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  1. 3601Legal documentT-S NS 320.86

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 14[..] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range …

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  2. 3602State documentENA 3942.3

    Recto: fiscal document or state memorandum mentioning a ḍamān and the name Maʿālī b. Yūnā (?). Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written …

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    1. …. وعبده سىله
    2. والـ…. المجموعة معها وبني
    3. …. الـ… وبني …
    4. على الغرب والشرق ودخول 
    5. والعصير بالضمان من معالي بن يونى 
    6. ..      …     .     .     .

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  3. 3603Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 37-39) Folio 9v

    1. בעח׳׳מ הודה נסים סופינו יצ׳׳ו בכה׳׳ר משה יצ׳׳ו שקבל מהר׳ עמנואל דמתקרי קונפראדו מוניס יצ׳׳ו סך חמשה עשר
    2. שריפיש זהב…

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  4. 3604Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.24

    Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give 10 dirhams to Yeshuʿa for teaching Ibn al-Ziftāwī through the end …

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    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    3. יוצל ללשיך ר` ישועה שצ`
    4. מן גהה וקף אלמהדב ען
    5. תעלים אבן אל.... אלי אכר
    6. פסח אתקכט עשרה דרהם ושלום

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  5. 3605Literary textT-S AS 155.273

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a mirror-image imprint of T-S AS 155.274. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  6. 3606Paraliterary textENA 2556.13

    Ownership note on a codex - the name is Ḥasan b. Mūsā.

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  7. 3607Legal documentYevr. II A 1319

    Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 20 Tevet 1771 Seleucid, which is 1459 CE. (1) Shemuel Faraj'el b. (2) Ḥananyahu Avraham b. (3) Shelomo …

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  8. 3608State documentENA 3943.7

    Tax receipt, mentioning the tax was credited towards the treasury. Trigger/subtype: "waṣala li-bayt al-māl."

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  9. 3609Legal documentT-S 12.669

    Secondary use: Draft of a legal document. Dating: shortly after 1055 CE, based on the dating of the earlier use. Concerning a debt owed by …

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  10. 3610Literary textT-S Ar.50.192

    Literary fragment. Discussing the halakha of drawing up proper bills of divorce. Information from Dan Greenberger via FGP.

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  11. 3611LetterT-S 8J38.10

    Beginning of a letter addressing the Rayyis Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237), referenced in l. 12 as "al-Nagid"– a title he bore after 1213 CE, specifically.

    1. אלממ]לוך אלאצגר יקבל אלארץ . . . . אללה תע אמאם
    2. אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולא אלראיס [ . . . . ] אלסייד
    3. אלדייני אלאמיני אלעאלם אלעאמל הדרת יקרת . . . …

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  12. 3612Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 11v-12r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v

    1. הבת הנז׳ קודם כניסה לחופה נתחייב למסור להר׳ אליהו כל החפצים הנז׳׳ל ואין לה בהם שום מין כח וזכות
    2. כלל בעולם - והודה…

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  13. 3613Unknown typeENA NS 85.249

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  14. 3614List or tableENA 2898.12

    List in Hebrew, very brief, with outgoing payments to ʿOvadiah in an unidentified currency (or perhaps some commodity). This list in Hebrew is likely from …

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  15. 3615LetterT-S AS 153.310

    Letter fragment from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov to Sar Shalom b. Hiyya. Damaged. Contains mostly blessings.

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  16. 3616List or tableENA NS 43.20

    List of names and numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Qaṣīra; Sitt al-Dār; Umm Tujjār; the orphan girl of Bū Saʿīd; Nisāʾ; al-Parnas; …

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  17. 3617LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 221

    Commercial letter. In Arabic script. Dated: 123[6?] (which would be 1820 CE). The letter is torn at the top and the right margins. Alexandria and …

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  18. 3618Unknown typeENA NS 76.484

    Multi-fragment, with at least two pieces of paper fused together. Some of the text on the verso may be documentary in nature.

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  19. 3619List or tableT-S NS J314

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for Saturday 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda through Friday 14 Dhū l-Qaʿda. Related to tax collection? The names mostly do not sound Jewish, and …

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  20. 3620List or tableT-S K15.21

    Account of a Parnas ca. 1200. Upper part of a leaf in very deteriorated condition. It contains notes made by a parnas, recording the collection …

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    1. אלמקבוץ בן בואלזנארי עמארה ד[א]רה
    2. אבו אלמנא אלפאמי יו
    3. ומנה איצא טו
    4. ומנה איצא טו ביד אלצבין למראה
    5. ומנה איצא טו
    6. מן אלתקה אלגאבי ל
    7. מן בן אלדגאגי …

    Side a:

    1. Collected from b. (A)būʾl-Zunnārī, for the repairs of his house:
    2. (A)būʾl-Munā al-Fāmī, 16.
    3. From the same, 15.
    4. From the same, 15, paid to th…

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  21. 3621LetterT-S AS 151.64

    Letter mentioning a certain Shela b. Ḥalfon. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  22. 3622Legal documentT-S AS 177.427

    Legal document or account. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ottoman era. Mentioning a purchase made by Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī al-Dajājī.

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  23. 3623List or tableT-S 16.219

    List of personal names, probably intended to establish claims on an estate or a will. (Information from Goitein's index cards) Recto: Piyyut on the occasion …

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    1. הרון סת בקא כאות אם פצאיל פצאיל
    2. אבו אלחסן שת אלנאס סת אלכל אם אבו סעד
    3. אלח././אן אם אבו מנצור אבו מנצור א[בו . . .
    4. אלחבר ואלחבר אבו סעד אקראן מ…

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  24. 3624Unknown typeENA NS 85.336

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  25. 3625List or tableT-S NS 225.102

    Accounting in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Listing various debts owed, as well as several entries involving books. One mentions a …

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  26. 3626List or tableJRL A 544

    Accounts for the months of Tishrei and Heshvan. Income is listed from individuals as well as from two synagogues: that of R. Hayyim [Capousi] and …

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  27. 3627Legal documentSassoon 537

    No Image. Description from FGP: A bill of partnership between Avraham b. Moshe known as al-Marjani, and Hillel al-Attar b. Avraham known as al-Fuqa'a. AA

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  28. 3628LetterT-S 12.218

    Letter from Mūsā b. al-Majjānī to Yosef Raʾs al-kull b. ʿAwkal, spring 1011.

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    1. [כתא]בי אליך ישיכי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וציאנתך ליא בקי לאדר ען
    2. [חאל ס]לאמה ועאפיה לאללה אלחמד וען שוק למולאי אלשיך אדאם אללה עז…

    ע׳׳א:

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת שמירתו לך, בי׳׳ט באדר.
    2. שלומי טוב ואני בריא, תודה לאל, אך אני מתגעגע א…

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  29. 3629Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 150.4

    Note addressed to Abu al-Faraj, saying that Abu al-Makarim is to receive payment from the bearer, in the amount of two qirats (of a dirham) …

    1. אלשיך אבי אלמכארם דאמת נעמתה יקבץ מן מוצלהא
    2. קיראטין נקרה ופלוס נצף דרהם פלא עדמת פצלה
    3. ויבסט עדרי לאגל עאקה אלפצה ואלפצל לה פי דלך

    Verso. Address.

    י…

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  30. 3630LetterT-S NS 321.71

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mostly about personal/family matters but also some business issues. The letter is probably from a man to his brother …

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  31. 3631Literary textCUL Or.1081 1.30

    "The chapter of knowing the unknown (taʿallum al-ghayb)." One takes a certain animal on Shabbat, breaks open its back, and eats its heart while still …

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  32. 3632Literary textYevr. II A 2852

    A long text, probably contains moral guidance.

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  33. 3633LetterT-S AS 151.176

    Opening of a letter in Hebrew. Only the opening blessings are preserved. Written around the time of Yom Kippur based on the blessings.

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  34. 3634State documentT-S NS 151.229

    Administrative document(s). Dated: 52[6?] AH. Mentions al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ. May mention waterwheels (sawāqī). Some of the same language appears in the entries on both recto and …

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  35. 3635Literary textBL OR 10578G.3

    Fragment of a literary source.

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  36. 3636LetterT-S AS 147.112

    On recto fragment from a late letter mentioning Shmuel Bahalul contains blessings. Verso unrelated to recto, written by a different hand, regarding the Book of …

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  37. 3637LetterT-S 10J17.5

    Letter of business in which the writer requests the recipient purchase for him a measure of oil, two ‘futa’ (sari-like cloth), and two dinars of …

    1. . . . . . . ]ב מולאי . . אלתבציל ו
    2. . . . ] אמר אלמכין פהו ואלחמד עלי
    3. גמלת אלסלאמה וקד כאטבתו בן לעראקי
    4. וקד אנפד אלכתב אלדי כאנת מעה
    5. אלי אצחאבהא בעד …

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  38. 3638LetterT-S AS 109.54

    Letter or letter draft(s). In Arabic script. Reused on recto for liturgical instructions for Shavuʿot. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  39. 3639LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/21

    Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli. Quite faded. Contains the intriguing phrase "living between Muslims and Christians …

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  40. 3640Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    IB V, 37, folio 20r. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Sulaymān is to give the bearer, the cantor Abū Saʿīd, …

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  41. 3641LetterT-S J2.79

    Letter fragment (lower part) from a muqaddam named Moshe (b. Perahya. AA), probably addressed to the dayyanim of Fustat, complaining that after the death of …

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    1. ובישעו וחסדו ירים [קרנ]ם ויחזק ידם ולבם לקיים
    2. ויאמץ לבבכם כל המיחלים לייי
    3. אלים(!) יענה שלום ושלוה ומנוח והשקט וחנינה
    4. לרבותי נגידי עם ייי וחכמי…

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  42. 3642Legal documentT-S AS 177.632

    Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script involving [...] b. Hārūn al-Yahūdī (and?) a supplier to the mint ([mū]rid bi-dār al-ḍarb). There are …

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  43. 3643Legal documentT-S AS 150.86

    Recto: testimony within a legal document or a letter, concerning financial matters (power of attorney) and mentioning Abū l-Ba[rakāt?]. Verso: probably small fragment from a …

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  44. 3644State documentT-S Misc.26.52

    Petition or report. Bottom ~10 lines are preserved. Difficult handwriting. The first line may begin with the words "umūr al-thaghr." Mentions a paper trail and …

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  45. 3645Legal documentT-S Ar.34.158

    Recto: Legal document, probably. Bottom only. In Arabic script. Witness signatures are preserved.

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  46. 3646State documentSt. Catherine, Atiya no. 8, Stern doc. 5

    Decree of Bahrām (1135–37), the vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130–49), safeguarding the monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai, its bishops, its monks, and their agricultural …

    1. وكذلك الحبوب والشعير و [
    2. والثمرة بالدير الاعلا المختص بالاسقف والرهبان
    3. خرج امر فتى مولانا وسيدنا
    4. الامام الحافظ لدين الله امير المؤمنين
    5. صلوات الله عل…
    1. [....] and similarly the corn, barley and
    2. fruit in the upper monastery which belong to the bishop and the monks;
    3. the order of the servant of our mas…

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  47. 3647Paraliterary textT-S F14.89

    Copy of masekhet ʿeruvin. Fol. 2r contains several ownership notes, including for its scribe (musaṭṭiruhā) Elʿazar b. Saʿadya b. Yosef; then Nadiv al-[...] b. Yosef; …

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  48. 3648LetterBL OR 10578E.46

    Letter to Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the mother of someone... something to be purchased for the writer... three capitation tax payments... taking the receipts... someone …

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  49. 3649Legal documentYevr. II K 18

    Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Daniel b.Yosef. The bride is Esther known as Faraj d. Yeshu'a b. Ishaq. AA

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  50. 3650LetterT-S NS 324.140a

    Small fragment from the beginning of a letter reporting the arrival of a letter containing orders (from a court?), and the fulfillment of those orders.

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