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  1. 20201Literary textAIU VI.B.3

    44 pages, some of which are instructions for kabbalistic kavanot, some of which are a Sabbatean tract (see especially pp.15–16, 19–22, and 25–27 = 8r–8v, …

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  2. 20202Unknown typeAIU XII.17

    8 small pages mostly in Arabic. Page 1: The beginning of a letter to al-Ḥājj Aḥmad. Page 2: Jottings of text from a letter. Page …

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  3. 20203Legal documentBL OR 4856.2

    Testimony dated the 8 Av 1776 Seleucid = 31 July 1465 CE. Regarding Manṣūr b. Ibrāhīm ("known as the leprous (al-Abras)"?) and another party who …

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  4. 20204LetterENA 2808.25 + T-S AS 148.117

    Recto: Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) to his 'brother' Abū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a previous rebuke; the arrival …

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  5. 20205LetterENA NS 40.1

    Fragment (lower left corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. Contains several evocative phrases, but difficult to understand without a join. Mentions someone's …

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  6. 20206LetterENA NS 78.18

    Letter fragment ın Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. Dealing with communal affairs including something about people who could not or refused to pray in the synagogue. …

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  7. 20207Legal documentF 1908.44G

    Legal testimony. Dated: Friday, 25 Sivan 1462 Seleucid = 11 June 1151 CE. Witnessed by Yeshuʿa b. Shemarya, Shela b. Yakhin, and Natan b. Yosef …

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  8. 20208Paraliterary textHalper 463

    Signature of the Exilarch David. "A signature on an otherwise blank piece of paper, possibly an ex libris inscribed on the first page of a …

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  9. 20209LetterMIAC 281

    Appeal to the Karaite Jewish community for the establishment of a special prayer for keeping away the spirit of the war from Egypt as requested …

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  10. 20210LetterMoss. Ia,17

    Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender might be Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (the usual correspondent of Yehuda …

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  11. 20211Legal documentT-S 8.148

    Fragment of a legal testimony. Written in an early square hand. Location: Unknown. Dated: 4761–68 AM = 999–1008 CE (it cannot be 4716 AM or …

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  12. 20212LetterT-S 10J20.21

    Letter written by Mevorakh b. Natan and signed in full by the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. The latter rebukes the muqaddam, or head of the …

    1. עזרי מעם ייי עושה שמים וארץ
    2. מן שר שלום הלוי גאון יעקב החוסה
    3. בשם ייי ביר משה הלוי גאון יעקב
    4. ביר נתנאל הששי בחבורה זצל
    5. אלדי נעלם בה אדירנו נכבדנו וחשו…

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  13. 20213Legal documentT-S 13J2.1

    Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בחמשה בשבה
    2. דהוא עשרין ותלתה יומי בירח כסלו דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחד שנין
    3. למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפס…

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  14. 20214Legal documentT-S 20.118

    Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of …

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  15. 20215Legal documentT-S Ar.42.80

    Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: First decade of Rabīʿ I 486 AH = April 1093 CE. Apparently concerning some confusion over shipments of produce …

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم  ا]لـشـــــكر لله دائــــــــــماً

  16. This captain was addressed on the subject of what was contained in his ship, which he had steered to the Guarded (Dār) Ṣināʿa (the customs-port of Fustat).
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  18. 20216Literary textT-S Ar.42.203

    Original use: literary manuscript in Arabic script, written on a bifolio, containing an anecdote (khabar) about the Umayyad-era singer Maʿbad b. Wahb (d. 743/44). A …

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  19. 20217LetterT-S AS 146.237

    Fragment of a letter from [...] b. Yaʿaqov to [...] b. Natan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dating: likely …

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  20. 20218LetterT-S AS 148.161 + T-S AS 148.162 + T-S AS 148.163

    Three fragments of a letter probably from the physician Abū Zikrī b. Eliyyahu (ca. late 12th and early 13th century). In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Compare T-S …

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  21. 20219Legal documentT-S AS 153.31

    Fragment (bottom part) of a power of attorney. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. In which al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār …

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  22. 20220LetterT-S AS 178.110

    Letter addressed to Abū ʿImrān, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Reporting that the addressee's son (also named Abū ʿImrān?) arrived with nothing but [...] and …

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  23. 20221State documentT-S AS 184.218

    A few words in chancery script from a large state document, likely a Fatimid decree. Reused for an intriguing literary work in Arabic listing the …

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  24. 20222LetterT-S AS 200.182

    Letter in Hebrew. Mentions the names ṣefanya and Sar Shalom. Refers to somebody in trouble, whom other people are libeling and "handing over into the …

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  25. 20223Literary textT-S AS 204.12 + T-S NS 298.35 + T-S NS 37.110

    Yiddish translation of the siddur, including ʿAl ha-Nissim and Asher Heni' for Purim. Dated on paleographic grounds to the 15th century, making it the oldest …

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  26. 20224Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#81) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 19 [Av 5325 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 28r

    1. ולא תסיר למכלוק אן יכון מטלקא לא ליהודי ולא מסלם ולא לנצ[ראני
    2. ולא שטר בכט אליהוד ולא מצטור בכט אלישמעאלים ולא אשהאד לא

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  27. 20225Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#105) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Kislev [5326 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 35r

    1. כל גמעה ואנה רצי תם קבל עליה ר׳ מרדכי בשבו׳ בש׳ ית׳ בק[יי]ן גמור [...
    2. [[אברא]] ואברא דמתהא מן אלארבעה אלדהב אלמד׳ אע׳ ו…

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  28. 20226Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.8

    Legal record (#15). Deposition in court. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Makārim b. Salāma al-Kohen known as Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya states that he was …

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  29. 20227Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/7

    Legal document. Record of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1125 CE. This document describes release from a partnership in …

  30. ...We wrote and signed (this  document) and gave it tothis Elder //Abū// [al-Munā]  
  31. in order that there would be in his hand a title of right and proof.
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  33. 20228List or tableCUL Or.1080 J149

    Genealogical lists. On recto: - The first section is the genealogy of Moshe and David Maimonides. Headed ʿitrat al-rayyis. The names are ʿOvadyahu, Shelomo, ʿOvad[ya], …

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  34. 20229Literary textBodl. MS Arab. d 23.18 + Bodl. MS Arab. d 23.19 + Bodl. MS Arab. d 23.20 + Bodl. MS Arab. d 23.21

    Fragment of a book of cosmetics written on parchment. It deals with the hair (the fall of the hair, curled hair, half-curled hair, and straight …

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  35. 20230State documentENA 3695.6 + T-S Ar.38.120

    Fiscal accounting. Dated (on T-S Ar.38.120): 436 kharājī = 1044/45 CE plus or minus a couple years. There are three or four distinct documents present: …

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  36. 20231Legal documentENA 3975.6

    Deed of lease. Lessee: Tamīm b. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī who lives in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn. Lessor: the former agent/administrator of the properties of the Qodesh …

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  37. 20232Legal documentMoss. IXa,3.20

    List of synagogue honors and the amounts congregants bid for them, with numbers expressed in Indic/Arabic numerals. Names: Angelino Gallico, Avraham Sabāʿī, Binyamin Yisraʾel, David …

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  38. 20233Legal documentSt. Catherine, CPA NF frag 13, fol. 2-3

    Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabic on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …

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  39. 20234LetterT-S 8J15.24

    India Book (IB) II, 1: Letter from Mukhtar b. Yaʿaqov to Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid b. Naja describing Ḥasan b. Bundār's assistance. Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid, the …

  40. ריסייה
  41. אל
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    1. אגליה ירום הודה
    2. ויגדל כבודה יעמל
    3. פי הדה אלנובה
    You know that the orphans, two girls, are poor. Please tell his excellency, the illustrious

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    Rayyis—mayhis glory be enhanced and his esteem wax!

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  43. 20235LetterT-S 10J14.13

    Recto: Letter concerning an order for a cloak (mulāʾa) which the writer had sent but the addressee had not confirmed receiving. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deferential tone …

    1. אללה תע ישהד במא תגריה אלאיאם ע[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. אלאגל אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא וסנאהא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  44. 20236LetterT-S 13J18.22

    Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …

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    1. ולדה שלמה ברבי אליה היב
    2.                למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין

    I am well, praise be to God on high. And [peace.

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  45. 20237LetterT-S 16.252

    Letter/petition from Moshe b. ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon he-Ḥaver to a highly placed courtier in Fustat titled Zaʿīm al-Mulk, in Fustat. The addressee may in fact …

    1. . . . . . . .]. . .ברים והשרים בכל שרי ה. . .
    2. . . . .]. ונשפלים ונבזים . .יש עפר פני הדר בא. .
    3. כב. .צי הנודע איש .גזרות וברבותו . .קרא תראב. . . . .

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  46. 20238Legal documentT-S 20.60

    Court record written by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. In which Yefet and Yosef b. Binyamin the banker, as guardians of Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi, collect a …

    1. מע]שה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית ד[ין וה]עדים החתומים למטה בשני בשבת בשמנה ימים לירח אדר שני שנת אל[ף
    2. . .] יוסף בר בנימן השלחני ויפת הלוי בר טוביה הבבלי אפ…

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  47. 20239State documentT-S Ar.40.84

    Recto (original use): Bottom of a formal petition, or most likely a report due to state related affairs discussed, in Arabic script, mentioning "al-thaghr" (=Alexandria?) …

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  48. 20240List or tableT-S Ar.41.125

    Recto: (1) Recipe in Arabic script in a Spanish hand, beginning with the basmala four times. The recipe uses marrubium juice, ginger-water, honey and cinnamon-water. …

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  49. 20241Literary textT-S AS 151.34

    Narrative poem in Judaeo-Arabic involving a certain Abū l-Riḍā, told in rhyming hemistichs. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. A lament at his prolonged absence …

  50. אלזמאן מא רינאך : יא חסן דיך אלכדין ואלעארצין
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    1. מן ענבר קד קאל מולאי אלריס מן
    2. דא אלקצא כנת אחדר : עמתה

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  52. 20242Literary textT-S AS 158.43

    Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be a chronicle or literary narrative about a caliph and someone named ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Parts of ~10 lines are …

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  53. 20243Paraliterary textT-S AS 183.88

    A version of a prayer (duʿāʾ al-miʿrāj) attributed to ʿAlī, other versions of which read in part: يامن ليس له شبيه ولا مثيل موجود يامن …

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  54. 20244Paraliterary textT-S K21.29

    Placard of a Spanish pilgrim to Jerusalem "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither [Psalms 137:5]. [I am] Avraham b. Yehuda—m[ay …

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  55. 20245Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …

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    :Right side of bifolio 2r (Documents 14-15)

    1. שימסור הר׳ פינחס הנז׳ כל הנכסים של הר׳ משה הנ׳ אשר בידו

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  56. 20246Legal documentYevr. III B 636

    Verso (original use): Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: Prior to 1144 CE. Groom: Tamīm b. Yefet ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Ṣemaḥ b. …

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  57. 20247Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#64) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 2 Iyyar [5324 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 21v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאחד כ׳׳ה פי שהר ניסן המכו׳
    2. שנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ד׳ ליצירה חצ'רו בין איאדי אלמולי אלאגל אד׳…

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  58. 20248List or tableMoss. Ia,36

    Recto: The title page with illuminated capitals of Sefer Eliyyah Mizraḥi ʿal ha-Torah, printed by Itzik ben Leib Buchbinder in Fürth, 1763. There is an …

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  59. 20249Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1740

    Qaraite court record(s) regarding an agreement that followed two cases of theft (סרקה/سرقة) committed by a certain Yaʿaqov Feyrūz. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5547 AM = …

    1. סבב תצטיר האדא אלאחרף ומוגב תחרירהא אן חצרו בעץ מן אלקהל
    2. בר׳ יה׳ פי מנזל החכם כמוה׳׳ר יום טוב ס׳׳ט וחצרו כה׳׳ר משה ואבו מרדכי
    3. חיינה מן קצ'ית יעקב פי…

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  60. 20250LetterAIU VI.B.87

    Fragment of a letter in Arabic. May describe transactions involving a female slave belonging to a noble woman ("al-sharīfa al-kabīra") who may still be owed …

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