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  1. 2001Literary textMoss. Xa,3.17

    Recto: Ottoman-era manuscript title page (?) in Judaeo-Arabic with an owner's stamp. Verso: Arabic-script text dated 19 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1094 AH (9 December 1683). Needs …

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  2. 2002Literary textENA NS 79.169

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  3. 2003List or tableT-S NS 297.220

    Fragment of an account - needs examination.

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  4. 2004Legal query or responsumBL Or. 5519B.1

    Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.

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  5. 2005List or tableT-S J1.46

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is an additional note in Judaeo-Arabic signed by Shelomo [b. Eliyyahu?], perhaps describing the contents of the account. Dated: Tuesday, 9 …

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  6. 2006Legal documentT-S AS 176.503

    Legal fragment.

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  7. 2007Legal documentT-S 12.109

    Fragment (last part) of a court bill in the hand of Daniel b. Azarya. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2, 715, #390) Verso: Arabic document, …

    1. [ ]ן [ ]ה[ ]סמ[ ]חבורו [ ] וכגק [מרו]ר נתן החבר בס גדו ביר ישועה [ריוס]ף החזן בר יפת
    2. המלמד ר צמח ביר אל[עז]ר וכגק מר ורב [יא]שיהו הכהן בן כבוד גדול …

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  8. 2008List or tableBodl. MS Heb. d 74/32

    Detailed astrological table in Judaeo-Arabic. Gives the auspicious days for such activities as "demanding rights," "imḍā' al-dīwān" (?), and going to the bathhouse. ASE

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  9. 2009Legal documentT-S 8J35.10

    Beginning of a legal document in Hebrew, drawn up in Egypt in Ṭevet 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1087 CE.

    1. ]ת בשבוע [ . . . ]ם לירח טבת שנת אלף ושלש . [
    2. ] מצרים דעל ני[לוס נה]ר מותבה איך אמרו לנו . [
    3. ]ו ממנו מעכשו וכתבו וחתמו עלינו בכל לשון ש[לזכו]ת ו[
    4. ]כ…

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  10. 2010Legal documentJRL B 6938

    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman [...] bt. Natan and a man who has been …

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  11. 2011LetterT-S 6J1.5

    IB VI, 18. Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains …

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  12. 2012LetterCUL Or.1081 1.72

    Letter in Ladino, nearly complete but with numerous lacunae, from a mother to her daughter, addressed to her son-in-law Yaʿaqov Reshit (?) in Saida. The …

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    1. [   ]אש שאביר קומו אישטאמוש
    2. [א]י די שאלוד [. . .] לאש קואליש נואיבש אוייגאמוש

    3. [א]ינביאשטימי א . . . . קינו וינו . . לא קורטינא אי

    4. [   ] .…

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  13. 2013Paraliterary textJRL Genizah Ar. 24

    Unidentified text in Arabic with interspersed Judaeo-Arabic script probably in the same hand. Needs examination.

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  14. 2014LetterT-S AS 153.488

    Letter; from Maʿānī b. Abū Maslūk, mentioning a certain Isḥāq. (Information from CUDL)

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  15. 2015LetterT-S 8.69

    IB VI, 22. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to an unknown recipient (the address is cut off). Deals with the Indian Ocean trade. Includes commercial …

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  16. 2016LetterT-S AS 152.102

    Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Moses, trustee of the Yeshiva. (Information from CUDL). Should be added to India Book V. …

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  17. 2017LetterT-S NS 342.67

    Minute fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few formulaic words from …

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  18. 2018Literary textENA 2558.31a

    Panygeric prasing the leaders (negidim) of the Jewish community. Mentioned are Elʿazar, Yefet, and ʿUziel and later also ʿOvadya. There is also a single line …

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  19. 2019LetterENA 4100.11

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last leaf only. The writer is begging for an urgent loan or gift of 5 dinars, on Sunday. A sum of 20 …

    1. יעקב יטאלבה מני פמא כאן ימכנני אמצי ולא יכון
    2. צחבתי ועבדהא יסאלהא תכמיל אלאצטנאע פי
    3. כמסה דנאניר תציר אלגמלה ענד עבדהא עשרון
    4. דינארא סוא פקד אנעמת במא …

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  20. 2020LetterT-S AS 145.96

    Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿish, in Constantinople/Istanbul. Dating: Probably Ottoman era; Avraham David suggests 16th century. He refers numerous times to the holy congregation(s) and …

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  21. 2021List or tableT-S NS 342.95

    Small fragment (from a letter?) with a few names, including Abū Naṣr al-Ṭabīb (the physician), and Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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  22. 2022List or tableT-S AS 184.305

    Accounts

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  23. 2023Unknown typeENA NS 85.1185

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  24. 2024LetterENA NS 19.25

    Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, 25 August 1056 (Gil). Mentions that Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ (here called Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣāʾigh) …

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    1.                בסם אללה אלעטים
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
    3. מן אלאסכנדריה לי'ב' כלון מן אלול ואלחא…

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    1. (2−1) בשם אלוהים הנורא. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך ואת שלומך ואת רווחתך,
    2. מא…

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  25. 2025List or tableAIU VII.F.19

    List of donations (?) for the end of Adar of the year of "ezreinu" (perhaps 70+7+200+50+6 = [5]333 = 1573 CE. But everything else in …

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  26. 2026Legal documentT-S NS 38.25

    rom a formulary of legal documents, including the beginning of the section on ketubah. (FGP)

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  27. 2027List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110b/9

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly of a druggist. Mentions kohl/antimony and sugar.

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  28. 2028List or tableT-S J2.63

    Account for Nisan and Iyyar 1493 sel. ca. 1182. The usual items for accounts from Abu'l-Bayan are included in this one. There are 22 apartments …

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    1. חסאב אבו אלביאן אלגאבי לשהרין והמא די אלקעדה
    2. ודי אלחגה דאר אלנגיד לו סכן בן אלחזן יח
    3. אלברג גח דאר אלצבאג לח בן יונה יד
    4. דאר סת גזא…

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    1. The accounting of Abūʾl-Bayān al-Jābī for two months namely, Dhūʾl-qaʿda
    2. and Dhūʾl-ḥijja: Dār al-Nāgīd, 36. The apart…

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  29. 2029LetterMoss. IV,68.1

    Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Rabbenu Ḥananel. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has been paralyzed (marīḍ bi-l-fālij) for two and a half …

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  30. 2030LetterT-S AS 146.354 + T-S AS 146.351

    Letter mentioning a number of names (although most are broken off after Abū) such as al-Najīb, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Isḥāq, Maʿānī b. Nuʿmān (מעאני בן …

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  31. 2031LetterT-S Ar.40.126

    Business letter from ʿUmar b. ʿIwaḍ, in Qalyūb, to the notary and qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn, at the Dār al-Wakāla in Fustat. Discussing a shipment of …

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    1. الله خير معين
    2. المملوك عمر بن عوض يخدم مجلس سيدنا ومولانا
    3. المالك صدر الدين اسعده الله وادامه وينهي
    4. ان المملوك توجه لقليوب فلم يجد الوالي
    5. فاجتم…

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    1. God is the best of helpers.

    2. Your servant Omar b. ʿIwaḍ serves the high seat of our master

    3. and lord, my master Ṣadr al-Dīn, may God let hi…

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  32. 2032Legal documentT-S AS 145.8

    Deed of release. Location: Cairo (where Avraham b. Natan was judge). Date not preserved. Yefet b. Marwān releases the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. …

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  33. 2033List or tableT-S Ar.35.401

    An account in Judaeo-Arabic with many abbreviations related to amounts of medieval currency such as nis[f] din[ar].

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  34. 2034LetterT-S AS 166.188

    Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper part). Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to Sulaymān Maymūn al-Qazzāz(?). Asking him to purchase the headdress (kūfiyya) they had previously spoken …

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  35. 2035List or tableT-S NS 327.136

    Table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  36. 2036Legal query or responsumENA NS 35.5

    Responsum regarding a cantor who mistakenly called to six readers instead of seven in Shabbat Hodesh. Published Glick, Seridei Teshuvot, II, p. 894-888.

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  37. 2037Literary textENA NS 20.1

    Epistle of Yehuda ha-Levi to Rav David Narboni. (Information from Joseph Yahalom via FGP.)

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  38. 2038Literary textT-S AS 204.100

    Cryptic fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems literary.

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  39. 2039Legal documentT-S Ar.42.116

    Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 962 AH, which is 1554/55 CE. (Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. …

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  40. 2040Legal documentT-S AS 151.41

    Legal document(s), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing the features of a house. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  41. 2041List or tableMoss. X,107

    A memorial list . Published by Abraham David, “A Memorial List of Sages of the Palestinian Yeshiva,” Shalem, vol. 1 (1974): 75-80 (Hebrew)

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  42. 2042Literary textT-S Ar.29.53

    Geomancy manual.

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  43. 2043LetterT-S AS 152.260

    Damaged fragment from the top of a letter in Hebrew. Addressed to a dignitary. על יד כל [נביא] וחוזה . . . ואדירינו ונכבינו . …

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  44. 2044Literary textBL OR 10578B.6

    Literary. Fragment of a haggada.

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  45. 2045List or tableT-S AS 202.196

    Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Familiar from other fragments 11th century? Densely written.

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  46. 2046LetterDK 231.5 (alt: XVII)

    Letter of a father to his son Ibrāhīm in Damietta, to be delivered to the shop of Dāʾūd al-Ṣabbāgh or Surūr or Yaʿqūb the Jews …

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  47. 2047Legal documentT-S AS 145.3

    Legal fragment. In the late hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108) or the early hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [...] b. …

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  48. 2048Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Genizah Ar. 308

    Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …

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    1. وصلـــــــــــــــــــ
    2. من عابد(؟) حمزة(؟) حكر الطاحونة 
    3. بحارة اليهود تعلق وافق
    4. عبد القادر السماك
    5. وذالك عن ١٢٦٧ سنة
    6. ٢٧
    7. فقط لسبعة وعشرين قرش
    8. وا…

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  49. 2049State documentT-S Ar.39.485

    Recto: Report or official correspondence, possibly. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions "the great resolution" …

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  50. 2050LetterAIU VII.E.35

    IB II, 12. Letter from Bundar II b. Ḥasan to ʿAllān b. Ḥassān. Aden, circa 1100. (Information from Goitein and Friedman)

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    1. בשמ רח
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה
    3. בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ועלאה ורפעתה
    4. וסנאה ותמכינה וכבת אעדאה פכאן אסר
    5. וארד ואבהג ואפד וקראתה ופהמת…

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    1. בשט' רחמ'
    2. הגיע מכתב הדרת אדוני השיך' הנערץ – יאריך ה'
    3. את ימיו ויתמיד את הצלחתו ורוממותו ושגבו
    4. ועליונותו ועוזו וישפיל את אויביו, והיה (מכתבך), …

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