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  1. 22501LetterCUL Or.1080 J178

    IB VI, 9. Letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a shipment of tartar and a report about the arrival …

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  2. 22502Paraliterary textT-S NS 183.54 + T-S NS 183.53

    Very faded. Probably on court proceedings.

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  3. 22503Unknown typeENA NS 79.234.1

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  4. 22504Legal documentENA NS 38.22

    Draft of a legal document, or of a letter containing a record of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Rabbenu Ḥalfon ha-Sar ha-Gadol. Concerning copies …

    1. ] . א יהו . . [. . . . . . . . . . . .] . . ל ללחצרה אלאגלייה
    2. מ]רינו ורבינו חלפון השר הגדול בישראל ויהודה
    3. ] אלנסך אלתשובות גמיעהא אלדי כאן
    4. ] . . .  …

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  5. 22505Literary textT-S 12.269

    Two pages (four columns) of poetic praise for Yehosef ha-Levi Rosh Negidei ha-Golah. Information from Goitein's note card.

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  6. 22506LetterT-S AS 168.153

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably mercantile. The name Mūsā appears in the address.

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  7. 22507LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 490

    Letter, probably. In Arabic script. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved.

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  8. 22508LetterT-S AS 147.203

    Recto: probably a medical recipe, involving raisins. Verso: mercantile letter, mentioning Būṣīr and raisins. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  9. 22509List or tableT-S Ar.42.206

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Items sold (mabyūʿ) and expenditures incurred (maṣrūf). There might be a date on verso (642 AH?). (Information in …

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  10. 22510LetterENA NS 41.12

    Small fragment of a letter of recommendation for a poor teacher who has lost his living and now needs charity.

    1. ] . . . ה עצם מא האולי אלאטפאל
    2. ] פי הדא אלרכץ לא סביל לה . . 
    3. ]באן אלמעלם פי מעישה
    4. ]קד אנקטע מעאשה והם
    5. ]לם אן מא מן יהודי פי מצר
    6. ]ק כדמה וקד ואפא
    7. ]ת…

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  11. 22511List or tableT-S AS 177.530

    Small account of food items and household expenses such as laundry (ghāsūl) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  12. 22512Legal query or responsumBodl. MS heb. d 62/119

    Legal query addressed to Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson ha-Dayyan, with his responsum and signature. Concerning an upstanding man whose only trade is teaching Torah but who …

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  13. 22513State documentT-S 28.8

    Two petitions to a Fatimid judge. The first concerns the incarceration of the family breadwinner, a certain Ḥabīb. An endorsement fixed to the end of …

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    1.        العبيد المماليك 

    2.        عاىلة حبيب الجارى 

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    4. مماليك الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية اطال الله بقاها وادام ت…

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    1. The servants and slaves,

    2. the family of Ḥabīb, the servant

    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    4. The slaves of the lofty a…

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  14. 22514LetterT-S 6J3.1

    Letter from the son or descendant of Yeshuʿa he-Ḥaver b. Ṣabgha (צבגה), who moved from Jerusalem to Fustat with his family, asking for help from …

    1. שלום לה עצים וברכה להבשים
    2. ונחמה כפולה ומילוי כל שאילה
    3. ליקירינו מר ורב אברהם הכהן
    4. היקר ישמרו צורו ויהי עזרו
    5. בן רבנא יוסף נבע שואלים
    6. אנו מכבודך יקירינ…

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    1. May abundant greetings / and scented blessing /
    2. and double consolation / and fulfillment of every request /
    3. be bestowed upon our precious mast…

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  15. 22515Unknown typeENA NS 85.1084

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  16. 22516LetterT-S 13J26.15

    Hebrew letter of congratulation addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Awkal, containing Purim wishes and blessings for his sons, Hillel and Benjamin. (Information form Mediterranean …

    1. רובי שלומות ככוכבי מרומות עם שאר כל
    2. הנחמו[ת ה]רשומות והחתומות בעשרים
    3. וארבעה מחכמות תבואנה מיודע תעלומות
    4. לאלופינו וגדולנו ויקירנו והודנו והדרנו
    5. וכליל…

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  17. 22517Paraliterary textT-S Ar.30.61

    Recto: Arabic poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (helpfully headed "this is poetry"). Verso: An obscure incantation (?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. ASE.

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  18. 22518LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 146

    Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, probably mercantile. Little of the content is preserved. There is an unrelated fragment sharing this shelfmark, which …

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  19. 22519List or tableT-S AS 147.253

    Trousseau list, probably part of a ketubba, mentioning items such as cushions (makhādd). On parchment. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  20. 22520LetterT-S NS 259.89

    Trials of the pen including drafts (letters; ketubbot; receipt).

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  21. 22521Literary textBL OR 13888.4

    Isaiah 29.

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  22. 22522List or tableT-S Misc.8.65

    Two pages of a large account written for a partner, divided into sections. The account mentions sales of linen, lacquer, precious stones, ammonia, clothing and …

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    1. ולה ען תמן ח' אמנא ונצף ורד לר' יוסף די'נ' ונצף ורב'
    2. ולה תמן ד' מנאדיל מגרביה די'נ' ונצף ורבע
    3.                 פדלך גמלה מא לה ק'ט'ל…

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    1. ….לזכותו תמורת ח' מנים וחצי ורדים לר' יוסף, דינר וחצי ורבע.
    2. לזכותו תמורת ד' סודרים מגרביים, דינר וחצי ורבע,
    3. סך הכול, הסכום לזכ…

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  23. 22523Literary textDK 39

    Midrash Tehillim, and Sefer ha-Shem by Avraham Ibn Ezra.

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  24. 22524List or tableT-S K5.75

    Accounts, mentioning Shemuʾel ha-Levi b. Menashshe and Abū Saʿīd al-Rubbān. Accounts are in dirhams and fractions of dirhams. Commodities referred to include wood, oil, almonds, …

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  25. 22525List or tableT-S AS 183.118

    Accounts.

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  26. 22526LetterT-S NS 70.1

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic written in a cipher. The cipher was cracked by Gideon Bohak in 2025 and the document will be published by Bohak, …

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  27. 22527LetterUnknown (excavation images 1974_P03_32–32A and 1974_P03_33–33A)

    Letter from ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥasan b. Dāwud to his "son" the Abū l-Qāsim Hibat Allāh b. Muḥammad Ibn al-Aʿmā, probably in Ibrīm (the location …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتبت اليك يا ولدى العزيز على الامير ابريم اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك
    3. وتاييدك وسعادتك وسلامتك كتبت عن حال سلامة وعافية
    4. لله…

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. I have written to you, my son, who is dear to me, the commander (at) Ibrīm, may God prolon…

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  28. 22528LetterT-S NS J68

    Petition to a Gaʾon by ʿa lonely orphan girl’, who had been married for ten years to a man who had taken her earnings, given …

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    1. ב
    2. אעלם חצרה גאנינו ישמר
    3. צרנו אני בנת יתימה וחידה
    4. אזוגוני לרגל ליס לה רזק
    5. . . ולי מעה עשר סנין יאכד
    6. עמלי פלמא בקית מתתובה
    7. בלא שי אסתתר בה קלת …

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  29. 22529List or tableT-S AS 186.31

    Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.

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  30. 22530Paraliterary textENA 2556.11

    Piyyut or other Hebrew literary text; on the other side the names Manṣūr and Yeshaʿya the sons of ʿAmram. Likely an ownership note, less likely …

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  31. 22531LetterMoss. II,123.1.2

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of recto). Yefet …

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  32. 22532Legal documentT-S J1.42

    Legal document, draft or copy. No signatures. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods which he sent to the Maghrib …

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  33. 22533LetterMoss. V,335.2

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentioning Ḥusayn or Ḥassūn. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  34. 22534LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/90

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The names of the sender and the addressee and the date are all covered up by a sheet of paper, …

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  35. 22535List or tableENA 2235.1

    Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic. Accounts? Some names and numbers are faintly legible: Abū l-ʿAlā al-Ḥājj, Ramaḍān, 101; Shelomo Eliyya Maḥbūb. VMR. ASE

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  36. 22536LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/108

    IB V, 8. Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham Ibn al-Majjānī, probably in Aden, to (Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The …

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  37. 22537LetterT-S AS 156.128

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

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  38. 22538LetterT-S AS 150.197

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Discussing a woman who was possibly abandoned (dawwar/dawwir ḥawālayhā... wa-khallāha...). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  39. 22539LetterT-S AS 151.125

    Probably the end of a letter, quoting Daniel 6:29, 4; Proverbs 3:4, 26, 2; 1 Shemuʾel 25:6. (Information mainly from CUDL)

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  40. 22540LetterT-S AS 150.175

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Almost none of the substance is legible. Mentions a certain Yefet (מר ור יפת הזקן הנכבד בן).

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  41. 22541Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. II,194.1

    IB V, 41c. Verso: Receipt (or order) for one and a half ūqiyya of rose water and an ūqiyya of lemon, probably in the hand …

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  42. 22542Literary textT-S H5.183

    This piyyut was written by Jacob bar Dunash bar Akiva for recitation on Rosh Hashanah. In it, Jacob expands upon a poem by Eleazar be-Rabbi …

    Translated by Gabriel Wasserman.

    And so, let me mention the deeds of the living God, and the dying man.

    The lofty king.  He sits in His hidden pla…

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  43. 22543LetterT-S Ar.34.1

    Verso (original use): Letter fragment, with very little context. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The last line indicates the announcement of something, "in …

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  44. 22544Legal documentMoss. IIIa,1

    Bill of divorce. Probably a draft: although it is signed, there are interlinear corrections for the date and for the husband's name, and there is …

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  45. 22545Legal documentT-S AS 152.398

    Legal fragment, mentioning Abū l-Karam. (Information from CUDL.)

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  46. 22546Unknown typeENA NS 79.155

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  47. 22547LetterBL OR 5536.4

    Short letter from the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen to his cousin and brother-in-law Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning the purchasing of …

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    1. כאן קד //תקדם// כתאבי אלי חצרה מולאי
    2. אלחבר[[ן]] היקר נט רח אערפה אנני אשתרית
    3. מידה כלנג מגרבי כבירה בג ומ דרהם
    4. לאני אעלם אן אלמידה אלדי אנפדתהא…

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  48. 22548LetterT-S AS 152.234

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (a piece from the right side of recto). Extremely smudged and faded. (Information from CUDL)

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  49. 22549Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.5

    IB V, 45. Legal record (#7). Alimony received. Dated: End of Iyyar 1456 Seleucid (or shortly thereafter). Concerning the maintenance/alimony (mezonot) that the late Abū …

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  50. 22550List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 84

    Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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