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  1. 21001LetterENA 1490.7

    Letters dealing with communal matters surrounding the dispute between Shelomo b. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, glued together and reused for the epistle of Sherira …

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  2. 21002Legal documentT-S 6J2.34

    Acknowledgement of debt between David b. Elʿazar Kandiote (קאנדייוטי) and Shabbetay ʿAdda (עדה). Dated Kislev 5527 AM (= 1766 CE) and signed by Ezekiel Ḥefeṣ, …

    1. בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ בה היקר ונעלה כה׳׳ר דוד בכ׳׳ר אליעזר קאנדייוטי יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו 
    2. אתם הוו עלי עדים גמורים וקנו ממני קגו׳׳ש בלשון מעכשיו וכתבו בכל לשון…

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  3. 21003LetterAIU VII.E.129

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807 CE (17 Heshvan 5568 AM).

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  4. 21004Legal documentYevr. III B 349

    Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: 26 Iyyar 1381 Sel., which is 1070 CE. Regarding the collection of a debt owed by Hillel b. Menashshe to …

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     .בתרי בשבה דהוא עשרין ושיתא יומין בירח אייר דשנת

    2 .אלפא ותלת מאה ותמנין וחד שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט

    3 .מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן…

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    1. […] … ten, and five hundred and fifty and a half Almoravid dinars
    2. … silver weighing eighty-two dirhams, and a linen Tūnī cloak with a border,…

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  5. 21005Unknown typeENA NS 85.758

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  6. 21006Legal documentT-S 18J1.26

    Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …

    1. שהדותא דהוות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף [שטרא
    2. דנן בתרי בשבה דהוא שית עשר יומין לירח סיון שנת אלפא וארבע מאה
    3. ושבעין וחד שנין לשטרות למניינא…

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  7. 21007LetterYevr. II A 1630

    A letter from Yosef b. Ishaq to Mordechai b. Ishaq

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  8. 21008LetterMoss. II,158.1

    Petition to a woman from a prisoner (?) in rudimentary script and spelling, asking her "on the life of al-Shaykh Abū l-Maḥāsin" to do a …

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    1. בשמך רהמנה
    2. אנא אקבל יד אלסת אלגלילה ואסלהא בחיאת
    3. אלשיך אבי אלמחאסן אמא אצפתי אלי גמיל
    4. חצרתך אלקדים ואלגדיד באן תתפצלי עליה
    5. במגי ליל ומחגר ברסם…

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  9. 21009Paraliterary textENA 2096.3

    Literary. "In this section, tractate Shabbat 84 chapters and Eruvin 10 chapters and Zevaḥim. And the explanation of the difficult words in Zerʿim and Shabbat …

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  10. 21010LetterENA NS 19.31

    Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Thiqat al-Mulk. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevorakh describes his financial difficulties and asks for help obtaining wheat. He complains that al-Shaykh …

    1. בשמ רחמ ותגזר אומר ויקם לך ועל דרכיך נגה אור
    2. ורבצת ואין מחריד וחלו פניך רבים
    3. ישלח עזרך מקדש ומציון יסעדיך
    4. לם יכף נסאל אלמולא אלואלד אלאגל תקה אלמלוך…

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  11. 21011Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 150.98

    Order of payment referring to 1 raṭl of flax oil; signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

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  12. 21012Literary textT-S NS 306.167

    Small fragment from an Arabic text mentioning an opulent place surrounded by trees, also mentioning a sapphire. Probably the same text as T-S NS 306.165 …

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  13. 21013Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.30.184.13

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay for grapes one dinar and one half …

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  14. 21014LetterENA 4096.g

    Letter to David ha-Nasi the Exilarch. He is also addressed as al-Rayyis. Written in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he arrived safely in …

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  15. 21015Unknown typeT-S Misc.27.3.5

    Mysterious text in Hebrew and Aramaic. "I, Moshe...." Looks more magical than legal.

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  16. 21016LetterENA 2697.26–27

    Copy of a letter from an as-yet-unidentified Nagid, describing inter alia his appointment by the caliph. The interpretation of this document has been controversial ever …

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  17. 21017State documentT-S NS 306.18

    Official letter/report in Arabic script. 6 lines preserved from near the beginning. (There are also a few lines legible as mirror-image imprints only, including the …

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  18. 21018LetterT-S AS 201.98

    Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Needs examination.

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  19. 21019Legal documentENA NS 17.32 + ENA NS 16.24

    Two fragments of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Settlement of a business dispute. Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo (together with his father Shelomo b. Saʿadya) acknowledges that …

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  20. 21020LetterENA 1822a.34

    Business letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf dealing with shipments of textiles within Egypt. The name Abū l-Ḥasan is mentioned, as well as merchandise sent with …

    1. . . . . . . .]א[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. אנפדת איצא חריר ואולה [. . .]. . . פאנה אמא יאמ[. …

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  21. 21021List or tableENA NS 19.27a + ENA NS 19.27b

    List of names with numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many women. Same hand as Stras. 5138/24 (PGPID 28982). See ENA 2713.26 (PGPID 4532).

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  22. 21022List or tableT-S AS 209.169

    List in Judaeo-Arabic, with detailed entries on the recto and verso. Some entries list the weights of goods. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

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  23. 21023LetterT-S NS 299.67

    Business letter in Arabic script. Missing the beginning. Mentions places such as Malīj (l. 2) and probably Maḥalla (l. 8, though it looks more like …

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  24. 21024State documentT-S AS 182.251

    Petition from the wife of Ṭayyib b. Musallam al-ʿIblānī, a Khaybarī Jew, to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94), seeking the restitution of money taken from …

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  25. 21025LetterT-S 8J15.9

    Letter addressed to Eli (‘Allun) ha-parnas, active 1057-1107, which mention his less well-known son, the parnas Abu Kathir (Efrayim ha-Kohen b. ‘Eli). (Oded Zinger, Women, …

    1. בשמך רחמ'
    2. גיר כאף ען חצרה מולאי אלפרנס אלגליל אלנאמן נאמן
    3. בית דין הגדול נטרה רחמנא מא אלממלוך פיה
    4. מן כתרה אלעיאל וקלה אלפאידה ואנני קד בקית
    5. וחיד פקי…

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  26. 21026Unknown typeNLI 577.1/35

    Document in Arabic script. State document? Wide space between lines, upslanting.

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  27. 21027Legal documentT-S NS 97.1

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 426 AH = 1034/35 CE. The year 424 is also mentioned in the body of the document (l. 1). …

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  28. 21028List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 390

    List of individuals, probably accounts. Needs examination.

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  29. 21029Unknown typeT-S NS 105.13e

    Possibly a document in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved, very faded. There is a high concentration of recycled fiber emerging from …

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  30. 21030LetterAIU VII.D.116

    Letter/petition for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely a draft, as several phrases are crossed out with interlinear corrections. Mentioning the cold. Mentions someone's son Abū l-Makārim. …

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  31. 21031Unknown typeJRL B 8522

    Unidentified document in Arabic script.

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  32. 21032Unknown typeENA NS 83.90

    Small fragment with remnants of words in Hebrew.

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  33. 21033LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 503 + JRL Genizah Ar. 170 + JRL Genizah Ar. 151 + JRL Genizah Ar. 516

    Letter in Ottoman Turkish. The name of the addressee maybe Muḥammad. Needs examination. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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  34. 21034LetterBL OR 5566C.15

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed at least in part to R. Yaʿaqov; also mentions Meʾir, Yiṣḥaq, Yosef, and Shemuel. Fragment (middle part). Dating: Late, likely 14th–16th …

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  35. 21035Legal documentENA 4101.9a + ENA NS 77.151

    Agreement between Yiṣḥaq b. Yefet ha-Kohen and his divorcee al-Ḥasana bt. Moshe ha-Kohen, from Tinnīs. She releases him from something. Signed by A[...] and Yaʾir …

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  36. 21036Legal documentT-S 12.157 + T-S 12.42

    Recto: Large legal document. Involving Dalāl and Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham and deeds of trustworthiness (שטר נאמנות) and/or release (שטר אביזאריה). Verso: Arabic script, see separate …

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  37. 21037Unknown typeENA NS 78.62

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  38. 21038Legal documentT-S AS 149.21

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involving an agreement between two parties. Dating: written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and …

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  39. 21039Legal documentYevr. II A 1299

    Draft of a Karaite betrothal contract, probably a formulary or model document from a bound collection. (the key operative word on the verso, l. 15, …

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  40. 21040List or tableENA NS 76.396

    Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The verso includes note or sub-heading in Judaeo-Arabic: "on the street of the synagogue."

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  41. 21041LetterT-S NS 304.5

    A late letter from a mother to her son Yosef b. Ghunaym (may appear also in T-S 28.10). Among other news she informs him that …

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  42. 21042Paraliterary textT-S H15.109

    Page from a volume of seliḥot to be read during the 10 days of repentance, with an ownership/purchase note by the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram …

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  43. 21043Literary textJRL A 850

    Piyyutim.

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  44. 21044LetterT-S 8.13

    Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish community of Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. May mention [Ḥayyim b.] Yaʿaqov ha-Sef[aradi] (who …

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    1. ] חייכם [            ]ת[
    2. והמהלל הם הם המאושרים ביופי מכללי[ם
    3. קדושת ישישת אחינו אחינו(!) אנשי גאול[תנו
    4. ובאלכסנדריה דרים ותקועים אשר הם מ[
    5. צדק ז…

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  45. 21045LetterT-S 10J24.9

    Verso: Letter, apparently to the holy congregation in Shafrir Misrayim (Fustat), similar to 10J24f. 9 recto. In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. שמש ישועה זורחת וממלכה פורחת ושלוה בודחת וגילה אורחת ושם טוב . רוקח
    3. מרקחת ומזל . . . . בל יחת ומשאב מעיני מי נחת והליכת יושר רווחת ו . .
    4. מגן…

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  46. 21046Legal documentT-S Misc.28.41

    Small part from a legal document written by Natan b. Shemuel he-Haver (active 1128–64 CE). Mentions the name Yoshiyyahu and a case involving someone accused …

    1. ]בפסטאט מצרים דעל
    2. ]סי מר ורב יאשיהו
    3. ]ן מתהום במאל ובאנה
    4. ]פי וקת ופאה אלמדכור קד
    5. ]ר אלמתופא ואתבתו אל
    6. ש]ימוש בית דין ומא כאן פי

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    1. ]בפסטאט מצרים…

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  47. 21047LetterENA 3616.29

    Letter from Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, Alexandria, to Binyamin b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal. Around 1025. The writer has returned from travels in Sicily, where he …

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    1. על שמך

    2. כתאבי יאסיד[י ו]שיכי וריצי(!) ואלעזיז עלי א[טאל] אללה בקאך

    3. ואדאם איאם סלאמתך ו[ר]עאיתך וציאנתך [וכאן] לך ומעך

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  48. 21048Legal documentT-S 10J28.2

    Court deposition testifying that Naḥum b. Yeshuaʿ Ibn al-Shāmiyya showed a caliphal rescript (ruqʿa mutarjama ... wa-fihā tawqīʿ) to Yehuda b. Yosef al-Rumi to the …

    1. יקול מן אתבת שהאדתה פי הדא אלכתאב אנא כנא מגתמעין פי סוק
    2. [אלצ]פין חתי ראינא יהודה אלרומי בן יוסף גאלס פי דכאן נחום בן ישועה
    3. אלמערוף באבן אלשאמיה ואן…

    Lost Archive, pp. 403-4

    1. Those who have authenticated [athbata] their signatures on this document say: We [the undersigned witnesses] happened to be …

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  49. 21049LetterT-S 13J29.4

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentioning Abū Sulaymān and Ibn al-Qafaṣ (?). (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription.

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  50. 21050State documentT-S NS 110.96b

    State document, probably fiscal. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, mainly sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary text. There has been a lot …

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