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  1. 1Legal documentENA NS 47.12

    Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1806 Seleucid = 10 June 1495 CE. ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar Bek leaves some of her …

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    1. למא כאן בתאריך יום אלארבעה תאמן עשר סיון שנת אתת"ו לשטרות למנינא דרגילנא לממני ביה
    2. הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטאט מצרים דעל נהר נילוס מותבה ח…

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  2. 2LetterT-S 16.46

    Letter written by [Joseph b.] Elʿazar in Palestine, mentioning various individuals including Abū l-Faraji, Elʿazar the doctor, Joseph the doctor, ʿAbd al-Karam, Sulayman b. ʿAbd …

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  3. 3LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/31

    Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to an unknown recipient, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: written in mahzor 275, which spanned the years …

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  4. 4Paraliterary textDK 36.26

    Calendar for the year 1430/31 CE, written in an interesting ink that has faded to pale silver; the page now looks blank at a glance, …

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  5. 5LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/11

    Letter. In Hebrew. Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס) writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, based on the …

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  6. 6LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/15

    Letter. In Hebrew. Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס), in Syracuse (שראקוסה), writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, …

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  7. 7LetterDK 371 + DK 36.11

    Condolence and business letter to the brothers Eliyyahu and Leon.

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  8. 8List or tableT-S NS 99.60

    Lists of Judeo-Arabic account entries related to financial arrangments in which figures are expressed alphanumerically. The dating may be provided on the fragment's verso where …

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  9. 9Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1411

    Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Goitein's notes and the NLI catalogue both give 1459 CE. The tens digit is very faded, but the …

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  10. 10LetterT-S 16.216

    Letter from David Kohen to the Nagid R. Natan Sholal, the penultimate Nagid of Egypt. Dating: end of the 15th century.

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    1. הוא אדונינו כג[ק]
    2. מר ורב אור עינינו מ
    3. נתן הכהן הנגיד... רועה....
    4. המן מרדכי הזמן ישמרו צורו ויהיה בעזרו ויר[ום
    5. הודו וירבה הדרו וינשא מעלתו ויי…

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  11. 11LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/16

    Letter from anonymous writer, unknown location, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, based on the associated …

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  12. 12LetterT-S 18J2.8

    Letter from Avraham Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 15th century. Reports on the complaint of a teacher from Ṣafad who had settled in Gaza, to …

    1. . . . .]. . . והו מקבל ואמא ק[. . . .]ל אן
    2. צל]טנא עליה צביאן אליהוד וחק אל
    3. תו]רה אלקדושה לם צלט עליה אחד ולא
    4. אדנת ולא וכלת ולא צדר מני פי חקה
    5. שי מן …

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  13. 13Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1412

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday night, 3 Iyyar 1648 Seleucid, which is 1337 CE. (Date erroneous in Goitein, corrected according to the document following …

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  14. 14LetterT-S 10J24.3 + CUL Or.1080 J174

    Fragment of a letter (written by Ṣedaqa Nes), to the head of the exile, Natan ha-Kohen Sholal (d. 1502) in Cairo (the penultimate Nagid), concerning …

    1. ושלא היה לו בביתו שום ממון ועתה נודע [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ודברים מוקצים ומקום הנכבד רישומו ניכר עד…

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  15. 15Legal documentT-S 20.101

    Ketubba with a valuable dowry listing gold jewellery, pearls, rubies, and turquoise, second half of the 15th century. (Corrected by comparison with photocopy of MS …

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    1. כן מ....ם
    2. ויזכה בנעימים אנס' אתא לקדמ[נא]
    3. בחורי[ם] הנחמד התלמיד הנבון פאר התלמידים נין החסידים גזע הידידים תפארת החנחנים הברוך מבנים יראה
    4. [הי…

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  16. 16Literary textCUL Or.1080 4.12

    28 pages from a cookbook in Catalan. The hand is 15th-century according to Eleazar Gutwirth. Many recipes for dishes containing meat and fish. Soups and …

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  17. 17Legal documentYevr. II A 1320

    Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Damascus. Dated: Tuesday, [..] Adar II 1752 Seleucid, which is 1441 CE. (1) Eliyyahu ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. (2) Avraham b. (3) …

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  18. 18LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/10

    Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Damietta, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. The writer signs only his first name on this letter, …

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  19. 19LetterENA 4101.6a

    Letter (possibly) from Moshe b. Yehuda, addressed to a certain Saʿīd. Dated: 23rd of the ʿOmer מטר, i.e., 5249 AM (probably), which is 1489 CE. …

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  20. 20LetterT-S Misc.20.153

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …

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  21. 21Unknown typeDK 36

    There are 32 folios sharing this shelfmark. See individual PGPIDs for more information. Most of it consists of a notebook, probably belonging to a Byzantine …

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  22. 22State documentT-S AS 150.3

    State document, Mamluk period, 1442. Draft of a petition from the Jewish community of Fustat to the Mamluk government concerning the malpractices of ‘Abd al-Latif …

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    1. אלממאליך גמאעה אליהוד רע[ייה
    2. אלמקאם אלשריף ואלאסלאם אל[כרים
    3. יקבלו אלארץ וינהו אנהם [פי] בל[א
    4. עטים מן יום תולא [[עליהם]] עבד לטיף
    5. אלמתטבב רייס …

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    (1)Your slaves, the Jewish community, the su[bjects] of your noble highness and of [gracious] Islam 

    (3-5) kiss the earth and report that they…

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