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3201
LetterT-S 6J7.4
Letter from Abū Saʿīd to his son. In Judaeo-Arabic. The son was ill. The letter concerns the forwarding of responsa. The writer is also in …
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3202
LetterT-S 8.258
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a certain Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥassūn. The writer recounts the legal proceedings following somebody's death and various people bearing false testimony. …
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3203
LetterT-S 8.85
Letter from a merchant addressed at least in part to his mother ('wa-yā ummī'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. He complains about the wretched …
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3204
LetterT-S AS 147.54
Letter to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee had left when she was ill (marīḍa). The writer mentions Sulaymān, whom they had not seen for …
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3205
LetterT-S AS 152.54
Letter from Berakha, the wife of Marwān b. Zikrī/Zekharya, to her brother Avraham b. Peraḥya Mahdawī (Ben Yiju). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is unclear if this …
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3206
LetterT-S AS 152.89
Letter mentioning dirhams, the capitation tax, and names such as Benjamin, Jacob and Yaḥyā. The writer asks addressee to give his deference to every single …
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3207
LetterT-S AS 16.189
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the [Head of?] the Yeshiva, the countryside, and the capitation tax (al-jāliya). (Information from CUDL)
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3208
State documentT-S NS 306.48
Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in …
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3209
LetterMoss. IV,89
Letter from a perfumer, submitting an account to the addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century. Numbers are given in Greek/Coptic …
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3210
List or tableT-S AS 149.61
Accounts, dealing with tax and business matters. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Ibn al-Jalājilī and Ibn Ḥayy. Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
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3211
List or tableT-S AS 152.14
Accounts, mentioning names such as Ibn al-Ḡanī (?) and Joseph b. Judah al-Levi. Lists a number of dates, weights, numbers and commodities, such as honey, …
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3212
LetterMoss. Ia,7
One of two drafts (the other is T-S G1.26) of a curious and obsequious letter from a man whose handwriting is known, apparently to a …
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- לבעצהם
- סאלת אלנדא (?) הל אנתהר (?) פקאל לא
- ולכנני עבד ליחיא בן כאלד
- וליס בתמן אשתראני ואנמא
- תוארתני ען ואלד בעד ואלד
- והדה בעץ אוצאף אלסייד אל…
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3213
Legal documentMoss. II,100.1
Receipt written and signed by Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo, documenting that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār received from the court 19 muthallath (triple-weave?) garments, as set forth …
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3214
Legal documentT-S AS 148.13b
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay 10 dinars to the family of Rayḥān. Dated Sivan 1452 Seleucid era …
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3215
Legal documentT-S AS 148.13a
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay the bearer of the note one dinar and a carat. Dated Adar …
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3216
Legal documentT-S AS 148.13c
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay to the leader (‘al-raʾīs’) 2 dinars. Circa 1141 CE. (Information from CUDL)
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3217
LetterT-S AS 146.164
Small fragment of a certificate or possibly a letter concerning the licensing of an ophthalmologist: "[X and Av?]raham testify in his favor that he is …
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- . . . אב(?)]רהם ישהדו לה
- אנ]ה אהלא ללתצ[רף(?) ו]למדאו/א/ה
- אמראץ אלעין וכט אלקאצי
- אלאגל פתח אלדין משארף
- אלאטבא [[אלמתקדם]] ואצחאבה
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3218
Literary textMoss. II,214
Elegies: all appear to be by the same author, including an elegy for a Gaʾon, צפע רוש הלעיטני, and for a woman. ‘Nathan b. Shemuʾel …
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3219
Paraliterary textT-S K2.51
Description of disasters, famines and frightful events due to happen in each of the Jewish months, mentioning the Jews and their slavery, the Arabs and …
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3220
Paraliterary textT-S K2.65
Predictions of events that will happen if the tequfot of Tishri and Nisan occur in particular hours of the day or night, in the form …
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3221
State documentT-S AS 183.28
Recto: very damaged text of a makhzuma (ledger of receipts). Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by …
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3222
LetterT-S AS 154.326
Family letter sent to Moshe, Yaʿaqov and Avraham. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender fell off of a stair or ladder (sullam) and hurt their back and …
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3223
Legal documentT-S Ar.30.184.4
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer one and a quarter dinars …
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3224
Legal documentT-S 16.76
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …
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3225
Legal documentMoss. I,A.2
Karaite betrothal deed. Bride: Yamān bat David b. Isaiah, of Egypt. Groom: Shela b. ʿAmram al-Qirqisānī, of Tyre. Both the bride and groom are represented …
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- [ דרכי האדם והמי]שר ארחותם ומצעדם
- [ והבוטח ביי חסד יסובבנו] ישמח צדיק ביי וחסה בו
- [ כי מה טובו ומה יפיו] דגן בחורים ותירוש ינובב בתולות:
- [וארשת…
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3226
LetterT-S 13J25.24
Letter from the brothers Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Avraham Cesana to Merkado Karo and Avraham ha-Levi. Dated: 4 Shevaṭ 5566 AM, which is 23 …
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3227
LetterMoss. II,193
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Missing only the first couple lines. The writer mentions exchanges of goods (ll.2–3); he has sent a dinar for someone's …
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3228
List or tableT-S AS 148.14a–b
Important list of beneficiaries, containing names and sums of money. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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- . . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . עלי]ה באלע .
- לוציה . [ . . . ]ס[ . . ]אבו אלרטי אלסקי טו
- אבר[ה]ם אלכפ[ . . . . ]אלג רום טו
- מעאלי אלמבתל…
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3229
LetterMoss. Ia,14
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from [Yosef?] ha-Kohen b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen, in Tinnīs, to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajja al-Dimashqi (perhaps the same as Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid …
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3230
List or tableT-S Ar.18(1).127
Accounts, dated October 1230 CE, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, referring to a cellar (maṭmūra) in his father’s house with 117 jugs of …
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3231
LetterCUL Or.1080 J80
Verso: Letter from a father, unknown location, to his son Baqāʾ, in Fustat. The letter was sent to the shop of Meshullam/Musallam to be held …
- בר
- אעלם ולדי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך
- ואדאם עזך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ען חאל סלאמה
- ועאפייה ושוק אליך שדיד גמע אללה בינני(!) עלי
- אסר חאל ואנעם ב…
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3232
LetterMoss. II,158.3
Verso: order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen for one half raṭl of soap and the same of perfume. Information from CUDL.
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3233
Legal documentMoss. IV,69.1
Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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3234
LetterMoss. IV,17
Letter from a woman requesting help in receiving her share from her late husband’s inheritance, with various signatures of support. Mentions government interference as well …
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3235
LetterT-S 6J4.32
Letter from Moshe Binyamin to Isaac Luria (CUDL). "A certain Moshe Binyamin sent two letters from Rashid to Luria in Egypt, probably either in 1555 …
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3236
LetterT-S AS 146.139 + Moss. IV,77
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sender and addressee are unidentified. Full of expressions of deference. The sender was distressed at 'the calamity' (al-nūba) that befell the addressee …
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3237
Literary textT-S Ar.21.112a
Maimonides’ epitome of Galen’s περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων (De locis affectis), from the second and third treatises, in Judaeo-Arabic, in Maimonides’ own hand. On the …
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3238
Paraliterary textT-S K2.4
P1: f. 1r: description of a dream dated 525 AH (= 1130 CE); f. 1v: alchemical recipe called ‘the operation of mixture’; f. 2r: invocation …
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3239
LetterT-S 6J6.20
Letter from a sick man, complaining about illness in general and death among the population. Information from CUDL. Dated: Kislev 1528 Seleucid, which is 1216 …
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- אלמהדב אלמתסוק מן מצר
- חואיג עטר ארגוה וצולהא אלינא
- פתעלמני בדלך לאן קלבי משגול
- מן דלך ומא כתבת הדה אלכדמה
- אל…
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3240
LetterMoss. IV,93
Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון) to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה). In Hebrew. Dating: Thursday, 12 Kislev [5318 AM], which is 1557 CE (see A. David's article …
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3241
State documentT-S Ar.39.391
Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
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الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام ق…
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3242
List or tableT-S Ar.18(1).35 + T-S 20.96
Record of the activities of the qodesh at the end of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century, up to 1034 CE. …
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- יקול מן כתב כ[טה] פי אכר הדא אלכתאב אן אלדי נעלמה ונשהד בה אן גמיע
- מא לחקנאה מן אלמואצע אלמחבסה עלי כניסה אלשאמיין במצר דאר תערף
- בדאר אלברקי כאן…
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3243
LetterT-S 12.257 + T-S AS 145.278 + T-S K25.209
Letter from a cantor of Mosul. T-S 12.257r is continued in T-S K25.209 and ends in T-S 12.257v. The letter is written in childish script, …
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3244
LetterT-S AS 151.231 + T-S NS J61 + T-S AS 152.77 + T-S AS 145.44
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. (We know the addressee has to be Peraḥya, because …
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3245
State documentT-S 16.114 + T-S 24.57 + T-S AS 11.383 + T-S AS 146.195
Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …
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- من طهارة ضمائرها ونقاء سرائر[ها ]
- وصيالها على حراسة الاسلام والم[سلمي]ن [ ]
- الحوزة والدين وانتصابها وبذلها الاموال والذخائ…
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3246
LetterT-S 18J3.3
Letter probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat, to his paternal aunt (Umm Dāʾūd) and paternal uncle (Abū Manṣūr), probably in Alexandria. He says …
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- כתאבי לחצרת אלסת אלגלילה אלרשידה עמתי
- אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עזהא ונעמהא
- ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאהא וגמעני
- בהא עלי אחואל סארה ואעין קארה
- במנה ו…
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3247
LetterT-S 6J4.20
Letter from a woman, in an unknown location, to her brother ʿAṭiyya b. Yehuda b. Sulaymān and to her widowed sister’s son Manṣūr b. Avraham, …
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3248
LetterT-S 6J6.18
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand. This is the second or final page of what was originally a longer letter. There is an unusual …
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3249
State documentT-S AS 124.135
Fragment of a petition from a woman, in Arabic script. She complains about her poverty and the vicissitudes of fate, but it seems she has …
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3250
LetterMoss. Ia,4
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya (=Abū Kathīr Efrāyim b. Maḥfūẓ), Fustat. Dating: 1040 (after Kislev). It is about a father …
- ליקר פאר אהובנו וחברנו השומר משמרת ונוצר מחברת הוא כב גד קד מר ורב
- אפרים החבר אשר לכת הצדק מתחבר וחילים יגבר ומתלעות עוולים ישבר
- ישמרהו צדק דובר ויה…
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