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  1. 27951Unknown typeENA NS 76.491

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  2. 27952LetterT-S Ar.3.4

    Interesting letter from a sick man to Mevorakh, probably his brother. The language is Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew vowels (!). The writer revised the letter, probably …

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    1. בש רח
    2. יא אכי כנת קד רסלת לך פי מענא אלסכר
    3. יא אכי מן קלת אלקואם תלף חאלי ועאודני
    4. סכב אלדם ול/א\סהאל וממא אבצרני בקא בן
    5. אלמצן פי שדה לאן אבנה אלצ…

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  3. 27953LetterT-S 8J28.5

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Referring either to the addressee's intimate relations with the Tustari brothers in Fustat or that he now equals them …

    1. וא[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. גמיע [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. יום כ…

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  4. 27954Legal documentT-S J3.29

    Bi-folio, from a book of legal deeds. Here we have a bill of divorce and a bill of refusal for marriage (שטר מיאון)

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  5. 27955List or tableT-S AS 153.102

    Accounts. Probably late. Mentioning Yiṣḥaq, Avraham b. Sīd, Yaʿaqov, Shemuel. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  6. 27956Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 98/63

    Numerous drafts/outlines of legal documents from a court notebook. One of them is a partnership agreement. Dating: ca. 1128–1164 CE. A previous version of this …

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  7. 27957List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 22/19

    Recto: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn ʿUbayd. Verso: A few lines in Hebrew mentioning the sale of riddles(?). See also the description for …

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  8. 27958LetterMoss. II,174

    Letter probably from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based …

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  9. 27959LetterT-S NS 322.117

    Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: …

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  10. 27960Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. II.140

    IB V, 36a. Money order. In Arabic script with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abū l-Faraj is asked to pay 2.5 dirhams to the …

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  11. 27961LetterT-S 13J24.4

    Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), to the Jewish community in Cairo. He is ordering them to pay back to …

    שבת....

    הנה אל ישועתי וכולי

    1. אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין במצר
    2. [י]ברכם צורם ויהיה בעזרם יוצרם אנס
    3. יעלמו באן לא תסאלו מא גרי עלינא בסבב
    4. תגליק אלגואלי ואנת…

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  12. 27962Legal documentENA 2607.6

    Table of contents of a responsa collection - Geonic responsa - mentioning questions from Fez to Rabbi Sherira and others

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  13. 27963List or tableT-S AS 215.267

    Mercantile account. Dating: probably 11th century. Faded. Needs further examination.

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  14. 27964Unknown typeENA NS 85.260

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  15. 27965Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 14.19

    Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.

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  16. 27966Unknown typeENA NS 85.1362

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  17. 27967LetterT-S 8J13.11

    Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shela to Yaʿīsh al-Ḥaddād (the smith). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. The addressee is asked to pay the money he …

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    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. כתאבי אליך יא שיכי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי
    3. אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עיזך ען
    4. חאל סלאמה ועאפיה וללה אלחמד
    5. ואערפה אן על[ת] אכון עוט כתאבי
    6. לאתשר…

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  18. 27968Paraliterary textAIU VI.B.31

    Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit Hutz." In …

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  19. 27969State documentT-S Ar.39.391

    Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …

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    1. الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]

    2. لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين] 

    3. وادام ق…

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    1. al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]

    2. of the  dāʿīs of the believers, may God…

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  20. 27970LetterMIAC 23973.94

    Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 34.

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    3. (This is) my letter to my honourable m…

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  21. 27971Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 80/42

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerns Abū l-Faḍāʾil and his wife ("amḍā la-hā al-taṣarruf fī jamīʿihā"). No details preserved. Dated: Elul …

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  22. 27972List or tableT-S NS 292.51

    Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions silk; Ṣāfī; pepper.

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  23. 27973Paraliterary textT-S 13J23.17

    Prescription. In Arabic script. This is the response to the letter in PGPID 3351.

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  24. 27974Unknown typeENA NS 85.790

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  25. 27975Legal documentMoss. X,115.2

    Small fragment from a ketubah? - needs examination. No image

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  26. 27976Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/45

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Ḥasan b. Yefet. Bride: Rayyisa bt. Mevasser. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 [...] 1345 Seleucid = 1033/34 CE. The marriage gifts …

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  27. 27977Legal 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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  28. 27978LetterT-S 8J39.10

    Copy of a letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. In exquisite script and high style. Addressed to Pinḥas b. Peʾer ha-Qehillot. (Information from Goitein's …

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  29. 27979Legal documentT-S AS 152.359

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving portions of a house, likely a deed of lease or sale. …

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  30. 27980Credit instrument or private receiptENA 4011.16

    IB V, 34d. ENA 4011.16b (lower fragment): A cheque of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār is to pay the bearer Dār Rayḥān 2 dinars …

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  31. 27981List or tableMoss. X,8.1

    List of names - needs examination. No image

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  32. 27982LetterMoss. II,157

    Begging letter, probably, in elegant script informing the addressee that his brother Abū l-Baqā al-Tājir used to give charity to the writer and help his …

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  33. 27983LetterT-S 20.139

    Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late—Mamluk or early Ottoman era. From [...] b. Moshe to Yeshuʿa b. Nathan and his father, concerning a number of events …

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  34. 27984LetterENA 2735.6

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic - from the end of the 12th or first half of 13th century. Mentions "Sayyidnā may he live forever," which may be …

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  35. 27985Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 83.222.1 + ENA NS 83.222.2

    Several diminutive notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals - receipts? orders? The notable feature is that they are pierced and threaded together, and the …

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  36. 27986LetterT-S 8.23

    Letter from (or to?) Minyat Zifta in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (ha-Gevir?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning various community affairs and expressing concern about the …

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  37. 27987LetterT-S 10J8.1

    Letter sent to Avraham b. Salhun in Fustat from Masliah b. Moshe b. Salhun, with instructions to be delivered to him at the Market of …

    1. כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי ומ[
    2. וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ותמכינה [
    3. מן אלמסתקר בקוץ ו[
    4. מא יליה ולו וצפת לך מא [
    5. אבות על בנים ולב בנים ע[ל
    6. אלאגתמאע בקרוב וכנת קד [
    7. פ…

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  38. 27988Credit instrument or private receiptCUL Or.1080 9.11

    Recto (secondary use): Draft of an order of payment, probably. In Arabic script. Headed by the glyph.

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  39. 27989LetterCUL Or.1080 15.82

    Letter in difficult Latin script, possibly Portuguese. The address on verso is in Hebrew: to David Ṣarfati, from R. Yiṣḥaq Alpa[...], from צאפט to Fustat.

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  40. 27990State documentT-S AS 176.144

    Probably a state/fiscal document. Mentions a date, then a space, then "al-jahābidha" (the tax collectors), then a space, then at the bottom a date span. …

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  41. 27991Legal documentENA NS 36.18

    Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Alexandria. Dating: Perhaps 16th century. Bride: Parna(?) bt. Nissim Berakha. Groom: Khalīfa. Signed: Avraham Levi (witness); Matitya b. Shelomo de Leon …

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    1. ב׳׳ה 
    2. ...]ב אויר [...
    3. ...]ה <בעיר> נוא אמון מעידים אנו חתומי מטה מה שהיה
    4. ...] הבחורה בתולת׳ פרנא בת ר׳ נסים ברכה ז׳׳…

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  42. 27992Unknown typeENA 3970.19

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  43. 27993LetterT-S 8J40.11 + BL OR 5542.12

    Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Surūr Isḥāq b. Barhūn, it seems in Alexandria, mentioning the arrival of the recipient …

    Recto: T-S 8J40.11:

    1. על שמך ייי תוכלת עלי אללה
    2. כתאבי יאמולאי וסידי ושיכי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
    3. וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ואלחמד לל…

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  44. 27994LetterT-S 6J5.11

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning 20 irdabb of wheat that the writer has stored in an apartment in his house, and how he got a …

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    1. . . . . . . . . . חויאגה מן . . . . . . . . . . . . וקה
    2. חתי עשרין ארדב קמח ענדי לה פי טבקה
    3. [[ענדי]] פי אלדאר אלדי אנא סאכן פיהא עלי אנה
    4. יתגאהז…

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  45. 27995Paraliterary textDK 312

    Medical prescription or recipe. In Arabic script. The first item is hiera picra (ايارج فيقرا). Also uses pulp of colocynth (shaḥm ḥanẓal). There are 3 …

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  46. 27996LetterJRL B 2450

    Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, likely by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, to a judge, perhaps his father ([al-Shaykh] al-ajall al-amīn al-makīn. . . al-dayyan al-aṣīl).

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  47. 27997LetterT-S AS 145.239

    Letter from Efrayim b. Sulaymān to [Abū] ʿAlī al-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

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  48. 27998Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/32

    Beautiful calligraphic fragment of deed of sale of a bathhouse in Zawilat al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya, by one Jew to another. The seller describes the bath and …

    1. . . . . . . .]ור אלמסמ[א
    2. מא פי אלחמאם . . .[
    3. אל]די לי פיה הו אל[
    4. . . . .ס פהו שרא אכי בותיקה [
    5. בותיקה בכתאב אלשרי כמא[
    6. ואכתבו ואכתמו ואעטו לר דויד [

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  49. 27999List or tableAIU VII.F.95

    10 pages of invoices (faturas) in Spanish. Dates spanning the years 5443-5444 AM (1682-1684CE). Very detailed. Requires further examination.

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  50. 28000Legal documentT-S AS 150.18

    Fragment from the top part of a court record, from the year 1335 Era of documents = 1024. [...] Hakohen known as [Ghu]layb is declaring …

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