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  1. 21701Legal documentMS Roth 723.14

    Legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 9 Adar 5309 AM = 7 February 1549 CE. Loan contract between Avraham b. Masʿūd (creditor) and Avraham al-Ḥājj …

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  2. 21702LetterT-S AS 146.187

    Address of a letter to the elders Yehuda, Yosef, and someone else, who are asked to deliver the letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. On verso …

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  3. 21703Legal documentT-S NS 226.139

    Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May consist entirely of legalese; no information about the case.

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  4. 21704Legal documentT-S Ar.35.398

    Parts of documents - needs examination.

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  5. 21705State documentT-S Misc.22.286

    Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. [صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته 

    3. على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    2. The blessings and benedictions of God, his increasing benefactions and most excellent salutatio…

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  6. 21706LetterT-S 6J1.27

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an Abu al-Barakat whom he addresses as 'brother' and 'friend'

    1. אכיה ומחבה שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין נמשול [
    2. כתאבי אלי אכי וצדיקי אלאך אלעזיז אלגליל א[
    3. אלאדיב אלחביב אלראיס אללביב אבי אלברכאת [
    4. ובלגה פי אלדארין אראדתה…

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  7. 21707Legal documentT-S 8.103

    Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Ḥasab (bride). Most of the text is too badly faded to read. (Information from CUDL)

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  8. 21708LetterT-S 13J24.4

    Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), to the Jewish community in Cairo. He is ordering them to pay back to …

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    הנה אל ישועתי וכולי

    1. אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין במצר
    2. [י]ברכם צורם ויהיה בעזרם יוצרם אנס
    3. יעלמו באן לא תסאלו מא גרי עלינא בסבב
    4. תגליק אלגואלי ואנת…

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  9. 21709List or tableENA 3678.11–12

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century.

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  10. 21710Unknown typeENA NS 79.121

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 21711Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#19) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r

    1. בעח׳׳מ שדך הבחור הנחמד מרדכי נסים יצ׳׳ו בכה׳׳ר נסים מרדכי נ׳׳ע את האשה שהיתה גרושה 
    2. מ׳ סלטאנה ת׳׳מ בת הר׳ משה ן׳ ח…

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  12. 21712LetterJRL B 8365

    Minute fragment of a letter, probably. Mentions ויהודה הזקן ומנשה in the margin. On verso there appear to be jottings in Arabic script.

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  13. 21713State documentMichaelides (charta) A169

    Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم

    2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]

    3. وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير الم…

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  14. 21714LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 45

    Letter, fragment, in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Faraj. Needs examination.

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  15. 21715LetterYevr. III B 904

    Letter from Yosef and Nissim b. Berakhya (Qayrawan) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal (Fustat), ca. 1020, on the death of the Nagid, Avraham b. …

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    1. אטאל אללה יא שיכנא וכבירנא ואתירנא עמרך פי אלנעים ואלסרור ואמאט ענך כל אלמ'
    2. מחדור ואגראך עלי אלתופיק פי כל אלאמור כתאבנא יאכינא לח' כלון מן מר…

    O our great and chosen Elder—may God grant you a long life in blessing and happiness, may He ward off all misfortune, and may He bestow upon you succ…

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  16. 21716LetterT-S 18J4.5

    Letter (draft) from Elḥanan b. Shemarya, in Fusṭāṭ, to the Babylonian congregation in Damascus, sending greetings as part of his efforts to raise funds for …

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    1. אלחנן ראש הסדר בירבי
    2. אל אחינו יקירנו גדולנו אשר בדמשק. היועצים נדיבות,
    3. בעלי נתיבות, מצדיקי הרבים, מזהירים ככוכבים, שומרי
    4. מטהר, ו.... ר הר, ה…

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  17. 21717List or tableT-S Ar.30.279

    A list of payments from around 1550 CE describes a payment made for “visiting the sick (bīqqūr ḥōlīm)—3 jadīd; buying clothes for the poor (kesūt …

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  18. 21718LetterT-S NS 329.218

    The fragments comprising the binding seem to be a cut-up Judaeo-Arabic letter or possibly an account. Dating: 11th century?

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  19. 21719State documentBL OR 12312.10 + BL OR 12312.11

    State decree. Three fragmentary lines from the end of a chancery decree, probably addressed to a provincial official, mentions majlis al-naẓar (refer al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-Āʿshā …

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  20. 21720List or tableJRL B 3010

    Late account in Hebrew and possibly Yiddish(?), Ashkenazi scribal hand

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  21. 21721Legal documentENA 3157.2

    Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. The middle portions of ~11 lines are preserved from near the top of the document. The price of a …

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  22. 21722List or tableT-S Ar.5.34

    Bifolio made of parchment. The main uses are literary. Reused on one page for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning someone named Berakha and goods such as …

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  23. 21723List or tableENA NS 76.435.8

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of the same scribe as adjacent fragments (see especially ENA NS 76.435.1 + ENA NS 76.435.3).

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  24. 21724Literary textT-S AS 152.63

    Recto (secondary use): Copy of a letter attributed to the prophet Muḥammad, directed to a group of Jews, probably those of Khaybar and Maqnā. Cf. …

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  25. 21725Literary textENA 2808.33

    Popular literature, probably. In partially rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. Narrates a painful parting from a friend ("I was left in a difficult state, like he who sits …

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  26. 21726List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 527

    Business accounts in Arabic script. Names (a number of Muhammads, al-Sharīf), quantities expressed in qintārs.

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  27. 21727Unknown typeMoss. X,128.9

    A note concerning a debt to the synagogue.

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  28. 21728Legal documentT-S 13J22.2

    Legal document. Deathbed will of the wife of a scholar, ca. probably 1151. A personal record of an anonymous writer, apparently a member of the …

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    1. דכלת יום אלסבת אלכאמס עשר פי
    2. סיון מע אלנזר ר נתן בר שמואל החבר
    3. נע ומעי רבי יהודה הכהן נזר
    4. הכהנים ומעוזם חדות הנשיאות
    5. בר כב גד קד מרינו ורבינו …

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    1. On Saturday, the 15th

    2. Siwan, together with "the Diadem" (of the Scholars) R. Nathan b. R. Samuel, the ḥāvēr,

    3. of blessed memory, while the…

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  29. 21729Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 104

    Ottoman-era rental receipt, in Arabic script. The 'khwājā' Shukrī(?) has paid 40 Kuruş Rūmī towards the rent of his shop for the month of Muḥarram …

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  30. 21730LetterT-S 8J20.18

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The writer is about to …

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    1. וצלני כתאבך יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך

    2. וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ פי גמיע אמורך ווקפת מנה עלא

    3. מא דלני מן חסן סלאמתך ועאפיתך אדמה…

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    1. הגיע מכתבך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך
    2. ויהיה לך ועמך מגן ושומר בכל ענייניך, וקראתי בו
    3. דברים על שלומך הטוב ועל ב…

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  31. 21731LetterJRL B 5732

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. No full sentences are preserved. There are wishes for someone to be recompensed in heaven, and possibly a report on business …

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  32. 21732LetterT-S 13J18.29

    Recto: Letter from a woman to her son Abū l-Faḍā'il al-Yahūdī al-Bawāridī ('the maker of cooling or cold vegetables') in al-Qamra, Alexandria. She describes a …

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    1. كتابي אלי אלואלד (!) אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
    2. ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה וגמעני ואיאה
    3. ואני משתאקת אלי אלחצרה אלולד אלעזיז
    4. ולא תסאל מא גאז [[. ל]] ע…

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  33. 21733Legal documentT-S Ar.39.284

    Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Regarding the sale of an enslaved woman. Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān is the buyer. Fragment (upper right corner). …

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  34. 21734Literary textT-S Ar.30.299

    Literary text in Hebrew. Late.

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  35. 21735Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3972.29

    Receipt of some sort, with the glyph at the top, mentioning a sum of 200-something, and the name Sulaymān. Needs examination.

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  36. 21736Legal documentT-S 20.164

    Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated 1667/1668 CE (״חכתה״ = 5428) between Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and a certain Yosef and a certain Refa'el. This dating "חכתה" matches …

    1.                                 בע׳׳ה
    2. ...] ושותפות בין היקרים כה׳׳ר יעקב הלוי נחמן יצ׳׳ו וכה׳׳ר יוסף [...
    3. ...] יעקב הנז׳ הטיל הקרן לכיס השותפות הנ…

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  37. 21737Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 625

    Literary text. Recipes or medical. Mentions peeled almonds.

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  38. 21738List or tableT-S Ar.4.8

    Accounts for house rents and repairs. Dating: mentions various months of the year טפתק, which is 589 AH = 1193/94 CE. Each section is headed …

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  39. 21739LetterT-S AS 147.152

    Commercial letter. Not much of the content is preserved. The addressee is asked to pay [probably the bearer] his wage. Note that it is preserved/photographed …

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  40. 21740Literary textT-S J3.6

    Formulary for writing eloquent letters in Hebrew. Late hand.

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  41. 21741Literary textStras. 4062/10

    Judaeo-Arabic commentary (there are more pages than just this shelfmark) on Masekhet Shabbat. ASE.

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  42. 21742Unknown typeENA NS 76.480.2

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  43. 21743LetterENA NS I.84

    Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿaqov to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Yefet (aka Hibatallāh b. Ḥusayn and Netanʾel b. Yefet). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1090s CE. …

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  44. 21744LetterYevr. II A 1603

    Copies of letters sent from Kosdina to Troki

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  45. 21745Legal documentT-S NS 338.20

    An order from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of linseed oil (zayt ḥār). Cf. T-S NS 31.11.

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  46. 21746Unknown typeENA NS 76.569

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  47. 21747List or tableT-S AS 166.39

    List of amounts of money received from al-Shaykh al-Makīn and al-Shaykh al-Nadiv, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s).

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  48. 21748LetterMoss. II,152.2

    Fragment of a letter from Avraham b. Natan Av (identification on the basis of handwriting), Tyre, to Yehuda ha-Kohen ha-Rav ve-Rosh ha-Seder b. Yosef regarding …

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    1. וצלת כתב חצרה סיידנא אלרב [                                             פוצעתהא
    2. נצב עיני וקראתהא פשכרת אללה [
    3. לא אכלאהא אללה מן דלך אבדא ...[.…

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  49. 21749List or tableENA 2615.1

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand listing debts (mentioning, for example, Umm Muhammad). ENA 2615.1-3 all belong together

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  50. 21750List or tableT-S AS 162.64

    List of amounts of commodities owed. In a rudimentary hand. Mentions Andarānī salt. (Information in part from CUDL)

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