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  1. 4351LetterT-S Ar.42.168

    Business letter in Arabic script from Avraham b. Isḥaq, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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  2. 4352List or tableENA 3163.1–3

    Accounts. Six small but comparatively well-written pages in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  3. 4353LetterENA 4020.27

    Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham to Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Ibn Bunyām failed to deliver the large jar (zīr) which the …

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  4. 4354Credit instrument or private receiptAIU VII.D.111

    Recto: One of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's many small notes in which he orders small quantities of materia medica to be given to the bearer. In …

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  5. 4355LetterT-S 8J28.7

    Recto: Letter in which a teacher complains about an unruly pupil. "Whenever I beat him, I do so excessively; but as soon as I begin, …

    1. צפרך טב ובריך אעלם בה
    2. אלמולי באן קד גלבת פי תרביה הדא
    3. אלצגיר אבו מנצור פלעל אן תקדר
    4. עלי מסאעדתי פיה פאנני אנה
    5. אדא צרבתה אסרף פי צרבה ואנה
    6. אדא צרבתה …

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    A good and blessed morning! I have to inform you, my lord, that I have not been successful in educating this boy, Abū Manṣūr. Perhaps you can h…

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  6. 4356LetterT-S 18J4.10

    Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (Alexandria) to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge (Fustat), explaining a recent incident involving two cloaks worth 109 dirhams and a brush …

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    1. עקב ענוה יראת יי עושר
    2. וכבוד וחיים
    3. ממלוכהא אלדאעי להא //שמחה// כהן
    4. ינהי ורוד כתאב הדרת יקרת צפירת
    5. תפארת ועטרת כבוד גדולת קדושת
    6. מרנו ורבנו אליה…

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  7. 4357Unknown typeENA NS 85.1151

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  8. 4358Literary textMIAC 257

    Religious exegesis – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 257) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …

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  9. 4359Legal documentMoss. IV,41.1

    Fragment from the top of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Abū l-ʿIzz b. Ṣedaqa who is a government employee (al-mustaʿmal) and Sayyid al-Ahl.

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  10. 4360Unknown typeENA NS 85.528

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  11. 4361Legal documentT-S AS 180.275

    Fragment from the bottom of a deed of sale. Mentions [...] the wife of Khalaf. Needs further examination.

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  12. 4362LetterT-S AS 128.48

    Verso (original use): Remnant of an address of a letter from Hārūn b. Binyām, sent to Abū Zikrī Kohen, who then reused it as scrap …

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  13. 4363State documentT-S AS 183.342

    Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …

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  14. 4364LetterT-S 6J7.22

    Letter of appeal for charity. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with good handwriting but rudimentary spellings. The sender asks for half a dirham to buy food. He …

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  15. 4365LetterT-S AS 179.61

    Mercantile letter sent from Alexandria to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Arabic script. The lines of Judaeo-Arabic on verso may be jotted accounts in the hand …

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  16. 4366Unknown typeENA 3972.10

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  17. 4367LetterT-S 13J22.11

    Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yaʿīsh to ʿArūs b. Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū …

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  18. 4368List or tableT-S AS 180.199

    List of materia medica, including simples such as celery, false bdellium, turpeth, aloes, sarcocolnla, and wormwood. (Information from CUDL)

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  19. 4369Paraliterary textJRL A 643

    Exorcism. In Hebrew. Late. The spirit of Nissim b. Bunya is commanded to leave the body of Qamr bt. Ruḥama, and it is decreed that …

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  20. 4370LetterT-S 8Ja1.6

    Letter from Abū Isḥāq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th–15th century. The writer is in difficult straits due to a business matter and dealings with the dīwān. …

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  21. 4371Legal documentT-S 13J3.21

    The scholar and hazzan Shela ha-Levi gives a loan of 552 dirhams to the silk weaver Efrayim b. Sedaqa, to be paid back in three …

    1. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאכ[י]ר מחדש סיון שנת אלפא וחמש מאה וע[שרין
    2. וחד שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה
    3. חצר אלינא אנן חתומי מטה אלשיך…

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  22. 4372Legal documentBL OR 10118.12

    Bill of divorce, calligraphic. Only the last few lines are preserved.

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  23. 4373Legal documentT-S 12.108

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Unsigned. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar (year not preserved). Location: Fustat. Replacement document for a partnership agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan Menashshe …

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    1. [........................................ אל]תזאם אחר[יות .................................]
    2. [........................................ ] אלרבח…

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    1. […req]uirement of respons[ibility…]
    2. […] the profit and loss in halves, exactly, and from […]
    3. a non-interest-bearing loan with the […] he will re…

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  24. 4374Legal documentHalper 342

    Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Under the jurisdiction of the Gaon Masliah (1127–39). Settlement between …

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  25. 4375Paraliterary textENA 1269.29

    On recto, Hebrew piyyuṭ. All around it and on verso, Arabic jottings and pen trials.

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  26. 4376Paraliterary textT-S Ar.41.81

    Two medical prescriptions in Arabic script, written on cloth on the back of a court record or deposition in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yiju …

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  27. 4377Legal documentT-S Ar.53.71

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment of a contract made before a Muslim notary about a bible (al-Tawrāh) codex containing twenty-four "books" (sifr). The parties …

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  28. 4378Literary textT-S Ar.16.13

    Literary text. Discussion of atonement and excommunication. Author refers to Saadiah and cites באב אלכאפרה of the same work; probably an autograph(?). (Information from Baker/Polliack …

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  29. 4379LetterT-S AS 147.127

    Letter or possibly legal document with oral speech. Mentions the prayer book (siddur) of Rabbenu Shelomo (Sijilmāsī?). Reused for accounts on recto. (Information in part …

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  30. 4380Legal documentENA 3907.4

    Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Very neat handwriting. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Mentions a broker in the …

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  31. 4381Literary textT-S Ar.30.206

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic involving a skinny woman and a fat woman. One is "thin of waist, great of buttocks, sweet of bosom." Possibly in …

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  32. 4382LetterT-S AS 173.53

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 444, probably 444 AH = 1052/53 CE, but could theoretically be [1]444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Approximately three lines on …

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  33. 4383Unknown typeT-S AS 153.324

    Minute fragment.

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  34. 4384Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 182.272

    Small receipt of some sort for Abū Sahl al-Muʿallim.

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  35. 4385LetterT-S 10J4.14

    Informal note addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: Ca. 1210 CE (per Goitein). The hand may be known. (1) Abū l-Riḍā al-Wathīq has a power …

    1. כתר שוקי אלי חצרה אלאגל רבנא יוסף החכם והנבון תגדל שלותו לעד אתאסף עלי פרקתי מנה
    2. גאיה אלוחשה אעלמה אן אלשיך אבו אלרצא אלותיק מעה וכאלה לאבו אלבהא אל…

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  36. 4386LetterT-S AS 182.289

    Letter fragment in Arabic script with one phrase in Hebrew. Addressed to Fustat. Opens with respectful honorifics. May mention the Franks or the land of …

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  37. 4387Unknown typeENA NS 85.270

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  38. 4388LetterT-S 10J25.1

    Letter from Moshe b. Shemuel b. Jami, probably sent from Fustat to his partner in Qabes, mentioning merchandise in the Maghreb and Egypt, and asking …

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    1.                         ] גלאם מה[                    ]ידך [                                                               ]
    2. [               …

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    1. (1–2) ….משרת …. (אלוהים) …. גבולות, בחסדו ובנדיבותו. כתבת אדוני שהגיע מה ששלחתי ….
    2. (3–4) …. לחשבונך הפרטי, בשלום, תודה לאל. כתבת על עניין ה…

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  39. 4389List or tableT-S AS 206.288

    List of interesting laqabs, maybe of state officials, e.g., Humām al-Dawla, Qamr al-Dawla, and Sayf al-Islām.

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  40. 4390LetterT-S 10J10.10

    Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq, evidently of al-Maḥalla, to Abu Saʿd Hibatallāh (aka Netanʾel b. Yefet Rosh ha-Qahal), in Cairo. The beginning is in Hebrew …

    1. כי אם יש אחרית ותקותך לא תכרת
    2. איש זקן מכובד . בברכות יוזבד . בתפארת עטרה יורבד . כעטה מכנסי בד שהוא
    3. לבד . השר היקר . הנברר ונחקר . ובצדק וזוריח כאור…

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  41. 4391Legal documentT-S Ar.42.174

    Bill of sale of a slave. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. [يقـ]ـول حنون بن علون النصراني الكاتب بدار الد[يبا]ج اننى بعت للشيخ عروس بن يوسف الاسرايلي
    3. [المـ]ـصرى جارية نصرانية وابنها قو…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  

    2. Ḥanūn ibn ʿAlūn, the Christian clerk in the Dār al-Dībāj, states that: I have sold  …

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  42. 4392Literary textENA 3982.27

    Medical text in Arabic script. Instructions on interacting with the patient, it seems.

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  43. 4393Unknown typeENA 3972.5

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  44. 4394LetterENA NS 77.38

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment (upper left corner of recto).

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  45. 4395LetterT-S 10J18.4

    Letter from a father to a son, containing detailed instructions concerning items that the sender sent and that the addressee should purchase. Gives specific quantities …

    1. ישועאת(!) ייי כהרף עין
    2. . . . . . ד אלולד אלעזיז מוסי
    3. ח]רסה אללה תעלא וינהי אן
    4. יתצל לך עלי וצחבתה
    5. ד]גאג תלאתה ודיך ופלוס
    6. ו]רד סבעין וכמסה עסל
    7. ]ל עסל …

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  46. 4396Legal documentAIU VI.C.14

    Fragment of a ketubba. The hand of the scribe is known (one of the mid-12th-century ones). Groom: Might be Hillel b. Moshe. Signed by Yosef …

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  47. 4397List or tableT-S NS J128

    Account (small fragment) of purchases. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Referring to Sicilian textiles (e.g. Damanshī or Damunnashī, Saraqūsī). See Goitein's index card for partial …

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  48. 4398Legal documentT-S NS 99.44

    Small fragment of a legal document on vellum signed by [...]f b. Natan.

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  49. 4399LetterT-S AS 159.172

    One side: A brief letter to Abu l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān consisting of greetings and blessings. (A man by the same name is known from India Book …

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  50. 4400Legal documentENA NS 36.7

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 19 [...] 5585 AM (1824/25 CE). Stating the amount of money to be paid to al-Khwāja Eliyyahu Lanyado.

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