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  1. 4551List or tableENA 3735.5

    In the opening lines a Muslim qadi (אלקאצי) is mentioned but his name is lost to textual damage. At least two of the entries mention copper "jadīd" as the relevant coinage type, a form of payment that was in use during the late-Mamluk and Ottoman administrations.

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  2. 4552List or tableENA 3920.6

    Medieval-era. Some of the entries use the unit qirāṭ. All of the numbers are written out with words rather than numerals.

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  3. 4553Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3971.5

    There is a line or two in Arabic script on verso in a fiscal hand, probably part of a tax receipt (cf. also ENA 3971.13–24, 31, 33, 34).

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  4. 4554LetterENA 4101.2

    From the content it is a letter with legal sermonizing and instructions, though it ends with phrases typical of legal documents and two signatures partially preserved: Moshe b. [...] and [...] b.

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  5. 4555List or tableENA NS 10.4 + ENA NS 49.12 + ENA NS 10.3

    Tables of Hebrew letters with a first-person phrase along the lower border of ENA NS 10.4, "...]אני הצעיר יצחק הר", perhaps a scribal attribution (Join: Matthew Dudley).

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  6. 4556Legal documentENA NS 28.19

    Bifolium. One of the entries is headed, "The copy of the purchase of Abū l-A[frāḥ] of all of the Dār al-Dhahabī.

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  7. 4557LetterENA NS 50.19

    (l. 4); "going up to Jerusalem" (ll. 4–5); "the two congregations" (al-jamāʿatān) (l. 7). Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala (prayers for the prophet Muḥammad).

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  8. 4558Legal documentENA NS I.68

    The heads of the coomunity agreed that no Jew will enter the synagogue during prayer time while being drunk and that no Jew will beat another Jew in the synagogue during prayer.

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  9. 4559Legal documentF 1908.44NN

    Dating: 1511/12 CE (1823 Seleucid). Enumerates the circumstances attending the marriage of certain persons named, chiefly concerned with invoicing the brides' trousseaus.

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  10. 4560LetterHUC 1002

    The money raised should be entrusted to Shaʾul b. Yosef of Qayrawān who will convey it to the treasurer Marwān b.

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  11. 4561LetterJRL A 617

    Only the beginning of the letter is preserved on verso (the front) and only the end of the letter is preserved on recto (the back).

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  12. 4562LetterJRL B 3311

    Verso is blank. No date. Related to ENA NS 77.159 + T-S 8J14.13 (PGPID 1907), and see there for other related shelfmarks.

    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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  13. 4563LetterJRL B 8445

    Recto: Possibly a legal document or a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the end of the 17th year of maḥzor 262 = 4977 AM = 1216/17 CE.

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  14. 4564LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 583

    on verso: "for honey: 1, for wine: 2, for entering...."

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  15. 4565List or tableL-G Misc. 129

    Dating: refers to "the end of year '4"; "1 Ramaḍān of the year '4" and "year '5," likely 504 and 505 AH = 1111/12 CE.

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  16. 4566LetterMIAC 122

    Announcement calling for enrollment in the Cicurel Industrial School in which the studies have begun since 7 September 1956 – 14 September 1956 – Museum of Islamic Art – (numer 122) – Arabic-language.

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  17. 4567LetterMoss. II,157

    The remainder of the letter is missing the ends of the lines; it involves the late Abū l-Baqā's daughters and niece.

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  18. 4568Literary textMoss. IX,32

    A student rebukes his teacher and recounts how he didn't stay true to his words. The first section ends ويزفوها ويخرجوها من تحت الستارة تمت البابة (possibility: script for a shadow play?).

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  19. 4569Paraliterary textMoss. IX,92.3

    He came to Egypt with 1,000 mithqāls and encountered a beautiful courtesan/prostitute (זונה חסנה אלמנצר) and paid(?)

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  20. 4570State documentMoss. IXa,2.1

    Text has a slash through it, presumably when it was discarded (and then reused for the text on verso; see separate entry).

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  21. 4571Legal documentMoss. Xa,1.1 (L)

    Recto: Legal document, formally a testimony, possibly related to a business partnership (?). Beginning and end missing, as well as left and right margins and a section in the middle.

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  22. 4572State documentNLI 577.1/21

    Apart from the first two lines the entire document has faded and is difficult to read.

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  23. 4573Legal documentT-S 8J6.16

    This document was not completed. See also ENA 2559.15 (PGPID 11080) for another unsigned geṭ between the same couple from the preceding year.

    1. בתלתא בשבת דהוא [תאלת עשר תשרי] דשנת אלפא
    2. וחמש מאה ושתין וארבעה [שנין] למנין שטרות דרגילנא לממני
    3. ביה ה[כא] בפסטאט מצר' [דעל] נילוס נהרא מותבה איך אנ…

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  24. 4574Legal documentT-S 8J34.11

    Yaḥyā ha-Kohen (late 11th to early 12th century. The lower entry here looks like the hand of Netanʾel b. Yefet (cf.

    1. ] מר יהודה בן מנשה
    2. ] משלם בן הבה
    3. ]לתה עשרין
    4. ] דינאר תלת ארבע
    5. ] . . . . . . ממא . . רה
    6. ] אבנה בשר בן מבארך
    7. ] ונצף ורבע וסדס וה [דא
    8. ] בן חלפון סבעה דר…

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  25. 4575LetterT-S 10J13.26

    Mentioning business matters and the name Abraham Ashkenazi. End of 18th century. (Information from CUDL)

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  26. 4576LetterT-S 12.6

    Saadya (Nagid 1094–1111) from an official (muqaddam) and cantor in a community near Alexandria, who asks the Nagid to send a replacement for him, so that his community will allow him to leave and join his family, who are enduring financial hardship. The death of a certain Ṣadoq is mentioned.

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  27. 4577LetterT-S 12.44

    Amram, concerning ‘what was collected [from the] market’ (i.e., the proceeds of slaughter) from the beginning of Elul to the end of Kislev. Verso: Probably the draft of a sermon, quoting Isaiah 21:12, different hand and ink.

    1. [ ] וינצרהו ויעודדהו ביר עמרם זכרו
    2. [לברכה לע]ד נתאחרו כתבי נכבדנו החבר המעולה
    3. [ ]קדם ולא עוד אלא שאנו שואלים
    4. [בשלומהו ודור]שים ב[ש]קטהו וכשמע השלום …

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  28. 4578LetterT-S 12.317

    (Hebrew description below; full English to come)

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    1. הקיצותי וִלא נִ...[...]וִתי אל יקיִרתיִ פעם / כי מה מתוק מדבש נופת
    2. צוף אמרי נועם / ואבליגה בשיחי / ותתעלף רוחי / באמור
    3. נפשי מה תשתוחחי / ואתאפ…

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  29. 4579LetterT-S 13J17.22

    Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March 1139 CE. India Book 4 (full English to come.) Formerly understood to be a letter from Yehuda ha-Levi to Ḥalfon b.

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    1. אלשיך אלאג'ל אלחבר אלסיד אלאכמל אבו סעי[ד בן אלצ'מיאטי]
    2. אטאל בקא מולאי וסידי [...]
    3. משתמלה ולא זאל מ[...]
    4. יא מולא את'ר וצולי סאלמא בחמד אללה וע…

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    1. (אל) השיך המפואר ביותר, החבר האדון המושלם ביותר, אבו סעי[ד בן אלצמיאטי].
    2. יאריך [האל] את חיי אדוני ומרי [...]
    3. כוללת ולא יחדל [... כותב אני אליך…

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  30. 4580LetterT-S 13J28.20

    He is still owed 1 1/4 dinar from the year that ended and is afraid the coming year will be the same.

    1. ...............]..[.....
    2. מכשל ..[.......]. וישד ם געלת
    3. ונאי תהלת ושלם וברכת משמי
    4. מרמות אעלם חצרת אדונינו
    5. ועטרת רשינו אני רגל קטע
    6. מלי (=מא לי) מעישה …

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  31. 4581LetterT-S 24.23

    Recto: a rhyming letter (in ‫-‬יה), each verse ending marked with sof pasuq. It opens מגמת הכתב הזה אדוני.

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  32. 4582Literary textT-S Ar.30.304

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic containing a chapter entitled "In praise of knowledge and in condemnation of ignorance and anger," which opens with a discussion of Quran 41:34 (وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ۚ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ) citing ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

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  33. 4583List or tableT-S Ar.34.232

    Many sections are headed "tawqīʿ ʿālī," perhaps summarizing the content of various rescripts. One entry refers to [...] al-maʿmūra, a term typically used for state institutions.

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  34. 4584List or tableT-S Ar.34.318

    The date is not 14 May 1517 as the Baker/Polliack catalogue has it: this entry is referring to 14 maidis (muayyadis = medins = nuṣf fiḍḍa).

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  35. 4585State documentT-S Ar.35.162

    Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto and the right margin of verso (the tax receipt side) contain a fiscal account (see PGPID 39214), suggesting that the paper for the tax receipt was cut from the account.

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  36. 4586State documentT-S Ar.39.278

    Recto: Petition. The endings of 5 lines are preserved, with a raʾy clause at the bottom.

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  37. 4587List or tableT-S Ar.39.376

    The name Abū l-Faraj appears in an item at the end ("gift for Abū l-Faraj"?). (Information in part from Goitein's note card.)

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    1. درهم سماق طحينة درهم ونصف
    2. رطل سيرج ورطل زيت اربعة الا . . . [
    3. خبز عشرة ثلثة اىرار . . . . . . درهم . . . . 
    4. سمك درهم . . . . فىىريس اربعة رطلي…

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  38. 4588LetterT-S Ar.41.53

    Opens with Job 12:10 (translated into Arabic) and ends with a rare ṣalwala (ṣalawāt allāh ʿalā....) for the prophet Moses.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم المستعان بالله تعالى
    2. مالك السماوات والارض الذي بيده نفس كل حي
    3. اما جميع ما كتبته فقد ثبت الله بعضه فيك وقد
    4. بقي بقيته كما…

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  39. 4589Legal documentT-S Ar.42.201

    The last object of sale is a donkey. A ninth entry was also begun, with only the word "ishtarā" preserved, which tells that the document is a draft.

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  40. 4590LetterT-S Ar.51.108

    Verso (secondary use): Letter which consists entirely of a versified Grace after Meals for Shabbat in Hebrew (this identification is from FGP) and the closing lines, in the same hand, in Judaeo-Arabic ("I greet you and all the friends, and may R.

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  41. 4591Legal documentT-S AS 145.51

    May be a petition involving legal matters: ends with what looks like a raʾy clause (אלרייס עלו אלר<א>י) followed by ונסל מול[אנא . . .]

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  42. 4592Legal documentT-S AS 146.158

    Although the verb use is אירש, as commonly found in Karaite marriage deeds, this deed is probably Rabbinate, see Ashur, Engagement and Bethrotal, p. 45, n. 157. AA

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  43. 4593LetterT-S AS 148.120

    Dated 4890 from the creation and 1441 of the Seleucid Era (= 1130 CE); at the end of the letter important Jewish biblical figures are listed, such as Adam, Seth, Methusela, David, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, etc., and up to the Messiah (both Mashiaḥ b.

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  44. 4594LetterT-S AS 148.184

    Interestingly, the "ve-shalom" at the end is in a cruder hand than the skilled hand of the letter itself (maybe a clue that it was written by a scribe).

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  45. 4595Legal documentT-S AS 152.218

    Announcement of a threat of excommunication (ḥerem stam) against anyone in Fustat or Cairo or their environs who knows the whereabouts of Abū l-ʿAlā b.

    1. יחרם חרם סתם בא[סם] מן יעלם מוצע אבי אלעלא
    2. בן יוסף אלטביב פי מצר או אלקאהרה או חואליהמא ולא
    3. יערף בית דין בדלך

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    1. יחרם חרם סתם בא[סם] מן יעלם מו…

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  46. 4596LetterT-S AS 153.39

    Prefaced with ~10 biblical quotations (all missing except for the וגו at the end of each line). Mentions various people including 'his father' and '[Abū] l-Fakhr Mūsā' and Isḥāq.

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  47. 4597List or tableT-S AS 179.53

    Each large column is divided into three smaller columns, possibly for commodity, price, and weight (the last column typically ends with the word raṭlan). Merits further examination.

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  48. 4598List or tableT-S AS 205.194

    Contains very neatly written, detailed entries specifying expenses of various kinds including for "the treasury" (bayt al-māl).

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  49. 4599List or tableT-S K15.17

    Nine entries, names of recipients of alms, on vellum in huge calligraphic letters, such as 'two freed women, two persons from Hijaz, two from Sahrajt [Egypt], the daughter of Mishael,' accompanied by numbers ranging from one to six.

    1. אבו עלי ג סולימאן ג בנת
    2. מישׁאל א צהרגתיין ב
    3. בנת אלזיק א גאריה חכים
    4. א בן מסלם א עתאקתין ב
    5. חזאנין ו

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  50. 4600List or tableT-S K15.46

    Same cluster: T-S Ar.6.28 (PGPID 1278), ENA 2592.24 (PGPID 12808), T-S K15.46 (PGPID 23221), and T-S Misc.8.72 (PGPID 8337).

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