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  1. 21051Legal documentT-S AS 183.354

    Probably an Arabic legal document. On parchment. Portions of ~8 lines are preserved on recto. Twice mentions the term mutaṣaddiq (once as mutaṣaddiqīn). Needs further …

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  2. 21052Unknown typeENA 3972.8

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  3. 21053Legal documentBL OR 10118.10

    Legal document. In Hebrew with one phrase in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 16 Av 53[3]7 AM, which is 30 July 1577 CE. Reconciliation of …

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  4. 21054List or tableJRL A 634

    Legal notes, possibly for a dowry list. Name: Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abū l-Munā. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Might be …

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  5. 21055LetterT-S Ar.18(1).130

    Letter from an unknown writer, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Khayr (?) b. Yūsuf, in Fustat, care of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Yahūdī al-Ṣā'igh in the market …

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  6. 21056LetterT-S 13J29.7

    Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, probably from Qayrawan. Around 1040. The addressee in unknown, maybe it is Israel’s brother – Nahray, or another younger relative. …

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    1. וצל כתאבך [יא אכי] וסיידי ורייסי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן תופיקה

    2. לא אכלאך ב[אלקאפ]ל[ה ווקפת מנה עלי מ]א אסרני מן חסן חאלך וסלא…

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    1. הגיע מכתבך, אחי ואדוני וראשי ומרי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך 
    2. ואל ימנע ממך הצלחות, עם השיירה, וקראתי בו דברים משמחים על מצ…

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  7. 21057List or tableT-S AS 183.140

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: late, looks Ottoman-era.

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  8. 21058Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.94

    Likely the bottom of one of a dār/commercial receipt (see tag). Involves the qāḍī Abū […] al-Fārisī, and the Judaeo-Arabic note on verso describes it …

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  9. 21059List or tableT-S AS 183.130

    Account.

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  10. 21060List or tableT-S AS 184.276

    Accounts.

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  11. 21061Unknown typeENA NS 76.502

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  12. 21062Legal documentT-S 8.89

    Ketubba fragment. Dated: Ḥeshvan 136[.] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1048–57 CE. For the remarriage of a previously divorced couple. Bride: [...] bt. Sahl. (Information …

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  13. 21063Literary textT-S AS 179.217

    Literary narrative about the kings of India and China, one of their daughters, a dream, and a wedding. 1001 nights?

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  14. 21064Legal documentT-S AS 145.32

    Investment partnership between Hayyim b. Shelomo Hazaq and his wife, approving the receiving of a sum of 63000 m[edin] k[esif] as a payment for his …

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  15. 21065List or tableT-S AS 170.89

    Fragment of a business account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū Zikrī. Dating: likely 12th century.

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  16. 21066Legal documentT-S NS 320.5

    Legal document. Two pages of claims filed by Sason/Surūr b. Natan against Shela b. Shelomo Ibn Qatāʾif concerning two adjacent houses in Zuqāq Marzubān. Dated: …

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  17. 21067List or tableT-S AS 204.137

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. "The total. . . drugs and silk. . ."

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  18. 21068List or tableT-S AS 152.363

    Legal document, probably a trousseau list in a ketubba, mentioning a wardrobe, cloth and the bride Sitt al-Gharb. (Information from CUDL)

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  19. 21069Legal query or responsumT-S 10J16.23

    Responsum by the seventeenth-century rabbi David Konforte (c. 1618–85 CE). For more on this influential scholar see the neighboring shelfmark: T-S 10J16.24 (PGPID 29064).

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  20. 21070Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 805

    Document in Arabic script with traces of burning. Probably literary. Different hands on recto and verso.

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  21. 21071LetterENA 3616.12

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon ha-Kohen to Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has arrived safely after a terrible Nile voyage when …

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  22. 21072Literary textT-S 8J40.7

    Astrological or astronomical treatise, possibly in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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  23. 21073Legal documentENA 4020.31

    Narrow bifolio. One page: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Adar 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. Involving …

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  24. 21074LetterT-S 12.21

    Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in Alexandria, to his father in Fusṭāṭ (to the shop of Barakāt). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and …

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  25. 21075LetterT-S 16.285 + T-S AS 134.204 + T-S NS 325.115

    Letter/petition addressed to a notable. In Hebrew (for the poetic opening) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). In a typical 11th or early 12th century hand. …

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  26. 21076State documentT-S NS 158.95

    Formal letter in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. From ʿAbdallāh b. [...]. He reports that he has obeyed the …

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  27. 21077List or tableBodl. MS heb. d 66/62

    List of persons on payroll of the community, headed by Sayyiduna al-Nasi, referring, it seems, to the head of the Jews David b. Daniel (ca. …

    1. סידנא אלנשיא ר' יוסף ר' אליהו כדמי? חבר אלחבר בן גדר
    2. אלחבר שמעיה אלחבר אהרון בן אלשלישי ואכוה אבן אלכאמכי
    3. אלחזן מברך בן זהרא מברך אלששי אלחזן אבן אל…

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  28. 21078LetterT-S 10J16.16

    Recto: Letter from a physician named Abu Zikri to a senior colleague, Abu 'Ali. Abu Zikri writes, apparently from the Rīf, seeking advice on the …

    1. בה עבדהא בו ז[כרי
    2. עבד חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אבו עלי [י]ק[בל
    3. אלארץ בין ידיהא וינהי לגלאלהא כתרה שוקה אליהא
    4. וארתיאחה נחוהא ושאכר לתפצל[ה]א ומ[ס]אעדתה…

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  29. 21079Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 828

    Unidentified text, in Arabic script. "منها والحجج". Needs examination.

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  30. 21080LetterT-S 8K13.7

    Letter of recommendation for a poor man with a family from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE).

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  31. 21081List or tableENA 3264.2

    Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on verso. The paper was rused for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are …

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  32. 21082State documentT-S NS 34.157

    Decree, probably. Only a few enormous words are preserved, including ʿalayhi. Reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  33. 21083Legal documentMoss. VII,99.2

    Marriage contract. The groom may be the son of Avraham ha-Zaqen. There is one line of a dowry list. On verso there is a note …

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  34. 21084State documentT-S Ar.39.464

    Petition from Mubārak b. Ibrahīm Ibn Sabra to Muʿtamid al-Dawla, who seems to be a Fatimid dignitary. The sender asks for (or heavily implies that …

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    1.     عبدها مبارك بن ابرهيم بن 
    2.                    سبرا 
    3.      بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    4. عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الكافي معتمد الدولة اطا[ل الله]…

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    1. His slave Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm b.
    2. Sabrā
    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    4. The slave of the presence of my master, the most glo…

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  35. 21085Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/38

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 5 Shevaṭ 1378 Seleucid, which is 1067 CE. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Groom: Wuḥaysh b. …

    1. בשעה [טובה] ועונה מהוללה לחתן ולכלה ולכל ישראל [ויבנ]ו ויצליחו
    2. בארבעה בשבה ד[הוא] חמשה יומי בירח שבט דשנת אלפא ותלת מאה ושבעין ותמני למנינא דרגיליננ…

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  36. 21086Paraliterary textT-S AS 179.26

    Technical instructions or recipe in Arabic script. Mentions various kinds of salt (e.g., Andarānī), and acacia. Description from CUDL: Medical recipes with ingredients such as …

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  37. 21087Legal documentBL OR 10578R.58 + BL OR 10578R.5

    Early modern legal fragment in Hebrew. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 17th-19th-century. This document is related to or perhaps a join with …

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  38. 21088Unknown typeENA NS 85.456

    Minute blank fragment

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  39. 21089List or tableT-S AS 182.69

    Bifolio from a mysterious ledger. Contains some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, but also contains two entries that begin اصفح(?), and one may …

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  40. 21090LetterT-S NS 321.30

    Letter, in Arabic script. Very neat hand. Approximately 5 lines are preserved, consisting mostly of conventional and deferential greetings. On verso, there is a draft …

    1. والاكرام وينهي شدة شوقه الى خدمته واسفه على
    2. الفايت من مشاهدته ما لو وصف المملوك سيره لعجز
    3. عن تسطره وتغييره والله يسهل للمملوك سرعة
    4. النظر اليه والمثو…

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  41. 21091LetterJRL B 5022

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Greetings to Abū l-Fakhr and Maʿālī. Mufaḍḍal is also mentioned. Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is also one …

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  42. 21092Legal documentBL OR 12299.22

    Legal fragment concerning a betrothal (qiddushin). The document is probably written by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver and the validation is signed by him, along with …

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  43. 21093Legal documentT-S 13J1.16

    Legal deed, appointing a representative to execute a will. Fustat. Adar 1377/February 1066. Verso: Hebrew poem.

    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו בית דין והזקנים החותמים עדותם מטה בשטר הרשאה דנן
    2. כן הוה בא לפנינו מרב יוסף בר מרב דויד בר ישעיה ואמר קדמנא הוו עלי שהדי …

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  44. 21094Paraliterary textBL OR 10578G.40

    Very faded, perhaps magical incantations? Mentions angels' names, demons, plague, quotes Song of Songs 8:7.

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  45. 21095Literary textT-S NS 264.47

    The main block of writing is a folktale in Judaeo-Arabic about a very poor man ("who worked for two dirhams each day") who came home …

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  46. 21096Legal documentT-S AS 145.344

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Dated: Kislev 152[.] Seleucid = 1208–17 CE (the reading of the date is probably but not definite). …

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  47. 21097LetterT-S NS 338.99

    Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya from Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #147) …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ושיכי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך...ערפך אללה]
    2. ברכתה ען סלאמה ועאפיה ללה אלחמד עלי דאלך וען שוק עט'ים אליך [
    3. [        ] …

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  48. 21098LetterT-S 18J4.15

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Shelomo Ha-Paqid, Fustat, approximately 1050.

    1. ליקירנו וגדולנו וחשובנו ואדירנו ואבירנו ונדיבנו ושועינו כב
    2. קד מרנא ורבנא אברהם הזקן זקן הבין ושר הדעת
    3. אוהב תורה ומכבד בעליה ישמרו צור ומכל רע יהי
    4. נצ…

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  49. 21099Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 5321 AM …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 8r-v

    1.                                                   ב׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שנפל קטטה ומריבה בין הקהל הקדוש עדת בני מקרא יש׳ אי׳ ונ׳…

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  50. 21100LetterAIU IX.B.17

    Letter from Mordekhai b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥayyim Avraham Levi. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 22 Iyyar 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE.

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