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  1. 4551Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 177.198

    Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer Bū l-Khayr. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID …

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  2. 4552State documentT-S NS 141.71

    Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …

    1. ..هذين الديوانين وهو يجدد السوال

    2. …قام….من شي بما يجب فيها

    3. ]ـه الى الخدمة في ذلك ولولا ما يطمع به

    4. ….قدرته من [  ]يجب الديوان المستنصري

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  3. 4553LetterJRL B 3848

    Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is typical to the 13th century, and is probably that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu …

    1. יקבל אלארץ אמאם מגלס אלמולי אל[מו]פק אלסייד אלאמין
    2. אלנפיס אלראיס אלאדיב אלפהים אלואלד אלגליל אלאציל אלחכים
    3. אבו עלי דו אלפכר ואלמעאלי סייד אלחכמא תאג…

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  4. 4554LetterT-S 8J6.5

    Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Surūr (probably an elder relative, since he is addressed as "father"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and …

    1. ולדה אבו אלברכאת ולד אבו אלפרג בן אלריס זצל
    2. אלדי אעלם בה חצרה מולאי וסיידי ועזי וסנדי וגאיה
    3. אמלי אלמולא אלשיך אלאגל אלואלד אבו אלסרור א[דאם
    4. אללה סעא…

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  5. 4555Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.35.201

    Receipt in Arabic script. Location: Cairo or Fustat. Dated: before Muḥarram 561 AH, which is late 1165 CE. For Bū Najm Hilāl b. Mūsā al-Ḥarīrī. …

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  6. 4556Legal documentT-S AS 187.305

    Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment, and verso is blank, suggesting that it is a legal document. The first line preserved …

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  7. 4557LetterENA NS 35.19

    Upper part of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably no earlier than 15th century. The writer addresses his father, "the boy" (his brother?) Shemuel, his …

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  8. 4558LetterAIU VII.E.76

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to David ben Naʿim, 1821/22 CE (5400+182). Only the upper part of the fragment is here.

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  9. 4559LetterAIU VII.E.182

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company. A Yehezqel Ḥefeẓ is mentioned in the last couple lines.

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  10. 4560LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/29

    Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Only the address is preserved.

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  11. 4561Literary textENA NS 33.6

    This is a commentary to BT Bava Qamma in the hand of Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel, not a legal document. AA

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  12. 4562Legal documentJRL B 7461

    Legal fragment. Late. In Hebrew. Mentions Mardūk. There is an addendum in which Aharon agrees to all of the above.

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  13. 4563LetterMoss. V,338.3

    Fragment of a letter. In Hebrew. Late. Only the address is preserved: to [...] Ashqar. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  14. 4564LetterT-S 8J15.20

    Letter conveying holiday greetings to Elazar, who is given five titles. Other side (PGPID 1937): Prescription for pills against coughing.

    1. חצרה אלמולא אלאגל אלמנעם אלמתפצל מרנו ורבנו
    2. אלעזר השר האדיר הנכבד היקר הנדיב
    3. תפארת הסוחרים הוד הנדיבים עטרת המתנדבים
    4. נזר הקהלות נאמן העדה ישמרו שומר…

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  15. 4565LetterT-S Ar.34.323

    Drafts of dozens of documents including letters/petitions to amīrs, mostly in Arabic script. There is also a recipe or prescription.

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  16. 4566LetterT-S AS 148.127

    Letter fragment (upper part). In Hebrew. Addressed to someone important named ʿUlla the scholar. Mainly the flattering introduction is preserved.

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  17. 4567Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 150.53

    Order of payment. Abū l-Faraj is to give the bearer "one half" of fennel (shamār). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  18. 4568List or tableT-S AS 207.169 + T-S AS 207.144

    Accounts in Arabic, related to the nearby shelfmark T-S AS 207.144. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography.

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  19. 4569Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K15.38

    Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of lamp/linseed oil (zayt ḥār).

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  20. 4570LetterYevr. II A 1540

    Non-Geniza. Letter addressed to the Qaraite judge Shemuel b. Avraham, in Troki. Dating: Probably 5560 AM, which is 1800 CE.

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  21. 4571Legal documentJRL L 18

    Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 AM, which is 25 January 1807 CE. This is a more complete copy of the same …

    1. בע׳׳ה בסט׳׳ו
    2. בפעח׳׳מ הודו היקר נשא ונע׳ כה׳׳ר שלמה גיזאנה יצ׳׳ו ואחיו היקר נשא ונע׳ כה׳׳ר חיים גיזאנה יצ׳׳ו ו[...
    3. אברהם גיזאנה יצ׳׳ו תו׳ נא אמון יע׳…

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  22. 4572LetterCUL Or.1080 J123

    Informal notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto: Possibly from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. The writer asks the addressee to write a note to R. Ḥananel regarding the writer's …

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  23. 4573LetterT-S 12.45

    Letter to the judge Natan (b. Shelomo?) ha-Kohen (he-ḥaver ha-meʿulle ha-dayyan ha-maskil bet din hagun...). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. Goitein's index card suggests …

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  24. 4574Legal query or responsumENA 2558.30c

    Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a group of people who share an underground(?) storage room of wheat in …

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  25. 4575Legal query or responsumT-S 6J2.17

    Fragmentary scrap that contains multiple hands. The recto has been identified as a responsum, whereas the verso is a short note to Abu al-Ḥasan (or …

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  26. 4576LetterT-S NS 225.110

    Letter from an unidentified merchant to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports on a shipment that he has sent with Jaʿfar: 62 wax …

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  27. 4577LetterT-S NS J160 + Moss. IV,20.1

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Two fragments comprising the left side of recto. The handwriting is …

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  28. 4578LetterT-S K8.95

    Letter of condolence from a woman (name unknown) to Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ, the son of her late brother. Opens with four lines of biblical verses …

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    1. הצור תמים פעלו כי כל דרכיו משפט אל אמונה ואין עול
    2. צדיק וישר הוא באשר דבר מלך שלטון ומי יאמר לו מה

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  29. 4579LetterT-S 24.67

    Letter from the teacher Bū l-Ḥusayn Yehuda (b. Aharon?) Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to his third cousin and brother-in-law the physician Yeshuʿa b. Aharon Ibn …

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    1. בשמ רחמ מחבהם יהודה המלמד
    2. תקדמת כתבי אלי אלמואלי אלסאדה אלאגלה דאם אללה עזהם

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  30. 4580Legal documentCUL Add.3417

    Recto and verso: Draft of a legal document. Abu Saʿd al-Levi undertakes to provide his elderly father Shemuel with food and drink and the money …

  31. אלגזיה אלי מא כאנת עליה אוולא והי דינארין מצריה או אקל פהו יזנהא
  32. ענה כאמלה
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    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנא באכר הדא אלמסטור במא

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  34. 4581LetterCUL Or.1080 J106

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified person in Fustat.

    ULC Or 1080 J 106, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp.278-280 (Doc. #158) C.B. 02-10-88 (p)Letter from Solomon b. Judah to an unidentified person in Fustat.

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    1. [ ] בשלומך מה נקבץ
    2. לי על ידך כמה כתבים כתבתי אל מצרים היש מי שאמר האיש הזה מן הרוח

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  35. 4582LetterENA NS 18.36

    Letter from Avraham Maimonides to Ḥayyim b. Ḥananel. An autograph. A previous description called this "Three drafts of a letter sent by Shelomo to Hayyim." …

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    מן אאלאצחאב בעץ ינאסב | אלא אלאפתכאר פי ח[. . .]. .ע.יה. . | ואל. .ר פי

    קראת . .וא[. . . . . . | יגפל סידנא ענכם | פי [. . . .] אלצ.א | וכדלך איצ[. . . . |

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  36. 4583Legal documentNLI Ms. Ar. 276.20

    The document details the partition and usage agreement between shareholders in a three-story residential building on Darb al-Qadīb in the Jewish quarter. The residents are: Yaʿqūb b.

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    1. حي الله وك.ي

    2. ..را فية عنه …إليه سبحانه

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  37. 4584LetterT-S 10J24.3 + CUL Or.1080 J174

    Fragment of a letter (written by Ṣedaqa Nes), to the head of the exile, Natan ha-Kohen Sholal (d. 1502) in Cairo (the penultimate Nagid), concerning …

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    1. בחסדך אדוני כתבת שבחברת זה הוא צריך מצדי
    2. לנוצרי אחד בעטא[. . .]שמו כתוב עליו תצוה לאחד

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  38. 4585LetterT-S 12.234

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

  39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ואיש [י]כו[ן] . . [ . . . .
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    1. תלמידו . . .

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  41. 4586LetterT-S 16.294

    Letter from Moshe b. Peraḥya, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr, to a prominent scholar in the capital. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 1230s–40s (the last years …

  42. זפתי ויכן
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    אמרהא לה כמא כאן לאבן אלנאמן קבלה | ומנע בכטה אלממ אן יתערץ פיהא לעבדה אד הי מצאפה |

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  44. 4587Legal documentT-S 18J2.12

    Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. A woman named Muluk claims to be the only heir of Tiban, the grandson of her maternal uncle. …

  45. בו בפסטאט מצרים שעל הנהר מושבה
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    1. . . . .ה עלי יוסף . . .שא. . וליס לטיבאן זה יורש
    2. מימונה . .מת. . . . . . . . . בישראל זולתי נחומה

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  47. 4588LetterT-S NS 324.104

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (r. 1025–1051) to the community of Fustat. Dating: ca. 1025 CE. On verso there is a fable about a …

    TS NS Box 324, f. 104, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp.122-124 (Doc. #71), C.B. 03-15-88 (p) Letter to the community of Fustat, approximately 1025. }

    1. אל כל המון עם יי היושבים בשפריר מצרים חורי יהודה ואפרים החברים הברורים וה[דיינ]ים (?)

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  48. 4589Legal documentT-S 8J6.9

    Legal document regulating the share of profit and loss to a traveling party of four to Syria after one of them is prevented from traveling …

    1. למא לאן פי אלעשר אלאול מן חדש אב יהפך אבלו לששון דשנת אלפא
    2. וחמש מאה וארבעין ותרתין שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל
    3. נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דאדוננו נגיד…
  49. The Elder, the aforementioned Abū Sa‘d b. Ibrahīm, said to us, “We acknowledge before you that we, the aforementioned four of us, agree
  50. that each of us //would bring out // a certain amount and buy with it merchandise and the like, and we would travel to
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  53. 4590LetterT-S 12.575

    Letter on behalf of a Byzantine convert named Raḥel, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. The main part of the letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) …

    1. בשם רחמ ממלוכתה רחל אלגיורת אלרומיה
    2. תקבל אלארץ בין ידי [סיי]דנא אלדיאן כגק מרנו ורבנו אליהו הדיין תפארת
    3. הדיינים אלהי ישראל יהיה בעזרו ועליו ישא נזרו…

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  54. 4591LetterENA 1157.23

    Business letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Not mentioned in the literature. Avraham b. Yamān is mentioned. The sickness of …

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  55. 4592Legal documentENA NS 10.34

    Legal document written in dense small letters. It looks like a deed of agency. There is a remnant of a name in l. 6 ([...] …

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  56. 4593LetterJRL B 2495

    Very faded fragment from the beginning of a letter in to ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil (who is named, but the name is very faded - Zekharya?). Reused …

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  57. 4594LetterJRL B 5022

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Greetings to Abū l-Fakhr and Maʿālī. Mufaḍḍal is also mentioned. Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is also one …

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  58. 4595LetterMoss. II,134.1

    Letter to Abū l-Faraj [...] Yaʿaqov b. David, Fusṭāṭ. In a calligraphic Hebrew opening with a poem. Fragment of the beginning. The address on verso …

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  59. 4596LetterMoss. IV,45

    Part of a letter from a man to his son, Abū l-Ḥasan Wahb b. ʿImrān, who requests that next time he should write in Hebrew. …

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  60. 4597LetterT-S 8J21.19

    Letter addressed to a dignitary (ha-rav ha-gadol, ha-maʿoz ha-migdol—a title usually reserved for Maimonides or his son). The handwriting is distinctive (especially the curly זs). …

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  61. 4598LetterT-S Ar.37.254

    Letter affectionately addressed to "qurrat ʿaynī" Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Yahūdā. Only the address, in Arabic script, is preserved. The rest of the fragment is …

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  62. 4599List or tableT-S AS 143.2

    Accounts. Yemeni hand? Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic and verso is in Arabic script. Dated: Monday, 20 Iyyar 2143 Seleucid = 20 May 1832 CE. Currency: …

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  63. 4600Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1411

    Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Goitein's notes and the NLI catalogue both give 1459 CE. The tens digit is very faded, but the …

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