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  1. 20051Legal documentBL OR 5543.5

    Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Avraham b. Yosef Mammon/Mammūn and Bayda (?) bt. Moshe ha-Levi known as ʿŪraybī. Currency: reales. Dated 4 January 1797 CE (6 …

    1. בסט׳׳ו ועושר והו׳׳ז
    2. ח׳׳מ שידך הבחור ונחמד החתן המפואר כה׳׳ר אברהם ממון יצ׳׳ו
    3. בכ׳׳ר היקר נשא ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר יוסף ממון יצ׳׳ו את הכלה הכלולה
    4. יעלת חן…

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  2. 20052Literary textBL Or. 5557K.33

    Nine verses of poetry from the poem of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d.1057), who despite his controversial religious views is deemed one of the best classical …

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  3. 20053Paraliterary textENA NS 39.10

    Astrological prognostications predicting the character of a year based on the zodiac sign in which it is "born" (i.e., the position of the moon at …

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    1. אדא אתואלדת אלסנה באלגוזא פאן אלאמטאר תכתר
    2. וירום ריח אלשמאל ויציב אלזרע אלמתכר א?א ותכתר
    3. אלאתמאר ויתם מד אלניל ויקע פי אלבקר מות וי[צי]ב
    4. אלנאס…
  4. ...There will be high prices and flight from pla[ce]
  5. to place. There will be hunger. As for barley and frui[t], they will prosper [...]
  6. God knows best what is unseen.
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  8. 20054LetterMoss. IXa,3.4

    Verso of the literary text PGPID 39625. The verso contains administrative memoranda or letters in Judaeo-Arabic in which Ḥayyīm ʿAfīf addressed a a superior with …

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  9. 20055Legal documentT-S 18J1.13

    Legal document. Record of release. Dated 1085. Location: Alexandria. This document is a largely-complete release signed and executed by well-known members of the rabbinical court …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן  [שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא סוף שטרא]
    Sam[uel …] appeared before us in court, [testifying before you to the soundness]
  10. of his mind and body and the freedom of his will, will[ingly, under neither duress nor force nor compulsion, with neither negligence]
  11. nor error, with neither illness nor disease, nor any of the like ]from all the factors which invalidate testimony.]
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  13. 20056Legal documentT-S 20.7

    Fine, calligraphic ketubba. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1361 Seleucid = 16 January 1050 CE. Bride: Sitt al-Dār bt. Abū l-Ṭayyib Ḥananya ha-Levi ha-Parnas. …

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  14. 20057Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Legal record (#23) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …

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    :Left side of bifolio 3r (Documents 22-23)

    1. מאתים תשעים דרהם וקנין מיד הר׳ יצחק הנז׳ ושבועה חמורה

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  15. 20058Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#68) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 23r

    1. ופי תא׳ אשהד עליה //יצחק// אלכהן אבן אלמד׳ דוד הכהן אן ענדה ופי דמת[ה
    2. ללמולי אלאגל יוסף א׳אלמר׳ צדקה אלנקאש מאיה דהב גד…

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  16. 20059Paraliterary textAIU VI.B.31

    Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit Hutz." In …

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  17. 20060Legal documentAIU VII.D.46

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to the author's sister Sabaqīya (סבקייא), probably from one of the three siblings mentioned on the verso legal document (Gentīl, …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2.              אל[...
    3. סלאם אללה תע׳ ורחמתו וברכאתו ..זכא(?) ת[...
    4. אלאוכת אלעזיזה הכבודה וצנועה ואשת חיל מ׳ סבקייא מב׳׳ת
    5. בעד מזיד אלסלאם עליהא וכ…

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  18. 20061LetterAIU VII.E.173

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand appears to be that of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Possibly a draft, …

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  19. 20062LetterBL OR 10112B.16 + Moss. IV,53.2

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Two fragments from the upper left side. Mentions: female dyers …

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  20. 20063Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 94/19 + Bodl. MS heb. e 94/25

    Legal document, unfinished, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138). Jayyida who possessed two thirds of a house was in need of fifty dinars. She received …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצרת אלינא
    2. אלגידה בת מרור אברהם הזקן נע זוגה אלשיך אבו אלסרור אלעצאר מרור
    3. פרחיה הזקן התלמיד יש …

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  21. 20064Legal documentCUL Or.1080 5.15 + T-S AS 147.45

    Document with the trousseau list for the marriage of Sitt al-ʿIzz and Yeter ha-Levi. On parchment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. …

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  22. 20065LetterCUL Or.1080 15.16

    Letter from Mose de Toledo and perhaps one other person, in Gaza. In Spanish. Dating: Probably 15th–16th century, on paleographic grounds (assessment kindly provided by …

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  23. 20066Literary textCUL Or.1081 2.75.30

    "The text of the Makherzonutho or Proclamation that a deacon chants prior to the reading of the Gospel. . . [from] the Book of Anaphora, …

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  24. 20067Legal documentENA NS 48.7

    Deed of compensation (שטר פיצוי) in the scribal hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. In …

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  25. 20068LetterMoss. IV,47.1

    Note from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based on …

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    1. בש רח
    2. יענך ייי ביום וימלא משאלות
    3. ליבך ויזכיך שנים רבות

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  26. 20069LetterMoss. V,329

    Letter from a certain Yishmaʿel. Written on the 7th of Av. The writer says he will bring the mat or chessboard (naṭʿ) with him when …

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    1. ] . למא וסעה כתאב ולא חו[אה
    2. כטאב פאל יקרב אלגתמאע בכדמת מולאנא

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  27. 20070Legal documentMS 9160.5

    Legal document. Location: Cairo. Date: Tuesday, 12 Sivan 1814 Seleucid = 6 June 1503 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yiṣḥaq (Sholal). Likely a …

    1. בש׳ רחמ׳
    2. וחנ׳ 
    3. למא כאן בתאריך יום אלתלאתה תאני עשר יום מן שהר סיון שנת אלף ושמנה מאות ועשר
    4. וארבעה שנים לשטרות למנינא דרגילנא לממני ביה הכא בעיר אלקא…

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  28. 20071Legal documentT-S 6J2.11

    India Book (IB) I, 31a. Legal document: testimony about the will of Yosef Lebdi. This fragment, written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן חתומי [...]
    2. יוסף אללבדי רצי אללה ענה ביר' דויד [...]
    David [before he set out on the voyage],
  29. from which he did not return toMiṣr [made in our]

  30. presence a last will which we have taken down in his name.

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  32. 20072LetterT-S 8J20.23

    Recto: copy of a Hebrew letter of holiday wishes addressed to (the community of) al-Maḥalla for the month of Tishrei. In the hand of Ḥalfon …

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  33. 20073LetterT-S 10J11.12

    Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham, in Ḥevron, to Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin (aka Yeshuʿa b. Thābit), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE (Gil) or 1075 CE …

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    1. עטרה [ ]
    2. האדיר האציל המהודר המוכתר בכתרי מהללים שלושה הוא
    3. כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנא ורבנא ישועה הירא את יי מרבים
    4. אשר יראתו ידועה וענותו מיודעה ובימ…

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  34. 20074LetterT-S 10J12.32

    Letter from Yosef כיטו(?), in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov אלחנאצי (=al-Ḥanesī = "of Ḥanes (Damietta)"), in Fustat/Cairo. In Ladino. Dated: Monday, 17 Shevaṭ 5500 AM = …

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  35. 20075Legal documentT-S 12.88

    Will, nearly complete. Written on a small piece of parchment. Testator: Abū al-Faraj b. Maʿrūf the perfumer. (His son Faḍāʾil appears in Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.29 …

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  36. 20076LetterT-S 12.657

    Letter of notification by a senior of the academy, probably Nahray b. Nissim, written by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, saying that the Nasi (David b. …

    1. יהודה הכהן בן יוסף הכהן
    2. בשמ רחמ
    3. כאנת חצרה סידנא אלנשיא אלאגל נשיא כל ישראל נטרוהא
    4. מן שמיא וברכוהא ועלוהא תקדמת אלי אלחזן רב הלל נט רחמ
    5. אן יעלם רבנו …

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  37. 20077Legal documentT-S 13J2.20

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid = October 1133 CE, under the authority of …

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    1. חצר אלינא אנן חתומי מטה אלשיך אבו אלחסן מרור שלמה הכהן ישצו בר מרור
    2. משה הכהן נע וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו מני מעכשו ואכתבו ואכתמו עלי

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  38. 20078Legal documentT-S 13J18.6

    Verso (secondary use): Draft of the beginning of a legal declaration in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active until 1150 CE). Addressing the …

    1. למא כאן קד חצרנא נחן כדם חצרה סיידנא הגאון ירום הודה
    2. פי כניסה אלעראקיין ללמילה פקצינא אלמצוה ועזמנא עלי
    3. אלאנצראף תקדם אלינא רבנ נתן החבר נזר הח נט ר…

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  39. 20079Legal documentT-S 20.103

    Writ of agency, probably written in Acre during the first half of the eleventh century. A woman appoints Mevorakh b. Yeḥezqel to take care of …

    1. ....
    2. ....
    3. לנא וכתבו וחתמו ותנו לו למבורך בן יחזקאל הידוע [
    4. [ ] שאני מודה בשמו בפניכם הודאה גמורה
    5. ק[ימ]ת וברורה ש[נ]ת[תי] לו במתנה ארבע אמות קרקע שלי

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  40. 20080List or tableT-S Ar.7.13

    Two lists of contributors, neatly written (by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?), one above the other. The 12 names in the upper list are repeated in the …

    1. אבו אלרצא אבו סעד אבו סחאק
    2. 1 1 1
    3. אבו מנצור אבו אלמגד יעקוב
    4. ½ 1 ½ 1 ¼ ½
    5. יוסף יוסף אבראהים פציל
    6. 1 1 1 ½
    7. מנצור נגיב אלמעתוק
    8. ½ ¼ ½
    9. אבו סעד ברצא בסחאק יו…

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  41. 20081LetterT-S AS 146.109

    Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlī al-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and …

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  42. 20082LetterT-S AS 156.42

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the presence of the relatively uncommon blessing …

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  43. 20083LetterT-S AS 184.321

    List of materia medica in Arabic script, containing simples such as endive, Armenian bole, and red arsenic (realgar) and yellow arsenic, probably part of a …

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  44. 20084List or tableT-S K2.32

    Account of Barhūn b. Sāliḥ ha-Tāhartī, 1055. Three bifolios (six pages) with two binding-holes on either side of each centerfold. Contains details about commodities such …

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    1. ברכת יי היא תעשיר

    2. שרח מא בקי לנא במצר ענד אבי יחיי סלמה אללה

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    1. (2−1) פירוט מה שנותר לזכותנו בפסטאט אצל אבו יחיא, ייתן לו אלוהים שלום.

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  45. 20085List or tableT-S K15.109

    Account, on parchment and much dilapidated, containing weekly revenue and expenditures (small related costs), in the elaborate hand of Aharon 'the expert cantor' b. Efrayim …

    1. יום אלא' ב'
    2. יום אלב' ד'
    3. יום אלג' פציל ח
    4. שלימן ג'
    5. הארון ב'
    6. אלקיסרני ה'
    7. אפרים ד'
    8. אסחק ו'
    9. אלקמאח ו' ד' ול' ראס?

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    1. יום אלו' פצי…

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  46. 20086Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Legal record (#28) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …

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    :Left side of bifolio 4r (Documents 28-29)

    1. הנ׳ כל ימי חייהם וזה לא יקרב אליהם והאיש אשר בזבון(?)

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  47. 20087Legal documentT-S NS 99.70

    Verso: Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) concerning the execution of a will. Headed, "all of the inherited gold …

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  48. 20088Legal documentT-S NS 104.31

    Recto: draft of a suretyship agreement in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Khallūf b. Yehuda undertakes to act as surety for …

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  49. 20089Legal documentT-S NS 321.12

    Court register, fragment. Upper left corner of a legal record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Dating: 1127-38, based on Ḥalfon's …

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  50. 20090LetterT-S NS 327.104

    Recto: Fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions the date Dhū l-Ḥijja [.]75 AH, likely 575 AH based …

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  51. 20091LetterT-S NS 339.15

    Part of a letter (bottom of recto, top of verso) likely by the cantor Abu Sahl Levi. The remaining contents have to do with an …

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  52. 20092Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#4) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 2v-3r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 10 Sivan 5320 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folios 2v-3r

    1.                      בסימן טוב ובמזל טוב
    2. ביום רביעי בשבוע והוא יום עשתה(!) עשר מחדש סיון המב׳׳ו שנת ה׳ש׳כ׳ 
    3. לבריאת …

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  53. 20093Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.8

    Legal record (#14). Deposition in court. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faḍl al-Mustaʿmal b. Natan testifies that Hilāl al-Mustaʿmal b. al-Raṣṣāṣ said to …

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  54. 20094List or tableT-S 8J6.3

    Verso: List of "those who have not received their share" (al-bāqiyyīn bi-lā akhdh), i.e., in the distribution of wheat. Dating: Probably 1215–40 CE, based on …

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    סדכ.דו

    ר'[.]בי..א אמ[ר]אה פ[רנ]ס?

    סכנדרי מהא.?

    זוגה ....

    קדסייה

    אם טאהר

    אמו אבן .ידאן

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    שׂרה לאה

    מליחה דויד

    זוגה ה[א]רון

    אברהם דקיק[י]

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  55. 20095List or tableT-S AS 209.112

    List in Ladino with payments in silver medin. Dating 15th-17th century based on the paleography and the post-1415 CE currency mentioned. Each entry opens with …

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  56. 20096Paraliterary textT-S NS 324.111 + T-S AS 146.92

    Secondary use (probably): Calendar in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū for the years 1463–68 Seleucid (=1151–57 CE). Resembling Ibn Yijū's other calendars but with …

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  57. 20097Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1413

    Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …

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    1. סבב תסטיר האדה אלאחירף(!) ומוג'ב תחרירה בחצרה כל מן כמוה׳׳ר הח׳ הש׳ יום טוב

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  58. 20098Legal documentT-S 20.16

    Bill of release. Written (also validated) by Avraham b. Natan Av. Dated: 1104 or 1107 CE, with a partial year in the first line, Nisan …

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  59. 20099LetterBL OR 5536.4

    Short letter from the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen to his cousin and brother-in-law Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning the purchasing of …

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    1. וכרימתך תקבל
    2. ידך ועינין אבו אלמעאלי
    3. ועיני ואלדתה

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  60. 20100Literary textBL OR 5554A.29

    A folio from a Judaeo-Arabic epistle/treatise on Hebrew grammar, listing the Masoretic pedigree of Aharon b. Moshe b. Asher, also mentioning R. Moshe Moheh and …

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