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  1. 1LetterDK 192

    Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon to Aharon ha-Sar b. Netan'el. Opens with Maṣliaḥ's genealogy: Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu b. Shelomo (thus far all are …

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  2. 2Paraliterary textT-S 12.326

    Hebrew poetry in honor of ge'onenu ve-nizrenu Mazliah. ASE.

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  3. 3Legal documentT-S NS 226.45

    Verso, probably continuing onto recto: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38), written under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Involves Abū …

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  4. 4LetterMoss. Va,7

    Letter to Masliah ha-Kohen Gaon from a woman, the daughter of Abraham the cantor and the wife of Abu 'l-Ma`ali Khalaf b. Harun, describing her …

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  5. 5LetterT-S 12.703

    Letter from a community in an unknown location addressed to the community in Fustat. Fragment: bottom part only. In Hebrew. Written by a scribe. The …

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  6. 6Legal documentT-S NS 224.71

    Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed from the year [144]5 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of Masliah Gaon, and written …

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  7. 7Legal documentT-S NS 226.49

    Bottom part of a legal deed written under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (Date: 1127-1139)

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  8. 8LetterMoss. II,182

    Interesting fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with wide space between the lines, addressing al-Mukhtār Muntajab al-Dawla Badr. There is a date and …

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  9. 9Legal documentT-S NS 224.44

    Fragment from the bottom a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Adar II and under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, so the …

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  10. 10LetterMoss. IV,15.2

    Petition from ʿImrān b. Khalaf Gaon Maṣliaḥ b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. In which he claims he was "swindled" …

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S 18J1.23

    Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b. …

    1. כאן לסת אלחסן בת סעדיה נע הידועה בנת אלחדבא ענד אבו אלמרגא אלטביב בן דינאל רצי אללה ענה עצאבה
    2. דהב פלמא תופי אלתמסתהא מן וראתה פי בית דין פסאלו ענהא …

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  12. 12Legal documentT-S NS 225.39

    Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138). Might be connected …

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  13. 13Legal documentT-S NS 225.41

    Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138). Might belong with …

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  14. 14Legal documentT-S NS 225.60

    Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon (date: 1127-1138)

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  15. 15Legal documentT-S NS 226.41

    Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Also signed by Natan [b. Shelomo] …

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  16. 16Legal documentT-S NS 190.110

    Damaged legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Written on one page of a bifolio. Regarding …

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  17. 17Legal documentT-S NS 190.112

    Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment from the lower left corner. Dated: First decade of either Adar I or Adar …

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  18. 18Legal documentT-S NS 226.28

    Fragment from the lower right corner of an agreement between a husband, Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, and wife, Sitt al-Ḍiyāʾ. The text is …

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  19. 19Legal documentT-S NS 224.19

    Fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon/ Only part of the …

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  20. 20Legal documentMoss. V,385.1

    Long vertical strip from the top of a ketubba written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1130 CE, under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon. Groom: …

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S NS 225.25f + T-S NS 224.51 + T-S NS J588

    Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tevet 1444 Seleucid = December 1132 / January 1133 CE, under the …

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S NS 224.11

    Fragment from a bill of release. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Drawn up under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Dating: 1127–38 CE. …

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  23. 23Legal documentT-S AS 222.233

    Enormous bill of release. Written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last 10 days of the month of Shevat 1445 Seleucid, which is …

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  24. 24Legal documentT-S AS 147.148

    Bottom part from a legal document written under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon (although his name does not appear) by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, so …

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  25. 25Legal documentENA NS 16.9

    Legal document. Small fragment from a beginning of a legal document, probably bill of gift, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, under the authority of …

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  26. 26Paraliterary 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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  27. 27LetterT-S NS 342.6

    Small fragment from the opening of a letter written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi contains greetings for Masliah Gaon, probably for his appointment as Head …

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  28. 28Legal documentT-S NS 224.36

    Fragment from the left part of a bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi from 1127-1138. The parties are Abū l-Faḍl Yosef and …

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  29. 29Legal documentT-S NS 226.107

    Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. …

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  30. 30Legal documentENA 1822a.18

    Legal document(s) n the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100–38 CE). The main text (not in the margins) on both sides may just be …

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    1. אלתי ורתתה [
    2. בראס מאל . . [
    3. אנא עאלמא בה אלאן וממא לם אע[לם
    4. אלתי תתגה לי עלי כל מנהמא פי דלך [
    5. מנהמא ואלתפריד מן סאיר אצנאף אלמ[
    6. כלף . . . . …

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  31. 31Legal documentT-S NS 190.4

    Deed of betrothal (erusin). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]45 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. …

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  32. 32LetterT-S 8J22.27

    Recto: Petition addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–39). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, beautifully written but with rudimentary spelling. From a woman who had been married …

    1. בש רח
    2. ייי ישפות שלום למרנה ורבנה (!) מצליח הכהן
    3. ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב סררתו(!) תיכון לעד
    4. וממא אעלם חצרתה באן אלממלוכה להא מעה(!)
    5. הדה כמסטעשר סנה לם תע…

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  33. 33Legal documentT-S NS 224.43

    Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Adar 1441 Seleucid = March 1130 CE. Contains …

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  34. 34Legal documentT-S NS 224.45

    Fragment from the left side of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: [1]440 Seleucid = 1128/29 CE, under the …

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  35. 35LetterENA 2806.13

    Letter from a woman to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon containing an update on a lawsuit between her and a male family member (possibly her son). She seems …

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  36. 36Legal documentT-S NS 190.5

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower right corner). Concerning a divorce. Mentions something (the bill of divorce? the ketubba payment?) …

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  37. 37Legal documentT-S NS J67a + T-S NS J67b

    Two fragments from the bottom of a very large legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Written on parchment. Under …

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  38. 38Legal documentJRL SERIES B 5728

    Minute fragment from a marriage deed. On recto probably from a marriage agreement or ketubah, with monogamy clause and probably a stipulation about domicile. On …

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  39. 39LetterT-S NS 110.26

    Blessings on the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-aḥkām Allāh (1101-31 CE) and on the Gaon Masliah b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, head of the Jerusalem Yeshiva, which then …

    TS NS Box 110, f. 26 + Mosseri L 62, ed. S. D. Goitein, "Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the head of Jerusalem Yeshiva, the Jewish commu…

    1. In (Your name, o) Me(rciful). 
    2. And we pray for the life of our lord, the g(reat) k(ing), //
    3. the prince of the sons of Kedar, our master and lord, th…

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  40. 40Legal documentT-S NS 323.27

    Legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Very faded, but complete. Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1448 Seleucid = 1 February 1137 …

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  41. 41Legal documentT-S NS 190.6

    Deed of betrothal (erusin). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dates: 1100–38). Drawn up under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (dates: 1127–39). Fiancée: Malka, …

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  42. 42LetterT-S NS 173.76 + T-S NS 226.113

    Letter/petition of a woman to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127–39). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Describing in detail an episode related …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום [רעה ימלטהו ה]
    3. קד געל אללה תעאלי הדרת אדוננו מצ[ליח הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב יהי שמו לעולם]
    4. כירח יכון עולם מלגא לכל קא…

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  43. 43LetterT-S 13J8.4

    Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Maṣliaḥ Gaon, in Fustat. Dating: 1127–38 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The purpose of the letter is …

    1. בש רחמ
    2. אלממלוך ינהי אלי חצרה סידנא כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנו ואור עינינו ועטרת
    3. ראשנו משא רוחינו ונפשנו מצליח ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב תכון משרתה עד
    4. ביא…

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  44. 44Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/8

    Legal document. Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1134. Abū Sa‘d and Abū Sahl form a partnership lasting 6.5 …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא
    2. אלשיך אבו סעד אלזגאג מר ור נתנאל הזקן בר מר ור יוסף הזקן נע ומר ור
    3. מנשה לוי הנקרא אבו…

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    1. Testimony which was (given) before us—we the undersigned witnesses. Thus:  
    2. the Elder Abū Sa‘d the Glazier (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Nathan…

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  45. 45LetterT-S Ar.48.270

    Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, ‘Aydhab, to his brother ʿElī b. Netanʾel, Fustat, 1132 (Gil) or end of summer or fall 1131 (Goitein/Friedman). Ḥalfon is …

    1. עלקת למולאי אכי הדה אלאחרף מכת[ובה עלי חפז]
    2. לסרעה מסיר חאמלהא אעלמה פיהא תבת [א]לִ[לה]
    3. מגדהא אנני בחמד אללה ופ̇צלה וצלת עידאב עלי
    4. גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעא…

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  46. 46LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/16

    Recto: Petition to Masliah Gaon from a woman wishing to have a divorce. Probably 1127 CE. Discussed in detail, with translation, in Oded Zinger's dissertation, …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. יענך יי ביום צרה ישגבך שם אלהי יעקב וג
    3. אעלם חצרה אדונינו גאונינו נזרינו וכתרינו ועטרת ראשינו
    4. מצליח הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב יברכהו וי…

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  47. 47LetterENA 4194.3

    Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, in Fustat, to his in-law Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Alexandria. Dating: Sunday, 15 Jumāda = 16 Adar, which is probably …

    II, 59

    1. [... א]טא[ל] אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה וסו[אלי מן]
    2. [אללה תעאלי אן יגמע] ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וכרמה וממא אעלמך
    3. [...]ם ראס אלמתיבה בכרה יום אלאחד א…

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