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  1. 1

    LetterENA 2735.3

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to "my child Ibrahim" . After the usual greetings we read: "I have no instruction to you except that do not let …

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    LetterENA 4020.22

    Letter from the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ Ibn al-ʿAmmānī to Yeḥiʾel ha-Rav (b. Elyaqim?). In Hebrew. The year is given but is hard to …

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    LetterENA 2730.2

    Letter from Dawud son of the haver to a certain dayyan. It seems some dramatic event has taken place off-scene (maybe in Palestine?) and here …

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    LetterENA 2808.29

    Letter from Mūsā, in Ṣandafā, to his brother, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Written in a lovely …

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    List or tableENA 2591.2

    Account, possibly for the collection of tax on real estate. Many names. (Amir Ashur)

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    LetterT-S Misc.28.131

    Letter from Hillel b. Eli (identified based on handwriting) to Avraham al-Ḥemdat b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi. He complains of something to do with the tax (? …

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    LetterENA NS I.16

    Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides asking the holy congregation of Egypt to pay the tax to the Muslim Amir. Paying this tax is …

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    State documentJRL Gaster ar. 348

    Tax receipt(s). There are distinct documents on recto and verso. Needs examination.

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    LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/38

    Letter preceded by a Hebrew poem consisting of three verses, from Shemuel b. Moshe to Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf Yehosef (Manbij), the tax-farmer of the local …

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    LetterENA NS 22.1

    Business letter sent from Alexandria by Avraham b. Farah to Yaaqov b. Avraham

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    LetterENA NS 22.2

    Letter from a father who had undertaken to pay the capitation tax for his son but was robbed. Asks the recipient to pay the tax …

    1. אכד קדמי חתי נאולוני אלוטא מן אלבאב
    2. ורחת אלי אלדיואן לקית אלממלוך קאעד
    3. קאל לה אלשיך שעיא אלגאליה ענד
    4. הדה אליהודי להא תלת שהור ונחן מא
    5. מא נקדר עליה ק…

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    LetterENA NS 52.13

    Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …

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    LetterNLI 577.3/10

    Letter from Shelomo b. Aharon to Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Opens with a cryptic mention of the writer's departure for the sake of paying the …

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    LetterMoss. II,196.2

    Fragment from the opening of a deferential letter. On verso the writer mentions 'the tax' (? al-mās) and 'your promise'—perhaps he is requesting charity.

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    LetterMoss. VII,196.1

    Letter of appeal in Hebrew, probably 14th century or later, including lengthy praises for the addressee and then a request to help with the [poll?] …

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    LetterT-S 10J16.14

    Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since …

    1. מן ענד מנצור רביבה
    2. . . . ]תצטירהא אלי אלאך אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
    3. ואדאם עזה ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה
    4. גמע אלשמל בה קריב גיר בעיד וינהי אלי אלאך אלכרים…

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    Legal documentT-S NS J138

    Contract between Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and Abū l-Maʿālī regarding tax-farming in the town of Būsh and its environs. Dated Elul 1460 Seleucid = August/September 1149 …

    1. בוש וגמיע[
    2. אלמדכור מן אין [אש]תרי אל . [
    3. .[.]גד ואלא פילזמך תודי(?) לה מכס מא[
    4. אבו אלחסן אלצאמן אלמדכור נזל ען טלב [
    5. יסתחק בעד סנה אדא צמאנה והו תשר…

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    List or tableT-S AS 153.257

    List, probably of tax or rent revenue. It describes the houses and apartments in a particular street darb al-Sadu[...], mentioning the house of the company …

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    LetterT-S Ar.41.109

    Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الي اخي ومولاي وتاجي واعتمادي اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
    3. ونعماه ومن حسن توفيقه لا اخلاه وعن حال سلامة وعافية
    4. وشوق …

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    LetterAIU VII.E.2

    Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …

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    LetterENA NS I.6

    Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had previously sent a …

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    State documentT-S AS 177.175

    Receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the office of Accounts on …

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    LetterCUL Or.1080 J258

    Letter from Abu Nasr b. Ibrahim, Alexandria, to his partner Abu Ishaq the nāʾib (deputy). Dating: 11 May 1141. The first page of the letter …

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    1. עונך יא רב
    2. מגארי גמאדי וגמאדי ורגב פי גמלה תוקיעאת
    3. ביד אלצמאן הדא אלדי וגדת פי אלדיואן פאן
    4. כאנא אלכרגין המא לרביעין פקד צאעא
    5. אגעל צאחבהמא יאכד…

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    LetterT-S 8J21.6

    Letter to Efrayim b. Shemariah from his friend Yiṣḥaq, who asks for money to pay the tax-collector and so prevent his being imprisoned. Dating from …

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    1. שלום לך ושלום לעזרך וג'
    2. אלי אח וריע וגדל דיע אהוב וחביב וקשור נפש בנפש
    3. וחקוק בלב הוא אדירי וכבירי ועין ימיני וזרוע עזי
    4. כבוד גדו קדו מרי ורבי…

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    1. "And peace with you and peace with Him who support you," etc. (1 Chronicles 12:19). 
    2. To brother and friend, / great in knowledge, / beloved an…

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    LetterT-S 12.533

    Fragment of a letter from a mother in the Maghreb to her merchant son in Fustat. The beginning of the 11th century. Including information about …

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    Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 101/13 + Bodl. MS heb. f 102/43

    Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …

    Bodl. MS heb. e 101/13

    1. נקול מן אתבת כטה אכר הדא אלמסטור אנה למא כ[אן פי יום
    2. שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין ותרתי שנין לשטרות [
    3. מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו נגידי…

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    Legal documentENA 2558.30c

    Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a group of people who share an underground(?) storage room of wheat in a single courtyard; …

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    LetterT-S AS 145.396 + T-S AS 145.393

    Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century. Begging a dignitary for help interceding with the king and tax administrators concerning the burden of tax being …

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    State documentT-S NS 297.193

    State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …

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    LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/38

    Letter from Hārūn to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. The sender reminds Moshe that it is his custom …

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    Legal documentT-S 13J3.12

    Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu al-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …

    1. למא כאן יום אלאתנין אלתאסע מחדש כסליו שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין לשטרות
    2. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרי…

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    State documentJRL Gaster ar. 262

    Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.

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    LetterCUL Or.1080 J88

    Letter sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor teacher and his son. (Information from Goitein's …

    1. . . .] כגק מר ור אלישע [. . . . . . . .
    2. הלויים הירא שמים הנדיב יברכו צורו
    3. ויעזרו ויגן בעדו ויזכהו לראות
    4. שמחת חמודו ותורתו ואריכות ימיו
    5. אמן סלה . . .…

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    Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 56/13–19

    Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …

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    State documentENA 2747.16

    Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …

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    LetterBL OR 5566C.5

    Letter from Ṣadaqa to the Abū l-Najm the Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") …

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    LetterT-S NS J241 + Moss. IV,21.1 + T-S NS J240 + T-S 20.137 + T-S NS J1 + JRL Series B 4089

    JRL Series B 4089: This business letter describes commercial transactions and what the author describes as favors or 'gifts' to a fellow trader. The main …

    JRL Series B 4089 verso

    1. .....[....................
    2. אלתמן גפד וצח וזן אלגוניה אלאכרא
    3. בהארין גיר סבעה ארטאל סער ה מ
    4. אלתמן ט פ דינ ולה מן תסלים יאקות א…

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    State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.17

    Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)

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    State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.1

    Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …

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    State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.10

    Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …

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    LetterMoss. IV,14.3

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Interesting format: the opening praises are written in large blocky Hebrew, with the remaining content in …

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    State documentT-S Ar.34.90

    Verso: Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …

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    State documentT-S Ar.39.205

    Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …

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    State documentT-S Ar.40.161

    Recto: Arabic-script document containing several sections. The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān …

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    Legal documentT-S AS 117.175

    Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …

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    State documentT-S AS 181.225

    Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …

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    State documentT-S AS 181.226

    Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …

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    Legal documentT-S AS 149.13

    Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …

    1. שהדנא עלי אלשיך בקא בן אבו אלסרור תא[גר אלניל
    2. אן ענדה לתמים צאמן אלברקאניה ארבעה אלדר
    3. פי כל שהר טאלמא הוא צאמן וטאלמא צמ[ן
    4. קליוב פי צמאנהם אול רמצאן…

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    State documentT-S AS 183.172

    Recto (secondary use): Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by …

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    LetterT-S 13J21.10

    Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …

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    1. שלום רב וישע יקרב למורי ואדוני אור עיני ועטרת
    2. ראשי אדוני אישי כבוד ר שלמה הסופר יל קבל
    3. רוב שלום מאדון השלום ומני דונה סורו זוגתך
    4. ובנותיך ריינה…

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