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  1. 1Legal documentT-S Ar.42.184

    Legal document (Baker and Polliack call it an 'Ottoman mustarad'). Location: Cairo. Dated 12 Rajab 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE. 4 witness signatures. May …

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  2. 2List or tableJRL SERIES C 108

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning some full and abbreviated names, including: Ḥayyīm Bibas and Muḥ[ammad] Kāshif ___[?] Yosef among others. The latter name may indicate and …

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  3. 3List or tableT-S H12.30 + ENA 3748.9

    List of Ottoman sultans (אלה שמות מלכי האוסמאנלסים אשר מלכו עד היום). In Hebrew and western Arabic numerals. There is a comment after Sulaymān II …

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  4. 4Paraliterary textT-S AS 177.11

    Mysterious fragment with several different sorts of jottings, including: 1) In Hebrew: "When the great king (Mehmet II) who conquered Constantinople died (in 1482), and …

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  5. 5List or tableT-S K11.41

    Bifolio of commercial accounts, probably from a wider ledger. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography and layout. Some of the names of those mentioned …

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  6. 6List or tableT-S K11.55

    Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with western Arabic numerals and Hebrew alphanumerals. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography and layout. A variety of individuals …

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  7. 7List or tableT-S AS 209.4

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman-era jadid coinage. On the recto the name Yiṣḥaq Mar Ḥayyīm is mentioned in …

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  8. 8LetterENA NS 36.4

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Ḥafıẓ Aḥmad Pasha, Khiḍr Pasha, and māl al-sulṭān. There was probably once another page of the letter with its beginning. …

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  9. 9State documentENA 1178.45

    Text in Ottoman Turkish.

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  10. 10List or tableENA 3046.5

    Account in Arabic script, Ottoman period.

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  11. 11List or tableT-S AS 209.199

    Large bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult early modern scribal hand. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The main heading on the recto …

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  12. 12List or tableT-S J1.59

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on the verso, 6 Shawwal 954 AH (1547 CE). The entries involve a dīwān, the Bāb Zuweyla, and perhaps other locations …

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  13. 13List or tableJRL SERIES C 24

    Lists in Judeo-Arabic that mention a wide array of "ağa / אגה" official titleholders and are dated to 18 Safar 1243AH which is September 1827CE. …

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  14. 14Legal documentAIU XII.101

    Ottoman-era legal document (or letter with legal content?) addressed to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad dated 19 Shaʿbān 930 = 1524 CE. Mentions …

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  15. 15Legal documentAIU XII.96

    Recto: The first few lines of an Ottoman-era legal document, bearing two seals and an annotation in a different hand, opening with an invocation of …

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  16. 16State documentAIU XII.33

    State document, Ottoman, dated Jumada I 1238 H. Ledger page connected to the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria (most of the institutional title is in …

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  17. 17Paraliterary textENA 624.4

    Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the Arabic alphabet. This Arabic-script letter is dated 29 Rajab …

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  18. 18Legal documentT-S Ar.41.54

    Recto: Ottoman contract of sale of land. Dated Rabīʿ I 1032 AH (1623 CE). Verso: Ottoman legal contract

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  19. 19Legal documentENA NS 71.20

    Legal document, most probably Ottoman. Contains a seal (part of which reads علوالهمة) and two signatures, one in cartouche form. Needs examination for content.

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  20. 20Paraliterary textENA 492.8

    Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet

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  21. 21Paraliterary textENA 492.9

    Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet

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  22. 22Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3942.13

    Document or receipt of some kind issued for al-muʿallim Salmūn al-Yahūdī. Dated: 10 Shaʿbān 997 AH = 24 June 1589 CE.There is a signature at …

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  23. 23State documentENA 3924.5

    State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …

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  24. 24Legal documentT-S 8J35.2

    Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: 1512 CE, at the earliest. Stating that 93 peraḥim (ducat equivalents) of the coinage of the Sultan Selim which were …

    1. אנו עדים חתומי מטה יודעים [
    2. גדולי הקהלות שבמצרים . . . . [
    3. על ענין לבקש קצת מעות שהיו צריכים . . . [
    4. איזה ריוח למי שילוה אותם המעות שהיו צריכים מ [

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  25. 25Legal documentT-S Ar.42.107

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, likely 16th or 17th century. Concerning the estate of the late Shemuel b. Dan, a Portuguese Jew. His …

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  26. 26Legal documentENA 3982.55

    A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …

    1. لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]

    2. اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال 

    3. خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم

    4.  حييم النصري انه يكون مل…

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  27. 27Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3924.6

    Receipt issued by a waqf overseer (ناظر وقف) for "ground rent" (حكر) of properties in the "the Jewish quarter" of Cairo (حكر القاعات بحارت اليهود). …

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  28. 28Legal documentENA 3905.2

    Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …

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  29. 29List or tableENA NS I.12

    List of goods and prices. Likely a household inventory, but could also be business accounts or a dowry list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. Curencies: gurush …

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  30. 30LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1417

    Letter to Eliyya Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. Recto consists of greetings. On verso the writer relates various types of bad news (violence, financial losses) …

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  31. 31LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1480

    Letter from the Qaraite community of Jerusalem to the Qaraite community of Damascus. The scribe is Meir Rofe Tawrīzī, and the letter is also signed …

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  32. 32Legal documentENA 3904.2

    Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …

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  33. 33LetterENA 3754.11

    Petition. Dating: Late 16th or early 17th century, as it involves the well-known rabbi and judge Ḥayyim Kapūsī (1540–1631). The petitioner makes accusations against a …

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    1. يقبل الارض بين يدي الموافق العالية اعلاها الله تعالى

    2. وينهي ان ثم رجل يهودي يسمى سعد بن العيصي كان ملتزم بمقاطعة الجوالي سابقاً فانكر عليه

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