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  1. 35851Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 554

    Literary text, in Hebrew script. Needs examination.

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  2. 35852Legal documentT-S Ar.34.189

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.

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  3. 35853Legal documentJRL A 758

    Recto: The end of a legal document dated February 1821 CE (middle of Adar I 5581), Cairo, scribed and signed by Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Verso: Accounts …

    [........................................................................................................]

    1. ................................] הילוי(?…

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  4. 35854Credit instrument or private receiptT-S 6J11.3

    Recto: Order in the handwriting of Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. Addressed to a …

    1. אמת
    2. אלשיך אבי אלמפצל
    3. התלמיד שצ יוצל
    4. למוצלהא אלזקן אלגליל
    5. מ יעקוב וכיל אלמואלי
    6. אלאגלא אלשיך אלאגל
    7. אלאסעד ואלשיך אלתקה
    8. יש צו מהמא טלבה
    9. מן אלמולא מן אל…
    1. Truth.
    2. May the shaykh Abū l-Mufaḍḍal
    3. the scholar, may his Rock protect him, deliver
    4. to the bearer (of this letter), the esteemed elder
    5. m[ister] Yaʿa…

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  5. 35855State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 112

    State receipt issued by fiscal officials of the Qalyūbiyya qism, one of the twenty-four administrative sections that existed in Egypt after 1826. The header reads …

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  6. 35856Literary textAIU IX.B.4

    Ladino literary work.

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  7. 35857List or tableT-S AS 148.121

    Accounts of expenditures and income, mentioning dancers, and names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-ʿAzz and Elijah, with Hebrew, Coptic (?) and Arabic numerals. (Information …

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  8. 35858LetterT-S 6J5.10

    Note on verso. "Let the ruqʿa be read. Its contents are that they are asking her to lend them drapery and curtains." Seems like a …

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  9. 35859Legal documentT-S Ar.35.41

    Court ledger bifolium in Hebrew. Late, mentioning the currencies reales and fiḍḍa (medin). Contains several entries, including one for an engagement (shiddukhin) and another entry …

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  10. 35860Legal documentT-S 18J1.8

    Compensation bill from Fustat. Dated: 7 Nisan 4815 AM = April 7 1055 CE. Three witnesses approved (not in front of the court) that Abū …

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    1. בשמ רחמנ

    2. [ישה]דו אלשהוד אלמסמון פי אכר הדה אלבראה חצר מר יהודה אלמכני

    3. אבו זכרי ביר משה נבע הידוע אבן צגמאר וקאל לנא טאיע גיר כארה ולא

    4. מ…

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    1. (1–2) יעידו העדים הנקראים בשמותיהם בסוף כתב הפיצוי הזה, כי בא מ"ר יהודה המכונה 
    2. אבו זכרי בי"ר משה נב"ע הידוע אבן סגמאר, ואמר לנו מרצונו בלא …

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  11. 35861List or tableT-S Misc.11.232

    Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals, extremely neat on one side, less neat on the other. The recto mentions the surname Meshīsh in …

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  12. 35862State documentT-S Ar.34.156

    Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.

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  13. 35863State documentAIU VII.E.43

    Petition or official report. Arabic script, wide line-spacing, chancery hand. The document is dated 502 H, which is extremely rare for petitions, and contains a …

    1. شـ]ـرفا وثباتا سنة اثنتين وخمس ماية…..

    2. ]ساميها الى النايب عنها فيها على يد كاتبهم

    3. ]..على ذلك استخراج ذلك لهم وعضده وزكاته

    4. ]هم الله على السدا…

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  14. 35864Unknown typeT-S NS 305.173

    Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment, damaged and faded. "Seven hundred" appears on one side.

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  15. 35865Legal documentT-S NS 329.998

    Legal document. Location: Modon (Methoni, Greece). Agreement of Moshe b. Shelomo Perla in front of Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef and and Shemuel Ṭawīl to remain in …

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  16. 35866Legal documentENA NS 34.20

    Rental contract. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 54[..], so 1640–1739 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, based on the reference to Ḥārat al-Saqāliba in line 4. …

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    1.              בע׳׳ה
    2. בפנינו עדים חותמי מטה השכירה היקרה וצנועה מ׳ שרה ת׳׳מ בת המנוח כה׳׳ר יצחק מלכי נ׳׳ע אלמנת
    3. המנוח כה׳׳ר שמואל הלוי כעיך נ׳׳…

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  17. 35867Legal documentT-S 16.147

    Recto: part of a ketubba. The name of the bride and groom, date, location and names of witnesses are not preserved.

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  18. 35868Legal documentT-S K15.65

    Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. These pages are a register of marriage contracts. In …

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  19. 35869LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/135

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urging him to collect money to pay the capitation tax of …

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  20. 35870State documentT-S Ar.35.170

    Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 …

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  21. 35871LetterT-S 13J13.6

    Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Head of the Jews (entitled Gaon) concerning the difficulties she is having with her …

    1. אלעבדה זוגה
    2. אלחזאן בן נחמן
    3. אלעבדה תנהי אלי הדרת הגאונות תכן משרתה לנצ[ח
    4. חאלהא הו וולדהא וגועהם ועריהם וכונהא להא אליום
    5. ענד? בין?] אלנאס משתתה ה שהור…

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    1. Your slave, the wife (= widow) 
    2. of the cantor Ben Naḥman  
    3. Your slave informs your excellency the Gaon, may your rule be established foreve[r]

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  22. 35872LetterAIU IX.B.17

    Letter from Mordekhai b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥayyim Avraham Levi. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 22 Iyyar 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE.

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  23. 35873Paraliterary textYevr. II B 275

    Colophon of a Bible

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  24. 35874Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.54–63

    IB V, 38. Awaiting description

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  25. 35875Legal query or responsumT-S 13J23.20

    Fragment of a learned opinion on different subjects. The last section, preserved here and transcribed by Goitein, is against the 'direct method' in teaching children …

    1. ודכר איצא אנהא אוצת ללכניסה אלמעמורה בבקא
    2. ישראל בתוב צקלאטון ואן בעץ אלנאס ילבסה פי כל סבת והדא לא
    3. יחסן ולא יגב אלדין ואלואגב אן יבאע וישתרא בתמנה מ…

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    You also mentioned that a teacher in your place instructs the boys with out (first teaching them) the alphabet and the vowel signs. This is by …

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  26. 35876Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 12/6 + Bodl. MS heb. b 12/29

    Legal document. Date: 11 Av 1270 Seleucid (959 CE). Location: Fustat. A father gives two houses and two stores to his first-born. (Information from Goitein’s …

    1. זכרון עדות [שהיתה] בפנינו בשלישי בשבת ב/אחד עשר יום לחדש אב ש[נת] אלף

    2. ומאתים וש[בעים] שנה למיניין שאנו רגילין למנות בו בפיסטאט מצרים שעל ניל[וס] …

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    This is a statement of testimony given before us on Tuesday, the eleventh day of the month of Av, in the year one thousand two hundred and seve…

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  27. 35877Legal documentT-S 13J37.12

    Legal document: bill of sale for a slave. See also Perry's annotated edition of T-S18J1.17.

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  28. 35878Paraliterary textT-S AS 181.20

    Likely a medical prescription.

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  29. 35879Unknown typeENA 3973.5

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  30. 35880Legal documentT-S AS 202.236

    Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.

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  31. 35881Literary textBL OR 12274.20

    Literary text (Talmud?) with a colophon giving the date of copying: Nisan 502[.] AM, which is the 1260s CE.

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  32. 35882LetterENA NS 77.198

    Letter fragment. in Hebrew. Dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century based on the paleography. Someone with the name Zerḥiya (זרחיה) is mentioned in line …

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  33. 35883Unknown typeENA NS 85.1161

    Minute fragment of a text in Hebrew, some of which bears Tiberian vowels.

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  34. 35884Legal documentT-S AS 145.40

    Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah with partial signatures and a qiyyum - approval of the signatures. The groom name is Natan. Signed …

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  35. 35885LetterT-S AS 152.205

    Official or communal note. In Hebrew. Damaged and faded. "We further inform our master that... a man from the congregation of... the man... Yiṣḥaq b. …

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  36. 35886LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 394

    Letter of appeal from Yefet addressed to al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. In Arabic script, with the sender's name in Hebrew script. He begs for a small sum …

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  37. 35887Literary textT-S Ar.30.203

    Hebrew liturgy or poetry.

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  38. 35888Legal documentT-S 12.688

    Ketubbah of Hillel b. Yeshuʿa (groom), dated [..] Tishri 4[... A.M.]. It is probably a ketuba de'irkasa - replacement for a lost ketubah based on …

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  39. 35889Legal documentAIU VII.D.118

    Fragment from a page about the halakhot and formulae to recite for valid qiddushin.

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  40. 35890Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 167.16

    Verso: Letter or letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an unidentified addressee, consisting entirely of deferential pleasantries.

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  41. 35891Unknown typeENA NS 85.1165

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  42. 35892Legal documentT-S 10J28.11

    Quittances for 15 dinars and 68 dinars (the latter apparently in Alexandria) to Sitt al-Kamāl, widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, witnessed by Yefet b. Ṣedaqa, …

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  43. 35893State documentT-S NS 321.100

    Verso (original use): Lower left corner of a petition in Arabic script, apparently asking for charity or assistance for a woman: . . . . …

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    1. عاد اليها الصدقة[
    2. السجـ]ـل الكريم زاده الله شرفا ونفاذا بالصدقة عليها
    3. ]....ويسل الفسح عنها انعاما عليها
    4. ]......ادام امرها
    5. ]عليه الراي العالي ف…

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  44. 35894Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79

    Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almost all of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Goitein's index card.

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  45. 35895Legal documentT-S AS 168.201

    Fragment from the end of a legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Also signed by Hillel b. Yosef. Concerning a …

    1. . . . . ] דא אלשטר ליכון לזכו ולראיה [
    2. וגה כאן ודלך בעד אן אקנינא איצא מן אל[
    3. גמור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו מע[כשיו
    4. קד אמצא לזוגתה דא הדא אלעתק . [
    5. כ…

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  46. 35896LetterT-S NS 324.93

    Faded late letter in Hebrew

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  47. 35897LetterAIU VII.E.41

    Recto: Fragment (upper right corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Abū l-Barakāt regarding a fatwā and the nagid Av[raham]. Verso: Three lines of neat Arabic …

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  48. 35898Literary textT-S Ar.30.171

    Talmudic.

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  49. 35899Unknown typeENA 3256.9

    Accounts in Arabic with Coptic-Zimam numerals. The verso was used for piyyut liturgical poetry in Hebrew (FGP). Both of the scribal hands help to date …

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  50. 35900LetterT-S AS 148.144

    Letter. Small fragment. Telling that the addressee that he/she shouldn't come or shouldn't have come. (Information in part from CUDL)

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