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  1. 4351Legal documentT-S AS 148.32

    Ketubba. Fragment (first few lines only). Dated: 27 Shevat 1282 Seleucid, which is January 971 CE. (Information from Moshe Yagur.)

    1. בנחשא טאבא וסימנא מעליא
    2. [בחמשה] בשבת דהוא עשרון ושבעה יומי בירח שבט
    3. [בשנת] אלפא ומאתן ותמנן ותרתין שנין למניינא דרגיליננא 
    4. [למנות בו] בפוס[טאט

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  2. 4352LetterT-S 12.14

    Letter requesting aid for the poor of Palestine, 11th century. Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)

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    1. [ ] ואין משדל נשדל לא שמטה
    2. [ ] אשר הם צעקות ברננות
    3. [ ] מכורים ואין מקבל מוספיה
    4. [ ] שקר מכוער לאין חקר כנואם [ ]
    5. [ ]מו וירחם עמ[ו] אשר בחר נאמן …

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  3. 4353List or tableT-S AS 202.345

    Account. Late. Organized by month name and dates within the month.

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  4. 4354LetterENA 2540.1

    Letter of petition to Saʿadya the great prince, probably the father of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. The writer complains that he and his family are hungry. …

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    1. [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
    2. מידות השבח היא הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת
    3. מרנא ורבנא סעדיה השר האדיר בישראת…

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  5. 4355Unknown typeENA NS 76.314

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  6. 4356List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 775

    Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  7. 4357Literary textT-S AS 184.53

    Literary text containing a first-person (from the perspective of Muḥammad) account of the Miʿrāj. Several of the phrases are repeated multiple times; possibly a writing …

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  8. 4358LetterJRL B 4771.1

    Letter fragment in Arabic script: ...al-ṣāliḥ dhakarū anna...; on verso there is also some Hebrew text.

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  9. 4359LetterMoss. VII,178.2

    IB V, 17. Letter from Bū Naṣr to Abū Zikrī Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Fragment: only the upper margin and the address are preserved. Mentions …

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  10. 4360LetterMIAC 268

    Personal letter expressing desire for a friend to meet with an American Sulaymān Basha, and other personal news – Ismaʿilīya (Cairo) June 18 1948CE – …

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  11. 4361List or tableENA NS 12.11

    Accounts in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Listing goods and names.

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  12. 4362LetterENA 4046.6

    Petition in Judaeo-Arabic to the Nagid. Mentioning real estate and rent. The handwriting is likely that of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides.

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  13. 4363State documentFrankfurt 128

    Fragment of a state document. Wide line spacing. Likely a decree. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. May refer to indigo (al-nīl) and investigating …

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  14. 4364Unknown typeYevr. IV 116

    Non-Geniza, probably. Private letter in Yiddish.

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  15. 4365Legal documentENA 3555.3

    Legal document in Hebrew, FGP lists as a שטר תנאים. The remnant of an ornamental border may be visible along the bottom.

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  16. 4366Literary textT-S 10K20.3

    Literary text on the calendar. In Hebrew with Judaeo-Arabic marginalia. Several dates are mentioned as well as named (Seʿadya and Moshe b. Yo'av).

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  17. 4367State documentT-S NS J333

    Verso (original use): Fragment of official correspondence or possibly a private letter in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Thin vertical strip with portions …

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  18. 4368LetterENA NS 6.24

    Letter by the son of the judge (dayyan) of Minyat Zifta to a certain Peraḥya, requesting his intercession with a certain sayyidnā David. Dating: If …

    1. ו.נת[. . . . . . . . . . . מא לא
    2. יליק דכרהא מן אל[.]חה ואלשתימה
    3. ואלעתב ליש [. .] מא סתר עליה פי אמר
    4. אלנקה אלדי כאן אכרגהא ואלדי עליה
    5. ויהדדה בעלי אלד…

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  19. 4369LetterT-S K22.11

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Salāma b. Mūsā (al-Ṣafāqusī?); Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī. Very faded; uncited in the literature.

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  20. 4370State documentT-S AS 177.303

    Small fragment of an official letter. A few words from the beginnings of two lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. On verso there …

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  21. 4371List or tableJRL C 123

    List of contributions to the communal "chest" (ארגז) of the Sephardi congregation. Dated [5]592 AM which is 1831/32 CE. The names of those listed include: …

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  22. 4372Legal documentT-S 13J2.10

    Legal document. Partnership record. Dated July 1103. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. This fragment concerns ownership interest in a partnership between Mōda‘ …

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    1. [א]קואם פי מא גרי ביני [ובי]ן אברהם אל[עסאל .........]
    2. תסמעו שהאדתהם בחצרתה מהמא אל[..] חאצר ואחצר 
    3. אלינא אלינא אלשיך אבו אלפרג אלבזאז וקאל אנ…

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    1. [p]eople concerning that which proceeded between me [and betwee]n Abraham al-[‘Assāl. …]
    2. They heard their testimony in his presence concerning w…

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  23. 4373Literary textBL OR 10578C.13

    Literary, Hebrew.

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  24. 4374Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1413

    Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …

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    1. סבב תסטיר האדה אלאחירף(!) ומוג'ב תחרירה בחצרה כל מן כמוה׳׳ר הח׳ הש׳ יום טוב
    2. יצ׳׳ו ידיע ברכה ס׳׳ט וכה׳׳רר אלישע חזן ידיע צעיר יצ׳׳ו ס׳׳ט וכה׳׳…

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  25. 4375Legal documentT-S AS 150.221

    Fragment from a legal deed written by Yosef b. Shmuel b. Saadya Halevi.

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  26. 4376LetterJRL B 5150

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently describing the situation of an ʿaguna (a woman abandoned by her husband without a divorce). "Their summoning to the court. . …

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  27. 4377Unknown typeENA 3972.11

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  28. 4378Legal documentJRL A 1768

    Minute fragment. From the bottom part of a late legal document. Signed by Yaaqiv […] and Avraham Sarfati. AA

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  29. 4379Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. IXa,2.11

    Private receipt (rather than check, as it begins "afrada") for al-Faqīh Muḥammad, for a payment of 303 dirhams (?). Headed by the glyph. Dated 25 …

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  30. 4380Literary textAIU VIII.B.23

    Bifolium from a halakhic work on shehitah

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  31. 4381List or tableT-S Misc.10.59

    Bifolio of accounts. Two pages are in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning aṣḥāb al-dār and a qāḍī. One page is a list in Judaeo-Arabic …

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  32. 4382LetterJRL B 3005

    Very interesting late letter in (middling) Hebrew from a certain ʿOvadya (or [... b.] ʿOvadya) currently in Hamadan (!) and planning to travel to Yazd. …

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  33. 4383Unknown typeBL OR 5566D.32

    Appears entirely literary - discussing various Shabbat and Havdalah-related blessings - but there are also scattered markings that may be an older stratum of writing. …

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  34. 4384State documentT-S Ar.4.10

    Petition from a certain Jaʿfar to a Fatimid dignitary (qāʾid) in which Jaʿfar asks that the support (maʿūna) granted to him not be withdrawn because …

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    1.                                   العبد جعفر 

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    3. عبد مولاى القائد الجليل اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وحراـ[ـسته…

    1. The slave Jaʿfar

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

    3. The slave of my master, the glorious leader, may God prolong his life and …

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  35. 4385Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-16 on f. 14v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 14v

    1. למא כאן בתא לילה אן יספר צבא׳ נהאר אלאתנין ט שהר איר
    2. כ׳׳ג ללעמר סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ג׳ ליציר׳ חצר משה א׳ אלמר׳ ע׳אלרחמן
    3. אלקדסי פי…

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  36. 4386LetterENA NS 29.28

    Letter from a woman, in Rashīd, to Yom Ṭov al-Buḥayrī (it seems her son-in-law) and his wife Esther (it seems her daughter), in Fustat/Cairo. In …

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  37. 4387State documentENA 3979.8 + ENA 3979.7

    Fiscal account dated 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 AH = 11 May 1014 CE if read correctly. Apparently for military spending (nafaqāt), mentioning the Baḥrī and …

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  38. 4388Legal documentT-S AS 153.137

    Legal document(s). Small fragment. Recto contains the beginning of a document and mentions al-Maghrib. Verso contains some crossed out text; portions of names; the words …

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  39. 4389LetterT-S Ar.38.52

    Letter(s) of appeal for charity. Likely drafts. In Arabic script. The one on recto is addressed to Abū Manṣūr and the one on verso is …

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  40. 4390LetterJRL B 3311

    Fragment of a letter in Hebrew apparently addressed to the brother-in-law of the writer. The addressee is asked to purchase a servant girl for the …

    1. ...].מ.
    2. ויעצור הדב[
    3. ומעל כלל עמו ב.[.....] ועתה אחי איש [א]חותי
    4. תן עיניך על אחותי בת עיני ותקנה לה שפחה
    5. לעזרה והנני למאד תאב לשמוע בשורה טוב//ה//
    6. מכ…

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  41. 4391LetterT-S Ar.39.22

    Possibly a letter (needs examination)

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  42. 4392LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/6

    Informal note. In the name of the wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī. Instructing Abū l-ʿAlāʾ to meet with Eliyyahu the Judge and deal with the sale …

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  43. 4393LetterT-S 13J27.2

    Business-family letter showing the concern of the Jews of Egypt for those of Yemen. Dated Thursday, middle of the month Elul. (Information from Goitein's index …

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    1. כי ייי יהיה בכסליך ושמר וג
    2. אלבארי עאלם מא.צי אלממלוך מן שדה
    3. אלשוק נחו טלעתך אלסעידה ולו שרחת בעצה
    4. למא כאן יסעה קרטאס ולא יחויה דרג ואלחצרה
    5. עאל…

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  44. 4394List or tableT-S K15.88

    List of pledges arranged in two sections, separated by a blank space. Thirteen donations are in the first group and ten in the second; two …

    1. ג ג
    2. אבו אלחסן //מס'// אלשיך אלאסעד //בן אלת[
    3. א ב
    4. אלשיך מפצל אולאד אלנשאדרי
    5. ג ג
    6. בו מנצור וואלדה
    7. ב
    8. אלכהן אבו אלמגד עאני? אלרשיד //אללוי//
    9. ה ה ב ה
    10. אלמה…

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  45. 4395State documentENA 3952.1

    Likely a fragment of a fiscal account. There are four text blocks arranged in a grid, each headed by the name of a person written …

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  46. 4396Legal documentT-S AS 202.212

    Recto looks like a draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso contains jottings as well as accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mentions Wednesday, 23 Nisan …

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  47. 4397Legal documentT-S J3.4

    very damaged fragments of a legal deed

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  48. 4398LetterAIU VII.E.185

    Late letter in Hebrew to Yeḥezqel Ḥefeẓ from Shabbetay ʿAdda, discussing a business partnership, 400 reals, Jerusalem, and people including Pini Lavan (?), Yosef ha-Levi, …

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  49. 4399LetterT-S AS 184.94

    Fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a letter. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Legible words: مولانا . . . على قلبه …

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  50. 4400List or tableT-S NS J221

    Communal records, perhaps defective, consisting in payments to specified persons (all in promissory notes, ruq'a), to three officials, for bread, and for the transport of …

    1. ומן אלשיך אלתקה בחצרה סיידנא ירום הודו
    2. יום אלג' אלתאלת עשר מן תשרי אתקלא לש' והו רגב
    3. כח ור
    4. אלמצרוף חמל גריד ביד אלשמש לעטיה
    5. ג דרא'
    6. לאלמאירקי ברקעה
    7. ג

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