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  1. 51List or tableENA 2442.2–7

    Ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Very similar to ENA NS 33.12, perhaps even a join (but there are some differences in the handwriting). …

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  2. 52Paraliterary textENA 2643.17

    Tables for divination in Arabic script. Late.

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  3. 53Legal documentHalper 359

    Legal document from the Muslim (qāḍī) courts. In Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Dated: 945 AH, which is 1538 CE. Concerning the estate …

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  4. 54Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 59

    Legal document, in Arabic script, late. The document was folded and then cut in a hexagonal shape. The content of the document isn't immediately clear …

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  5. 55Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 64

    Receipt or order of payment issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated 25 Ramadan[?] 1235 AH which is 1819 CE. A …

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  6. 56Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 67

    Legal document in Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note on verso. Dated 10 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1822 CE). The name of the notary …

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  7. 57List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 87

    Seven sides of elaborate accounts in form of a ledger, in Arabic Siyaket script. Dated Ramadan 1229 (1814 CE). Potential join to AIU VII.F.24 and …

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  8. 58Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 91

    Ottoman-era iqrār document, in Arabic script. al-Ḥāj Muḥammad and Muḥammad al-Shaykh, both of whom reside in Alexandria acknowledge to pay the bureau of tax looms …

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    1. ن اقسمها (؟) ابي حنيفة رضي الله عنه

    2. سبب تحرير الحروف وموجب تسطيرها 

    3. جواب(؟) لما كان في يوم الاثنين خمسة ايام مضت في شهر 

    4. رجب الفرد ١٢٣٨…

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  9. 59Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 241

    Small fragment in Arabic script, possibly literary. Mentions a place in the first line followed by "حماها الله تعالى". Stamped with a particularly ornate seal …

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  10. 60Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 335

    Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …

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  11. 61Legal documentJRL SERIES A 784

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.

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  12. 62Legal documentJRL SERIES A 792

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Ottoman era. Emanating from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria.

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  13. 63LetterJRL SERIES B 2067

    Recto: Two late letter drafts (or two versions of the same letter?), one in Arabic and one in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. Verso: Accounts. The …

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  14. 64Paraliterary textYevr. II A 814

    Numerous pages of a handbook filled with someone's exercises for learning to write either Arabic or Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, probably Ottoman era. Of documentary interest …

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  15. 65Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.42

    Probably a receipt for a rent payment by Yashūʿ (?) al-Yahūdī for his store (? ḥānūt) in ḥārat al-yahūd, mentioning the date Dec 1832/Jan 1833 …

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  16. 66LetterAIU XII.85

    Arabic business letter sent from Istanbul (or written by someone named Constantine??), with the format closely resembling the Judaeo-Arabic letters ca.1800 CE. Needs further examination.

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  17. 67LetterAIU XII.87

    Letter in Arabic addressed to Muhammad Ḥasan al-ʿAttar in Fustat/Cairo, from a certain Hajj Muhammad ʿAthari (?) al-Attar. Appears to be dated 5 April 1809 …

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  18. 68Unknown typeAIU XII.89

    Image 1: The end of an account in Arabic, along with what might be a fragment of a legal document discussing buildings in ḥārat al-yahūd. …

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  19. 69List or tableAIU XII.106

    4 pages. 3 of them are brief notes, along with accounts, signed and sealed by Anṭūn al-Wakīl aka Anṭūn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf to a certain muʿallim …

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  20. 70LetterAIU XII.118

    Recto: A brief note in Arabic addressed to David ben Naʿim and signed by [...] ʿUmar [...] Nāẓir al-Amwāl. There are also accounts/sums at the …

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  21. 71LetterAIU XII.124

    Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan. The writer's full name is difficult to read (ʿĀ___ __rdī[?]) as is the …

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  22. 72Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 14.19

    Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.

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  23. 73Legal 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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  24. 74Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 33.30

    Rental document, in Arabic script, possibly a receipt of transportation of unspecified goods, dated to the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1259/April 1843. The name of …

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  25. 75Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 71.5

    Financial receipt (waqf related) with a seal. Dated [1]256 AH which is . Issued to Hārūn al-Yahūdī and another name appears with the title Hoca.

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  26. 76State documentT-S Ar.19.5

    Document in Arabic script, an official receipt for expenses in the name of the ship captain Raʾīs Muḥammad Barakāt. Dated 28 Rajab 1237 AH which …

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  27. 77List or tableT-S Misc.11.29

    Accounts in Arabic dated June/July 1824 (Dhū l-Qaʿda 1239).

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  28. 78LetterT-S NS 266.113

    Printed. Arabic invitation to a wedding on 10 June 1881 CE. See Nick Posegay's Fragment of the Month, June 2020.

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    1. أبشر أحبابي وآل مودّتي [ ] وكل حبيب قدير يد مسرتي
    2. أفراحنا قد أقبلت أوقاتها [ ] ولذيذ أفراحي وجود أحبتي
    3. منو اوجودوا بالحضور وشرفوا [ ] أنتم مرا…

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    1. Rejoice, my beloved friends and family, and every dear friend who may bring me joy!
    2. The time of our wedding festivities has drawn near, and th…

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  29. 79Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 54

    State document in Arabic, an order of payment from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr), a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated …

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  30. 80LetterJRL SERIES B 2925

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 5 July 1836 (20 Tammuz 5596), from Rashid, addressed to Moshe Bunān, Fusṭāṭ. The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and …

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  31. 81Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. VIII,479.8

    Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …

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  32. 82State documentCUL Or.1081 1.73

    Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā [ben] Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (the end of Muḥarram 1240H). The receipt was issued by the …

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  33. 83Legal documentAIU XII.173

    Recto: Long, calligraphic legal document in Arabic, from Cairo (مصر المحروسة), dated October 1649 CE (7 Shawwal 1059 AH). It bears seven signatures along the …

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  34. 84List or tableAIU XI.188

    28 pages of communal and financial and legal records. Pages 1 and 14 are registers of deaths, one on page 14 dated 1661/1662 CE (5422 …

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