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  1. 2551Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1269

    Qaraite marriage document (ketubba?). Attesting that the bride (Qamr bt. Moshe Levi b. Shelomo Levi Qayyim) and the groom agreed upon the conditions. ʿEzra b. …

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  2. 2552Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1426

    Karaite bill of debt. Dated Thursday, 8th Adar II, 5529 Era of creation (1769). The document was issued in the residence of R. Shelomo b. …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדה אלאחרף ומוגב תחרירהא באן חצ'רו בעץ' מן אלקהל
    2. ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר שלמה כהן יצ׳׳ו נין המנוח
    3. החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר אהרן כהן י…

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  3. 2553State documentENA 3971.7

    The verso is probably a petition, mentioning a state official by the name Ḥusām al-Dīn Asad al-Dawla wa-......

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    1. الشهر(؟) واليوم
    2. من الـ[
    3. ومن الحـ[

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  4. 2554List or tableT-S AS 136.299

    Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script, possibly official. Mentions names including Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn and Salār(?)

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  5. 2555LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 692

    One fragmentary line from a letter or official correspondence. Reads as "adām Allah tawfīquhu".

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  6. 2556State documentT-S AS 40.69

    Probably an official receipt of some kind. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  7. 2557State documentT-S AS 112.284

    Letter or official document in Arabic. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.

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  8. 2558State documentT-S AS 125.310

    Small fragment of an official letter in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  9. 2559State documentT-S AS 176.4

    Lower right corner of a state document, likely an official letter of some sort.

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  10. 2560Legal documentT-S AS 184.170

    Legal or official document, wide space between the lines. Dating: Looks Ottoman-era.

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  11. 2561State documentT-S AS 184.425

    Probably official correspondence. Small fragment. The last few words of one line are preserved.

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  12. 2562Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 2/2

    This may account for the fact that she was not provided with a trousseau by her father but received a payment from her future husband, Aharon b. Yeshuʿa, to buy herself an outfit. The settlement is signed by 36 persons, possibly all guests present, only two of whom were witnesses.

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  13. 2563State documentT-S NS 111.63

    Official correspondence in Arabic script. Maybe a petition (at least in the sense that the sender is buttering up the addressee and asking for a favor).

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  14. 2564LetterT-S 6J1.2

    Letter from a certain Avraham to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Little is preserved of the content. The third line …

  15. . . . . . . .]לם כירח יכון [
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    1. בצאיע אלר[
    2. וקצדת נ[

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    1. 2565State documentT-S Ar.31.254 + T-S 24.31

      Large state document in Arabic script. Probably an official correspondence concerning the transport of some goods on a Nile boat (ʿushārī). Mentions the state official ʿAlam al-Dawla and a baker Yasīn b. Ibrāhīm.

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    2. 2566State documentENA 3219.2

      Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf.

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      1. المقدم من جهة مولاي[
      2. الى ديوان الشام[

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    3. 2567Legal documentT-S Ar.39.90

      Late legal or official document. In Arabic script. Dated: Apparently 15 January (يناير) [18]84 CE.

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    4. 2568Literary textMoss. VIII,119.2

      India Book II, 41. Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.

      II, 41 recto

      ולה קינה מתל דלך

      1. (א) אל מה ישראל סופדים בנפש מרה
      2. על שר כי נעדר ופס במהרה

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    5. 2569Legal documentT-S AS 157.434

      Dating: probably Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February 1225 CE. Same cluster: T-S AS 157.434 (PGPID 38900), CUL Or.1080 J64 (PGPID 8866), and T-S NS J299 (PGPID 4311).

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    6. 2570Legal documentENA 2557.148

      Dated: Monday, 18 Kislev 1390 Seleucid = 26 November 1078 CE. Ghālib b. Avraham comes before the court with a power of attorney from Yehuda b.

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    7. 2571LetterT-S Misc.36.207 + Bodl. MS heb. e 44/80 + BL OR 5561B.9 + BL OR 5561B.10 + Bodl. MS heb. e 44/81

      Copy of a letter by Sherira Gaon and Hayye Gaon in the hand of a professional scribe. Originally written in ca. 1005. Sent to Fustat …

      A: TS Misc. Box 36, f. 207 (formerly TS Loan 207) B: Bodl. MS Heb. e 44, fol. 80 C: BM OR 5561 B, fols. 9-10 D: BODL MS HEB E 44, fol. 81 ed. Mann, Texts, vol. 1 pp. 98-104 Bodl. MS Heb e 44, f. 80 originally ed. Neubauer, JQR, 6, 222-23, BM OR 5561 B, fols. 9-10 originally ed. Mann, JQR, 8, 360-62 06-12-90, Y.S. (p) Letter by Sherira Gaon. (Fol. 1, recto)

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    8. 2572Legal documentT-S NS J185b + T-S AS 147.14 + T-S Misc.34.27 + T-S NS 304.13 + T-S NS J185a + T-S Ar.37.5

      Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid = beginning of January 1124 CE. …

    9. [ ]ה שריר וברריר וקיים:
    10. T-S NS J185b recto

      1. שהדותא דה[ ]
      2. מרור סעדא[ל ]
      3. נע וקאל לנא א[ ]

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    11. 2573State documentT-S Ar.19.5

      Document in Arabic script, an official receipt for expenses in the name of the ship captain Raʾīs Muḥammad Barakāt.

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    12. 2574LetterMoss. VII,186.2

      Official letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from the office of one of the 13th or 14th century Maimonidean Nagids, based on the motto and the hand.

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    13. 2575State documentT-S AS 39.274

      Bottom of a piece of official correspondence. Refers to the prior night and three cubits (in reference to the height of the Nile?).

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    14. 2576State documentT-S NS 143.54

      Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved.

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    15. 2577LetterT-S 8J23.12

      Letter from Meʾir (b. Yakhin) to the ḥaver Abu al-Ghayth, apologizing for not being able to come to Minyat Zifta because he has been detained …

    16. נצח סלה וכן יהי רצון
    17. bottom of the page, at 180’ to main text

      1. אלא אלשיך אלחבר אבו אלגית שצ
      2. אמונה אומן

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    18. 2578State documentT-S AS 182.134

      Official report, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto.

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    19. 2579State documentT-S AS 183.149

      Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. The ends of three lines are preserved.

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    20. 2580LetterCUL Or.1080 J278

      She should pay 5 to Abū ʿAlī and buy 10 dirhams of wheat (qamḥ) for the children.

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    21. 2581List or tableENA 3942.9

      Account in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart.

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    22. 2582State documentENA NS 83.215

      Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official letter on one side and accounting on the other?

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    23. 2583List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 271

      Document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Formal letter or official correspondence on verso. Needs examination.

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    24. 2584State documentT-S AS 156.320

      Verso (original use): remnant of an official Arabic document. Mentions "to al-Dār al-Saʿīda in Fustat."

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    25. 2585Legal documentT-S AS 176.283

      Verso: Fragment from the bottom of a document, maybe an Ottoman-era legal or official document.

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    26. 2586State documentT-S AS 178.45

      Small fragment of an official (state-related) letter of praise/recommendation for somebody.

      1. واقواله محمولا في تصرفاته
      2. باذلا نفسه في مصالحنا وقد

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    27. 2587State documentT-S AS 178.203

      Fiscal document mentioning an official titled Wajīh al-Dawla. Reused for an account (see separate entry).

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    28. 2588Legal documentT-S AS 180.274

      Fragment of a legal or official document, with details about people collecting things from people.

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    29. 2589State documentT-S K16.43

      Possibly official correspondence. In Arabic script. Long and well preserved.

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    30. 2590State documentT-S NS 274.170

      On verso two lines are preserved from an official Arabic document: yatajaddad fīmā yataʿallaq bi...

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    31. 2591State documentT-S NS 340.39

      Official receipt for Dāʾūd b. Yaʿqūb. Unclear for what.

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    32. 2592State documentUU 1137

      Apparently some local official is giving them trouble, either obstructing them from accessing the land or demanding of them more than the required rent. The petition asks that every official in the area be informed of their rights by "issuing a lofty decree ... to the mutawallī al-ḥarb (military commander)" and "the supervisors (mushārifīn) and appointees (mustakhdamīn) and the rest of the governors and deputies and officials (mutaṣarrafīn)."

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      [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]

      [صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل]

      [سلاماته وتحياته على مولانا وسيدنا]

    33. Praise be to God and his prayers upon our lord Muḥammad and his family.
    34. God suffices for us; what a fine keeper is He.
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    36. 2593LetterT-S 8J18.31

      Shuʿayb, who showed it to Ibn al-Aʿraj, who refused to buy it. Abū l-Manṣūr now awaits instructions. The sender conveys regards to and from various people.

      1. כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
      2. ונעמאך מן אלמליג ען סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא ואלשכר דאימא
      3. בעד וצולנא סאלמין ודפעה אלשכירה אלי ס…

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    37. 2594Literary textAIU XI.68 + AIU XI.267

      Literary work in Spanish.

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    38. 2595Paraliterary textBodl. MS Heb e74/26

      Begining of a commentary on RIF's commentary of tractate Baba Maṣi'a of the Babylonian Talmud. Authored by judge Ḥiyyā b. Yiṣḥaq as described in the …

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      1. בעזרת שדי ברקיעא אתחיל בבא מציעא
      2. פירוש הלכות שלרבינו יצ[ח]ק אור ישראל זצל

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    39. 2596LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/26

      India Book VII, 36. Letter from Alexandria to a merchant in Fustat (Gil) or from Fusṭāṭ to Aden (Goitein). Dating: 1065 (Gil) or c. 1100 …

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    40. 2597List or tableBodl. MS heb. b 11/26

      Recto: Genealogical lists for families of notables, including for the family of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (b. Shemuel b. Ḥananya b. Shemaryahu ha-Shishi b. …

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    41. 2598LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/26

      Recto: "The remainder of an epistle to an important dignitary. The first four lines preserved are in verse but the metre is very faulty. . …

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    42. 2599LetterBodl. MS heb. c 50/26

      Fragmentary letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: probably late 11th or 12th century. The letter is quite difficult and written in an elevated register with …

    43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] בשער אלערב ואנא
    44. column 2, written at 180 degrees to left column

      1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]עי.[. . .
      2. . . . . . . . .].מיה. . . . עלי[. .

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    45. 2600LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/26

      Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Only the beginning and the address are preserved. The sender …

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