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  1. 1List or tableJRL SERIES B 3255

    Late list of foodstuffs and amounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems with some Hebrew too. Items named include oil, honey, taḥina (? spelled with a tav), …

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  2. 2List or tableENA 3903.1

    Accounts in Arabic script. Late. List of agricultural products, fruits and spices, quantity and price. Currency: fulūs. On the other side there is some charming …

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  3. 3List or tableT-S NS 195.50

    Accounts of a grocer. In Arabic script. Recording what Abū l-Manṣūr al-Ḥaver purchased. The goods include eggplant, meat, turnip, leek, carrot, and garlic. Payments range …

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  4. 4List or tableT-S NS 83.20

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. In two different hands, with the two text blocks oriented at 180 degrees to each other. Apparently a Friday …

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  5. 5List or tableT-S AS 153.51

    Accounts or shopping list (or menu planning?). Not a medical recipe. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are three distinct sections; the first two are headed "First Night" …

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  6. 6Unknown typeT-S NS 297.68

    Mysterious fragment containing a mixture of Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and magical symbols. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. The Judaeo-Arabic is extremely cursive and reads …

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  7. 7List or tableT-S AS 177.139

    Accounts. Grocery list?

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  8. 8List or tableT-S Ar.35.30

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Mentions several baked goods and associated items: bread (khubz), cake (kaʿk), raisins, taḥīna, qaṭāʾif.

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  9. 9List or tableCUL Or.1081 J71

    Verso: List of foods and/or recipes. The upper section mentions foods such as: cheese, flathead gray mullet (būrī), pickled turnip (lift mukhallal) calf meat (laḥm …

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  10. 10List or tableT-S NS 320.56

    List in Arabic containing foods including butter, good oil, saffron, mastic, saltwort (ushnān) and sesame, together with weights in raṭls and dirhams and, possibly, prices. …

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    1. زبيب

    2. رطل ونصف

    3. ½ ○

    4. زيت طيب

    5. ⅛ ○

    6. زعفران

    7. ⅛ ○

    8. مصطك

    9. دوا عقر(؟)

    10. حمامة

    11. ¼ 

    12. اشنان

    13. 1

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    1. سمسم اوقية . …

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  11. 11LetterJRL SERIES A 1192

    Order to a pastry chef: "To the elder Abī Saʿd, may God preserve him: please take two copper coins as a deposit, and give the …

    1. אלשיך אבי סעד שצ יאכד פלסין מתקדמה לה וידפע רטל חליקאת
    2. נאצגה ואן עמל אגדא כעך פיה . . לי רטלין כעיכאת לטאף גדא צגאר

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  12. 12Legal documentENA NS 7.17 + ENA NS 7.16

    Bifolio with legal records. One record is preserved on recto, and probably two separate records on verso. Different hands on recto and verso. Dating: recto …

    1. . . . . . ואלש שמואל . . . . . [
    2. צקדה ידיע אלעואם נע וחלפו אלגמאעה
    3. אלמדכורין אעלאה ב[[. . .]] ביוי אלהי
    4. ישראל הנגלה על הר סיני . . עלי ה[
    5. התורה אנהם…

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  13. 13List or tableT-S AS 184.108

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Grocery list? It lists a raṭl of sesame oil (sīraj/sayraj), 1/2 raṭl sumac, 1/2 raṭl tahina, a cupful …

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  14. 14Paraliterary textJRL SERIES B 4073

    Recipe(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Uses coriander; caraway; cinnamon; mastic; saffron; zaʿtar; cumin; anise; sesame; hemp / cannabis seed (qinnab); raisins; cloves; and walnuts(?).

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  15. 15List or tableCUL Or.1080 J257

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mainly for foodstuffs: eggplant, coriander, mulūkhiyya, chickpeas, etc.

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  16. 16List or tableENA 1822a.92

    An inventory dated 8 Jumada II of a shop selling fruit and sugar, the ingredients for homemade candy "for those who wished to enjoy the …

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  17. 17List or tableENA NS 83.30

    Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …

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  18. 18Paraliterary textT-S AS 177.227

    Grocery list and/or recipe in Arabic script. The first row consists of nearly all the same items as the second row, except that there are …

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  19. 19List or tableENA 1822a.40

    Accounts listing food products in two columns. (Information from Goitein's index cards).

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    1. ד שכאיר דקיק כ כעך
    2. כ כל .אחד זית . .כא. .
    3. ב מחמודה ב. . . בצל
    4. קפאר ב פול וב פול וחמה
    5. עסל כרוב סויק וסכר
    6. אשנאן כ טפל תמר הנדי
    7. ת.ף וסער כזאנת…

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  20. 20List or tableT-S NS 338.28

    Bifolio from an account ledger in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly accounts of a grocer, or grocery lists and other notes of a customer. Dated: There are entries …

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  21. 21LetterNLI 577.3/8

    Recto: Letter from Yehuda to an unknown addressee. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Distinctive (Levantine or Iraqi?) handwriting. Deals with business matters, mainly produce (plums/prunes, dates, ḥashīsha, …

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  22. 22LetterT-S AS 156.42

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the presence of the relatively uncommon blessing …

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  23. 23List or tableT-S Misc.27.3.9

    Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Several items seem to be food (kuzbara, ḥummuṣ, zaʿtar).

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  24. 24LetterMoss. II,167

    A distressed letter to Abū ʿImrān, in the house of Umm Ḥasana, on the alley of the synagogue, Fustat. The handwriting and spelling are very …

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    1. ואדאם עזך ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלך גמע אללה
    2. ביננא עלא אסר חאל אנה ולי דאלך ולקאדר
    3. עליה אנשה אללה ולדי תריד {עלמה} אני עלא גמלת
    4. אלסלאמה ולעאפיה ו…

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  25. 25Legal documentT-S 8J27.11 + T-S 6J8.2

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: no earlier than 1415 CE, based on the currency niṣf fiḍḍa (medin). The partners are Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. …

    T-S 8J27.11 Recto

    1. שריכה חצל עקד שרך בין אלמעלם רצי בן אלמרחום עבד אל
    2. עזיז [ב]ן רצי ובין אלמעלם ישועה דכאן פי צנעה אלגבן וגיר
    3. דלך והוא אן רצי יכון פי…

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    1. his partner, a partnership was contracted between the teacher Raḍī b. the late ‘Abd al-
    2. ‘Azīz b. Raḍī and between the teacher Yeshu‘a Dukhān, fo…

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  26. 26List or tableT-S Ar.30.95

    Account of household expenses. In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Meat, vegetables and produce (colocasia, sesame oil, coriander, pepper, date, chickpeas, hiera, radish), bath, …

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  27. 27LetterBL OR 5566C.13

    Letter in Arabic script from a father to his son Abū l-Majd. "The fire was in our hearts because of you, how you spent shabbat …

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  28. 28Legal documentT-S 12.525 + T-S 8J22.16

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1003-1004. Location: Fustat. In bad repair, this fragment (T-S 8J22.16) reveals part …

    T-S 8J22.16 Recto

    1. [.............................................]הין  
    2. [.........................................צ]אחבה  
    3. [.........................…

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    1. […] his [p]artner
    2. […] any court anywhere
    3. [… r]ather the most perfect and certain
    4. […of what] the Sages m(ay their memory be) f(or a blessing) [out…

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  29. 29LetterT-S NS J99

    Note by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ (in the note) or Abū l-Barakāt (in the address on verso). Accompanying payment for rose marmalade. …

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    1. יא מולאי אלשיך אבו אלרביע אבקאך
    2. אללה תעאלי אקבץ מן מוצלהא
    3. חק אלורד מרבא ואנא מריץ
    4. אעדרני שהד אללה מא כתבהא(!)
    5. אלא ואנא נאים ממלוכה
    6. שלמה

    Vers…

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  30. 30Paraliterary textT-S Ar. 43.225

    Medical text. Dating: post-10th century, based on the physicians cited within the document. Contains descriptions of the health benefits and medical uses of different fruits--such …

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    1. פיפסד פיהא. ומן אלנאס מן יגֹפף אלמשמש וינקעה פי
    2. אלמא אלבארד וישרב דלך אלמא עלי אלריק ללתבריד
    3. ואלתטפיה. וינבגי למן אראד אכל אלמשמש אלטרי
    4. אן יתב…

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    (ln. 1-4)

    There are people who dry apricots and soak them in cold water and drink that water on an empty stomach for cooling and quenching. And…

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  31. 31LetterT-S 10J14.20 + T-S 10J19.20

    Letter from the sister of Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Tripoli, Libya, to her brother Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. In the handwriting of ʿAllūsh the …

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    1. אטאל אללה יאכי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ומן תופיקה לא

    2. אכלאך כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי נצ אלול ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק

    3. אלי…

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