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  1. 51

    LetterENA 2555.1

    Letter in Hebrew narrating the trouble caused by Ben Meir including quoting at length a letter sent by the elders. Entered in Geniza collection as …

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  2. 52

    Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 102/37

    Literary work on the calendar, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Bodl. MS heb. f 102/36 and Bodl. MS heb. f 102/38–39 may …

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  3. 53

    List or tableAIU VIII.E.11–12

    16 pages of calendrical writing with molad calculations for years in the 19th century.

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  4. 54

    List or tableBL OR 10126(1).2

    Calendar for maḥzors 258 (starting 1122 CE) through maḥzor 261 (ending 1199 CE). Will be a useful resource for dating the handful of Geniza documents …

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  5. 55

    List or tableAIU VIII.E.13

    12 pages of calendrical writing, with molad calculations and Islamic calendar conversions, for the first decade of the 19th century.

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  6. 56

    LetterMoss. II,153.3

    Verso (original use): Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Reused on recto for a text discussing the calendar and liturgical additions.

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  7. 57

    Literary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110a/22

    Essay on the intercalation of the calendar: אדא ארדנא אלוקוף עלי עלם אלחיבור. The hand is familiar, perhaps 13th century.

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  8. 58

    List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1774/9

    Calendar. Late. Colorful floral illustrations, with the text in circular medallions. The surrounding fragments are either from the same calendar or very similar ones.

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  9. 59

    LetterT-S AS 83.258

    The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …

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  10. 60

    Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.47

    A brief narrative of the calendar controversy of 921/2 appears within a treatise or manual in Judaeo-Arabic on the Jewish calendar, which was composed and …

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  11. 61

    LetterStras. 4038/1–6

    Geonic responsum about the calendar controversy of Ben Meir, dated 994–95 CE. It is attributed to Hayye Gaon. Preserved here is the second of two …

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  12. 62

    Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.17

    Calendar for years 4756–4757 of the Era of Creation (= 995-996 to 996-997 CE) and 4760-4761 of the Era of Creation (= 999-1000 to 1000-1001 …

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  13. 63

    Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.37

    Recto: calendrical text discussing the months of Marḥešvan and Kislev. Verso: jottings.

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  14. 64

    List or tableAIU VIII.E.52 + BL OR 5565B.7

    Consecutive bifolia on the calendar in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi spanning the years 1204-07 and 1209–09 respectively.

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  15. 65

    Literary textT-S NS 98.51

    Calendrical or astrological work mentioning the months of January (יונאריס) and February (פבראריס) and the calends (קלנדס). Information from FGP.

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  16. 66

    Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.63

    Calendrical calculations and jottings in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

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  17. 67

    Paraliterary textT-S AS 146.92

    Calendrical. Mentions the names of months and days, a leap year and cycles. CUDL

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  18. 68

    Literary textT-S NS 194.92 + T-S 8K4

    Two folios of this 12-folio manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how …

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  19. 69

    Literary textENA 2555.1 + T-S 10K3 + T-S NS 175.57 + ENA 2556.1

    Manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to calculate the calendar year …

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  20. 70

    LetterT-S AS 160.96

    This text is preserved in one very fragmentary folio, T-S AS 160.96. What survives indicates that it is about the midday calendar limit, whereby the …

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  21. 71

    LetterBodl. MS Heb. d.74/31 + T-S 13K2.4 + T-S 13K2.5 + Bodl. MS Heb. d.74/30

    Collection of letters relating to the calendar controversy of 921–22. This is part of what Sacha Stern (2020) calls the Letters Miscellany: Letter 4 of …

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  22. 72

    LetterT-S 10J32.1 + Lévi 1900b + T-S NS 98.18 + Bodl. MS heb. d 74/27

    Letter 1 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letters 1 and 2 are pro-Babylonian. Both …

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  23. 73

    Literary textT-S 10K4

    Latest, most formal, and most perfected, copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on …

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  24. 74

    Literary textT-S 8K5

    This manuscript is the earliest copy we have of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia …

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  25. 75

    Literary textT-S NS 219.29

    New discovery of a copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to …

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  26. 76

    LetterT-S 6Ja1

    Partially preserved 11th century copy of one of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. …

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  27. 77

    Legal documentT-S J3.47

    Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …

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  28. 78

    Literary textT-S NS 262.17 + T-S AS 155.112

    This recently discovered document presents a detailed account of the calendar controversy from the perspective of a Qaraite. It is also the only source confirming …

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  29. 79

    LetterT-S 13K2.3 + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/29

    Letter 2 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 2, of which only one folio …

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  30. 80

    LetterT-S 13K2.1 + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/28 + T-S 13K2.2 + T-S NS 309.68b

    Letter 3 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 3 responds to a letter from …

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  31. 81

    LetterBL OR 4856.1

    Recto: Hebrew letter of appeal from the old, poor man Yosef b. Elazar ha-Kohen to Avraham ha-Sar b. Elazar. The body of the letter occupies …

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  32. 82

    LetterT-S Ar.29.101

    Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …

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  33. 83

    LetterT-S 8G7.1

    Letter from the head of the Gola concerning the calendar. Describes his opinion about the need to shorten two months (to 29 days) and explains …

    ע"א

    1. דליהו כולן וכל יש אגודה [אחת ב]חדשים 
    2. ובכל מועדים וְבָהדִין מנהגא ק[א הוו] מִדברין [[א]] 
    3. אבהתן ומתיבאתא עד הינא והי[א] שתא דהיה 
    4. שנת אלפא ומאה …

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  34. 84

    LetterT-S 6Ja1 + Halper 332 + Bodl. MS heb. f 56/83

    Partially preserved 11th century copy of second of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. …

    1. וכה הסכים ראש הגולה
    2. וראשי הישיבות וכל האלופים 
    3. וכל החכמים מבין עם תלמיד 
    4. והכריזו מרחשון וכסלו שלמין 
    5. והפסח בשלישי בשבת 
    6.      גם אנכי כתבתי עם אגרות…

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  35. 85

    List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 54/21

    Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.

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  36. 86

    List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 54/22

    Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.

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  37. 87

    LetterJRL SERIES C 85

    Recto: Letter from David b. Naʿim to Meir b. Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Elul 5580, which is 1820 CE. On verso there is a …

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  38. 88

    Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.290

    Recipe for a certain kind of wine ("al-nabīdh al-mudabbir"). On verso there are calendrical calculations mentioning Tishrei 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111 CE.

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  39. 89

    Paraliterary textENA 4010.35 + ENA 4196.15

    A Karaite (specifically Tustari) post festum calendar listing the dates of the new moons (by observation) for the years 1357–59 Seleucid, corresponding to 1045–48 CE. …

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  40. 90

    List or tableT-S NS 338.72

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script, listing years in the 12th century CE …

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  41. 91

    Paraliterary textENA NS 63.18

    Literary work containing Hebrew poetry and a section on the calendar including for the years 5923–78 AM, which corresponds to 1142–1218 CE. The hand is …

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  42. 92

    Literary textBodl. MS heb. d 36/13–16bis

    This is the famous epistle/sermon generally attributed to Daniel al-Qūmisī, in Jerusalem, to his "brethren" the Qaraites, urging them to come to Jerusalem (along with …

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  43. 93

    Paraliterary textT-S Ar.29.129

    This manuscript, T-S Ar 29.129, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1. It provides as much information as is needed for an individual …

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  44. 94

    Legal documentT-S Ar.29.33

    Document in Arabic script, probably legal. Approximately 7 lines from the middle section are preserved. Mentions ḍamān and daʿwa, and maybe a partnership (shirka). Needs …

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  45. 95

    List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 103/13

    Two legal notes, amidst sundry other jottings, mostly calendrical (including the names of months in both Hebrew and Romance—perhaps Ladino). The first note states that …

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  46. 96

    Paraliterary textT-S Ar. 29.190 fol.9

    This manuscript, T-S Ar. 29.190 fol. 9, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1, of which the other text witness is T-S Ar. …

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  47. 97

    Paraliterary textT-S NS J609

    Recto: Karaite calendar giving the dates of the new moon by observation for a portion of the year 1362 Seleucid (1050/51 CE). Edited by Gil …

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  48. 98

    Literary textT-S Ar.29.56

    Calendrical text. Dated: 1241 Sel. (929–30 CE). This copy: late 10th/11th c. Part of a longer calendrical work; the passage preserved on this fragment sets …

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  49. 99

    Paraliterary textT-S 12.320

    Calendar written by Ibn Yiju for the year September 1149-September 1150, which seems to indicate that, as before in India and later in Egypt, he …

    III, 26

    1. סנה אתסא תאמנא ללמחזור חסירין ומעוברת ראש השנה
    2. אלבג צום גדליה יום אל ארבעה כיפור אלארבעה סוכה אלב
    3. שמיני עצרת אלכאתנין [[תשרי אלב שמיני עצרת …

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  50. 100

    Paraliterary textT-S 10K20.1

    Calendar for September 1153-September 1156 for Avraham Ibn Yiju's private synagogue.

    III, 51

    1. אלזית אלתמיד אלשיך אבו סעד ואל[שיךֹ]
    2. אבו עלי צהרי מרחשון אלשיך אבו עלי
    3. בן צדקה בכסליו אלשיך אבו אלחסן בן חשיש
    4. בת וחנוכה אלשיך אבו אלרצא שבט

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