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  1. 26701List or tableT-S AS 146.95

    Bifolio. Three of the four pages contain Hebrew liturgical jottings. The righthand page of verso consists of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, with several entries crossed out.

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  2. 26702Literary textBL OR 5560D.2 + BL OR 5560D.1

    Literary. A beautiful and very large (30cm) page from a diwan of R. Moshe ibn 'Ezra. Among the poems preserved: an elegy for his brother …

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  3. 26703Legal documentT-S 10J2.3

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: al-Ramla. Dated: Adar 4786 AM = January/February 1026 CE. Husband: Menashshe b. Shemuel. Wife: Ḥusn bt. Yosef. Signed by the …

    1. ....
    2. ב[ ]ן בירח אדר קדמאה בשתה חמיש[ייתא]
    3. [דשבו]עא מה דהיא שנת ארבעה אלפין
    4. ושבע מאוון ותמנין ושית שנין
    5. ל[בריי]ת [עלמא ברמלה] מדינתא דסמיכה
    6. ללוד [באח…

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  4. 26704List or tableT-S Misc.6.171.6–7

    Accounts, or maybe just arithmetic. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic(?) numerals. There are two leaves of this document, following 5 leaves of a literary text …

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  5. 26705Legal documentYevr. II A 1319

    Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 20 Tevet 1771 Seleucid, which is 1459 CE. (1) Shemuel Faraj'el b. (2) Ḥananyahu Avraham b. (3) Shelomo …

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  6. 26706State documentT-S Ar.34.50

    Receipt for the ḍamān (or rent?) of a shop in Minyat al-Ghamr(?) for Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm in the year 516 H. Needs examination.

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  7. 26707State documentENA NS 83.68.3

    Six small fragments with Arabic. One of them is state related and seems to say "māl al-dīwān al-dīwān" which is probably not right.

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  8. 26708Unknown typeENA NS 77.358

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  9. 26709Legal documentENA 4020.15

    Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can …

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  10. 26710LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/13a

    Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Refers to the arrival of a ship from Bīsh (מרכב ביש), i.e., Pisa, usually …

    1. . . . . [
    2. . . . . [
    3. וצול מרכב ביש [
    4. רסול ותגאר ומעה ש . [. . . . . . . אל
    5. קאצי אלמופק ען חדית אלגנויין לה
    6. באן אלזעפראן כאן ענדהם רכיץ ואן
    7. מא מנעהם מ…

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  11. 26711Legal documentT-S 8.90

    Header of a beautifully illuminated ketubba, with micrography in the border.

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    1. … [ כי יבעל בחור ב]תולה יבעלוך ב[ניך] …
    2. … הזקנים עדים …

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    1. … [as the young man marries a v]irgin your sons shall marry you (Is. 62: 5) …
    2. … the elders, witnesses …

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  12. 26712LetterJRL B 7232

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  13. 26713List or tableT-S Ar.30.32

    Five leaves of an account book. Mostly daily entries of a money dealer. Goitein writes, "The first two of five leaves written by a fledgling …

    1. Debit, Thursday 23 Muḥarram

    2. Note to Abu ʾl-Khayr 20 d.

    3. Dr., a purse to Abraham 5 ⅙ d. 1 q. 

    4. Dr., a purse to al-Anṣsarī 3d. exactly

    1. Cr. …

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  14. 26714Paraliterary textT-S NS 264.104

    Recto: Draft of letter text in Judaeo-Arabic with unidentified Arabic text (magical?) underneath. Verso: Likely an occult text in Hebrew, mentioning various numbers. Written on …

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  15. 26715List or tableENA NS 83.126

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

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  16. 26716List or tableT-S K15.98

    IB VI, 16. Inventory of the estate of Nissim b. Yaʿqūb, a merchant who died in Sawākin (Suakin in present-day Sudan) on Monday, 7 Shaʿbān …

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  17. 26717Legal documentT-S G1.52

    Legal declaration, probably the concluding page of a deposition, signed by Shem Ṭov al-Ḥāmī. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Late. Shem Ṭov declares that he …

    1. [...]קבלתי עלי הנזירות שבני היה חולה בעיניו והלכתי לחמותי
    2. [ואמרתי לה בואי ל]ראות בן בתך שהוא חולה ואמרה לי שאינה יכולה לבוא
    3. [שקרתי אמרתי הכי]תי את ב…

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  18. 26718Legal documentT-S 8J11.15

    Legal record describing a husband trying to seize property, and declaring that his father-in-law’s accusations are false, even though the latter presented the court with …

    1. אדעי מר אבו אלמנא בן חלפון יוסף
    2. החזן נט רח עלי מר מבורך בר סבע זוג סמר דא
    3. אנה דכל אלי אלאסכנדריה ואכד כתובתהא מן ענד
    4. אלאמראה אלתי כאנת מודועה ענדהא …

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  19. 26719Legal documentMoss. VII,84.3

    Small fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Declaration made by [Abū Is]ḥāq Avraham ha-Sar. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  20. 26720Paraliterary textENA NS I.36

    Medical recipes: Judaeo-Arabic on one side, Arabic on the other.

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  21. 26721Legal query or responsumBodl. MS heb. b 11/14

    Middle fragment: Legal query addressed "our master Moshe," possibly Maimonides (d. 1204). "To have traveled widely was a title of pride. No wonder that some …

    Middle fragment

    1. ומא תקול הדרת אדונינו משה יחי לעד
    2. פי מן יטלע יקרא פי ספר תורה ויב/א/רך
    3. הגומל ומא סאפר למכאן הל הדה
    4. אלברכה להבטלה אם לא יפתינא רבנו
    5.  …

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  22. 26722Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 321

    Literary text, in Arabic script.

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  23. 26723List or tableT-S K15.94

    List, long, irregularly written, mostly effaced, of males. In many cases sums like 1/3, 1/4 (dinars) 5 qirats added; in other instances, a well-to-do person …

    1. ............................]ה רבע דינר
    2. .....].ים..ל.. חסן בן אברהים
    3. [רב]ע דינר רבעי
    4. ....]ב צדר[י] הבה בן בשר אבו לבוה
    5. [ת]מן ד
    6. ....]..לם אל..[..] [.…

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  24. 26724LetterENA 1822a.64

    Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines written …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الى الولد العزيز
    3. اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
    4. ونعماه ومن حسن التوفيق
    5. لا اخلاه وجمعنا واياه
    6. עלי אסר חאל במנה
    7. וכרמה וא…

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  25. 26725Legal documentYevr. II A 1315

    Betrothal contract draft, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 5 Tishrei 5398 AM, which is 1637 CE. The scribe misspelled the number 8 as 80 twice …

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    1.                      בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
    2. ביום חמישי בשבוע והוא חמשה ימים מחדש תשרי המ׳ 
    3. [[סנה]] שנת חמשת אלפים ושלוש מאות ותשעים ושמונהים(!)
    4. ש…

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  26. 26726Legal documentT-S Ar.7.34

    Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by Khalīl b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Ḥalabī al-Ḥāmī. Also may mention Mansūr al-Ustādh and ʿUthmān al-Ṣ[...]. Dated: …

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  27. 26727State documentT-S AS 177.154

    Small receipt for payment made by Abū l-Najm on behalf of 'the poor Jews' (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment for Jumādā I. …

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  28. 26728State documentENA 2192.1

    State document, in Arabic script. Petition formulary (?) mentions al-Ḥākim but is written as a literary text. Needs further examination.

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  29. 26729Unknown typeENA NS 85.949

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 26730Legal documentT-S 6J1.32

    Deed of sale for a slave. Dated: Thursday, 28 Tammuz 1571 Seleucid = 8 July 1260 CE. Seller: the Bilbaysī Mūsā b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen. …

    זכרון עדות

    ע"א

    1. למא כאן בתאריך יום אלכמיס אלתאמן
    2. ואלעשרין מן חודש תמוז שנת אתקעא לשטרות
    3. אשהדנא עלי אלשיך מוסי אלכהן אלבלביסי
    4. אבן אבו אלעז אלכהן עלי נ…

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  31. 26731LetterT-S AS 162.79

    Complete letter of the 15th or later centuries, with a ב״ה in the top margin. It mentions Shemuʾel Jerbi (the sender?), and two others, David …

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  32. 26732LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/16

    Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ b. Yosef to Yehuda b. Sighmar. The letter reflects the economic difficulties of the Jewish community of Alexandria due …

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    1. וצל כתאב אדירנו הזקן הנכבד ישמרהו מגננו וינצרהו מעוזנו
    2. ווקפת עלי מצ'מונה וסררת במא אודעה מן אכבאר סלאמתה וגמיל
    3. צנע אללה לה וסאלתה אגראה עלי גמ…

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    1. הגיע מכתבך אדירנו, וכו' 
    2. (3-2) וקראתי מה שהכיל ושמחתי בידיעות על שלומך ועל טוב מעשיו של אלוהים עמך שהיו בו, וביקשתי מאלוהים שינהג עמך על פי מי…

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  33. 26733LetterMoss. IV,29.2

    Letter in Hebrew, with an extensive Judaeo-Arabic note, in a different hand, in the top margin. Mentions a pinqas. Written on Thursday, 8 Tishrei (unclear …

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  34. 26734Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1572

    Karaite debt acknowledgment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 9 Kislev 5516 AM (1755 CE). Location: the home of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen aka Shāmī (presumably in Cairo …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצרו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל כמוהר׳׳ה שלמה כהן יצ׳׳ו
    2. נין המנוח כמוהר׳׳ה אהרן כהן ידיע שאמי נ׳׳ע תם חצר כה׳׳ר סעדיא …

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  35. 26735Unknown typeENA NS 77.236

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  36. 26736LetterENA NS 39.7

    Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Addressed to a judge (mawlāy al-shofeṭ). In the greetings section …

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  37. 26737LetterT-S 13J15.1

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …

    1. שלום ממעל ומתחת וברכה מצוה בכל משלחת והשפעה טובה רווחת
    2. והשכל בכל מעש והצלחת ומסביב שקט ושאנן ונחת ומציאת חן
    3. וחסד וישועה צומחת עם שאר כל תאב וחשק והב…

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  38. 26738Legal documentT-S 13J21.31

    Verso: Statute for tenants of the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1215 (according to Gil, but his handwriting comparison may not be sound, and this document could …

    1. יעתדר ען וזנה אלאגרה פי כל
    2. שהר בחאלה מן אלאחואל פאן כמא
    3. יכדי ויתצדק מא יאכלה יתצדק
    4. מא יזנה אגרה תם אחרמנא
    5. באסם מן יסכן פי דאר או טבקה
    6. בגיר אלקימה אל…

    …. (that nobody should)

    1. excuse himself from paying the rent every
    2. month, whatever his circumstances might be, even if, just as
    3. he begs and receives…

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  39. 26739Legal documentENA NS 77.61

    Small fragment from the end of a legal document signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya.

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  40. 26740Unknown typeT-S AS 184.322

    Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter or legal. Mentions a quantity in artāl (last line).

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  41. 26741Legal documentAIU VII.E.232

    Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …

    1.                         קניית הגאבילה
    2. ...]בץ נ.[...] גמורה [שרירה(?) וק]יימה כדין וכהלכה מ...[....] הטוב וה[...] ..[...
    3. ...] הגאבילה הנהוגה בע[יר] מ…

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  42. 26742Paraliterary textENA 3903.2

    Document in Arabic script. Two very narrow vertical strips filled with rudimentary Arabic script. Likely magical, but this is based entirely on appearance rather than …

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  43. 26743LetterENA NS 33.27

    Letter from Yeshuʿa to his father Saʿīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century or later, based on handwriting and abbreviations used. This letter was written …

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  44. 26744LetterAIU VII.E.57

    Interesting Judaeo-Arabic letter with phonetic spellings and rudimentary hanwriting. Abū l-ʿAlā' writes to Maḥāsin al-Ḍāmin (the tax farmer) in אביר (=Abyār?) to inform him that …

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  45. 26745Legal documentL-G Misc. 113

    IB VII, 3. Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their …

    f. 113

    1. ] שהאד[תה וכ]ט ידה אכר הדא [אלשטר] אן חצר בין ידינא ר יוסף בר יצחק נע לדא. אלפאסי והו פי צחה
    2. עקלה] וגואז אמרה טאיע גיר כארה לא [מגבור] ולא מק…

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  46. 26746Legal documentENA NS 44.17

    Legal document. Draft, probably. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? In Judaeo-Arabic. The wife of Yiftaḥ ha-Dayyan declares that she sold Abū l-Barakāt...

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  47. 26747Unknown typeENA NS 77.262

    Recto may be a small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: ולא תגד . . . [ח]אצל ענדי . . . Verso looks like a …

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  48. 26748List or tableENA NS 77.180

    List of names. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on the hand and typical names. Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]; …

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  49. 26749State documentT-S AS 176.294

    Lower left corner of a petition.

    1.                  من محابة والشكر(؟)

    2. واحواله ومهماته منعما ان شا الله

    3. الحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا]محمد نبيه واله الطاهرين وسلام

    4. وحسبنا …

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  50. 26750LetterT-S 10J31.14

    Letter fragment. In Arabic script. 6 lines well preserved, with portions of 2 more lines. Mentions ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and the arrival of Sayyidnā al-Ajall (l. …

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