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  1. 31001LetterT-S Misc.11.228

    Letter from Yosef ha-Levi, unknown location, to Binyamin de Curiel, in Cairo. In Ladino. Dated: Adar 5552(?) AM = February/March 1792 CE. Complete. Needs examination.

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  2. 31002LetterT-S 8J36.3

    IB III, 45. Letter of Perahya b. Yosef Yiju to his father in Mazara Sicily, probably June 1154.

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    1. עלקת אליך הדה אלסטרין ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה [...] לילה אלאתנין מן 
    2. גמעה ויקח קרח בתנא פי אלמרכב ונזלת יום אלב[...] פי חואיג פאלתקא 
    3. ביי אנסאן גא…

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    1. I am sending you these few lines in well-being and health. [We arrived] on Sunday night 
    2. of the week Wayiqqaḥ Qōraḥ and stayed overnight on bo…

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  3. 31003Legal documentT-S H7.45

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document written on parchment. Dated Ṣafar 261 AH = November/December 874 CE. This is therefore the oldest Arabic …

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  4. 31004LetterJRL AF 255

    Letter/petition appealing for charity or other assistance. Fragment (upper left corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Written on …

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    1. מ]מלוכהמא אלמגרבי אלשעאב
    2. ] שני הדיינים ההגונים
    3. ] כהפא לכל מלהוף מלכהמא
    4. ] . המא ולמא קד גמעה
    5. ]מא ומרה וחאלה וקלה
    6. ] פ . . ואלפאקה(?) ואנה

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  5. 31005Legal documentT-S 16.189

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Ḥeshvan 12[..] Seleucid, which is 888–987 CE. Bride: Zahra bt. ʿAlī. The groom's name is missing. Witnessed …

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    1. בנחשא (טבא) וסימנא (מעליא)
    2. ...בת)רין בשבה דהוא ריש ירח מרחשון (ד)שנת אלפא ומאתן ות(רתין?/ ותשעין ותשע?/
    3. ...במ)דינתא דפיצטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נ…

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  6. 31006LetterT-S 13J36.1

    Letter from the sons of Berekhya concerning the matters of the yeshivot of Baghdad when Dosa b. Saʿadya Gaon was the head of the yeshiva …

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    1. אטאל אללה יאשיכנא וכבירנא וגלילנא בקאך ואדאם ציאנתך וסעא[דתך
    2. ודפע ענך אלמחדור ברחמתה כתבנא כתב אללה תופיקך פי אלציפ[יה ען סלאמה ללה]
    3. אלשכר דאי…

    ע׳׳א

    1. ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוננו וגדולנו ונכבדנו, אריכות ימים, ויתמיד את הגנתך ואת אושרך….
    2. וימנע ממך כל רע ברחמיו. אנחנו כותבים, יכתוב לך אלוהים את ההצל…

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  7. 31007List or tableJTS MS 8254.15

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

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  8. 31008Unknown typeT-S Misc.20.123

    Possibly a letter of appeal for charity in Hebrew but the handwriting and spelling are quite rudimentary, and it is difficult to make sense of …

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  9. 31009List or tableENA NS 77.390

    Accounts with calculations via long sequences of Hebrew alphanumerals. The subheading lists a day of the week. Dating: late, probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. …

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  10. 31010LetterT-S 6J3.3 + T-S Ar.7.26

    Letter of appeal for help, mentioning a recent death, apparently of a husband, leaving the writer (the widow) without livelihood and unable to live with …

    T-S 6J3.3 (Edited by Goitein)

    1. מולאי מא ענדנא מן שוגל
    2. אלקלב וממן תופי פי הדה אלאשהר
    3. אללה תעאלי יעוצהא ומא לי לא עיש
    4. ולא קראר מע אלכבירה והי כל
    5. יום תט…

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  11. 31011LetterT-S 8J20.3

    Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …

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    1. האנשים אשר פירשנו שמותם תתנם אתה לבעליהם
    2. הרשאי לעשות בהם בעבור כי כל איש [
    3. פתוחות אל הקהילות ודרשנו באחת מהם הנדבות והפסיקות והחומשים [
    4. השינית…

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  12. 31012LetterENA 4011.19

    ENA 4011.19b (lower fragment): Mercantile letter addressed to Ḥananel b. Nissim ha-Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender details the garments and/or textiles which he has sent …

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  13. 31013Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 133.99

    Document (receipt?) in Arabic script, remarkably calligraphic and carefully-written. Involves Friday, the 9th of some month, ʿAbdallāh b. Fallāḥ, wheat, 3 dinars.

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  14. 31014Unknown typeENA NS 83.24

    Unidentified text in Arabic script; may be discussing eye diseases. There also appears to be a numeral. Needs further examination.

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  15. 31015Literary textENA 2712.49

    A leaf from a book of segulot in Ladino and Hebrew.

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  16. 31016State documentENA 3079.5

    Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text which …

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  17. 31017LetterT-S 12.723

    Copy of a letter addressed to the Gaon R. Saadyah by a pupil of one of his disciples (only the concluding lengthy poem is preserved) …

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  18. 31018Legal documentT-S AS 147.90

    Legal fragment. No names preserved. Refers to collecting rent.

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  19. 31019Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 13/46

    Deathbed will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother …

    1. [.]תמאנון דינ ותלתין וחבה מן גמלתהא כתאב דין עלי אלשיך אבו יעקוב [אלחכים ........]
    2. [...]ה[... ו]אחד ותסעין דינ ולי פי אלקאעה איצא מא ינצאף אלי אלעקד…

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  20. 31020Legal documentJRL B 3726

    Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic involving Mūsā b. Yeshuʿa. Very damaged.

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  21. 31021Legal documentT-S AS 147.42

    Trousseau list as part of a ketubba. Mentions cloth and currency. (Information from CUDL)

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  22. 31022Legal documentT-S AS 173.388

    Legal document or possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and …

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  23. 31023LetterT-S AS 158.29

    Recto: letter, mentioning the Rosh Kallā Abū Zakariyyā at the top of the leaf (this is the typical location for the address in the letters …

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  24. 31024Legal documentT-S AS 178.7

    Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamlūk or early Ottoman-era. The one on recto (the secondary use) is a power of attorney drawn up …

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  25. 31025LetterJRL B 7595

    Possibly a brief letter with its response on verso, both in a high/poetic register of Hebrew.

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  26. 31026State documentT-S 6J11.9

    Recto (original use): Document in Arabic script, possibly a state administrative memorandum, possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL and Marina Rustow.)

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  27. 31027Legal documentT-S AS 153.179

    Either a legal document or a letter concerning a legal case. In Judaeo-Arabic. Three lines from the middle of the document are preserved. Wide space …

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  28. 31028LetterT-S NS 264.22

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Hebrew (verso). From the well-known scribe Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi; Shelomo was active until ca. 1231 …

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  29. 31029LetterNLI 577.1/43

    Letter from ʿAbd al-Ḥayy b. Hiba to his 'father' Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. In Arabic script. (But not his real father, because Hiba is dead—raḥmat Allāh …

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  30. 31030Unknown typeENA NS 85.391

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  31. 31031List or tableT-S Ar.54.59

    Fragment (lower part) in the same hand [Shelomo b.Eliyyahu's] as T-S K15.74; T-S K15.88; T-S NS J256. List of cash receipts, arranged according to days …

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    1. ................בן פ..[
    2. ....................] ה
    3. ......רק
    4. .......]מ.. ה`
    5. ..[.......]ה אלנאכודה
    6. ג ½
    7. ומנצור אלסופר כהן בו אלמגד ס…

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  32. 31032State documentENA 3969.7

    Tax receipt, Fatimid.

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  33. 31033LetterT-S 13J21.34

    Recto: fragment of a recommendation letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli ha-Ḥaver b. Amram, Fustat. The name of the person who is recommended is …

    1. כאן תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלחב[ר
    2. ותאיידה וסעאדתה ונעמתה [
    3. אלי גליל חצרתה במא אסתגני ע[
    4. קריב תם אעלמתה וצול אלש[
    5. וצחבתה כתאב מן מולאי אלנגי[ד
    6. ציאנתה וקד …

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  34. 31034LetterT-S NS J197

    Letter from Hilāl b. Yosef to ʿArūs b. Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא סיידי ומולאי
    2. אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ותאיידה
    3. וסעאדתה וסלמאתה ונע[מתה וכבת
    4. אעדאה מן אלמסתקר באלאסכנדר[יה
    5. ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק …

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  35. 31035LetterCUL Or.1080 J16

    Letter from Avraham Ibn Sughmār, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Nahray traveled to Alexandria and the writer is sorry that he did not …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן אל

    2. תופיק אלחסן לא אכלאך ראש חדש כסליו געלה אללה עליך ועלינא

    3. אימן אלשהור ואברכהא ואסעדה…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך
    2. ואל ימנע ממך את מיטב ההצלחה, בראש חודש כסלו, ישימו אלוהים לך ולנו
    3. המוצל…

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  36. 31036Legal documentT-S AS 150.103

    Probably a legal document, mentioning 25 dirhams, Shelomo and [...] ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

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  37. 31037LetterT-S Misc.8.71

    Letter. "Discussion or record concerning the case of a man, Sulaymān, who is suspected of being an informer (מוסר). His testimony is given verbatim, ‘in …

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  38. 31038LetterT-S AS 172.167

    Small fragment from the end of a Judaeo-Arabic letter: תש]רפני בקצאהא ושלום הדרת[ה יגדל] לעד. On verso there is the remnant of an earlier Arabic …

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  39. 31039List or tableT-S NS 306.105

    Mercantile in Arabic script. Each column is headed with a date. Each entry is in a box. Each entry begins with a name. E.g., Ṣadaqa, …

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  40. 31040LetterT-S 8J41.6

    Large fragment of a business letter referring primarily to business conducted at Busir.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] למ [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. וגמיע מא תבקא פי אלסלה ח אראדב פול והי …

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    1. …. וכל מה שנשאר לזכותי ב'עלאוה': ח' ארדבים פול והם בשביל המושל ועוד היום
    2. אקבלם, ברצון האל, ואסע לבוציר עוד השבוע; לולא קניית הפול הזה
    3. הייתי ..…

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  41. 31041State documentT-S AS 116.290

    Official letter or document in Arabic script. Maybe a petition asking the addressee to reprimand and threaten a group of people: والزجر لهم . . …

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    1. [    ].....
    2. عليهم والزجر لهم والتاديب
    3. لهم وتهديدهم بابعادهم وعند
    4. ]ولهم يستدركون

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  42. 31042Literary textBL Or. 6197.7–8 + T-S NS 298.55 + T-S 8Ka7.4

    Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, JA1 in Bohak's edition, Judaeo–Arabic translation, "Pilate" recension), final portion of the text on BL Or. 6197.7 (through passage 9.5); read …

    BL Or. 6197.7r (ninth section in join)

    1. פלמא כתר אלכלאם אסתדעא [אלמ]ל֯ך ב[י]ה֯ו֯דה
    2. אלגנן פקאללה אלרגל אלדי צלבתה איש עמלת בה. 
    3. פקאל ד֯פ֯נ֯ת֯ה פי א֯ל֯…

    BL Or. 6197.7r (ninth section in join)

    1. When the word had spread, [the ki]ng summoned Yehudah

    2. he gardener and said to him: “The man whom you (sg.)…

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  43. 31043Legal documentT-S AS 181.1

    Fragment from the bottom of a power of attorney. May mention Aden (first line). Mentions the date 5 Ṣafar 584 AH = 5 April 1188 …

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  44. 31044Unknown typeENA NS 85.1156

    Minute fragment, badly damaged. Medieval-era. The recto and verso retain a few letters in Hebrew and Arabic script, respectively. The verso could be documentary. Requires …

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  45. 31045List or tableBL OR 12344.13

    Accounts in Hebrew script and western Arabic numerals. Dating: a partial date appears on the verso, 27 Heshvan '89. The paleography is probably 18th or …

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  46. 31046Legal documentT-S 10J4.5

    Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . מוחסן . . . . . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] מא…

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  47. 31047Legal documentT-S AS 85.6

    Minute fragment of a legal document or formulary in a Spanish hand (...כטופסי דשטרי אלא כחומר...). This fragment also contains a separate text in a …

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  48. 31048Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.20

    Possibly a receipt beginning 'tadhkira...'

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  49. 31049LetterT-S 8J23.5

    Letter sent from Fustat by a father to his son, settling business accounts with him. The handwriting is that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), …

    1. בש רח
    2. וצל כתאבך אללה לא יקטעה ומא קאם
    3. אלי מנה צורה ואעלם יא בני אן אמך מא
    4. תסאמח פי חק אחד ואנא קד עלם אללה
    5. ואלנאס ואמך אני אד לם אגור עלי רוחי
    6. מא גו…

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  50. 31050Legal documentT-S 16.90

    Ketubba fragment for an unnamed bride and groom. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Shevaṭ 1415 Seleucid = 31 December 1103 CE. With blessings for the Nagid …

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