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  1. 29751LetterT-S NS 102.104

    Letter from Abū l-Faḍl to his father Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. He opens with the verse Psalms 16:8 followed by three verses of Judaeo-Arabic poetry …

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  2. 29752LetterT-S 12.405

    Letter from a father to his son, a young man who had entered government service recently, advising him concerning some officials whose friendship should be …

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    1. יאולדי אחיאך אללה אגתמע אבו סעיד במרהף אלדולה ושכרה שכר כתיר
    2. ודכר אן גמיע מן יכתץ באלחצרה אלזעימיה אדאם אללה על[אה]א לם יבק בינך
    3. ובין אחד מנהם…

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  3. 29753State documentT-S NS 156.181

    Verso: Fragment from near the beginning of a state document in Arabic script. Mainly preserving blessings for someone powerful (وصيانته ومراعاته وحراسته . . . …

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  4. 29754Legal documentAIU VII.D.97

    Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …

    1. ב׳׳ה
    2. [בפ]נינו עדים חותמי מטה הודה היקר נשא ונעלה כמה׳׳ר נסים כספי ן׳ המנוח משה כספי
    3. ..]בעסק שותפות עם היקר ונעלה כ׳מ׳ה׳ר׳ משה כהן ן׳ ח׳ יאו[ד]ה כהן …

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  5. 29755LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/5

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq (Izak) b. Avraham, in Safed, to a certain Moshe, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: 13 Heshvan 5333, which is 20 October 1572 …

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  6. 29756List or tableT-S AS 184.344

    Arabic writing exercises, chancery-esque hand.

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  7. 29757List or tableT-S NS 114.35

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  8. 29758Unknown typeENA NS 76.385.2

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  9. 29759Unknown typeENA NS 76.71

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  10. 29760Legal documentENA 2558.20

    Acknowledgement of debt in Judaeo-Arabic from Fustat October 1230 CE. Yosef b. Avraham, known as son of the poet, acknowledges a debt of 600 nuqra …

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  11. 29761Unknown typeENA NS 85.913

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  12. 29762LetterT-S 10J5.6 + T-S 20.113

    Letter from the Qaraite Jews of Ashqelon to the Qaraites and Rabbanites of Fustat. Dating: Summer 1100 CE. The letter deals with the ransoming of …

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    1. ויפדם שומר יצחק ויעזרם צור יעקב ויהי למו משגב [. . . . . וימלא]
    2. משאלותיהם ויחון עליהם וברכותיו יפיק להם ויעדיף חסדו אליהם וישלח
    3. ברכה במעשי ידי…

    T-S 20.113, recto

    1. We thank the Most High who gave us the opportunity of fulfilling this pious deed, and granted to you to take a 
    2.  share in it with …

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  13. 29763LetterT-S AS 118.276

    Brief letter in Arabic script, from Abū l-Ḥasan and referring to something in the handwriting of Abū l-Ḥasan al-[...]. The addressee is instructed to send …

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  14. 29764List or tableT-S Misc.10.80

    Accounts in Hebrew, mentioning silk and clothing among other goods. Mentions the names Yosef Karo, Moshe Ḥalfatā, Raḥamīm Zaytūn. The paleography supports a dating estimate …

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  15. 29765LetterT-S 16.290

    Verso: Maimonides’ reply is gracious but firm: he is exhausted, frail, and ill, and has no time or energy to meet with the writer. He …

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  16. 29766List or tableJRL B 2087

    A couple lines of a late account.

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  17. 29767Literary textDK 251

    Epistolary introduction to a medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. "Your letter arrived, O brother, inquiring after the books of Galen... and the Alexandrians..."

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  18. 29768Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 27/22

    Formularies copied from court records in Lucena, Spain, during the early 1020s (among the earliest Spanish documents in the Geniza). The formularies reflect aspects of …

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    1.                               שליחותא בית דין
    2. הלכנו אנו החתומין למטה בשליחות רׄ פלׄ הדיין שמׄ צׄ אצל פלניתא בת מׄ פלׄ לשדִל
    3. אותה בש…

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    1. A court mission.
    2. We the undersigned went as emissaries of R. so and so the judge, may his Rock guard him, to so an…

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  19. 29769State documentT-S AS 176.120

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 502? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …

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  20. 29770List 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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  21. 29771LetterT-S AS 150.145

    Letter. Mentions a broker or brokerage (דלאלה). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  22. 29772Literary textENA 3959.16

    Arabic, literary.

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  23. 29773LetterT-S AS 51.253

    Recto: part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: rubric for Passover and jottings in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

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  24. 29774LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/15

    Letter. In Hebrew. Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס), in Syracuse (שראקוסה), writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, …

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  25. 29775LetterENA 4096.f

    Blank

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  26. 29776State documentT-S Ar.38.13

    Fragment of a legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. Concerning either the sale or rent of a house. About 6 lines are preserved. Includes …

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  27. 29777List or tableT-S NS 131.63

    Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions Abū Mūsā Hārūn. Occupying one page of a tall/narrow bifolium, of the kind seen in account books. The other three …

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  28. 29778LetterAIU VII.E.15

    Letter from [...] b. Labrat, to Ezra (?) b. Isḥāq, al-Mahdiyya. Around 1040. The writer and the addressee are dealing with importing flax and exporting …

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    1. בש כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מן מצר יום אלגמעה

    2. לכמס כלון מן כסליו ען סלאמה וקד [ ] אלפרג תקדם

    3. כתאבי אליך [מע] אלמוסם אל…

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    1. בש'. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך, מפסטאט, ביום ו',
    2. ה' בכסלו; שלומי טוב .... הישועה ; לפני כן
    3. שלחתי לך…

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  29. 29779Legal documentT-S NS 104.40

    Book of formularies for legal deeds, including partnership contracts and פסיקה.

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  30. 29780Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 188.155

    Long vertical strip of parchment. At the top of verso: allāh khayr muʿīn. There follow various versions of orders of payment. The first is headed …

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  31. 29781State documentT-S AS 182.243

    State document(s), likely Ayyubid. Recto might be headed "tawqīʿ" and may grant someone the right to engage in business with the price of shipping something …

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  32. 29782Legal documentENA 4007.5

    Writ of debt drawn up in the ''high court" between two brothers, both kohanim, Hiba b. Ghālib and Yisraʾel b. Ghālib. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Friday, …

    ENA 4007, f. 5 ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp. 22-23 Doc. #17 SH [11-16-87] (P) Writ of debt drawn up in the ''high court' between two brothers both C…

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  33. 29783LetterENA 3722.10

    Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Remnants of 7 lines on recto and verso. Seems entirely formulaic; might be from a formulary. The hand may be known.

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  34. 29784List or tableJRL L 165

    Measurements of Nile flood levels. Dated: 5495 AM which is 1734/35 CE. There are daily entries listing measurements for "al-Nīl al-saʿīd" in "fingers" (אצבע), which …

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  35. 29785Unknown typeT-S AS 145.29

    Verso: Very faded Arabic document on verso, with wide line spacing, typical of state documents, but not typical of Arabic documents on parchment. The recto …

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  36. 29786Legal documentMIAC 158

    Receipt from a synagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – 1943CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 158) – in Hebrew and French. …

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  37. 29787Literary textT-S AS 180.124

    Literary text. Mentioning the caliph and Muʿāwiya.

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  38. 29788Literary textBL OR 5552.1

    Literary. Sharṭ al-Alḥān wa-Uṣūl al-Tanqīṭ by Ibn Asher (ZL). (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  39. 29789Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.41.105

    Legal query addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult concerning the changes in synagogue ritual introduced by Avraham Maimonides. The senders of the query object to the …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. ما يقول السادة الفقها ائمة الدين و هداة المسلمين و فقهم الله توفيق العارفين في قوم يهود 
    3. ربابين لهم كبيسة من الدهور ال…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  
    2. What do our lords, the jurisconsults, the imāms of the religion and guides of the  Musli…

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  40. 29790List or tableT-S K15.3

    List of revenue from rent ca. 1200. A fragment of a double leaf from a notebook. The revenue listed refers mainly to the funduq and …

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    1. [ ]ד כה[
    2. טביקה ג [
    3. עלו אלפ[נדק]
    4. סכן בו אלפר[ג ]יח[
    5. אלפנדק
    6. מכזן סכן פצאיל א
    7. מכזן סכן בן אלרצא ב
    8. מכזן סכן מכארם ב
    9. מכזן סכן בן ר אה…

    Column I (right side)

    1. The small ṭabaqa, 3 ….

    2. The upper part of the funduq,

    3. the apartment of (A)būʾl-Faraj …. 18(?)

    4. The funduq:

    5. The storer…

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  41. 29791Legal documentT-S NS J201

    Settlement between a husband and wife. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Elul 1645 Seleucid = 3 August 1334 CE. Shemuʾel b. ʿAbdallāh al-Kohen takes upon himself …

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    1. אמת
    2. חצרא אלכהן שמואל ולד
    3. אלכהן עבד אללה נע אלי בית
    4. דין במצר יכון במשפט
    5. צדק ואמונה ואתפקא הו
    6. וזוגתו אנה יכסיהא תוב
    7. ולבאס ומקנעה ויעטיהא
    8. כמסה דר…

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  42. 29792LetterENA 4100.24b + ENA 4010.21

    Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Gil dates this letter to August 10, 1047. The letter mentions usual …

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    1. כתאבי יאסיידי ומולאי אטאל אללה פי אלכייר בקאך ו[אדאם עזך...מן אל]

    2. מסתקר אסכנדריה לנצף מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ונעמ[ה

    3. יאסיידי קד וצל אליי כתאבך…

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    1. (1–6) אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים בטובה ויתמיד את גדולתך .... (מה)בית, אלכסנדריה, במחצית אב; שלומי טוב, ואני מאושר ...…

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  43. 29793List or tableENA NS 48.21

    Note concerning the wages of the teacher Abū Isḥāq for four weeks (Teruma through Vayaqhel). Each week he taught 3 boys and earned 1.5 dirhams.

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  44. 29794Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1399

    Legal document regarding two business partners and a debtor. Date: 10 Iyyar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo, Dār Simḥa Synagogue. The partners are Moshe …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלאחד אלמבארך עשרה איאם פי חדש אייר המ׳ סנה ליצירה חצ'רו
    2. אתנינהם והם כה׳׳ר משה כהן יצ׳׳ו אבן אלמר כה׳׳ר אהרן כהן נ׳׳ע וכה׳׳ר יוס…

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  45. 29795LetterMoss. V,342.2

    Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ (Gil, on the basis of handwriting) from Alexandria to an unknown recipient, ca. 1055. Mentions various wares – raisins, clothes, …

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    1. [וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך] אטאל אללה בק[אה ואדאם עזה מ]ע אלפיג דכר אמר אלזביב ובקיה [                     ] פי כתאבה
    2. [מולאי] אלשיך אבו סעיד דאוד ב…

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    1. הגיע מכתבך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך, בידי נושא המכתבים. כתבת על עניין הצימוקים ושאר .... במכתבו
    2. אדוני ורבי אבו…

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  46. 29796Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 991

    Literary treatise mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Catalogued as the Book of Commmandments by Yefet Ibn Ṣaghīr.

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  47. 29797LetterT-S 13J7.10

    Letter from Abū ʿUmar b. Abū l-Riḍā to the mint supplier (al-mūrid) Abū l-Faḍl b. Tamīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 12th to early 13th century. …

    1. ממלוכהא וכאדמהא
    2. בו עמר בן אבו אלרצא נע
    3. אלדי נעלם בה חצרה מולאי וסידי אלשיך אלאגל
    4. אבו אלפצל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
    5. ונעמאה ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאה ג…

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  48. 29798Legal documentT-S K25.66

    Deed of manumission of an enslaved person. Only the bottom left corner of the document is preserved (or perhaps the entire left half of a …

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    1. ]רבנא מבשר בר יפת בעדן דשחרר
    2. וק]נינא מן ר' מבשר דנן בר יפת 
    3. ] בכל מה דכתיב ומפרש לעילא 
    4. ]ריים   תמים הכהן בר שמואל 
    5. סעדיה בר כלפאן

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  49. 29799LetterT-S NS 323.24

    Letter in Hebrew. Late. The writer is asking advice about payment of a debt.

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  50. 29800State documentT-S AS 176.289

    Tax receipt for Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa, probably for his jizya.

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