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  1. 21901Legal documentUPenn E 16510

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1431 Seleucid, which is April 1120 CE. Settlement between …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים ומאן דחתים עימנא לתחתא כן הוה למא

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  2. 21902Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 79/36

    Very important legal document consisting of two depositions held in the synagogue of Syracuse, dealing with a lawsuit against Eliyyahu b. al-Harrar, who was accused …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו קהל סרקוסה במושב בית דין חצרו בי[ן ידי]

    ע׳׳א:

    1. (1–2) באו לפני הקהל שני עדים, והם משה בר חסדאי נ׳׳ע, ואברהים בר עלון נ׳׳נ,
    2. והעידו ששמעו מאליה בן אלחדאד, כאשר היו שניהם יחד עמו בבית הכנסת;…

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  3. 21903List or tableCUL Or.1081 J38

    Account of the Qodesh: personal account of a parnas, ca. 1040. Small fragment, the right part of a leaf, in which Yefet b. David b. …

    1. ד איאם בקת מן תמוז
    2. צאלח אלבגדאדי מרתה
    3. אלדי קבצה מני בן אל[
    4. ארבעה דר ונצף[
    5. ונצף א[
    6. דר דארה סתה[
    7. תמ\נ כשב דינאר נ[
    8. קבץ בן אלגבאן וא[
    9. עמל אלאקרע יומין …
    His compound, 6….
  4. Paid for wood, 1 dinar .... 

  5. Collected by b. al-Jabbān

  6. Work of al-Aqraʿ, for two days .... 

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  8. 21904Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#13) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 11-13) Folio 4r

    1. הירמוזא פה מצרים כעת פטירת אמה הופקד עזבון המ׳ אסתר הנז׳ שבכללם חזוקי העלייה הנז׳

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  9. 21905Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Legal record (#23) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …

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    :Left side of bifolio 3r (Documents 22-23)

    1. מאתים תשעים דרהם וקנין מיד הר׳ יצחק הנז׳ ושבועה חמורה

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  10. 21906LetterBL OR 5566A.3

    Mercantile letter from the Ibn ʿAwkal dossier. Dating: early 11th century. Includes great complaints about bad treatment by addressee. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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    1. כתירא כמא הו אהלה ומסתחקה [             ] וצל לי כתאבך [

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  11. 21907Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#60) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 60-62) Folio 16r

    1. [בהי]ות שהיה עסק משא ומתן ושותפות בין הר׳ יוסף תמים י[דיע] פ.[...] יצ׳׳ו וכה׳׳ר נסים גרייאני ידיע חפץ יצ׳׳ו

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  12. 21908Legal documentNLI 577.3/1

    Legal document dated Iyyar (4)812 (1052), regarding a business dispute between ʿAllān bar Avraham bar ʿAllān and Yaʿaqov ben Salmān concerning flax, al-Lādhiqiyya, Fustat, and …

  13. מן עלאן בן אברהים בן עלאן

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    1. נחן אלשהוד אלמסמון אספל הדא אלכתאב חצר אלינא ר עלאן בר אברהם בר עלאן וקאל לנא כנת כאלטת ר יעקב בן סלמאן

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    1. אנו, העדים הנקובים בתחתית הכתב הזה, בא אלינו ר' עלאן בר אברהם בר עלאן ואמר לנו : עשיתי שותפות עם ר' יעקב בן סלמאן
    2. אלמגרבי בז' ברקלו של פשתים, והוא מסר לי מתמורתם, בטרם יצא עמם, עשרים דינרים וחצי, ומכר מקצתן בצךך והלך עם
    3. השאר ללאך'קייה ומכר אותן שם; ואז, אחר כך, בא עם התמורה לפסטאט ואז חייבתי את חשבונו בתמורה ובמשקל, והסתכם לי לחובתו מ' דינרים ונתן לי הסבה
    4. עליהם על מ"ר נהוראי בי"ר נסים נ"ע וקיבלתים ממנו, דינרים טובים שקולים, מהם קיבלתי י"ג דינר מאת ר' אברהם בי"ר יצחק
    5. התלמיד נ"ע, וקיבלתי כ"ז דינרים, יתרת המ' דינרים, מאת ר' נהוראי.

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  15. 21909List or tableT-S Ar.39.470

    Account in Arabic script containing dinars and numbers.

    He requests a kindness and benefaction
  16. to be done to him by being charitable, in consideration of this, to his family, his children and his

  17. crippled mother, who have stood ransom forhim.

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  19. 21910List or tableENA 1822a.41

    Account. Revenue of the qodesh from rent, ca. 1230. A small strip of paper, of which the upper part is missing, written on both sides. …

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    1. אלדאר אלמגאורה לה
    2. סכן אלמבייץ טבקה ד
    3. [טב]קה סכן עתמאן פואל
    4.                              ד
    5. דרב סלסלה
    6. רמצאן אלקזאז קאעה וטבקה
    7.                       …

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    1. The compound that is adjacent to it
    2. The apartment of al-Mubayyiḍ, the ṭabaqa, 4.

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  20. 21911Legal documentT-S NS J469

    Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased was an adult (kāmil) woman Ḥusn bt. Mūsā, and she was survived …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. المماليك ينهو وفاة حسن اليهودية الامراة الكامل ابنه موسى
    3. اليهودي وخليت من الورثة المستحقين لميراثها ثلاث اولاد ذكور
    4. وهم فتوح …
    When
  21. they recognized the validity of this they attached their signatures on the aforementioned date. Praise be to God,

  22. the eternal.

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  24. 21912Legal documentENA 4020.38

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Qaraite. Groom: Ṣedaqa. Location: Fustat(?). Dating: 1020–30s(?). Witnesses: Avraham b. Khalaf ha-Kohen; Netanʾel b. Revaḥ/Rawḥ ha-Levi; Barakāt b. Mubārak; Hiba b. Yosef; …

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    1. … מן צדק[ה] החתן הזה …
    2. … אשר יבלה מהם אל יורשיה מאביה באמת ולא יהיה ע[ליו]
    3. [מן המוהר המ]אוחר מאומה כדרך בעלי מקרא השמרים את מועדי [יי בראית הי…

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    1. … from this Şedaqa, the groom, …
    2.    … what is worn out from them, truly to her heirs from her father's family, and [he] will not owe …
    3. … anything [from the] delayed mohar payment, according to the procedure of the Karaites who observe the festivals [of the Lord according to the sighting of the Moon]
    4. … [and the find]ing of aviv in the Land of Israel, and according to their custom.

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  25. 21913State documentT-S AS 202.396

    Verso: Petition from a woman. In Arabic script. She is "cut-off" (munqaṭiʿa) and poor (ṣuʿlūka). Not much else is preserved. On verso there is a …

    1. تقبل الارض بين يديها وتنهي بساميها دامت [نعمتها
    2. وهلـكت اعاديها انها امراة منقطعة صعلوكة فقيرة ليس
    3. لها ...... الا
    1. [The slave] kisses the ground before him and reports to his loftiness—may his favour endure
    2. and his enemies perish—that she is a cut-off woman, indigent, poor, who has no
    3. [one but God and him ....].

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  26. 21914Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 22/47

    Legal document. Deposition on cession of rights in the "Estate of the Jerusalemites," ca. 1160. The uncle of Bū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muqaddasī renounces his right …

    1. אשהדני עם
    2. בו סעיד בן אלמקדסי עלי
    3. נפסה אנה קד והב לבן
    4. אכוה בו סעיד אלמדכור
    5. גזוה אלדי פי רבע אלמקאדסה
    6. וכאן בו עלי אלנאסך חאצר

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    1. (1-2) The uncle of (A)bū Saʿīd b. al-Muqaddasī made me be witness for 

    2. (3-4) himself, that he has given his nephew, the said (A)bū Saʿīd, 

    3. the share which is his in the Estate of the Jerusalemites. 

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  27. 21915Legal documentT-S 12.115

    Court record, calligraphically written, from a lawsuit about changing the configuration of the main hall of a house. During the dispute a Muslim judge was …

    1. [                 ]... יומ . . ב[
    2. [                 ] . . . . . . . . . . . . תגרות בי ומשם[ . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . . . .[                 ]
    3. [ …
  28. ...I came to m(aster) Shemarya, may [his Rock] preserve [him, son of ..., may he rest]
  29. in Eden, and I told [...] ... this Mevasser ... he ... [                         ]
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  31. 21916Legal documentT-S Ar.38.115

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Small fragment from the top. Dating: ca. 1135 CE, based on the appearance of Maḥfūẓa bt. Yosef Zayn al-Tujjār. Abū …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله الطاهـ[ـرين ]
    2. [هذا ما اسـ]ـتاجر ابو زكرى بن يوسف اليهودى الهاروني التاجر من س…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and  his blessings be upon Muḥammad, his prophet, and his pure family [ ]  

    2. This is what Abū Zikrī ibn Yūsuf, the Aaronide Jew, the merchant, leased from  Salāma ibn Yūsuf [ ]  

    3. [ ] who on this day is under his protection, Maḥfūẓa ibnat Yūsuf,  known as ‘adornment of the merchants’, the Jew [ with a smooth  forehead, in which there are]  

    4. some wrinkles, with joined eyebrows, dark brown eyes, a hooked nose and a  round beard.

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  32. 21917Paraliterary textENA NS 39.10

    Astrological prognostications predicting the character of a year based on the zodiac sign in which it is "born" (i.e., the position of the moon at …

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    1. אדא אתואלדת אלסנה באלגוזא פאן אלאמטאר תכתר
    2. וירום ריח אלשמאל ויציב אלזרע אלמתכר א?א ותכתר
    3. אלאתמאר ויתם מד אלניל ויקע פי אלבקר מות וי[צי]ב
    4. אלנאס…
  33. ...There will be high prices and flight from pla[ce]
  34. to place. There will be hunger. As for barley and frui[t], they will prosper [...]
  35. God knows best what is unseen.
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  37. 21918Literary textJTS 2529.1

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Ar4 in Bohak's edition, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 8.1–9.2. (Information from Gideon Bohak, The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu), 14–15.)

    Folio 1v (first section)

    1. [... ...] א<י>לא לא משכחיתון יתי ולא פיגרי על צליבא ס֯ל֯
    2. סלקית אנא לרקיעא דישמיא ולא תח֯ז֯ון יתי. וצלבו
    3. כד חי ורגמו יתיה בא…
  38. And they did not want to take him down from the cross. R. Yehoshuʿa said to them:

  39. [“Because of Yeshu the wick]ed we shall change the law of the Torah? 
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  41. 21919Legal documentT-S 20.116

    Recto: Fifty-two closely written lines of a legal verbiage written by Hillel b. Eli, dealing with the settlement of the debt of half a dinar …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[חתמ]ות ידנא לתחתא ב[............]
    2. דהוא [............] יומי בירח תמוז דשנת אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין ותשע

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  42. 21920LetterT-S AS 150.2

    Recto (secondary use): Note of seven short lines written in beautiful oversized majuscules, written on the back of an earlier Arabic document. The writer praises …

    1. יעלם כל מכלוק אן צירפי
    2. חאדק נקאד בציר לא יגוזה
    3. והם ולא גלט יעלם בכל
    4. מא יצדר ען אלאנסאן מן
    5. עמל ולפט וגירה ברוך שמו
    6. כאדמהא סמע שי והדא
    7. גואבה ושלום

    Everyone knows that fantasy and error are not fitting for a clever banker and a discerning assayer, who should understand everything that a person says and does, etc.

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  43. 21921Legal query or responsumT-S K25.285

    India Book III,29c: Responsa in Avraham Ibn Yiju's hand: legitimacy of a manumitted female slave's marriage and status of her children, Yemen, ca. 1140. When …

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    1. נתכלם בעון אללה פי הדה אלורקה עלי אלמסאלה
    2. בעינהא בגיר קיאס שי אלי ולא מטאבקה שי אלי

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  44. 21922LetterENA 1822A.101

    Right fragment: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. "I have sent with Rabbi Ahuv 10 Kāmilī dirhams..."

    1. וכאן קד בעתתו מע רבי אהוב עשר אלדראהם
    2. כאמליה [פאן] כאן אלשיך אלאעז חאצר יוצל אלי
    3. מנה . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ה אליך ואנא אנפד להו

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  45. 21923Legal documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.15

    Legal document: acknowledgment (iqrār) in the name of Zayn al-Dīn Shaʿbān b. something, with two witnesses' signatures, late Mamluk or early Ottoman? Item 6 in …

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  46. 21924State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.1

    Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …

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  47. 21925State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.5

    Letter (?), left half only, narrow folds like a letter, mentioning quantities of something and a certain Nūr al-Dīn, so maybe Ayyubid? Item 16 in …

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  48. 21926Unknown typePUL Garrett Additional 20.6

    Fiscal register (?), mentioning a sum of 100 dirhams, folded vertically once then rolled and folded horizontally. Item15 in DPUL.

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  49. 21927LetterPUL Garrett Additional 20.7

    Letter mentioning real estate and rent in Cairo, the writer's son, qarārīṭ (carats). Folded once vertically then rolled and folded horizontally. Wormholes. Item 14 in …

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  50. 21928Legal documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.29

    Legal deed (fragment) [12th century?], calligraphic, with wide line-spacing. Approximately 250 x 450 mm at the widest points. Gift of Robert Garrett, 2953. Many other …

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  51. 21929Legal documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.x

    Legal document: testimony in the name of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad. Four signatures, one in Kufic script (!). Item 10 in DPUL; unclear what current folio …

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  52. 21930Legal documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.13*

    Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. …

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  53. 21931Legal documentYevr. III B 164

    Ketubba fragment (marriage contract). Location: Damascus. Dated: 1[.]01 Seleucid = [10]89/90 or [11]89/9 CE.

    1. [...].חתן וכלה יבנו ויצליחו............[...]
    2. [...מ]אה וחדא שנין לשטרות בדמשיק מדינתא דעל נהרי אמנה ופרפר מותבה רשותיה דאדוננ[ו...]
    3. [...]ראש ישיבת גא…

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  54. 21932Literary textYevr. III B 195

    Literary. Catalogued as an epistle of Pirkoy b. Baboy on FGP.

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  55. 21933List or tableYevr. III B 349

    Book list with six items. Written a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The last item is simply "Hārūn al-Rashīd."

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    1. עיבור אלורק אל(ל) שרק[י] 
    2. אגזא אלרחמים
    3. כתאב אלמכאלה ומדרש []
    4. תרגום הפטרות
    5. אלפצל לל . . . . חדיתא
    6. הרון אלרשיד

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  56. 21934Legal documentYevr. III B 635

    Marriage contract from Tyre, dated Tuesday, 19 Av, fifth year the sabbatical cycle (ca. 1054). Somebody with a nisba from the town of 'Ibillin is …

    1. על שמיה דבריין
    2. ביום תלתא בירח אב בתשע עשר יומין ביה בשתא חמישייתא דשבועא דהיא [...]
    3. שנין לביריתיה דעלמא בצור מדינתא דיעל גיף ימה רבה אתכתב שטר פרנ[א…

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  57. 21935Legal documentYevr. III B 641

    Bottom of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Yaʿaqov. Bride: Nasāba bt. Hiba, a virgin. There …

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  58. 21936Legal documentYevr. III B 644

    Ketubba fragment.

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  59. 21937LetterYevr. III B 647

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Tripoli.

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  60. 21938Legal documentYevr. III B 655

    Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated [..]24 Seleucid. Bride: [...] bt. S[...], virgin. It is a very small strip.

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  61. 21939Legal documentYevr. III B 656

    Ketubba fragment. Dating: 1141–59 CE, based on the reshut clause naming Shemuel ha-Nagid. Groom: Natan. Bride: Sitt al-Turaf bt. Yeshuʿa, virgin. witnesses: Yosef b. Yehuda, …

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  62. 21940Legal documentYevr. III B 657

    Ketubba fragment. Dating: 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Possibly this could be narrowed based on the reshut clause naming ha-Nagid ha-Gadol (Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). …

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  63. 21941Unknown typeYevr. III B 659

    Small scrap. All that remains is "Yeshuʿa b. Yosef, I try the ink" (i.e. a pen trial).

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  64. 21942Literary textYevr. III B 690

    Torah, Samaritan script, Genesis 36–37.

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  65. 21943Legal documentYevr. III B 856

    Ketubba. Date: 1[.] Sivan 1420 Seleucid = 1109 CE. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Tamīm ha-Zaqen. Bride: Sitt al-B[ayt?], not her first marriage. Marriage payments: 5 + …

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  66. 21944Literary textYevr. III B 921

    Literary work in Judaeo-Arabic on the laws of divorce.

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  67. 21945Legal documentYevr. III B 1068

    Legal document. Dating: Late. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Many names appear. One of the witnesses is named M[oshe] b. Maymūn. The document mentions "al-ishāʿa fī l-funduq."

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  68. 21946Legal documentYevr. III B 1074

    Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Groom: Faraj. Bride: [...] bt. Farjūn, virgin. Witnesses: Tamīm ha-Kohen b. Shemuel, Ṣadaqa b. [...], Hiba b. Aharon, Hillel …

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  69. 21947LetterYevr. III B 1131

    Epistle of the gaon Shemuel b. ʿEli of Baghdad. There is a colophon. This copy was completed Tishrei [1]473 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. "In …

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  70. 21948Legal documentPTS MS SCQ3067

    Bill of divorce. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1365 Seleucid = 28 February 1054 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Yosef b. David. Wife: Khibāʾ bt. Yosef. No …

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  71. 21949LetterPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.16 (Michaelides 16)

    Letter in Arabic.

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  72. 21950LetterPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.21 (Michaelides 21)

    Decree of a Coptic official, dated 25 Baʾūnah (?) of the Coptic year 1392 (?).

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