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  1. 251LetterT-S 8J24.5

    Note, it seems in the hand of Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sighmar, mentioning the disposition of a matter concerning a house and requesting information about …

    1. בעד כרוג מולאי אלשיך אדאם אללה
    2. עזה אסתקר חאל אלדאר צלחא
    3. פלא יתעב מולאי אלשיך פי טלב
    4. שי ולא יתמנע איצא מן אלמגי
    5. אדא אראד אלתפצל באלמגי
    6. ואן סהל פי נפס…

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  2. 252Legal documentBL OR 8696.2

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. This is probably the beginning of a power of attorney granted by …

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  3. 253Legal documentT-S 12.525 + T-S 8J22.16

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1003-1004. Location: Fustat. In bad repair, this fragment (T-S 8J22.16) reveals part …

    T-S 8J22.16 Recto

    1. [.............................................]הין  
    2. [.........................................צ]אחבה  
    3. [.........................…

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    1. […] his [p]artner
    2. […] any court anywhere
    3. [… r]ather the most perfect and certain
    4. […of what] the Sages m(ay their memory be) f(or a blessing) [out…

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  4. 254LetterT-S AS 148.210 + T-S AS 148.211

    Informal note, or draft of the beginning of a letter. The sender says that he has not requested any money from the addressee, Abū l-ʿIzz, …

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  5. 255LetterT-S Misc.28.199

    Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel ha-Andalusi, in Jerusalem, to Yosef b. Naḥum ha-Baradani, in Fustat. Dating: 5 Adar Sheni, around 1060 (Gil). Yosef has arrived …

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    1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
    2. [מן א]ל[ק]דס לה כלון מן אדר שני ערפך אללה ברכתה ויומנה ען סלאמה ואלחמד ללה
    3. […

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  6. 256Legal documentMoss. IXa,6.3

    In Hebrew. Appointment of a cantor. Late. AA

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  7. 257Legal documentENA 2727.24a

    Court order. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on the assessment of Avraham David. Anyone who has knowledge of the whereabouts …

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  8. 258Literary textT-S NS 224.142

    Story in Judaeo-Arabic, partially rhymed. A first-person narrative attributed to Maḥrūz b. Nājiya al-Ruṣāfī set during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Wāthiq (r. 842–47). …

    1. בר
    2. קאל מחרוז בן נאגיה אלרצאפי כנת
    3. אחד מן וקעת בה אלתהמה במאל מר
    4. פי איאם אלואתק באללה כרגת אגוב
    5. אלבאדיה אטלב רגל עזיז אלגא[ר
    6. מניע אלדאר אלוד בה או אס…

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  9. 259Unknown typeENA NS 76.128

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  10. 260Legal documentT-S 8J5.16

    Legal document regulating payments after a divorce. Dated: Thursday, 24 Ṭevet 1406 Seleucid = 4 January 1095 CE. Arye b. Yehuda from Fusṭāṭ married a …

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  11. 261Legal documentT-S 12.672

    Fragment from the ornate header of a ketubba with blessings for the Nagid and congregation, with part of the first line of the document preserved …

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  12. 262LetterT-S 13J23.9

    Request for help sent by Ya'ish b. Sahl of Nahrawan the cantor to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Haggai Hasid, mentioning the addressee's son (Abu 'Ali Ḥasan), …

    1. אגירת ברכות ואסיפת שלומות והקשבת תפילות והצלחת
    2. מפעלות והעדפת ט[ו]בות והשג ישועות והנחת רוחות ונטיעת
    3. אהבות ותענוג ועושר ושם טוב בעולם הזה ולעולם הבא …

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  13. 263Literary textCUL Or.1081 1.40

    A booklet containing, among other things, a rendition of Megillat Esther into Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic verse. The name Moshe Aghion appears at the bottom of …

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  14. 264List or tableCUL Or.1080 4.26

    Late accounts in Arabic.

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  15. 265LetterHalper 332

    Partially preserved 11th century copy of second of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. …

    1. וכה הסכים ראש הגולה
    2. וראשי הישיבות וכל האלופים 
    3. וכל החכמים מבין עם תלמיד 
    4. והכריזו מרחשון וכסלו שלמין 
    5. והפסח בשלישי בשבת 
    6.      גם אנכי כתבתי עם אגרות…

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  16. 266List or tableENA 3726.2

    Business accounts involving Abū Manṣūr al-Baṣrī. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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  17. 267List or tableT-S NS 264.53

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The name Barakāt ha-Levi appears.

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  18. 268Legal documentT-S AS 149.174

    Legal document mentioning a certain Ibn Mihnab (?) ("son of the idiot"). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to moving from a man's …

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  19. 269LetterT-S AS 158.227

    A short incomplete note, probably written by Shelomo b. Elya, asking to give half a cup (קדח) to the bearer of the note and also …

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  20. 270Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/4

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Large and well preserved. Release granted by Yaḥyā ha-Kohen to Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ, the husband of …

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  21. 271Legal documentT-S 8J9.21

    Deed about paying a debt in installments, probably by a husband (Meshullam, known as Abu al-Makarim) to his wife (Sitt al-Baha bt. Yehuda). The document …

    1. ולא אחתגאג בחגה דון [
    2. ואחריות האי חוב דנן מלוה [
    3. ירתאי בתראי לסת אלבהא דא ול[
    4. ארג נכסין קנין וממון דאית לי ודי[
    5. ובברא ממקרקעי וממטלטלי ואפילו [
    6. להא …

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  22. 272Legal documentT-S K25.240.19

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to give 3 dirhams to the relative of the Andalusī rabbi ("Toledan" is …

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    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אלמבין שצ'
    3. יוצל לקריב אלרב //זל// [[אלטליטלי]]]
    4. אלאנדלסי תלתה דרהם שבת
    5. וללנזיר אלעגמי ושלום במדבר
    6. דרהמין

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  23. 273Unknown typeT-S AS 183.96

    Unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, possibly documentary. Bifolio. The righthand page on verso is a list of names including Abū l-Majd Nāṣir [...], Abū l-Faḍl, …

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  24. 274LetterT-S AS 149.28

    Letter to Moshe b. Nissim (or Moshe b. Labrāṭ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Fragment (left side of recto). The addressee is …

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  25. 275List or tableENA NS 35.30

    List or accounts in Arabic script, used as a bifolio for Hebrew script. One of the readable items is lead (raṣāṣ).

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  26. 276List or tableJRL SERIES C 108

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning some full and abbreviated names, including: Ḥayyīm Bibas and Muḥ[ammad] Kāshif ___[?] Yosef among others. The latter name may indicate and …

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  27. 277Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 177.349

    Small receipt for Maʿānī b. Ismāʿīl for a payment of 6 dirhams.

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  28. 278LetterT-S 8.52

    Recto: letter, with rhymed opening, but no names preserved. The same hand continues on verso, though there are also small additional texts in Hebrew and …

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  29. 279Legal documentENA NS 77.309 + ENA NS 77.307

    Legal document. Small fragment from a bill of sale. On parchment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Drawn up under the …

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  30. 280Legal documentT-S NS 218.28

    Formulary for legal document or documents. Concerning disposition of property in contemplation of death, described as פיצוי זה. Information from Brody catalog.

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  31. 281Legal documentT-S Ar.18(1).32

    Geonic exegetical responsa. (Information from CUDL)

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  32. 282LetterJRL Gaster ar. 158

    Letter, or official document. The only readable phrase is "ويشهد بسرعة الفرج". Ḥamdala and Ṣalwala towards the end of the preserved text.

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  33. 283Unknown typeENA NS 85.962

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  34. 284Legal documentMoss. VII,106.2

    Fragment of a partnership agreement. On parchment. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. Involves the names Peraḥya ha-Kohen and [...] ha-Kohen b. Yeshuʿa …

      1. ישוע[ה
      2. שותפות עסק [
      3. פרחיה הכהן דנן יסאפר בה [
      4. ]א אין מא ראי וישתרי בהא מן [
      5. בה אלי תם ואדא מן אללה תעאלי ב[
      6. דינרא וקד געלת //לה// אן יציף אלי הדא א…

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  35. 285Unknown typeENA NS 76.165.1

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  36. 286List or tableMoss. IV,121.2

    Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals listing various people's names together with numbers. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.

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  37. 287LetterAIU XII.36

    Letter from Ṣedaqa al-Yahūdī to Umm al-Khayr bt. Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm b. [...], possibly in Bilbays (the address is damaged). In Arabic script. Dating: No …

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  38. 288LetterT-S 13J13.6

    Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Head of the Jews (entitled Gaon) concerning the difficulties she is having with her …

    1. אלעבדה זוגה
    2. אלחזאן בן נחמן
    3. אלעבדה תנהי אלי הדרת הגאונות תכן משרתה לנצ[ח
    4. חאלהא הו וולדהא וגועהם ועריהם וכונהא להא אליום
    5. ענד? בין?] אלנאס משתתה ה שהור…

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    Your slave, the wife (= widow) 

    of the cantor Ben Naḥman 

    [I(n the name of the)] M(erciful) 

    Your slave informs your excellency the Gaon, may…

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  39. 289LetterJRL SERIES B 2031

    Letter addressed to the physician (rofeʾ) Moshe b. Ṣadoq ha-Dayyan ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. The paper is …

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  40. 290State documentT-S AS 206.251

    A few large words in Arabic from a state document.

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  41. 291State documentT-S AS 183.229

    Minute fragment from an official-looking document. On verso mentions [...] al-yahūdī al-Afḍalī(?) and on recto mentioned four irdabbs of grain.

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  42. 292Legal documentT-S Ar.39.437

    Legal document in Arabic script. On verso, unidentified text in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  43. 293Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 809

    Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a list of individuals with sums of money. Needs examination.

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  44. 294Legal documentT-S 12.697

    Legal document, probably a bill of release. Fragment: lower left corner. Dating: Early 13th century. In which Shela b. Berakhot acknowledges that he has no …

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  45. 295Literary textT-S AS 205.197

    Story in Judaeo-Arabic. A merchant arrived in a certain city together with a female slave (jāriya). He came to a "qaysariyya" (on which see Goitein, …

    1. כאן אנסא{ן} מן בעצ
    2. אלתיגאר קד גא אלא
    3. בעצ אלבילאד ומעה
    4. גאריה פגא קיסרייה
    5. קאל לוכילת אלקסרייה
    6. ענדכ חגרה פקאלת
    7. נעם פאורתה נזל
    8. פקאם פיהא מודה פתערפת
    9. בלו…

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  46. 296State documentJRL Gaster ar. 788

    Small fragment of a state document. On recto refers to "... (Dīwān al-?)aḥbās bi-l-Baḥriyya fa-baʿatha warāhu min...." On verso refers to something pertaining to al-Malik …

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  47. 297Literary textT-S NS 300.54

    Bifolio with an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic - maybe poetry.

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  48. 298Unknown typeENA NS 85.1277

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  49. 299Paraliterary textRNL Yevr. II B 42

    A manuscript which contains the end of Deutronomy, and the haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets) according to the old Palestinian rite. A dedication colophon …

    Dedicatory colophon, left column

    1. קדש ליי אלהי ישראל
    2. לירושלים עיר הקודש
    3. לשער הכהן [ישוכל]ל הקדיש
    4. אותו מ[חס]ן הלוי בר יצחק
    5. נ'נ' ע ידי שלשת האחים
    6. מרי נ…

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  50. 300LetterENA NS 72.19

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script, regarding financial matters "innanī katabtu ilā marʾ(?) lahu ʿindahu danānīr", concerning a teacher (qad addanī muʿallim l-ṣabīyy). Also mentions Cairo. …

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