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  1. 151LetterNLI 577.6/26

    Letter or letter draft from Muʿammar ha-Kohen ("the teacher of Qalyūb") to ʿAmram ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recto consists entirely of pleasantries and flattery …

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  2. 152LetterMS 8254, fol. 12

    Recto: Letter fragment, probably addressed to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the arrival of Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and mentioning a letter to Abū l-Fakhr al-Ṣayrafī …

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  3. 153LetterMoss. VII,194.1

    Letter of appeal from a blind (maḍrūr) man Moshe who is unable to work and distressed on account of the capitation tax. Rather than asking …

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  4. 154Legal documentT-S K25.240.25

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic script. Abū l-Majd is to give 11 dirhams to Yeshuʿa as maintenance …

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  5. 155Legal documentT-S K25.240.37

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab. T-S K25.240 …

    1. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    2. מן גהה וקף אלמהדב לסעדיה אלנזיר
    3. דרהמין ושלום

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  6. 156Legal documentT-S K25.240.39

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides? In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Shaykh al-Makīn is to give the beadle some sum. Very faded. T-S K25.240 consists of …

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  7. 157Legal documentT-S K25.240.47

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abu l-Majd is to give the bearer, al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, …

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  8. 158List or tableENA 2591.18

    List of weekly emoluments, preceded by the collection made for the purpose. Superscription: 'Statement about the revenue from the collection for the weekly payments, jibayat …

    אלשיך הבה אללה אלתקה ב

    אלגמלה קכד ובקיה לא

    אנצרף מן דלך

    ר' אנטולי ח

    ר' יפתח ו

    אלחזן בו סהל ו

    אלחזן בו סחק ד?

    בן ר' דניאל [

    כאדם דמוה

    גאליה בן ברכאת א…

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  9. 159LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/6

    Family letter from the end of the 12th century to Abu al-Faraj b. Abu al-Barakāt, a doctor in Fustat, from his brother in Alexandria. The …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ'
    2. חצ'רה מולאי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ומן חסן
    3. אלתופיק לא אכלאה גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וגודה
    4. אן שא אללה אלדי תריד עלמה …

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  10. 160State documentT-S H15.62

    Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE. The petitioner asks that his tax rate …

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    1. العادلى المظفري [     ]ـي .[سلطان]

    2. جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...

    3. المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى

    4. رافته واحسانه …

    1. ... al-ʿĀdil, the victorious [ sultan]

    2. of the armies of the Muslims, (may God) cause his power to endure and exalt his word for ever.

    3. The slave…

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  11. 161LetterCUL 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 …

    1. בר
    2. אעלם ולדי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך
    3. ואדאם עזך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ען חאל סלאמה
    4. ועאפייה ושוק אליך שדיד גמע אללה בינני(!) עלי
    5. אסר חאל ואנעם ב…
    1. The slave
    2. Manshūr  ibn Zakī al-Dawla,

    3. one of the archers under the commander of his

    4. auspicious horse guard.

    5. In the name of God, the merciful …

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  12. 162LetterT-S AS 181.219

    Petition/letter of appeal for charity, in Arabic script, addressed to the qāḍī ʿImād al-Mulk. The writer mentions his distress (al-shidda wa-l-ḍīqa wa-l-khawf). Later (three lines …

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  13. 163LetterT-S NS J396

    Letter from Malīj containing a detailed description of a legal case involving a fabric manufactured while evading the tax due on it and sold to …

    1. . . . . .]. . . . . .[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. פימא גרי בינה ויבין
    3. פגצתנא תלאתתנא אליהמא פקאל פרח אן למא
    4. וצל אבו עלי אלי מליג נזל ענדי וס…

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  14. 164LetterAIU VII.A.43

    Letter fragment (bottom half) in Judaeo-Arabic, addressed to an important person (perhaps Avraham Maimonides). Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1541 Seleucid = August 1230 CE. …

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  15. 165Legal documentT-S 13J19.10

    Legal/official document in Arabic script. Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. حضر مجلس خدمة الامير المقدم الامير الامين مجد الخلافة عز الدين جمال الامرا فخر الملك

    3. سيف الدولة…. العميم صنيعة امي…

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    1. In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
    2. There appeared at the majlis al-khidma the supervising, trustworthy amīr, glory of the ca…

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  16. 166LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1479

    Letter from Avraham Neḥmad to Moshe b. ʿAbd al-Waliyy. Writer and addressee are Qaraites. Written in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The letter begins with a recommendation …

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  17. 167LetterL-G Ar. I.77

    Letter from the Jewish community of Qafṣa (Gafsa), Tunisia, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1016 CE, as it mentions Manṣūr b. Rashīq's …

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    1. אטאל אללה בקא שייכנא ורייסנא ואלעזיז עלינא בקאה ואדאם עיזיך(!) ועלוך ותאידך
    2. וציאנתך ורעאייתך ועלוך ולא אכלא מכאנך וכאן לך ומעאך וליין וחאפץ פי…

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  18. 168State documentENA NS 18.26

    Response to a letter of complaint concerning taxation of the Jews of Tiberias. The letter refers to a sijill mukarram (noble decree) of the caliph …

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    1. واصلنا الشكوى فيما نفعنا معه [
    2. وورد السجل المكرم من الحضرة المجيدة يذكر فيه ما
    3. انهاه سباع بن فرج اليهودي من حال اليهود الذمة
    4. بطبرية وان في…

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  19. 169Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.41

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give 1 dirham to the messenger who went up to New …

    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד
    3. שצ` למוצלהא אלרסול
    4. אלדי טלע אלקאהרה
    5. פי חאגה ינטר
    6. אלמוארית מן גהה
    7. אלרבע דרהם
    8. ואחד
    9. ושלום

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  20. 170Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3971.5

    Receipt in the hand of Abu Zikri Kohen: saḥḥa lil-shaykh Abū l-Surūr dirham wa-niṣf la-ghayr. Old IB: 229f. There is a line or two in …

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  21. 171Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.29

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides.Abū l-Majd is to give 15 dirhams to R. Yiftaḥ as 6 weeks of support (mezonot). T-S …

    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד יוצל לר' יפתח שצ` ען רסמה
    3. פי אלמזונות לסתה [ג]מע אכרהא שבת אם בחקתי כמסה
    4. עשר דרהמא מן אגרה אלרבע ושלום

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  22. 172Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.30

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, R. Yiftaḥ, the 12.5 dirhams due to him as …

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  23. 173Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.32

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, Yiftaḥ, 7.5 dirhams to cover a period of 3 …

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  24. 174Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.43

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give to the messenger of the ḥaver Yeḥezqel 13 dirhams …

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    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    3. יוצל לרסול אלחבר ר' יחזקאל שצ`
    4. תלתה עשרה דרהמא מצאפא למא
    5. אכרגהא עלי אלכתב ושלום

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  25. 175Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.50

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer [...] …

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  26. 176Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.48

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to pay support (mawna/mūna/muʾna) to …

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  27. 177Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.38

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. The cantor (Abū l-Majd?) is to give Ṭāhir the beadle (al-khādim) 2.5 dirhams. T-S K25.240 consists …

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  28. 178LetterT-S AS 145.195 + CUL Or.1081 J14

    Recto and part of verso: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to his father in Fustat. He is concerned about how they will pay …

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    1. . מנדיל וחא . . . . . . מ [   ]

    2. ואן כונתו דפעתו אלדרהמ[ין]

    3. לבנת עמי ואיש ביקולו ענ . [   ]

    4. ע . י אחתמלוהם וקולו להם אני [   ]

    5. [[אנשאל…

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  29. 179State documentYevr.-Arab. I 1986

    Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant …

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  30. 180State documentENA 3971.23

    Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …

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  31. 181LetterT-S Misc.27.4.10

    Letter/report/petition addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Concerns Ḥāzim the tax rallier (ḥashshār) who was placed under house arrest (tarsīm) and relieved of his …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כי שמש ומגן ייי אלהים חן כבוד
    3. יתן ייי וג ומצא חן ושכל טוב בעיני אלהים ואדם
    4. להדרת יקרת אדוננו נגידנו שמואל הנגיד
    5. [הגדול] שר השרים ונגיד…

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  32. 182Legal documentT-S K25.240.55

    Autograph order from Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer (also named Abū l-Majd?) two dirhams for baking matza (khabīz faṭīr) for Passover. …

    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד
    3. שצ' יוצל ללשיך
    4. אבי אלפרג שצ' מן
    5. אגרה אלרבע עשרה
    6. דרהם ען אלמתאכר לה
    7. פי אלמזונות אלי אכר
    8. שבת ויקח קרח עשרה
    9. דרהם ושלום

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  33. 183Legal documentT-S K25.240.42

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. It seems that somebody submitted an account of liabilities (ḥujaj), apparently to be paid to the supervisor …

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  34. 184Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.45

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to give 2.5 dirhams to …

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  35. 185Legal documentT-S K25.240.31

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give R. Yiftaḥ 10 dirhams to cover his support (mezonot) for a period …

    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אלגליל אבו אלמגד שצ` יוצל
    3. לר' יפתח ען רסמה לארבא גמע אכרהא
    4. אלה מסעי בסבב עגז אלמזונות עשרה דרהם
    5. ושלום

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  36. 186LetterENA NS 22.19 + ENA NS 21.13

    Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), regarding evasion of the capitation tax in the community. The previous year they had …

    1. אלתגליק פמא חאגה ללמראסל לאן מא
    2. לכם אלצרב חתי לא תכסרו ואדא . . .
    3. אלחקאיק מא פי אליד. .לה . . . אלחאל
    4. מני ומנכם ומן גירי ותנדמו ולא יבקא
    5. ינפעכם אלנד…

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  37. 187Legal documentT-S K25.240.49

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Al-Ḥazzan al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to give the bearer …

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  38. 188LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/25

    Letter from a son to a father. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer thanks the addressee for the wuṣūl (official receipt), since the tax (mas) was threatening. …

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  39. 189Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/17

    Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנן כן
    2. הוה בחדש תמוז דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחמשין ותמניא שנין לשטרות
    3. באלפסטאט רשותיה דאדונ…

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    1. Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses who have signed at the end of this document, thus 
    2. it was: in the month of Tammuz of …

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  40. 190Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/8

    Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …

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    1. שהדותא דהוה באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימ[י]ן חתמות ידנא ל[תחת
    2. שטרא דא כן הוה חצר אלינא מסאפר בר עלי סט צאמן אלחריר ואלצבג
    3. בדמיאט וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ו…

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    1. Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses whose signatures are at the bottom of

    2. this document. Thus it was: Musāfir b. ʿAlī,…

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  41. 191State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.20

    Receipt for tax, possibly Mamluk

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  42. 192LetterT-S 13J14.14

    Complaint of a ḍāmin (tax farmer) in al-Minya about competitors from Tyre, submitted to the Nagid Mevorakh around 1096–97 (Goitein, perhaps on the basis of …

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    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. אללה תעלא ישמע מן אלעבד מא ידעי לחצרה אדנינו
    3. כגק מר ור מבורך אלוף הבינות חכאם(!) השיבה(!)
    4. סנהדרה רבא עוז בית ישראל שר השרים נגיד
    5. הנ…

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    1. In your name, merciful one.
    2. May God the exalted listen to what his servant implores of his excellency our lord,
    3. his honor, greatness and holin…

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  43. 193LetterT-S Ar.39.386

    Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in …

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  44. 194LetterMoss. 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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  45. 195State documentAIU XII.15

    Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …

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  46. 196LetterENA NS 2.4

    Letter from Abū l-Bahāʾ, in Ashmūm, to his father al-Mashmiaʿ al-Melamed (the crier/herald, the teacher), in Minyat Zifta. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that his …

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    1. בש רח
    2. קד עלם כאלק אלמוגודאת מא עלי קלבי
    3. מן אלשוק ואלוחשה אלי חצרה אלואלד אלעזיז שצ
    4. חפצה אללה תעאלי וכפאני פיה כל מחדור
    5. וסואה אני משתאק אלי אל…

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  47. 197LetterENA 2808.17

    Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer, Dā'ūd of Banhā, who is chronically in arrears …

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  48. 198LetterENA NS I.99

    Letter from a woman to a certain Yosef written in the hand of Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliya. The woman calles herself "his mother" but it …

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  49. 199LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/27

    Copy of a letter from Menaḥem b. Eliyyahu, in an unspecified location near Salonica and Constantinople. In Hebrew, with occasional phrases in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably composed …

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    1. [ ] . . . . לציון כדבר אל . . . [ ]
    2. [ ]ם רבים האומרים תחנף ותחז בציון עינינו
    3. והם לא ידעו מחשבות ייי וג ועדאיין לא נתמלא
    4. הגורן אבל דעו אחינו בר…

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  50. 200Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.35

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, Seʿadya al-Nazir, who is sick, 5 dirhams from the waqf …

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    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד שצ`
    3. ידפע למוצלה סעדיה אלנזיר
    4. אלמריץ כמסה דרהם מן גהה וקף
    5. ושלום אלמהדב

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