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  1. 30001LetterT-S Ar.7.11

    IB IV, 52 (ח52). Fragment of a letter, written somewhere in Spain, to Abū l-Saʿd ha-Levi (i.e., Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi). Written in a typical, …

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    1. [...] ומן אטאל אללה בקאה פי אלעז אלאדום ואלסעד אלאלזם אלאקום
    2. [...] בִמנה ويمنه כתבתה יא מולאי ادام الله عزه עמא תעלמני
    3. עליה מן אלאנקטאע אליך ו…

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    1. [...] ומי שיאריך ה' את חייו ביקר המתמיד ביותר ובאושר הקבוע ביותר, היציב ביותר 
    2. (2–3) [...] ברחמיו ובחסדיו. הריני כותב מכתב זה, אדוני, יתמיד ה'…

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  2. 30002LetterT-S AS 155.321

    Recto: Opening lines of a letter introduced by quotations such as Psalms 31:2. Verso: unusual note that does not seem to be a classic address; …

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  3. 30003State documentNLI 577.2/7

    Verso (original use): Four lines from the bottom of a state document in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān. Dating: likely early 11th century. Needs examination.

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  4. 30004LetterT-S AS 151.55

    Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Might concern a group of people who haven't received …

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  5. 30005Legal query or responsumYevr.-Arab. II 2336

    Responsum in Judaeo-Arabic in a Karaite scribal hand. Dated on the recto as 19 Adar 1707 Seleucid (1396 CE). The name Yefet b. David b. …

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  6. 30006LetterJRL A 619

    Small fragment from a letter, probably. The hand looks like that of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions the purchase of a censer with …

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  7. 30007LetterT-S 8.53

    Recto: letter of introduction for [...] b. Aharon, addressing a community and urging them to show charity to the poor. The text appears to have …

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  8. 30008Literary textT-S AS 157.353

    Probably a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic. ASE

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  9. 30009LetterT-S 6J1.2

    Letter from a certain Avraham to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Little is preserved of the content. The third line …

    1. בש רח אלממלוך אבר[
    2. יקבל איאדי אלמולא אלמנעם [
    3. אלעלי אלעאמל אלורע אלז.[
    4. . . .] חיים השר הגדול [
    5. . . . . . . .]לם כירח יכון [

    right margin, straight …

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  10. 30010Literary textT-S NS 226.163

    Halakhic discussion in Judaeo-Arabic, including laws of muktze.

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  11. 30011Literary textT-S Ar.30.290

    Praises and names of God, possibly from the introduction to a work. Information from Baker/Polliack catalogue.

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  12. 30012List or tableENA 3727.6

    List of accounts. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. At least two entries mention iron, the more detailed instance is in …

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  13. 30013List or tableT-S AS 181.115

    Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals

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  14. 30014LetterENA 2149.24

    Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Four lines are preserved of the main text and some additional text in the margins. On verso there …

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  15. 30015Legal documentT-S AS 186.12

    Fragment of a document in Arabic script, possibly legal. Needs examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew writing exercises.

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  16. 30016LetterT-S AS 158.152

    Recto: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is familiar from the circle of Avraham Maimonides. The sender will return something after the holiday because he …

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  17. 30017Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 162.145

    Order of payment by Abu Zikri Kohen to Kalil for 1 ratl of oil.

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  18. 30018LetterENA NS 29.22

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5499 AM, which is 1739 CE. This shelfmark was previously listed with the date 1 Tammuz 5439, but the …

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  19. 30019Legal documentAIU VII.D.94

    Late partnership agreement (incomplete) between Yaʿaqov Ḥassūn and [Yaʿaqov?] Zaytūn.

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  20. 30020LetterBL OR 5561B.7

    Late Hebrew letter from Jerusalem, from a pious man who recently settled there and does not like what he sees. He opens with describing how …

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    1. ] אודיע . . [
    2. ] . . אל צבאות וגם עיני כל ישראל היושבים בירושלם . . [
    3. ] ולהיות עזרה להם וגם אני הייתי צופה לבא אלינו לש . . . עמנו
    4. בתו . ת במק…

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  21. 30021LetterT-S 8J17.10

    Letter fragment addressed to a communal leader, a ḥaver. In Hebrew. Regarding a matter of inheritance (‘they are orphans and a widow’) and the writing …

    1. ליום מות שהוא א [
    2. וחס ושלום שיהיה [
    3. וימצאו חו . . . . .[
    4. ואם נעשה בקי ימצא שם [
    5. הלוי מכל מעש מבואר פי . . . [
    6. . מהל . . עתה עיני הכל עליך ת . . . [

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  22. 30022Legal documentT-S NS J185l

    Fragment of a release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May have to do with India traders. Release formulae include "and …

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    1. [ ]א יכת[ץ ]
    2. [ ]יר אלאשיא לא ד[ ]
    3. [ ] חגארה ולא שרכה ולא מצארבה
    4. [ ]וד ולא ענבר ולא זבדה
    5. [ ]מאנה ולא כיא[נה] ולא דין
    6. [ ]ק [ו]לא מלבוס לא
    7. [ ]ה ל…

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  23. 30023Unknown typeENA 2875.29

    Verso: Contains a few words in Arabic script. Recto: The main text on this fragment is a prayer in Judaeo-Arabic. VMR. ASE

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  24. 30024Literary textENA NS 76.432

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  25. 30025List or tableJRL C 19

    Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of "מצרופ/expenses" on food items organized according to weeks of the liturgical calendar that are indicated by their respective parsha readings (i.e. …

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  26. 30026Legal documentT-S NS 190.67

    Fragment of a betrothal (qiddushin) deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom is probably [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. The early installment …

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  27. 30027List or tableT-S 13J26.13

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. In the Arabic hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? (Compare T-S NS 324.135 + T-S Misc.29.59a + T-S 13J36.14, Halper 354, …

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  28. 30028Legal documentT-S NS J451

    Legal document. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf known as בן כדורה attests that he owes 71 dinars to Barakāt b. Yosef Ibn al-Lebdī (who died prior to …

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  29. 30029Legal documentT-S AS 151.177

    Bill of rent for Shemuel Maṭāwīṭ. Dated: Sivan 53[..] AM = 1540–1639 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, the portion of the word that is visible before …

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    1. ...]ה השכיר כה׳׳ר שמואל [...] יצ׳׳ו לכ׳׳ר שמואל ידיע איל
    2. ...]ר תחת בית כה׳׳ר שמואל הנז׳ לבור(?) בסך
    3. ...] משך השכירות הנז׳ מהיום וקבל עליו בנ׳

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  30. 30030Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 755

    Unidentified text, in Arabic script.

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  31. 30031LetterENA NS 19.9

    Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿaadya. Small fragment containing the opening and part of the address. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting …

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  32. 30032State documentNLI 577.1/59

    Upper left fragment: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The document is probably written for a recent convert to Islam from Samṭā (on the Nile delta). …

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  33. 30033List or tableENA 3740.2–3

    Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Dating: 11th century. A sum of 180 dinars appears. Mentions goods such as: …

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  34. 30034LetterT-S AS 203.108

    Business letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from Jerusalem (min al-quds, l. 2). Extremely faded. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions [...] b. Benaya. On verso the …

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  35. 30035LetterENA NS 29.28

    Letter from a woman, in Rashīd, to Yom Ṭov al-Buḥayrī (it seems her son-in-law) and his wife Esther (it seems her daughter), in Fustat/Cairo. In …

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  36. 30036LetterENA 3947.9

    Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Paper is dark brown; difficult to read. Pinholes ~4mm apart. Needs examination for content.

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  37. 30037Legal documentT-S 8J32.4 + T-S 10J21.16

    Recto: contract between two dyers (Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Bahā and Abū Saʿd b. Ibrahim) about the sale of half of a house. The seller …

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  38. 30038Unknown typeENA NS 76.46

    Minute fragment of an extremely faded text in Hebrew script on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.

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  39. 30039State documentT-S AS 179.230

    Official receipt of some sort for a Jewish woman named Saʿāda for a payment of 1/2 dinar. Landscape format. Dated 608(?) AH. Merits further examination.

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  40. 30040Unknown typeENA NS 76.657

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  41. 30041Legal documentT-S AS 181.272

    Unidentified document(s), maybe legal or official or simply accounts. Dated: Thursday, 13 Shaʿbān 632 AH = 3 May 1235 CE. Several names are mentioned, but …

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  42. 30042Legal documentT-S NS 342.74

    Court records in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably drafts or copies. On recto: mentions partners in silk and a quantity of qinṭārs; …

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  43. 30043Paraliterary textT-S Ar. 43.225

    Medical text. Dating: post-10th century, based on the physicians cited within the document. Contains descriptions of the health benefits and medical uses of different fruits--such …

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    1. פיפסד פיהא. ומן אלנאס מן יגֹפף אלמשמש וינקעה פי
    2. אלמא אלבארד וישרב דלך אלמא עלי אלריק ללתבריד
    3. ואלתטפיה. וינבגי למן אראד אכל אלמשמש אלטרי
    4. אן יתב…

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    (ln. 1-4)

    There are people who dry apricots and soak them in cold water and drink that water on an empty stomach for cooling and quenching. And…

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  44. 30044LetterT-S Ar.39.193

    Note from an unidentified sender to Abū Manṣūr. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The sender reports that Abū ʿAlī b. Dāʾūd …

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  45. 30045Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1292

    Recto: Betrothal contract, Qaraite. Dated: Sunday, 4 Heshvan 5488 AM = 2039 Seleucid, which is 1727 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: Naḥum ha-Levi b. Yosef b. …

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  46. 30046LetterT-S 12.7

    IB VI, 13. Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text …

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  47. 30047List or tableENA 3967.22

    Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  48. 30048LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/24

    Letter about the Mongol invasion. Mosul, December 1236.

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    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. לא יסאל אלמולי אלסיד אלאגל אלפאצל אלמנעם
    3. סיד אלטאיפה אלדאוודיה ושיריף אלמלה אליהודיה
    4. הנשיא הגדול המעוז המגדול נשיא גליות
    5. ישראל כבו…

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    1. In Your Name, Oh Merciful!. 

    2. Do not ask--my lord and master, the illustrious, noble benefactor 

    3. the doyen of the House of David and the S…

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  49. 30049Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J165

    Deed of sale for multiple properties in Cairo, explaining how they exchanged hands in a complex succession of guardianship procedures, inheritance, and a widow's ketubba …

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    1. בסט׳׳ו
    2. הקונה יגיל וישמח ∴ יציץ כתמר ויפרח אכי׳׳ר
    3. בהיות שראינו שטר ועניינו הוא שהקאעה הגדולה המרכ'מה והקויעה הקטנה שחוצה לה והקצר אשר מ׳׳נ הקא…

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  50. 30050Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#62) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Nisan 5324 …

    Yevr.–Arab. I 328, folio 21r

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלגמאעה כ׳׳ד פי שהר אדר שני סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ג׳ ליצירה
    2. חצרו לולד [[פל]] פרגא׳ אללוי א׳אלאך ע׳אלבאקי אללוי וא…

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