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  1. 151LetterT-S 10J17.25

    Letter from Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen (possibly b. Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu), a recently appointed judge in al-Mahalla and Sammanūd, to Shemuel the cantor, praising the community for …

    1. שמר תם וראה ישר כי טוביה הכהן
    2. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך
    3. וצל כתאב כגק מר ור שמואל השר הנכבד
    4. החזן הח והנ ישמרו צורו ועליו יצי[ץ נז]רו ומכל
    5. רע יצלו יגזיעו …

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  2. 152Legal documentT-S AS 184.139

    Bottom of a legal document in Arabic, with part of a witness clause preserved.

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  3. 153LetterT-S 10J16.3

    Letter. Postscript to a letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo by the scion of the house of David in Mosul who also wrote Bodl. MS …

    1. פצל
    2. . . ל . דאם טלה אנה למא לם יחצל לולדנא שיא אצלא מן אליהוד
    3. . . לא מתל הדא אלצבי אלעגמי ולא מתל גירה מן אקל אלעניים
    4. אלוארדין אלי הדא אלבלד ותחקקת …

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  4. 154LetterYevr. II A 1731

    A letter to Sar Shalom

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  5. 155Literary textENA 3926.4

    Unidentified text in Arabic, looks literary.

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  6. 156Literary textBL OR 5565G.44–45

    Bifolium from the beginning of Ibn Buṭlān's Daʿwat al-Aṭṭibā'.

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  7. 157Legal documentT-S AS 187.305

    Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment, and verso is blank, suggesting that it is a legal document. The first line preserved …

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  8. 158Legal documentT-S 8J5.4

    Court notebook in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Fol. 1r: Power of attorney. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid = 12 …

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    1. חצרת אלינא אנן חתומי מטה פרגיה בת מ יצחק נע זוגה אלשיך אבו אלמעאלי
    2. מרור אברהם הזקן יש צו דידיע בן אבו סלאמה ואשהדתנא עלי נפסהא
    3. אנהא קד והבת …

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  9. 159LetterCUL Or.1081 2.5

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to جناب حضرت الحجب(؟) المحترم حاخام زادة(؟) . . . . اليهود الربان. The sender's name includes Ṣāliḥ, …

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  10. 160Legal documentNLI 577.1/49

    Deed of sale for Wahab b. Asʿad b. Naʿīm al-Naṣrānī, in Arabic script. Dated: 18th Rajab al-Aṣab (...). The document is ripped off in two …

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  11. 161List or tableT-S AS 204.220

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Probably medieval. Mentions items such as olive oil, linseed oil, and sesame oil; a jūkāniyya; a pillow; sarāwīl; wood; …

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  12. 162LetterT-S AS 183.99

    Small fragment of a letter. The phrase كشف خبره appears - referring to investigating someone's news.

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  13. 163Unknown typeENA NS 85.519

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  14. 164State documentT-S K25.189

    Fiscal accounts relating to agrarian administration for the kharājī year 430 (spanning the lunar years 431 and 432 AH, corresponding to 1039–41 CE) issued by …

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    1. الجلبان ثمنية واربعين اردبا.     البزر(؟)[
    2. الحمص خمسة ارادب        البرسيم اربـ[ـعة
    3. منها ما اوضح الكشف
    4. ان ادريس بن ا…

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    1. Vetch: forty-eight irdabbs. Seed: [
    2. Chickpeas: five irdabbs. Clover: Four [
    3. Included is the seed-advance that the report indicated
    4. was issued …

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  15. 165Legal query or responsumT-S G1.20

    Recto: Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Yiṣḥaq the judge (perhaps Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson from the court of Maimonides). Concerns a business partnership between a …

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    1. מא יקול מר׳ ור׳ יצחק הדיין הפטיש החזק דגל הרבנים יח[י ל]עד
    2. פי בר ישראל מעאמל גוי מדה סנין ואלגוי יאכד אלרבא אלי אן תגמד
    3. עלי אלעברי בקיה מ…

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    1. What does our master and teacher, rabbi Yiṣḥaq [b. Sasson] the judge, the mighty hammer and the flag of the rabbis, may he live, say 
    2. about…

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  16. 166List or tableDK 233.4

    List or table, in Arabic. Mentions several commodities, and their weights (ex. raṭl). Needs examination. NB: this shelfmark does not appear to be on FGP.

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  17. 167LetterT-S 8J18.33

    Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī al-Maghribi, in Fustat, both prominent in the Geniza correspondence of the …

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    1. כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונע[מאך]
    2. מן תניס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמתך אן לי מדה מא קרית לך כתאב ארגו

    3. שגל כיר וקד …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ודבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת חסדיך,
    2. מתניס. שלומי טוב, ואני מאושר. הודעתי לך שמזמן לא …

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  18. 168LetterT-S NS 304.5

    A late letter from a mother to her son Yosef b. Ghunaym (may appear also in T-S 28.10). Among other news she informs him that …

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  19. 169LetterT-S AS 181.107

    Fragment of a letter either addressed to or mentioning 'al-ḥakīm al-ajall' (the esteemed physician).

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  20. 170List or tableENA 3943.13

    Mercantile memorandum or bill of lading (tadhkira) in Arabic script. Listing items that were shipped with a certain captain (al-rayyis... al-Ḥayfī) for Abū Ṭāhir b. …

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  21. 171LetterT-S Misc.20.153

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …

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  22. 172LetterT-S Ar.18(1).124

    Letter sent to Cairo to the house of a ḥaver from the Ibn Qaṭāʾif family, dated Friday, middle of Shevat, describing the writer’s anger over …

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  23. 173Unknown typeENA NS 85.730

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  24. 174LetterT-S AS 146.30

    Letter to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Neṭira. In Hebrew. In the handwriting of a certain Avraham ha-Kohen, who is known in the world of piyyuṭ …

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  25. 175List or tableT-S AS 212.50

    Much damaged fragment from a list of names and items.

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  26. 176LetterJRL B 7430

    Fragments of a commercial letter in Ladino. Mentioning R. Sason; Shemuʾel b. [...];, Avraham כיתאריש(?); the addressee's sister Doña Zahra (the same as in T-S …

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  27. 177Unknown typeENA NS 85.1410

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  28. 178List or tableENA NS 56.12

    Accounts in a cursive Italian or Castilian Spanish shorthand. Likely late medieval or perhaps later. Merits further examination. For accounts in a similar scribal hand, …

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  29. 179LetterENA NS 77.101

    Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  30. 180LetterT-S AS 151.46

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script on verso. Very faded.

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  31. 181Legal documentT-S NS 184.58 + T-S NS 184.62 + T-S NS 184.50 + T-S NS 184.71 + T-S NS 184.70 + T-S NS 184.74 + T-S NS 184.72 + T-S NS 184.98

    IB I, 34a. Legal proceedings whereby two friends of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq testify to the court of how Avraham betrothed his cousin, Sitt al-Ahl b. …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים ומאן דחתים עימנא

    2. לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבו אסחק מר' | ור' אברה…

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  32. 182Literary textT-S AS 215.313

    Unidentified literary text in Latin script, unidentified language.

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  33. 183Legal documentENA 2559.12

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 17 Adar II 1597 Seleucid = 15 March 1286 CE. The communal officials (khuddām) who collect the capitation taxes in …

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    1. כאן בתאריך אלסאבע עשר מן שהר [אדר] שני שנת
    2. אלפא וחמש מאיה ותשעין ושבע שנין לשטרות במצר
    3. חצרו אלכאדאם אלדי יגבו אלגואל במצר והם הבה אבן
    4. אבו אלפר…

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  34. 184LetterENA 2727.51

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. …

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  35. 185Legal documentT-S K2.67

    Rental contract of some kind. In Arabic script. The bottom 19 lines are preserved. Involving an agent named Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl (l. 1), a drug …

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  36. 186LetterJRL B 7893

    Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is unusual. Refers to an amīr, the width and height of something, and ends "wa-l-salām."

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  37. 187Literary textT-S NS 205.90

    Verso, right page: Ethical exhortations in Arabic beginning "O my son" (yā bunayya).

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  38. 188List or tableENA NS 15.6

    Fragment containing items such as wheat and amounts. Probably an account, less likely a letter.

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  39. 189Literary textT-S AS 146.306

    Hebrew text, maybe liturgical.

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  40. 190LetterT-S NS 226.154

    Verso: Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Alexandria and Abū Isḥāq and items lost at sea or in the Nile (fī l-baḥr). …

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  41. 191List or tableT-S AS 182.69

    Bifolio from a mysterious ledger. Contains some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, but also contains two entries that begin اصفح(?), and one may …

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  42. 192Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.30.247

    Responsa in Judaeo-Arabic. Filling a bifolium.

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  43. 193List or tableT-S AS 146.220

    Mentions [...] b. Yiṣḥaq; sums in dinars and wariq dirhams; quantities of khazz sillk; meat; and the term dhahab maghzūl which also appears in T-S …

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  44. 194Legal query or responsumENA 2922.30

    Responsum that deals with someone who, due to financial troubles, must move to another city to find work despite an explicit prohibition against it in …

    1. וחן וחסד ימציאהו כִרִבִ [...]
    2. פי ראובן אזוג פי בלדה ואשרטו עליה פי אלכתובה
    3. באן יכון סכנהא ברצֹאהא ואנהו מא וגד תלך אלבלדה מואפקהִ
    4. לִהִ לא פי מעאשה ו…

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  45. 195LetterT-S AS 172.321

    Small fragment of a letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Saʿīd. May mention the messiah (אלמושיח).

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  46. 196Legal documentT-S K25.240.37

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of …

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    1. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    2. מן גהה וקף אלמהדב לסעדיה אלנזיר
    3. דרהמין ושלום

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  47. 197Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 179.253

    Order of payment or similar sort of document. In Arabic script, but with a Hebrew אמת at the top. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Rabiʿ II of …

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  48. 198LetterT-S Ar.20.12

    Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Instructing the addressee to buy spices (saqaṭ) on the trip to al-Mahd[iyya].

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  49. 199Paraliterary textT-S NS 202.37

    Technical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. Alchemy?

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  50. 200LetterT-S AS 145.196 + T-S 10J18.5 + T-S AS 150.105 + T-S AS 207.216 + T-S 12.597

    Verso: Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE, mentioning Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Joins by Mordechai Akiva …

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