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  1. 27751LetterT-S Ar.54.25 + T-S 6J6.10

    Epistolary with letter formularies, including one for congratulating a person on the birth of a daughter and another for congratulating a brother on his marriage. …

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  2. 27752LetterT-S 8J14.1

    Letter/petition. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century, during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The sender asks the addressee to assist him …

    1. ] פודה אליסורים בעונות[ינו ה]רבים ואלדין
    2. ]ד אלשי פי מתל הדא אלמועד ואסעה
    3. חצר אלממ בין ידין סידנא יסתמטר
    4. אנפאדה באן יעטדה ענד בעץ אלגמאעה
    5. בתדביר ס…

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  3. 27753LetterT-S 12.301

    Letter addressed to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, from a family member in Alexandria. Reporting on a problem about revenue from a slaughterhouse.

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  4. 27754List or tableT-S AS 186.164

    List of food items and prices: lemon, meat, etc. Medieval-era.

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  5. 27755State documentENA 3941.4

    Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her …

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    1. وداعة
    2. من يد قدرة الاكابر وعمدة الاعيان ذو العز والشان حضرة
    3. سيدنا الامير المكرم الحاج عمر اغاه ناظر انوال الحرير لثغر سكندرية وذالك
    4. قبض ابراهيم…

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    1. Deposits

    2. from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of

      the notables, of power and renown, his excellency

    3. our master the noble…

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  6. 27756Paraliterary textT-S AS 159.235

    Recto: Technical text in Judaeo-Arabic, medical or alchemical, discussing properties of minerals and chemicals. Verso: Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand.

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  7. 27757LetterT-S 12.336

    Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to a man in Fustat concerning a replacement for the supervisor who was responsible for the butchers in Fustat, after …

    1. שלום ושלוה יהיה אדם יחידי בה וראה [
    2. ויעמידם על טופס הכתב וייטיבו עצה לראות [
    3. הנזכרות ויתנה עליו מה שחקקנו ויכתוב אל[
    4. שיבדקהו בשחיטה ובדיקה ויראה דרכ…

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  8. 27758Paraliterary textJRL B 4500

    On recto a funeral speech. On verso a reference to the death of Nissim Shelomo Elgazi, on Monday, 25 Kislev 5552 AM = 21 December …

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  9. 27759LetterT-S 16.235

    Letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef to the fifth in the Yeshiva, probably 1064. The writer strongly advises against travel to a distant land (possibly …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כנת [מ]תוקעא לורוד כתאב מולאי אלרייס אלחמישי נטרוהי
    3. מן שמיא וברכוהי ואורכונהי ליומיה מע ר ברוך ולם ארה
    4. ושגל דלך סרי וארגו אן דלך לכיר ישגל ב…

    Translated by Moshe Yagur

    In Your name, O Merciful One.

    I was expecting the letters of my master—the head, the fifth [in rank], may he be protected f…

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  10. 27760LetterENA 2889.50 + ENA 2889.49

    Two fragments of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Refers to al-Ṭarābulsī; something which Ibrāhīm sent; pepper; and probably saffron. Legible phrases: …

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  11. 27761Unknown typeENA NS 76.528

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  12. 27762List or tableT-S AS 179.108

    Accounts/sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  13. 27763Literary textENA NS 83.29

    Fragment in Ottoman Turkish. Only the second half of the text after the basmala is fairly clear in meaning with an invocation for success/divine grace …

    1. ىهل بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فمو(؟) نسنه پازكي كمرا.ي حكيم(?)
    2. هم/هو كموكم بلضاشي(؟) توفيق اوله
    3. هو نه سوز كيم سويلمه

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  14. 27764Legal documentT-S NS 226.111

    Small strip from the left side of a legal deed of an unknown nature. One of the anonymous parties if referred as 'the great minister'. …

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  15. 27765Legal documentT-S Ar.6.2

    Outline for drawing up a marriage contract. Ca. 1100 CE. Groom: Barakāt/Berakhot b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen. Bride: Khulla bt. ʿAmram. Early marriage payment (muqaddam): 20 dinars. …

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  16. 27766Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 297.76

    Receipt for rent of for house for a period of one year, Ramaḍān through Shaʿbān. The tenant is Manṣūr al-Dajājī (same as in Bodl. MS …

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  17. 27767List or tableT-S Ar.35.172

    Accounts in Arabic script. Al-Shaykh Bū Saʿd.... al-jumla....

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  18. 27768Legal documentT-S NS 306.187

    Fragment from the bottom of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), with part of a witness signature preserved. Dated: end of Dhū l-Qaʿda 610 AH = …

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  19. 27769List or tableT-S J1.34

    Accounts or distribution list. Four columns per side. In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Coptic numerals. Well preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps no earlier than 14th …

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  20. 27770State documentENA 3079.5

    Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text which …

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  21. 27771List or tableT-S AS 146.294

    Accounts, probably late. (Information from CUDL)

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  22. 27772Legal documentJRL B 3738

    The end of a ketubba. There is some sort of reshut clause at the end of the document, invoking Rosh Galutenu ... Nagidenu. . . …

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  23. 27773Legal documentENA 2758.24

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Only the physical description of the beneficiary is preserved: "rajul muʿtadil al-qāma", wāḍiḥ al-jabha".

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  24. 27774Unknown typeT-S AS 171.121

    Recto: Unidentified (state?) document in Arabic script. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  25. 27775LetterENA 3846.12

    Fragment of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Six lines, fragmentary, difficult to read. Some words read as lil-haṣr(?), thaman(?), ʿadlhā wa-ṣadaqāthā (appealing to …

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  26. 27776List or tableT-S 8J11.2

    Recto: Memorial list (ancestry tree) of Maimonides’ wife’s ancestors. Written in 13th century handwriting (Goitein). Verso: List mentioning Netan'el, his son Berakhot and grandson Menakhem, …

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    1. כבוד גדולות [[ק]] מרנו ורבנו נתנאל
    2. הוד המלכות זצל' וחמודו זכר
    3. כבוד גד קדוש מרנו ורבנו ברכות
    4. החסיד בעודו זצל' וחמודו כגק'
    5. מרנו ורבנו מנחם החכם …

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  27. 27777Legal documentT-S NS J413

    Legal document. Incomplete draft concerning a house, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl gives to his wife Sitt …

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  28. 27778LetterT-S NS 304.14

    Verso: opening lines of an Hebrew letter addressed to a dignitary written in a different hand from recto. There is also one line of Arabic …

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  29. 27779List or tableT-S K15.33

    Accounts for the sale of tin (qaṣṭīr). Mentioning Nahray b. Nissim. A total number of 3,500 (a weight?) is mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  30. 27780Legal documentT-S Misc.34.59

    Recto: fragment from a legal document written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, mentioning the son of Yaḥyā. Verso: Hebrew praises, including a …

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  31. 27781Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 858

    Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic on the laws of sheḥita. Discusses among other things the extent to which Arabic parallels are admissible as arguments for the …

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  32. 27782LetterT-S NS J295

    Letter in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Barakāt, reporting that he spent Shabbat in Qalyūb and traveled onward to Alexandria, …

    1. אלדי אערף אלואלד אלמבארך אבי אלברכ[את]
    2. [ו]פקה אללה תע אלי רצאה אן אסבתנא פי
    3. קליוב ואכ[רי]נא מנהא אלי אלתגר אללה יחסן
    4. אלעאקבה בפצלה תע ואלא[גתמא]ע …

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  33. 27783LetterT-S NS J385

    Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1080. Natan asks Nahray to help the widow and orphans of b. …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל

    2. ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת

    3. אעדאה תקדמת כתבי אליה עדה ומא

    4. אשך פי וצולהא אליה ואנא אסאל תפצלך

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים
    2. ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת חסדיו לך ויכה את
    3. אויביך. שלחתי לך לפני כן מכתבים אח…

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  34. 27784Legal documentT-S Ar.39.502

    Document overwritten with notes and other jottings - needs examination.

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  35. 27785LetterT-S AS 148.35

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a dignitary. The hand resembles that of Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (13th century). Beautiful script and elevated …

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    1.  סעידא ומגדה מחסודא וגנאבה . . . . . .
    2. ועדוה מכמודא חתא תכלו אלסמא מן
    3. אלכואכב ותטלע אלשמס מן אלמגארב
    4. לאטנב ואטאל וכאן מקצרא פי אלמקאל
    5. פדלך ממא…

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  36. 27786Legal documentT-S 10J3.6

    Fragment of a geṭ. Husband: Name not preserved. Wife: Fakhr bt. Faḍāʾil the Maghrebī. Date not preserved. Witnessed by Menashshe b. Yosef and Mevorakh b. …

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  37. 27787Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.13

    Legal record (#24). Alimony owed. Dated: "Monday" (=14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid). Bū l-Faraj Ibn al-Shofeṭ declares that he has mortgaged his quarter-house (which is owned …

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  38. 27788Legal documentT-S AS 146.269

    Small fragment of a legal document or letter concerning a legal issue. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Mentions anklets (khalākhil) …

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  39. 27789Unknown typeJRL B 5312

    Legal query? In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Tiny fragment. Mentions a ḥaṣer and perhaps [R]euven (=John Doe)

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  40. 27790State documentT-S 10J31.3

    Original use: A few words from a decree: في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان.

    في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان

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  41. 27791LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/58

    Calligraphic letter sent by a young cantor, Avraham b. Nissim, possibly to his brother. The sender was away from home successfully seeking an appointment in …

    1. כתאבי אליך יא ולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה
    2. בקאך ואדאם עזך ועאפייתך וסלאמתך
    3. ולו בדית אצף מא ענדי מן אלשוק אליכם
    4. ומא עלי קלבי מן פרקתכם לטאל אלשרח
    5. חתי א…

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  42. 27792LetterT-S Ar.39.126

    Letter from Musāfir b. Wahb b. Pinḥas (aka Araḥ b. Natan) to Abū l-Faḍl Thābit b. Hibatallāh Rosh ha-Qehillot (a.k.a. Yakhin b. Netanʾel). In Arabic …

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    1. حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل ابو الفضل ثابت(؟) بن هبة اللة
    2. ראש הקהילות זכר צדיק לברכה
    3. اطال اللة بقاها وادام تاييدها وعلاها
    4. مملوكها يقبل يدها
    5. مسافر …

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  43. 27793LetterT-S 12.327

    Letter written by a sick man who asks the recipient to buy him a female slave, for "I have no one to give me medicine," …

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    1. ] . . מן ספרהא (?) מא אקעדני ענך
    2. ] וגע . אללה יסתגיב מני פיך צאלח אלדועא (!)
    3. ]לם אנני וגיע כתיר ולא אחד יסקיני . . טת מא
    4. ]ולציגאר מטרוחין לא …

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  44. 27794Legal documentENA NS 17.35

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1007–55 (speculative). This document records a partnership agreement between Manṣūr b. Yisraʾel ha-Levi and Mas‘ūd b. Mevorakh, who placed 200 …

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    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו ה[חתומים ........................]
    2. ימים לירח מרחשוון שנת אלף ושלש [מאות ........................]
    3. למיניין שאנו רגיל…

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    1. Record of testimony which was before us, we the [undersigned …]
    2. day of the month of Marḥeshvan, of the year one thousand and three [hundred …]
    3. a…

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  45. 27795LetterBodl. MS heb. f 102/51

    Letter in which the recipient is asked to collect funds, even if only 5 dirhams, for the holiday. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. אלשיך אלתלמיד שצ אללה תעל
    2. יזידך מן כל כיר ויזכיך שנים
    3. רבות נעימות וטובות וישתהי
    4. כאדמך מנך אן תסבב לי פי
    5. שי אסתעין בה פי הדא אלעיד
    6. ולו אנהא כמס דראהם…

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  46. 27796Legal documentMoss. VII,84.1

    Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b. Yiṣḥaq(?) a certain sum …

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    1. בפנינו אנו עדים חתומי מטה הודה יעקב בן פרג'אללה אל קרא 
    2. ידיע פירוז' שהוא חייב ל[כ"ר] משה חזאן בכ"ר יצחק נ^"ע^ [...]
    3. מאידי חוב גמור ומלוה זקופה…

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  47. 27797Literary textCUL Or.1080 6.22

    One side contains a Judaeo-Arabic poem in the name of Abū Naṣr b. Faḍlūn.

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  48. 27798Legal documentT-S AS 145.207

    Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a deed of sale for half of a house, describing its boundaries. Mentions Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  49. 27799Legal documentT-S AS 153.299

    Fragment of a legal document, mentioning Ibn Abū l-[...]ān and Bāb(?) al-Ḥarīr (silk) in New Cairo (al-Muʿizziya) and Fustat. Also specifies a sum of cash. …

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  50. 27800Legal documentT-S NS 184.79

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A power of attorney appointing somebody to sue someone for a quantity of …

    1. ] . . . . . . . ק אנני מ[
    2. פי צחה מני וגואז אמר טאי [
    3. ולא עלה בי מן מרץ ולא גיר דלך [
    4. מעכשו ארבע אמות קרקע מח[
    5. מתנת בריא לא כמתנת שכיב מ[
    6. אליהן וכלתה…

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