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  1. 201Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#28) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 10v-11r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Iyyar [5322] AM …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 10v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלכמיס כ׳׳ו שהר אדר סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ב׳ ליצירה חצרו אלגמא׳
    2. בר׳ יה׳ פי (מנזל) אלמולי אלאגל יהודה אלחכים //.הן…

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  2. 202Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.18(1).171

    Responsa numbered 69-72, on kashrut and family law. (Information from CUDL)

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  3. 203Literary textT-S Ar.3.2

    Judaeo-Arabic treasure hunting manual. Needs further examination.

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  4. 204LetterMoss. Ia,26.2

    IB II, 35. Letter of apology for a complaint that Madmun had mismanaged a trust. Aden, ca. 1135. Verso is IB III, 59, containing a …

    II, 35

    1. ...
    2. יראם [...]
    3. [י]שאו רבותינו פארי קהלתינו רוב [ברכה ושלום מעושה]
    4. במרומיו שלום ומעולים ויורדים ב[סולם ... בית] אל
    5. ומן התורה הקדושה אשר היא תו…

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    1. May He show them (?) [. . .!]
    2. [M]ay our masters, most distinguished of our community, be granted much [blessing and well-being from Him Who …

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  5. 205LetterT-S Misc.28.258

    Late business/family letter in Hebrew from Shelomo Binyamin to his brother-in-law, also named Shelomo. He reports that ships from Messina and Ancona have arrived, but …

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  6. 206Legal documentT-S 24.30

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (long vertical strip from the right side). Very similar to T-S 12.659 (Friedman, JMP, doc. 6). Groom: David. Date and other …

    1. [... ה]דה כלת[ה...]
    2. [... ל]מיהוי לה לא[נתו...]
    3. [...] הדין דויד חתנה [...]
    4. [... כ]שרין דיכויין היך [...]
    5. [...]אין הדין דויד חתנה[...]
    6. [...] ממרק יתה …
    1. [... t]his brid[e ...]  
    2. [...to] be his w[ife ...]  
    3. [...] this David, the groom [...]  
    4. [...d]ecent, pious, as [...]  
    5. [...]If this David, the groo…

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  7. 207Literary textDK 366

    Translation of Numbers 1–3 (somewhat jumbled up) into Arabic, in Arabic script. Mostly a translation, presumably Karaite, with occasional transliterations at the beginnings of verses.

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  8. 208Legal documentT-S AS 165.250

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: mentions 1438 Seleucid = 1126/27 CE. Possibly a debt acknowledgement mentioning a sum of …

    1. ]הא בעד[
    2. ]אלי סלך אלול אלמדכור[
    3. ]אלשטר אלמדכור קצי[חה
    4. ]אתלח לשטרות כאן עליה[
    5. ] . . . . פי שהר אלול . [
    6. ]ה ותלתין דינ . . . . [
    7. ]שהר אלול גמיע[
    8. ]שוי …

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  9. 209Legal documentT-S AS 147.13

    Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 3 Kislev 1391 Seleucid = 31 October 1079 CE. Husband: Shelomo b. Avraham. Wife: Yamān bt. Avraham. Signed …

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    1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא תלתה יומי בירח
    2. כסלו דשנת אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין וחד
    3. שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט
    4. מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה אנא
    5. שלמה בר אבר…

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  10. 210Literary textT-S Ar.30.131

    Drafts of piyyutim.

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  11. 211LetterT-S 13J18.17

    Letter of recommendation for charity. Addressed to the ‘Head of the Congregations’ Yakhin b. Netanʾel, in Fusṭāṭ. The introduction quotes from Genesis 50:23, in the …

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  12. 212Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.26v–27v

    Legal record (#63). Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Yosef b. Netan'el ha-Kohen. Bride: Sitt al-Kafā'a bt. Bū l-Faḍā'il ʿOvadya b. Shemuel. "Another marriage agreement composed in …

    אלתקוים אלמבארך אלסעיד אלחתן: יוסף בר נתנאל הכהן

    סת אלכפאה הבתולה אבנה אלשיך בו אלפצאיל

    עובדיה בן שמואל אלמקדם נ אלמוכר ק

    אלשרוט אלמעלומא אלנאמנות במ…

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  13. 213State documentT-S Ar.51.108

    Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. The sender is a state official or …

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  14. 214Legal documentMoss. IV,33.1

    Recto: draft of a court record written by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203). Involves a sale; Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr; an agent, Abū …

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  15. 215Unknown typeENA NS 85.606

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  16. 216Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J254

    Ketubba fragment. A line of holes on the side.

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  17. 217Legal documentT-S J3.44

    Recto: Drafts of legal deeds, with places and dates left unspecified. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: ca. mid-11th century. The first entry is a deed …

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    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנחנו הזקנים העדים בכתב הזה ביום כן וכן מחדש פל
    2. בשנת כן במדינת כן וכן כה היה כי אמרה לפנינו בהיה בת הזקן יוסף בן עוכל …

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  18. 218List or tableJRL B 2979

    Late Judaeo-Arabic dowry list, probably, since it is headed "be-siman tov ve-ʿosher ve-banim be-mazal ẓomeaḥ ve-ʿoleh." There follows a list of numerous items, mostly garments, …

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  19. 219LetterENA 3918.10

    Letter(s) in Arabic script. Recto and verso are probably distinct letters. Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The letter on recto appears to be from …

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  20. 220Unknown typeENA NS 85.816

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  21. 221List or tableAIU IX.A.49.1

    Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet (recto) and Atbash alphabetical order (verso) ending with the phrase "מנצפ׳׳ך צופים אמרום". On the upper right corner of …

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  22. 222Legal documentBL OR 8696.3

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: Refers to the beginning of Ḥeshvan 1429 Seleucid, which is 1117 …

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  23. 223Paraliterary textT-S NS 211.16 + T-S NS 211.17

    A page from a volume of the Mishneh Torah, with a note of sale (intaqala bi-ḥukm al-ibtiyāʿ. . .). The buyer is Binyamin b. Saʿadya …

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  24. 224List or tableT-S AS 146.44

    A torn and damaged memorial list. Only the left part of the document preserved and only two names: Zedaqa and Ya’aqov. See Bareket, The Leaders …

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  25. 225LetterT-S 13J22.30

    Letter. Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very …

    1. בשמך רח'
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
    3. אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וקראתה
    4. ומא דכר מן אלשוק והו ענדנא באצעאפה
    5. פאסאל אללה תבארך ותעאלי בקרב אל

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  26. 226State documentENA 2886.1–7

    Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Cut up into (at least) seven pieces and reused to form a booklet …

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  27. 227Legal documentBL OR 10578E.44

    Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions the 8th of Ṣafar of a certain year.

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  28. 228Literary textBL OR 10578H.12

    Hebrew qinot mentioning the Spanish exile.

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  29. 229LetterENA 2747.13

    Letter from Shemuel Jaryānī/Griyanī to a certain Maʿtūq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 16th or 17th century. Dealing with business. "Nothing sold except for the …

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  30. 230Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 16r

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאחד ט׳׳י שהר תמוז יא׳׳ל סנה תאריכה
    2. חצ'רו פי [[בית]] כנסת בית סמחה //תבו׳׳ת// אל…

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  31. 231Legal 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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  32. 232Unknown typeENA NS 83.48

    Unidentified document(s) in Arabic. Part of verso looks like a letter.

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  33. 233LetterJRL B 7435

    Several lines from the top of a deferential letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.

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  34. 234Legal query or responsumJTS MS R1888.2 + JTS MS R1888.3 + JTS MS R1888.4 + ENA 1491.6 + JTS MS R1888.1

    4 pages of Geonic responsa. Most of ot was published by Wertheimer, pp. 16-20. Contains translations of of various Talmudic terms, all by R. Sherira …

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  35. 235Legal documentENA 4011.29

    Communal/legal record. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid, which is December 1181, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Abū l-Munajjā al-Kohen, surnamed …

    1. אחצר אלכהן אלשיך אבו אלמנגא
    2. אלזריז גאבי רבע אלהקדש
    3. באלקאהרה אלמחרוסה רשותיה
    4. דאדוננו גאוננו שר שלום הלוי
    5. גאון יעקב ירום הודו אמן
    6. מן אגרה אלרבע אלמדכו…

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  36. 236LetterENA 2727.39

    Letter fragment from Nissim b. Nahray, unknown location, to Abū l-Fa{ra}j Daniel b. [...] ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Needs examination.

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  37. 237Literary textT-S AS 121.237 + T-S NS 329.820 + T-S AS 74.141 + T-S AS 120.189 + T-S AS 120.190 + Moss. I,81A + Moss. I,81B + Moss. I,81C + Moss. I,81D

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb4 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension), containing the title of the text and passages 1.1–3.3 (heavily lacunose; right half …

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    1. מגלת יישו
    2. זה ג<ז>רדין אשר [נ]גז[ר על יישו בן]
    3. פנדירא הרשע אש[ר כפר]
    4. באלהי השמים והתעה[ את העולם]
    5. אחריו שהוא מ֯ן֯ נצרת[ ... ]
    6. ב…

    Verso (first section)

    1. The Scroll of Yeshu:
    2. This is the sentencing that was [de]cre[ed upon Yeshu son of]
    3. Pandera, the wicked, wh[o denied]
    4. the God o…

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  38. 238Unknown typeENA NS 76.397

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  39. 239LetterENA NS 14.4

    Informal note/order addressed to Abū Saʿīd (al-ʿAfṣī?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving him an instruction concerning the cup/jug (kūz) of mercury that is with the bearer of …

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  40. 240Legal documentMoss. I,64.2

    Two forms for legal documents in Hebrew. On the other side is a grammatical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  41. 241LetterJRL B 4302

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently describing a certain man's marital issue, but this is opaque. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Needs examination.

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    1. ]דה עלי מא ינבגי וישתהי
    2. אן יכברה באליסיר פכל מא יוודרה(?) מא לה
    3. ובה לאן רדה(?) עלי נפסה אגוד ועלי אן מא
    4. בידה סוי ענאיתה תע ולא יכליה מן ראי אן

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  42. 242Unknown typeENA NS 85.1207

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  43. 243Legal documentPTS MS SCQ3067

    Bill of divorce. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1365 Seleucid = 28 February 1054 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Yosef b. David. Wife: Khibāʾ bt. Yosef. No …

    On the second [day] of the week, to wit, the 18th day of the month Adar, the year one thousand and three hundred and sixty and five years according t…

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  44. 244Paraliterary textT-S AS 146.245

    Ownership notes from a book: (1) "Came into the possession of Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi" (2) "Belonging to Sar Shalom b. Shelomo ha-Levi"

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  45. 245LetterJRL B 3688

    Fragment of a letter to a Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. Mentioning something that arrived from Damascus; something the writer sent with Yaʿqūb; Rabbenu …

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    1. ] . . י אלמולוי אלדאוודי . . [
    2. ] פי הדה אלאיאם פאללה תעא
    3. ]ן כדמתה וואצלנא הדה
    4. ]רה מן דמשק וקד סירתהא
    5. ] ואלמזונות קד ס[. . . .]א
    6. ע]לי יד יעקוב …

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  46. 246Legal query or responsumMoss. IV,40.3

    Recto: Legal query for a qāḍī in Arabic script regarding a man "known for ḥujaj" (unpaid promissory notes?), and there are several testimonies against him, …

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    1.    بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم     
    2. ما يقول مولاي القاضي الفقيه المخلص النبيه جمال العلـ[ـما
    3. وفقه الله لما يرضيه في رجل معترف في حجج معاملـ[ـة
    4. وعلي…

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  47. 247Legal documentENA NS 37.26

    Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a divorcee named Miryam bt. Avraham. Little else remains. Dating: ca. 13th century, based on handwriting and the dating of …

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  48. 248Legal documentJRL B 4141

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Unclear if any of the substance is preserved.

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  49. 249Unknown typeT-S AS 146.233

    Jottings of blessings in Hebrew, possibly drafts for a letter.

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  50. 250Unknown typeENA NS 85.910

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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