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  1. 23201LetterENA NS 18.33

    IB IV, 68a (ח75). Letter from Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after mid-September 1140 CE. In which ha-Levi mentions …

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    1. [יא מולאי] ו[סי]דִי ועמאדי וסנדי אדאם אללה עזך ואטאל עמרך
    2. [ו]קדרך [יע]לי אִלמ[...] ב[.] וִדי תקדם לי אלי חצרה מולאי סחאה ען
    3. גאיה אנחפאז אדכר ל…

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    1. [אדוני] ו[מ]רי וסומכי ומשענתי, יתמיד ה' את יקרך ויאריך את חייך
    2. [ואת] מעלתך [ירו]מם, ה[...] ב[...] אהבתי (?). כבר שלחתי אל הדרת אדוני פתק 
    3. (3–4…

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  2. 23202Unknown typeENA NS 76.501

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  3. 23203LetterCUL Or.1080 J17

    Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, Tripoli (al-Shām), to Nahrāy b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ. Commodities mentioned include wheat, figs, and cotton. Goitein dates the letter to …

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    1. תוכלת עלי אללה
    2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
    3. מן אטראבלס אלשאם לי בקין מן מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך באחסן
    4. כאתמה אלדי תריד…

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  4. 23204List or tableT-S K15.64

    List of around sixty "houses" (bayt) and of eight male individuals, each followed by Coptic numerals. Includes an entry for "the house of the rayyis, …

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    1. the house of Dāʾūd the son of
    2. the daughter of my uncle // 1/4
    3. the house of Abuʾl-Faraj
    4. the Kohen 3/8 the house of Abū Saʿīd
    5.     …

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  5. 23205Paraliterary textENA NS 77.405

    Signature practice in at least two different scribal hands. Names mentioned in the signatures include: Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq Barhūn and David b. Saʿadya Jabbān(?) (גבאן). …

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  6. 23206LetterT-S 13J23.3

    Letter of Benayahu b. Musa, an Alexandrian from Maghribi origin, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The letter contains severe complaints on the local Alexandrian …

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    1. בשמך רחמ

    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם סלאמתה

    3. וסעאדתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר כאן קד בלגנא אן מולאי אלשיך לחקה וגע

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    1. (1 – 2) בשמך רחמ'; אני כותב לך, ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורכי הנכבד גדול הישיבה אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך
    2. ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך, מן הבית. נוד…

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  7. 23207List or tableT-S AS 210.79

    On recto list of names and amount, probably contributors -- or mercantile. On verso items and prices.

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  8. 23208Legal documentT-S Ar.54.74

    Record of the birth of a child in May 1197 CE. Dated according to two Jewish calendars, the Coptic calendar, and the Muslim calendar. (Information …

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  9. 23209Legal documentT-S AS 151.126

    Fragment of a letter or legal document describing how in the presence of 'the community' two people testified concerning the cantor Hilāl, who apparently neglected …

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  10. 23210Legal documentT-S NS 226.57 + T-S NS 225.92

    Fragments of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dating: mentions [14]44 Seleucid and Jumādā II 527 AH = …

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  11. 23211Literary textENA NS 76.258

    Probably literary.

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  12. 23212List or tableT-S AS 183.245

    Accounts.

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  13. 23213Legal documentJRL A 791

    Legal document dated 23 August 1797 (1 Elul 5557 AM), in which the brothers Yeshuʿa and Daniel ha-Levi acknowledge an investment by Me'ir Ben-Naʿim.

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בפעח׳׳מ הודו האחים ה׳׳ה היק׳ נשא ונע׳ לשט׳׳[ו] כת׳׳ר ישועה הלוי ו[...] נשא ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר דניאל הלוי
    3. יצ׳׳ו הודאה גמו׳ שרירא וקיימת מעכשיו מ…

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  14. 23214List or tableT-S Ar.39.377

    Book list in Arabic script. Titles include Kitāb al-Tabṣira of al-Qalaṣādī (d. 1486), Kitāb al-Bayān, and Iʿjāz al-Qur'ā[n]. There is an additional text block in …

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  15. 23215Legal documentT-S AS 145.388

    Legal document. Tiny fragment. Mentions dinars and silk.

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  16. 23216List or tableT-S NS 264.77

    Recto: Elaborate grid in red and black ink, each cell filled in with a Hebrew letter, except for three, which contain a nickname: "known as …

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  17. 23217LetterT-S AS 152.158

    Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Fragmentary and only partly legible. The fragment is labeled "L20" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts. OH

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  18. 23218State documentT-S AS 129.60

    Small fragment of a state document or letter in Arabic script. Mentions the Mutawallī al-Ṭirāz. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  19. 23219LetterT-S 8J25.10

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half of recto). This portion opens with greetings for "the father and the mother." The next portion has been translated …

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  20. 23220LetterAIU VII.E.110

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to David Ben-Naʿim from his brother Moshe Ben-Naʿīm, who signs with the initials MBN rather than his full signature. Dated 30 Kislev …

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  21. 23221LetterT-S NS J139

    Letter addressed to the Nagid Abū l-Faḍl Shemuel (= Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Evidently a letter …

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  22. 23222State documentT-S NS 306.102

    Verso: Upper part of a petition, in Arabic script. Dating: 557 H. The petition is headed "muṭālaʿa", submitted in the dual, and is regarding an …

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    1. . . . مما كتب فيها ثبت باعلاه العلامة الجيوشية

    2. منها(؟) لهذا(؟) الحمد لله وبه ثقتي

    3. لينقل خلفهما(؟) من اقطاعه الى اقطاع للاخر بما شهد به ا…

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  23. 23223LetterCUL Or.1080 J176

    Letter from ʿEli Ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: approximately 1045 …

    1. קד כאנת כותבי צדרת אלי סיידי אלחבר
    2. אלמעולה אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
    3. ותאיידה במא לא אשך פי וצולהא
    4. אליה ווקופה עליהא ולם יצל לאח[ד]
    5. גואב וארגו אן לא י…

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  24. 23224List or tableT-S K15.102

    Large, calligraphic alms list. Dating: first half of the twelfth century. According to Goitein, written for the purpose of allocating communal assistance. Cohen: "What kind …

    recto, right [Col. 1]

    1. In (your) n(ame) O Me(rciful)
    2. man from a good family someone’s acquaintance 3 Umm Salāma 3  4  5
    3. the father-in-law of “the hea…

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  25. 23225Legal documentT-S NS 226.101

    Fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).

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  26. 23226State documentENA 2462.59

    Document in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. There is a single line, subsequently reused for a Judaeo-Arabic composition.

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  27. 23227Legal documentENA NS I.93d

    Legal document. Dating: ca. early 13th century. Not much survives from the larger context but since it involves the release of several sisters of a …

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  28. 23228Unknown typeT-S AS 183.224

    Unidentified text in Arabic script. Isolated words are legible (the basmala at top. . . kitāb. . . taʿālā. . . ṣāhib. . .). Seems …

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  29. 23229Paraliterary textT-S AS 178.101

    Small fragment with a medical prescription, reused for several other kinds of jottings.

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  30. 23230Legal documentT-S AS 215.306

    Bottom of a legal document written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel and Saʿadya b. [...]. The document mentions someone named Nadiv and possibly a …

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  31. 23231Legal documentT-S NS 264.76

    Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a legal query ("mā yaqūl sayyidunā. . . ").

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  32. 23232List or tableT-S AS 210.191

    Much faded mercantile list of items (e.g. nushādir, sal ammoniac), names (e.g. Ṣāfī), and prices. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. In the hand of …

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  33. 23233LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/27

    Most of a long, very distressed letter from Menaḥem, writing in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo, to a business associate, whose family lives in Fustāṭ/Cairo and who has traveled. …

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    1.  . . . אל . . . אלדי אדעא בהא אגתמע בי רב שלמה יר הו
    2. ואשאר עלי באנני לא אטהר חתי יחצר אלמולא לאלא
    3. ירוחו אויבי יש׳ בית האסורים פאכתפית מן אלליל

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  34. 23234Legal documentT-S 12.555

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fictive sale (bayʿ ṭāliq) of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for …

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    1. ( )לתזמת ( )
    2. ( )קצר אלשמע במ(א )
    3. ( )כתאב מן יומנא הדא ( )
    4. ( ) אליה כתאב אלשרי אלדי בידי מ ( )
    5. ( ) בחגה כל עיקר ולא אטלב מנה זאיד ע(ן )
    6. ( )ה סנ…

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  35. 23235LetterT-S 10J9.16

    Letter by the Jewish community of the village of Qalhā, Egypt, apparently to Eli ha-Kohen b. Yahya in Fustat, 2nd half of the 11th century. …

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    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. נעלם סידי אלפרנס אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך
    3. ותאידתך וסעדתך וסלאמתך אן למא כאן יום סבעה עשר
    4. בתמוז וצל אלי ענדנא אשיך אבו עמרן מוסה בן …

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  36. 23236Unknown typeMoss. IV,11.2

    Text in Hebrew. Dating: After the Spanish expulsion, per Avraham David. Describing how all the "maʿamad" that oversaw all the communities of Egypt did something …

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  37. 23237Unknown typeJRL A 1249

    16 small fragments, most appear to be in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult to discern significance of any of them. Some fragments are printed and thus fifteenth-century or …

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  38. 23238List or tableENA 3614.6

    Writing exercises in which the student practiced Judaeo-Romance words and names on at least one occasion in both Hebrew and Arabic script: פארין בן שביליינה …

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  39. 23239Paraliterary textCUL Or.1081 1.52

    Recto: ʿAmida for the additional service on Rosh ha-Shana. Verso: Possibly an ownership note for Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  40. 23240Legal query or responsumMoss. III,205

    Four responsa of Gershom b. Judah (the Ragma), on the subject of borrowing money from gentiles, selling property, interest on a loan, and business deals …

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  41. 23241Legal documentBodl. MS Arab. c 56.1

    Document of sale dated 20 Ramaḍān 632 H. According to the verso, the property was bought by the judge ʿImād al-Dīn from al-Ḥājj b. Yūsuf …

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  42. 23242LetterT-S AS 145.117

    A pair of business letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely 15th–18th century. Recto, with the address on verso: letter to Binyamin b. Qalyūsa (?) al-Ghazzāwī …

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  43. 23243Unknown typeENA NS 77.270

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  44. 23244Literary textENA 3956.8

    Literary. Treatise in Arabic script on prosody (ʿilm al-ʿarūḍ).

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  45. 23245LetterT-S 20.138

    Verso: Another letter in a different hand, from a husband to his wife. He encourages her to send their two sons to school in the …

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    1. אלתורה יתו[
    2. לכיר מתל [
    3. הדא אלדי כ[
    4. ורד אללה עאקבתהם [. . . . . .] נחן
    5. מא נחן מכדומין ענד אלנאס אלא בסבב
    6. אלעלם ובמא תבת פי אדהאננא פי חאל
    7. צגרנא…

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  46. 23246List or tableENA 3703.12

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Names such as Faraj, Zayn, Raḥamim, Yosef, Shemuʾel. Late.

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  47. 23247Legal documentT-S AS 205.19

    Small fragment of a legal document. The hand is probably known (the gimmel looks almost ashkenazi, with an opening to the right). Dating: probably no …

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  48. 23248LetterJRL B 4168

    Letter of recommendation from Bū l-Barakāt to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking for assistance for the bearer. The writer mentions an earlier conversation that took …

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    1. ממלוך אלמולי אלאגל אלשי[ך
    2. ואקאם גאהה ורזקה א.[
    3. אנה אהדי ללמולא הדיה ל[
    4. בנכות אלמולא והו חאמלה [
    5. מנקטע פקיר פי אשד מא [
    6. אלשיך אלמכין אן יכלם ל…

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  49. 23249Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.35.239

    Legal query, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who had a deposit but claimed he had lost it. There are sundry other jottingss and drafts, …

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  50. 23250Unknown typeENA NS 85.450

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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