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  1. 22151LetterMoss. X,21

    Letter, fragmentary, mentioning Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī, quantities of money, runners (raqqāṣīn) and lamps (qanādīl). Or possibly an account of communal contributions. (Information in part from …

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  2. 22152Legal documentT-S NS 317.43

    Very damaged legal document. On parchment. Regarding Levi ha-Levi b. Yefet and his (or someone's) daughter. On verso there is a note in Arabic, probably …

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  3. 22153LetterT-S Ar.30.159

    Recto (probably secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan Sar ha-Bina. Bitter complaint of a sugar-maker that the addressee did not send him …

    1. בשמ רמ
    2. תוחלת ממושכה מחלה לב
    3. טוב אשר לא תדור משתדור ולא תש
    4. קד כאן תקדם ועד חצרה מולאי אלשיך
    5. אבו אלחסן שר הבינה ישמרו שומר נפשו[ת
    6. חסידיו בקליל סכר אטב…

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  4. 22154List or tableJRL L 59

    Late accounts listing a wide variety of names and corresponding numerical sums. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Some of the names listed …

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  5. 22155Legal documentENA 2739.12

    Legal deed regarding the division of the inheritance in 2 equal shares. Involving someone and his wife and Maṣliaḥ and his brother Ḥalfon. On verso …

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  6. 22156LetterENA 4020.43

    Letter from Farah b. Isma`il b. Farah (Busir/Abusir) to Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sigmar. Udovitch's edition was corrected and updated according to Gil's …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאיידה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן בוציר
    2. לד' בקין מן תשרי ואלחאל סלאמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין ושוק אלי גרתה אלס…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו ואת חסרו לך ויכה את אויביך, מבוציר,
    2. בכ"ז בתשרי. שלומי טוב, תודה לאל ריבון …

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  7. 22157Legal documentHalper 340

    Legal document written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 21 Elul 1404 Seleucid = 15 September 1093 CE. In which Saʿadya …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרין וחד יומי לירה אלול דשנת
    3. אלפא וארבע מאה וארבע שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה
    4. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה חצר אלי…

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  8. 22158LetterAIU VII.E.133

    Late letter in Hebrew from Hayyim b. Yosef Polako to Yiṣḥaq Sirnana (?).

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  9. 22159Paraliterary textBL OR 5566D.27

    Recto: excerpts of Arabic poetry, transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. The poem beginning in line 6 is credited to Qays b. al-Mulawwah (Majnun Layla) in some anthologies. …

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  10. 22160Literary textAIU VIII.B.8

    6 pages from a Hebrew medical treatise.

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  11. 22161Legal documentENA 2727.21b

    Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment from the upper left corner, preserving part of the decorative header. …

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  12. 22162LetterT-S 13J14.17

    Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולי אלשיך ואדאם עזה
    2. מן צור ען סלאמה ואלחמד ללה והדה
    3. וצל כתאבה פי יומי הדא ווקפת עליה
    4. ושכרת אללה תעאלא עלי סלאמתה אדאמהא
    5. א…

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  13. 22163LetterMoss. IV,86.2

    Letter from Mordechai. Dating: probably 16th century. It is headed by an ornate בע''ה. Verso and the margin on recto contains jottings (signature practice) in …

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  14. 22164Legal query or responsumBL Or. 5519B.1

    Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.

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  15. 22165List or tableT-S AS 184.211

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  16. 22166Literary textMoss. VIII,40

    Literary, Hebrew.

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  17. 22167Legal documentT-S 8J29.10

    Settlement agreement as part of which golden rings worth forty dinars were exchanged (one with a pearl) before the consummation of the marriage which was …

    1. ] מן . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ] . . . בין לר נתנאל
    3. ]פצאיל התלמיד החכם
    4. ] אלמצמודי זכ לב ונתן
    5. ] .ח מרנ אבו עמר ונתן
    6. ] כאתמין דהב אחדהם
    7. ] וכאתם אכר לולו ו…

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  18. 22168Unknown typeT-S AS 208.212

    Document in Arabic, badly damaged. Dating: Medieval era. Requires further examination. At upper left: مما تسلم من دار ال . . . .

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  19. 22169Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.30.242

    Responsa. A query whether milk milked on the Sabbath may be sold. Almost identical with T-S 13J9.10. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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  20. 22170Legal documentUnknown (excavation images 1974_P04_02A-03 and 1974_P04_03A-04)

    Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 44.

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. Raḥma ibn Saʿīd leased from Danī ibn Kannān al-Shaḵriyābī—he leased from him with one clap…

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  21. 22171Legal documentT-S AS 148.101

    Trousseau list relating to a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

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  22. 22172LetterCUL Or.1080 15.51

    Letter in Hebrew (probably), but very difficult to read. Needs examination.

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  23. 22173LetterCUL Or.1080 J16

    Letter from Avraham Ibn Sughmār, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Nahray traveled to Alexandria and the writer is sorry that he did not …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן אל

    2. תופיק אלחסן לא אכלאך ראש חדש כסליו געלה אללה עליך ועלינא

    3. אימן אלשהור ואברכהא ואסעדה…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך
    2. ואל ימנע ממך את מיטב ההצלחה, בראש חודש כסלו, ישימו אלוהים לך ולנו
    3. המוצל…

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  24. 22174Legal documentMoss. Xa,3.6

    Legal document written by a Muslim notary on parchment related to the sale of property, with description of the location. Mentions ʿAlī b. Zakariyā b. …

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  25. 22175Literary textT-S Ar.37.74

    Popular literature. In Judaeo-Arabic. The portion of the story on this fragment opens with the appearance of a healer before a king: "...and princes and …

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  26. 22176List or tableT-S AS 147.98

    Minute fragment probably from a memorial list. Only few partial names preserved. AA

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  27. 22177Paraliterary textT-S Ar.30.285

    Calendar for the holidays and liturgy.

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  28. 22178Unknown typeENA NS 85.279

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  29. 22179Legal documentT-S Misc.29.24

    Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. …

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    1. بســــــــــــــــم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد رسوله واله وسلامه
    2. هذا ما استاجر افرایم بن عالي الاسرائيلي من أبي الفتو…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, his blessings and peace be  upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet and his  family.  

    2. Thi…

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  30. 22180LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1455

    Letter from Sulaymān al-Kohen, unknown location, to his mother and brothers Faraj Allāh, Yaʿaqov, and Yiṣḥaq, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier …

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  31. 22181List or tableT-S AS 183.306

    Small fragment of an Arabic document, probably accounts. Horizontal lines in between sections.

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  32. 22182LetterT-S AS 182.87

    Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.

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  33. 22183LetterT-S AS 153.215

    Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with widened space between the lines.

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  34. 22184Legal documentT-S NS 224.86

    Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.

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  35. 22185Unknown typeT-S AS 153.196

    Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, referring to "distress" (shidda). Everything else is too faded to read.

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  36. 22186LetterENA NS 83.107

    Letter in Arabic. The address (recto) states that it is from the younger daughter of Rāfīʿ al-Ḥarīrī, sent to the house of Mukhtār, to be …

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  37. 22187Legal documentT-S NS 338.27

    Betrothal (erusin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Listed in Amir Ashur's dissertation, p. 355.

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  38. 22188State documentMoss. VIII,350.4

    State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla.

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  39. 22189LetterT-S AS 182.302

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in elegant Arabic script. The ends of four lines are preserved: وحرس . . . . . مهجته . . …

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  40. 22190List or tableT-S 24.76

    List of 136 households (mostly women with, or without, children, foreigners, disabled and indigent people) receiving approximately 570 loaves of bread. A postscript in Arabic …

    1. ......ו אלמגרבי ב' מרת אלרומי ו' הסן
    2. ואמה ואכוה וזוג אמה ח' בני בשׁר ד' חמאת
    3. מנצור ב' אכת מרת סולים ב' מרת מרואן ו'
    4. בנת אלקאבלה ובנתהא ג' מרת סבאע ו…

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  41. 22191Unknown typeENA NS 85.1485

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  42. 22192LetterT-S AS 152.25

    Fragment from a commercial letter, mentioning that a letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn has arrived, and invoking the ʿaṣabiyya of the addressee to ask him to …

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  43. 22193LetterENA 2560.7

    Letter from Shelomo Kohen and Yaʿaqov Portos to Efrayim [...]. Dated: 12 Elul 5566 AM (1806 CE). (Someone wrote the date 1706 CE on the …

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  44. 22194Legal documentT-S 12.665

    Small fragment of a ketubba. Location: Fustat. Bride: Jadīda. No details preserved. On verso there is one word preserved: "al-Dalāl" (a woman's name) or "al-Dallāl" …

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  45. 22195Legal documentT-S NS 184.86

    Torn fragment of a legal deed, mentions something deposited with a certain Avraham.

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  46. 22196LetterT-S NS J95b

    Letter to the judge Peraḥya (b. Yosef?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender (also a judge?) woke up sick, so instead of coming to work he sends …

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  47. 22197Legal documentT-S AS 181.74

    Draft of a deed of mutual release between Ibrāhīm b. Ṣalḥūn (same as in T-S 10J17.8?) and another person, perhaps Bū Thābit al-Jazzār. In Arabic. …

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  48. 22198LetterENA NS 47.3

    Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṣafar 613 AH = Sivan 1528 Seleucid = May/June 1217 CE. Most of the remaining content is formulaic.

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    1. לו וצף מא הו [עליה מן 
    2. ווחשתה מן נטרהם ואל . . . . . . . פראק
    3. כדמתהם ואלתרשף עלי מתול בין ידיהם
    4. למא וסעה כתאב ולא חואה כטאב אללה תע
    5. יגמע שמלה …

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  49. 22199State documentT-S AS 126.17

    Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to glean much context but mentions sending something with someone "مع موصلها".

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  50. 22200List or tableT-S NS 324.15

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning incense and mercury and a donkey and many other items.

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