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  1. 4901LetterT-S 10J9.14

    Leon, a Byzantine, to the Egyptian Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya. Written en route to Cairo, Eliyyahu complains of the dearth of learning among the Egyptian Jews and their laxity of observance.

    Address (verso)

    1. יובל לכבוד אדוננו ומרנו ורב[נו ש]מואל נגיד
    2. הנגידים ושר השרים רכב יש[ראל] ופרשיו
    3. עטרת ראשנו כליל תפ[ארתנו] מגדל עוזנו
    4. מני אליה בר כלב…

    Translated by Amir Ashur and Benjamin M. Outhwaite.

    To the dear coronet of glory, the great, holy one, our master and our teacher, our lord who is th…

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  2. 4902Legal documentT-S 12.37

    Writ of release signed by three witnesses and dated end of Av 1414/July-August 1103 (a word is missing between 'one thousand four hundrer and four' and 'years to the calendar', so it's definitely not 1404, probably 1414).

    1. לה [ . . ] מאמ . [ . . . . . ] . . . [ . . . . . . . . . ]הדו עלינא ואקנו מנא // ] . . . אל [ . . . . . ] דין // מעכשו
    2. . . . . . . . . ]אכתמו עלינא …

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  3. 4903Legal documentT-S 20.39

    Small fragment from the end of a ketubba in which the groom (ʿEli b. David) undertakes to support the two daughters of his bride (Ḥusn bt.

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  4. 4904LetterT-S 20.105

    Same cluster: T-S 16.141 (PGPID 7413), T-S 20.105 (PGPID 7529), and ENA 4010.9 (PGPID 6785). (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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  5. 4905State documentT-S Ar.34.246

    Report or petition. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Twice mentions the Berbers (البربر) who are in the area of Abshīsh (ابشيش) in the Delta, the Berber town Marmājanna in Ifrīqiya, and possibly Nuqayṭa (mentioned in the document is Minyat Abī Nuqayṭa.

    1. ]حق نعمته بعد جاى(؟) وانا...
    2. ]بالنزل مع البربر في ارض ابشيش بجوار
    3. ]رجوا علي حتى اخليت مواضعا بمنية ابي نقيطة(؟)
    4. ]. ساير البربر الذين في ضياع العاملي…

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  6. 4906LetterT-S Ar.42.30

    Verso: a letter urging someone to adopt the noblest and manliest of disciplines (adāb) that promotes peace, order, and justice for all: being a government secretary (kātib). To this end, he should avidly study biographies (siyar).

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  7. 4907Literary textT-S Ar.42.133

    Both sides are arranged in grids with the words "taʾrīkh" and "sana" in red ink repeated in small boxes next to each entry. Needs examination.

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  8. 4908Literary textT-S Ar.48.69

    The same work as, and partially overlapping with, ENA 2639.44-45 (mistakenly recorded as 42-45 in the Libson article).

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  9. 4909Legal documentT-S Ar.53.44

    ʿAbd al-Karīm to execute all of his orders. Verso: end of a legal document dated 13 Ṣafar 554 AH (= March 1159).

    1. [ ] .......... the jurisconsult .[ ] … [ ]
    2. [ al-Fāʾiz bi-Na]sr Allāh, commander of the faithful, the benedictions of God be upon him and upon his p…

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  10. 4910LetterT-S AS 148.94

    End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was written on the sender's behalf by the scribe Yūsuf.

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    1. ואכוה וען אל[
    2. ותערפה סואלי ענה [
    3. אלקצאעי וסידהם מתגה [
    4. פתוציה באן יחמלהם מא נבכל(?) .
    5. ולא תק[ט]ע כתבך ענא קראת ע[ליך אלסלאם ועלי מן תחוטה
    6. ענא…

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  11. 4911LetterT-S AS 151.167

    End of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely from Hilāl b.

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  12. 4912Legal documentT-S AS 153.449

    Mentions [...]allāh Ibn Khudādār (possibly the same Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Khudādād from ENA NS 71.6 (PGPID 11170) and AIU VII.A.38.1 (PGPID 33701)).

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  13. 4913List or tableT-S AS 157.1

    There is a date, perhaps Jumādā II 470 AH = 1077/78 CE. The subsequent entries may mention the term 'mirwad' (applicator for kohl) several times.

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  14. 4914LetterT-S AS 157.61

    "lamb's tongue"); two qirats of sorrel seed (bizr ḥummād); and blue "muql" (see ENA 1628.56 for this term). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  15. 4915LetterT-S AS 173.380 + T-S AS 152.242

    May be a second copy of ENA 3616.19 + CUL Or.1081 J3 (PGPID 5413). Mentions Rāmisht (misspelled here ראשמת) and ʿUmar al-Bundārī.

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  16. 4916Legal documentT-S AS 177.3

    Stipulates installments at the end of every month. Dated: Ramaḍān 425 AH (or perhaps 525) = July/August 1034 CE (or 1131).

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  17. 4917List or tableT-S AS 179.303–04

    Dated: 545–47 AH = 1150–53 CE. (The individual entries have more precise dates.) Might be state-related (less likely) or communal (more likely), based on the use of the verb "uṭliqa" to refer to expenditures.

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  18. 4918Legal documentT-S AS 200.124

    On recto there are business accounts with some entries cricled.

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  19. 4919List or tableT-S AS 209.106

    (ארזיתלייאן), David Sulṭān, Nissim Mosseri, Nissim Sosino, Mordūkh Dāsā, Yosef Kohen, Salmūn Naʿamīas. The entry for Nissim Mosseri also mentions "pomegranates" in Hebrew perhaps a reference to fruit or Torah rimonim.

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  20. 4920Paraliterary textT-S K6.124

    End of a medical treatise regarding different kinds of food and drinks, their tastes and their influences on the body depending on the time and the amount.

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  21. 4921LetterT-S K16.40 + T-S AS 133.63

    Containing praises for the addressee and his family, including the names Yefet and Efrayim (l. 7, across the seam), which might enable an identification. Concludes with a request for provisions and funds: אני יוצא במועד זה לדרכי ואדרוש ממך צידת מזונים ופרנסה הכי ארחי רחוקה וסרעפי לסברונך שעונים.

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  22. 4922Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Undated, neighboring entries are circa 1693 CE. (Document #39) Lower lines of a dowry list.

    Left side of bifolio 5v (Documents 39, 34):

    1. קופצאן  גלאתה  מטרז  בוקגה  גינטייאן  רובא   כטאי   כטאי    אטלז
    2.                  י          ה          …

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  23. 4923List or tableT-S Misc.8.104

    Lists many names, including Abū Bishr; Abū Isḥāq; ʿArūs; Khalaf; Abū l-ṭāhir; Ibn al-ḥijāziyya; Salāma; Abū l-Munā; al-Dimyāṭī; and Musallam/Muslim Ibn al-Qābila ('son of the midwife'). Several entries are overlined. On verso (different hand): "our master"; Abū l-Mufaḍḍal; the son of Abū l-Surur; David; Shemarya.

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  24. 4924Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. (1099 CE).

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  25. 4925LetterT-S NS 70.112

    Bodl. MS heb. b 13/37, ENA 3740.7, and T-S 10J32.2. Dating: Probably 11th century.

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  26. 4926List or tableT-S NS 224.196 + T-S NS 224.197 + T-S NS 224.195

    The word מרשל(?) is repeated in many entries. Probaby related to T-S NS 190.87 (PGPID 23892), T-S NS 225.67 (PGPID 24204), T-S NS 225.69 (PGPID 24206), T-S NS 225.71 (PGPID 24209), and T-S NS 225.72 (PGPID 24210).

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  27. 4927Legal documentT-S NS 297.317

    The text on the right seems to concern a debt to be repaid in installments starting at the end of the month of Rabīʿ II 537 H, which corresponds to November 1142 CE.

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  28. 4928Legal documentT-S NS 320.69

    Dating: Refers to a period of 5 years and then to the end of Iyyār of either 153[.] or 1503 Seleucid.

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  29. 4929LetterT-S NS 324.55a + T-S NS 324.55b

    The story reminds the attempt of Sar Shalom Halevi to 'correct' inappropriate customs. he was also called 'The evil one', had a Messianic ambitions (e.g the name Qayyuma- a Messianic name) and the sultan tried to put an end to this. AA

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    1. ומא אלעגב מן הדא אלזד אליהיר [[ואל]]
    2. בל מן קום שיוך ראסא לא ינכרו עלי פעל דל[ך
    3. ולא יקבח לה [[עליה]] בל יחסנו [[ה לה]] //לה מא פעל// ויסע
    4. פי כל…

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  30. 4930LetterT-S NS 338.70

    Yaʿaqov Kastro, and Avraham Kolon (the sender of ENA 2727.45, Moss. IV,93, and HUC 1034). See Avraham David's edition on FGP for identifications of several of these men.

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  31. 4931List or tableT-S NS J330

    Fol. 2 recto: personal account for the week ending on Shabbat naso. One of the names mentioned is Fāris.

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    1. א׳ סימאו טוב יהודה עאל.חס
    2. 5 6

    ذ אסחקסקטר.. הרט? אסוד

    1. 6 31
    2. רציאסאסן מנצור כיאט
    3. 6 113.rr
    4. מסעוד שמסצפורי
    5. 6 rr311
    6. דוד אבו אלתלמיד א׳ א…

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  32. 4932Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1567

    Pinḥas known as Naqqāsh and ʿOvadya Fayruz aka Shāmī. The document ends with the signature of the scribe Eliyahu Rofe aka Ṣaʿīr, although there are jottings of various unrelated debts/payments below the signature.

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצרו אחי׳ ואהו׳ חזקיא יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר הז׳ הנ׳ פינחס ידיע
    2. נקאש יצ׳׳ו ואשהד עלי נפסה והו בחאל אלצחה ואלסלאמה ואלטועייא ואלאכתיאר

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  33. 4933Legal documentENA 3958.10

    In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "ENA 3958.10 is an abbreviated acknowledgement, or iqrār, dated 1244 AH/1829 CE, of liability for a loan by an official known as Ḫāḫām Başı (Khākhām Bāshi in Arabic). […] The document renders his name Bārkār or Bārkāra. This name is close enough to that of the leading rabbi of Istanbul’s Jewish community at the time, Ḥayyim Yaʿḳov Benyakār, to make it plausible that the figure named in the loan agreement is, in fact, Benyakār, whose name could also be rendered Bāryakār, using the Aramaic bār instead of the Hebrew ben for ‘son of’. […] Shimʿūn was the Jewish international merchant, encountered in Ch. 3, Doc. 6 [PGPID 30998], whose company, Karo y Fransīs, had financial dealings throughout the Mediterranean between roughly 1790 and 1830.

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    1. غروش
    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
    3. ١٥٠٠٠
    4. فقط خمست عشر الف غرش لا غير
    5. وجه تحريره
    6. ص [١] وله.... لما كان يوم الاربع المبارك في تلاتة وعشرين خلت من …

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    1. ghurūsh

    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]

    3. 15,000 .3

    4. Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.

    5. The reason for its [the document’s] compos…

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  34. 4934LetterENA NS I.67

    Dating: probably 11th century. Consisting almost entirely of instructions for commodities the sender wants the addressee to buy for him, with a list of those commodities. […] Items include: purple cloth (arjuwān); sandarac resin (sandarūs); hard sugar candy (sukkar sulaymānī, i.e., from Sulaymān in SW Iran); a kind of large vessel (ajājīn, sg. ijjāna); good quality chebulic myrobalan (kābulī); good quality Indian aromatic wood (ʿūd hindī); Meccan boxthorn (khawlān makkī); Ḥaḍramī aloe (ṣabr); camphor (kāfūr); Maghribi kohl; violet flower (zahr banafsaj); cassia fistula (khiyār shanbar); cinnamon (qirfa); jujube (ʿunnāb); Iraqi violet oil; a kind of wood (ʿūd al-[...]); pine resin (ʿilk ṣanawbar); sarcocolla (ʿanzarūt); litharge (martak); basil seed (bizr rayḥān); pepper; and several further entries which are hard to read. The list is followed by a paragraph mentioning the names Mūsā b. […] On verso, adds that if the addressee is unable to fulfill this order, he should not entrust it to somebody else; instead he should wait for the arrival of Faraḥ Ibn al-Jāsūs and give him the purse for taking over the task (פאן לם ימכן חצורך פי שי [מנ]הא פלא תכלף אלאמר ללגיר תדע אלצרה לוצול פרח בן אלגאסוס יתולא שראהא ואלסלם).

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  35. 4935Legal documentENA 2560.6

    The tall pages are unusual for court notebooks. Contains 7 entries. Dated: 1532 Seleucid, which is 1220/21 CE. […] Delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar) is 50 dinars. This entry is incomplete and crossed out. (6) Debt contract. […] In addition, it suggests enduring ties between converts and their former community, given the prospect that the “bastard” daughter might choose to retain her place in the Jewish community.

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    1. ולדת בנת לא[ב]ן [י]עלמו

    2. מן בנת טויר אלעשא

    3. והי ממזרת

    4. פי אתק'לב'

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    1. לאן כאנת אמהא פשעה (!) והי זוגה אפרים אלדמירי

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  36. 4936Paraliterary textAIU VII.A.33

    The man's name and his grandfather's name are faded: possibilities include Ḥizqiya, Tiqva, Yaʿqūb, or other names entirely. On the other side: Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār and his brother Maḥfūẓ and his brother Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kātib and Abū l-Munajjā.

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  37. 4937Legal documentAIU VII.D.100

    Legal document from Cairo, dated September 1829 (end of Elul 5589). Missing a large chunk from the upper left, but the remnant details an investment between Yosef (b.)

    1. [בפנינו] עדים החתומים מטה בא היקר [...
    2. גשו׳׳ק מדעתו ורצונו הטוב והגמור בלי [...
    3. לנו הוו עלי עדים גמורים וקנו מידי קנ[ין ...
    4. של זכות ויפוי כח שבעולם …

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  38. 4938State documentAIU VII.D.103

    State document, fragment, in Arabic script written in enormous letters, probably a decree. Mentions "fourteen heads" (li-arbaʿa ʿashara raʾs) (of cattle?).

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  39. 4939Legal query or responsumBL OR 5536.3

    Leaf from a dossier containing later (maybe 14th-15th c) copies of rescripts or responsa from Muslim and Jewish authorities concerning a scholar who allegedly had slandered a Jewish judge. The end of no. 8, from a Muslim amir, dated 575H (1179–80 CE), no. 9 (head of the yeshiva in Baghdad) and the beginning of no. 10 (same as preceding).

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  40. 4940Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    (Document #26) Partnership dissolution and release agreement between Shabbetay Maymun and Shemuʾel Shalom. The entry contains arrangements for Shabbetay to pay a sum of 11,665 medin to Shemuʾel over the course of 6 months.

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    1. וזכות וחזקת הר׳ יצחק אחיה הנז׳ ובאי כחו לדור ולהשכיר ולמכור ולמשכן ולתת כמתנה ולעשות
    2. בהם כפי חפצו ורצונו ככח המכיר…

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  41. 4941Legal documentBL OR 10599.32

    Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), probably an engagement or betrothal contract. The first words of eight lines are preserved; they mention two kosher witnesses and the consummation of a marriage (al-dukhūl bi-hā).

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  42. 4942State documentBL Or. 5557R.105

    Fiscal register, dated 3 Dhū l-Ḥijja of an unmentioned year, mentions several sums of money (Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA 2886.1–7, T-S NS 71.64, T-S 8H22.18, Moss. IV,252.1, T-S NS 308.41, and possibly T-S Misc.24.106).

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  43. 4943Legal documentBodl. MS Arab. c 56.17

    Abī Saʿīd al-Yahūdī, the overseer of the endowment of Rabbanite Jews in Fusṭāṭ. The leasee is Makārim b.

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  44. 4944LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/63

    Yehuda ha-Kohen asking him to read out a letter of condolence—enclosed with the present letter—to Moshe ha-Kohen and his son Salāma (the tax-farmer of Manūf) in Malīj.

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    1. כי שפתי כהן ישמרו דעת וג'
    2. לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי

    3. אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט

    4. אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר

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    1. For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.

    2. But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.

    3. The sl…

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  45. 4945LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/44

    This fragment is only the beginning of the letter; the entirety of what remains consists of blessings and prayers and good wishes for the holidays.

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלפאצל ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה
    2. וסלאמתה מן אלקדס אלשריף חרסה אללה ועמרה פי איאמה: לכמסה כלת
    3. מן ניסן ערפה אללה ברכתה …

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  46. 4946Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 101/16

    Related to the second entry of CUL Add.3413 (PGPID 3968).

    1. אתפנא קדאמנא בי דינא אל[שיך] אבו [אלמנא]
    2. ואלשיך אבו אלאפצל נט רח אתה אדא תטלבה
    3. הלל בן יוסף אלתסעין //אחד// גרה נביד מן קבל אבי
    4. אלפצל חצלת חינוד //הי…

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  47. 4947LetterCUL Or.1080 J97

    Avraham has sent a letter enclosed with this one, and the addressee is asked to take a look and respond to all of Avraham's needs.

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  48. 4948Literary textCUL Or.1081 1.23

    The beginning of the text on the verso is to be found at the end of the leaf at which the text of the recto finishes.

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  49. 4949LetterDK 279

    On verso, there is the address in calligraphic Hebrew and four lines of text in Judaeo-Arabic in a different hand, mainly blessings for the addressees but perhaps also encouraging them to give charity. Following the letter are two leaves of piyyutim.

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  50. 4950LetterENA 2727.18c

    In Judaeo-Arabic with a Hebrew superscription and ending with a ه (for انتهى). Dating: Probably late 12th or 13th century.

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