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  1. 401Legal documentT-S 16.188

    Abū Saʿd Ḥalfon (lines 18, 20, 26 but spelled Khalaf in line 4) and Abū l-Faḍl Yosef, sons of Moshe ha-Kohen, a high government official (titled Saniyy al-Dawla, cf.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין לתחתא בשטר זבנא דנן
    2. בתלתא בשבה דהוא חמש עשר יומין בירח טבת שנת אלפא וא[רבע
    3. מאה ושתת עשר שנין למנינא דרגילינאנא(!…

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  2. 402LetterCUL Or.1081 J24

    The writer is looking forward to the addressee's intended visit to al-Mahdiyya. He describes the situation in the Maghreb, and he mentions silk business and a large transfer of money to a yeshiva.

  3. ערפתך דלך ועקב שלום
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    1. אכי וסידי אבי אברהם(!) צאנה אללה ואבק[א]ה מן מוסי בן יצחק בן נסים אלעאבד ננ

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  5. 403Paraliterary 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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  6. 404LetterT-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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  7. 405Literary 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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  8. 406State 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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  9. 407LetterT-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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  10. 408Legal documentT-S NS 226.33 + T-S NS 226.31

    They divide Egypt into areas of activity: one may sell goods in Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīdayn, meaning "the two Ṣaʿīds"—it is unclear what the second Saʿīd is), and if he tries to sell in New Cairo, he will owe a fine of 50 dinars. AA.

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  11. 409LetterT-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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  12. 410LetterT-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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  13. 411Legal documentT-S NS 264.18b + T-S NS 264.18a

    Two fragment of a bill of divorce, from Fustat, from Tishrei [1]331 sel. (1019 CE), signed by Ya'aqov b. Yosef beit-din and Shelomo b. [...]. …

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  14. 412Unknown typeT-S NS 315.263b + T-S NS 315.263a

    On verso remains of Arabic document- needs examination

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  15. 413LetterUnknown (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
  16. ...For God’s sake, encourage one of your group to come to me, for my horse is weak
  17. and I cannot come to you. When you come down (the river), bring with you the slave girl to me.
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  19. 414LetterT-S NS J408 + ENA 2808.6

    The next part of the letter deals with 3 gold coins that the addressees are supposed to collect in Fustat/Cairo, and also various commodities, some of which the sender sent with Muḥammad al-Babarī. […] In a first postscript, he asks for news of his niece Siwār who was due to give birth. He gives further news about someone else (a rabbi? הראב) who was going to be killed, but then a group called al-jawābir(?)

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  20. 415LetterT-S NS 226.176

    Giving various instructions about what to buy. The sender reports receiving the addressee's letter with news of the death of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

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  21. 416Legal documentHalper 369

    Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday 26 Iyyar 5306 AM = 28 April 1546 CE. Currency: Peraḥim (Venetian ducats or another gold coin of similar value/weight).

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    1. בפנינו אנו עדים חתומי מטה מכר כבוד
    2. רבי שלמה בר כבוד רבי ישועה ידיע גלטא
    3. החנות שלו שמוכר בה עצים וזולתו לכבוד
    4. רבי משה…

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  22. 417LetterT-S 6J5.6 + T-S NS J274

    Mentions several of his relatives and a few ships. Also mentions a visit of Nahray to Alexandria, the status of selling silk, and the arrival of Ibn Basak (Masliah b.

  23. …אלקזדיו
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    1. …אלג'לאיל ג' דנא'
    2. …ואלעלאוה

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך (מ… ביום… בחודש… יראה) 
    2. אלוהים (לנו) ולך את ברכתו ואת אושרו, וגם…

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  25. 418Legal documentMoss. VII,1

    Hiba the weaver (al-Ḥāyik) known as Ibn Nuʿmān accepts the obligation to appear in court on Monday 26 Tamuz together with the agent of the qodesh Sālim/Shelomo b.

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  26. 419LetterT-S NS J68

    Finally, when I was in shreds, with nothing to cover me properly, I said to him: "I shall not give you a thing anymore. I'll buy myself clothing with what I earn." He is not worth a thing, not even one dinar. […] I went to the judges and offered to buy myself free with everything due me from him to save my honor.

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    1. ב
    2. אעלם חצרה גאנינו ישמר
    3. צרנו אני בנת יתימה וחידה

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  27. 420List or tableT-S NS 83.35

    The lefthand side of verso appears to be a note in Italian as it is headed "26 Lug[lio] 1747" and "di" is used instead of "de." […] At least one of these commercial entries deals with coffee "il caffe ... 30 zechini"–the latter term is Venetian coinage. Ottoman gold "mahbub" coinage is also referenced on the verso.

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  28. 421Legal documentT-S 6J12.4

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

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  29. 422Legal 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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  30. 423Legal query or responsumENA 2607.11–12

    Responsa collection

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  31. 424List or tableENA 2634.11–12

    Accounts in Hebrew script. In Judaeo-Persian? Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century.

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  32. 425LetterStras. 4038/9

    Everyone is dying of hunger because "I only buy the bread of the market." He then cites the maxim that the poor of your household precede the poor of your city who precede the poor of another city, "So consider me as the poor of your household."

    I only buy bread sold in the market. My master knows that "the poor of your household come before the poor of your town, and the poor of your town come before the poor of another town."

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  33. 426Legal documentT-S NS 308.114

    Moshe ha-Levi. (This is the latest known document to invoke the authority of Netanel, though he was still alive in 1169 CE, as we learn from Bodl.

    1. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאוסט מחדש מרחשון שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ותמניא
    2. שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבא רשותיה דהדרת יקרת
    3. צפירת מרינו ורב…

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  34. 427LetterT-S 10J19.10

    He mentions that he did not buy wheat and beans because the price in Fustat was much lower than in the countryside.

  35. מולאי

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    1. אכי אבו אברהם

    2. אסמעיל בן

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    1. אני כותב לך, אחי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את
    2. גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת חסדיו לך, מאביאר.

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  37. 428Legal documentT-S 12.694

    Dated Shevat 1450 Seleucid = January/February 1139 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. (This is the latest known document to invoke the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon before his death.)

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין חתמות ידנא לתתא כן הוה בחדש שבט דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחמשין שנין
    2. לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה …

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  38. 429LetterNLI 577.10/9

    The writer explains that he has not yet been able to find a riding animal to come visit (aftaqid) the Gaon in person, and in the meantime his heart is with him.

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  39. 430LetterAIU XII.117

    The writer asks the addressee in formal terms to come visit him, because he has developed a pain in his leg. The door of the building is open. Verso: A few words in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic, mostly "tajriba" repeated several times.

    1. الحكيمي

    2. بو المجد تلميذه

    3. المملوك يجدد الخدمة الكريمة المولوية المالكية

    4. الحكيمية ويسأل اجابة حضوره فان

    5. المملوك حصل له الم في رجله وباب العمار…

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  40. 431LetterCUL Or.1080 J77

    (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 106, and from Goitein's index cards) Some of the colors mentioned include silver (l. 23, 24, 31), red (l. 26), green (l. 26), blood of a gazelle (damm ghazāl - l. 31), olive (zeytī - l. 24), and kohl (l. 28). […] For textiles without writing, see l. 21, 26, 31. It also mentions document with shawāhid (possibly a reference to a pattern in the shape of tombstones). The writer requests a textile with "shawāhid like the one in al-sifsārī" (l. 26–27) or "shawāhid like al-fisāsārī without writing" (l. 30).

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]עלי ידי דנון שיכי וסידי
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  41. 432State documentENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T-S Ar.31.58 + T-S Ar.30.245

    State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …

    1. To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.

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  42. 433Legal 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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  43. 434Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/6

    Deed in which Abū Isḥāq Abzārī gives the Nagid Avraham Maimonides the right to buy back the burj, a tower in the ancient Byzantine fortress of Fustat, for sixty dinars for a period of five years.

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  44. 435List or tableT-S Ar.30.163

    Instructions in Avraham Maimonides' hand to R. Eliyyahu to give them bread for Sabbath. Also: List of contributors (in the judge's hand) and names of …

    אבי אלמעאלי בן אלתקה

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    סמיסמה אלכראז

    ב א

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  45. 436Legal 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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  46. 437LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/141

    Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the dated …

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    באגל סלאם | וכרימתי | ואבו אלחסן

    וואלדתה באגל | סלאם ויום פורים | וצל אלינא בעל

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  47. 438List or tableT-S Misc.28.51 + T-S NS J296

    Inventory of silver vessels and expensive fabrics belonging to the two Rabbanite synagogues in Fustat, which were given to Maḥfūẓ, the beadle of the Jerusalemite …

  48. מא ק]ד תקרץ ושקה קטן פי קטן טול עשרין דראע
  49. (Signatures) (The left side is torn from here to the end of the page)

    1. חי)יא בר יצחק נ"ע
    2. י)עקב הכהן בר יוסף

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  50. 439LetterT-S 13J18.20

    The purpose of the letter is to excuse himself for failing to attend his wife's confinement, for he has no choice but to obey the amir's orders. He urges his son to buy her anything she wishes. He relates that the amir first sent him to Salmūn where he stayed treating a Mamlūk until he recovered on Monday.

    1. ואלדה כפי פיה אלאסוא
    2. וצל כתאב אלולד אלאגל אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה וכבת אעדאה
    3. וגמע שמלי בה עלי אסר חאל במנה וכפי לטפה ואלדי אעלמך בה
    4. אנני וצלת אלי ענד …

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  51. 440List or tableCUL Or.1080 J190

    Page of the account book of ʿArūs b. Yosef, containing accounts and a note about the beginning of a pregnancy, birth and weaning. (Information from …

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    1. ניסאן

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  52. 441Legal query or responsumT-S 10J22.8

    The person who holds three quarters of the house demands from the man holding one quarter to either sell his share to him or to buy his three quarters. The answer is signed by Shelomo b.

    1. מא יקולו חכמי ישראל וגדולהם ירום קודם ויגדל יקרם
    2. פי ראובן ושמעון משתרכין פי מלך לראובן תלאתה ארבעאה
    3. ולשמעון אלרבע אלאכר והו כמאל אלדאר ואן ראובן
    4. טלב…
    And that is the whole dār (i.e. there are no other owners). Reuben
  53. asked Shimon to sell him the quarter he owns or tobuy

  54. the three-quarters from him. Simon refused tobuy 

  55. or sell.

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  57. 442LetterT-S NS 342.13 + T-S NS 342.15 + T-S NS 342.25 + T-S NS 342.17

    The addressee is to sell it and buy oil for Dammūh with the proceeds. Further down mentions "all the Jews" (jamīʿ al-yahūd), and mentions musk in the margin.

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  58. 443Legal 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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  59. 444State 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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  60. 445Legal 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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  61. 446LetterT-S 13J28.16

    The writer asks a female family member in the house to cut short her visit and come back as soon as possible because the writer is all alone at home, and money is short, and "it is the season" (of diseases?

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כתאב/י/ אליך יא ולדי ואלעזיז
    3. עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקא[ה

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  62. 447LetterT-S 6J1.2

    Letter from a certain Avraham to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Little is preserved of the content. The third line …

  63. . . . . . . .]לם כירח יכון [
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    1. בצאיע אלר[
    2. וקצדת נ[

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    1. 448LetterCUL Or.1080 J92

      The sender says that he has sent two purses of 100 dinars each with two different messengers and asks the addressee to buy several items for him. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book I.)

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      1. בשמ' רחמ'
      2. אטאל אללה בקא חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלא]גל ואדאם 
      Buy me also
    2. 30 ounces of good civet perfume, the best to be had; 4 manns

    3. of ashbāh wood for 12 dinars; 4 manns (13) of ashbāh wood for 16 dinars; 40 manns of bān [...] 

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    5. 449LetterT-S 8J18.31

      Shuʿayb, who showed it to Ibn al-Aʿraj, who refused to buy it. Abū l-Manṣūr now awaits instructions. The sender conveys regards to and from various people.

      1. כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
      2. ונעמאך מן אלמליג ען סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא ואלשכר דאימא
      3. בעד וצולנא סאלמין ודפעה אלשכירה אלי ס…

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    6. 450LetterENA NS 2.15

      Mūsā (probably al-Tāhartī), somewhere where one buys flax (the Fayyūm?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. […] The sender repeats that he does not want the addressee to buy any flax for him at these prices. But if the price goes down, he wants 6 high-quality bales.

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