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  1. 1List or tableAIU VII.F.49

    Recto: Fragment of a clearly written document in Arabic, having to do with business deals and payments. Ottoman or khedival era since the title khawāja …

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  2. 2List or tableBL OR 12344.9

    Sums/account. In Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: late, 18th or 19th century.

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  3. 3Legal documentENA 3960.11

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: 16th c?, the verso is dated in the month of Ramaḍān with a year that is unclear.

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  4. 4LetterENA NS 83.220

    Letter in Arabic script. Dated: 29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 12[.]0 AH, which is 1796 CE at the earliest. This date may in fact belong to a …

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  5. 5List or tableENA 1178.21

    Accounts in beautiful Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Three of the entries are dated with the years 1072-1073 AH which is 1661-1663 CE. VMR. …

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  6. 6List or tableENA NS 10.13

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Late.

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  7. 7LetterCUL Or.1081 2.5

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to جناب حضرت الحجب(؟) المحترم حاخام زادة(؟) . . . . اليهود الربان. The sender's name includes Ṣāliḥ, …

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  8. 8List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1696/5

    Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: 18th or 19th century.

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  9. 9Legal documentT-S Ar.41.22

    Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment). In Arabic script. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. In which al-Muʿallim Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh acknowledges having received a sum of …

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  10. 10List or tableT-S Ar.35.180

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and western Arabic numerals. Late. Currency: cedid. The Arabic script reads: "he has flour from the mill of the …

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  11. 11List or tableENA 3955.2

    Document in Arabic script, listing itself as a "defter" register in line 1. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. The opening line reads: daftar …

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  12. 12List or tableENA 2416.42

    Documentary text: There are three text blocks in Arabic script, probably remnants of accounts. "With Ismāʿīl. . . ." Literary (and main) text: A kabbalistic …

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  13. 13List or tableENA 2442.1

    Accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Hebrew script. Dating: The Hebrew script appears late. VMR. ASE.

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  14. 14List or tableENA 2710.65

    Accounts in Arabic script. Very neat. Late. There is also a short list of Talmudic tractates, and, on verso, pen trials and lines of Hebrew …

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  15. 15List or tableJRL SERIES C 13

    Accounts. In Arabic script. Dated (probably): 1238 AH, which would be 1822/23 CE.

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  16. 16LetterENA 3917.4

    Letter addressed to "Shaykh al-ʿIlm wa-l-Milla al-Isrā'īliyya." In Arabic script. Dating: Late, based on linguistic features and handwriting. The content is not entirely clear. The …

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  17. 17List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1696/4–5

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: 18th or 19th century.

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  18. 18Legal documentBL OR 10655.24

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Muharram 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.25. Mentions Da'ūd (?) …

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  19. 19Paraliterary textENA 2643.14

    Recipes in Arabic script, probably medical (one is headed "for urinary retention"). Dating: Late, based on the hand and the paper. There follows a very …

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  20. 20List or tableAIU VI.C.8

    Recto: Fragment of a late account in Arabic. Verso: "Mikhael, Gavriel, Uriel" repeated three times.

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  21. 21Legal documentBL OR 10655.25

    Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Ṣ[afar] 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.24. There are multiple …

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  22. 22List or tableAIU XII.103

    Late account in Arabic, along with sums. Dated 2 Rajab 1219 AH (10 October 1804 CE).There is introductory text saying that this is the blessed …

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  23. 23LetterAIU XII.115

    Letter in Arabic addressed to al-Muʿallam ___ Ghālī. Dated [12]53 AH which is 1837/38 CE. Needs further examination.

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  24. 24List or tableAIU XII.131

    Late accounts in Arabic.

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  25. 25LetterAIU XII.132

    Badly damaged late letter in Arabic.

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  26. 26Legal documentBL OR 12344.12

    Receipt related to ḥikr (ground rent) for a specific waqf in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated (on verso): 1235 AH, which is 1819/20 CE. The …

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  27. 27Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 48

    Late Arabic legal document. Needs examination.

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  28. 28Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 61

    Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Probably a record of payment to the bureau of silk looms "dīwān anwāl l-ḥarīr". Needs examination.

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  29. 29Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 68

    Receipt of payment, in the name of Dāʾūd al-Yahūdī al-Quḍāʿī for renting two floors in a caravanserai (wikāla). Dated: Shaʿbān 1163 AH = July/August 1750 …

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  30. 30List or tableJRL Gaster ar. 334

    Accounts, late in Arabic script. Long list of commodities and prices, mostly foodstuff like almonds, plums, and apples. Needs examination.

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  31. 31Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 63

    Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  32. 32Legal documentT-S Ar.34.157

    Legal document or receipt or a similarly formal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 17 Rabīʿ al-Thānī 1013 AH, which is September 1604 CE. Signed: Ibrāhīm …

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  33. 33List or tableCUL Or.1080 4.26

    Late accounts in Arabic, possibly a bifolio from a broader defter. One of the account headings on the verso mentions al-ṣarrāf. Merits further examination.

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  34. 34List or tableT-S Ar.30.198

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentioning an 'Istanbuli' good. There are also several geomancy castings.

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  35. 35List or tableJRL SERIES C 7

    Accounts. In Arabic script. Dated 6 Jumada I [12]35 AH which is 1820 CE. One of the entries toward the middle of the document mentions …

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  36. 36List or tableT-S NS 99.74

    Recto: Late account in Hebrew characters. Verso: Jottings in Arabic script.

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  37. 37List or tableT-S Misc.10.25

    Late accounts in Arabic, reused for Hebrew commentaries on different portions of Genesis.

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  38. 38Paraliterary textENA 2643.17

    Tables for divination in Arabic script. Late.

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  39. 39Literary textAIU XII.148

    Leaf from the diwan of ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Akhras (1804–73), a Mosul-born poet who lived most of his life in Baghdad.

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  40. 40LetterAIU XII.156

    Recto: A faded letter (of three lines only) addressed to Ibrahim al-Yahudi al-Ḥawāyirī (?) from [...] al-ʿAṭṭār, either addressed to or written in Wikālat al-[...]. …

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  41. 41LetterAIU XII.64

    Arabic letter, with the format closely resembling the Judaeo-Arabic letters ca.1800 CE.

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  42. 42List or tableAIU XII.38

    Writing exercises in Arabic, helpfully giving the date: August-September 1822 CE (Dhu l-Hijja 1237 AH).

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  43. 43Legal documentAIU XII.52

    Legal document in Arabic signed by three Muslim witnesses and dated 1823/4 CE (1239 Hijri). Merits further examination.

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  44. 44LetterAIU XII.86

    Letter in Arabic addressed to Ibrahim ʿAdda al-Marajini in Fustat/Cairo, from a certain Yusuf [...]. Dated 14 December 1802 (18 Sha'ban 1217). See AIU XII.82, …

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  45. 45LetterAIU XII.88

    Recto: Letter in Arabic from Isrā'īl al-Ṣayrafī to Yaʿqūb al-Ṭawīl, appears to be dated 6 February 1797 (8 Sha'ban 1211). Verso: There is the remnant …

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  46. 46LetterAIU XI.260

    Recto: At least two different drafts of late Arabic letters. Bottom of recto and verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic--lists of money received from various individua

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  47. 47Credit instrument or private receiptBL OR 12344.10

    Receipt issued issued in connection with a wikala in Arabic. Dated: Muḥarram-Rabīʿa al-Awwal 1182 AH which is May-July. The receipt is signed and stamped by …

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  48. 48Legal documentJRL SERIES A 784

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.

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  49. 49Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 335

    Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …

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  50. 50Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 91

    Ottoman-era iqrār document, in Arabic script. al-Ḥāj Muḥammad and Muḥammad al-Shaykh, both of whom reside in Alexandria acknowledge to pay the bureau of tax looms …

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    1. ن اقسمها (؟) ابي حنيفة رضي الله عنه

    2. سبب تحرير الحروف وموجب تسطيرها 

    3. جواب(؟) لما كان في يوم الاثنين خمسة ايام مضت في شهر 

    4. رجب الفرد ١٢٣٨…

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