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  1. 51LetterENA NS 32.6

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE. The writer seems to be beseeching the addressee for a loan of a certain sum of …

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  2. 52List or tableBL OR 12369.23

    Accounts in the name of Raḥamīm Malkhī [מלכי] in a unique scribal hand. Dated Sivan [5]_88 AM which should be read either as 5488 or …

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  3. 53List or tableJRL SERIES C 141

    Accounts of many names and corresponding monetary values, perhaps payments. Dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the mention of Ottoman kurush. The word "leather" …

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  4. 54List or tableJRL SERIES C 126

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a disorderly scribal hand. Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman …

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  5. 55List or tableJRL SERIES C 115

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. The currencies mentioned include the Ottoman kurush and the maḥbū[b]. The latter numismatic reference makes it possible to …

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  6. 56List or tableJRL SERIES C 121

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There …

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  7. 57Legal documentENA NS 19.17

    Debt contract. In Judaeo-rabic. No signatures. Sulaymān owes Luṭfallah 288.5 kāmilī dirhams. He must pay 12 nuqra dirhams at the end of every month. If …

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  8. 58List or tableT-S AS 148.164

    Accounts, mentioning wages and things held by the father of the writer. On verso a signature seal. (Information from CUDL.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier …

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  9. 59Legal documentT-S Ar.42.61

    Legal note. About money taken from a tailor. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the ashrafī which was first minted …

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  10. 60List or tableENA 2898.10

    List in Hebrew of payments received following the common formula "עו[ד] לקחתי ומשה" (also received by Moshe and me) with each line mentioning a quantity …

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  11. 61List or tableENA 2898.12

    List in Hebrew, very brief, with outgoing payments to ʿOvadiah in an unidentified currency (or perhaps some commodity). This list in Hebrew is likely from …

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  12. 62LetterT-S NS 320.129a

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century or early 12th century. Mentions Abū Kathīr; the sender was distressed to learn that the addressee received …

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  13. 63List or tableENA 3518.2

    Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). A variety of individuals are referenced along the right …

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  14. 64List or tableENA NS 33.12

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, based on currencies, which include גדיד (cedid) and קרונה (the latter is likely the Spanish escudo minted as early as …

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  15. 65List or tableENA NS 37.26

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the use of Kāmilī (dirhams).

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  16. 66List or tableENA 3067.26

    List of alphanumerical "expenses / מצרופ" where the Ottoman silver "guruş / גרוש" may be in use but is also possible that "גרוש" is a …

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  17. 67List or tableENA NS 56.1

    Accounts, badly damaged with a few legible words. The surname Qaṭawī is visible on the right fold of the recto and the currency bundūqī (likely …

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  18. 68LetterENA 2716.11 + ENA 2716.10

    Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or ninteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …

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  19. 69LetterENA NS 36.3

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shemuel Muslim to his uncle (ʿamm) Dāwud b. Berakha. It seems that the writer recently received a letter to the …

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  20. 70List or tableENA 2898.9

    List in Hebrew, primarily in the first-person preterite of what someone has given "נתתי" to someone else (perhaps paid). A few of the entries also …

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  21. 71List or tableT-S AS 186.184

    List of Ottoman-era coinage values. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and numismatic references to Ottoman jadid (one of which is specified as an …

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  22. 72List or tableENA 2627.51

    Verso: Accounts in a late hand mentioning ashrafi coins and a certain Rivqa. The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment …

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  23. 73List or tableT-S AS 185.124

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention Ottoman-era jadid coinage. 16th- or 17th-century. Along the recto's upper border the name Yosef appears with a possible surname: שוריפה …

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  24. 74List or tableT-S AS 185.24

    Brief account in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Yosef al-Ḥaṭāb and Moshe Kohen. Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the mention of Ottoman-era jadid coinage. MCD.

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  25. 75List or tableT-S AS 188.73

    Mathematical calculations with the labels maḥ[būb] and qurush on the verso. The dating is post-1703 CE based on the mention of the gold maḥbūb, so …

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  26. 76List or tableJRL Series L 10

    Late list of names and numbers on lined paper, probably from a communal list of payments. The Ottoman kuruş symbol (ق) is in use which …

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  27. 77LetterF 1908.44DD + F 1908.44BB

    Letter from Damascus to Fustat. Same hand as F 1908.44DD, which is very likely the end of the same letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier …

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  28. 78LetterF 1908.44BB + F 1908.44DD

    End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as F 1908.44DD, which is very likely the beginning of the same letter. Dating: No earlier than …

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  29. 79List or tableJRL SERIES C 106

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a small bifolio. The usage of Ottoman kurush makes it possible to estimate the dating as 18th- or 19th-century. The entries …

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  30. 80List or tableT- S AS 185.158

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with a disorderly format. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography but possibly pre-1559 if the Ibrahim Castro mentioned is indeed the …

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  31. 81List or tableBodl. MS heb. c 56/8

    Accounts in Arabic which mention kuruş as a form of payment (via ق symbol in second column) which helps to date this fragment as eighteenth- …

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  32. 82List or tableT-S AS 185.291

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, most of the entries list varying quantities of Ottoman-era gold jadid coinage. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and numismatic reference. …

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  33. 83Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/34

    Fragment of a late ketubba, with sums in muayyadis, including the stipulation that the husband will not take a second wife without the bride's consent. …

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  34. 84Legal documentENA 3977.7

    Legal document, probably dating to the late Mamlūk/early Ottoman era. Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), and …

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  35. 85List or tableT-S NS 83.26

    Accounts with Arabic numerals, highly detailed and well-preserved. All of the columns list sums in Ottoman kurush (ق symbol) which helps to date this document …

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  36. 86List or tableT-S AS 209.112

    List in Ladino with payments in silver medin. Dating 15th-17th century based on the paleography and the post-1415 CE currency mentioned. Each entry opens with …

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  37. 87LetterAIU XII.36

    Letter from Ṣedaqa al-Yahūdī to Umm al-Khayr bt. Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm b. [...], possibly in Bilbays (the address is damaged). In Arabic script. Dating: No …

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  38. 88List or tableJRL SERIES C 9

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in which the heading's recto includes the term "מאצריפ", which may indicate these are outstanding expenses related to the "deceased Nissim Mosseri" …

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  39. 89List or tableENA 2950.28

    List of payments received in Judaeo-Arabic. Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use …

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  40. 90List or tableJRL SERIES C 164

    Accounts in Arabic with a complex array of monetary calculations with the symbol "ق" on occasion indicating silver kuruş (which may have been minted as …

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  41. 91LetterENA NS 31.13

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 15th century (no earlier thah 1415 CE), as it mentions the currency niṣṣ/nuṣṣ/half (i.e., the muʾayyadī). Also mentions the …

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  42. 92List or tableENA 2898.13

    List of payments and debts with a variety of individuals mentioned: Moshe b. Ḥayyīm, Benyamin Morisico[?], and Moshe Buelyero (בַוִילְייֵרו). The scribe chose to vowel …

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  43. 93List or tableENA 2713.53

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly recorded by a bookseller and, based on one type of coinage in use, the yüzlük ("יוזליס" l.3r), the document dates probably …

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  44. 94List or tableENA 2898.7

    Accounts mentioning the receipt of payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE) which, in combination with the paleography helps to date this fragment as 15th- …

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  45. 95List or tableT-S AS 185.113

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at two different scribal hands appear on the recto and verso of the bifolio. Dating is 16th-century based on the paleography and …

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  46. 96List or tableJRL SERIES C 28

    List in Judeo-Arabic from which only the bottom right corner of the page is portrayed in this fragment. The paleography helps to estimate the dating …

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  47. 97Legal documentT-S 8J35.2

    Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: 1512 CE, at the earliest. Stating that 93 peraḥim (ducat equivalents) of the coinage of the Sultan Selim which were …

    1. אנו עדים חתומי מטה יודעים [
    2. גדולי הקהלות שבמצרים . . . . [
    3. על ענין לבקש קצת מעות שהיו צריכים . . . [
    4. איזה ריוח למי שילוה אותם המעות שהיו צריכים מ [

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  48. 98List or tableJRL SERIES C 86 + JRL SERIES C 98

    Accounts in Judeo-Arabic with a variety of coinage types including dirham, kuruş (aka guruş) and zingirli– of which the latter two suggest a dating of …

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  49. 99Legal documentAIU VII.D.23

    Ketubba that has been badly damaged yet a portion of the dowry is still visible as "עשר אלף מיידיס כסף..." (10,000+ silver medin). The mention …

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  50. 100LetterENA NS 31.5

    Letter, possibly a draft, from a man to his family members Moshe and דאני(?). The relationship is unclear: at one point he addresses "my father" …

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