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  1. 4101LetterMoss. IV,58.3

    Only a small piece from the left side of the document is preserved, with the ends of about 7 lines.

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  2. 4102Legal documentMoss. V,393.3

    Mentions the benefactor's daughter, the clause "during his lifetime and after his death", and a Qāḍī "[al-]Qāḍī al-A[jall]" towards the end. Needs further examination.

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  3. 4103Legal documentMoss. VII,62.2

    The end of a will, mentioning the names Yehoshuaʿ b.

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  4. 4104Literary textMoss. Xa, 3.43 + Moss. IXa,2.24

    A folio from a fiqh manual entitled "kitāb al-iqtiṣār" by the 10th-century Fatimid chief jurist, al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān.

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    1. الَىْ اَهْلِهَا مُكَذّباً بِفَرْضِها اَوْ مُدَافِعاً لِهاْ وَجَبَ قتالهُ وَقتلَه
    2. اذا قَدِر عَليهِ الّاَ اَن يَتُوبَ وَكُل من حَالَ دُوْن حَدٍّ…

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    1. [Whoever defies an act of obligatory practice, or a ritual from the rituals of Islam, or refuses from fulfilling his obligation to the righ…

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  5. 4105Paraliterary textMoss. Xa,3.91

    Each side begins "idhā...." Verso ends "wa-llāhu aʿlam." The content is difficult to read but refers to winds, storms, ships, wheat, and children.

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  6. 4106Paraliterary textRNL Yevr. II B 94

    A dedicatory colophon in the first page dedicates it to the qaraite community of Egypt, "for reading in the endowed property". The donor is Yosef b. Aharon kown as al-Ghazzi, and the date is Marḥeshvan 1411 Sel.

    Dedicatory colophon

    1. זה המקרא כולה קדש
    2. [ליי] על כת הקראיין
    3. שבארץ מצרים לקרות
    4. בו בדירת ההקדש 
    5. הקדיש אותו מר' ור'
    6. יוסף הזקן בר מר'
    7. ור' אהרן הידוע אלגזי

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  7. 4107LetterT-S 8J15.31

    The end of a late letter, signed with elaborate sigla.

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  8. 4108LetterT-S 8J18.4

    Netanel. Consists almost entirely of polite expressions of longing and flattery.

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    1. יא מולאי וסידי ועמאדי וט'הירי ועתאדי אל עזיז אל קדר אל רפיע אל כטר
    2. ומן אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עלוה וצאן מן אלגיר חובאה כתבת אעז אללה
    3. קדרך עמא לא…

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    1. אדוני ומרי וסומכי ועוזרי ומגני יקר המעלה רם בגדולה
    2. ואשר יאריך ה' את חייו ויתמיד את רוממותו וישמור מתהפוכות הגורל את נפשו. כתבתי מכתב זה – יעצי…

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  9. 4109LetterT-S 8J20.15

    Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). Verso: Treatise ending on the patience of the pious ( צבר אלצאלחין ).

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    בכתב ידו של נתן בן שמואל החבר

    1. [צדיקים] ירשו ארץ
    2. וישכנו לעד עליה עלו
    3. בשמ רחמ
    4. רננו צדיקים ביי'. אור זרוע לצדיק. יצפון לישרים תושיה מגן להולכי תם

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  10. 4110State documentT-S 8K15.11

    Bottom 5 lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with either a request or an instruction, ويفعل بذلك ما عهد من همته والله يوفقه ويعضده ان شا الله, followed by a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.

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  11. 4111LetterT-S 12.225

    Verso: A few lines from the end of a letter in Arabic script. Very damaged and faded.

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  12. 4112State documentT-S AS 132.66 + T-S AS 132.65

    The ends of three lines from an official-looking letter or document in Arabic script.

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  13. 4113LetterT-S AS 137.215

    Mentions 140 (or [.]40) dirhams and asking the addressee to deal with payments and collecting sums of money. Mentions Malīj at the end. The hand may be known (probably 12th century).

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  14. 4114LetterT-S AS 145.54

    The sender is asking the addressee to enlighten him about various theological/philosophical matters, e.g., the significance of the trappings of the Mishkan.

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  15. 4115Legal documentT-S AS 147.11

    End of a document recording a sale, in which an unnamed male is released from obligations concerning some goods he offered his uncle for sale of any future restitution claimed by the uncle.

    1. אן תקבל //אשרת עליה// עלי נפסה אן [[לו כאן פי ביע]] אן ולו תעין
    2. לה פימא אבאעה לעמה מן גמיע אלנסך אלדי
    3. תקדם דכרהם פרט ולו מקדאר תמנהם פמא לה
    4. אן ירגע …

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  16. 4116Legal documentT-S AS 150.117

    T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)). Dating: Likely early 13th century.

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  17. 4117List or tableT-S AS 153.476

    List of names. Most entries have little circles over them. E.g., Menaḥem, [Yo]sef, Eliyya, ʿaskarī (a soldier?)

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  18. 4118LetterT-S AS 173.285

    There is a date at the end of the marginal text on verso, perhaps [15]28 Seleucid = 1216/17 CE.

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  19. 4119State documentT-S AS 178.230

    Petition to a Fatimid caliph, in Arabic script. The ends of ~8 lines are preserved from the upper left corner, including much of the preamble with elaborate titles for the addressee.

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  20. 4120LetterT-S AS 182.302

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in elegant Arabic script. The ends of four lines are preserved: وحرس . . . . .

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  21. 4121LetterT-S AS 200.275

    Recto: Account in Judaeo-Arabic headed "the end of the account for the last ten days of Ṭevet(?)."

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  22. 4122State documentT-S AS 200.376

    Wide line spacing. The end of one line is preserved: "[...] two swords from the accursed Franks and a quiver."

    1. ]ـين من الفرنج الملاعين وسيفين وتركاشا

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    1. ]ـين من الفرنج الملاعين وسيفين وتركاشا

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  23. 4123State documentT-S K25.211

    Recto: Petition or report to a Fatimid vizier, ending only, including raʾy, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. 5th century AH/11th century CE.

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  24. 4124List or tableT-S NS 34.144

    On verso, at ninety degrees, there are business accounts, mentioning somebody known as Ibn al-Sūsī and various sums of money received. The entire fragment is very faded.

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  25. 4125List or tableT-S NS 102.106

    Barakāt owes 140 dirhams. Some of the entries are crossed out. On verso there is love poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate record).

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  26. 4126State documentT-S NS 245.49

    Response to the petition towards the end. "the command of our master has been obeyed".

    1. الراي العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
    2. ….المذكور
    3. عبده
    4. امتثل عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ما رسم وتولى المجلس المذكور يمتثل…

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    1. الراي العالي في ذ…

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  27. 4127LetterT-S NS 264.38

    Only the conventional expressions of longing at the beginning and the very end of the letter (in the right margin) are preserved.

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  28. 4128State documentT-S NS 265.17

    State document or likely a draft of one. One section ends with the phrase “to the chancery (Dīwān al-Inshāʾ).”

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  29. 4129Legal documentT-S NS 320.100

    Includes the unusual formula העדים החוקקים עידותינו (cf. ENA NS 18.26). Concerns [...] b. Muslim b. Shuʿayb al-Dimashqī and a woman.

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  30. 4130LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1468

    In Judaeo-Arabic. Consists almost entirely of greetings and updates on the health of various family members.

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  31. 4131Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Due to the crowded spacing of entries within the list, the line numbering for this part of the transcription is not a one-to-one representation of the original document. […] Ketubba settlement section following Ḥabība/Ḥavīva's dowry list, in which she takes the "oath of widowhood" before the beit din and her unnamed mother-in-law (חמותה). The entry contains a section-by-section overview of the monetary valuation of the dowry list (totaling to 12,000 medin).

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     :(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r     

    1. הערער ההוא כל חלקו ונוגע לו בבתים ובחובות הנז׳׳ל על פרעון הנזק וההפסד ההוא שיגרום לאחיו
    2. שעבוד גמור מעכשו כדין …

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  32. 4132Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    (Document #30) Investment partnership connected to an apotropos (guardianship) fund for Yaʿaqov and Esther, the orphans of Moshe Juwwānī/Jawwānī—whose widow Ḥabība is still alive and known from previous entries in the same court register (documents #27-29). […] Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. The purpose of this entry is to recount how the children's mother and grandmother had received 15,000 medin back from Shelomo ha-Levi Skandarī and Yosef b.

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    :(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r

    1. בהיות שהר׳ שלמה הלוי סכנדרי יצ׳׳ו והר׳ יוסף הלוי יצ׳׳ו בכה׳׳ר יצחק יצ׳׳ו שניהם יחד קבלו סך חמשה ושבעים אלף מאידי
    2. כ…

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  33. 4133LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/87

    Dated 21 Heshvan קנא, which would normally be 4800 + 151 = 4951 AM = 1190 CE, or possibly 1551 Seleucid = 1239 CE. But there are enough unusual features (format, language) of the letter that it could plausibly be 5151 AM = 1390 CE. […] He is preoccupied with the failure of everyone in his in-laws' family to write to him or to ask about him in letters to his wife. At the end, he brings up various business matters to be conducted by al-Shaykh al-Sadīd together with the writer's maternal uncle Abū l-Munā.

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  34. 4134LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/40

    Refers to Rabbenu; acknowledges receipt of a letter from Avraham ha-Dayyan; there is a letter enclosed for Abū Naṣr; and greetings to Yeshuʿa and Nissim and Natan. Goitein's translation of ll. 6–14: "I am most miserable. Some envy me, others despise me; others, again, are hostile.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]יד כלעה פאוצא בכ דינ ננצב
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .].ה הם והדא אלדי ערפת אן כשף
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  35. 4135Legal documentENA 2558.22

    Moshe (imḍāʾ ḥālih wa-khurūjih ilaynā) to lead them and engage in "enjoining good and forbidding wrong as the Law dictates" (al-amr bi-l-maʿrūf wa-l-nahy ʿan al-munkar ʿalā mā tūjibu al-sharīʿā).

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  36. 4136Legal documentENA 3755.6

    It is probable that Ḥalfon copied this condition from a real ketubba, since it is unlikely that this condition was common enough to be included in a manual of deeds. Deed B: deed complementing the Ketubba. […] The deed was written on the reverse side, from line 8 onward, after the end of the ketubba in Deed A.

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    1. אלנאמנות ומנהא אנה יקיםִ להא גאריה ברסם כדמִתִהִא [ט]וִ[ל]
    2. חִיוה עינִהאִ ואן מאתִת ישתרי עו̇צהא ומנהא אנהא אִןִ כִרִ[הת]
    3. אלסכן מע ואלד…

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  37. 4137LetterENA 4007.6

    The senders ask the addressee to ensure that he receives the full third of his father's inheritance that is due to him; there are 3 brothers (including a Natan b.

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    1. הפסח יודיעני רבינו הגע[תם
    2. אני לרבינו גאון בעבור משה בן מבשר
    3. אחי נתן בן מבשר אוהביו ודורשי שלומו
    4. כי משה זה בן מבשר נושא כתבים [הביא]
    5. בעבורו הידו…

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  38. 4138Legal documentENA 4020.9

    If Hillel wishes to leave this employment, he must pay the entire balance of the debt. It seems that Abū al-Faraj is also to pay Hillel a wage, though the amount is unspecified. […] (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 63–64.) See ENA NS 19.13 (PGPID 11359) for a similar contract.

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    1. [.........................................] לקנות קנין גמור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו מעכשיו  וכאלץ מאלה
    2.  [.....................................…

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    1. […] to effect a complete and weighty qinyan, with an item suitable for doing so, effective immediately
    2. […] that he owes him, and that he has in …

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  39. 4139LetterENA NS I.1

    Much of the letter is an angry tirade about the lack of response from Eliyyahu and his behavior that brought about some conflict (tashāḥun) between elders in his family, and their humiliation and the rejoicing of their enemies (this part of the story is clearest in ll. 18–19 and 26–28).

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    1. הנה אל ישועתי אבטח ולו אפחד כי עזי וזמרת יה ׳׳ ויהי ל[י לישועה]
    2. אלי אלמגלס אלסמי אלאגלי אלמולוי אלפצל אלמתפצל עלי ממא[ליכה . . . . .]
    3. כתרת תשו…

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  40. 4140List or tableENA NS I.57 + CUL Or.1080 J253 + T-S Ar.35.382 + T-S Misc.8.15 + T-S NS 225.73 + T-S NS 225.74 + T-S NS 226.184 + T-S NS 321.5 + T-S NS J576 + T-S AS 155.348 + ENA NS 27.5 + T-S AS 199.234 + T-S AS 201.28 + T-S AS 201.29 + T-S AS 206.208 + T-S AS 210.70 + T-S AS 215.208 + JTS MS 9160.9 + ENA 2917.3 + ENA NS 7.14 + ENA NS 29.11 + T-S AS 199.11

    "This interpretation of the term tawwāb is supported by another entry in the notebook written in 1600, noting 15 fiḍḍa that were given to support “a tawwāb converso (anūs)”. The arrival of Sephardi conversos in Egypt and their return to Judaism within a Muslim environment is documented as far back as 1459, a process which increased following the expulsion from Spain."

    T-S NS 225.74 Recto

    1. סכן כ"ר ישראל ש^אמי יצ' פי ליואן אל הקדש אלמערוף^
    2. בגואר אלמנת חכם הרופה[!] עובדיה כאהנה ז'ל'
    3. מן שהר כסלו שנת ה'ש'נ'ו' ען אוגרת כ…

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  41. 4141LetterMoss. L 279

    He had sent "a student and servant" of his to the Iraqian capital to determine whether it was safe for him to enter it, but meanwhile he had run short of cash. The Gaon answers: Had he known of the writer's intention to come, he would have borne the cost of his entire journey, and, of course, his sojourn in Baghdad would be at the expense of the yeshiva."

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  42. 4142Legal documentMoss. VII,10.1

    In addition, the deed is without dates or signatures, which are usually found in deeds of betrothal or engagement. Perhaps this is a general agreement appended to another agreement or it might be a draft. (Translated to English in Goitein, 3:154. Med. Soc.). Alternate description: betrothal deed between R.

    1. במזל טוִב והצלחה
    2. אסתקר בין ̇ר אפרים התלמיד בן ̇כג̇ק
    3. מר̇נ ורב̇נ משולם החכם והנבון ̇זלֹ ובין
    4. ̇ר ישועה הלוי ב̇ר צדקה אלרמלי עלי ולדה
    5. אלכבירה סת אלפִכִר…

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  43. 4143Letterp. Mich. Inv. 6710

    NB: The document does not appear to be digitized on the University of Michigan papyrological information system, but, "A description and the picture of the papyrus is in C. Sirat, Les papyrus en caracteres hebraiques trouves en Egypte, Editions du centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris 1985, p. 105 and planche 30 and 31."

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  44. 4144Legal documentT-S 8J5.2

    Menashshe ha-Levi. (1) Engagement contract between a divorced man and a divorced woman, following confirmation of their divorces. […] Maḥfūẓ al-Bannāʾ (the builder) and Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskandarānī who testify to the authenticity of the signatures on the document and the fact that Hilāla has received her geṭ from ʿIwāḍ. ʿIwāḍ then engages Sitt al-Khawāt bt. Eliyya the divorcee of Yehuda b.

    T-S 8J5.2 1 recto

    1. כאן קד חצר אלי בית דין מ עואץ אלאסכנדראני ביר משה הזקן נע
    2. ואחצר בידה שטר מוחזק בכט ר צדקה הלוי החזן ישצו דידיע
    3. בן נפ[ ] טל[א]קה לז…

    T-S 8J5.2 1 recto

    Mr. ʿIwāḍ, from Alexandria, son of Manasseh the elder, may he rest in  Eden, came to the court and brought with him a legal deed [s…

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  45. 4145List or tableT-S 8J5.14

    Michael, who wrote this confirmatory note. Entries marked with an asterisk have a wavy line above them, at the beginning, resembling a sine curve, perhaps meaning 'claimed' one entry on 14b is overlined, meaning deleted.

    TS 8 J 5, f. 14a 1183

    1. אבו אלמגד אללבאן מקדר
    2. סרב אלמעתוקה גוכאניה
    3. ארמלה אבו אלימן גוכאניה
    4. בית בן אלרקוקי מקדר מחפוט
    5. מכארם בן סהלאן גוכאניה
    6. הבה בן פינ…

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  46. 4146List or tableT-S 8J5.14

    Michael, who wrote this confirmatory note. Entries marked with an asterisk have a wavy line above them, at the beginning, resembling a sine curve, perhaps meaning 'claimed' one entry on 14b is overlined, meaning deleted

    1. אלבאקי ביד אבו אלביאן 1 אבנה [[מכתאר]] //פרח// ב

    --------------------- 2 אבנה אבו נצר ג

    1. * בית אלשׁבראוי ה
    2. * ארמלה פהד אלחז [כך] ה
    3. אם אבו אלכיר ה
    4. א…

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  47. 4147Legal documentT-S 8J8.5

    Leaf from a court notebook. Recto: Legal entry related to the sale of a female slave. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1528 Seleucid = 4 May 1217 CE. […] Recto, bottom: List of goods (mostly garments) in three columns, likely part of a trousseau list. Verso: Legal entry concerning an agreement between Abū Saʿīd al-Naqqād and Abū l-Fakhr al-Ṣayrafī.

    1. אקני מן אלשיך בו אלעז בן אלשיך בו עמראן אלשראבי נע'
    2. אן כל גראמה אן יגרמהא אלשיך בו אלחסן אלמלמד
    3. מן סבב דהב אלעהדה בתאע אלגאריה אלדי אשתראהא
    4. אלשיך בו…

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  48. 4148Legal documentT-S 13J8.9

    The quittance formulae near the end specifically mention a contract between one of parties and Abū l-Munā b. […] A filing note on verso states that Abū Zikrī Kohen received the entirety of what he was owed by Avraham, namely 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars Signed by Natan b.

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  49. 4149Legal documentT-S 16.187

    Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. […] As the community was in danger of fragmenting, a 30-year moratorium was enacted to abolish the custom of reshut and prohibit—under pain of excommunication—the setting up of a private place of prayer.

    1. ונפוד אלחרם בדלך חסב מא שהר פלמא עלמנא אנו החכמים
    2. והזקנים החתומים למטה אן דכר אלרשות סבבא לתעטל אלגמאעה
    3. מן אלחצור אלי בית הכנסת ואבטאל עמל אלמצוות א…

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  50. 4150State documentT-S Ar.42.93

    Fakhr al-[...] and Shāwar (1162–69) and the contingent of slaves (al-khawal - mercenaries?) to hand over(?) the enemies who attacked Sandafā the night before Sunday(?)

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