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  1. 20701LetterT-S NS 320.6

    Letter from Masʿūd b. Mawhūb to his brother Sābiq b.

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  2. 20702Legal documentT-S NS 323.19

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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    1. [ ] אלעזר הנק[רא מנצור ] בן [מרור] יפת הזקן הנקרא חסן נע דידיע
    2. [ ]סתהם אלמדעאה סת אלגמיע בת מרור עובדיה הזקן
    3. [ ] אבו נצר אלעטאר הידוע בן זביבא…

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  3. 20703Legal documentYevr. II A 1315

    Conditions: The groom will not leave the city of Cairo for 20 years, e.g., to Damascus or Istanbul (but Jerusalem is allowed as an exception).

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    1.                      בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
    2. ביום חמישי בשבוע והוא חמשה ימים מחדש תשרי המ׳ 
    3. [[סנה]] שנת חמשת אלפים ושלוש מאות ותשעים ושמונהים(!)
    4. ש…

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  4. 20704Legal documentYevr. III B 636

    Recto (secondary use): Legal document. The settlement of a protracted marital dispute between the same Tamīm b.

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  5. 20705Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#85) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29v of Yevr.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 29v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלכמיס ו׳ פי שהר מרחשון
    2. סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ה׳ ליצירה אשהד עליה אלאך ע׳אלרחים א׳אלמר׳ אלמול…

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  6. 20706Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.24

    Legal record (#61). Settlement of debt. Dated: End of Av, 1467 Seleucid.

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  7. 20707Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 850

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Elul 1648 Seleucid = Muharram 738 AH = 13 August 1337 CE.

    1. בר
    2. אקול ואנא אלממלוך צפי בן אברהים אלחזאן אנה למא תפצלת
    3. אלגמאעה בר יהיו עלי באן יטלקו לי פי כל שהר כמסה דראהם
    4. נקרה בחכם אני אלאזם אלכניסה //ודאר בן …

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  8. 20708Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 933

    Haggai Ben-Shammai has written that the Dār Simḥa synagogue (the source of much of the Firkovich, now RNL, collection) is known from documents from at least the beginning of the sixteenth century." Ben-Shamnmai, "Is 'The Cairo Geniza' a Proper Name or a Generic Noun?"

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  9. 20709LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1510

    Recto: Letter from an unknown man to a communal authority.

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  10. 20710LetterT-S 18J3.2

    I sold all my dowry and maintained myself by this, but now nothing has remained with me except turning to God and to you, oh Israel. Had I said less in this matter, it would have been sufficient.

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  11. 20711List or tableT-S NS 324.132

    At the head of the list at least five cantors and three shomers. One beadle of Dammūh is listed at the beginning of the list (p a, l. 5), another at the end (c, l. 6). […] After the first item, "the judges," is left a blank space. Al-Najīb (the parnas) follows with the number 20 after it and l. 12, Abū ʿAlī the parnas, with 12.

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  12. 20712LetterAIU VII.E.98

    Letter from Moshe Yehoshuaʿ Ashkenazi, in Alexandria, to Alpalas y Sahlon, in Cairo (spelled Cairro).

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  13. 20713Legal documentBL OR 5542.1

    Legal documents from 17th century Egypt, regarding a widow named Riqa (ריקא), the daughter of Ḥanan She'eltiel.

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    1.                                           בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שראינו שטר וענינו הוא איך חזקת הקאעה שבצרב אל מבלט שהיה דר בה מקדמת דנא המנוח כה׳׳ר סעדי…

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  14. 20714List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 32/50

    There are several dozen names and strings of numbers (in Hebrew characters) of varying lengths after each name. Names include: Sulaymān al-Qandīl; al-Ṣulayḥī; David al-Qandīl; Yaḥyā al-Najjār; his son; Ibrāhīm al-Ṣārim(?)

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  15. 20715Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 103/10 + Bodl. MS heb. e 103/11 + Bodl. MS heb. e 103/12

    of Avicenna and other matters; a commentary on the Higayon of Maimonides with other selections; the Intentions of the Philosophers (Kavanot ha-Pilosofim, the Hebrew translation of Maqāṣid al-Falāsifa) by "Abū Ḥamid" (=al-Ghazālī); an introduction to logic; the laws of Yom Kippur (or from Masekhet Yoma); Moshe Narboni's commentary on the Intentions of the Philosophers; Iggeret ha-Musar; Sefer ha-Malmad (of Yaʿaqov Anatoli); the book of Ibn Shuʿayb; Ḥovot ha-Levavot; and a few more. ASE

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  16. 20716LetterENA 1822a.7

    Letter probably in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel (active early 13th century); not immediately clear if he is writing for himself or as a scribe on behalf of somebody else.

    1. אלמולא ומעאצדתה ואפתקאדה ואעלאן
    2. נצרה פי חאל אלממלוך פי מא יראה אלמולא
    3. מן עין אלמצלחה ומשורתה אלסעידה הקבה
    4. יסאעדך ויקצי חואיגך ויגניך ען בשר ודם
    5. ויכפ…

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  17. 20717State documentENA NS 48.23

    Seemingly unrelatedly, there is also a draft of an opening of a letter addressed to a woman (mawlātī al-sitt al-jalīla) expressing the sender's disappointment in her (mā kān amalī fī mawlātī... hādha al-amal wa-lā hādhā...").

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  18. 20718Legal documentL-G Misc. 50

    Natan sues Moshe b. Moshe ha-Levi known as Ibn Majān concerning the sale of goods, dated Thursday 21st Adar 1409 (25.2.1098).

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  19. 20719Legal documentNLI Ar. 721

    Arabic legal deed concerning a property – a house which includes a stable - outside the walls of Cairo, outside Bāb Zuwayla and Bāb al-Kharq.

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  20. 20720Legal documentT-S 6J9.1

    Shemarya ha-Shishi, Ṣedaqa ha-Levi, and ʿEli b. Peraḥya. There are doodles on verso.

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  21. 20721Legal documentT-S 8J4.3.1

    Fol. 1v: Legal record (deed of release). In the hand of the cantor Yefet b.

    שטר אביזאריה על-ידי חרם סתם וגלגול שבועה מאת ישועה אבו אלכיר לפלוני

    1. חצר פי בית דין פי יום אלאתנין לסת כלון מן
    2. אדר ראשון מן שנת אשלט לשטרות פי
    3. כניסת …

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  22. 20722LetterT-S 13J15.2

    Letter from Shelomo b. Ḥayyim, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Faḍl Maṣliaḥ b.

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. שלומות משולכות וברכות מחוטבות לאלפים ולרבבות ורחמים מ[[שוכן//רוכב//]]
    3. ערבות עם כלל המעוזנים החביבות למשא נפשנו ואוהבינו ועטרת
    4. ראשנו כ…

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  23. 20723LetterT-S 13J36.11

    Letter from Abū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to Barakāt b.

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    1. אכוהא בו אלמגד
    1. חצרה אלשיך ברכאת אדאם
    2. אללה עזה ועלאה גמע אללה
    3. אלשמל בה פי כיר ועאפיה
    4. וסואה אנני ארסלת לך גמלה
    5. כתב פלם יצלני מנך אכתר
    6. מן תלאת…

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  24. 20724Legal documentT-S 16.196

    The next day the witnesses reported that the partner had testified that Eli had withdrawn about six dinars, whereupon Eli asked them to include a declaration that he had been under the impression that the sum withdrawn had been profit made leaving the forty-eight dinars Eli had invested in the partnership intact.

    1. ויסאמחה בפצלה מן זעם אנה קד גרי עליה מנה מא קד גרי פלה מן
    2. אלחקוק //עליכם// מא לא יכפא ענכם ואנה קאל יתעלה ויתברך נושא עון ועובר על פשע
    3. ונחן נעלם אן …

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  25. 20725LetterT-S 18J4.8

    Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī to his father Abū l-ʿIzz b.

    1. בש רח
    2. מן [אל]ולד אבי אלפצל בן אבי אלעז
    3. אלשראבי
    4. כתבת כתאב ואלפאד כאיב ופי אלקלב מן
    5. תדכארך להב
    6. ולי מקלה אגפאנהא קד תקרחת ולי כבד
    7. דוב אל . . . . ידוב
    8. ק…

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  26. 20726LetterT-S Ar.39.55

    Letter in Arabic script, with one phrase in Hebrew script.

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  27. 20727Literary textT-S AS 154.310

    On verso the monk is weeping, crossing himself, and tearing hairs out of his beard, saying something about punishment. Some of the legible phrases: . . . בחבלאת(?) . .. ברצאי ורפעתך . . .

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  28. 20728LetterT-S AS 173.209 + T-S AS 153.293

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. The section preserved here opens with asking for a favor from the addressee involving conciliating someone else.

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  29. 20729List or tableT-S H12.30 + ENA 3748.9

    This is part of a larger book in Hebrew containing prayers, poems, and other literary texts. At least one of the headers is partially in Ladino.

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  30. 20730Legal documentT-S K25.240.51

    Written on verso of a letter presumably sent to Avraham (in the hand of Yehuda b.

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  31. 20731LetterT-S Misc.28.131

    Lower part of a letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE).

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  32. 20732LetterT-S NS 99.50

    Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Sitt Ṭāʾūs (from her husband?).

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  33. 20733LetterT-S NS 321.2

    Letter from Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably in Jerusalem or Ramla, to Efrayim b.

    1. גע מכתב החבר היקר והנכבד יהי צור עזרו וצל סתרו// יום יג בכסלו ובו ביום נכת[ב]ה תשובתו // וישים אחריתו שלום
    2. וכל ימיו שלום והשיש בשלומו והעצ[י]ב באשר …

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  34. 20734LetterT-S NS 338.12

    Letter from the judge Peraḥyahu (b. Yosef Ibn Yiju), in Alexandria, to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat.

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  35. 20735List or tableT-S NS J105

    Eliyyahu, the writer of the account, paid out the total of 44 1/2 dirhams he had received from the collector. When no money was left for one of the beadles, he had to 'transfer' him to another social officer, the Kohen al-Naḥḥāl (Mr.'

    1. שבת בשלח אלגאבי פיהא
    2. ר שמואל בר שלמה זל
    3. שריך ר חלפון שץ
    4. אלחאצל פי אלגבאיה מד ½
    5. אלמצרוף מנהא כבז וחמולה יו
    6. יוסף שומר ד
    7. ר ידותון ז
    8. שמש אבו אלטאהר ד
    9. בי…

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  36. 20736Legal documentYevr. II K 59

    The witness and potential scribe Yosef Angel also signed the ketubba T-S 16.332 (PGPID 7484), where the unclear part of his signature may be more legible as Avraham(?) but this reading is tentative and requires further comparison.

    1. בע׳׳ה 
    2. בסט׳׳ו גדול יהיה כבוד הבית הזה האחרון מן האאכי׳׳ר
    3. בששי
    4. בשבת בשלשה עשר לחדש תמוז שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות ושבעים וחמש ליצירה
    5. הכה בעיר אלקאהרה …

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  37. 20737Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5v of Yevr.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 5v

    1. במא כאן בתא׳ לילה אלגמעה חצרו פי מושב [[.]] אסתר אבנת
    2. אלמד׳ צדקה אלכהן ואדעת עלי ע׳אלמעטי אבן אלמד׳ כצ'ר אלפולאדי
    3. ועל ב…

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  38. 20738Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#88) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30v of Yevr.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 30v

    1. למא כאן פי] נהאר אלכמיס י׳׳א שהר כסליו סנה תאר׳ אשהד עליה שמואל
    2. אבן אלמר׳ מנצור אלפולאדי //נ׳׳ע// אנה קבץ ואתסלם כמסה ד…

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  39. 20739State documentAIU IV.A.206

    Official report. Fragment (left side). The sender reports that he arrived in a certain location at the end of Ṭūba (early February).

    1. ] . . . واخذت في . . هىه . . و . . م . . . [
    2. ] . لما تسهل وصولي في اخر طوبة
    3. ]ـىه الى اخر امس هذا اليوم اخرجت
    4. الغـ]ـلات والزراعة لا تنقضي في بحيرة
    5. شـ…

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  40. 20740Literary textAIU VI.B.98

    Medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, two folios faded with water damage but legible in most places. On the recto of the first folio the term "rūḥ / רוח" is reused in varied combinations such as "רוח אל כצרד", "רוח אל שראב", "רוח אל בארוד" (l. 7r, 10r, 13r).

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  41. 20741List or tableAIU XI.188

    28 pages of communal and financial and legal records. Pages 1 and 14 are registers of deaths, one on page 14 dated 1661/1662 CE (5422 AM).

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  42. 20742Legal documentBL OR 5543.11

    Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe ha-Levi known as ʿŪraybī and Sammūḥ bt. Yehuda Ḥaddād.

    1. בסט׳׳ו והצלחה מצא אשה מצא טוב ויפק רצון מה׳ אכי׳׳ר
    2.                                            בשני
    3. בשבת בארבעה עשר יום לחדש תשרי
    4. שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש…

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  43. 20743Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r-v of BL OR 6356).

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     :(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r     

    1. הערער ההוא כל חלקו ונוגע לו בבתים ובחובות הנז׳׳ל על פרעון הנזק וההפסד ההוא שיגרום לאחיו
    2. שעבוד גמור מעכשו כדין …

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  44. 20744Legal documentBL OR 8661.1

    Shemuel ha-Kohen; Naḥum(?) b. Moshe ha-Levi. On verso there are a couple undeciphered words in Arabic script.

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  45. 20745LetterBL OR 10578Q.10

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge.

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    1. . . . לא] תסאל מא אנא פיה
    2. מן מקאסיתהם ואן עלם חאלהא
    3. יעמי ואן אכותהא מא דפעו להא
    4. כרובה בל קאלו להא נכרגו אלדי להא
    5. פי אלעמארה ואן בנ[ת?] אכוך ל…

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  46. 20746Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/36

    Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen; Hodaya b. Shela ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein notes and index card linked below and Goitein, MedSoc, Vol. 3, p. 9, Vol. 2, p. 110.)

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  47. 20747LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/17

    Original document: Letter from [...] b. Shemuel to Abū Naṣr Mufarrij b.

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  48. 20748List or tableDK 370

    Account ledger in a mixture of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic (and Greek/Coptic numerals).

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  49. 20749State documentENA 3979.1

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ II 952 AH = June/July 1545 CE.

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  50. 20750LetterENA 4020.5

    Right fragment: Letter/petition in Hebrew from the widow of the well-known judge Hiyya b.

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