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  1. 33301Paraliterary textENA 3947.2

    Jottings and basmalas.

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  2. 33302LetterT-S 8J29.3

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Between judges or communal leaders, dealing with at least two ongoing legal cases. The first concerns a lawsuit between al-ʿAmmānī and …

    1. ]בה אלי ענדנא כיף לא תוב(?) . פ . . . . [ . . . . . . . .
    2. תעצב ללעמאני וגאב לה עדים . . אני(?) כתבו אן אלמאל
    3. אלדי ללעמאני אלדי ביד אברהים אלזנד אנה …

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  3. 33303LetterT-S NS 226.172

    Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a skilled hand and with either colloquial spellings or spelling errors due to writing quickly. Mentions Abū …

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    1. אבו אלפרג אבן אלריס ותרוחו אלי ענד אלמרא [ו]תס[ל
    2. מן נאחיתהא כתאב לאני סמעת אן צהרהא /ס/אפר(?)
    3. אלי אלעסכר פהי אכבר אלחויג ענדכם ולו יצם ל[
    4. אלכ…

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  4. 33304List or tableENA 3735.10-11

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a variety of names, many of which may bear signs of Greek linguistic influence on ENA 3735.10. Early modern dating based …

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  5. 33305LetterMoss. VII,135.2

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions various business matters.

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  6. 33306Literary textENA 3934.9

    Literary text in Arabic script. Possibly medical.

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  7. 33307Legal documentT-S AS 145.157

    Legal document signed by [...] Berakhot ha-Kohen, Abraham ha-Kohen and Mevorakh b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)

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  8. 33308LetterT-S 13J19.26

    Letter perhaps addressed to a Nagid. Poetical. Praising the Levites. Contains decorative elements at the end of the widely spaced lines. (Information from Goitein's index …

    1. לפני אשר תלה אדמה על בלימה ועש אדם לעטר היקומים
    2. ובחר מכללם זרע ישורון ושם בניו מרובים גם עצומים
    3. ומהם זרע בני לוי אשר עושים רצונן לילות וימים
    4. אשר עומ…

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  9. 33309List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 197

    Practice of drafting a state document, Ottoman-era. Probably an instance of someone practicing an epistolary address to the Ottoman Sultan rather than an honorific of …

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  10. 33310LetterT-S 10J15.13

    Mercantile letter. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender's hand may be known. His relationship with the addressee is very strained. He complains of his bad …

    1. פכתיר אעזך אללה מן אלנאס ממן יתכלמוא דלך ולכ וט . . אלי מנך ולך מני
    2. אן לרבנו ישכי . זה לזה . . . לא זגל ולא אמגנא אלא לג . אחד לאבינו שבשמים
    3. אן שית …

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  11. 33311Literary textBL OR 5557P.47

    Hebrew poems for Purim in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. ASE

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  12. 33312LetterDK 371 + DK 36.11

    Condolence and business letter to the brothers Eliyyahu and Leon.

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  13. 33313Paraliterary textT-S 12.740

    Magical prayer for protection (from every evil, evil eye and impious persons) written (by an unskilled, possibly Hebrew rather than Coptic) hand in the Bohairic …

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  14. 33314LetterT-S AS 157.121

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Perhaps to Peraḥya, since Abū Saʿīd (probably Ḥalfon) is greeted at the bottom. Fragment …

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  15. 33315List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/13b

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. With some interesting symbols.

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  16. 33316Unknown typeMoss. X,131.2

    A ledger? - needs examination. No image

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  17. 33317Legal documentENA NS 15.25

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dating: possibly 1131/2 CE(?), but very hard to read. On the back of …

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  18. 33318LetterT-S NS 339.6

    Letter in Arabic script concerning a delivery of stones and wood, and wages to be paid to manufacturers. Relatively well preserved. Merits further examination. On …

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  19. 33319LetterJRL A 656

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (Iower left piece of recto). The content is unclear. Excerpts: "...his brothers, and he took one of the cloaks (milḥafa/malaḥif)... a …

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  20. 33320Unknown typeENA NS 85.1350

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  21. 33321Legal documentT-S Misc.24.76

    Draft or record of legal deed(s) in a court notebook. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership at the death of one of the partners. Names: …

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    1. וכנת קד קבצת בעד ופאה כיאר להדה אלשרכה . . . .
    2. הי פש . . . . . אן [[ . . ל]] חצל פיה סבעה ותלתין דינארא [[ונצף]]
    3. אלגמלה מאיה ועשרי…

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  22. 33322Legal documentT-S 10J21.2

    Sale by two women, presumably cousins, in al-Mahdiyya, of a Bible codex worth 20 dinars. The sellers confirm their willingness to sell, accept receipt of …

    1. הדא מא אשהדנא [בה אסמ]על(!) ביר [ . . . . . . . . . ]ן חית[ה . . . .
    2. אבנת תנחום בן אליתים ומן [רחל אבנ]ת יחיה [ . . . . .
    3. אבא ימות אשתרא מנהם אלמצח[…

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    This is what was testified before us by Ismā‘īl ibn Mūsā:

    He bought from Ḥiyuna bint Tanḥum ibn al-Yatīm and from Rachel bin…

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  23. 33323Paraliterary textJRL Genizah Ar. 702

    Writing exercises in at least two different scribal hands, one mentioning the name Avraham Ḥanīn. The name Harūn Reʾuben appears in a different scribal hand. …

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  24. 33324Literary textT-S Misc.8.5

    An ethical treatise, in a personal tone (yā akhī...), about fulfilling the religious duties

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  25. 33325Legal documentT-S 6J12.3

    Part of a pre-nuptial agreement written under the authority of David b. Abraham (David Maimonides, r. 1237–1300 CE) concerning the groom Aharon and the bride …

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  26. 33326Legal documentJRL P 796

    Legal fragment, probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

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  27. 33327LetterENA NS 21.8

    Letter, fragmentary, in which the writer complains that a woman's outfit was incomplete and asks for money to buy flour. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. . . . יא. אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך
    2. . . . . . .]ן אסכנדריה לחכלין ואן א. .[. .] . .ל.מה ושוק אליך קרב אלל.
    3. . . . . . . . .]…

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  28. 33328Unknown typeENA NS 85.856

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  29. 33329Legal documentT-S 8J4.9

    Legal deed concerning the payment in monthly installments of the remaining five dinars minus one sixth of a debt of a total of seven dinars. …

    1. חצר אלי בית דין מ כליפה בר מ יפת סט ובידה כתאב
    2. בנימוסי הגוים עלי מ טהור בר מ חסן מבלגהא
    3. סבעה דנא' קבץ מן גמלתהא דינארין וסדס והי מקצטה
    4. וקד אסתחקת גמ…

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  30. 33330Literary textBL OR 5559D.37 + BL OR 5559D.38

    Literary. Beginning of Chapter 24 from a late ethical treatise ("Four things are better old than new"), with commentary underneath.

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  31. 33331Paraliterary textENA 2865.28

    Megillat Miṣrayim?

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  32. 33332LetterT-S 12.382

    Letter from a man, probably in Alexandria, to his 'brother,' probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer's maternal uncle has recently died. The bulk of …

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    1. כתאבי אליך יאכי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאל
    2. אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ונעמאך וגעלני
    3. מן כל סו פדאך גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר
    4. חאל במנה וכרמה פאנה ולי דלך ו…

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  33. 33333Legal documentMoss. VII,129.1

    Court notebook, fragment of a bifolium. One of the entries involves Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd al-Nīlī (the indigo merchant) and somebody's death. In the hand …

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  34. 33334LetterT-S K25.176

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. It could also be described as an informal note. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The sender very directly conveys the results …

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  35. 33335Literary textENA 3964.14

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  36. 33336LetterMoss. VII,169

    Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Very damaged. Needs examination.

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  37. 33337Legal documentJRL A 816

    Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb and [...]b al-Ḥakīm. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?

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  38. 33338Legal documentENA 2715.23

    Court register. Recto: Partnership agreement, probably for the tax farming of silk dyeing in Upper Egypt (פי צמאן באב אלחריר ב[אלצעיד . . . אל]עליא …

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  39. 33339Legal documentT-S J2.65

    Fragment from a Karaite betrothal formulary, for use in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)

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    1. … [ח]דש פלוני שנת
    2. … יונים בירושלם
    3. … לקח פלוני בן פ'
    4. … מאת אביה
    5. … [ל]היות לי לאשה
    6. … כי רציתי
    7. … [ח]פצה ולקחתי
    8. … חמשים כסף ככ'
    9. … הבתולות וא ||
    10. … …

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    1. … the month so-and-so, of the year
    2. … of the Greeks, in Jerusalem
    3. … so-and-so son of so-and-so took
    4. … from her father
    5. … to be my wife
    6. … that I …

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  40. 33340Legal documentT-S NS 305.202

    Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Unusual format; may be quite early, 10th or 11th century? May be a deed of sale …

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  41. 33341State documentT-S AS 111.29

    Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably accounts, possibly fiscal/state. Might mention ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused for a Hebrew literary text. (Information from CUDL)

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  42. 33342State documentT-S AS 178.72

    State-related document. Receipt? Mentions Muẓaffar b. Hilāl b. Ḥusām al-Dawla and the town of Dahrūṭ.

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  43. 33343Unknown typeENA NS 85.786

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  44. 33344List or tableYevr. II A 1759

    List of communal expenses of various Karaite communities in Poland-Lithuania- Russia region

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  45. 33345Legal documentT-S 8.183

    Small fragment from a court record. Regarding a the settlement of a debt. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' …

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    1. ועטרת ראשנו וכאן [ ]
    2. שלמה הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב [ ]
    3. וקבצת תמנהא פפי גצון דלך אס[תקר ]
    4. גמלה דלך ממא הו לכא[צתה ]
    5. דיון וסלמת אליה מא [ ]

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  46. 33346Credit instrument or private receiptT-S 6J3.10

    Verso: Note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to pay the bearer one dirham, "because the need for it …

    1. אלשיך א[בו] אלעז ידפע למוצלהא
    2. דרהמא [ . . . ]א לאן אלחאגה אליה
    3. דאעיה ואללה עאלם באלחאל אלדי אנא
    4. פיה פלא תעיק אלרסול ותוצלה
    5. אלדרהם סרעה והו יפתח לה מ…

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    1. May the elder A[bu]ʾl-ʿIzz pay the bearer
    2. [on]e dirhem because my need for it is 
    3. urgent. God knows the situation I am
    4. in, so do not impede th…

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  47. 33347State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 648

    State document, wide line spacing, very fragmentary. Needs examination.

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  48. 33348List or tableENA 3453.15

    Accounts in Arabic script. On recto there are Hebrew poems by Yehuda b. Efrayim (according to the Arabic-script header), including three verses that are palindromes …

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  49. 33349LetterJRL B 6525

    Letter fragment (upper right corner). In Hebrew. Addressed to some dignitary: ha-Sar ha-Gadol Rabbenu [...]. The sender explains that he has come from a far-away …

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  50. 33350State documentT-S Ar.35.197

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 536. See also T-S Ar.35.196.

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