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  1. 3301LetterT-S NS 306.116

    Letter or official report in Arabic script. The upper ~8 lines are preserved.

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  2. 3302List or tableJRL C 140

    Accounts that mention the "Karo y Frances Kon[panya]" in the heading and a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. This folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

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  3. 3303List or tableT-S AS 185.24

    Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the mention of Ottoman-era jadid coinage. MCD.

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  4. 3304Legal documentT-S NS 323.28

    Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Nisan 5285 AM = 19 April 1525 CE. Signed by three known figures: Yisraʾel b.

    1. בעה
    2. מה שמעיד מהררי בירב הנל שהיה העולה מחשבון הצמוקים שמונה מאות
    3. פרחים בין רב למעט ושהשארית שבעבורו נכנס בסוהר היה ש פרחי בלבד הנה
    4. החכם הנל בעצמו הו…

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  5. 3305State documentENA 4045.2 + JRL B 5446 + T-S F13.1 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5 + T-S C2.209

    Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals and access to water — insofar as one can judge.

    Lost Archive, p. 397

    their signatures validated it... fifty dīnārs... except for the amount of the officials .... their extraction and expenditure... for the needs of calling for the construction of canals ...

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  6. 3306List or tableENA 1822a.5

    Account book of Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī containing payment orders. Dating: ca. 1048 (Gil). (Information from Gil)

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    1. . .[. . . . . . . . . . . .]. . ינקץ קירט [[ונץ]]

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    1. פירוט החשבון של האדון אבו ....
    2. (2–8) קיבל שכ"ה דינר ....; סך הכול שכ"ה ....; וקיראט ....; לזכותו מזה צ"ו דינרים, בניכוי ....

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  7. 3307LetterT-S NS J485 + T-S 8J20.16 + T-S NS 283.96

    Letter describing the claims of the writer's brother-in-law on the half of a house that was sold by the mother to her daughter, the writer's …

    ]יום פי דלך קטע מצאנעתה אודיתהא וגוע [ראפ

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    ומוצע ידפע פיהא דרהם עד/א/ ידפע פיהא נצף

  8. ...He started telling |anyone who came to inspect it (i.e. the house): “Buy the [house without] 
  9. the stairway”. The matter is ruining her.
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  11. 3308List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 32/52

    Currencies used are gurush and zolota (a silver coin minted by the Ottomans to replace the Polish-Lithuanian zloty starting in 1690 CE).

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  12. 3309LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 728

    Possibly the bottom of a letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. Legible words: من الخدم. . .

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  13. 3310Legal documentT-S 13J6.12

    Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan.

    1. אלדי אחפטה אנא אבו אלעלא בן איוב בין סיד אלכל בן אבו יעקוב אלחזן [
    2. אבו אסחק אברהים בן יחיי הידוע אלנגיב והו אן למא כאן יום אלכמ[יס
    3. תמוז אתסא אכר אלנ…

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  14. 3311LetterT-S AS 146.172

    Written on a reused folio of Arabic document(s), likely official. Needs examination.

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  15. 3312LetterT-S NS 97.33

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. Possibly official. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Only some words are legible: ...

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  16. 3313Legal documentT-S 10J21.14 + T-S 8J32.9

    Yiṣḥaq by a government official ("ustādh"). The story involves a mule and the denouncing of people to the government.

    1. . . . . ]א אנה אלדי גמו בהא עלי לסאן אבו אל
    2. . . . ] . ראפע ללאסתאד וקאל איש יכאלי סלום בן
    3. יצחק ב . . .ן הדה אלעיאלה מא כסר אלי הדה
    4. אלסאעה רבע //ויבה…

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  17. 3314LetterNLI 4°9463.9

    A certain woman had asked the sender to buy her a muṣḥaf, but the cheapest he could find was for 3 dinars, and if he purchased it he would not have enough money to continue on his journey.

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  18. 3315LetterENA NS 32.6

    The writer seems to be beseeching the addressee for a loan of a certain sum of ashrafīs (a gold coin first minted by the Mamluks in 1425 CE)

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  19. 3316List or tableT-S AS 185.124

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention Ottoman-era jadid coinage. 16th- or 17th-century. Along the recto's upper border the name Yosef appears with a possible surname: שוריפה = Sorifa[?].

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  20. 3317List or tableT-S AS 186.184

    List of Ottoman-era coinage values. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and numismatic references to Ottoman jadid (one of which is specified as an Aleppo-variant: חליבי גדיד).

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  21. 3318State documentT-S NS 297.36

    The name of the scribe or official who commissioned this record is perhaps Yūsuf b.

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    1. بسم ا]لله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. ]رى ذكره من مزارعي الناحية المعروفة بالجرش(؟)

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  22. 3319LetterENA 4020.4

    Letter sent by the head of the Jews, Sar Shalom ha-Levi Gaon b. Moshe, to the community of Qalyub confirming Moshe b. Levi as slaughterer, …

  23. נין הגאונים זקל
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    ואלואגב עליכם אלקיאם בחקוקה | ומחאפטתה לכונה יעלם אולאדכם

    אלתורה | ויכרגכם מן ידי חובה | ותתכלצו מעונש האיסור | ושלום

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  25. 3320LetterENA 4100.21a

    Letter from the daughter of the head of the Yeshiva to Nahray b. Nissim. Ca. 1060.

    ENA 4100, f. 21 A ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 3, pp. 183-186 (Doc. #486) Letter from the daughter of the head of the Yeshiva to Nahray b. Nissim. Ca. 1060 (1-27-87 JH(P)

    1. בשם רחם
    2. וצל רקעה מולאי אלרייס אלאגל אלולד

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  26. 3321LetterL-G Lit.II.118

    Letter from Yefet ha-Melammed (the teacher). In Judaeo-Arabic. Somewhat crude hand and spellings. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. "I heard that you are intending …

  27. תנקצהם מן כל בד
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    וסבב | ערפתך | בדלך בעד | אכצאצך | באתם | סלאם | ועלי |

    מן ענדך | אפצל | סלאם | ואם יוסף | תבלג | ברחמתהא

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  29. 3322LetterT-S 8J24.5

    Note, it seems in the hand of Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sighmar, mentioning the disposition of a matter concerning a house and requesting information about …

  30. . . . . . . . . . .] וכתב לבראה
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    1. ואן לם . .
    2. אכד אלכתא[ב
    3. מן אלשיך

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  32. 3323LetterT-S 8J24.7

    Fragment of a beautifully written business letter, dealing with the sale of various items. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 592 and from Goitein's index …

  33. לה מן אלגיד ואלרדי ולא
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    1. תוכר ענה דלך לאני
    2. עארצתה בארבעין

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  35. 3324LetterT-S NS J15

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Alexandria, approximately 1020 (?). Verso: Badly damaged text in a different hand to that on …

    TS NS J 15, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp.199-200 (Doc. #108), C.B. 02-25-88 (p)Letter from Solomon b. Judah to an unidentified personality inAlexandria, approximately 1020 (?).

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    1. [ לכבו]ד אדוננו [ ] והנכ[בד ]

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  36. 3325List or tableT-S NS J420

    Fragment of a list of recipients of alms, similar to Bodl. MS heb. c28.24, in the hand, it seems, of the judge Yeshu'a ha-Kohen b. …

  37. מעאלי [ב]ן אלדהקאן [.]
  38. written veritically, bottomtotop, in between names and figures on left-hand side

    1. בר[ו]ך בן אלכלאל י' בן אלאחמד

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  39. 3326LetterT-S K25.73

    to 'the ustādh,' likely a government official. He asks the addressee to send the skins/hides (al-julūd, misspelled اجلود).

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  40. 3327LetterT-S 13Ja1.1

    There ensued a legal struggle which involved an official titled Sitr al-Dawla, apparently Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ma'mūn Yaḥyā Ibn Kātib al-Baṭā'iḥī, who became the vizier in Egypt following al-Afḍal.

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    1. كتابي اطال الله بقاء موﻻي الدييان اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وشوق اليك شديد جمع الله بيننا على اسر حال

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  41. 3328Legal documentDK 310

    The currency לב׳ נק׳ אש׳ used in both documents is presumably a kind of silver coin (לבנים נקרים אשפרוש). In earlier documents, when the Ottoman akçe was still minted, the term levanīm was equivalent to akçe/aspros, but here it may be the silver para/medin. Esedi guruş coinage is also mentioned here as gurush arayot (e.g. ll. 15-16).

    1. בשני בשבת שתי ימים לחדש [.]בת שנת
    2. חמשה אלפים וחמש מאות. ותשעים שנים לבריאת עולם למנן
    3. שלנו כאן במתא שאלוניקי יע׳׳א דעל כף ימא מותבה וממימי
    4. מגינות(?) …

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  42. 3329Legal documentENA 1691.20

    The writer notes that, for the first time "in a long time," this means that the calendars of the Rabbanites and the ʿarelim (western Christians? Muslims?) have coincided, while the calendars of the Qaraites and the Franks and Maronites have coincided.

    1. בר
    2. זכרון עדות לבני מקרא יש צו
    3. למא כאן בתאריך יום אלה אלמבארך כ לחדש
    4. אדר סנה התמב ליצירה סימן הושיענו אלהי
    5. ישענו תוגהו אלשלוחים מן ירושלים תותבב
    6. לכשף…

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  43. 3330List or tableJRL C 52

    Some of the entries where prices are mentioned also reference types of coinage. On the upper right of the verso, line 2, the word "בונדוק / bunduk" appears which is in all likelihood a quantity of gold Venetian ducats. In the same column below that, the term "מתקיל / metqil" appears and elsewhere on the verso as another form of coinage. The word Istanbulī is also used in various accounts but its exact numismatic meaning is unclear.

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  44. 3331LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/16

    Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī coinage mentioned was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year.

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  45. 3332Legal documentT-S AS 145.85

    Record of debt with values measured in Venetian zecchini (Ar. bunduqī, a coin minted 1284–1797).

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  46. 3333Legal documentT-S AS 187.9

    Manṣūr and a sum of 5 peraḥīm (Venetian gold ducats or a similar coinage type). Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography.

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  47. 3334State documentYevr.-Arab. I 1986

    Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant chancery hand with very wide line-spacing. Najīb al-Dawla is a higher-level official than the author of the letter, but the author also has quite a bit of command and responsibility, and the ability to issue to levy and cancel taxes and to issue decrees on the spot in a region of the delta, so perhaps he is a local governor — although he refers to a different ʿāmil in his letter. […] The author's wish to receive more official duties from Najīb al-Dawla, a request he expresses with what might be a raʾy clause (but there is a lacuna). 10.

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  48. 3335LetterT-S NS 216.37

    Provides information about Ibn Migash unknown from Avraham Ibn Dawud's Sefer ha-Qabbala, which portrays Ibn Dawud as a Torah scholar, in contrast to his grandfather the courtier (who was forced to flee from Granada to Seville in the first half of the eleventh century); the grandson, born in Seville on 1 Adar 4837 [28 January 1077], studied with Yiṣḥaq al-Fāsī when the latter came to Lucena when Ibn Migash was around 12 years old until he was around 26 years old and was devoted to Torah study. But Friedman notes that the panegyrics that Yehuda ha-Levi wrote for Ibn Migash seem to allude to the grandson's secular pursuits and standing as well.

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    1. שכל ותִוִרה ברה / אשר לה הרקמה / להבת / שלהבת / מהר אלהים מחוצבת /
    2. כל אבן יקרה מסוכתה / ספיר גזרתה / לא תסולה בכתם אופיר /

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  49. 3336State documentMoss. Xa,3.10

    Petition to an unnamed Ottoman official from Pinḥas son of Yūsuf. Dating: c. 1620s CE (per Hathaway), an estimate which is supported by the probable mention of one of the same individuals (Avraham Aripol) in a document from 1588 CE: T-S 13J4.21 - PGPID 16130. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway observes: "This torn, crumpled, and stained document, in Ottoman Turkish, is another undated petition to an unnamed official. It is clearly closely related to T-S AS 178.88 [PGPID 36909].

    bir Yehūdīye otuz altı bin pāra[ya] beyʿ idüb ve toḫum muḳāṭaʿasın daḫi yiğirmi bir bin beş yüz pāraya

  50. beyʿ idüb, ve ḳāmış muḳāṭaʿasının senesi tamām olub, defter mūcebince ṭoḳsān bin pāra taḥṣīl

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    1. the witnesses, and concerning this slander, and that which was taken from [his] taxes [?]

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  52. 3337Legal documentT-S 20.6

    Location: Fustat. Dated: 26 Elul 1348 Seleucid = 9 September 1037 CE. The dowry includes a half share in the house of the al-Ghallāq family.

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  53. 3338List or tableT-S AS 153.191

    List and accounts for the first and second day of Passover using eastern Arabic numerals. 18th- or 19th- century based on the paleography and usage of the q[urush] symbol throughout (an Ottoman coin minted post-1690 CE).

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  54. 3339LetterENA 2727.16

    Abu Sahl's dependents include an old woman and a sick man who cannot sleep day or night. Abu Sahl has had to buy oil instead of bread, "so that he does not die in darkness."

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    1. ממלוכה אבו סהל

    ולד אלאהוב זל

    1. אלממלוך //יקבל// אלארץ וינהי למאלך רקה אנה ערף מא יאול אמרה אליה מן

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  55. 3340State documentENA 3079.5

    Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved.

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  56. 3341State documentENA 3315.20

    Recto: Fragment of an official state correspondence, in Arabic script. Has wide line-spacing, diacritical dots, and diacritical marks, with iḥmāl markings.

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    1. ذكر وروى به معه........[
    2. ابن الموفق في الدين يذكر له انه بلغه ان معه سجلا الى  [

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  57. 3342LetterT-S 8J18.19

    Letter from a widow, with one orphaned daughter and whose house had collapsed, petitioning a high-ranking official in the community for assistance. The woman employs the common strategy of appealing especially for her fatherless daughter, and indicates furthermore that she herself was an orphan.

    1. עבדתה אלדאעיה לה
    2. יתימה בן אלעאבד נע
    3. בשמך
    4. אעלם חצרה מולאי אלריס אלאגל אדאם אללה תאיידה
    5. אן קד וקעת אלדאר אלדי כנת אנא ואליתימה נתאוא פיהא
    6. וקד בקינא חא…

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    1. Your slave who prays for you 
    2. The orphan girl, son [sic] of al-ʿĀbid, (who) r(ests in) E(den) 
    3. In your name, O Lord 
    4. I inform my master the most illustrious head, may God make permanent His support (for you),
    5. that the house in which I and the orphan girl were sheltered fell down
    6. and we were left bewildered, not knowing what to do.

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  58. 3343Legal documentT-S Ar.35.45

    Legal or official document in Arabic script (mā taḥaṣṣala min...).

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  59. 3344State documentT-S NS 100.63

    Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination.

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  60. 3345Legal documentT-S 20.164

    All of these details appear as context before the document states its purpose in line 26, possibly a dissolution (but this reading is tentative due to the level of damage).

    1.                                 בע׳׳ה
    2. ...] ושותפות בין היקרים כה׳׳ר יעקב הלוי נחמן יצ׳׳ו וכה׳׳ר יוסף [...
    3. ...] יעקב הנז׳ הטיל הקרן לכיס השותפות הנ…

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  61. 3346LetterT-S 8.30

    . ."; a government official (ḥājib) named ʿIzz al-Mulk; and "Rabbenu Sayyidnā Moshe" (probably Maimonides).

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  62. 3347List or tableAIU XI.73

    Accounts fragment in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic relying on alphanumerical figures and on the verso the term "soldi / שולדי" is in use likely indicating a specific coinage rather than its generic meaning in Italian as any type of money.

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  63. 3348Legal documentT-S 13J3.3

    Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April 1143 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף צואה דא כן היה פי
    2. יום אלארבעא אלסאדס ואלעשרין מן אייר דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחמשין וארבע שנין
    3. לשטרות …
  64. ...Of this the (expenditure for) the seven days
  65. of mourning for me to be taken from the expenses due me, since he is the executor for the son of his brother.
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  67. 3349List or tableENA NS 74.7

    The word קרוש/kurush appears in one of the entries which helps date the fragment as 18th- or 19th-century when this Ottoman-era coin was in production.

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  68. 3350List or tableENA NS 77.403

    The terms "sharf" and "ashrīf" on the recto may be references to late Mamlūk ashrāfī or Ottoman şerifī gold coinage, supporting a possible dating estimate of 15th- or 16th-century.

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