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  1. 31701State documentMoss. IXa,2.8

    Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Refers to two iqṭāʿs (على الاقطاعين المذكورين). The last line bears a date that may be 403 AH or 430 …

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  2. 31702Paraliterary textT-S NS 183.34

    Calendrical text concluding 've-shalom' (like a letter or epistle) and signed by Saʿadya ha-Kohen. Mentions maḥzor 262 (which spanned the years 1200–18 CE). Refers to …

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  3. 31703LetterJRL L 87

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Karo Frances Co.

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  4. 31704Literary textENA 3928.3

    Medical, literary.

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  5. 31705Legal documentT-S AS 184.390

    Top of a legal document from Fustat. Very faded/damaged. Two parties are mentioned. On verso there is mirror image Arabic text (imprint from another fragment).

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  6. 31706LetterMoss. IXa,2.50

    Recto: Letter fragment mentioning Faḍāʾil and Yūsuf. Reused for a Hebrew-script legal document on verso (see separate entry).

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  7. 31707Unknown typeENA NS 83.261

    Unidentified document in Arabic script. Letter or state document? Handwriting very cramped in places. Needs examination.

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  8. 31708Unknown typeENA NS 85.1376.2

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  9. 31709Legal documentT-S 10K15.1

    Maimonides' decree on menstrual purity. Dated 1487 Seleucid = 1175/76 CE. See Eve Krakowski, "Maimonides' Menstrual Reform in Egypt," JQR (2020), 245–89.

    Build up, build up, clear the way! Remove a stumbling block from my people’s way.

    We, the scholars living in Egypt at this time, say: When we were …

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  10. 31710List or tableT-S Ar.6.1a

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Sums of quantities of grain (waybāt) given as a loan, partially against security. Muslim names. One tailor (khayyāṭ), one carpenter (najjār). 26 …

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  11. 31711Legal documentNLI 577.1/61

    There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top left - beginning of a legal document. Bottom right is also part …

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  12. 31712Legal documentT-S AS 154.509

    Probably a fragment from a legal document or halakhic text. (Information from CUDL)

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  13. 31713Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …

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    :Right side of bifolio 2r (Documents 14-15)

    1. שימסור הר׳ פינחס הנז׳ כל הנכסים של הר׳ משה הנ׳ אשר בידו
    2. ליד אינו נאמן כפי ראית עינינו בתורת עסקא ל…

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  14. 31714Paraliterary textT-S AS 182.300

    Two recipes/prescriptions in Arabic script, likely medical.

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  15. 31715State documentT-S NS 306.72

    Commercial or official/fiscal account referring to names. Needs examination.

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  16. 31716Paraliterary textT-S AS 213.7

    Recto: Possibly a horoscope (or a birth record for a boy?). In Arabic script. Mentions "al-mawlid al-saʿīd," Alexandria, the year 552 AH (=1157/58 CE). In …

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  17. 31717Legal documentHalper 374

    Ketubba. Dated: Friday, 19 Adar 2203 Seleucid = 18 March 1892 CE. Location: Al-Maḥābisha in northwest Yemen, also known as Quzayyiz, near the lake or …

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  18. 31718LetterENA 2806.6

    Letter, poetic, contains mostly blessings, ending 'to our fourth (= fourth of the yeshiva) rabbi son [of ...],' that is, Masliah Gaon. ENA 2806.5–7 are …

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  19. 31719LetterT-S NS 320.20

    Recto: Letter from communal leaders, in Alexandria, to the judge Shemuel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unclear; likely early 13th century, based on handwriting and …

    TS NS Box 320, f. 20, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.213-216, N.H. 04-14-88,(P).Letter from the Dayyan (judge) Samuel, Alexandria to the Nagid.

    1. א…

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  20. 31720List or tableENA NS 9.5

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 17th–19th century.

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  21. 31721LetterT-S 10J12.27

    Verso (original use): Letter. Request to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to write a recommendation to the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (which at that …

    1. להדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כגק מרינו ורבינו אדונינו
    2. הודינו והדרינו עטרת ראשינו אברהם השר האדיר
    3. המבהק החזק [הרב] הגדול בישראל בר כגק מר ורב
    4. אדונינו משה ה…

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  22. 31722List or tableENA NS 28.33

    Mainly pen trials in a mixture of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Arabic script. Dating: probably 13th century. There is a section that might be …

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  23. 31723LetterT-S NS 320.85

    Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the names Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in …

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  24. 31724Legal documentT-S 12.644

    Qaraite contract of betrothal (erusin). In Hebrew. Bride: Mubāraka. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. ʿEli. He paid the first installment of 30 dinars at the time of …

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    1. ...ת אשר …
    2. ... [יצ]חק בן עלי זה במוהר הנזכר למעלה ועל התנאים אשר י[תנום] …
    3. … [ברצונו וח]פצו והוא לא אנוס ולא שוגה כי האריש את בתו מבארכה הבתול…

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    1. … that …
    2. … [to Is]aac ben cEli by the mohar mentioned above and by the conditions [that they shall stipulate between them] …
    3. … [with will and]…

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  25. 31725LetterT-S 13J16.16

    Letter from Moshe Ha-Sofer, from the family of Meir Gaon, to Avraham b. Sahl Ha-Tustari, approximately 1030.

    1. אתך השר היקיר הנהדר יפדה צור ממעד
    2. ברכותיך יעדיף ויישר לך נהל כי כל צעד
    3. רוחך ישמור בעיתותי אוף וזעם ורעש ורעד
    4. הרקת טובותיך [ישמור] ימשוך מבלי פסק ומע…

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  26. 31726List or tableT-S NS 292.70

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Headed "expenses" (al-maṣrūf). Items include land surveyors (al-muhandisīn), food for the first day, for the second day, an animal …

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  27. 31727List or tableJRL L 179 + JRL L 180

    Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. The entry on the right side of the recto mentions a …

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  28. 31728Legal documentENA NS 35.29

    Probably a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, late. Mentions an Amīr Yūsuf [...] and "all the demands and all the debts. . . " incumbent on …

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  29. 31729LetterT-S AS 126.100

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved. Mentions dirhams, a place, Umm Ibrāhīm, the term "taʿzīl" (a retreat as in T-S …

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  30. 31730State documentENA NS 58.1

    Bottom of an official letter (petition?) in Arabic script. The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala. Unclear how much of the text above this …

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  31. 31731List or tableJRL A 384

    Accounts in Ladino with Western Arabic numerals that label transactions with relevant names such as Suleymān "סלימן", Raḥman "רחמן", and Moshe. In one of the …

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  32. 31732List or tableT-S AS 178.180

    Accounts. Mentioning several names and several interesting commodities (e.g., black cumin, ushna/lichen, mastic). Dating: looks ca. 1150–1250.

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  33. 31733LetterT-S AS 152.6

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). The remaining text consists mostly …

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  34. 31734LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1512

    Letter from Naṣrallāh al-Khāzin, in Jerusalem, to Shemuel al-Qayyim, Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Waliyy; 60 dinars; a woman (Ḥājja Khātūn) who …

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  35. 31735Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 145.25

    Order of payment advising Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen to pay a subsistence of 3 dinars for general living costs to the guardian Yaʿaqov b. Avraham …

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  36. 31736Literary textYevr. II A 216

    Book. Qaraite. May have some contents of documentary significance, including the genealogy (p. 51) of the well-known Shelomo b. David b. Ḥisday (d. 1203/04 CE), …

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  37. 31737Unknown typeENA NS 85.1213

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  38. 31738Unknown typeENA NS 85.1425

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  39. 31739LetterT-S 13J25.13

    IB VI, 27 (ח18). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Bharuch, northwest India, probably to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan/Yefet, in Aden. Dating: 1134 CE. The …

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    1. ב̇שר̇ח
    2. קד עלם אלקדים ̇גל ̇תَנَאَה מא י̇גדה עבד אלח̇צרה אלסאמיה אלריّיסיה אלא̇גליّה אלעאליה
    3. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא ועזהא ורפעתהא וסמוהא וס…

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  40. 31740List or tableENA 3937.4

    Unidentified text, possibly lists, accounts or private notes.

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  41. 31741List or tableHalper 471

    Account book in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in multiple locations to the early 18th century, for example שנת הנה ישעך בא (=463=1703). There may also be dates …

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  42. 31742LetterT-S AS 153.488

    Letter; from Maʿānī b. Abū Maslūk, mentioning a certain Isḥāq. (Information from CUDL)

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  43. 31743Legal documentT-S K25.249

    Declaration of receipt of a quantity of barley. In Arabic script. Hiba b. Buqṭur b. […], companion of the amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla Ḥaydara b. Muḥammad …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. يقول هبة بن بقطر بن حل | صاحب الامير ذخيرة الدولة حيدرة بن محمد
    3. بن عدنا{نا}ن انى قبضت من الشيخ ابى الحسن علي بن جديد من الشعي…
    1.  In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  

    2. Hiba ibn Boqṭor ibn [ … ], the companion of the Amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla Ḥaydara ibn Muḥamm…

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  44. 31744Unknown typeENA NS 85.460

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  45. 31745State documentT-S AS 184.355

    Possibly a tax receipt or similar document. Rajab 606 AH?

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  46. 31746Legal documentT-S NS 134.126

    Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions a qāḍī, a Christian, and possibly 16 dinars. Quite damaged. Reused for …

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  47. 31747Paraliterary textT-S AS 157.263

    Ownership note on a literary text, for Shela (b.?) Nissim. אנתקל בחכם אלרת(?) לשלה נסים קכלב(?)

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  48. 31748State documentT-S Ar.30.308

    State document, in Arabic script. Probably official correspondence. The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each …

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  49. 31749LetterMoss. Xa,3.35

    Business letter in Arabic script from Nissim b. Mufarraj b. Kulayf to al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍl Hārūn.

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  50. 31750State documentT-S 10J19.13

    State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.

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