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  1. 3451List or tableENA 2964.9

    Just below the heading there are three columns that are each labeled with terms for coinage types, listed here in order of clarity: "ʿatīq", "jadīd", and "būndūqī" (l.4r). While the first two labels may indicate a variety of possible monetary types– for example "jadīd" may be a copper or gold coin of Ottoman Egypt also attested in T-S AS 204.214 – "būndūqī" is most likely a reference to Venetian gold ducats or their imitations that were minted under the Mamluk and Ottoman sultanates.

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  2. 3452List or tableENA 2991.24

    Given that gold sharifi coinage is in use, the fragment was drawn up post-1425 CE. […] All of these terms "weight / וזן", "value / קאים", and "price / סער" appear throughout the verso and on occasion verbal constructions with the root "צרפ / صرف" (l. 8r, 16r) appear that imply value calculations perhaps into "silver / פצה[?]" coinage (l. 13r). All of these figures are expressed alphanumerically.

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  3. 3453List or tableENA 1822a.83 + ENA NS 39.2 + ENA 1822a.82 + ENA 1822a.83a + ENA NS 27.7

    On the recto, a variety of Ottoman coinage types are mentioned such as funduqli, medin, and cinzirli.

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  4. 3454LetterENA 2805.4

    Its amount in weighed coin [...] dinars, half of that being 25 dinars.

    1. יאסיידי ומולאי אטאל אללה [בקאך] ואדאם עזך ותאיידך [ ]
    2. מן [ ] אליך [ ]
    3. כ[ ] סבב כתאבי הדא למולאי אן תפצל [יסלם] עני למולאי אלשיך אבי
    4. אל[ע]לא יוסף ב…

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    1. …. אדוני ורבי ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך 
    2. ....

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  5. 3455List or tableENA NS 74.18

    On the recto quantities of coinage in Ottoman cedid are listed as well as goods such as wax and eggs.

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  6. 3456List or tableJRL C 165

    Accounts related to various coinage types such as gold mahmudiye and kuruş thaqīl (heavy kuruş).

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  7. 3457Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    ʿAbda al-Bāqī al-Levi acknowledges a debt of gold jadīd coinage to his maternal uncle Avraham b. David ha-Levi.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 14v 

    1. למא כאן בתא לילה אן יספר צבא׳ נהאר אלאתנין ט שהר איר
    2. כ׳׳ג ללעמר סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ג׳ ליציר׳ חצר משה א׳ אלמר׳ ע׳אלרחמן
    3. אלקדסי פ…

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  8. 3458Legal documentT-S NS 184.45

    Legal document concerning a deceased person (perhaps related to a dispute over the inheritance) and making reference to an orphan, a widow, and a mother. …

  9. . . . . . . . . . . ] אלנגיד אלתי יגב . [
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    ] המא בעד דלך עלקה בסבב אלמתופא לא לליתום ולא ללאלמנה ובקיה אלבית אל . .

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  11. 3459LetterBL OR 5544.7

    Yiṣḥaq, containing 20 lines of polite phrases in Hebrew, another 6 in Arabic, and 3 announcing that he was unable to locate a certain person in the ministry of finance (dār al-zimām) in Cairo; he was told that the official left to visit his father in Dilāṣ. There are also some self-pitying lines about the writer's illness and unemployment.

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    1. בש רח
    2. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך ושלום לך מאדון
    3. השלום וג אל אלהים יברכך מנטוים(?) כאשר

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  12. 3460LetterT-S 13J16.10

    The letter describes the troubles the writer encountered from a capitation tax official on his travels in a Nile boat and saying he had arrived safely in Alexandria.

  13. בשהאדה באנה
  14. קד תסלם שיה
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    1. יצל אלי מצר חמאהא אללה

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  16. 3461List or tableAIU VII.F.99

    The page is stamped with the official stamp of the Ashkenazi Bikur Holim Society, which reads (in Italian): Società Soc{c}orsale de{gl}i Am{m}alati {della Communità} Israelitica Tedesca in Cairo 1867.

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  17. 3462Literary textT-S Ar.53.2

    Two folios from a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem. Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of Olives. Also includes many Christian sites. Goes on to describe Bethlehem and Betar but the details are difficult to read due to damage.

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    1. ] פלמא גאר
    2. ]אבל חיל
    3. ] . ומ . [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]אדא גאת אל
    4. אשתיה יפיר(?) אלמא(?) ו[. . . . . . . . . ]עטים אלי סיל
    5. ג …

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  18. 3463LetterT-S 24.78

    Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering monk,' Abu Najah, and to hide in the western desert for years. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, 46, 119, 268, 277, 280, 316, 320, 482; II, 588, 359; III, 246, 243, 249.)

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    וכאן במצר תלאהא בה / בן בקא מן אגל שתימתה לה / באל(אסכנד)ריה קאל לה אשהד / עליך ונדפע לך כ דינ תתמעש / בהא עריאן מפלס / סמע כתב עליה חגה / ולם יפעל ידפע לה / שי עמוד ב'

    Shortly before Purim, I, too, went up [ to Fustat] to get goods on commission,toassist me on my impending voyage. I met him in al-Buḥayra.

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  19. 3464List or tableAIU VII.F.30

    The numerical figures are often listed under two parallel columns that appear with recurring headings, one of which is the symbol for silver kuruş (so the other heading is perhaps another coinage label). In the early entries a financial "coffer / צנדוק" is mentioned.

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  20. 3465List or tableENA 3381.1

    The currency of the monetary values may be implied by "fiḍḍa" (perhaps the late-Mamlūk and early Ottoman medin) but this usage could also refer more broadly to an unnamed type of silver coinage that was in use for these payments. MCD.

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  21. 3466List or tableENA 3518.2

    Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). A variety of individuals are referenced along the right border of the page: Amato (אמאטו), Meyuḥas (מיוחס), and "the Judge" (אלחכים) in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  22. 3467LetterT-S 6J9.4

    The date might be identifiable based on the years in which Kislev coincided with al-Muḥarram. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  23. 3468LetterENA 2808.18

    For I want someone who will buy from the silk weavers (al-qazzāzīn), and if a silk weaver comes into possession of something that cannot be believed, he will purchase it for himself."

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  24. 3469List or tableAIU VII.F.64

    A wide variety of payments and coinage types are listed, as well as a couple names: Azulay Suares, Aḥmad Khadr.

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  25. 3470Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/34

    The mention of this specific coinage type makes it possible to estimate the dating as post-1415 CE, likely fifteenth or sixteenth-century based on the paleography.

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  26. 3471Legal documentENA NS 29.9

    Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this year under Sultan Ahmed III).

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  27. 3472LetterCUL Or.1080 5.6

    The writer then transitions into business matters, mentioning intelligence he has received in a letter from Messer Giacomo and in a letter to someone named Aran. The addressees are to buy as much pepper as they can, for the ships coming from Livorno and Messina are not expected to have much. […] The writer concludes by urging the addressees to act quickly, and to remember to buy up lots of fresh ginger and flax. Information mostly from Avraham David's edition and notes.

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  28. 3473State documentT-S Ar.42.204

    Official report (or just a letter). Probably a draft.

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  29. 3474LetterT-S AS 145.20

    The signature confirms that the title ha-Nagid was the official one." Dating: 1100-1112 CE, based on Mevorakh's years of service (1112-1126) and Ḥalfon b.

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  30. 3475LetterT-S AS 150.114

    The sender may be complaining about his poor salary as a communal official; mentions 10 dinars; the community of Egyptians or people of Fustat (Miṣriyyīn), and "they established for me a negligible amount. . . and not a salary (rātib) that suffices. . .

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  31. 3476Legal documentDK 314

    "castle": qaṣr, which goes ultimately back to the smae Latin word as English "castle," designates also a primitive agricultural building: see Grohmann, APEL I, no. 72, pp. 268, 270. Ṭoobeh: This is the fifth month of the Coptic (Christian) year, which, in 1104, partly coincided with the fifth month of the Muslim year, which then began on Jan. 31.

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    In the name of God, the All-merciful. And may God pray for our lord Muhammad, his prophet, and his family, and greet them with peace.

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  32. 3477LetterT-S Ar.41.9

    The writer seems to be a provincial official of some sort. He reports awaiting the arrival of al-Qāḍī al-Ẓahīr (?)

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  33. 3478Credit instrument or private receiptBL OR 5561B.27

    Based on the usage of Ottoman kurush coinage (ق symbol) this note is 18th or 19th-century.

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  34. 3479List or tableENA 2950.28

    Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use is the gold ashrafi. In terms of dating, mention of ashrafi is helpful because it was not minted until 1425CE and factoring in the script of this fragment it may have been recorded in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries (Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 60).

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  35. 3480Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. VIII,479.8

    The currency mentioned is new Sulaymānī silvers "al-Fiḍḍa al-Jadīda al-Sulaymāniyya" which is a coinage minted according to the standards of Suleiman I's reign in the 16th century (post-1520).

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  36. 3481Legal documentT-S 13J4.15

    The hand is very close to that of the clerk who wrote many of the letters of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355); perhaps a coincidence, or perhaps he had a long life. [RR and MCD]

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  37. 3482LetterCUL Add.3344

    Calligraphic letter sent by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemarya to Rabbi Benjamin, containing greetings to his two sons and describing how he fell from his wealth, lost …

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    ומפייס אני מכבודך | שתשגר לי תשובת מכתבי

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  38. 3483State documentCUL Or.1080 J7

    Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …

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    1. ما تاتا عليهم من غلق كنيستهم وفساد قوانين مذهبهم
  39. ...When they took theircase to the noble presence
  40. he assigned their affair to the slave of our master, Dii'iid ibn Isl;liiq,
  41. but it turned out that he was preoccupied with his illness and his travels,4 andcaused the slaves to fear one another.
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  43. 3484LetterENA 2804.19

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Shemuel Ha-Kohen b. Avtalyon concerning a trial that took place in Ramla ca. 1030 (per Gil). Dating: ca. 1025–1051 …

    ENA 2804, f. 19, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.198-199 (Doc. #107), C.B. 02-25-88 (p) Letter from Solomon b. Judah to Samuel Ha-Kohen b. Avtalyon concerning a trial which took place in Ramle ca. 1030.

    1. אל אהובינו וחשובנו ויקירנו כגק מור שמואל הכהן המומחה

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  44. 3485Legal documentENA NS 17.31

    Legal record of an adoption in which a man 'sells' his newborn daughter, 16 days old, whose mother had just died after childbirth, to a …

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    ליכון בידהא חגה וו[תאק] לליום [ומא] בעדה ודלך

    Al-Sitt will bring up this girl in the way she deems fit. I have no right to interfere in this matter in any respect. I have also taken upon myself never to demand from her to return the girl to me or even to come near to the place where she lives.

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  45. 3486LetterT-S 8J24.15

    Short letter written and sent from Alexandria by Musa b. Abu al-Hayy to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, dealing with a shipment of robes and …

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    1. תדכרה למחבה מוסי בן אבי אלחי

    2. תרכת ענד רבנו אחיאה

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    1. (7−1) תזכיר של אוהבך מוסא בן אבי אלחי; השארתי אצל רבנו, ייתן לו אלוהים חיים, שטיח ובו ....

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  46. 3487LetterT-S NS J14

    Letter from the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051), in Ramle, to his son Abū Isḥāq Avraham, in Tyre or Damascus (Shelomo does not know …

    TS NS J 14, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp. 208-210 (Doc #115),N.H. 2-23-88, (P). Letter from Solomon b. Judah, Ramle, tohis son Abraham.

    1. כתאבי יאולדי אלעזיז עלי אטאל [אללה] בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך

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  47. 3488List or tableT-S Ar.30.279

    A list of payments from around 1550 CE describes a payment made for “visiting the sick (bīqqūr ḥōlīm)—3 jadīd; buying clothes for the poor (kesūt ʿaniyīm)—5 jadīd." Information from Dotan Arad (2017) Welfare and Charity in a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Community in Egypt: A Study of Genizah Documents, Al-Masāq, 29:3, 266.

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  48. 3489Legal documentAIU VII.D.23

    Ketubba that has been badly damaged yet a portion of the dowry is still visible as "עשר אלף מיידיס כסף..." (10,000+ silver medin). The mention of this coinage along with the paleography help to date the ketubba fragment as no earlier than 1415 CE when the medin was first minted.

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  49. 3490LetterAIU VII.E.62

    The Mawlid of Ṭanṭa, a celebration of the Sufi saint al-Sayyid al-Badawi's birth, is mentioned in the lower right marginal note (perhaps in connection with the yearly trade fair that coincided with the holiday). Needs further examination for content.

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  50. 3491List or tableENA 2898.10

    List in Hebrew of payments received following the common formula "עו[ד] לקחתי ומשה" (also received by Moshe and me) with each line mentioning a quantity of coinage in peraḥīm, medin, and perhaps other types.

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  51. 3492List or tableENA 3730.12

    The surname Ibn Shanjī commonly appears in fragments from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a timespan that coincides with the likely paleographical dating of this fragment.

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  52. 3493List or tableENA NS 77.33

    The phrase may also be a reference to monetary payment "in cash" with gold coinage (coll. hajar=cash). In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

    1. שי? ידור פי חגר אלדהב
    2. ואכוה אלצבאג
    3. אם פתיאן
    1. הל[א]ל [א]למקדסי
    2. ........]פי.[

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    1. וב]נתהא ואבנהא
    2. אם רייסה
    3. יתים בן קטאיף
    4. ..].לה

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  53. 3494List or tableJRL A 586

    The monetary sums are expressed in silver "פצה" coinage. Many partners in trade are listed such as: Avraham Yaʿabeṣ, Ḥajj Ḥasan Miʾmar[?]

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  54. 3495List or tableJRL C 82

    Although the year is unclear, the usage of silver kuruş indicated by the "ق" at the top of the numerical columns assists in the dating of the document as no earlier than 1703CE (when the coinage began to appear in wide circulation: Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 160).

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  55. 3496List or tableJRL C 96

    The monetary figures are in eastern Arabic numerals that span two columns, one indicated by "ق" for silver kuruş and then another silver coinage listed generically as "פצה". The same list format appears on the verso, although a key word in the heading is "מקבוץ" which indicates incoming payments "received" or "obtained".

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  56. 3497Legal documentT-S 12.523

    Yosef a silk merchant of Damietta, to claim 67 dinars of Fustat coinage and standard weight from Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen of Alexandria.

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  57. 3498List or tableT-S AS 146.345 + T-S AS 210.143

    (Information from CUDL) There are three columns, from right to left that list: the detail of the transaction, the quantity of the monetary sum, and the coinage type– which appears throughout as the silver medin abbreviated as "מאי".

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  58. 3499List or tableT-S AS 188.17

    Many names are listed throughout: (3v) Moshe Magoro, (5v) Reuʾben Gedalia, ___ Esmeralda (but this entry may be a reference to the gemstone rather than a surname), Shelomo Qarabila. 13r mentions the holiday Purim and sums of peraḥīm (Venetian ducats or a similar gold coin). Requires further examination.

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  59. 3500Legal documentT-S 18J1.9

    The document does not specify any initial partnership stipulations in terms of losses, but the court seems to have ruled that Abū l-Ḥasan was liable for one-third of the losses of 26 dinars (eight and two-thirds dinars). Having already repaid 40 dinars, he still owes seven and two-thirds dinars.

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין החתומים למטה ודלך אן למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאכיר מחד]ש[ שבט 
  60. ...Then M(r.) Solomon ha-Kohen appeared as [well,] in his hand
  61. he had a power of attorney ratified by M(r.) Ḥiyya designating him his claimaint therein (demanding of) the Elder Abū al-Ḥasan thistotal amount upon his arrival from
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