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  1. 1Literary textBL OR 12274.20

    Literary text (Talmud?) with a colophon giving the date of copying: Nisan 502[.] AM, which is the 1260s CE.

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  2. 2Paraliterary textBodl. MS Heb. d 68/105

    Colophon draft for a muṣḥaf (Torah). The scribe is Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya b. [Yiṣḥaq?] b. Yaʿaqov. The same man appears in T-S …

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  3. 3Paraliterary textBodl. MS heb. f 61/49

    Colophon. Scribe: Natan ha-Kohen b. Yeshuʿa b. Yaʿaqov b. Yeshuʿa b. Yosef b. Peraḥya b. Shefaṭya. "In the colophons of books it is not uncommon …

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  4. 4Paraliterary textENA 1178.38

    Colophon to a medical or pharmacological treatise. In Judaeo-Arabic. No name or date.

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  5. 5Paraliterary textENA 2433.6 + ENA 2433.7 + ENA 2433.9

    Maḥzor with colophon, completed on 1 Elul 5092 AM = 23 August 1332 CE "on the island of Mallorca" (באי מיורקא). The scribe's name has …

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  6. 6Literary textENA 2770.8

    Looks like a small fragment from a literary piece with colophon from 1351 in Yemeni hand. AA

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  7. 7Paraliterary textENA NS 52.26

    Probably a colophon, but conceivably a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with the titles and names of various distinguished people: the Gaon Rav [...] and al-Rayyis …

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  8. 8Literary textMIAC 284

    Illustration for the first page of a book, there is Hebrew written on the bottom of the first page of the manuscript a revised edition …

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  9. 9List or tableMoss. X,111

    two lists, probably colophon - needs examination. No image

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  10. 10Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.12

    Colophon of a booklet (קוטראסה/קונטרס). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Elul 4959 AM, which is 1199 CE. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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  11. 11Paraliterary textT-S AS 151.194

    Colophon dated Sunday, 1 Sivan [1]417 Seleucid = 6 May 1106 CE. On verso Aharon [...] the cantor is mentioned (probably an ownership note). (Information …

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  12. 12Paraliterary textT-S NS 324.102

    Liturgical text. A decorated colophon 'This is what was made to Farah the good and pleasant son of our greatness our minister ....' AA

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  13. 13Literary textT-S NS 325.81c

    Recto: Calligraphic copy of Joshua with annotations. Verso: A fragment of a colophon or note, repeated twice, "This is the book, the four first books, …

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  14. 14Literary textYevr. II A 1913

    Literary work in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Contains a colophon: "This 'scroll' was written in Elul 5013 (=1253 CE). . . by me, R. Yosef ha-Bavli."

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  15. 15Paraliterary textYevr. II B 275

    Colophon of a Bible

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  16. 16Paraliterary textYevr. II B 277

    Colophon of a Bible

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  17. 17Paraliterary textYevr. II B 278

    A colophon on a Bible. Was first acquired by ʿAzaryahu ha-Kohen (ha-ḥamishi ba-ḥavura). It was later sold to Abū l-Faraj Hibatallāh Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon al-Ḥamawī …

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  18. 18Paraliterary textYevr. II B 281

    Recto: Colophon stating that this copy of the 'ketuvim' has been checked completely without any errors. There is a brief disquisition on the canonical raised …

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  19. 19Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. I 2207

    Colophon to a pamphlet containing two 'qedushas' on parashat Yitro. The scribe is Barukh Rofe b. (or grandson of?) Elʿazar Ḥazzan known as Rofe.

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  20. 20Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 1102

    Colophon for an unidentified work. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 1819 Seleucid = Muharram 914 AH = 1508 CE. On verso there is a note in …

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  21. 21Literary textAIU VII.E.44

    Late bifolium, with two pages of prose followed by verses of a kinnah, concluding with an interesting illustration containing Arabic letters and the scribe's signature: …

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  22. 22Literary textCUL Or.1080 14.46

    Qaṣīda, ending, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ al-Makkūdī (d. 1405 CE), with a colophon giving the date: 11 Rajab 989 AH = 11 …

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  23. 23Literary textENA 2559.4

    Colophon written by the teacher (melammed) Hillel b. Perahya. Location: Damascus. Dated: 25 Kislev 5036 AM = 15 December 1275 CE.

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  24. 24Literary textENA 2738.30

    Colophon (FGP)

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  25. 25Literary textENA 4101.18a

    Verso: In a script different from recto, a page from a magical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon, dated: last decade of Iyyar 4906 AM …

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  26. 26Paraliterary textENA NS 77.278

    Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic. The work (...ʿalā madhhab al-[???]...) was completed in Rabīʿ I 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE, in the synagogue of al-Ḥakham ʿAṭiyya. …

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  27. 27Paraliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/3

    Colophon to Kitāb Khalq al-Insān by Abū l-Ḥasan Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh (1045–1101). In Judaeo-Arabic. This copy was completed 7 Shevat 4883 AM, which is January …

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    1. תמת אלמקאלה אלמסמאה כלק אלאנסאן תאליף אלשיך אלאגל אל[
    2. אלפילסוף אבי אלחסן סעיד בן הבה אללה
    3. בן אלחסין אלטביב וכאן אלאפראג מן דלך יום אלגמעה א…

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  28. 28Paraliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 1864/5b

    Colophon. "I copied this, Yosef Rosh ha-Seder b. Yaʿaqov Rosh Bei Rabanan (ZL), from the copy of the author (ZL), for myself, and I did …

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  29. 29Paraliterary textL-G Misc. 37

    Colophon for a copy of masekhet Berakhot. Dedicated to Yeshuʿa b. [...] ha-Melammed. This is crossed out. Underneath, there is a note of a sale: …

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  30. 30Paraliterary textT-S 10K18.6

    Colophon of a notebook (זו הקוטראס) containing Hebrew prayers. Written by Nissim b. Nahray, probably still a child, in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, Fustat (called Ṣoʿan Miṣrayim).

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  31. 31List or tableT-S Ar.52.176

    Siddur, on verso a colophon with the names Bu al-Faraj b. Ibrahim, in two different hands, and some pen trials. AA

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  32. 32Paraliterary textT-S AS 147.19

    Colophon to the first Parashah in Leviticus for the name Halfon b. Yeshu'a b. Halfon.

    1. ויקרא אל משה וידבר [ייי] אליו מאהל
    2. מועד לאמר דבר אל בני ישראל [ו]אמ[רת
    3. אלהם אדם כי יקריב מכם קרבן [לייי
    4. מן הבהמה מן הבקר ומן הצאן תקריב
    5. את קרבנכם אם…

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  33. 33Paraliterary textT-S NS 329.1010

    Talmudic text with a colophon and a later note. The colophon indicates that the copy was completed in Jerusalem in 4832 AM, which is 1071/72 …

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  34. 34Paraliterary textT-S NS J17

    Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu Gaon b. Shelomo Gaon b. Yosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din. Evyatar was titled "the fourth" (ha-reviʿi) …

    TS NS J 17, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp.347-348 (Doc. #545), N.H. 10-23-87 (p) Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar Ha-Kohen b. Eliyahu Gaon

    1. בסימנא טבא…

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  35. 35Literary textYevr. II A 236

    Azharot for Shavuʿot by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol. There is a marginal note (p.18) giving a date for this copy: 1484 Seleucid, which is 1172/73 CE.

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  36. 36Paraliterary textYevr. II B 268

    Colophon of a Karaite Bible from Jerusalem

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  37. 37Paraliterary textYevr. II B 1534

    Colophon of a Bible donated by a Karaite woman in the name of her dead son.

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  38. 38Paraliterary textYevr. II B 1539

    Colophon a Bible by a Karaite

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  39. 39Paraliterary textYevr. II B 1571

    Karaite colophon dedicated to the Karaite Nasi Yehezqiyahu b. Shlomo

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  40. 40Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 933

    Colophon for an unknown work dated Shawwāl 896 Hijri, which is 1491 CE. "This work and its companion were written in the name of (=by?) …

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  41. 41Paraliterary textBodl. MS heb. f 56/113

    Colophon. Scribe: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Mard[īnī?]. Location: Tel Yaʿqūb, "under the rule of Yūsuf b. Khalaf Agha in the Vilayet of Mārdīn," aka Tilyaqup, corresponding …

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  42. 42Paraliterary textENA 4011.3

    Colophon or ownership note on a book cover. 'This booklet belongs to Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib ha-Ḥazzan (the cantor).' Dating: first half of the 12th century, …

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  43. 43Paraliterary textENA NS 19.15

    Bifolium. Two of the pages contain rhyming and/or poetic Hebrew text, calligraphically written. Apparently the colophon to the book this used to belong to. It …

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  44. 44Paraliterary textENA NS 63.18

    Literary work containing Hebrew poetry and a section on the calendar including for the years 4923–78 AM, which corresponds to 1162–1218 CE. The hand is …

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  45. 45Literary textT-S 8D1

    Autograph texts by Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Recto: a draft relating to the copying of the Mishna and the Gemara. On the bottom of …

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    1. אני יוסף ראש הסדר ברבי יעקב ראש בי רבנן זצ״ל כתבתי
    2. זה הסידור שלרבנ[ו סע]דיה גאון ז״ל [באלק]אהרה באייר [א׳ת׳]ק׳יב׳ לנפשי
    3. ובאייר א׳[ת׳ק׳  ] באלק…

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    1. I, Joseph Rosh ha-Seder son of  Rabbi Jacob “the Head of the Rabbis’ House” wrote this Siddur of Rav [Saa]dya Gaon – may his memory be blessed…

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  46. 46Paraliterary textT-S AS 221.307

    Colophon in the hand of Masliaḥ b. Nissim, in Cairo. Dating: 2 Tammuz, 1505 Seleucid (Friedman and Ashur). Attached to an unknown manuscript copied by …

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    1. שמיא
    2. וכתבתי אני מצליח ביר נסים
    3. בידי והגהתי אותה מנוסא בדיקא
    4. ביום הרבעי (!) שהוא שני ימים לירח
    5. תמוז המקבה יהפוך אותו לססון (!)
    6. ולשמחה בשנת אלפא…
    1. Heaven
    2. I, Masliaḥ b. Nissim, wrote this
    3. in my own hand and proofread and compared it with an accurate copy
    4. on Wednesday, 2nd of the month
    5. of Tammuz—…

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  47. 47Paraliterary textT-S 8.234

    Colophon to R. Saadya Gaon's commentary to one of the prayers (תפילת שמונה עשרה), written in Ashkelon in 1061. Verso: the beginning of R. Saadya …

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    1. יפת בר תקוה סט
    2. תפסיר צלאה ראס אלמתיבה
    3. אלכבירה ייי שפתי כתבה
    4. עזריה בירבי דויד נ[ע]
    5. שנת ארבעת אלפים ושמנה
    6. מאות ועשרים ואחת שנה
    7. ליצירה במדינת אשק…

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  48. 48Paraliterary textT-S NS 192.11A

    Colophon on the verso of a Qur'anic writing exercise, Cairo. Dating: 1872-1897 CE. The colophon identifies its young author as affiliated with Madrasa al-Qarabiyya, the …

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    1. هذا مسند عبد الحليم فهمى
    2. بمدرسة القربية فتح
    3. الله عليه وعلى
    4. والديه آمين
    5. يارب
    6. العالمين
    1. This is the tradition of ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Fahmī
    2. at the school of Qarabiyya. May
    3. God grant success to him
    4. and his parents, amen.
    5. O Lord
    6. of the worlds.

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  49. 49Paraliterary textT-S NS 298.26

    Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar Ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu Gaon.

    TS NS Box 298, f .26, ed. Gil, Palestine, p. 361 (Doc. #549), N.H. 10-24-87 (p)Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar Ha-Kohen b. Eliyahu Gaon

    1. נעתק …

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  50. 50Paraliterary textT-S 12.722

    Colophon in a commentary to the book of Isaiah, mentioning that the book had formerly belonged to Yaʿaqov he-haver b. Ayyub and was purchased from …

    I

    1. הדא אלדפתר
    2. לרבי יעקב
    3. החבר בר
    4. איוב יי יהי
    5. עמו ויצילהו אמן

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    1. ספר זה פתרון ישעיה חיבור רבינו סעדיה גאון
    2. מחסיה נוחו עדן קנהו כגק מר יאשיהו החבר [בר…

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