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  1. 25651State documentT-S AS 183.193

    Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Sālim b. Bū l-Faḍl for the year 621(?) AH. Landscape format. Needs further examination.

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  2. 25652State documentT-S 16.114 + T-S 24.57 + T-S AS 11.383 + T-S AS 146.195

    Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …

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    1. من طهارة ضمائرها ونقاء سرائر[ها           ]
    2. وصيالها على حراسة الاسلام والمـ[ـسلميـ]ـن [           ]
    3. الحوزة والدين وانتصابها وبذلها الاموال وال…
    1. ... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [  ]

    2. and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…

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  3. 25653Legal documentT-S NS 226.98

    Legal approval between Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.66 (PGPID 24392)) and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī the ḍāmin of dyeing in Dam[...], …

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  4. 25654Unknown typeENA NS 85.944

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  5. 25655Legal query or responsumT-S Misc. 28.186, fol. 5

    Responsum sent by Rav Sherira Gaon, head of the Pumbedita Jewish Academy in Baghdad, to Masīla (in modern Algeria). Dating (text): late 10th–early 11th century, …

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    1.                                וששאלתם
    2. קטנה שקידשה אמה ואחיה שלא לדעת אביה [ובא אביה] ממדינת
    3. הים ולא מיחה על ידם ו…
    1. You have asked:
    2. A little girl was married off by her mother and brother without her father's knowledge, and her father r…

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  6. 25656Legal documentT-S 8J6.10

    Verso: Record of the scribe Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr b. al-Mesos in which he testifies to having received from Shelomo ha-Nasi one Egyptian dinar. …

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    1. אקול ואנא אבו אלפרג בן אבו נצר בן אלמשוש נע'
    2. אנני תסלמת מן מר ור שלמה הנשיא הגדול
    3. נשיא גליות ישראל ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו
    4. דינאר מצרי פי קבלי ודמ…

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  7. 25657List or tableT-S AS 202.358

    Accounts in the hand of a prolific scribe (previously misidentified as ʿArūs). Mentions Abū Isḥaq b. Nuṣayr and Avraham.

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  8. 25658LetterCUL Or.1081 2.3

    Letter in Arabic script. The writer is Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (presumably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, cf. ENA 3927.1 and CUL Or. 1080 J155 for other specimens …

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  9. 25659LetterT-S Ar.48.270

    IB IV, 4 (ח10). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, ‘Aydhab, to his brother ʿElī b. Netanʾel, Fustat, 1132 (Gil) or end of summer or fall …

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    1. עלקת למולאי אכי הדה אלאחרף מכת[ובה עלי חפז]
    2. לסרעה מסיר חאמלהא אעלמה פיהא תבת [א]ל[לה]
    3. מגדהא אנני בחמד אללה ופצלה וצלת עידאב עלי
    4. גמלה אלסלאמה ו…

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    1. רשמתי לאדוני אחי את המכתב הזה, שכת[וב בחיפזון] 
    2. (2–3) מפני שנושאו ממהר לצאת לדרך, כדי להודיע לו – יעשה [הא]ל את תפארתו קבועה – בו שאני, בחסדי …

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  10. 25660List or tableCUL Or.1080 J285

    Verso: list of names with professions in Judaeo-Arabic. The names include: Abū Ṭāhir Ibn al-ʿAnbarī; Abū l-Makārim al-[Koh]en; Sulaymān Ibn al-Zanīʿa(?), broker (simsār); his foster …

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  11. 25661Legal documentT-S AS 149.39

    Recto (secondary use): drafts of documents in Judaeo-Arabic with biblical quotations such as Deuteronomy 17:7. Also mentions Abū l-Surūr, Peraḥya and Barhūn. (Information from CUDL.)

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  12. 25662Legal documentT-S 13J7.21

    Recto: Legal document concerning a power of attorney from Zahra bt. Yosef, apparently for Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver, regarding the inheritance of Ḥasan b. Faraj al-Āmidī. Mentions …

    1. ] אלשיוך אלדי כטוטהם פי אכר הדא
    2. ] מעה תלת כתב אחדהם כתאב מן
    3. ] לשטרות ודכר פיה אן זהרה בת
    4. ]כלתה (!) וכאלה צחיחה בגמיע שרוט
    5. ]לתבוע ירושתה וגמיע אלשרוט

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  13. 25663LetterENA NS 22.9

    Letter from the cantor Abū l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to his brother Abū l-Najm Hilāl, presumably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th …

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    1. אכוהא בו אלמגד
    2. חצרה אלאך אלשקיק ואלרכן אלותיק
    3. אלשיך בו אלנגם הלאל אדאם אללה
    4. עזה ועלאה ומן אלתופיק לא כלאה
    5. גמע אללה אלשמל בה עלי אחסן חאל
    6. ואנע…

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  14. 25664Legal documentT-S AS 160.226

    Small fragment from a legal document. Mentions 'our mother.' Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Verso is blank. AA/ASE

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  15. 25665State documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/10

    Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …

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  16. 25666Legal documentJTS MS 9160.2

    Court record. In Hebrew. Location: Crete (Candia). Dated: Monday, 1 Tevet 5275 AM = 19 December 1514 CE. Certifying that the bearer of this document, …

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  17. 25667Literary textENA NS 77.128

    Fragment of a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, on recto and verso. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. The verso is recorded …

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  18. 25668LetterT-S 16.295

    Esther writes to her parents in law after having returned from Safed to Cairo, describing how she learned certain needle work and expressing thanks to …

    1. בה
    2. שלומות רבות לאלפים ורבבות מלפני שוכן ערבות
    3. כולם יחולו על ראש //אדוני// מי תיא/ו/ה כתר ועטרה לראשי
    4. ועל ראש אדונתי עטרה לראשי ממני אסתר כלתכם
    5. הנני …

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  19. 25669Legal documentENA 4100.15

    Large legal document, a quittance. It is given by Muna bt. Hiba, the widow of Moshe ha-Kohen, (line 8) to Abū l-Khayr ha-ger (the proselyte) …

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  20. 25670Unknown 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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  21. 25671Unknown typeJRL B 7961

    Small fragment with Hebrew script. Needs examination.

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  22. 25672Legal documentT-S 16.239

    Marriage contract, fragmentary and damaged, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, in the later period of his activity as scribe (dated documents: 1100-1138), in …

    1. ]י ארבעה דינרי דדהבא חק ימני שוי חד דינר דדהב מלאה שויא עשרה דינרי דדהבא עצאבה מני מדהבה שויא ארבעה דינרי דדהבא מערקה לאנס שויא חד
    2. ]א אזרק שון כולהו…

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  23. 25673Unknown typeENA NS 85.619

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  24. 25674Unknown typeENA NS 85.278

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  25. 25675LetterENA NS 77.148

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Seems to refer to a shipwreck (cf. …

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  26. 25676Literary textMIAC 74

    Prayers and blessings on the occasion of Rosh ha-Shanah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 74) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein …

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  27. 25677Legal documentT-S 13J4.4

    Recto: Legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Opens by stating that on Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 Seleucid (= 20 …

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  28. 25678Legal documentT-S NS 292.83

    Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed from Fustat. Hand of Yefet b. David? The name or phrase מקויים בר מן יוסף appears …

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  29. 25679LetterT-S 13J29.10

    Letter from Mūsā b. Iṣḥaq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid (al-Mahdiya) to Avraham b. Daʾūd al-Raḥbī (Fustat), ca. 1030. The writer supplies goods from the Maghreb, including …

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    1.                                       בסם אללה אלרחמן אלרחים
    2. אטאל אללה יאכ'י וסידי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואעזך ואכרמך ואידך ואסעדך וכאן לך ומער
    3. ולי…

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  30. 25680LetterT-S AS 167.207

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother" (yā akhī). Mentions a little salt (qalīl milḥ) and an ounce of …

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  31. 25681List or tableT-S AS 178.96

    Accounts. Arabic script on recto, Judaeo-Arabic on verso. Late. Currency: fulūs.

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  32. 25682Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.41

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give 1 dirham to the messenger who went …

    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד
    3. שצ` למוצלהא אלרסול
    4. אלדי טלע אלקאהרה
    5. פי חאגה ינטר
    6. אלמוארית מן גהה
    7. אלרבע דרהם
    8. ואחד
    9. ושלום

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  33. 25683Unknown typeENA NS 85.614

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  34. 25684LetterT-S AS 149.28

    Letter to Moshe b. Nissim (or Moshe b. Labrāṭ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Fragment (left side of recto). The addressee is …

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  35. 25685Legal documentT-S NS 327.146

    Document in Arabic script. It seems imposing alimony of 1/2 dirham per day on ʿEzra b. Menaḥem, the ex-husband of Jawhara bt. Yusr, who has …

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  36. 25686LetterBL OR 5542.28

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a formulary, in the most general terms, written in large, monumental script. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  37. 25687List or tableENA NS 14.9

    Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, reused for a couple verses of Judaeo-Arabic love poetry.

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  38. 25688LetterENA 3594.6

    On recto, possibly a draft of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ the brother(?) of Saniyy al-Dawla. In the margins of recto, the …

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  39. 25689LetterBL OR 5544.20

    Form letter from the community of Safed to the community of Izmir concerning sheliḥim and fundraising. In Hebrew. Dated: Elul 5611 AM = August/September 1851 …

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  40. 25690LetterT-S 8J14.8

    Letter (possibly a halakhic question) by Shelomo b. Elijah, with jottings on verso. (Information from CUDL)

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  41. 25691List or tableT-S Ar.30.58

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Shevat 5312 AM (1552 CE). The main heading on the recto states that the accounts are in the name …

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  42. 25692LetterMoss. VII,179

    Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria (probably), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Ca. 1066. Mentions a number of goods: ṭarṭar (a kind of mordant or …

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    1. בסם אללה אלעטים
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך [ואדאם עזה .....
    3. מן אלאסכנדריה ל[....ואלחמד ללה]
    4. רב אלעאלמין וצל כתא[בך
    5. עלינא אנהא תא…

    verso, address

    .... מודה לו ברהים בן פראח נ"נ האלכסנדרוני.

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    1. (2−1) בשם אלוהים הנורא; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי(וכו'),
    2. מאלכסנדריה ב.... תודה ל…

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  43. 25693List or tableMoss. IXa,3.18

    Accounts or lists in Arabic script, with Coptic alphanumerals.

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  44. 25694LetterAIU XII.122

    State document, unknown date. Fragment of an Arabic petition (to ". . . al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī. . ."). The titles suggest a date in the …

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  45. 25695State documentMoss. VIII,229.1-2

    Bottom fragment - state document, decree, in Arabic script. Four fragmented words reused for a Hebrew literary text. The text may read as "ان بقلم …

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  46. 25696Legal documentT-S AS 179.147

    Draft of an Arabic-script legal document or credit instrument. Documenting a debt of 20 dinars. Written on 11 Shaʿbān [.]39 AH. Mentions names such as …

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  47. 25697Legal query or responsumENA 1180.30

    Responsa by ROSH.

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  48. 25698Literary textT-S Ar. 40.64

    Literary text, in Arabic script. From a work on pharmacopoeia and materia medica, including religious invocations and a non-medical recipe for the preparation of a …

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  49. 25699LetterMoss. Ia,12.2

    Letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, ca. 1050. Mentions the sale of a house that may have …

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    1. [כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וצאנך ווקאך ומן תופיקה

    2. [לא אכלאך ] יום אלא מסתהל מרחשון ערפך אללה ברכתה

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך וישמור ויגן עליך
    2. ואל ימנע ממך הצלחה .... יום א' ראש חודש מרחשון, יודיעך…

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  50. 25700Legal documentYevr. III B 644

    Ketubba fragment.

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