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  1. 26051List or tableMoss. IV,75.1

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Accounts, written in two columns on verso. Mentions Aharon b. Shoshan. Dating: probably no earlier than ca. 15th century. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  2. 26052List or tableT-S AS 185.163 + T-S AS 185.53 + T-S AS 185.90

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Several bifolios from an account book, in Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary hand and spellings. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions various names and commodities, mainly …

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  3. 26053Unknown typeT-S AS 151.32

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    Arabic

    Unidentified Hebrew; Arabic jottings in the margin, including one document draft mentioning Ibrāhīm b. Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Yahūdī. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  4. 26054Legal documentT-S 13J7.17

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    Litigation in court concerning an inheritance, in Damsis. The two heirs of the late Ḥalfon ha-Kohen, Hilāl and Abū l-Karam, are the litigants.The former accuses …

    1. חצרנא יום אלתלאתה פי אל
    2. עשר אלאוסט מן חדש אדר
    3. שני סנת תסא לשטרות
    4. בעיר דמסיס וקד [[ע]] וקע
    5. מושב חכם בין אלשיך אבו
    6. אלכרם בן ר חלפון הכהן ובין
    7. הלאל אכי…
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  5. 26055LetterJRL A 559

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    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Yehudah [...] to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807 CE (17 Heshvan 5568 AM).

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  6. 26056Legal documentENA NS 85.1261

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

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  7. 26057Literary textYevr. II A 159

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    24 fragments under this shelf mark all of them literary.

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  8. 26058Paraliterary textL-G Misc. 73

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    Calendar for the years 4790–4791 of the Era of Creation (= 1029-1030 to 1030-1031 CE), dated according to the Era of the Destruction of the …

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  9. 26059List or tableDK 402

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Two bifolia from a ledger. Likely the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.

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  10. 26060List or tableT-S 8J17.3

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    Verso: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic: Abū ʿAlī and his brother; Manṣūr Nufayʿ; Manṣūr Nuʿmān; Majd Dayyan; Ḥusayn and Yaʿqūb of Marrakesh (Marrākushī), Yosef b. …

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  11. 26061List or tableT-S AS 182.192

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    Very neat accounts in Arabic script. Probably Ottoman-era. Mentions al-Qāḍī Muṣṭafā.

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  12. 26062LetterT-S Ar.39.120

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    Arabic

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). Needs examination for content.

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  13. 26063LetterT-S AS 149.51 + Bodl. MS heb. d 74/47

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    Formal petition in Judaeo-Arabic from a group of (sugar?) laborers to a notable titled Peʾer ha-Qahal, (‘the crown of the congregation'). Header: Psalms 41:2. In …

    Bodl. MS heb. d 74/47

    1. הדא אלקול וקאלו [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. אלאנסאן פי צנעה לא תשבה //בה// ולא יחתאג אלי אלנאס ונחן אל.…
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  14. 26064Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 139

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    Unidentified document in Arabic script. Likely a letter.

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  15. 26065LetterAIU VII.E.105

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yosef b. Khalfa (ca. 1050s–60s), sent from or to Fustat. Quite faded but could likely be read with effort (and multispectral …

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  16. 26066LetterT-S 12.524

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Avraham b. Farah, Alexandria, to Abu Ishaq Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Fustat, dealing with shipments of goods, ca. 1053 (Gil). Mentions the qarib …

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    1.          בסם אללה אלעט'ים
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה
    3. ונעמאה מן אלאסכנדריה לד' בקין מן תשרי כתמה אללה עלי…

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    1. (1–2) בשם אלוהים הנורא; אני כותב לך, ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורבי, אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך ואת שלומך
    3. ואת חסדיו לך,…
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  17. 26067LetterT-S 12.389

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    Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, in Fustat, to Khallūf b. Mūsā, in Palermo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמאך מן אל

    2. פצטאט לה איאם מצת מן אייר ערפך אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה ברחמתה

    3. ואלח…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת חסדיו לך,
    2. מפסטאט, בה' באייר, יודיעך אלוהים את ברכתו ואת האוש…
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  18. 26068Literary textENA 3916.1

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    Arabic

    Arabic, literary; probably medical.

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  19. 26069LetterCUL Or.1080 J161

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    Hebrew

    Letter sent from Jerusalem in later medieval times by a woman named Jamila, the widow of Yehuda, addressing two brothers-in-law in Cairo, explaining that she …

    1. האחים המשובחים אשר בצל ה ית ובצלם אני
    2. יושבת כמהר ישועה //נרו// וכמהר [[זלמא .]] יעקב
    3. זלמאטי //נרו// אלו השורותים מאת אחותכם דוניא
    4. גמילה אלמנת כהר יה…
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  20. 26070Legal documentENA 3126.5

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. Probably a bill of release connected to a will. The deceased is Moshe b. Yefet, and he left behind a minor son Hibatallāh. …

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  21. 26071Credit instrument or private receiptENA 2853.27

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Verso: Receipt in Arabic, medieval-era. The paper was recycled for a liturgical text in Hebrew. A large piece of fibrous string is visible on the …

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  22. 26072List or tableT-S AS 145.191

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Bifolio of writing exercises and accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: 17th–19th century.

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  23. 26073List or tableJRL C 122

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    Accounts in Arabic in the name of Yeshūʿa al-Yahūdī. Dated Muḥarram 1245 AH which is 1829 CE. This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century …

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  24. 26074Legal documentJRL B 4265

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter or legal query addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel, probably identical with the well-known judge of the early 13th century (and son-in-law of Moses Maimonides). …

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  25. 26075Unknown typeYevr. II B 879

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Document in Judaeo-Arabic. A record of a birth or circumcision? It mostly consists of a date, which is difficult to interpret due to not knowing …

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  26. 26076LetterCUL Or.1081 J43

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    An exceptionally angry letter, complaining that the artisan, instead of returning the finished product, began to haggle about the price. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …

    1. בה
    2. אלשיך דאווד יעלם אנני עתבאן עליה
    3. גאיה מא יכון אלשאגל כונה יכאסר
    4. ולא יסיר שי ומא בקית אתק
    5. לך בקול אבדא לאן אלאנסאן
    6. אנמא הו ענד קולה מוקוף ואדא
    7. לא …

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  27. 26077LetterT-S 8J27.16

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter concerning business issues in which the writer discusses the price of silk and references a previous conversation between Abu al-Tahur and the addressee. Abu …

    1. גיד יב דינ קלת לך פרסה ותדה . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . מני מנך בקי ביני ובין ב . . . מסעוד [ . . . . . . . . .
    3. ענדך . . . בהם ואנצר לרוחך לא …

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  28. 26078State documentT-S K15.7

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Verso: Various text blocks in Arabic script probably in an Ayyubid-era chancery hand. One is the name Sālim b. Ḥasan; another is [Sham]s al-Dīn Aḥmad …

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  29. 26079Legal documentL-G Misc. 123

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE), concerning a business partnership between Natan ha-Kohen and the doctor Mevorakh b. ʿOvadya …

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  30. 26080List or tableENA NS 59.11

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    Hebrew

    Memorial list. Mentions: Elʿazar, his son Yosef; Elʿazar, his son Ṣedaqa (ha-)Rofeʾ; a woman named Barijyya; Saʿadya; Shelomo; Yosef.

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  31. 26081Legal documentJRL B 2377

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138 CE).

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  32. 26082Legal documentT-S 13J18.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso (secondary use): Draft of the beginning of a legal declaration in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active until 1150 CE). Addressing the …

    1. למא כאן קד חצרנא נחן כדם חצרה סיידנא הגאון ירום הודה
    2. פי כניסה אלעראקיין ללמילה פקצינא אלמצוה ועזמנא עלי
    3. אלאנצראף תקדם אלינא רבנ נתן החבר נזר הח נט ר…
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  33. 26083Legal query or responsumT-S 12.199

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso: Responsum in the hand of Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. Ed. Blau (1957, …

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  34. 26084List or tableMIAC 41

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    List issued by the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo naming the butchers who are permitted to slaughter chickens on the eve of Yom Kippur Tishrei 5690 …

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  35. 26085LetterT-S AS 160.281

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter addressed to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions the shop of the bāshā and פלוס דיואן אלקטר. Needs …

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  36. 26086Paraliterary textENA 4193.18

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Astrological text in Arabic script, with interspersed words transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (late hand) in the spaces between the lines. This demonstrates that even some Jews …

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    1. من يوم الاحد وان اردت الهياجان

    2. ففي ساعة المريخ من يوم الجمعة وهي

    3. سادس ساعة منه وان اردت

    4. تحرق قلبه ففي ساعة الزهرة من

    5. يوم الثلاثا وهي …

    Recto

    1. On Sunday. If you intend to provoke/agitate (him/someone)

    2. then in the hours of Mars on Friday which is

    3. The sixth hour of the day and if y…

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  37. 26087Unknown typeENA 3924.11

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Title page in red ink of an Arabic literary text. Pinholes at the margin ~4–5mm apart, secondary use since they're on the left of recto. …

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  38. 26088Paraliterary textPER H 2

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Placard in large beautiful letters including Jeremiah 17:7 and other verses. Information from Goitein's index card.

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  39. 26089Unknown typeENA NS 85.1088

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  40. 26090List or tableENA 3923.6

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    Arabic

    List in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (VMR). Requires further examination.

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  41. 26091Legal query or responsumT-S G1.21

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Two drafts, in two different hands, of legal queries concerning whether a teacher who took an oath not to teach his clients can be released …

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  42. 26092LetterT-S 16.213

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter in Hebrew by the muqaddam (head) of the community of Minyat Zifta, announcing that he had excommunicated a debtor according to an instruction by …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . הנגיד הן הן ולאו רפיא בידיה מה היה
    2. העם . . . . . . . . תלתה .ל. הדעה אמר כן עמוד לעמוד .ייה
    3. ועתה כשלא עמד בדבריו והפר נד…

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  43. 26093Legal documentT-S Ar.30.97

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    Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and …

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  44. 26094LetterT-S NS 99.64

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Late letter draft (fragment) in Judaeo-Arabic that is probably 18th or 19th c. The contents of the draft include the common opening phrase that appears …

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  45. 26095LetterT-S 8J23.7

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Short letter on vellum from Palermo by a Baghdadi, mentioning a trip to Sicily and referring to merchandise sent to Damascus by one Harun b. …

    1. כתבי יא סידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה
    2. בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה ועודה מן
    3. מדינה ל. באקי מן מרחשון ען סלאמה
    4. ועאפיה ושוק אליה ואלדי תריד עלמה
    5. באן וקמת עלי ספרי אל…
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  46. 26096List or tableENA NS 83.126

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    Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

    Mercantile accounts for Jumādā I. Mentions the name (al-shaykh al-[...]) and commodities such as sugar and rose water.

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  47. 26097LetterMoss. VII,182

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. Narrow strips were torn from both the left and right …

    The remaining four lines in Arabic require further examination:

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    4. . . . …

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  48. 26098Legal documentT-S AS 145.307 + T-S Misc.29.58a + T-S NS 324.143 + T-S NS 311.130

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Qaraite deed of betrothal. Fiance: Jābir b. Azhar. Fiancee: Ḥusn bt. Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh. The witnesses to the appointing of the bride’s agent - probably …

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    1. ... [א]מר היתה …
    2. ... [קדו]שת שמו ויבנה מקד[שו] …
    3. ... [רנו ורבנו אדוננו הנשיא הג[דול] …
    4. ... [ד]ושנו יברכהו ויעזרהו בן …
    5. ... אלהינו ובחיי קהל יש…
    1. ... said was... 
    2. ... the sanctity of His name, and He shall rebuild His temple... 
    3. …[our Lord and Master], our Lord, the great nāsī…
    4. …our holy one, …
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  49. 26099Legal documentAIU XII.96

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Hebrew

    Recto: The first few lines of an Ottoman-era legal document, bearing two seals and an annotation in a different hand, opening with an invocation of …

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  50. 26100LetterBL OR 5557K.9

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Almost complete with the top honorifics missing. The writer confirms receiving 4 dīnars (of tax?) and he set …

    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    2. […………………………….اطال الله] بقاه وادام تأييده وعلاه وتمكينه وسلامته
    3. شاكرا لله تعالى ولها ولما حصل الخرج (الجرح؟) بالاربعة دناني…
    1. [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate]
    2. [May God prolong] his existence, preserve his support, glory, strength, and safety,
    3. expressing…
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