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  1. 351LetterT-S AS 164.266

    He sent 23 dirhams with the bearer and gives instructions for its disposal. The recipient is to buy lemons (?) for one dirham and give them to the Rayyis Abu Zikri (the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi?!).

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    1. קד עלם אללה תע כתרה שוקי אלי אלמואלי אלסאדה תבת
    2. אללה מגדהם וצאעף סעדהם ואהלך עדוהם

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  2. 352Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Location: Cairo. Dated 26 Adar 5443 AM, which is 1683 CE. (Document #29) Delayed purchase agreement for the same property as the previous two entries, shares in an upper-story apartment (PGPID 40905, PGPID 40906).

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    :(Documents 27-29) Folio 7v

    1. בכלל נב.תה(?) שלשה רביעי חזקת ומלך העלייה הנז׳ ככתוב בשטר הכתוב שזמנו בהם ששי שמנה ימים
    2. לחדש טבת הנז׳ והר׳ בנימן ש…

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  3. 353List or tableT-S NS 246.26.12

    See also Goitein, Med Soc II, App. C, 26. NB: Goitein and Allony cite this document as T-S NS 246.22.

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  4. 354Legal query or responsumENA 1267.8 + ENA 1267.9 + ENA 1267.10

    Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection

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  5. 355Legal query or responsumENA 1267.9 + ENA 1267.8 + ENA 1267.10

    Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection

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  6. 356Legal query or responsumENA 1267.10 + ENA 1267.8 + ENA 1267.9

    Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection

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  7. 357LetterT-S NS J370

    He also asks for several liturgical poems, including one specifically from his cousin (ibn khāl) Abū l-Khayr and some from Abū l-Munā the cantor. He offers to buy a garment for his mother. He wants his brother (probably Yedutun) to obtain a fatwā (responsum) on his behalf.

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    1. עבדו יצחק
    2. בש רח

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  8. 358LetterIOM D 55.14

    Salāma b. Mūsā intends to buy a house in Mazara. The letter describes the writer’s conflict with local Jews who are plotting against him, and mentions a ban of excommunication declared against them.

  9. [ ] אלקאלוץ והו באלקרב מנך מן ביתך

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    1. [ ] בסביל אלכיר מן גהת אלשיך אבו אברהם יצתק ומא נחתאג אלתאכיד

  11. ...הקאלוץ, והוא קרוב אליך, אל ביתך
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    1. .... ברוח טובה לגבי האדון אבו אברהם יצחק ואין צורך שאורז
    2. (אותך) עוד, כי תיתן לו מצדי דינר, דבר שכבר כתבתי לך על אודותיו, ואם הוא מעדיף לבוא, שלח אותו

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    1. ותראה אותו בכל יום.

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  13. 359LetterENA 2735.7

    Levi ha-Levi) asking the recipent to sell for him the Mishnah and Hilkhot Shehitah and send him the money with the bearer. He also wants to buy the codices of the Torah copied by Abu Sahl the Qaraite that he had seen in the addressee's possession.

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  14. 360State documentT-S AS 182.266 + T-S AS 182.265 + T-S AS 182.264 + T-S AS 182.263

    Official-looking (tax?) receipts. Needs examination.

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  15. 361LetterBL OR 5566B.30

    "For studying at home I received 25 dinars, on condition that I do not leave the house—even to visit the public bathhouse. Dear brother, you cannot imagine what I suffer by being separated from you and from our friend the Devil (Abū Murra), the Bird of Jinnies (ʿUsfūr al-Jinn)...."

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  16. 362LetterT-S NS 324.142

    The community of Aden wishes for the visit of the addressee, and they congratulate him on something to do with Alexandria and somebody who was arrested.

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  17. 363Legal documentT-S 13J8.1

    The document further stipulates the boy visit the father on a Sabbath or a weekday, whenever he (the father) wished.

    1. בתרין בשבה כד בתשרי שסד חצר בבית דין ר יוסף בן ר צדקה
    2. אלפאמי ומטלקתה גניה בת ר חסן ואקנינא מנה לרצונו ותאותו
    3. בלא אונס אן ידפע אלי ר סלאמה אלזיאת באל…
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  18. the keeper of a grain store and his divorcee Gh[aniyya] bt. R. Ḥasan came before the court. We made the symbolic purchase from him according to his will and desire 

  19. without coercion that he will pay four dirhams every week to R.

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  21. 364Legal query or responsumENA 2607.26

    Responsum written in a late hand.

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  22. 365Legal query or responsumENA 2626.1

    Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.

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  23. 366Legal query or responsumENA 2626.2

    Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.

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  24. 367Legal query or responsumENA 2626.3

    Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.

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  25. 368Legal query or responsumENA 2626.4

    Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.

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  26. 369LetterAIU VII.D.108

    Abū Zikrī's brother-in-law is attempting to mediate a settlement involving a transfer of 20 gold coins and 800 qelafim (sheets of parchment?), which have already been sent with Nissim b.

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  27. 370Legal documentT-S NS 321.79 + T-S 13J4.5

    He later wrote, "The 62 Kāmilī fulūs were dirhems and not copper coins and were regarded as an equivalent of 9 Nāṣirī dirhems plus customs dues paid to the makkāsīn Miṣr, the customs officials of Fusṭāṭ.

    1. ] מטה מן אלשיך אבו מנצור כגק מר ור אלעזר הבחור ה[
    2. ] הזקן היקר הידוע באבן זבקלה סט קנין שלם בכלי הכשר [
    3. ] בלי [אונ]ס כלל בביטול כל מודעין ותנאין אן ע…

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  28. 371LetterT-S 6J9.3

    The writer had tried to visit Yosef several times but didn’t find him in and hasn’t heard from him.

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  29. 372List or tableT-S J2.63

    The first list of revenues includes 26 items, totaling 373.5 dirhams, and the second 20 items, totaling 367.5 dirhams.

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    1. תצקיע גבאיה אבו אלביאן אלגאבי לשהרין והמא אלול אתצד
    2. ותשרי אתצה דאר אלנגיד לב סכן ר יעקב יח
    Taken in account to his charge
  30. at b. al-Āhūv ʿImrān, 3. Total, 174. Balance charged to him 263 1/2.

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  32. 373Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/41

    Dated: Sunday, 21 Kislev 1355 Seleucid = 26 November 1043 CE.

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצרים והעדים החותמים עדותם
    2. מטה בכתב הזה איך מרב יוסף המכונה אבו אלפצל [ב]ר מרב פרחיה /אתא קדמנא/ קובל על מרב
    3. צבי…

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  33. 374State documentT-S Ar.34.90

    Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403). Measurements: 8.7 × 8.5 cm.

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  34. 375Legal documentT-S NS 226.26a

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138). Fragment (bottom only). Concerning a woman whose husband has traveled. This document evidently asserts some …

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  35. 376Legal documentT-S NS 226.26b

    Minute fragment, only few words are preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).

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  36. 377Legal documentT-S NS 226.126

    Fragment from a court ledger in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Long vertical strip from around the middle crease; portions of …

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  37. 378Legal documentT-S NS 264.26

    Legal fragment. Power of attorney. Mentions a doctor; Mufarraj b. Dāʾūd al-Jawharī, and someone's agent Ṭayyib [b.] Mūsā. May have been left incomplete.

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  38. 379Literary textT-S NS 265.26

    Poetry/piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.

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  39. 380LetterT-S 6J2.14

    He asks him to let him tag along (yatbaʿ athārahū) when he sets out to buy grapes from the vineyards (ghīṭān). On verso there is unrelated text in Arabic script.

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  40. 381Legal documentT-S 20.160

    Netanel to sever his relations with disreputable people, not to buy a female slave, and never to leave Fustat except with Fāʾiza's consent.

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    1. A memorandum of testimony that was before us, we the witnesses who sign below on this

    2. document: Toviya b.

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  41. 382LetterT-S Ar.18(1).164

    Yūsuf writes that because of the high price of the gall nuts he decided not to buy them. (Information from CUDL and Mediterranean Society, I, p. 213; IV, p. 405)

    וזיבק(!) מן בל אלי גל אלי דל די אלקנטאר אלחאציה . . א . . | אלצ . . .

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    ואן כאנת לה | חאגה ישרפני | ולא יקטע | כתבה עני | סאעה בסאעה | ושלום

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  42. 383Legal documentT-S 13J19.10

    Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk sayf al-dawla wa-[...]hā b. al-M[...]m ṣanīʿat amīr al-muʾminīn...). Dated: 26 Rabīʿ II 504 AH = 11 November 1110 CE. In which Rawʿ(?)

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. حضر مجلس خدمة الامير المقدم الامير الامين مجد الخلافة عز الدين جمال الامرا فخر الملك

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    1. A document of proof for Mazrūʿ the caravanserai proprietor

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  43. 384LetterENA 2556.2 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/1 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/2 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/3 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/4 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/5 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/6

    The text was copied onto oblong parchment, possibly in the late tenth century; it is a quire consisting of four bifolios, three now in Oxford and a fourth in New York. The last folio (Bodl. MS Heb. f 26/6) is damaged, and the text is reconstructed here in comparison with the transcription that Harkavy published in 1891. In the publicly available images of ENA 2556.2 on FGP and PUL, the manuscript is warped and wrinkled and part of the text hidden. The newly treated manuscript, flattened and more legible, is available here on PGP.

  44. ביום שבת בו שעו

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    1. ואמרת חל משעה ז ונמצא ראש השנה הראש חמיש[

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  46. 385LetterENA NS 77.263 + ENA NS 77.265 + ENA NS 77.264

    Three fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably from Mivḥar b. Yefet to the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The scribe is identified based on handwriting …

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  47. 386Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J48

    Verso: A woman pawns pieces of her trousseau against loans. The date 26 May 1050 CE appears in lines 4–5. Information from Goitein's note cards.

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  48. 387Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J31

    Legal record, or outline for drawing up a deed of sale. Dated: Sunday, 26 Ṭevet 1537 Seleucid, which is 28 December 1225 CE.

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  49. 388LetterT-S 8J24.13

    Letter from Abu Ishaq Ibrahim dealing with business matters.

  50. יצל מנה שצ [[ק]] ולד
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    1. אמר פאמתתלה וארסלה וקד אנפדת קליל

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  52. 389LetterENA NS 34.24

    Due to the difficulty of leaving, he resorted to "a trick" and told them that he wanted to visit all the graves of the righteous in Palestine, so he left and his party traveled the country from Dan to Be'er Sheva.

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  53. 390Legal query or responsumENA 2607.22 + ENA 2607.21

    Responsa. Avkat Rochel no. 2-4. Published by Glick, Seridey Teshuvot, pp. 32-47. AA

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  54. 391Literary textENA 2627.79 + ENA 2627.80

    Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.

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  55. 392LetterENA 2634.1 + ENA 2634.2

    This fragment also contains the end of the letter from ENA 2634.2 (dated: 7 Av, 5656 AM, which is 1896 CE). Written in Hebrew, by a professional Ashkenazi scribe.

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  56. 393LetterENA 2634.2 + ENA 2634.1

    The letter continues onto the upper part of ENA 2634.1. Dated: 7 Av, 5656 AM, which is 1896 CE. Written in Hebrew, by a professional Ashkenazi scribe. […] He also seems to instruct the addressee to name the newborn son Mordekhai after him. He asks again for money, for he and his son Yiṣḥaq are in difficult straits.

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  57. 394Legal documentENA 2634.13 + ENA 2634.14

    Official document of some kind. In Persian? There are eleven different seal imprints. Dated: 1201 AH = 1786/87 CE according to the last line of …

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  58. 395Legal query or responsumENA 2685.2 + ENA 2685.1

    Responsa by RADBAZ, II, no. 839: 1. Resurrections of the dead 2. Regarding a Rabbi who excommunicated his student. Published by Glick, Sridei Teshuvot, 243-256

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  59. 396List or tableENA 3264.4 + ENA 3264.2

    Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. Although the verso was not reused in this case, the shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of …

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  60. 397List or tableENA 3268.4 + ENA 3268.5

    Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. Fiscal? Mentions a sixth of a stable (اصطبل); a sixth of a small compound (duwayra), Ismāʿīl, and maybe an …

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  61. 398Legal documentT-S 8.268 + T-S 8.269

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Valencia (ברנסיה). Dated: 48[..] AM, which is 1039–1140 CE. Groom: Avraham b. Yosef. Bride: פטבוניה bt. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from Goitein's index …

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  62. 399LetterT-S NS 320.102

    Phrases include: "...Abū l-Barakāt... a period of three months... my caution, I didn't sue anyone, and I didn't attend... the group of fair people, namely... and the ḥaver Rabbi Ḥalfon will testify to the truth of what I have said... May God visit on him what he promised... she is gentle... if a reply comes to us...

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  63. 400LetterMIAC 29

    Announcement prohibiting the purchase of mezuzot other than from trusted individuals – June 26 1954CE – Museum of Islamic Art – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35).

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