4. אללה ינתגזו סרעה
    5. וקד סירת לך אוקיה
    6. חבר וקד סירת אבו
    7. אלפרג ומעה אלדאבה
    8. פתכליהם יגו מעה
    9. סרעה וי…

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  29. 19929LetterMoss. II,193

    Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Missing only the first couple lines. The writer mentions exchanges of goods (ll.2–3); he has sent a dinar for someone's …

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    1. . . . [

    2. اسل الله قرب الاجتماع على الاحوال السارة بمنه ولطفه     ومما اعلمك اطال الله بقاك ان قد انفذت [اليك

    3. الثوب والشعير ربعهم(وبعتهم/ر…

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  30. 19930State documentT-S Ar.41.131

    Petition likely addressed to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, al-ʿĀdil Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53), regarding an iqṭāʿ worth 5500 dinars and a market …

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    1. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]

    2. ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب 

    3. وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باعا…

    1. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings [and peace]
    2. ... what was assigned to them as th…

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  31. 19931LetterT-S 13J21.28

    Letter sent from Alexandria by Shemuel b. Aharon to Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Moshe in Fustat, explaining why he could not send the silk which …

    1. בשמך
    2. חצרה מולאי וסידי כב ג מ ו אברהם התלמיד
    3. הפרח הטוב הגזע הנעים השושן הייפה בן כגק
    4. מ משה המלמד סט אעלם חצרתה אדאם
    5. אללה עזה אן למא כאן קבל כרוג ואלד…

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  32. 19932Legal documentNLI 577.8/7

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Archival note at the back "حجة ضاع مضمونها وصارت الان لا تدل على شي". Probably indicating towards the document …

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  33. 19933LetterENA 2964.19

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness and Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī. Also mentions Shimʿon and "fulān" suggesting it could be a draft or something legal. On …

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  34. 19934Legal documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.15 (Michaelides 15)

    Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment) on verso. Poem on recto.

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  35. 19935State documentT-S Ar.35.48

    State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.

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    1. [صلوات الله عليه وعلى اباىه الطاهرين وابناىه الـ] 
    2. منتظرين والاجابة عن ذلك انه في غيرها ذلك و[رايـ]ـها [العالـ]ـي 
    3. فيما سله بثقته ان شا ال…

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    1. [God’s prayers be upon him, his pure ancestors and] 
    2. expected [sons]. To him belong the answer to this and to other things, and the lofty …

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  36. 19936Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 321

    Literary text, in Arabic script.

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  37. 19937LetterT-S 8J19.28 + T-S 13J26.12

    IB IV, 30 (ח27). Letter from Yosef Ibn ʿEzra and Avraham b. Muʿṭī, in Tilimsān, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with some …

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    1. בש רח
    2. שלום לאסוף / לאין תכלית ואין סוף / וטוב אשר לא יסוף / וברכות לאין סוף /
    3. וישועה קרובה ותאוה נהיה ואורה ושמחה וחסד ורחמים ויקר
    4. וגדולה / ומ…

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    1. (1–13) (פתיחה פיוטית בעברית; ראה במקור.) אדוננו ומרנו ועטרת ראשינו ופארנו ואוצרנו 
    2. (14–15) בזמננו. לו ניסינו לפרט את ה…

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  38. 19938List or tableJRL C 72

    Lists of payments and possibly other financial data in Judaeo-Arabic. The evidence of payment structure is clearest on the recto when the author notes on …

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  39. 19939LetterT-S 8J25.15

    Letter sent by Musa b. Abu Ali b. Salah to Abu al-Faraj Yeshua b. Hananya. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. אלדי אעלם בה חצרה מחל אלאך אלשיך אלאגל אלאעז אלאחב אלי
    2. אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך אני וקפת מנה אלי יום אן כתבת
    3. הדא אלכתאב ודלך תאני שבט עלי ה כתר ור…

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  40. 19940List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 206

    Accounts in Arabic script.

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  41. 19941Unknown typeENA NS 77.268

    Minute fragment. The name Mordekhay is visible, possibly part of a full signature that is missing.

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  42. 19942List or tableENA NS 83.57

    List of names in Arabic with Coptic numerals underneath. E.g. Ibn Samawal; Abū l-Baqāʾ Abī Manṣūr; Bū Saʿd b. Baqā(?)

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  43. 19943LetterNLI 577.1/56

    There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. B - Fragments of a letter, in Arabic script.

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  44. 19944List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 382

    Bifolio from a ledger of business accounts in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era.

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  45. 19945Unknown typeENA NS 76.102

    Small scrap with Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic words including אלגואב (often the introduction to a responsum).

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  46. 19946List or tableT-S NS 319.47

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Faded. Headed "expenditures that went out [for?] my late father and teacher (אבא מארי זל)." Many (or all?) of …

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  47. 19947List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 22/27

    Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū l-Ḥasan. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).

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  48. 19948Literary textJRL B 3140

    The text of a sermon for parshat Aharey Mot, late.

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  49. 19949LetterNLI 577.10/3

    Recto: Letter draft in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing his trademark phrase "when I had turned toward health." He says many …

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  50. 19950Legal documentHalper 472

    Legal document: acknowledgment (ʾiqrār) written for or by Avraham Ibn Yijū. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ I 548 AH (17 June 1153 CE), after his return to …

    1. . . . . . . . . . .] . . . . . ا . . . له بني ادم له ما لهم وعليه ما عليهم لم يشترط عليه مالا ولم يجتعل عـليه

    2. جعلا واقر ان اخاه بو البشر بن بو ا…

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