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  1. 27101Unknown typeENA NS 76.500

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  2. 27102LetterT-S 10J13.2

    Letter from David b. Moshe Bonfat (בונפט) ha-Sefaradi to Avraham ha-Sefaradi. In Hebrew. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century. The sender reports that he …

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  3. 27103Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J199

    Recto: Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Involves Avraham, someone's brother-in-law Yaʿaqov, the obstinacy of a legal rival (kathīr …

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    1. ען מ אברהם כצמי דנן אמור אקאמת ק[
    2. הזקן הנכבד יש צו צהרי בר מר ור יעקב הזקן הנ[כבד
    3. הדא אלשטר ויקול מא אסלם שי מן דלך אלא בחצור [
    4. זמאן וקד [א]שת…

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  4. 27104LetterT-S 12.33

    Half the page is taken up with a Hebrew panegyric, presumably for the physician who wrote the prescription on recto, whose name is also given …

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  5. 27105LetterCUL Or.1081 J8

    Letter of appeal in the name of an old woman, whose mantle was stolen while she was about to wash it in the Nile, asking …

    1. בש רח
    2. אשריכם זורעי על כל מים משלחי רגל ה והח
    3. אשרי שומרי משפט עושה צדקה בכל עת
    4. ציון במשפט תפדה ושביה בצדקה
    5. אעלם מואלי אלדיאנין נר ואלגמאעה ברוכים
    6. יהי…

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  6. 27106List or tableT-S Ar.34.106

    Table in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Accounts?

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  7. 27107LetterENA 3962.4

    Business letter in Arabic script. The sender requests the copper jars and in exchange he will send the qinṭār of sugar cane molasses (quṭāra). Mentions …

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  8. 27108State documentT-S F4.27

    Official correspondence in Arabic. Wide line spacing. Four lines preserved: . . ذلك ولما حضروا واعادوا . . . قررنا الامر على ما كاتبناك به …

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  9. 27109LetterAIU VII.E.66

    Letter from Nissim Messina(?) to Karo y Frances & Company, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 27 Ḥeshvan of an unnamed year in the late 18th …

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  10. 27110Legal documentENA 3958.10

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …

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    1. غروش
    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
    3. ١٥٠٠٠
    4. فقط خمست عشر الف غرش لا غير
    5. وجه تحريره
    6. ص [١] وله.... لما كان يوم الاربع المبارك في تلاتة وعشرين خلت من …

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    1. ghurūsh

    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]

    3. 15,000 .3

    4. Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.

    5. The reason for its [the document’s] compos…

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  11. 27111Literary textL-G Lit.III.92

    Poems for circumcisions. In the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. Including for the birth of a son to the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, and …

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  12. 27112List or tableENA NS 77.33

    List (fragment) of recipients of charity, mentioning someone who "lives in the golden stone" [this cannot be the correct translation] and also an orphan Ibn …

    1. שי? ידור פי חגר אלדהב
    2. ואכוה אלצבאג
    3. אם פתיאן
    1. הל[א]ל [א]למקדסי
    2. ........]פי.[

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    1. וב]נתהא ואבנהא
    2. אם רייסה
    3. יתים בן קטאיף
    4. ..].לה

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  13. 27113Legal documentT-S AS 147.23

    Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (fl. 1150–1181 CE). Two brothers confirm in a Cairene court under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא באלמעזיה
    2. אלק]אהרה דס[מוכ]א לפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה
    3. רשו]תיה דאדוננו שמואל ה[נ]גיד הגדול ירום ה…

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  14. 27114Unknown typeJRL B 2844

    Possibly a page from a halakhic work on legal procedure. Needs further examination.

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  15. 27115State documentT-S NS 322.132

    Fiscal document, probably. Mentions Yūsuf b. ʿAlī; Muḥammad b. ʿAlī; Mūsā b. ʿAlī, [...] b. Khalīl.

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  16. 27116Legal documentENA NS 13.34

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Bilbays. Dated: December1209/January 1209 CE. This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il …

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    1. שהדותא דא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות 
    2. ידנא לתתא כן הוה למא כאן יום אלתנין אלעשרין 
    3. מן חדש טבת שנת אתקכ לשטרות בעיר בלביס 
    4. הסמוכה לארץ גשן מות…

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    1. This testimony was before us—we, the witnesses, whose signature
    2. appears below. Thus: on Monday, the twentieth
    3. of the month of Ṭevet of the year 1…

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  17. 27117List or tableT-S NS 297.83

    Accounts in Arabic script.

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  18. 27118Legal documentT-S Ar.52.177

    Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b. Shabbat left few years ago …

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    1. אִחצרת [אלינ]א אנן בי דינא סת אלכל בת אליה זוגה [          יכין] בן שבת הנקרא מ֗ [...]ןִ
    2. נ֗ע֗ שטר כתובה עלי זוגהִאִ יכ[ין] בִ[ן] שבתי הנזכ…

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    1. (1-2) Sitt al-Kull bt. Elijah, wife of [... Yakhīn] b. Shabbat called Mr. [....] m(ay he rest in) E(den), presented to us, the court, the dee…

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  19. 27119LetterT-S 10J12.10

    Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhānī to Eliyyahu the Judge. Dating: early 13th century. The sender reports meeting with "the indicated person" who is in difficult …

    1. בר צעי]ר עבדי אדוני
    2. בר מאי]ר בן אלהמדאני
    3. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך וג
    4. עתרת השלומות הערוכות בארבע נהרי גן עדן מסוכות ובימין צדק צור
    5. תמוכות וכללי מללי הבר…

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  20. 27120List or tableT-S Ar.34.237

    Accounts in Arabic script. Listing debits (right column) and credits (left column).

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  21. 27121Legal documentCUL Or.1080 4.45

    Fragment of a quittance (שטר פיצוי). On parchment. Dating: maybe 11th century.

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  22. 27122LetterT-S NS 325.15

    Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a certain Elʿazar in honor of his wedding. With a long Hebrew introduction of blessings and praises. The sender …

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  23. 27123List or tableJRL A 1012

    Long vertical strip containing a distribution list in Judaeo-Arabic (and part of a single word in Arabic on verso). Mentions Sayyidnā; Yosef Shomer; Shammas; an …

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  24. 27124Legal documentENA 4101.16c

    Court record in which Karīm is suing Abū l-Munā b. Yehuda concerning a qintar of Syrian oil and copper vessels left in Minyat Ziftā in …

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  25. 27125Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    IB V, 37, folio 12. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce …

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  26. 27126Credit instrument or private receiptT-S 6J11.3

    Recto: Order in the handwriting of Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. Addressed to a …

    1. אמת
    2. אלשיך אבי אלמפצל
    3. התלמיד שצ יוצל
    4. למוצלהא אלזקן אלגליל
    5. מ יעקוב וכיל אלמואלי
    6. אלאגלא אלשיך אלאגל
    7. אלאסעד ואלשיך אלתקה
    8. יש צו מהמא טלבה
    9. מן אלמולא מן אל…
    1. Truth.
    2. May the shaykh Abū l-Mufaḍḍal
    3. the scholar, may his Rock protect him, deliver
    4. to the bearer (of this letter), the esteemed elder
    5. m[ister] Yaʿa…

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  27. 27127Legal documentT-S 13J2.6

    Legal documents in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, from the court of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Recto: deed concerning the sale of a book that …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין דממנא מבי דינא רבה של כ[בוד]
    2. גדלת קדשת מרנו ורבנו אדוננו מבורך אלוף [הבינות ]
    3. סנהדרא רבה שר השרים נגיד הנגידים עו…

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  28. 27128Unknown typeENA NS 85.1407

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  29. 27129Legal documentT-S AS 152.364

    Small fragment of a ketubba. Arabic jottings on verso. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  30. 27130LetterT-S AS 153.212 + T-S 6J6.20

    Letter from Bū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin) to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Bū l-Maḥāsin, in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Kislev 1528 Seleucid = November/December 1216 CE. …

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    1. עבדהא בו אלמגד
    2. חזן
    3. בר
    4. אלשיך אלמכין אדאם [אל]לה עזה
    5. אעלמהא אנני סיירת להא נסכה
    6. אלמקאמאת וקרינהא(?) כתאב ללמ[ו]ל[א]
    7. והי צחבה על[י] אלדי קדאם דכא…

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  31. 27131Literary textMoss. III,219.1

    Draft of the beginning of a bible commentary called ליקוטי הפרדס in which the writer says he will collect insights from אברהם ן שושאן and …

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  32. 27132LetterBL OR 13888.2

    Two fragments of a mercantile letter from Marwan b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribi, unknown location, to Yosef b. Avraham al-Maghribī, in al-Raqqa. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address …

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  33. 27133LetterJRL A 844

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, a fragment preserving only the margin of recto and part of the address on verso. Sent either to or from Alexandria. The …

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  34. 27134Legal query or responsumT-S 6J1.3

    Beginnings of two legal documents and one responsum. The legal documents are from the rabbinical court of Nagid Avraham Maimonides, and the responsum is addressed …

    1. נקול אנו חתומי מטה אן הדרת אדוננו נגידנו אברהם הרב
    2. המובהק הפטיש החזק הנגיד הגדל(!)
    3. נקול אנו חתומי מטה אן הדרת אדוננו אברהם הרב המובהק הפטיש
    4. החזק הנג…

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  35. 27135Legal documentT-S NS J401a

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.

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    1. [ ]נא[ ]
    2. [ ]א פא[ ]
    3. [ ]וראתהא [ ]הא באוכד מעא[ני ]
    4. [ ]ם ומכל טענה וערערה מטענת בארי [ ]
    5. [ ] אומות העולם אן [לי]ס לי ענד[הא ול]א פי קבלהא [ ]
    6. […

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  36. 27136Unknown typeENA NS 85.203

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  37. 27137LetterT-S Ar.39.384

    Letter in Arabic script, in a chancery-esque hand. The sender swears by God calling him "the light" (wa-ḥaqq al-Nūr). Ends with a ḥasbala. There may …

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  38. 27138State documentT-S Misc.22.286

    Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. [صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته 

    3. على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين

    4. …

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    2. The blessings and benedictions of God, his increasing benefactions and most excellent salutatio…

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  39. 27139LetterT-S Misc.20.45

    Letter in the hand of the cantor Abū Sahl Levi b. al-Ahuv, to one of his sons, probably Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi in Qalyūb. On …

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  40. 27140Literary textENA 1055.28

    Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic

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  41. 27141Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#35) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Sivan 5320 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 13v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלאתנין כ׳׳ה שהר סיון סנת ה׳ש׳כ׳ ליצירה
    2. חצ'ר יוסף אבן [[יוסף]] ע׳אלחק וחצל תואפק …

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  42. 27142List or tableT-S Ar.51.89

    An alimony of 6 dirhams, probably a case of divorce. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Also contains a booklist.

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  43. 27143LetterENA 1679.22

    Note signed by Yaʿaqov Ṣarfati stating that Shimʿon will give 8.5 of something to the holy congregation of בטאת(?). Dated: Wednesday, 3 Rabīʿ II, דעצה(?). …

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  44. 27144State documentENA 3494.9

    Document in Arabic on verso, medieval-era. Only two partial lines are visible but the line spacing and scribal hand point to the likelihood that this …

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  45. 27145Literary textBodl. MS Arab. c 56.36 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.37 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.38 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.39 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.40 + Bodl. MS Arab. c 56.41

    Literary text, in Arabic script. Folios from an anonymous commentary on a medical work of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq. Marginal corrections made by the copyist. The …

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  46. 27146Literary textENA 3977.4–5

    Literary work in Arabic script. Botanical.

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  47. 27147Paraliterary textENA NS 13.38

    Note in Judaeo-Arabic explaining the vocalization of the shewaʾ in Hebrew grammar.

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  48. 27148Legal documentT-S 8J4.21

    Legal document. Inventory of estate. Dated: August 1108. Location: Cairo. Signed by Abraham b. Ḥalfōn b. Abraham and Isaac b. Abraham. Eleazar b. Araḥ assumes …

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    1. חצר בבית דין יום חמישי כז באב שנת
    2. אתיט באלקאהרה מ אלעזר בן ארח נע
    3. בן אלשמאע וואלדתה ואכוה אברהם שקיקה
    4. וכאנא קד קוומא גמיע מא פי אלדכאן במאיה
    5. ו…

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    1. On Thursday, the 27th day of Av, of the year
    2. 1419, in Cairo, M(r.) Eleazar b. Araḥ (who) r(ests in) E(den),
    3. (I)bn al-Shammā‘, and his mother an…

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  49. 27149LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/19

    Letter of recommendation sent from Ramla, presumably to Fustat. In Hebrew. On behalf of Moshe b. Shemuel. His father Shemuel died this winter, as there …

    1. [......]ל... ע[...]ל..ק

    2. [...] שכר טוב מאלוהינו [...]

    3. [...ת]בינו זה [ ..עס]ק משה בן שמואל [...]

    4. אלמא[...] אשר ממדינת רמלה ודע יקירנו כי נפ…

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  50. 27150List or tableT-S AS 149.90

    Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions pepper; wool and robes; al-Sijilmāsī; fūṭas and other garment types; saqaṭ; marjoram (mardaqūsh); cinnamon.

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