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  1. 2601Legal documentBL OR 5561B.20

    Partnership agreement between Avraham Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ and Shimʿon ʿEzrī, duration 24 months. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated Elul 5563 AM which is 1803 CE. The partnership is …

    1. ב׳׳ה
    2. בפ׳׳עח׳׳מ היקר נשא ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר אברהם יעבץ יצ׳׳ו והיקר נשא ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר שמעון עזרי יצ׳׳ו הודאה
    3. גמורה שרירא וקיימת מעכשיו מדעתם ורצונם…

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  2. 2602Legal documentT-S AS 220.76

    Small fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving a woman named Sitt al-Sāda and a sum …

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  3. 2603List or tableT-S AS 201.141

    Book list in Judaeo-Arabic. Very fragmentary. On the other side there is a portion of the ʿamida prayer.

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  4. 2604Unknown typeENA NS 85.358

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  5. 2605Literary textT-S Ar.30.312

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the government/sulṭān and the ancestors and the synagogue and the Torah... it is difficult to see how it all ties …

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  6. 2606LetterJRL L 192

    Letter from Avraham ha-Levi, in Damietta (קפוטקיא), to Karo y Frances & Company, in Cairo/Fustat. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Ḥeshvan 5569 AM, which …

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  7. 2607Legal documentMoss. VII,97.2

    Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Sitt al-Dār has appointed her husband Ṣedaqa as …

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  8. 2608Unknown typeENA NS 85.467

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  9. 2609Legal documentT-S 10J28.3

    Upper part of a legal document. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Mansur al-Kohen, known as Ibn Qasāsa, receives from Avraham b. Masliah and Elʿazar b. Menaḥem …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין שהדותנא לתחתא בשטרא
    2. דנן כן הוה חצר אלינא [מר] אבו אלחסן בן אבי מנצור אלכהן דידיע בן קסאסא
    3. וקאל לנא אשהדו עליי ו[…

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  10. 2610State documentT-S AS 153.213

    Verso (original use): State document. One line from a petition in Arabic script addressed to an amīr. (Information from CUDL)

    1. ذلك على ماثوره وسيدي الامير ادام الله تاييده

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  11. 2611Unknown typeJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110b/28

    Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe a letter. Small fragment. One side mentions "yā Mūsā" and the other "al-afḍal al-aʿazz... Sulaymān."

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  12. 2612LetterT-S AS 150.171

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions [...]ā b. Yisraʾel. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  13. 2613List or tableT-S NS J416

    Lower part of a list of contributors, with 21 persons to be solicited, each carefully described by his family name or profession or both. With …

    1. בו אל ביאן אלמורד
    2. מנגא אלצירפי
    3. פצאיל בן אלעני
    4. פצאיל בן נעמאן
    5. בו סחק אלעטאר אלזנאגליין
    6. בן בו אלחסן אל[ס]מסאר בן חביש
    7. בו אלסרור בן ב[ו] יעקוב
    8. פתוח בן …

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  14. 2614Legal documentT-S AS 149.42

    Legal document mentioning the elder Abū Zikrī Kohen, and rent and construction for a building near the synagogue. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel, …

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  15. 2615List or tableT-S Ar.20.5

    Recto: Booklist in Arabic script listing individual Epistles (of the Brethren of Purity) that have been copied and bound and into how many majallāt and …

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  16. 2616Legal documentT-S AS 25.43 + T-S AS 25.44

    Legal document dated 14[.]5 (Sel.), written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). This scribal association makes it possible to infer the …

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  17. 2617Legal documentMoss. V,374

    IB I, 20. Verso: The testimony of ʿArūs b. Yosef about Yosef al-Lebdi's partnership with his brother Shelomo al-Lebdi. Dated: 17 Sivan 1410 Sel. After …

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    1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא שבעה עשר יומי בירח סיון
    2. דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ועשר שנין למניינא
    3. דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס
    4. נהרא מותבה כן הוה חצר אלי בית…
    1. On Thursday, the 17th of the onth of Sivan
    2. in the year 1410 by our
    3. reckoning, in Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, on the river Nile,
    4. Mr. David
    5. b. Mr. Shelomo Lebdi-ma…

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  18. 2618Literary textT-S AS 183.201

    Medical recipes.

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  19. 2619LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/23

    Letter from Ṣuriel Dayyan, in Tripolis (Greece? or Libya?), to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Romance words. Dating: Last quarter of …

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  20. 2620LetterT-S 8J18.11

    Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy from Alexandria to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Inferred dating: around 1055 (Gil). The writer is available to work …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אל
    2. אסוא ע[נך בר]חמתה מן אלאסכנדריה לנצף מן שבט ען חאל סלאמה וע[אפיה ושוק]
    3. אלי[ך ק…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ויסלק כל
    2. רע ממך ברחמיו, מאלכסנדריה, בחצי שבט, שלומי טוב, ואני בר…

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  21. 2621LetterT-S NS J262

    Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic, apparently to the Nagid. Appealing for help as well as help for a woman oppressed by her husband. Her …

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    1. זאלת עליה . . . [
    2. חתי אכדת מן [
    3. חתי תכתב לי והו [
    4. ובכפלה כל סאעה לו כאן [
    5. וזוגתה פי נאר אן לא יעלם [ 
    6. והי בתקבל ידי סידנא ובתקול אנה [אכד
    7. שבו…

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  22. 2622Unknown typeENA NS 85.1144

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  23. 2623List or tableT-S NS 226.173

    Verso: List of contributors or recipients of communal funds. Dating: ca. 1221 CE, based on recto. Mentions names such as Bū ʿImrān and his father; …

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  24. 2624LetterT-S 6J1.27

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an Abu al-Barakat whom he addresses as 'brother' and 'friend'

    1. אכיה ומחבה שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין נמשול [
    2. כתאבי אלי אכי וצדיקי אלאך אלעזיז אלגליל א[
    3. אלאדיב אלחביב אלראיס אללביב אבי אלברכאת [
    4. ובלגה פי אלדארין אראדתה…

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  25. 2625LetterT-S 10J10.30

    Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon in Tyre to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1055.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה
    2. וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן צור לג כלת מן אב ען סלאמה פי
    3. אלגסם ושגל קלב לא יעלם עלמה גיר אללה עז וגל מן

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  26. 2626List or tableBL OR 5549.5

    Verso: Contributors list. Dating: ca. 1140s CE. Giving 2: Abū l-Makārim b. Nissim; Amīn al-Dawla. Giving 1: Abū Subḥī(?) b. Ghulayb; Abū Naṣr b. Faḍlān; …

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  27. 2627LetterENA 2558.24

    Letter to “our prince” Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. After many phrases of blessings and deference, the sender apologetically reports that he …

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  28. 2628State documentT-S NS 297.7

    Receipt for the capitation tax. For the silk worker Bū Naṣr b. ʿUmar al-Yahūdī. Dated: 507 AH, which is 1113/14 CE.

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  29. 2629Unknown typeENA NS 77.237

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 2630State documentT-S AS 122.128

    Small fragment of a petition or state document in Arabic script. One of the only phrases preserved is مراسمنا العالية. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …

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  31. 2631Legal documentT-S Ar.34.145

    Document in Arabic script. Possibly legal (ashhadanī...) but it is quite small and seems informally written. Needs examination.

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  32. 2632Legal documentMoss. III,79.2

    Ketubba fragment, with a lovely decoration in the header. The groom's father is named Shelomo. On verso there are magical remedies/incantations, including one against polyuria.

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  33. 2633LetterMingana 16

    7 fragments. Fol. 1 a receipt in Ladino, "de el Turco Musa(?)," Shimʿon, and an "anillo" (אנילייו) "ring" as part of the transaction. Fol. 2 …

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  34. 2634Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/31

    Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …

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  35. 2635Literary textENA 3916.14

    Literary treatise in Arabic, quoting biblical verses in Hebrew script.

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  36. 2636State documentT-S AS 176.211

    State document. Specific genre/purpose unclear. Has the glyph at the top. Then "... fī al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ lil-Fakhriyya...." The an ʿalāma and perhaps a confirmation of …

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  37. 2637State documentENA 3714.5

    State document, probably a fiscal order. Mentions rāhin/dāʾin in the first line, slaves (ghilmān), and property (ʿamāʾr). Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, …

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  38. 2638Legal documentT-S AS 149.59

    Legal document. Bottom part only. Unclear if any of the identifying details are preserved.

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  39. 2639Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.71 + T-S Ar.30.81

    Two interesting spells for binding demons to obey you. The handwriting is similar to that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), father of Yedutun and …

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  40. 2640LetterENA 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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  41. 2641List or tableT-S AS 184.257

    Accounts, probably

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  42. 2642Legal documentT-S 10J7.6

    Legal document. Testimony. Dated: Sivan 1470 Sel. = May-June 1159 CE. Testimony around the engagement of Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj and Fakhr bt. Yosef, imposing …

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    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אננא ליס נעלם אן עלי תמים בן אבו אלפרג 
    2. ולא פכר בת יוסף עלקה תמנע אחדהמא מן אלזואג פלמא 
    3. אלתמסת מנא הדה אלשהאדה אתבתנאהא בחדש …

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    1. We, the witnesses, say that we did not know that there was (no impediment or attachment) incumbent upon Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj
    2. nor upon Fakhr bt…

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  43. 2643List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 273

    List of mercantile goods (foods, spices, materia medica, metals) and their quantities, mostly given in pounds/arṭāl. In Arabic script.

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  44. 2644LetterT-S 6J5.9

    Verso (original use): End of a letter in Arabic script. With many formal blessings and phrases of deference for the addressee. Needs further examination.

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  45. 2645LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 329

    Letter in Arabic script. The bottom 9 lines are preserved. Mentions Raḍiyy al-Dawla; sending things; possibly someone named ʿAbd al-Masīḥ; the intriguing line "Woe to …

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  46. 2646List or tableENA 2821.34–35

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, with one line of Arabic script. VMR. ASE.

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  47. 2647List or tableT-S Ar.34.277

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as ʿAbdallāh; Bū l-Faraj; Jawhar; Samawʾal; Ibn Naṣrallāh; Mīkhāʾīl; Saʿīd; Wahba(?); Sīmān(?); Muḥammad. Dating: Perhaps …

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  48. 2648List or tableAIU VII.F.57

    Late accounts in Arabic, resembles AIU VII.F.24 but the writing is sloppier. Dated Dhū l-Qaʿda [12]32 AH.

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  49. 2649Legal documentENA 2420.2

    Birth records. In Italian and Hebrew. Location: Venice. Probably non-Geniza. First document: Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 5536 AM, which is to 19 May 1776 CE. …

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  50. 2650LetterT-S NS 320.4

    Letter from a certain Aharon to Eliyyahu the Judge about a lack of success of a collection made for himself. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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