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  1. 25101LetterT-S NS 297.323

    Small fragment - needs examination.

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  2. 25102List or tableENA NS 46.25

    Probably a contributors list of wheat or grain (quantities specified in irdabbs). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). A date …

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  3. 25103Literary textT-S AS 155.120

    Literary - recommend suppress. Philosophical discussion of wisdom.

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  4. 25104List or tableT-S AS 171.127

    Fragment of a business account, or possibly letter, mentioning a partnership between an amīr and Yeshuʿa. Mentions the term barqalū (mid-sized bale).

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  5. 25105LetterT-S K25.196 + T-S Ar.47.233

    Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Hebrew. Written across at least two bifolia. Among many other …

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  6. 25106Unknown typeT-S NS 274.76

    On verso a few words in Arabic in a rudimentary hand. May start "hal" and may mention "Sulaymān" but otherwise very tricky to read.

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  7. 25107Legal documentMoss. VII,52.2

    Legal document or documents. Very faded. Dated: 4[..]4 AM, which only narrows it down to 1234 CE at the latest (likely 11th or 12th century). …

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  8. 25108Legal documentT-S Misc.25.10

    Bottom of a legal document. Location: Might be Palermo (פלרם), but this word is very faded. Dated: Elul 4904 AM = August 1144 CE. Settlement …

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  9. 25109Legal documentENA 972.3

    Bill of divorce. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Friday, 25 Iyyar 1439 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. Husband: Natan b. Shela. Wife: …

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  10. 25110LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1860/8

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand (e.g. using the alef-lamed ligature to represent just alef). Discussing the purchase of skins (julūd). Mentions Abū Naṣr. Needs further …

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  11. 25111Legal documentT-S 16.79

    Court record, in which Naḥum b. Avraham b. Neḥemya declares that he possesses nine qiraṭs of a house in Fusṭāṭ in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the other …

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  12. 25112List or tableENA 3923.11

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. In fact, one page is entirely filled with numerals.

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  13. 25113Legal documentT-S 13J8.1

    Court record concerning a grain dealer who promises to pay his former wife 4 dirhams every week for his five-year-old son, who was staying with …

    1. בתרין בשבה כד בתשרי שסד חצר בבית דין ר יוסף בן ר צדקה
    2. אלפאמי ומטלקתה גניה בת ר חסן ואקנינא מנה לרצונו ותאותו
    3. בלא אונס אן ידפע אלי ר סלאמה אלזיאת באל…

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    1. On Monday, 24 Tishrei (1)364 AG (= 21 September 1052 CE), R. Joseph b. R. Ṣedaqa 

    2. the keeper of a grain store and his divorcee Gh[aniyya] b…

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  14. 25114LetterCUL Or.1080 J285

    Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides, written to Nissim Ha-Dayyan (judge). Mentions the wife of Abū Manṣīr b. Abī l-Khayr, the tax-guarantor (ḍāmin, צאמן) …

    CUL Or 1080 J 285, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.237-240,N.H. 04-26-88, (P). Letter from a file of Abraham Maimonides, written to Nissim Ha-Dayya…

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  15. 25115Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 4027

    The story of Esther in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  16. 25116LetterMoss. X,122.1

    End of a letter from Tiberias with signatures. Needs further examination. No image in CUDL or FGP as of 2026.

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  17. 25117LetterMoss. II,197.1

    Letter in beautiful Arabic script. The sender/petitioner says that despite his best efforts he was unable to get a dinar from that man, and now …

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  18. 25118State documentT-S Misc.24.113

    Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …

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  19. 25119Unknown typeT-S Ar.30.192

    No item at this shelfmark. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.

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  20. 25120List or tableT-S AS 209.245

    List of names and Hebrew alphanumerical values, extensive and well-preserved. Dating: 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. The list may be communal given that …

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  21. 25121State documentAIU IV.C.302

    Decree, probably a public copy with gigantic line spacing. Mentions the signature/ʿalāma (khaṭṭ, khuṭūṭ) of two just witnesses (al-shuhūd al-ʿadlayn) and overseers (al-mushārifīn). Also mentions …

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  22. 25122LetterT-S AS 150.154 + T-S Misc.22.6

    Business letter, first half of the 16th century. The subject matter is a dispute between merchants who dealth in skins, pepper, and tin. An Avraham …

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  23. 25123Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#109) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 17 Shevat 5326 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 36r

    1. תאהל פרגא׳ אבן ע׳אלרחים //כהן// שקיר עלי אלבנת אלבכר .[...
    2. בנת יצחק [[פירוזן]] פירוז בכמסין דרהם פצה [[מוקד]] מהר בתצ.[…

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  24. 25124Literary textMIAC 202

    Literary monologue given by Sholem Aleichem himself on traveling for mandatory conscription, and on a the lonely son and the world's almighty god – undated …

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  25. 25125List or tableT-S Ar.39.454

    Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, listing several names and itemized expenses or revenues, including ḍiyāʿ al-maṭbakh and ḍiyāʿ. On two …

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  26. 25126List or tableJRL B 5571

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Very faded. Mainly foods: ṭaḥīna, leek (karrāth/kurrāth), carrot (jazar), onion (baṣal), pepper (filfil), taro flower (zahr qulqās), almond (lawz), …

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  27. 25127Paraliterary textBodl. MS heb. d 65/17

    Verso (secondary use): Seems to be the liturgy for weekday Maʿariv (معريب للحل) written in Arabic script (Arabo-Hebrew).

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  28. 25128Unknown typeT-S AS 185.154

    Jottings related to the laws of Neziqin. Notable for jottings possibly copied from a legal document (והכל שריר ובריר וקים) including the names of witnesses: …

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  29. 25129Legal query or responsumT-S NS 210.20 + T-S NS 288.171 + T-S AS 200.302

    Responsum of R. Shalom Halahmi, p. 3 (Date: 1801–58). Published Glick, Sridei Teshuvot.

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  30. 25130LetterMoss. II,193

    Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Salāma al-Ghazāl, al-Bahnasa, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1051. Details about payments and business with local government officials in …

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    1. על שמך

    2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך

    3. מן אלבהנסה ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע ע…

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    1. (2−1) על שמך; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך,
    2. מבהנסה, שלומי טוב ואני…

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  31. 25131Legal documentT-S AS 152.281

    Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Or less likely deed of manumission. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1198–1298 …

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  32. 25132LetterT-S 12.418

    Letter fragment (far right of recto). The writer filled the entirety of the main text with praises and conventional phrases, leaving the business for the …

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  33. 25133Unknown typeT-S NS 109.62

    Two lines of Arabic script on a bifolium containing Hebrew literary text. Not much of the Arabic is legible apart from the name Ṣadaqa b. …

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  34. 25134LetterENA 4010.34

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, holograph (Gil). Dating: 1041 (Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon.

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    1. ירפדום ה[      ]
    2. [     ] אולם [            ] את [      ]
    3. [         ]ש את עצמו בה[ 
    4. [ומהאל ה]משאל להקים לע[מו  ]
    5. הברנו ש צור כי אמ[ר     ]
    6. השבה…

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  35. 25135LetterJRL B 7165

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. Some of the opening greetings are preserved and part of the address (...dukkān...). It seems to have been reused for …

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  36. 25136List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 418

    Accounts, in Arabic script. Verso: basmala, and three dirhams? Needs examination.

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  37. 25137Legal documentT-S AS 147.77

    Legal document from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the elder Sulaymān and Abū l-Bahā. It is dated but the date is lost. (Information from CUDL.) Power of attorney. …

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  38. 25138Legal documentT-S Misc.28.46

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: 1 Kislev 1[4]12 Seleucid (1100 CE). Signed by Ḥillel b. ʿEli and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Husband: Shela b. Yehuda. Wife: …

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    1. מטא לידה בעידי מ[סירה]
    2. הלל ביר עלי זל
    3. חלפון הלוי בר מנשה נע

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    1. בתרין בשבה דהוא תר[ ]
    2. בירח כסלו דשנת אלפ[ ]
    3. מאה ותרתי עשר [ ]
    4. דרגיליננא …

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  39. 25139LetterENA NS 72.13

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic ending is preserved. Regards to Abū Zikrī b.(?) Sar Shalom.

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  40. 25140Unknown typeENA NS 79.61

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  41. 25141Unknown typeT-S AS 178.134

    Upper left corner of a document, referring to someone titled Majd al-Khilāfa ʿIzz al-Mulk....

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  42. 25142Paraliterary textENA 3955.7

    Medical prescription. In Arabic script.

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  43. 25143LetterDK 169

    Letter and panegyric from a certain Khalfūn to the Nagid. The poet's name is spelled in an acrostic in the last 5 words of the …

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  44. 25144LetterMoss. II,147.3

    Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā twice, swears by Jerusalem, and mentions the unit of currency rubāʿī.

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  45. 25145Legal documentT-S 18J1.28

    Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 19 Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid = 3 November 1186 CE. The betrothal of the orphan girl Sitt al-Muʿazzaza bat Šela b. …

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    1. [... ב]בפנינו אנו [בית די]ן [ה]חתומים למטה כן הוה
    2. [...]שיך אבו אלפתח אלחלבי מ פתחיה הזקן בר
    3. [ישועה הז]קן נע בחצרתנא וכטב בסבב אלית…

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  46. 25146Unknown typeJRL P 679

    Mysterious fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps a letter? The name Saʿīd is mentioned. Needs examination.

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  47. 25147Legal documentJRL P 180

    Ketubba fragment. Groom: ʿEli ha-Kohen ("ʿEli Kahna"). Dated: 1357 Seleucid, which is 1045/46 CE.

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  48. 25148Literary textT-S NS 303.14

    Translation of Song of Songs 8:11-14 with Hebrew incipits; Judaeo-Arabic final note and marginal notes. (Information from Shivtiel/Niessen.)

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  49. 25149Legal documentT-S 12.624

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Decorated borders with criscrossing small letters and red dots. The wife …

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  50. 25150Paraliterary textMoss. VI,15.2

    Magical text in Hebrew script.

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