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  1. 401Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.264 + T-S AS 145.263

    Small fragments with various jottings. There is a block of Judaeo-Arabic text referring to the lunar and solar calendars. There are brief jottings in Arabic …

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  2. 402LetterT-S AS 146.262 + T-S AS 146.261

    Probably two fragments from the same document, but too dark to read. Seems like a letter. AA

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  3. 403Literary textT-S AS 183.261 + T-S AS 183.262

    Bifolio from a medical textbook, notable for being written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.

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  4. 404State documentT-S AS 206.261 + T-S AS 206.262

    Small fragments of state correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of two lines are preserved, with very wide line spacing. There are numerous nearby small fragments …

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  5. 405LetterT-S NS 226.2b + T-S NS 226.2a

    Two fragments of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a shameful matter (ואפזע מן …

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  6. 406Legal documentT-S NS 226.33 + T-S NS 226.31

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Two fragments, probably an indirect rather than direct join. Concerns a guarantee …

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  7. 407LetterT-S NS 226.116 + T-S NS 226.114

    Two small fragments from a business letter. Worth noticing the term [tashtarī] bi-mā qasama Alāhu wa-razaqa , literally ‘purchase for whatever price God apportions and …

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  8. 408LetterT-S NS 226.185 + T-S NS 226.162

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps late 11th century or early 12th. This is a long and fairly well-preserved letter from somebody close to the Jewish …

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  9. 409Legal documentT-S NS 264.18b + T-S NS 264.18a

    Yosef beit-din and Shelomo b. [...]. The husband's name is X b. Shelomo, wife's name is Ghalia bnt.

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  10. 410Unknown typeT-S NS 315.263b + T-S NS 315.263a

    On verso remains of Arabic document- needs examination

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  11. 411LetterUnknown (excavation images 1966A_P06_25A-26 and 1966A_P06_26A-27)

    Letter to a dignitary. Concerning travel and business transactions, including in military gear and enslaved people. Alternate readings (ASE): - instead of الحتة in r10 …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاها وادام تاييدها
    3. وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها وارتقاها وكبت بالذل
    4. المهين حسدته…

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate. 
    2. I inform my honourable master, the most illustrious elder, may God prolong his life and cause his strength,
    3. his exaltedness, his ascendance, his splendour, his loftiness and his elevation to endure, and crush in vile humility
    4. his enviers and enemies.

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  12. 412LetterT-S NS 325.15

    He tells the addressee to come visit and and 'show her (probably his mother) your face before her death.' On verso this request is repeated; he is asked to bring his wife (לעל תאכד גוזתך ותנחדר ענדנא) and visit 'the old woman' (al-ʿajūz). Greetings from the addressee's brother Surūr.

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  13. 413Legal documentENA NS 29.9

    Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this year under Sultan Ahmed III). Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Najjār. Bride: Ḥanna bt. Hillel אלחירקו(?), a widow.

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  14. 414List or tableJRL C 20

    The calculations cover a wide array of coinage types such as "נמס קטעה / Austria coin" and the Ottoman gold "פנדוקלי / fındıklı". When this wide variation in coinage types is read in connection with the heading's opening words "עלם צאפי / purity notice" it seems that this document may have been issued by a money assayer.

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  15. 415Literary textAIU VI.B.1

    26 pages of a Ladino & Hebrew manual on divination, using astrology and geomancy and perhaps some casting of lots (see pp. 21–22, where there is a calendrical table that the soothsayer can use to determine when the event will come to pass).

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  16. 416Legal documentT-S 6J12.4

    Dated: Sunday, 21 Iyyar 1531 Seleucid = 26 April 1220 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides.

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  17. 417Legal documentT-S AS 151.257

    Concerning a financial settlement, mentioning various sums of money: 26 Malikī dinars (used in Yemen) and smaller sums of 4 and 5 dinars.

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  18. 418Legal query or responsumT-S AS 153.226 + T-S NS J326 + T-S Ar.18(2).73

    Legal query sent to the Judge Anaṭoli about a debt. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. See Mordechai Akiva Friedman, "Responsa of Abraham Maimonides …

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  19. 419Legal documentT-S 16.116

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1010 CE. Shelomo b. Avraham b. Malkī (Mulkī?) sells nine parts out of eighteen of a house in …

    25. העולם מעתה בן ובת אח ואחות יוריש ונוחל קרוב ורח[וק .. ]..ל

    26. נכסיי ודפרע חובי בין הבאים [....

    27. [...]סי שלא ברשו[...

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  20. 420LetterENA 1822a.39

    The sender is annoyed at the addressee for not coming to visit either at night or in the morning. He has enclosed another letter with this one, which should be given to a woman namedNaẓar, whether in al-Maḥalla or elsewhere.

    1. ]מעתה . . . [
    2. ] גמע אלשמל בה עלי אסר חאל
    3. במנה וכרמה אן שא אללה ואלדי אעלמך
    4. בה אנני עתבאן עליך בכונך [
    5. ולם תלתקי ביא לא דיך אלילה ולא
    6. בכרה פאללה יגעל…

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  21. 421LetterMIAC 246

    Invitation from the Jewish community of Maḥallah al-Kubra for a visit to the synagogue of "Ḥayyim al-Amshaṭī" – 5 April 1950 – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 246) – in Arabic and French.

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  22. 422LetterT-S 8J37.5

    Yefet to Avraham referring to a visit of the addressee to the sender and mentioning lodging for travelers on the top floor of a synagogue.

    1. בשמך וחמ
    2. חצרת כב גק מר ורבנו אדונינו אברהם ה[
    3. ישמריהו אל ויעזריהו שומר ישראל ויהי [
    4. ומכל צרה יצילו ויעודדו ואל ימעידו ובצל כנפיו [
    5. ואלדי תריד עלמה מ…

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  23. 423Legal documentT-S AS 86.219 + T-S NS 264.89 + T-S NS 264.90

    Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's house; a deceased …

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  24. 424State documentT-S AS 146.265 + T-S AS 152.269 + T-S AS 152.236

    Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …

    1. خلد الـ[ـله ملكها

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  25. 425Legal documentT-S AS 146.265 + T-S AS 152.269 + T-S AS 152.236

    Draft of legal document(s) written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). There is writing on both sides. Reuse of an earlier Arabic state document. …

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  26. 426List or tableJRL A 430

    Account calculations. Dated 26 Elul 5539 AM (1779 CE). It may not be in the same scribal hand, but the date probably coincides with the usage of this fragment for Hebrew poetry drafts where the scribe notes on the verso "שיר שהיו אומרים".

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  27. 427Legal documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.13 (Michaelides 13)

    [Described on a separate small piece of paper as: "letter from a noble man asking from another generousity and finishing his letter with poetry praising the bonifactor (bienfaiteur)" [Linked to item 26 (?)]. Oversize.

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  28. 428List or tableT-S Ar.6.1a

    Sums of quantities of grain (waybāt) given as a loan, partially against security. Muslim names. One tailor (khayyāṭ), one carpenter (najjār). 26 who receive wheat and 1 who receives barley. 7 women.

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  29. 429State documentT-S Ar.35.170

    Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 AH = 26 September 1138 CE. Same man: T-S AS 182.90, T-S AS 182.186, T-S Ar.35.170, and T-S Ar.35.204.

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  30. 430LetterENA 2805.6

    Abī l-Ḥayy (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Describes his tribulations due to the winter; mentions business in flax; the animals are unable to travel due to the rain and mud. He has sent a purse of 26 dinars weiging 26 1/6 dinars with the bearer Abū Naṣr al-Baghdādī, to be paid to Abū Kathīr al-Ṣayrafī, and out of which the addressee is to take 19 2/3, leaving 6 1/2 dinars.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם

    2. עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה מן אל[א]סכנדריה ליב בקין מן טבת כתמה

    3. אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ע…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני החבר הנכבד גדול הישיבה, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את
    2. גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך, מאלכסנדריה, בי"ח בטבת, יחתום או…

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  31. 431Legal documentBL OR 5543.3

    Currency: the gold zeri maḥbūb coin (זהובים מחבובים). The engagement is set to last for one year until the wedding.

  32.                                          ראובן                            ..(?) ס׳׳ט  
  33. :Marginal text

    יתן ה׳ את האשה הבאה אל ביתך כרחל וכלאה אשר בנו שתיהם את בית ישראל (Ruth 4:11) ויהי ביתך כבית פרץ אשר ילדה תמר ליהודה מן הזרע אשר יתן ה׳ לך (Ruth 4:12)

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  34. 432List or tableJRL C 24

    The 11th and 12th Hijrī centuries can be inferred because the Ottoman qurush was not minted until 1690 CE (a silver coin mentioned in many entries). The heading furthest down on the verso mentions an individual by the name of Selim Ağa in connection with the commodity saffron.

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  35. 433LetterT-S 10J7.12

    The writer mentions the silk trade, describes his joy when he learned that Ḥalfon recovered after taking a medicine, and invites him to visit him in Fustat. Transcription from Goitein’s handwritten notes.

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    1. באלחריר ואנא...
    2. פי אסרע וקת יאכי ומו[לאי]...
    3. אללה תבארך ותעאלי סרור יד[כל]...
    4. קלבי מן חאגתך ומסארעתי אלי קצאהא
    5. ואיצא מא דכל עלי קלבי מן אלפרח…

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  36. 434List or tableENA 2715.21 + ENA 2715.19 + ENA 2715.20

    Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew that can be dated through a join's (ENA 2715.19) entry dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. The term "lustro / varnish" is repeated among a list of many other goods whose quantities and/or prices are being added together.

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  37. 435Legal documentT-S AS 157.434

    Dating: probably Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February 1225 CE. Same cluster: T-S AS 157.434 (PGPID 38900), CUL Or.1080 J64 (PGPID 8866), and T-S NS J299 (PGPID 4311).

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  38. 436LetterAIU IX.B.26

    In the body of the letter (l.31r) a fragmented name appears for one Shmuel b. Vin_[?] (...וינ), as does Moshe al-Bohir (l.41r), a husband and wife pair "su filio kon su mujer" (l.44r), and multiple individuals including a "captain/קאפיטאן" (l.3v) and Daniel Mondolfo (l.4v) on the letter's verso. […] There is also mention of monetary payment: "dyeron paras" (l.21r) which may be referencing a more general term for money in the Ottoman empire (or possibly a specific coinage type known as "para" or "pare" in early nineteenth-century Egypt). Further down the monetary label "gurushim" (l.33, 35, 39r) is in use indicating a specific type of silver coinage. MCD.

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  39. 437Literary textAIU VI.B.26

    Several torn fragments, which seem to belong together, all containing magical instructions.

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  40. 438Legal documentAIU VII.D.26

    The right and middle signatures were recorded by the scribe Meir Ben-Naʿim, who also signed on behalf of the groom. The signature on the left is Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ.

    1. בשלישי בשבת בחמשה עשר יום לחדש כסלו שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות וששים ליצירה הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה
    2. לפסטאט מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מותבה אי[...] איך היקר …

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  41. 439LetterAIU VII.E.26

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from David ben Naʿim, who also wrote JRL Series L 205. Dated 10 Heshvan [55]80 AM which is 1819 CE.

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  42. 440LetterAIU VII.E.126

    Late letter in Hebrew, probably either 1829 or 1729 CE (the ע and the כ are marked in the citation from Psalms 37:40. . . …

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  43. 441LetterAIU VII.E.226

    Late letter or drafts or records of letters in Judaeo-Arabic, on lined paper. May be a continuation of the preceding shelfmark (both contain poetic lines …

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  44. 442List or tableAIU VII.F.26

    Although the year is clearly rendered the disorderly scribal hand makes the nature of the list's purpose uncertain. Requires further examination.

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  45. 443Literary textAIU VIII.B.26

    Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise with headers in red ink and certain terms translated into Latin (?).

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  46. 444LetterAIU XI.260

    Recto: At least two different drafts of late Arabic letters. Bottom of recto and verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic--lists of money received from various individua

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  47. 445Paraliterary textAIU XI.263

    Recipes and/or technical instructions in Ladino. Medical? Needs further examination.

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  48. 446Paraliterary textAIU XI.264

    Prognostications for the coming year in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  49. 447LetterAIU XI.266

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abu l-Ḥasan, sending money with the messenger and asking Abu l-Ḥasan to purchase hashish for the writer.

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  50. 448LetterAIU XI.266

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Calligraphic (chancery?) hand, but no wide space between the lines. 6 lines from the middle of the letter are preserved. …

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  51. 449List or tableAIU XI.268

    Account written on a bifolio by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1055 (Gil). Includes prices for garments; would be an invaluable source for the history of textiles and clothing, especially price series.

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    1. ע ר מימון בן כלפה בקיאר ז דרה[   ]

    2. וע עיבה ז קרא וען בקיאר לה דר [     ]

    3. וע פי צרא עקיק י דנא ותלתיי וע פי סקט ט דרא

    4. ו…

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  52. 450LetterAIU XI.269

    Half of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Meir b. Naʿim to David b. Naʿim, appears to be dated August 1823 (Elul 5583).

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