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  1. 20851Legal query or responsumT-S AS 221.306

    Responsum in the hand of Maimonides, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on Maimonides' years of activity in Egypt. The primary text, from a …

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    1. עליה ובדר מנה עליהִ וִעלי ואלדִה

    2. אלמתופא בלשון קללהִ [יורינו] רבינו

    3. מא ילזמה חק עלי תגריחה (?) בלשון

    4. הרע ושכרו כפול מן השמים

    5. אל…

    1. […] against him and in his anger he assailed him and his late father
    2. with a curse. [Instruct us,] our master,
    3. to what penalty is he liable for havin…

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  2. 20852Literary textCUL Or.1081 2.75.35

    Garshuni text. Only 2.5 lines are preserved. It is difficult to make out more than "...idhā... al-wuḥūsh taftaris..." Cf. Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in …

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  3. 20853State documentT-S Ar.35.63

    Accounts in Arabic script, might be fiscal. Needs examination.

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  4. 20854LetterJRL L 26

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious …

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    1. בע׳׳ה(?)
    2. היום ה׳ לחודש שבט משנתינו התקס׳׳ה
    3. למול פני אחי אשר כנפשי ה׳׳ה הנבון וחכם
    4. כמה׳׳ר מאיר ן׳ נעים נר׳׳ו יאי׳׳ר
    5. אחדש׳׳ו בעד מזיד אל סלאם …

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  5. 20855State documentBL OR 5561A.2

    State document. Dating: Refers to payments for the year 415 kharājī; 415 AH is 1024/25 CE, so 415 kharājī is 1024/25 CE plus or minus …

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    2. شرط النوااب بالـ[. .]ـل مالهما لامير الامرا تاج الدولة وسيف

    3. الملة المويد ذي الـ[ـمعالـ]ـي …

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  6. 20856LetterENA 3686.6

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic between family members. Interesting orthography: אלשעאר for אלצגאר. Mentions "the water in the khalīj (canal)."

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  7. 20857LetterT-S AS 149.181

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a basket or container (qafaṣ), 550 dirhams, and balances (mawāzīn). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  8. 20858List or tableJRL B 8386

    Mercantile accounts, probably, in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century?

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  9. 20859LetterT-S 13J29.2

    Letter from Hārūn b. Yosef Ibn al-Ghazzāl, in Qayrawan, to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וריסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך מסתהל ניסאן מן אלקירואן ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ללה אלחמד 
    2. ומא תחב עלמה יאשיכי אן עדאת לי [פי] אול …

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    1. מכתבי, אדוני ורבי וראשי ונכבדי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים (נכתב) בא' בניסן, מקירואן. שלומי טוב ואני בריא, תודה לאל.
    2. ומה שרצית לדעת, אצלנו: הג…

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  10. 20860LetterT-S 13J24.24

    Letter to Moshe ben Hini ‘the lesser’, mentioning business affairs and people including Abraham Leon (c. 17th century). (Information from CUDL)

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  11. 20861Unknown typeENA NS 85.826

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  12. 20862LetterT-S AS 145.181

    Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Beginnings of 7 lines. Wide space between the lines.

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  13. 20863LetterT-S AS 173.201

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning 'the rayyis' and 'the nasi' (this seems to be what the scribe intends by אלנשאי) and the synagogue. Needs examination.

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  14. 20864Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#43) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 42-44) Folio 11r

    1. את זו וזו את זה מכל מין תביעה וטענה שיש לכל אחד מהם על חברו הנז׳ מצד כל מה שהיה ביניהם מיום
    2. שנברא העולם עד היום ו…

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  15. 20865LetterBL OR 5566C.7 + BL OR 5566C.6

    Letter (tadhkira, memorandum) on two sheets of paper, written and signed by Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī, probably in Fustat, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, perhaps …

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    1.           תדכרה לשאכרך
    2. מנשה ביר' דויד אלצירפי 
    3. אנא אסאלך חרס אללה ערך אדא וצלת 
    4. [א]לי אסכנדריה ואתפק אנתמאעך באלשיך 
    5. אבי אברהים אסמעיל אדאם אללה…

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    1. (2-1) תזכיר של המודה לך מנשה בי"ר דויד השולחני.
    2. אבקש ממך, ישמור אלוהים את גדולתך, כי אם תגיע
    3. לאלכסנדריה ותיפגש במקרה עם האדון
    4. אבו אברהים אסמעי…

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  16. 20866Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/4c

    Legal document. Small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  17. 20867List or tableT-S AS 166.153

    List of names with numbers. Very faded.

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  18. 20868Paraliterary textMoss. VI,14.5

    Magical text in Hebrew.

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  19. 20869Unknown typeENA NS 85.824

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  20. 20870List or tableT-S NS J83

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions items such as galangal (khalanjān), applicators (marāwid), vessels (barānī), aflāj(?), locks (aqfāl), and maqṭaʿ cloths. Mentions people …

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  21. 20871State documentT-S AS 178.280

    Small fragment possibly from an official letter/report. Mentions "waṣala al-nāṣiḥ/al-nāḍij(?) Masʿūd(?)...."

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  22. 20872Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J64

    Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February 1225 CE. Signed by Eliyyahu the Judge and Pinḥas b. …

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    1. למא כאן פי יום אלארבעא אלסאבע עשר מן
    2. אדר משנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין ושית
    3. שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל
    4. נילוס נהרא מותבה חצרנא אלי סוק אלבזאזין
    5. פ…

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    1. On Wednesday, the seventeenth of

    2. Adar, 1536

    3. of the era of the documents, in Fustät of Egypt, which is situated on

    4. the Nile, we went to …

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  23. 20873List or tableJRL C 163

    List of names and monetary figures in silver kuruş "גרשו" of which the dating is likely 18th/19th-century (post-1703). In the verso list's heading, the word …

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  24. 20874LetterT-S AS 152.71

    Letter or letters in Ladino. The first is from Livorno, addressed to Shabbetay Palas (aka Alpalas) and Yosef Levi. Dated: 41st of the Omer (Iyyar …

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  25. 20875List or tableCUL Or.1081 1.10

    A list of names: Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq; Yaʿīsh b. Avraham ha-Kohen; Maḥfūẓ b. Ṣedaqa; Mevorakh b. David ha-Levi; Ḥalfon b. Ṣedaqa; Pinḥas b. Hillel; Yefet …

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  26. 20876Unknown typeENA NS 79.166

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  27. 20877LetterT-S 10J12.21

    Letter from Masliah b. Yehuda of Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in which he asks for help retrieving some money that his associates in Fustat …

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    1. כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אלגליל [א]ל'[פ]אצ'ל אטאל אללה בקאה מחפוצ'א
    2. מן כלאפה מחרוסא מן כל חאדתה דאים אלעז ואלתאיד ואל
    3. סעאדה ואלסלאמה ואלנעמה מן אלמס…

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    1. (2-1) אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד והאציל, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים וישמרך מהיפוכו של זה, מוגן מכל תקרית, וייתן לך תמיד יקר ועזרה
    2. ואושר ו…

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  28. 20878Unknown typeENA NS 85.773

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  29. 20879LetterT-S 16.297

    Letter. The hand and style resemble those of Abū Zikrī the son of Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic, high register, rhymed prose. The contents are …

    1. בש
    2. שויתי ייי לנגדי תמיד לנגדי תמיד כי מימי[ני בל אמוט]
    3. וצלת מכאטבה אלמולי אלחסנה ומכא[טבה . . . . . .
    4. אללסאן ען גואב ממא טלבתה וטיב נפסה [... אללה]

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  30. 20880LetterT-S NS 304.39

    Brief note from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy, asking him to take care for the oil, probably for lighting the synagogue. AA

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  31. 20881Legal documentT-S 10J28.3

    Upper part of a legal document. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Mansur al-Kohen, known as Ibn Qasāsa, receives from Avraham b. Masliah and Elʿazar b. Menaḥem …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין שהדותנא לתחתא בשטרא
    2. דנן כן הוה חצר אלינא [מר] אבו אלחסן בן אבי מנצור אלכהן דידיע בן קסאסא
    3. וקאל לנא אשהדו עליי ו[…

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  32. 20882List or tableAIU XII.34

    Table with entries in Arabic script. Business accounts organized by date and day of the week. Mentions names such as Barakāt, Ibrāhīm, and Hārūn. Needs …

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  33. 20883LetterJRL B 3590

    Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter with wide line spacing, with praises for the addressee and good wishes for Purim. Verso: Likely a distinct document, …

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  34. 20884LetterCUL Or.1081 1.30

    Letter in rhymed Hebrew.

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  35. 20885State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.2

    Receipt for payment of a tax farmer (dāmin, line 2) in Fustat. The month of Ramadan al-Muʿaẓẓam of the year 701. Alama: al-ḥamdu lillāh sallama …

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  36. 20886Legal documentT-S K25.125

    Legal fragment (upper left corner). On parchment. Location: Fustat. Possibly a deathbed will, because the witnesses describe how they entered the house of Abū l-Faraj …

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  37. 20887Literary textENA NS 79.13.1

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  38. 20888LetterT-S 13J24.28

    Letter, c. 16th century, written on behalf of and signed by Yosef Karo, in the land of Israel, to Yaʿaqov Villarreal, in Egypt. Yosef requests …

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  39. 20889List or tableENA NS 69.8

    List of names. In Judaeo-Arabic. May be a memorial list or a list of mourners (this seems to be based on the phrase תאבת אלאבלים). …

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  40. 20890LetterT-S 12.245

    Letter in a Spanish hand to R. Yiṣḥaq al-ḥaver al-jalīl. The sender was in great anxiety until Abū Zekharya b. Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī …

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  41. 20891List or tableJRL C 65

    Accounts in an orderly hand and Hebrew alphanumerical characters that delineate columns with days and months in the Hijri calendar (i.e. Ṣafar on recto and …

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  42. 20892State documentT-S Ar.35.130

    Official receipt of some sort. Needs examination.

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  43. 20893List or tableT-S NS 226.93

    List of names and sums of money, up to 24 dirhams. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. The one name preserved is Bū Naṣr.

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  44. 20894Legal documentPER H 22

    Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Location: Fustat. Dated: First third of …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא מן טאלבנא אלדכול עלי מרור יהושוע המכונה אבו אלחסן
    2. בר מרור שמואל הזקן המשורר המכו…

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  45. 20895LetterT-S 10J6.10

    Complete letter by Mubarak b. Yiṣḥaq b. Sabri to Abu al-Faraj Nissim complaining about a business issue and urging a prompt response to his letter.

    1. על שמך
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אלאתיר ואדאם
    3. סלאמתה וסעאדתה וציאנתה וכפאיתה ורעאיתה וכאן לה
    4. ומעה וליא חאצרא וחאפצא פי גמיע אמורה ען חא…

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  46. 20896Legal documentT-S K25.240.10

    Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …

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  47. 20897LetterT-S 12.212

    Letter mentioning a certain Sibyan and Shemarya b. al-Hanan.

    1. ....................... דכר ....................
    2. ........................שבע ובשביל ...............
    3. ...........................כיון שבא וישבתי .....…

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  48. 20898Literary textT-S Misc.14.25

    Printed treatise in Ladino. On sheḥita and kashrut. Bifolium, with two columns per page.

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  49. 20899LetterT-S AS 152.272

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The remaining content is quite vague. Refers to sending something to the addressee with a trustworthy messenger and awaiting instructions …

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  50. 20900LetterENA NS I.33

    Letter written to "my brother," apparently from Qus, dealing primarily with family members' medical issues. There are many eccentric spellings. Recto 4-12: The writer has …

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    1. בש רח
    2. אלי אכי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי מן אלשוק ואלוחשה
    3. כתיר גמע אללה בינא עלי אסר חאל ואלדי
    4. תחב עלמה אן לי מן חין כרגת מן ענדכם
    5. מא וק . . . . . …

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