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  1. 27601Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 77.353

    Order instructing al-Shaykh al-Asʿad to pay a certain sum to the bearer Abū l-Karam. Dating: ca. 12th or 13th century. There follow unusually detailed instructions …

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  2. 27602Literary textCUL Or.1080 9.7

    Recipes, probably medical or alchemical, in Arabic script, accompanied with pious invocations and some magical characters.

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  3. 27603State documentT-S NS 265.17

    State document or likely a draft of one. One section ends with the phrase “to the chancery (Dīwān al-Inshāʾ).” There might be a mamlūk and …

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  4. 27604LetterT-S AS 168.225 + T-S AS 168.224

    Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the text in the right margin, is preserved, containing expressions of condolence apparently on the death of …

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  5. 27605Unknown typeENA NS 83.82

    Unidentified document in Arabic.

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  6. 27606List or tableENA 3669.4

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. May be a join with ENA 3669.3.

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  7. 27607Paraliterary textCUL Or.1081 J39

    Prescription in Judaeo-Arabic for Abū Yaḥyā, including instructions for both medicine and diet. The name of the recipient at the beginning and the phrase "effective …

    1. الشيخ ابو يحي
    2. יוכד אהלילג כאבלי דרה תרבד וגאריקון ויארג פיקרא מן כל א נצף דרה
    3. ראונד ואפתימון ואפסנתין מן כל א דאנקין מקל אזרק ומלח דראני
    4. ומצטכי מן כ…
    1. The shaykh Abū Yaḥyā
    2. Take chebulic myrobalan, one dirham; turpeth and agaric and hiera picra, of each half a dirham;
    3. rhubarb and dodder and absinth,…

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  8. 27608LetterT-S NS 304.43

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Makārim b. Abū [...] and a ḥaver.

    1. ] אן ימ[
    2. בקינא תאלפין מן אלערי ואלגוע ומא [
    3. אלנאס נטלב שי נאכל תכון(?) לנא שי נרגע [
    4. וכדלך כאן לנא ענד מכארם //אלדי יגבי . . // בן אב[
    5. טאלבנאה פי אל…

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  9. 27609State documentT-S AS 130.260

    Fragment from the top of a state document in Arabic script. There is a basmala, possibly a remnant of a tarjama at upper left, and …

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  10. 27610Unknown typeENA NS 76.597

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 27611Unknown typeENA NS 85.1478

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  12. 27612Legal documentT-S AS 70.116 + T-S AS 147.63

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar II 1436 Seleucid = 24 March 1125 CE. No signatures. …

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  13. 27613Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 541

    Arabic legal text. Fragment about marriage (nikāḥ). Verso mentions the rule stating that a marriage is necessarily concluded in presence of the legal guardian (walī) …

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  14. 27614Legal documentT-S AS 153.388

    Legal document; vertical strip of parchment. Location: probably Fustat. Dating: [14]5[.] Seleucid under the authority of the Nagid [Shemuel b. Ḥananya]. Mentioning Ḥalfon the cantor; …

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  15. 27615List or tableT-S AS 177.523

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Maqāniʿī. The hand may be known.

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  16. 27616List or tableT-S NS J437

    Recto: Budget of expenses for food on the two days of ʿUnṣura (Shavuot). Verso is in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. It may be related. …

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  17. 27617Paraliterary textT-S NS 190.125

    Astrological text in Judaeo-Arabic. One of the horoscopes predicts something about a dark woman with pimples (bathr) on her face and getting enchanted (wa-lā budd …

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  18. 27618LetterT-S 10J10.16

    Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …

    1. וברוך אתה בשדה שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך ואין למו מכ[שול
    2. שלום לא יסוף וברכה לא תחדל ושבת שלאנן ובריאת גוף
    3. והסרת כאבי והכנעת אויבי וריפאוי מחלהי(!) וקיבו…

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  19. 27619Literary textT-S 12.145

    Looks literary.

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  20. 27620Legal documentENA NS 53.21

    Legal document. Will from 1527 CE (1 Shevat 5287 AM) drawn up by Shul or Sol (Sul, Shol = שול), the wife of R. Shelomo …

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    1. בפנינו עדים חתומי מטה באה מרת דונייא שול שהיתה אשת כה׳׳ר שלמה ן׳
    2. סורנה ואמרה דעו לכם שאני בעונותי ואיני יוד[עת אימתי…

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  21. 27621LetterT-S 18J3.8

    Letter to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an elaborate opening in Hebrew. In the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis? (Information in part …

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    1. א[ל הדרת] כגק . . . . רנו פארנו מרנ ורבנ
    2. יחיה השר האדיר החכם האביר אשר חכמותיו
    3. על הסדר הסדיר ולבו לקנות חכמה יומם
    4. ולילה הדיר פאר(?) השרים תפא…

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  22. 27622LetterJRL L 245

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... and when he moved on in the lifetime of my father M[oshe(?)] Sanhedra Rabba, bless his saintly …

    1. ותחזה ותאמר הנה אלוהינו
    2. // . . דיין עלי . . . . . ל טול א . . . //
    3. וענד אנתקאלה פי חיאה
    4. זקני אבי אבא רבנו מ[שה(?)
    5. סנהד[רא] רבה זכר קדוש לב[רכה
    6. ולי ו…

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  23. 27623List or tableT-S NS 99.13

    Verso: Mercantile account, different from recto, and seems to be in a different hand. There are two sections at 180 degrees to each other. Itemizing …

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  24. 27624LetterT-S 16.253

    Letter in which a Kohen, who is in financial difficulties and is the father of girls, asks the Nagid Mevorakh to allow him to beg …

    1. . . . . . . .] עולם השמיע תפילת עניים ואביונים ודלים ומכים
    2. . .]ה[ם] מבקשים רחמיו וחסדיו בכל עת ולא ישוב דך נכלם
    3. . . . . .]שרחיים יתנו הוד הדריך: כטל…

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  25. 27625List or tableT-S AS 183.8

    Document(s) in Arabic, medieval-era. Recto is formatted like an order or receipt. Verso has 5 lines of text including multiple dates (e.g. al-ʿāshir min rabiʿ …

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  26. 27626LetterENA NS 83.220

    Letter in Arabic script. Dated: 29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 12[.]0 AH, which is 1796 CE at the earliest. This date may in fact belong to a …

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  27. 27627LetterAIU VII.E.53

    Page 2 is a calligraphic letter in Hebrew to the elders of Alexandria, dated 5458 AM = 1697/98 CE, signed by three men, on behalf …

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  28. 27628Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#77) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 27r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Av 5325 AM …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 27r

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ שהר אב יא׳׳ל סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ה׳ //ליצירה// אשהד עליה יעיש אלכהן [...
    2. ע׳אלכרים אלכהן אלמערוף באלמאורדי אנה קבץ' ו…

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  29. 27629LetterT-S AS 181.178

    Informal note from Eliyyahu to a certain Kohen asking him to give Umm ʿAzīza the sister of al-Makīn one dirham so that she can buy …

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  30. 27630Legal documentT-S NS J255

    Legal declaration. Fragment: only the right side is preserved. Dating: 1089–1188 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves [Yiṣḥaq] b. Yeshuʿa and Zakkāy. Signed by Moshe ha-Levi b. …

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  31. 27631List or tableT-S NS 99.26

    Late accounts with the name Yiṣḥaq Castro at top. Belongs together with T-S NS 100.86 (PGPID 23532).

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  32. 27632Legal documentT-S AS 150.186

    Recto: possibly a letter in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary (ha-Sar ha-Adir) mentioning 60 'sheqalim.' Verso: legal document, mentioning Ḥiba b. Sulaymān. (Information in part …

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  33. 27633LetterT-S 13J18.22

    Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …

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    1. ולדה שלמה ברבי אליה היב
    2.                למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין

    3. יי' אורי וישעי וג'     מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין

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    1.        His son Solomon b. Elijah, (may) G(od) b(e) h(is helper).

    2.       It happened that on Monday, the twenty-fifth -

    3. God is my light and…

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  34. 27634LetterT-S 13J15.19

    Letter from Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, about a shipment of yarn from Fustat to Alexandria. Marduk notes that a baqyar …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה
    2. בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה ונעמתה וחר[אסתה
    3. וכבת אעדאה מן אלאסכנדריה ליומין בקין מן ת…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני החבר גדול הישיבה, ייתן לך אלוהים
    2. אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך ואת הגנתו עליך 
    3. ויכה את או…

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  35. 27635LetterBL OR 5544.13

    Letter from Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Algiers (ארגיל), to Daniel Cafsuto (דניאל קאפסוטו) and perhaps his son (? the word looks like ומשרתו) Shemuel Cafsuto. In …

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  36. 27636LetterT-S AS 149.63

    Short letter to Abū Naṣr, asking for money both on account of the rent or wages of Avraham and on account of the capitation tax. …

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  37. 27637LetterL-G Misc. 55

    Letter sent from Alexandria to Avraham ha-Rav ha-Sefaradi. (Perhaps the same Avraham ha-Sefaradi as in ENA 2558.13, who corresponded with the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides in …

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  38. 27638LetterT-S NS 342.13 + T-S NS 342.15 + T-S NS 342.25 + T-S NS 342.17

    Several fragments from a business letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Ḥalfon (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Informing him that he …

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  39. 27639Paraliterary textT-S AS 147.186

    Fragment from a dirge for the demise of community officials, among them Moshe my Nagid - probably Moshe b. Mevorakh

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  40. 27640Unknown typeENA NS 85.635

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  41. 27641List or tableT-S 8J17.3

    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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  42. 27642Legal documentT-S Ar.18(1).14

    Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. (Information from CUDL)

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  43. 27643Legal documentENA NS 7.103

    Legal document. Probably from an agreement between husband and wife regarding their domicile in New Cairo. Torn and damaged, only few words have survived. AA …

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  44. 27644Literary textT-S Ar.51.61

    Astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning India and Ṭabaristān and other lands as well as a report in the name of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib.

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  45. 27645Legal documentT-S NS 204.14

    Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (a) ʿAzzūz bt. Yefet/Ḥasan known as Ibn כתרתאן(?) al-Zajjāj, the widow of [...] …

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  46. 27646LetterT-S 10J15.8

    Letter from Shela bar Mevasser to 'The Rabbi' Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef, Rosh ha-Seder ('Head of the Row'). The letter was written before Shela's appointment …

    מכתב מאת שלה בר מבשר אל 'הרב' יהודה הכהן בן יוסף ראש הסדר. המכתב נכתב עוד טרם מינויו של שלה לדיין באלכסנדריה.

    לא פורסם.

    נזכר: גיל, א, סעיף 378; מאן, …

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  47. 27647Paraliterary textT-S AS 207.60

    Technical instructions in Hebrew. Magical?

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  48. 27648Literary textT-S NS 342.45

    Literary text in a Romance language. Spanish?

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  49. 27649LetterT-S NS 231.19

    Probably a commercial letter, citing a dispute. In Arabic script. Large, but faded/damaged. mentions Damietta. Needs examination. On verso, there are drafts of Hebrew poetry, …

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  50. 27650Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 203.347

    Possibly an order of payment or part of an account. The word Marḥeshvan appears in Hebrew script but the rest is in Arabic. Mentions a …

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