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LetterENA NS 18.31
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …
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- כתאבי יא שיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
- וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה יום אלכמיס
- ליב בקין מן מרחשון ען חאל כמא קד שאה אללה תבא[רך
- ו…
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252
Legal documentHalper 354
Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030. It was given to Efrayim b. …
- זכרון ע' ש' ב' אי העדים ה[חתומים למטה בסוף שטר זה
- איך אתא קדמנא מ[ר פלוני בן פלוני
- מן מדינת צובה וכן [אמר לנו פלוני
- והלל בני נחמן הרופה [עשאוני שליח…
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State documentMoss. VIII,479.4
Verso: Probably a fragmentary state document, mentions al-Majlis and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh". Recto: Regarding selling of a slave girl. (AA)
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254
Legal documentHalper 337
Court record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. A litigant named Moshe has claimed that his loan of 50.5 dinars to Ṣadaqa was guaranteed …
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255
Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 13/1
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Contract for the sale of flax following the dissolution of the partnership.Tiqva ha-Levi known as Abū …
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256
LetterBodl. MS Heb. c 56/3
Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from …
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257
Legal documentT-S 13J37.12
Legal document: bill of sale for a slave. See also Perry's annotated edition of T-S18J1.17.
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258
State documentENA NS 50.5
Report or petition fragment, addressed to a higher state official regarding the matters in southern Upper Egypt, contains the taqbīl clause towards the end. The …
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للحضور صحبة النايب مقتفي؟ الرجال…. ريب؟
وعبد الغني وان رفعت الرخصة لهم وكثر طمعهم وقل بذاك عدالتهم؟
والمملوك يشكر الانعام عليه بخروج الا…
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State documentENA 2762.8
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly a petition. Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... majdahu …
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State documentENA 2969.7
Nine lines in two different hands; one hand seems to be a chancery hand and the other one is not as elegant. The document starts …
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List or tableENA 3729.6
Receipt, with a bunch of names of the contributors, dates, and days of the week on both sides. A few Hebrew characters also appear in …
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Paraliterary textENA 4193.18
Astrological text in Arabic script, with interspersed words transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (late hand) in the spaces between the lines. This demonstrates that even some Jews …
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List or tableENA NS 35.30
List or accounts in Arabic script, used as a bifolio for Hebrew script. One of the readable items is lead (raṣāṣ).
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State documentT-S Ar.41.34
State document, probably a report to a higher official (not a petition). This is a long strip cut from the right side of the document. …
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State documentT-S Ar.42.195
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …
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State documentT-S Ar.39.1
Official receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dated: 556 AH (or kharājī?); if AH, this would correspond to 1160/61 CE. For Bū l-Ḥasan b. …
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State documentT-S Ar.30.308 + T-S 12.359 + T-S AS 148.96
State document in Arabic script. Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.39.392
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dating: Fatimid. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
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State documentT-S Ar.34.328
Decree of investiture; two lines widely spaced.
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State documentT-S NS 261.128
Petition. Small fragment. Contains a taqbīl clause (and not much else). Reused for a text in Judaeo-Arabic (prognostications or dream interpretations?).
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State documentT-S NS 300.71
Letter in Arabic script in a chancery hand—likely a report or petition. Three and a half lines are preserved. Recommending a certain man who is …
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State documentT-S NS 193.76
Petition. In Arabic script, in a beautiful chancery hand. Portions of 4 lines are preserved. Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in …
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State documentT-S NS 199.154
Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …
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State documentT-S NS 209.25
Legal document in Arabic script. Ends of 7 lines. Penultimate line: al-jāriya bi-l-dīwān al-Farkhī. Last line: al-mutawallī ʿimārat rubāʿ dīwān al-khāṣa. Likely a join with …
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275
State documentT-S NS 297.18
Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). Needs further examination.
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State documentENA 684.5
State document, Fatimid, probably a decree fragment, 4 lines. Begins with وعاد بنجابتهما وحسن in a dual tense suggesting that it was addressed to two …
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277
LetterBL OR 5566B.16
On recto, the bottom of a letter (official letter? formulary?) in Arabic script. The writer thanks the addressee in the concluding lines quoting two verses …
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State documentT-S NS 109.34
State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?
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State documentT-S NS 110.14 + T-S NS 277.168 + T-S K6.33
State/fiscal document, one of several state documents recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, active in Jerusalem, d. ca. 1055, social services officer (parnas) of the …
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State documentT-S NS 110.6
State document in Arabic script. Letter/petition also containing accounts about shipments made on specific dates. Several names are mentioned. There is a ḥamdala and a …
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State documentT-S NS 134.126
Possibly a petition. In Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions a qāḍī. Quite damaged. Reused for piyyuṭ or a prayer on …
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State documentT-S NS 135.115
State document, small fragment. Written in enormous script, which seems most suited to a decree except that two of the words are ʿalā mamlūkihi. Reused …
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283
State documentT-S NS 338.69
Documentary/administrative record? One page (verso is blank) with a Hebrew-script header and 8 lines of Arabic in a jagged/coarse hand--maybe from a badly cut nib? …
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State documentENA NS 71.22
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
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مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
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285
LetterENA NS 71.15
Letter from Faḍāʾil to his father. In Arabic script. He has sent prior letters but received no response. He mentions several individuals such as Ṣadaqa, …
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بسم الله ال]رحمن الرحيم
الذي اعرف به سيد]ي ووالدي جعلني الله فداه انني كتبت عدة كتب وما
وصلني لها ا]لجواب واشتغل ذلك قلبي كثير بحكم ما دخ…
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LetterENA NS 71.19
Letter, in Arabic script. Starts with a basmala and contains the "inhāʾ" formula. Mentions difficulties; "ويشهد الله تعلى لقد صنعت علينا غاية الصعوبه والله تعالى …
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List or tableENA NS 83.30
Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …
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List or tableENA NS 83.31
Ottoman-era accounts.
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List or tableENA NS 83.34
Ottoman-era accounts, might be Arabic but some words have Ottoman Turkish suffixes. Needs examination.
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Paraliterary textENA NS 83.53
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
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291
LetterMoss. IV,22.1
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …
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Legal documentENA 3913.4
Legal document (iqrār). Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script. Needs examination for content and dating.
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Legal documentENA NS 40.20
Legal document, fragment, in Arabic script, mentioning the property of the deceased in Fustat and Giza. This inheritance was attested in the presence of the …
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State documentENA 3925.4
Account, fiscal record or tax receipt, Fatimid. Binding pinholes.
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LetterENA 3926.2
Fragmentary letter (draft?) with many lacunae, 8 lines. Many glorifying phrases: "...[al-shaykh] al-ajall Sadīd al-Mulk ballaghū Allāh taʿālā aʿlā al-manāzil... dīn wa-dunyā... awdaʿahū Allāh taʿālā...." …
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State documentENA 3926.5
Receipt (fiscal?) for Abū l-Mūnā b. Ibrāhīm al-Malījī (?) Bū l-Ḥusayn b. Sulaymān [tawliya al-shadd??]. Ends with ḥamdala and ṣalwala, with no registration requests or …
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State documentENA 3941.2
Letter or petition from a certain Bū Naṣr (to a woman?). In Arabic script. Begins: عبدها يقبل يديها وينهي انه شهد الله على غاية من …
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Legal documentENA 3936.6
Jottings of accounts and calendrical notations in a mixture of Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. …
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Legal documentENA 3940.3
Legal document. In Arabic script in a nice hand. Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm the Jew attests that he has received 15 rounds (aqrāṣ) of Levantine cheese …
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List or tableENA 3944.1
Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Needs examination.
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