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  1. 251List or tableT-S AS 204.146

    Yosef. Quite damaged and faded. At the bottom of verso mentions laundry and a porter and alum and cleaning; and myrobalan.

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  2. 252Legal documentT-S NS 225.13

    ʿImrān, involving [...]sh al-Ghazzī. Torn and faded. AA/ASE

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  3. 253LetterENA 3957.2

    Recto, with the address on verso (secondary use): Letter addressed to al-Rayyis al-Rabīʿī (=ha-Reviʿi) Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Mentions people named Manṣūr and Abū l-Faḍl. And mentions "al-qāʿa al-maʿmūra bi-baqāhi."

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  4. 254State documentENA NS 83.187.2

    Recto: Brief letter. Mentions Aḥmad b. ʿAlīal-[...]; "seeking my master Abū l-Faḍl"; "in this there is courage and vigor"; and a request of the addressee. […] Written in much larger letters. Mentions [...] al-Dawla Jaʿfar b. Ṣafiyy al-Dawla.

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  5. 255List or tableT-S AS 207.94

    Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Tājir al-M[...]; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī; Abū l-Faḍl; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣāʾigh

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  6. 256State documentENA 3698.8

    In Arabic script. Quite faded. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions that a certain ʿāmil is more capable than somebody else (aqdar minhu) and then mentions "the lofty order" (al-amr al-ʿālī).

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  7. 257Legal documentMoss. VII,100

    Legal document involving Abū l-Faḍlal-Parnas, Abū Saʿd, and payments in installments. The margins and verso are filled with accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso also has a section of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic calculating sums still owed.

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  8. 258LetterT-S Ar.54.24

    Long and full of interesting details, but parts (especially verso) are faded beyond legibility. Dealing with personal issues and mentioning people such as a qāḍī, al-Ḥilwānī, Yaʿqūb Ibn Qihāya(?), Moshe al-Ḥabashi, and al-Rayyis. AA

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  9. 259LetterT-S 10J31.10

    Letter from a family member, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dated: 23 Shevaṭ [4800 +] 175 = 4975 AM, which is 25 January 1215 CE. […] v13) and rode it to Alexandria. Also mentions Marseilles (מרשיליה v5), but the context is too faded to read.

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  10. 260Legal documentENA NS 76.91

    Menashshe. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Kathīr (cf. Moss. VII,104.1 (PGPID 26997)). Also mentions the term אלקטיעה and אלמעונה במצר.

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  11. 261LetterMoss. VII,213.2

    Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic and verso is in Hebrew, which also appears to be poetic phrases for a letter to a notable. Quite faded, unclear if any of the substance is preserved.

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  12. 262List or tableT-S 8J14.19

    Mentions Abū l-Ṭayyib Ibn al-Dhahabī; al-ʿAmid; flax; Abū l-Faḍl; Muẓaffar; "owed to Menashshe by Ḥasūn"; various numbers of bales; and pepper.

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  13. 263List or tableT-S AS 147.205

    List of names, including Abū l-Munā, Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Ḥajar, Abū ʿAlī b. Saʿāda, Abū ʿAlī b. Makḥūl, Ibn al-Marjānī and Abū Zikrī al-Kohen, probably as contributors to the poor.

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  14. 264State documentT-S NS 311.73

    State document, in Arabic script. Six lines of a faded petition, or report, the top four lines are extremely effaced. Mentions probably a man of the countryside "al-rajul al-rīf". The last line also contains the raʾy clause: "انعاما واحسانا ولسيدنا الارا عـ".

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  15. 265State documentAIU VII.A.38.1

    Clockwise from upper left: (d) Small fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a petition or draft: ...al-sāmī bi-faḍlihā...

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  16. 266State documentBodl. MS Arab. c 56.16

    A report to an official: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Bū Faḍl Ziyāda regarding issues pertaining to Abshīsh and Ṭamlay.

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم الامير شجاع الدولة بو فضل زيادة اطال الله بقاه وادام تاييده
    3. وسلامته انني شاكرا له على ما اتصل لي من اعتماده ووقوفه في حا…

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  17. 267Legal documentT-S 12.467

    Legal document, extremely faded, perhaps regarding the sale of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.

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  18. 268LetterENA 3958.1–2

    Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Damietta (ENA 3598.1, third line from the bottom); a qalʿa (ENA 3598.2, line 7 and again in the margin); Alexandria (al-Thaghr) (ENA 3598.2, second line from the bottom); and asks for the addressee's news.

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  19. 269Literary textENA 3405.7

    The excerpt is either from Kitab Zahr al-Ādāb wa-Thamar al-Albāb by al-Ḥuṣarī al-Qayrawānī (d. 1061 CE) or from the source that he quotes, Abū l-Faḍlal-Mīkālī (d. 1045 CE).

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  20. 270LetterT-S Ar.39.7

    Fragment (bottom part). Faded. "By that which I believe of the Holy Law (al-sharīʿa al-muqaddasa)!

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  21. 271LetterT-S AS 169.131

    Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century based on the abbreviations used (e.g., al-wālid al-makh[dūm]). Refers to a weight of 190 mithqāls and a rent of 20 something. Faded.

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  22. 272Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 178.197

    Receipt or legal document in Arabic script. Faded. Late. Concerning the rent of a shop in Ḥārat al-Yahūd, possibly for the month of Shaʿbān– unless it is mentioned as a specific date of issuance for the receipt. The name [...] b. al-Azhar appears at the bottom.

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  23. 273State documentT-S NS 315.104

    Faded Arabic accounts, mentioning the state treasury, on the blank page of a bifolio of piyyuṭ. Begins "bi-l-khizāna al-ʿāliya" followed by the date 26 Jumādā II 736 AH = 10 February 1336 CE if correct.

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  24. 274Legal documentT-S AS 176.482

    Rental contract (هذا ما استاجر) on parchment, mentioning titles of high state officials (e.g. qāḍī al-quḍāt wa-dāʿī [al-duʿāt]) and with a long ʿalāma at the top. Names mentioned include Ibrāhīm b. ʿĪsā al-Baghd[ādī], Abū Muḥammad al-[...] b. ʿAbd al-[...], and [...] al-Dawla. There is a faded note on verso.

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  25. 275State documentMoss. IXa,2.55

    Contains at least two registration marks, one of which is الحمد لله وبه توفيقي. Also mentions Jews (al-Yahūd) and contains a ḥasbala. […] Another document written between the lines in faded brown ink.

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  26. 276LetterT-S 8.57

    Refers multiple times to Sayyidnā al-Muftī. Also deals with business matters and asks if a purchase should be made in New Cairo or Fustat. Mentions the customs (maks). Mentions Abū l-Faḍl. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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  27. 277State 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. […] The dating is based on the identification of the vizier in question with Abū l-Faḍlal-ʿAbbās Ibn Abī l-Futūḥ.

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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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  28. 278Legal documentT-S 8J5.4

    (1) Malīḥa bt. Abū l-Faḍl the wife of Adam al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣayrafī appoints Natan b. […] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī(?) appoints Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yiṣḥaq al-Kohen known as Ibn Ghazāl to represent him in all his claims against Abū Naṣr b. […] , the parnas Abū l-Faḍl, and the parnas Abū ʿAlī, and testify that Malīḥa and her husband Adam al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣayrafī have reached a settlement concerning release each other from all claims, including any further claim on her delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar).

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    1. מליחה אבנה אבו אלפצל זוגה אדם אלחלבי אלצרפי
    2. וכלת מ נתן הלוי ביר אברהם עלי מטאלבה זוגהא
    3. אלשהוד ברכות הכהן החבר ואלחזן אבו אלחסן בן …

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  29. 279LetterT-S Ar.35.397

    In Arabic script. "yā akhī yā Bū ʿAlī wa-Faḍāʾil yā akhī Sahl wa-Abū Ṭayyib....."

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  30. 280LetterT-S AS 150.175

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Almost none of the substance is legible.

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  31. 281State documentT-S NS 305.156

    Tax receipt or private receipt, in Arabic script. Mentions bayt al-māl and contains the cipher which may denote "addā" at the top. Faded.

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  32. 282LetterT-S NS 342.137

    Faded fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. […] The first letters of ~16 lines are preserved along with the one-line margin.

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  33. 283Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J116

    The dating is deduced from the related documents; however, could also be 1530 Seleucid = 1218/19 CE, see T-S 13J18.22 (PGPID 8006). People mentioned: [...] b. Abū l-Faḍl, 'my mother' ʿIbād, her sister Ḥasab, Ibn al-Nāʾila, someone's deceased father Manṣūr, Sulaymān and someone else who are the sons of the maternal aunt of Manṣūr, Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Rabbāṭ(?), Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī. On verso there are additional jottings in Hebrew, some biblical verses or themes, including a reference to Miryam and to Batya the daughter of Pharaoh.

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  34. 284List or tableHUC 1005

    Original use (both sides): Accounts in Arabic script, with very wide line spacing, headed by the glyph and mentioning the names ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (unless this is ʿinda al-shaykh); Bū l-Faraj b. [... Ibn] ʿAwkal(?); and Faḍāʾil.

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  35. 285State documentMoss. IXa,2.49

    State document, probably a petition or report, addressed to an official styled al-ḥaḍra al-sharīfa. Crumpled and faded. The sender was appointed to a position somewhere but then let go (وقد اطلق للمملوك وسلم اليه).

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  36. 286LetterT-S 12.17

    Letter to the Gaon, probably from Aleppo, complaining that the Gaon is paying too much heed to those who slander the writer, approximately 1035. Verso: Very faded and mostly illegible text, possibly liturgical or a sermon.

    1. [ ] לב ונפש ומוח [
    2. [ ]ל ונפש אעיד בעצמי לפניו ובנערי [ ]
    3. דב[ ]לפני בוראינו כן לב האדם לאדם מרגישים ומגידים [
    4. ועתה אד גאון [והנ]ה לנצח תריב בלא חטא ו…

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  37. 287Legal documentT-S AS 88.65

    Very damaged and faded marriage agreement written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (active c. 1150-1181 CE). Some lines from the dowry list is visible, and also few of the commonly found conditions such as the trustworthy and the monogamy clause.

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  38. 288LetterT-S AS 172.116

    Late letter in Judeo Arabic. Much faded and the cursive hand makes it difficult to read. Few names are mentioned: Hasan(?) b. David (also partially mentioned in the address), Ishaq b.

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  39. 289Legal documentT-S AS 184.36

    Upper part of a legal deed (iqrār), an acknowledgment made by both Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abū l-Faḍāʾil Hibatallāh b. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and the Jewish yarn merchant (al-ghazalī) [...] b.

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  40. 290Legal documentT-S 10J5.16 + T-S 18J5.2

    Moshe Ibn Majjān and Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. Yoshiyya al-Dhahabi, which arose when the former claimed from the latter a complete bible codex he had bought from him some time before. The resolution is that Abū l-Faḍl gives the codex to Abū Sahl Menashshe to give to Abū ʿImrān (because he had taken a vow that he would never give it himself).

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה
    2. כאן תקדם אלי בית דין אלשיך אבי עמראן מ משה בר מ משה דידיע
    3. בן מגאן נע מטאלבא ל…

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  41. 291LetterAIU XII.156

    Recto: A faded letter (of three lines only) addressed to Ibrahim al-Yahudi al-Ḥawāyirī (?) from [...] al-ʿAṭṭār, either addressed to or written in Wikālat al-[...]. Verso, with the address on recto: Ibrahīm al-Yahūdī reused the original letter to send a letter to al-Ḥajj ʿAbd Rajw (?)

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  42. 292Legal documentT-S AS 152.48

    Two records of a legal transaction involving Sitt al-Sāda bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ, mentioning al-shaykh al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, and Yosef.

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  43. 293LetterT-S AS 148.218

    The writer describes how he became so sick he despaired of life, but God sent health. Also mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf (first half of the 12th century) and Alexandria. Regards to Abū l-Faḍl and the writer's father. (Information in part from CUDL)

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    1. תפצל בש . . . . סאלתה למ[
    2. והו אבו אלחסן בן כליף [
    3. יא מולאי מן תמן אלל[
    4. פמא אדא . . אלא מן ענדך ולו ערפתך יאמולא[י
    5. מא יטרא עלי[י פי] כל וקת מן…

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  44. 294LetterT-S NS 306.216

    Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso, there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn" followed by a prayer on for the Fatimid caliph: allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Ābāʾihi al-ṭāḥirīn al-maʿṣūma min al-khanā wa l-fashal wa al-jazal inshā Allah..

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  45. 295Legal documentBL OR 4684.5

    Contract of sale between ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra and Bahja (?) bnt. ... b. Mubārak in Uqlūl. […] The two witnesses are ʿAqīl f. Faḍāla b. ʿAlī b. Mukhtār, the khaṭīb of Uqlūl, and ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasnūn, the mustakhlaf in Uqlūl. (AP)

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  46. 296Legal documentT-S Ar.35.391

    Involving a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) and "to the Jewish woman Fāḍila bt. Abū l-Makārim....." and "... Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Makārim b. Abū ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm." (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  47. 297LetterT-S AS 183.291

    Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions someone who 'went up to Fustat.' Greetings to various people including 'al-rayyis al-jalīl al-kabīr.' In the margin may report that "Yūḥannā is employed in the citadel (qalʿa) with us" (لان يوحنا مستخدم في القلعة عندنا).

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  48. 298Legal documentT-S NS J401l

    Malīḥa the sister of Shelomo Ibn al-Amʿaṭ ha-Levi and Abū l-Faḍl Ṣadoq b. Shemarya agree that the latter will teach the Arabic script and the calculations of baqasāt(??) […] The boy was supposed to write a letter without mistakes when one was dictated to him. Abū'l-Faḍl was also to provide Hiba b. Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts.

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[חתמות ]
    2. אלשיך אבו אלפצל כגק מרור צדקה הז[קן ]
    3. כגק מרור שמריה הזקן הנכבד נבע [ ]
    4. מרור שלמה הלוי הזקן הנכבד ישצו […

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    Testimony about what happened in our presence, we the [undersigned witnesses. There appeared before us] the elder Abu ʾl-Faḍl, (his) h(onor), g…

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  49. 299LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 2

    The addressee is called "al-ṣabiyy(?) al-akram... al-jamālī jamāl al-dunyā wa-l-dīn..." The text is quite faded and difficult to read. Mentions a ghulām and it seems the city of Ṣanʿāʾ (في صنعا), unless this is an orthographic variant of "ṣanʿa" and means "craft/trade."

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  50. 300List or tableT-S K15.22

    Mentions Moshe b. Yeshuʿa, the agent of al-Kohen Abū l-Mak[ā?]rim b. Yosef, al-Makīn Abū l-ʿIzz b. al-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍlal-Ṣayrafī (known from several other documents from the first half of the 13th century).

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