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  1. 301LetterT-S K16.72

    Then, "Know that from the day I left Alexandria, I did not acquire profit or even a quarter(?), but may (God) do for the sake of His name and be good to us all. And peace to all 'sons of the covenant' (בני ברית)." Mentions Abū l-Faḍl.

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  2. 302LetterT-S NS J604

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged/faded. The addressee is evidently an important person, as recto consists mostly of poetical praises. The substance of the letter may begin halfway through verso. There may also be an address on verso (the name Yaʿaqov ha-Zaqen is legible - perhaps the father of the addressee?). There is also an undeciphered line in Arabic script underneath the address.

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  3. 303LetterAIU VII.A.29

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The writer may mention being imprisoned (ḥabsī fī hādhihi l-muda), but this is uncertain without all the surrounding context.

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  4. 304LetterT-S AS 210.133

    Mentions on recto women named Sittāt and Sitt al-Ahl. Quite faded. Needs examination.

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  5. 305LetterCUL Or.1080 4.42

    Letter probably from a cantor named Sayyid al-Ahl, in Alexandria, to his son Faḍāʾil and other family members, in Fustat. […] It seems he intends to travel onward to al-Maḥalla, Damīra, and/or Sunbāṭ. He may also be preparing for the wedding of a certain Faḍāʾil, the tax farmer (? […] He complains that he has no money and his clothes have all worn out, and he asks for assistance. He asks for news of everybody and also Mufaḍḍal.

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  6. 306List or tableENA NS 11.11

    and he will do do what he must do"); Yeshuʿa b. Maḍmūn; Abū Manṣūr al-Ṣāʾigh; al-Shaykh al-Makīn b. Mardūkh; the son of al-Shaykh Bū l-Faḍl the son of his brother; Abu l-Fakhr b. […] Abū l-Barakāt; Muwaffaq; Mukrim(?) b. Abū l-Khayr; Fāḍil; Mūsā b. [...]; the sons of al-Ṣafiyy Bū l-ʿAlāʾ; Menaḥem b. Ibrāhīm; the son of al-ʿAfīf(?) Menaḥem; al-Kaʿkī; Kohen; Fāḍil; the sons of Hiba b.

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  7. 307LetterT-S Ar.7.33

    Letter from Mufaḍḍal b. al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin Bunduq(?) al-Maḥallī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very faded, but much of it may be legible with multispectral imaging. On verso greetings to the addressee's father, al-Rayyis Abū l-Majd, and Abū l-Riḍā. Needs further examination.

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  8. 308Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/35

    Acknowledgment made by [...] b. Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār and his young daughter releasing their in-law Abū l-Faḍl Menashshe al-Raffāʾ ("the darner") from claims.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחת[א כן הוה חצר אלינא מר ור . . . . . בר
    2. מר ור מנגא הזקן אלעטאר נע ואבנתהא אלצגירה אלמדעאה [
    3. בעד אן צחת לנ…

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  9. 309LetterT-S 6J6.7

    The right side is very faded. Concerning business matters. Mentions that 'the broker came to me,' something to do with Jewish law, and 'I will not sell to a gentile except....' May also refer to a current or hypothetical partnership.

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  10. 310List or tableT-S Ar.35.34

    Mentioning names such as Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn Nufayʿ; Sulaymān b. Bū ʿAlī; Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-ʿAjamī; "the Jews." Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  11. 311LetterT-S AS 149.78

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Very faded. Mentions sending something with 'al-zaqen.'

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  12. 312Legal documentT-S NS 224.122

    The partners are Abū l-Faḍl and Avraham. On top of the Judaeo-Arabic text there are also the remnants of a few lines of large undeciphered Arabic script, some in red ink and some in black ink.

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  13. 313Literary textENA 1394.1–13

    Booklet of alphabetical tables for prognostications in Arabic script. […] The last page may have a colophon, but it is quite faded.

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  14. 314LetterMoss. II,178

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, quite faded, in which Ibrāhīm tells his son Abū l-ʿAlā' how much he misses him and how difficult conditions are.

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  15. 315List or tableT-S AS 153.256

    List of payments; contributors listed include Yaʿaqov, Shemuʾel (?), Faḍl, Mūsā, Ḥusayn, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Yosef, ראיס and אדוננו; Coptic numerals.

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  16. 316LetterT-S AS 169.211

    Mentions Netanʾel b. Shelomo al-Zajjāj. Very faded. Greetings to several people.

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  17. 317LetterT-S AS 179.279

    Letter from Mubārak b. Ṣadaqa al-Ṭarābulsī to an addressee whose name is mostly faded.

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  18. 318State documentENA 3164.9

    State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions all fortified towns "kāffa al-thugūr".

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  19. 319LetterENA 3361.13 + ENA 3361.14

    Mentions Pinḥas b. Elḥanan (appears also in T-S 8J4.6 (PGPID 2125)) and al-Rayyis Abū Isḥāq. […] Shiftal(? שפתאל) and Abū l-Faḍl b. Shemuel.

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  20. 320LetterT-S Misc.24.56

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions that all slaughtering in Damsīs has been put on hold; asks the addressee to obtain a fatwā in response to some query; mentions (al-ḥazzān / the cantor?) Ibn al-Munajjim (cf. CUL Or.1081 J61 (PGPID 8959) and related fragments); mentions an illness.

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  21. 321State documentT-S Ar.42.194

    Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. […] The petitioner mentions bringing something to the treasury or a government warehouse (al-khizāna al-maʿmūra bi-dāʾim al-ʿizz) and asks for charity or at least a charitable act (al-ṣadaqa). On verso there is a very faded text in Hebrew (a prayer?).

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    1. مملوك مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها

    2. الخلف(؟)

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. عبد مولاتنا السيدة الشـ[ـريفة]

    5. الملكة حرس الله ملكها وحرس عزها

    6. وادام م…

    1. The slave of our mistress, may God make her reign eternal

    2. (al-Khalaf?)

    3. In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.

    4. The slave of our …

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  22. 322List or tableT-S NS 321.77

    Recto: Judaeo-Arabic list of names and numbers. Names include: al-Rashīd; al-Raḍiyy; Ibn al-Makīn; Abū l-Faḍl; Sukkarī; al-Kohen Abū l-[...]; al-Asʿad b.

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  23. 323Paraliterary textT-S NS 164.22

    Yefet (עבד האל הקטן בישראל בר יפת שמואל) who is probably the same as Bū l-Faḍl b. al-Ḥasan al-Isrāʾīlī (written in Arabic script underneath). There are also a few words in Hebrew on recto referring to God who is enthroned on the cherubs.

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  24. 324Legal documentBL OR 13153.4/9

    A settlement concerning arrangements for the dowry items of a woman and her husband Abū l-Faḍāʾil "peloni" (indicating that this is a draft). Also mentions Abū Yaʿqūb.

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  25. 325LetterT-S AS 172.326

    Probably addressed to ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Urjuwānī, in Darb al-Ṣafīn in Fustat. Part of the upper right margin is preserved on recto, and part of the address on verso. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Muḥammad (?).

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  26. 326LetterT-S NS 204.69

    In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged & faded. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender is writing from Damsīs. Mentions trade in indigo and business in the Rīf. Also contains the intriguing phrase, "I wish someone would come and knock on the door and [...]."

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  27. 327LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 329

    The bottom 9 lines are preserved. Mentions Raḍiyy al-Dawla; sending things; possibly someone named ʿAbd al-Masīḥ; the intriguing line "Woe to the people of Aswān from [...]" (l. 4); and various greetings, including to "mawlāy al-raʾīs Abū l-Faḍl." Needs further examination.

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  28. 328Paraliterary textENA 2096.3

    And the explanation of the difficult words in Zerʿim and Shabbat and. . . " Underneath, in very faded letters: "min. . . al-shaykh . . . "

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  29. 329List or tableENA 3944.1

    Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Mentions "jumlat al-waraq" in the first line. Needs examination.

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  30. 330Unknown typeT-S AS 146.192

    Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew script. Verso: Faded and damaged documentary fragment mentioning al-Ramla and "to Egypt" and "Adonenu."

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  31. 331Legal documentT-S AS 150.101

    AM, which places it in the first decade of the 11th century. Mentions "all of my claims in the city of Ramla." The rest is very faded.

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  32. 332State documentT-S AS 178.75

    Most of the original page is preserved, but the text is damaged and faded. Petition addressed to a Fatimid caliph requesting for the issuance of a decree "bi-khurūj al-tawqīʿ".

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  33. 333State documentT-S Misc.29.4

    The first line is the glyph, then Abū Sahl, then Abū l-Faḍlal-Raʾīs. Needs further examination.

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  34. 334LetterT-S NS 103.40

    Verso: Three lines of faded Arabic script including the basmala and possibly the beginning of a letter (ḥaḍrat. . . . al-sāmī. . .).

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  35. 335Legal documentENA 2558.18 + T-S 13J7.12

    The deed concerns the dissolution of a partnership in a house and in a store between Khalaf and Abū l-Faḍl, the sons of Hilāl. It seems that Khalaf retained the store, while Abū l-Faḍl bought out Khalaf's half of the house for 16.5 dinars. (See also Eliyyahu Ashtor, “The Number of Jews in Medieval Egypt,” JJS (1968), 13; Jacob Mann, Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs, 2:294.

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    1. למא כאן יום אלתלתא אלסאב|ע יום מן שהר אדר שנת אלפא
    2. וחמש מאה וחמשה שנין | לשטרות בעיר קליוב הסמוכה
    3. לעיר המלוכה הסמ…

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  36. 336List or tableT-S Ar.53.36

    Bifolio, vellum. Multiple text blocks. All in Judaeo-Arabic. (1) Recto, right page: Possibly a colophon (Kitāb...), but possibly something mercantile. There is a date: 1 Ḥeshvan '362. (2) Recto, left page: Bill of lading (maʿrifa mā ʿubbiya fī al-qafaṣ...). There follows a long list of goods together with their quantities. […] From Abū Yūsuf: [...] rubāʿīs and a half. From Abū l-Faḍl: 9 rubāʿīs. Lower section: "The day of my departure from Mazara was Wednesday [...]

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  37. 337LetterBL OR 5557K.34 + T-S Misc.22.301

    Letter or legal document. Very faded. In Arabic script, moderately wide space between the lines. Roughly 10 lines are preserved. The word "al-mablagh" appears multiple times. On verso there are Hebrew seliḥot in a distinctive, somewhat crude hand. Join: Alan Elbaum. Needs examination.

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  38. 338Paraliterary textENA NS 36.17

    The earlier text is extremely faded; it is in Judaeo-Arabic and at least partially deals with recipes or prescriptions. The later text is also Judaeo-Arabic, in a late hand. It is an elaborate recipe/prescription followed by a magical invocation ("I bind you, O Maymūn. . .

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  39. 339LetterT-S AS 148.177

    The sender reports that he met with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal al-Ṭībī. There are two people who are afraid on account of something. Mentions "the absent one" and "the name of the absent one (al-ghāʾib)." On verso there are faded jottings.

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  40. 340LetterT-S Ar.30.289

    Very faded document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter or petition (כבוד גדולת קדושת . . . […] יכדם בין ידי אלמולא . . . אן ראי . . .). Also contains terms more typical of a legal document (e.g. "al-madhkūr" multiple times). Mentions someone [...] b.

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  41. 341Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.35.325

    Dated: 27 Muḥarram 498 H. For Abū l-Faḍl Jaʿfar b. ʿAlīal-Dimashqī. The commodity is mentioned is lac and the quantity is 300 arṭāl. The document is registered at the court of the chief justice Abū Yaḥyā al-Fāriqī. On verso there is a line of accounts or other notation in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  42. 342List or tableT-S AS 148.187

    Someone's notes to self: "I will find out from Abū Isḥāq אלגוולי if Ibn Ṭalāʾiʿ traveled to Mecca... and from Faḍāʾilal-Ḥazzan... and I'll go to al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf and demand the thing from him: 40—20—1—40—200—40.

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  43. 343LetterT-S K6.189

    Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef Ibn al-Haniyy al-Andalusī, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Faḍl Ḥesed b. Sahl al-Tustarī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

    1. על שמנ
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאיידה
    3. ונעמתה מן אלקדס עמרה [אלל]ה בטול בקא מולאי אלשיך מסת/ה/ל
    4. ספר (!) ערף אללה מולאי ברכתה ואסעד…

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  44. 344Legal documentT-S NS 340.50

    The parties include a Jewish druggist and Sitt al-Kull bt. Abū l-Faḍl. The property is described. One of the landmarks is known by the name of [...] al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ṣaydālī. On recto there is an additional legal document, likely related.

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  45. 345State documentT-S AS 137.105

    The only phrases preserved are a reference to the caliph ("al-imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn," r. 1160–71) and "ʿalā abāʾihī" as part of a blessing. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ and on verso for a very faded text in Arabic script, perhaps from a lexical work (e.g., "wa-aṭrada iṭrādan," two lines from the bottom).

    1. الامام العاضد لدين الله امير المؤمنين
    2. [صلوات الله عليه و]على ابايه
    3. [الطاهرين وابنايه الاكرمين المناظرين]

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  46. 346Unknown typeT-S AS 203.125

    Refers to prophets (ʿalayhimal-salām) and mentions "the birth" (al-wilāda). May also refer to biblical verses (البواسيق؟). Extremely faded.

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  47. 347Legal documentENA NS 13.34

    This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il b. Abū al-Ḥasan and Manṣūr b. Abū Sa‘īd, contribute a total of 700 dirhams (200 and 500 dirhams respectively). […] Manṣūr seems to be the senior partner; he brings more assets to the partnership, and the facility itself may belong to him, as he is allocated 4 dirhams of rent for the shop each month. However, income from the sale of scent sachets was allocated to Faḍā’il, who may have produced these alone without Manṣūr's assistance.

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    1. שהדותא דא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות 
    2. ידנא לתתא כן הוה למא כאן יום אלתנין אלעשרין 
    3. מן חדש טבת שנת אתקכ לשטרות בעיר בלביס 
    4. הסמוכה לארץ גשן מות…

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    1. This testimony was before us—we, the witnesses, whose signature
    2. appears below. Thus: on Monday, the twentieth
    3. of the month of Ṭevet of the year 1…

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  48. 348LetterT-S 8J21.7

    Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat. Dating: mid-eleventh century. […] Mentions the recipient's brother Abū l-Faḍl. Goitein identified this document as the last page of a letter written by Abū Naṣr b. […] Netanʾel, and identified the recipient's brother as Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū al-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī; Gil and Fleischer and then Miriam Frankel followed this attribution.

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    1. תמאם כתאב מולאי אלשיך אבו סעיד בן נתנאל וקד כנת תרכת ענד מולאי
    2. אלשיך אלתיאב אלסקלי אלדי למולאי אלשיך אבי אלחסן בן ששון נ'ע' וקד סאלני
    3. סואל מול…

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    1. וכבר הבהרתי להדרתו את תכונותיו,

    2. היינו של השיך אבו אלחסן, ולהיטותו לטפל בכל צורכיהם של אנשים (סוחרים) אחרים, ורק לאחר מכן במה ששייך …

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  49. 349Legal documentT-S NS J19

    Verso (right page): There is a verbatim transcript of an earlier (probably Arabic/Muslim) court record (פאחצר לנא כט והדא נסכתה חרף בחרף) certifying that Faḍl b. Sahl b. Faraḥ owes Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. ʿAṭiyya 101 dinars, and he will repay it in Alexandria. […] Saʿadya (later became the Head of the Jews 1094–1111), along with another very faded signature. These pages discuss a business partnership. […] Shela; many valuable commodities (gold, silver, Byzantine brocade); 200 dinars; traveling to Syria (al-Shām) to sell these goods; settling accounts in Alexandria after the travel; Tripoli (likely the one in al-Shām); questioning of Ḥesed about this; and shipping them in the ship of Abū ʿAlīal-Shāmī, which sank.

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  50. 350LetterJRL A 808

    The writer seems to be Abū l-Ḥasan and the addressee may be named Abū l-Faḍlal-[. . .].

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