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  1. 23301LetterT-S 13J15.11

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …

    1. [ ] יראת יען [כי] לא יראו אים ולא פחדו ל[
    2. [ בי]ת הדין אליו אקרא ואליו אתחנן וכא[
    3. וזאת והי[טו א]ת לבך מדברי ת[ורה] ישאו חטאם
    4. ואתה תגי[ל ביי בקדוש] יש…

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  2. 23302Legal documentENA NS 77.66

    Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).

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  3. 23303LetterT-S NS 325.119

    Opening of a letter to Shemuʾel ha-Dayyan- might be Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (1165-1203). The sender states that his purpose is to inform the addressee …

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  4. 23304LetterBL OR 5561B.8

    Verso: Letter from an official (motto: yeshaʿ yuḥash). In Hebrew. Written between the lines of the Arabic document. Evidently a response to a letter soliciting …

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  5. 23305State documentT-S AS 103.70

    Fragment of an official letter (report or petition?). In Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Phrases include: lil-khidma bi-l-thaghr... bi-ḍawāḥīh... Reused on …

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  6. 23306Legal documentT-S AS 153.463

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a perfume/drug business in Qalyūb. A Seleucid Era date and the …

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  7. 23307Literary textYevr. II A 1884

    Liturgical. List of verses for prayer. Dating: Catalogued as 18th century.

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  8. 23308Legal documentT-S NS 224.58

    Small fragment from an outline/digest of a prenuptial agreement, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom takes upon himself not to forbid …

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  9. 23309List or tableJRL B 3127

    Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning silk and paper. Possibly mentions a manumitted person (מעתוק) in the opening line of the recto. Requires further examination.

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  10. 23310Legal documentCUL Add.3418 + CUL Add.3421

    IB I, 1–2. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …

    CUL Add.3418: Verso

    יכתץ באבו יעקוב אלחכים טע מ יוסף אלטראבלסי

    1. בתרין בשבה דהוא תרי יומי בירח כסלו דשנת
    2. אלפא וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניינא דרגיליננא

    CUL Add.3418: Verso

    Re: Abū Yaʿqub, the Doctor, vs. M. Joseph of Tripoli.

    1. This happened on Monday, Kislev 2,

    2. 1409 of the era with which we are ac…

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  11. 23311LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/11

    Letter from Shemarya b. Yakhin, in al-Maḥalla, sent to Shemuel ha-Nagid dealing with the production of cheese in Bashmur and its transport to Fustat. (Information …

    1. ממלוכהא שמריה בר
    2. יכין נע עיר אלמחלה הגדולה
    3. בשמ רח
    4. ממלוך הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדוננו
    5. ועטרת ראשנו וצניף תפארתנו ואור עי…

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  12. 23312Unknown typeENA NS 85.1206

    Small fragment of a text in Hebrew, probably 17th-century or later based on the paleography. Much of the text appears to be honorifics, מרביץ ת׳ …

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  13. 23313LetterT-S NS 321.93

    Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla (or at least a person from the family of Shelomo b. Yishai the Nasi), written during an epidemic, and mentioning the …

    TS NS Box 321, f. 93, ed. S. D. Goitein, "Chief judge R Hananel B.Samuel, in-law of R. Moses Maimonides" (Hebrew), Tarbiz, 50(1981), p.375, 06-06-90,…

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  14. 23314List or tableT-S Ar.42.179

    Recto: Poem in Arabic, written in a beautiful hand. Headed [...] b. Yahūdā al-[...] raḥimahū allāh fī [...]. The text in the left margin at …

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    1. قبلي //في ا . . حولي . . ال . . لي اول مرة عند\\ الشيخ المعظم الفقيه القاضي زين الدين خاقان(؟) . .
    2. ودفع عند عروبث سكوث برسم الذي كان عند…

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  15. 23315State documentNLI 577.1/44

    Petition, probably from an actor of the state likely involved in the Majlis al-Ḥukm to a higher official or his subordinate. The petition is formatted …

    1. …وشواجرها

    2. عافية(؟) وانارها وبعض حيطانها وقصد المملوك ان

    3. يبـني الطبقة على ما كانت املاء فمنعه من ذلك الجيران

    4. ليس للطبقة المذكورة عالية عليهم و…

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  16. 23316Literary textJRL B 3791

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Ar5 in Bohak's edition, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 5.8–6.3. (Information from Gideon Bohak, The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu), 15.)

    Verso (first section)

    1. [... מקברך כנצר נת]עב
    2. [ופקיד עלוהי וקטמו]הי
    3. לראשיה. ואתיוהי {לתו}
    4. לתודה. א'מ' ליה למה
    5. איתקרי תודה. א'מ' ליה
    6. עלי֯ אמ֯ר֯ דויד מז…

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    1. [“‘...out of your tomb like a det]ested [netzer’.”
    2. [And it was decreed upon him, and they cut]
    3. his head [off]. They brought
    4. To…

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  17. 23317Literary textJRL B 3639

    Some sort of index arranged by Hebrew roots, alongside other very damaged text.

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  18. 23318LetterENA NS 8.19 + ENA NS 4.9

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Ibn Maymūn is mentioned in the first line. The sender thanks the addressee and conveys sympathy. Deals with business transactions; Abū l-Ḥajjāj; …

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  19. 23319Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.26

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer 30 dirhams from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab for somebody for …

    1. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    2. יוצל למוצלהא //תתמה// עשרין דרהמא
    3. מן גהה וקף אלמהדב שצ` עמא
    4. יוהב? (יותב?) עליה ר` ישועה נע` ען תעלים
    5. אלפקרא ואליתומים…

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  20. 23320LetterENA 2750.3

    Business letter in Hebrew. Mentions bandits (lisṭim). Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. Needs examination

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  21. 23321Legal documentT-S NS 327.141

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 610 or 620 AH (=1214 or 1223 CE). Nearly complete, with two witness signatures, but smudged. Needs …

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  22. 23322LetterT-S K6.127

    Letter from Munajjā Muqaddasī, who has left Egypt (or Fustat), to a certain al-Shaykh al-Mukarram/Mukrim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but this …

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  23. 23323Legal documentJRL P 233

    Legal document. Mentions something or someone small (הקטנה) and possibly a name. Hard to discern any specific details of the case. Mentions the year 146[.] …

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  24. 23324Literary textT-S NS 261.107

    Literary text, probably. Mentions Galen. The word that looks like "jizya" is actually "juzʾiyya."

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  25. 23325Legal query or responsumT-S Misc.35.101

    Copies of responsa from Sherira Gaʾon to the community of Fez. Of documentary interest in part because of the ownership note in the upper margin: …

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  26. 23326List or tableStras. 4068/30

    Descriptions of the contents of a collection of books in two different hands: the first, neater block names Yehudah b. Yahya and the text of …

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  27. 23327LetterT-S AS 149.140

    Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic, elevated register. Small fragment only. Mentions the government. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  28. 23328List or tableT-S NS 327.53

    Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script, with one line in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Jumādā II 456 AH = May/June 1064 CE. Mentions various quantities of …

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  29. 23329Literary textENA 3668.15

    A tale from Kalīla wa-Dimna in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder ha-Bavli (active late 12th and early 13th century). A …

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  30. 23330LetterT-S 6J2.30

    Letter from Yeḥezqel, unknown location, to Avraham ha-Melammed, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to find out from Abū l-Bahā' if …

    1. ב
    2. חצרה אלשיך אלאגל אלתלמיד אלגליל ר אברהם המלמד החכ[ם
    3. והנבון שצ מכצוצה באגל סלאם מן כאדמהא אלדאעי להא
    4. יחזקאל וינהי אלי גלאלהא אנה כאן סאל תפצלהא פי …

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  31. 23331Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 181.262

    Possibly a receipt.

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  32. 23332LetterMoss. V,336.3

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting.

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  33. 23333LetterCUL Or. 1080 3.17

    Mercantile/trade letter in a chancery hand, in Arabic script, 11 lines. The writer seems to be trained in the inshāʾ or hired a chancery scribe. …

    1. سالت انك يعنون……………………………………………………….

    2. نقدا اليك منذ مدة وكذلك النصف زر (يزيد؟) قد كان قبضه

    3. قيراط الزجاج وسالت سيدي ابا الحسن علي بن القسم ايده…

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  34. 23334Legal documentT-S Misc.36.151

    Bill of emancipation of a slave (גט שחרור). Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1396 Seleucid, which is 1085 CE. Owner: Mudallala bt. Shelomo. Freedman: …

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    1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרין

    2. וחמשה יומין בירח אייר דשנת

    3. אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין ושית

    4. שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט

    5. מצרים דעל נילוס נהרה…

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  35. 23335Legal documentT-S NS 297.98

    Legal document in Arabic script. First two lines only.

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  36. 23336LetterT-S 8J21.30

    Letter from Yosef "the poor foreigner" (al-miskīn al-gharīb) to the Nagid David Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender sold his garment which he had bought for …

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  37. 23337List or tableJRL B 8552

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. On verso there are gnomic sayings or verses of poetry in Hebrew (e.g. שקוד דלת תוחלת אזי תמצא …

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  38. 23338Legal documentT-S AS 160.131

    Legal document mentioning [...] b. Naḥman ha-Kohen, possibly the dissolution of a partnership, and 21 1/4 dinars. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …

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  39. 23339List or tableT-S NS 148.10

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Possibly amounts owed by (ʿalayhi) and to (lahū) various people.

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  40. 23340LetterT-S Misc.35.11

    Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1029 (Gil). Concerning the excommunication of the Qaraites amidst the the …

    TS LOAN 11, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.158-159 (Doc. #85), C.B. 03-08-88 (p)Fragment of a letter from Solomon b. Judah to an unidentifiedpersonali…

    Rustow, Heresy, pp. 209-14, with minor emendations by Daniel Wagman

    1. [...] Many of the common folk were provoking a quarrel. On [the day of]

    2. Hosh…

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  41. 23341Paraliterary textJRL Genizah Ar. 38

    Block printed amulet.

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  42. 23342List or tableT-S Ar.39.232

    Account containing list of names and some Arabic numbers as well as other siglia arranged in short columns

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  43. 23343List or tableENA 4010.20

    Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-ṣabiyy; al-Yahūdī; and possibly Yaḥyā.

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  44. 23344LetterT-S 24.47

    IB ח92. Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, probably in Fustat, to Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria. Extremely faded and damaged. Dating: September 1140 CE. Written shortly …

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    1. מגדל עוז שם יי וג'
    2. יאמולאי ומאלך נפסי וגאיה אמלי ומנאי אִןִ ..לִלִ.....אה יִגִדהא פי חאלה
    3. ואחואל לא יצלח לה ולא יתפק לִיתקִ[ן] מִכא[טבה ...] ה…

    Translated by Amir Ashur.

    The name of the Lord is a strong tower (Proverbs 18:10).

    My lord and master of my soul, and the object of my hopes and long…

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  45. 23345LetterENA NS 34.23

    Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, maybe 15th century or later, based on handwriting, abbreviations, formulae, format. The main letter on recto deals with various business …

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  46. 23346LetterT-S 10J10.14

    Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣabbāgh, in Palermo, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1050 CE. The sender came to Palermo …

    Recto

    1. על שמך
    2. אטאל אללה יאסיידי ומולאי ורייסי וגלילי ואתירי ומן אנא מעתרף בגמילה בקאך ואד[אם]
    3. עזך וסעאדתך וציאנתך ואצרף גמיע אלאסוא ענך ואחלהא דונך ע…

    recto

    1. (1–2) על שמך ; ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורבי וראשי ונכבדי ואצילי, ושאני אסיר תודה לחיים ארוכים ויתמיד את
    2. גדולתך ואת אושרך ואת שמירתו עליך ויסלק…

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  47. 23347List or tableENA NS 77.82

    Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  48. 23348Legal documentT-S AS 152.364

    Small fragment of a ketubba. Arabic jottings on verso. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  49. 23349List or tableENA NS 77.387

    List of names and numbers. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but that is a guess.

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  50. 23350Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1644

    Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.

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