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  1. 251List or tableAIU VII.F.23

    List of donations or communal payments in Judeo-Arabic for the Maghrebi congregation of Cairo (קק מערבים). The heading may be dated as [5]565 (1804-1805CE) but …

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  2. 252LetterENA NS 63.6

    Letter in Hebrew and some Judaeo-Arabic in a Yemenite scribal hand, perhaps issued by a beit din in Ṣanaʿa. Dated [21]50 Seleucid which is 1839 …

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  3. 253Legal documentMS 9160, fol. 7 + T-S 10J4.19

    Lower section of a legal document concerning a commercial partnership in clothing/cloth between four members: Moshe ha-Levi, David ha-Levi aka ʿAjamī, Ḥayyim Ṣanuaʿ, and one …

    :(JTS MS 9160, fol. 7) Upper Section of Join

    1. בע׳׳ה בסט׳׳ו
    2. בפ׳׳עח׳׳מ הודו היקרים ומעולים ה׳׳ה הכה׳׳ר משה הלוי ידיע עגמי יצ׳׳ו כת אחת - וה[כ]ה׳׳ר מרקא…

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  4. 254Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1630

    Karaite marriage agreement between Hananya b. Ya'aqov Halevi and Esther known as 'Aziza d. Eliyyahu b. Sa'adya. Date: 2 Nisan 5576 AM (1816 CE). As …

    1. סבב תסטיר האדי אלאחרוף במוגב תחרירהא והוא אנהו אקר ואשהד ואעתרף
    2. עלי נפשהי הב׳ הי׳ הנ׳ הר׳׳י אליאו חנניה החתן הלוי ס׳׳ט בן כ׳ג׳ק׳ אחי׳ ואה׳ רבי
    3. יעקב …

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  5. 255List or tableAIU VII.F.76

    List of donations (?) collected for the first four months of 5583 = 1822/23 CE (or perhaps 5553 AM). All the entries refer to "the …

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  6. 256Legal documentBL OR 12369.15

    Legal document mentioning Yaʿaqōv Shalōm the legal guardian (apotropos) of the unmarried orphan Sitūt bt. Moshe Maṣliaḥ. Dated: Adar II 5608 AM which is March …

    1. ב׳׳ו
    2. להיות כי מע׳ הגביר נשא ורם כה׳׳ר סי׳ יעקב שלום הי׳׳ו נתמנה אפטרופוס ומורשה עפ׳׳י ב׳׳ד יכב׳׳ץ
    3. מזה זמן כידוע על יתומה מ׳ סתות קמ׳׳ה בת המנוח משה …

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  7. 257List or tableAIU XII.43

    Accounts for trade between the ports of Beirut and Dimyāṭ in the name of the ship captain Muṣtafa al-Jamīl. Dated 27 [Ramada]n 1234 AH which …

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  8. 258Legal documentT-S 12.447

    Ketubba, faded, from Cairo, dated 25 March 1811 CE (29 Adar 5571 AM). Between Nissim and Esther aka Sarah, with marital payments totaling to 150 …

    1. בשני בשבת בתשעה ועשרים יום [לח]דש אדר שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות ושבעים ואחת ליצירה [בעיר]
    2. אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטאט מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מותבה אנן סהדי אי…

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  9. 259Legal documentAIU VII.E.103

    Partnership document in the "silk business" (עסק המשי). Date: Kislev 5562 AM (1801 CE). Location: Cairo. Several people are named in the opening lines. The …

    1. ב׳׳ה [ב]סט׳׳ו
    2. [בפעח]׳׳מ הודו היקר ונע׳ ה׳׳ן נבון וחכם כמה׳׳ר אפרים עדה יצ׳׳ו והיקר נשא ונע׳ כה׳׳ר שמעון עזרי יצ׳׳ו והיקר ונע׳ כה׳׳ר
    3. ... צ]בי יצ׳׳ו ה…

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  10. 260Legal documentJRL SERIES A 784

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.

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  11. 261Legal documentBL OR 5543.11

    Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe ha-Levi known as ʿŪraybī and Sammūḥ bt. Yehuda Ḥaddād. Currency: medin. Dated: 7 October 1805 CE (14 Tishrei 5566 AM), …

    1. בסט׳׳ו והצלחה מצא אשה מצא טוב ויפק רצון מה׳ אכי׳׳ר
    2.                                            בשני
    3. בשבת בארבעה עשר יום לחדש תשרי
    4. שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש…

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  12. 262Legal documentYevr. II K 58

    Decorated, torn, Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated on Thursday in 5566 AM but most of the date is lost to damage. The groom's name is …

    1. [שדי ישקיף מ]שמי מרומו ויקנא בחצלחה
    2. ...] מו ויגלה המשיח בעולמו ויקבץ פזורי עמו ויטעם על אדמתם וינחילם נחלתם ויחיש כלל בשורותם ועתידותם
    3. ...] וצנ׳ תפא…

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  13. 263Legal documentAIU VII.D.41

    Ketubba, incomplete. The scribe's paper usage/margins suggest that this was likely a formulary based on a real document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Tishrei 5577 AM …

    1. באחד בשבת בארבעה עשר יום לחדש תשרי שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות ושבעים
    2. ושבעה ליצירה הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטאט מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מותבה
    3. אנן סהדי את…

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  14. 264Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 806

    Two legal documents concerning the same case. The first is a Muslim legal query together with the ruling/fatwā, in Arabic script. The second is a …

    1. ما  قولكم دام فضلكم في يهودية هلكت عن زوجها واخيها فتعرض لهما رجل و طلب اخذ دراهم رشوة علي عادتهم فهل
    2. لا تطيب له الدراهم الماخوذة علي هذا الوجه و به…

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  15. 265LetterENA NS 31.24

    Letter from the community of Jerusalem to the gabbay and treasurer of כארכוך (=Kirkuk?). In Hebrew. Dated: Adar 5603 AM, which is 1843 CE. This …

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  16. 266LetterT-S Misc.22.310

    Petition addressed to the Italian consul in Cairo. Dated 10 August 1865 CE. Information from FOTM: "Although the majority of the material preserved in the …

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    (folio 1, ln. 19-26)

    essere entrati con forza nella casa di campagna del sottoscritto e preso dalla stalla le due vacche di sua proprietà e ten…

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    (folio 1, ln. 19-26)

    ...the fact that the aforementioned administrators [of Ibrahim Bey] entered by force the country house of the undersigned …

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  17. 267Legal documentBL OR 5561A.7

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …

    1. בה׳׳ו
    2. בס׳׳ט בשעת ברכה והצלחה וחיים טובים ארוכים וברכת ה׳ קעשיר דיר׳׳א בהיות אמע׳׳ץ באו לפנינו העדים החותמים מטה --
    3. והודו הידי נשא ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר …

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  18. 268List or tableT-S AS 207.31

    Late Arabic account. Dated 11 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1221 AH (January 1807 CE). The second line of the recto mentions the keyword al-ṣayrāfī. The verso also …

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  19. 269List or tableJRL SERIES C 155

    List in Judeo-Arabic of monetary amounts and calculations related the communal "chest / ארגז" of the Mustʿarabīm in the end of Nisan 5590 which is …

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  20. 270Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 64

    Receipt or order of payment issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated 25 Ramadan[?] 1235 AH which is 1819 CE. A …

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  21. 271LetterT-S AS 200.251

    Letter to David Ben-Naim in Alexandria from his father Meir Ben-Naim in Cairo. Dated 26 Heshvan [5]580 AM (תף) which is 1819 CE.

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  22. 272List or tableJRL SERIES C 171

    Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and pen trials of the Arabic alphabet that can be dated on the recto to the night of Simchat Torah of [5]586 …

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  23. 273Legal documentYevr. II K 62

    Decorated Karaite ketubba from Cairo. Date: 12 Sivan 5570 AM (1810 CE). The groom is Shelomo b. Eliyyahu Ḥazan. The bride is Esther known as …

    1. ...]שת שמו ויבנה היכלו והדומו ויכונן דבירו ואולמו וישלח אליהו וכנאמו ויגלה המשיח בעולמו ויקבץ פזורי עמו ויטעם על אדמתם ו[..]ילם נחלתם ויחיש כלל
    2. בשור…

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  24. 274LetterAIU VII.E.153

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company from Nissim Mshīsh.

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  25. 275Legal documentENA NS 56.7

    Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 15 Sivan 5566 AM, which is 1806 CE. Groom: David Karo b. Binyamin. Bride; Malīḥa bt. Yaʿaqov Romano. Sum …

    1. בע׳׳ה בסט׳׳ו והצלחה גדול יהיה כבוד הבית הזה 
    2. בחמישי בשבת בחמשה ימים לחדש סיון שנת חמשה אלפים וחמש מאות וששים וששה
    3. ליצירה הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפס…

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  26. 276Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1566

    Pre nuptial agreement between Nissim Halevi b. Eliyyahu b. Nissim and Rachel d. Mordechai b. Shalom, dated Sunday 18th Adar, 5579 Era of creation (1819).

    1. בע׳׳ה             במותב בית דין
    2.                              יר׳׳ה
    3. סבב תסטיר האדי אלאחרוף במוגב תחרירהא והוא אנהו אקר ואעתרף
    4. ואשהד עלי נפסה הב׳ הי׳ …

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  27. 277Legal documentCUL Or.1080 8.6

    Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only.

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  28. 278Legal documentAIU XII.169

    Legal document, ishhād, in Arabic, dated 1831 CE (18 Jumāda l-Awwal 1247 Hijri). Ibrāhim al-Yahūdī owes 700 Rūmī Kuruş and has to pay the Dīwān …

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  29. 279Literary textT-S Misc.34.11

    Printed title page from a copy of Pirqei Avot in the Sephardi tradition (כמנהג ספרדים is in the title). Printed by "Estamperia Saʿadī ha-Levi, en …

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  30. 280Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 67

    Legal document in Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note on verso. Dated 10 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1822 CE). The name of the notary …

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  31. 281LetterJRL SERIES A 779

    Short business letter in Ladino that appears to be dated 25 Shevat 5582 AM (16 February 1822 CE), but this was a Shabbat, so perhaps …

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  32. 282Legal documentBL OR 10126(1).25

    Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …

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  33. 283LetterAIU XII.84

    Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dated 17 Jumada I 1236 AH (). Mentions previous correspondences and the trade of cloth (thawb) and robes (kiswa). Names …

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  34. 284LetterAIU IX.B.26

    Letter in Ladino dated August 8 1813 (12 Av 5573) to David Gatenio from Yehudah Gatenio (also written as Gatenyo). In the body of the …

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  35. 285List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 87

    Seven sides of elaborate accounts in form of a ledger, in Arabic Siyaket script. Dated Ramadan 1229 (1814 CE). Potential join to AIU VII.F.24 and …

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  36. 286Legal documentAIU VII.D.68

    Legal document from Fustat/Cairo, dated January 1819 CE (Tevet 5579 AM), in which Moshe Ḥafis (?) and his wife Senyora acknowledge their debt of 2085 …

    1. [בע׳׳ה]
    2. [בפ]נינו עדים ח׳׳מ היקרה מרת סינייורה מב׳׳ת ובעלה היקר ונע׳ כה׳׳ר משה חכים יצ׳׳ו והודאה גמורה שרירא וקיימת
    3. מעכשו מדעתם ורצונם הטוב והגמו׳ בל…

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  37. 287Legal documentJRL SERIES A 726

    Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to …

    1. מודה אני החותם מטה שקיבלת מהיקרה וצנועה מ׳ סולטאנה
    2. אלמנת המ׳ יוסף מזרחי סך ששים ריאליס לערך תשעים מ׳׳ך
    3. בתו׳ עיסקא כנהוג ע׳׳פ ב׳׳ד י׳׳ב ותחלת העיסקא …

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  38. 288Legal documentT-S Misc.10.170

    Apprenticeship agreement between David Dayyan (the instructor) and an apprentice whose name is badly damaged but his surname can be inferred as Karo because his …

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. לפנינו עדים הודה הר׳ דוד דיין יצ׳׳ו הודאה גמו׳ וכו׳ קיבל ללמד את הבחור
    3. ינ׳׳ח ב.׳׳[...] ... קארו יצ׳׳ו מל[אכת] הנוצה כידוע לו ב[ש]למות שלא יח[.…

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  39. 289Legal documentT-S AS 144.7

    Copy of an engagement (shiddukhin) contract in Hebrew written in a different hand (though same hand as the pen trials underneath). Location: Cairo. Dated: 5 …

    1. בע׳׳ה בסט׳׳ו ובנים ועושר והרוחה כי׳׳ר קונטאנטי סך י׳׳ב אלפ מ׳׳ך
    2.                     מתרכתא
    3. שידך היקר ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר יוסף פינטו יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר המ׳ יצ…

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  40. 290List or tableJRL SERIES C 110

    Alphabetized list of contributors and their payments toward the communal kosher meat tax (gabela) in the month of Elul (Raḥamīm). The dating is likely 19th-century …

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  41. 291LetterAIU VII.D.87

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y Frances & Company, Fustat/Cairo. Longer than usual

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  42. 292LetterAIU VII.E.125

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 7 Elul [5]577 AM which is 1817 CE . From Yosef ha-Levi, Fustat/Cairo, to Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ and Mordekhai Ḥako (?), Damietta …

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  43. 293LetterAIU VII.E.137

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Yūsuf Yaʿīsh Ḥadād in Alexandria, it seems to be from his mother Simḥa. Dated 7 Kislev [5]604 AM which is …

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  44. 294List or tableAIU VII.F.63

    List of communal expenses for the Maghrebi congregation of Cairo (ק׳׳ק מערבים). Dated [5]569 AM which is 1808/1809 CE. The list is very detailed with …

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  45. 295LetterAIU VII.E.50

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Senyor Karo y Frances & Company (numerous letters to the same addressee have survived: see tag). Dated 7 Shevat [5]568 …

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  46. 296List or tableAIU VII.F.16

    Communal register, 34 pages of donations collected on various Shabbats, including for the year 1814/15 (5575). Moshe Bibas appears throughout.

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  47. 297Legal documentAIU VII.D.16

    Betrothal document dated 11 October 1841 (26 Tishrei 5602) for Yosef the son of the late Moshe ha-Levi, represented by Avraham Jawhar "of the villages" …

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  48. 298List or tableAIU VII.F.9 + AIU VII.F.12 + AIU VII.F.88 + JRL SERIES B 2003 + JRL SERIES B 3546

    List of donations collected on the week of Hayei Sarah (recto) and Toldot (verso), October-November 1803 CE (Heshvan 5564). Legible surnames of donors include Frances …

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  49. 299List or tableAIU XII.106

    4 pages. 3 of them are brief notes, along with accounts, signed and sealed by Anṭūn al-Wakīl aka Anṭūn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf to a certain muʿallim …

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  50. 300LetterAIU XII.118

    Recto: A brief note in Arabic addressed to David ben Naʿim and signed by [...] ʿUmar [...] Nāẓir al-Amwāl. There are also accounts/sums at the …

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