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  1. 1Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 68/99

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 AM = 15 June 1152 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Witnesses: …

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  2. 2Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.9r–10r

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal record (#16). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. It is a complicated settlement with multiple sections. (1) Sitt al-Ahl bt. Barakāt b. …

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  3. 3LetterT-S Misc.20.149

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    Fragment of a letter, possibly, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Six lines are preserved, with wide line spacing. Explaining that …

    1. שהוד אלמ . . לין חתי אן כתירא מן אלאמלאך ענד[נא
    2. במצר לא יכתב בהא חגג בדיני ישראל בל יכתפא
    3. במא יכתב פי דלך בנימוסי אומות העולם לאן בדלך
    4. תתבת ומעשים ב…

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  4. 4Legal documentT-S NS 321.102

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Court record. Written by Avraham b. Natan Av (Date: 1098–1114). (Or rather Hillel b. ʿEli?) The main party is a husband certifying in Jewish court …

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  5. 5Legal documentF 1908.44G

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal testimony. Dated: Friday, 25 Sivan 1462 Seleucid = 11 June 1151 CE. Witnessed by Yeshuʿa b. Shemarya, Shela b. Yakhin, and Natan b. Yosef …

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  6. 6Legal documentHalper 337

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Court record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. A litigant named Moshe has claimed that his loan of 50.5 dinars to Ṣadaqa was guaranteed …

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  7. 7LetterT-S Ar.7.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter possibly in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (per Goitein) to an unidentified person. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother and sister were involved in …

    1. ]אל שמצו יקול לסייד[נא אלנגיד
    2. אן ארמלה אבו אלסרור צארכה אלי אללה [מן סבב
    3. צאלמהא ומן סבב תו . . ר מעהא ומע אל[
    4. לא כל שכן רכ נחאס כרגת פי אלדראהם
    5. וקאל…

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  8. 8Legal documentT-S 8J10.12

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document concerning claims of the wife of Abu al-Makarim b. Da’ud against him. The town of Minyat Zifta in Egypt and Muslim courts are …

    1. ]מרא[
    2. ]פאצלי אזאדה אללה עלוא ונפאד [
    3. ז]וגה אבו אלמכארם בן דאוד אלמערוף באלמחצ
    4. ]לה לם תרא מנה מקאצד מרציה
    5. ]גייש עלי באלגוים ואסחבני אלחאל
    6. ] אלי מניה …

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  9. 9Unknown typeYevr.-Arab. II 1346

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal testimony? In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. it is a first-person narrative recounting the events of several years, involving financial disputes, a shofar, the Muslim courts, …

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  10. 10Legal documentMoss. VII,131

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. It appears that Meshullam takes over the responsibility for the six years of alimony payments (farḍ) to a certain female relative …

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    1. [...] Mr. Meshulam [told us]: “This 

    2. [woman] is my relative and I must [...] her. Whatever the court charges her, 

    3. I will pay it for her.…

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  11. 11Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 68/104

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reconciliation between al-Muʿallim Manṣūr al-Dajjājī (same as in T-S NS 297.76?) and his wife, in which Manṣūr submits to various conditions …

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  12. 12LetterT-S AS 145.15

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    Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (introduced with his usual motto) to the community in Cairo concerning a lawsuit between Hiba b. Abū l-Faraj …

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  13. 13Legal documentT-S 13J8.31

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    Recto: Legal document. Location: Alexandria, based in part on the names of the people involved. Dated: 22 Sivan (4)802 AM = 15 June 1042 CE. …

    1. חצר פי בית דין נוחים אבן מימון וכוליף אבן פוריח זברג פי אסבוע ופאת
    2. סרורה אבנה נוחים זוגה כוליף אבן פוריח וסאלאנא אלחצור ענדהמא פי
    3. מלאך סת אלדאר אבנה…
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  14. 14LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1452

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter draft from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. Regarding a marriage-related legal case that reached …

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  15. 15LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1465

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    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency ashrafī. The letter deals in great depth with a …

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  16. 16LetterT-S Misc.11.55

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto and verso are both late family letters in Judaeo-Arabic by the same writer, perhaps to different recipients. The writer goes into great detail about …

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  17. 17LetterNLI 577.3/11

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a Qaraite, in Jerusalem, to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn Ibn Saghīr, in Cairo. To be read to the whole Qaraite community. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …

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  18. 18Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 354

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, perhaps 13th or …

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  19. 19LetterBodl. MS heb. f 108/63

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. From several people, probably addressed to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis. The senders are currently being held in prison and it …

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    1. . . . רהג אלבלד ואפתכהה וקאל ק[
    2. ואלחזן וגמיע מן יעתזו בה פאת[
    3. נכאטבה וכנא מגתממין פי מצוה . . . [
    4. קד הגם עלינא סכראן פאל . . . ושתם [
    5. גדיד ארי…

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  20. 20LetterENA 2875.40

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    Letters in Judaeo-Arabic, probably copies of letters sent in the name of Avraham Maimonides. There are at least two letters sharing the same folio. Only …

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S 13J8.1

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    Court record concerning a grain dealer who promises to pay his former wife 4 dirhams every week for his five-year-old son, who was staying with …

    1. בתרין בשבה כד בתשרי שסד חצר בבית דין ר יוסף בן ר צדקה
    2. אלפאמי ומטלקתה גניה בת ר חסן ואקנינא מנה לרצונו ותאותו
    3. בלא אונס אן ידפע אלי ר סלאמה אלזיאת באל…

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    1. On Monday, 24 Tishrei (1)364 AG (= 21 September 1052 CE), R. Joseph b. R. Ṣedaqa 

    2. the keeper of a grain store and his divorcee Gh[aniyya] b…

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  22. 22LetterT-S 12.16

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    Letter, in Judaeo-Arabic with an opening in Hebrew, from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Shelomo b. Sa'adya and the community of Rafah, concerning a dispute over an …

    1. יאשיהו ראאש (!) ישיבת גאון יעקב בי(!)
    2. יאשיהו ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב בירבי
    3. שלום ועתרת שלום וסוגי שלום וסוכת שלום
    4. עם מצעדי שלום וברכות ונחמות וישועות תהי…
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  23. 23Legal documentT-S Misc.23.8

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    Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. A woman (Ḥasana bt. Menashshe ha-Kohen the …

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  24. 24LetterENA 4100.17

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    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing its top part. Dated 8 Tammuz יהפך אבלו לששון, but no year is given; likely 14th or 15th century. The sender …

    1. אלכלאם אלדי תקולו בה עלי אלממ וכל מא
    2. רסלת פתוי לשופט מן גהה אלממ מע ענאיה
    3. אללה סב ות יקול אלשופט ען אלממ חאשא פלאן
    4. אנה יקע פי שי מן דלך ויפתי ללממ ב…

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  25. 25LetterDK 236 (alt: 27, XXXI - XXXIX)

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a judge of Cairo to a cantor of al-Maṭariyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating uncertain (Goitein's index card suggests 14th century). The sender is publicizing …

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    1. בייי בטחתי
    2. הדרת התלמיד המצויין החזן הבקי בכל ענין
    3. אשר בר . . ו החן נרבד החבר הנכבד
    4. הוד הנדיב[ים . . . . . . ]. . ל [. . . . . . . .
    5. ישועה בימי…

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  26. 26Legal documentT-S 24.74

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    Legal testimony. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. No witness signatures. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 27 Adar I 1415 Seleucid, which is 1104 …

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו החתומים למטה כן הוה חצר אלינא
    2. בבית דין באלקאהרה אלמעזיה יום אלכמיס אלסאבע ואלעשרין
    3. מן אדר ראשון שנת אתטו מ פרחיה הכהן בר טרפון …

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  27. 27Legal documentBL OR 10589.8 + T-S NS 32.50 + T-S NS 226.145

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    List of people to be excommunicated ('by name'/באסם). On T-S NS 226.145 left halves of ~7 entries are preserved. "In the bar (mashraba) with... and …

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  28. 28LetterMoss. IV,9 + T-S NS 312.98 + T-S 8J31.4 + T-S 6J9.12

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    Letter from Yeḥiel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to a certain Menaḥem (probably the judge Menaḥem b. Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson), probably in Cairo. Dating: Early …

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    1. לקח הרצועה שהקדשנו ולא החזירה
    2. ואינו מבקש מחילה אין זה ושב ורפא
    3. לו והשם יודע כי מיד שראיתי כתב
    4. כבודך אמרתי לקהל למחר אלך לבית
    5. הכנסת להתיר הנ…
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  29. 29Legal documentT-S 13J21.31

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Statute for tenants of the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1215 (according to Gil, but his handwriting comparison may not be sound, and this document could …

    1. יעתדר ען וזנה אלאגרה פי כל
    2. שהר בחאלה מן אלאחואל פאן כמא
    3. יכדי ויתצדק מא יאכלה יתצדק
    4. מא יזנה אגרה תם אחרמנא
    5. באסם מן יסכן פי דאר או טבקה
    6. בגיר אלקימה אל…

    …. (that nobody should)

    1. excuse himself from paying the rent every
    2. month, whatever his circumstances might be, even if, just as
    3. he begs and receives…
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  30. 30LetterT-S Ar.18(2).4

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, (the muqaddam of?) Bilbays, to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Sefaradi, Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century. Discusses in …

    1. בשמ רח
    2. אורה ושמחה ומרגוע והנחה וצהלה ורוחה והשקט ובטחה
    3. ונוס אנחה וגודל במנוחה והעדר ש[כח]ה ורצות מנחה אלה
    4. וכמוהם וכפלי כפליהם יהיו לכגק מר ור יצחק ה…
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