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  1. 4401LetterT-S 18J4.13

    Letter from Jalal al-Dawla in the name of Yishay b. Shelomo to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay, Fustat. January 10, 1254 (Gil). Regarding a book …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ' אלממלוך אלמשתאק ישי
    2. תקדמת כתבה אלי כרמה אלמג'לס אלסאמי
    3. אלאגלי אלעאלמי אלפאצ'לי אלסיידי אלמכדומי
    4. הוא כבו' גדו' קדו' נשיאנו נסיכנו מלכ…

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  2. 4402Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1628

    Karaite betrothal deed between Esther bt. Moshe Fūlādī and Avraham b. David Feyrūz aka Revaḥ. Dated on Purim 24 Adar 5509 AM (1749 CE). The …

    1. [סב]ב תצ[טיר] הדה אלאחרף חצ'רו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל כה׳׳ר ישועה
    2. יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר דוד חזן ידיע מעמאר נ׳׳ע תם חצר הב׳ הי׳ אברהם וכטב הנע׳ היקר׳
    3. …

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  3. 4403LetterT-S AS 156.351

    Fragment of a letter, mentioning 160 dinars and the phrase אדאם אללה עלוה twice. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? (Information in part from CUDL)

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  4. 4404LetterDK 230.2 (alt: II)

    Detailed, beautifully written letter of a silkweaver, Abū Saʿd b. Avraham, to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ, asking for instructions as to the …

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  5. 4405LetterDK 36.17

    Letter in Hebrew. Per the identification data on FGP, one of the letters mentions "אגריפון," probably Negroponte (Euboea), and one (folio 17) mentions "קדיאה," probably …

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  6. 4406State documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/10

    State document, Arabic script. Fragmentary. Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk …

    1. مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه واهلك[عداه

    2. ]ـل بالتسبيح والتمجيد عند اعلانه به وشفع دعاء [

    3. و[د]عا جميع الحاضرين بالابتهال من الله تعالى والرغبة اليه

    4. …

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  7. 4407LetterCUL Or.1080 J287

    Note from David b. Yehuda ha-Ḥaver, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1532 Seleucid, which is 1220/21 CE. He asks to receive the …

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  8. 4408Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1429

    Purchase of a half-share in a shop. Dated Thursday 7th Kislev, 5431 AM (1670 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography, scribe (Barukh Rofe), …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלכמיס אלמבארך סבעה פי חדש כסלו סנה התא׳׳ל ליצירה חצ'ר 
    2. אלמולא אלאגל כה׳׳ר אהרן הרופא חכם יצ׳׳ו נין המוח כמה׳׳ר אלעזר חזן יד[יע]…

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  9. 4409LetterT-S AS 152.72

    Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning al-Maḥalla; the workers of the Ḥusayniyya (? עמאל אלחסיניה); purchasing things and bringing them to Fustat; and dinars and qirrāṭ. …

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  10. 4410Legal documentT-S AS 147.88

    Legal document recounting long passages of oral speech, mentioning a faqīh, a qāḍī, someone getting beaten, the mutwallī al-maʿūna in New Cairo, the mutawallī al-dīwān, …

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  11. 4411LetterT-S NS 321.95

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender insistently urges the addressee to act according to his request, "because the muqaddam thinks he is like an angel …

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    1. מא אנפד ורא . . . [
    2. אנהאה פיכון אלמולי פי הדה אלאמור עלי
    3. יקצה ולא יתגאפל ענהא ואדא סמעהא
    4. לא יתהאון פיהא לאן הדא אלאמר מעדוק
    5. בה ולאזם לה לאן אל…

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  12. 4412List or tableT-S AS 90.66

    Very narrow vertical strip of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

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  13. 4413List or tableT-S Ar.34.160

    Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic fractions. Mentions Rashīd b. Naṣr; Abū Naṣr; Barakāt; Ibrāhīm; his brother; Sulaymān Ibn al-Ḥazzān; ʿAbd Allāh [...]; Samawʾal [...]; …

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  14. 4414Paraliterary textHalper 452

    Prescriptions or recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic. "Instructions, mostly in Judeo-Arabic for preparations of different remedies. In the margin of the recto are instructions for …

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  15. 4415LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 522

    Letter in Arabic script. Two lines. Refers to recovery from an illness.

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  16. 4416Legal documentT-S 16.175 + Halper 353

    Legal deed. Dated: 4757 AM (996–97 CE). Ghulayb ha-Levi b. Shelomo, known as Salmān al-Tabīb, receives a loan from his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Salāma al-Ṭabīb …

    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו ה[עדים
    2. שנת ארבעת אלפים ושבע מאות וח[
    3. למי[ניין] שטרות למיניין שאנו רגי[לין
    4. . . . . .. . ]לנו גליב הלוי בר של[מה
    5. מע[ . . .…

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  17. 4417Literary textJRL A 3

    Literary, probably. Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.

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  18. 4418LetterT-S AS 177.517

    Brief note addressed to al-mawlā al-faqīh ʿAlī.

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  19. 4419List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 369

    Accounts or possibly a recipe in Arabic script. There are also a few words in very large letters, possibly from an earlier state document.

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  20. 4420State documentT-S AS 202.222

    Fragment of a state document in Arabic. Only blessings for the caliph are preserved: ... amīr al-muʾminīn ʿaḍada allāh bihī [al-dīn...] ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhū wa-nawāmī …

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  21. 4421LetterBL OR 5561B.7

    Late Hebrew letter from Jerusalem, from a pious man who recently settled there and does not like what he sees. He opens with describing how …

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    1. ] אודיע . . [
    2. ] . . אל צבאות וגם עיני כל ישראל היושבים בירושלם . . [
    3. ] ולהיות עזרה להם וגם אני הייתי צופה לבא אלינו לש . . . עמנו
    4. בתו . ת במק…

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  22. 4422List or tableENA NS 34.16

    List of accounts in an unidentified Latin-script language with Arabic numerals (possibly Castilian Spanish). Some of the recurring words are "por" "lo" and the Spanish …

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  23. 4423Legal documentT-S AS 150.102

    Legal fragment In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  24. 4424Legal documentT-S AS 148.12

    Notice of oath written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. He states that on Monday of the week of Beshalaḥ, he took an oath that he will …

    1. למא כאן יום אלאתנין שבת ויהי בשלח
    2. חלפת אני מא אקף עלי דכאן מכין
    3. לאכר אלשהר ושלום
    4. וכתב שלמה בן אליה [שמ] צו

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  25. 4425Literary textMIAC 265

    Religious commentary – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 265) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …

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  26. 4426Paraliterary textT-S K1.40

    A spell to silence Ibrahim b. Karīma and prevent him from thinking evil thoughts of Faḍlān b. Baghdād, and to make him return 15 dinars. …

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  27. 4427LetterT-S 6J3.7

    Recto: Fragment from the bottom of a communal letter, with wide line spacing. Dated: Adar 1463 Seleucid = February/March 1152 CE. Potentially from the office …

    1. ]ל יהודי יעוד יתסבב
    2. ]חתי ינכף כל אחד ען אדייתהם
    3. ]כון אעלם מלקאך מנא כיף יכון פאחדר
    4. ופי] מא סטרנאה כפאיה ושלומך יירב
    5. אדר אתסג

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  28. 4428Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 175

    Unidentified text, in Arabic script, and one word in Hebrew script. Could be a letter but most of the text is crossed out. "حضرته الى …

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  29. 4429Unknown typeENA NS 85.1283.1

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 4430Unknown typeMoss. X,131.2

    A ledger? - needs examination. No image

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  31. 4431Legal documentYevr. II K 32

    Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Moshe b. Israel. The bride is Esther known as Baytu d. Aharon Hakohen. AA

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  32. 4432LetterT-S 8J18.14

    Letter from Yosef b. Yeshu'a, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Awkal (1028 or 1029).

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    1. כתאבי יאמולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם אלנעמה עליך
    2. ברחמתה ליומין בקין מן אלול אכתמה אללה עליך באברך כאתמה וצל כתאבך אלגלי…

    ע׳׳א:

    1. מכתבי, אדוני, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת שלומך ואת אושרך וישלים את חסדו לך
    2. ברחמיו (נכתב) בכ׳׳ח באלול, יחתום אותו אלוהים …

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  33. 4433LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/15

    Autograph letter by Avraham Maimonides to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr and Minyat Zifta. Dated: 20th day of the Omer …

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    1. הנה אל ישועתי
    2. תקדם כתאב לחצרה אלחבר אלאגל
    3. כגק מר ור משה החכם הנבון ש׳צ׳
    4. פי מעני אלשיך אלחכים אלגליל
    5. אלמהדב ש׳צ׳ ילד עמה אלמלמד
    6. אלגליל מר ור שמ…

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  34. 4434Legal documentT-S Ar.38.141 + T-S Ar.38.134

    Deed of sale of a house in Fustat dated Dhū l-Qaʿda 643 AH = March/April 1286 CE. Refers to Fustat and the Mamṣūṣa quarter and …

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  35. 4435List or tableT-S AS 153.280

    Either part of a genealogical list or a letter.

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  36. 4436LetterT-S 8J20.23

    Recto: copy of a Hebrew letter of holiday wishes addressed to (the community of) al-Maḥalla for the month of Tishrei. In the hand of Ḥalfon …

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  37. 4437List or tableT-S AS 176.264

    Mercantile account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century, potentially related to the India Book documents. Neatly written and well preserved. …

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  38. 4438Literary textBL OR 10578S.2

    Talmudic commentary? Literary.

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  39. 4439Unknown typeENA NS 85.876

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  40. 4440LetterT-S 8J14.15

    Fragment of letter containing polite formulae and mentioning the fast day of Yom Kippur. EMS

    1. ] אללה תע וקרב לקאה ורזקני ב
    2. ] כתבתה יא מולאי ען קלב
    3. יטיר שוקא אליך ונפס תתשוק ללוקוף בין
    4. ידיך ואללה תעלי (!) יקרב דלך לם תצל
    5. אליי אלכתב אלדי דכרת א…

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  41. 4441Legal documentT-S AS 148.104

    Bill of divorce. Small fragment. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Yaḥyā.

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  42. 4442Legal documentENA 3907.3

    Legal document in Arabic script. On verso accounts in Arabic script and the draft of a beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably …

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  43. 4443Paraliterary textT-S Ar.34.23

    Fragment of a writing exercise. On the verso: the signature of a Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq in Hebrew script followed on the second line by the …

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  44. 4444List or tableJRL Genizah Ar. 775

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

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  45. 4445Paraliterary textENA 3950.8

    Magical spell formularies. Includes a spell apparently intended to arouse and agitate (tahyīj and izʿāj) a female target (fulāna bt. fulāna) for a male (fulān …

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  46. 4446LetterT-S 13J13.13 + T-S 13J27.5

    Letter from Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya, Fustat, to the Gaʾon Daniel b. Azarya (r. 1051–1062). Dating: approximately 1053 (per Gil) and perhaps ca. 1051–1055 …

    1. שלום שפ|[ו]ת ככוכבי שחקים וברכות מוצקות כעפרות ארקים
    2. וטוב נעימ|ות כצמחי ירקים וישועות והצלחות זו לזו //שלום שפות//
    3. נדבקים וחן ו|חסד נפגשים ונאבקים ו…

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  47. 4447LetterT-S AS 150.45

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Written in the month of Tishrei. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. Mentions good-quality saffron and amber and the …

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  48. 4448LetterNLI 577.6/29

    Letter from Petaḥya (aka Futūḥ) b. Shelomo to Seʿadya ha-Levi ('segan ha-leviim'). In Judaeo-Arabic. The purpose of the letter is not clear. There seems to …

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  49. 4449List or tableT-S NS 305.67

    Large bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Some Greek/Coptic numerals. Might be fiscal based on the term "istakhraja/ustukhrija."

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  50. 4450Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#137) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 45r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). If the entry was …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 45r

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    1. סתה עשר אשרפי דהב גדד וא.. מן [...
    2. אלתקסיט כ…

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