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  1. 23001Legal documentT-S NS 184.39

    Vertical strip from a legal document, maybe a ketubba. Might involve a woman named Sitt al-Nās.

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  2. 23002Legal documentT-S 8J21.27

    Recto: Bottom of a note from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a shipment of pearls. Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomo …

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  3. 23003Legal documentENA 4101.16b

    Legal document in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Declaration made by a woman named Mawlāt on the occasion of entering …

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  4. 23004LetterT-S Ar.39.486

    Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Qābila ("Son of …

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  5. 23005Paraliterary textENA 4096.a

    Verso: Megillat Miṣrayim

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  6. 23006Unknown typeNLI 577.1/62

    Awaiting description. Image not available?

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  7. 23007Legal documentT-S 8J4.16

    Legal document concerning the miller Yefet b. Eli, who undertakes payment of two dinars to his divorced wife, which he still owes her, in monthly …

    1. אלתזם בחצרתנא יפת בר עלי אלטחאן
    2. אן פי דמתה וכאלץ מאלה בדינארין דהב
    3. מצריה למטלקתה סתות בת טאהר
    4. ליכון יסלם אליהא דלך רבאעי פי כל
    5. שהר מקסטה אלי אן תתם …

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  8. 23008Legal documentUnknown (excavation images 1974_P04_11A-12 and 1974_P04_10A-11)

    Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 47

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    1. In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ḥasan, the trader, acknowledged and called people to be his witnesses, in …

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  9. 23009LetterT-S 8J20.3

    Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …

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    1. האנשים אשר פירשנו שמותם תתנם אתה לבעליהם
    2. הרשאי לעשות בהם בעבור כי כל איש [
    3. פתוחות אל הקהילות ודרשנו באחת מהם הנדבות והפסיקות והחומשים [
    4. השינית…

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  10. 23010Literary textENA NS 83.33

    Arabic, literary. Poetry.

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  11. 23011Legal documentT-S 8.140

    The end of a ketubba, witnessed by [...]ya b. Aaron, Peraḥya ha-Me[lammed] and Isaac b. [...]. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 …

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  12. 23012LetterENA 4100.4b

    Letter In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning communal controversy and politics. Mentions an apostate to Islam (al-posheaʿ), the community of Ṣahrajt, a ban of excommunication, a Jew who …

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    1. ] גמענא ואיאך וכל ישראל פי בניאן קדסה
    2. ] . דיה אלמניה מנהא במנה וכרמה ואן
    3. ] פמא אדע שהד אללה אלסואל ען אכבארך
    4. א]שכר אללה עליה ואסלה אלזיאדה לך

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  13. 23013Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79.5

    P5: Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few words are preserved, no details.

    1. הז]קן בר מרור
    2. ] מעכשו בביטול כל מודעין 

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  14. 23014LetterJRL B 4252

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very neat hand. The writer complains about something (having to wander abroad?) because he writes that he counts whatever it is …

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  15. 23015List or tableT-S AS 206.116

    Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite faded. Mentions sal ammoniac and pepper and sugar and meat and a fūṭa. Also …

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  16. 23016Legal documentYevr. II A 1300

    Copy of a Karaite ketubah. Dated 8 Adar 5400 AM (1640 CE).

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  17. 23017LetterT-S NS J590

    Letter fragment from an unknown writer to his son (probably). Written in Judaeo-Arabic. The introduction is preserved, wherein the writer says he is proud of …

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  18. 23018LetterJRL B 2400

    Letter in Ladino to Yehuda Gatenio, from a business partner in Alexandria, dated 10 August 1823 (3 Elul 5583 AM). Deals entirely with business transactions; …

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  19. 23019Legal documentYevr. II A 2745

    Karaite halakhic discussion regarding different types of legal deeds and their use

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  20. 23020LetterT-S NS J555

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: bottom half only. The sender reminds the addressee to take care of the quicksilver (זאוק/zāwūq) stored in clay vessels. He …

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  21. 23021List or tableBL OR 5566B.11

    Verso: Four (?) interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE. (Information from Goitein's …

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  22. 23022State documentMoss. II,158.3

    Decree fragment, one line, in Arabic script. "سعد من وحولها".

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  23. 23023Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/69

    Legal document from Minyat Zifta in which a woman, Tujjār bt. Khalaf known as Ibn אלשיגרי, conveys to her husband Bū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Ḥasan …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן סהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא סוף שטארא דנן
    2. למא ] כאן פי חדש שבט אלנצף מנה שנת אתסו לשטרות בעיר מניה זפתא
    3. דעל ] נילוס נהרא מותבה רשו…

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  24. 23024Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.15

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. The cantor al-Shaykh al-Makīn (=Abū …

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  25. 23025List or tableENA 3740.6

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Likely a join with ENA 3740.2–3. Mentions people such as Yaʿqub b. Naḥūm. Mentions goods such as …

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  26. 23026Unknown typeENA NS 85.610

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  27. 23027Paraliterary textT-S K5.20

    T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …

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  28. 23028List or tableAIU VII.F.83

    12 pages of late accounts. Dated on 1r and 3r as 1267 AH which is 1850/51 CE. The dated heading on 3r mentions Muṣtafa tabiʿ …

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  29. 23029List or tableBL OR 12369.37

    Late writing exercises and sums (compare 12369.21, 22, 37, 38, 39).

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  30. 23030Unknown typeENA NS 85.1017

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  31. 23031LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/20

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Berakhot (b. Shemuel). Expressing thanks to the poet Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo for his “sweet poems and …

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  32. 23032Legal documentT-S 10J3.7

    Bill of divorce, fragment. Husband: Maʿānī b. Khalaf. Wife: Jamīʿ bt. Barakāt (both families are from Minyat Ziftā, Egypt). Dated: Friday, 29 Sivan 1426 Seleucid, …

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  33. 23033LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1464

    Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother' Hārūn Fayrūz in Cairo. This letter contains an update on her stomach illness …

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  34. 23034Legal documentT-S AS 200.321

    Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. Dating: ca. 11th century.

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  35. 23035Unknown typeENA NS 79.200

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  36. 23036LetterT-S Ar.29.137

    Letter fragment in Arabic script, probably commercial. It is difficult to decipher the content. The term "al-mamlūk" (referring to the sender) appears multiple times. The …

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  37. 23037Literary textT-S 12.609

    Literary text, in Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses the Hebrew language and the language of the Bible. Could be theology or Bible exegesis. Needs examination.

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  38. 23038Legal query or responsumT-S 12.199

    Recto: Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi addressed to Maimonides, who was active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204 CE. Concerning partners in …

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  39. 23039Legal query or responsumENA 2558.25

    Three legal queries to Yiṣḥaq b. Sason with his responsa. At least one of the cases concerns the maintenance of children

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  40. 23040Unknown typeENA NS 85.598

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  41. 23041Paraliterary textT-S NS 324.59

    Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic (with some Arabic script and magical symbols). One recipe is for nosebleed and involves writing a spell with the blood on …

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  42. 23042Unknown typeENA NS 77.188

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  43. 23043LetterJRL B 8588

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (India trade related?). May refer to owing somebody a rose-colored cooking vessel (? ṭājin warda); something …

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  44. 23044Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 1.87

    Medical recipe. (Information from CUDL)

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  45. 23045Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1579

    Karaite agreement regarding a partnership in rural cheese production (אלגבן אלריפי) mentioning the specific type(s) "אלכשכבאן אלכזין". Dated 22 Heshvan 5515 AM (1754 CE). The …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדה אלאחרף באן חצ'רו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל כמוהר׳׳ה
    2. שלמה כהן יצ׳׳ו נין המנוח כמוהר׳׳ה אהרן כהן ידיע שאמי נ׳׳ע תם חצרו אלאתנין
    3. אל…

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  46. 23046LetterT-S Misc.28.84

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions: ʿūd rīḥ; 3 dinars and a rubāʿī; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …

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  47. 23047Unknown typeT-S AS 128.6

    Secondary use: Unidentified text in Hebrew, praising somebody: ברב חסדיך ושמרת חסד בלי יוחש שתרבו בדרכי הישרה והאירו מאורי התורה ובנו בתי התפלות וקבעו הזמנים …

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  48. 23048State documentENA 3974.3

    Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated …

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    1. عبدها يحيى بن الحسن من ناحية  < >  
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. اعلم مولاتنا السيدة خلد الله ملكَها وثبت عزها ببقا مولانا وسيدنا 
    4. الامام الظاهر لاع…

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    1. Her slave Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan from the district of :
    2. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
    3. I inform our mistress, the lady—may Go…

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  49. 23049List or tableT-S NS 99.54

    List of Judeo-Arabic two accounts in a very orderly hand that detail the funds requested from one Yiṣḥaq Ḥefeṣ (l. 2r) and the payments of …

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  50. 23050LetterT-S 6J7.3

    Letter from a man to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1238–52 CE, as it has to do with the removal of David I Maimonides …

    1. בש רח
    2. ואעלם אלואלד ופקה אללה אנני כתנת יום
    3. ט באב לשכץ יקאל לה מפצל [אבן?] אלענברי
    4. והו עם מהדב ואבו סע[ד אבן?] אלענברי
    5. וכאנת כתאנת עגיבה מע [. . . .]…

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