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  1. 1Unknown typeJRL Genizah Ar. 723

    Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Minute fragment.

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  2. 2Paraliterary textJRL A 1030

    Sermon composed for the week of Parashat Bereshit or Simhat Torah. Dating: post-1825 CE. The verso references a collection of weekly sermons, Sefer Yoshev Ohalim, …

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  3. 3Legal documentT-S 8.211

    Barely legible, probably a legal document. (Information from CUDL)

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  4. 4List or tableT-S NS 38a.58

    Document in Arabic script. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Small handwriting. Perhaps accounts? On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

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  5. 5List or tableENA NS 12.29

    Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. May mention incense (bakhūr). Mentions wool and Yūsuf al-Ṣūrī and Passover. Possibly ʿAbd al-Salām.

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  6. 6LetterT-S Misc.35.1 + Bodl. MS heb. d 47/3

    Letter by a gaon (copy). The original letter was from the early 11th century. (Information from CUDL)

    TS Misc. Box 35, f. 1, (formerly TS Loan 1), ed. Mann, Texts, vol. 1,pp. 126-129, 133-134, plus BODL MS HEB D 47, FOL. 3, ed. Mann , Texts,vol. 1, pp…

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  7. 7State documentT-S NS 337.60

    Fragment of an official letter in Arabic script. Telling or asking Muʿizz/Muʿtazz al-Dawla to put his signature on something to validate an expense: واستدعيت من …

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  8. 8Legal documentENA NS 7.100

    Legal document(s). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Recto may be a deathbed will. Mentions a house; a …

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  9. 9Paraliterary textDK 312

    Medical prescription or recipe. In Arabic script. The first item is hiera picra (ايارج فيقرا). Also uses pulp of colocynth (shaḥm ḥanẓal). There are 3 …

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  10. 10LetterT-S AS 177.52

    Recto: Upper right piece of a letter to a 'brother' in Arabic script. Conveys various pieces of news, including about the sale of a shop. …

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  11. 11LetterT-S 13J19.11

    Letter sent by Mubarak b. Musa b. Ibrahim to Rabbi Nissim b. Shela, informing him that he was going to send to Tinnis the goods …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. קד כאן נפד כתאבי אלי חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
    3. אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה וכבת אעדאה
    4. מן תניס ולם יצלני לה גואב ואשגל דלך קלבי ו…

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  12. 12List or tableNLI 577.2/7

    Recto with a couple lines on verso (secondary use): List of names (memorial list) in Hebrew. Dating: probably early 11th century. The list is headed …

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  13. 13Unknown typeENA 3924.15

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  14. 14Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    IB V, 37, folio 14v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl …

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  15. 15LetterENA 3773.7

    Mysterious fragment. Recto is formatted like a letter. In Hebrew. It might be an extremely literary letter of appeal for charity. On verso there are …

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  16. 16List or tableT-S Misc.20.131

    Interesting accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, partly in the first person ("Friday: baṭṭāl. Sunday: I went out. . . "). Mentions 'ghilmān al-ṣāḥib', provender for a donkey …

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  17. 17LetterCUL Or.1080 J226

    Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Calligraphically written. The subject matter is communal strife; some wicked person is stirring up trouble, and the results are government decrees …

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  18. 18List or tableT-S NS J227

    Secondary use: Bifolio of private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, for general expenditures, monthly payments to a wife, for a house and qāʿa, and for sales. (Information …

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  19. 19List or tableT-S NS 69.15

    Late list of money received.

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  20. 20Legal documentT-S NS 38.25

    rom a formulary of legal documents, including the beginning of the section on ketubah. (FGP)

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  21. 21Paraliterary textT-S K6.132

    Ownership note: Naḥum b. Yosef.

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S H10.166

    Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Upper document: Legal document. Parties mentioned include Abū l-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir b. Karam b. …

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  23. 23LetterT-S NS 83.6

    Letter from [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl [...]. In Arabic script. (The addressee is confusingly called 'my father' in the body of the …

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  24. 24State documentENA 2762.8

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly a petition. Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... majdahu …

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  25. 25Paraliterary textDK 137

    Booklet containing Hebrew poems/prayers, with an ownership note: "this daftar belongs to Netan'el b. Elʿazar." There are some marginal notes in Arabic script, but no …

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  26. 26LetterT-S AS 157.312

    Fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Long horizontal strip. Handwriting of Berakhot b. Shemuel (early 13th century).

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  27. 27LetterT-S AS 146.165

    Letter fragment (lower left corner of recto) of appeal. The writer describes himself as a poor man (סעלוך) and the tail end of Proverbs 26:3 …

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  28. 28Legal documentT-S Ar.34.145

    Document in Arabic script. Possibly legal (ashhadanī...) but it is quite small and seems informally written. Needs examination.

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  29. 29State documentT-S AS 153.485

    Verso: Small fragment of an official Arabic document, mentioning al-ṣadaqa. Unidentified Hebrew text on recto.

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  30. 30Legal documentT-S 13J6.12

    Three testimonies about a quarrel between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan. The deponents are …

    1. אלדי אחפטה אנא אבו אלעלא בן איוב בין סיד אלכל בן אבו יעקוב אלחזן [
    2. אבו אסחק אברהים בן יחיי הידוע אלנגיב והו אן למא כאן יום אלכמ[יס
    3. תמוז אתסא אכר אלנ…

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  31. 31LetterT-S 10J8.14

    Business letter from David to Shemuel in Alexandria discussing among other matters the delay in delivery of a deposit sent forth by the addressee. Written …

    1. לקי
    2. יצל אלכתאב אל יד שמואל שאמי
    3. יל מן דאוד מסלם עליך כתיר
    4. אסלאם וסעה בעת לך ודיעא ביד
    5. יצחק מימי מא כרסת אנכאן עטאהא
    6. ולא מא עטאה לך שי וגא . . . . אל…

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  32. 32LetterT-S AS 201.396

    Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. Cursive hand. Mentions the name David as well as a collective reference to rabbis and possibly their sons: החכמ[ים] השלמים …

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  33. 33Legal documentT-S AS 145.208

    Original use: Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, twice mentioning Natan ha-Levi known as Hiba Ibn [...], also …

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  34. 34LetterT-S Misc.28.137

    Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …

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  35. 35State documentT-S Ar.39.285

    Original use: State accounts. In Arabic script. Several discrete entries mentioning different Fatimid army leaders (qāʾids). The first is "Turkān Shāh b. al-Amīr Asad al-Dawla …

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  36. 36List or tableT-S AS 177.551

    Business accounts in Arabic script and a few Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing various textiles/garments and prices in dirhams. Also mentions the ruqʿa of the banker (al-ṣayrafī).

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  37. 37LetterENA 2735.15

    Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment from the lower right corner. Wide line spacing. Mentions Daniel the great prince and 'great distress.' See also ENA 2735.14

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  38. 38Paraliterary textT-S 8K20.3

    Colophon of Eliyyahu b. Aharon b. Yoshiyyahu, grandson of Yoshiyyahu Av Bet Din, writing his name and the year (4800 AM) at the end of …

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  39. 39Legal documentT-S AS 151.252

    Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Refers to if somebody should desire separation, and a sum …

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  40. 40List or tableT-S AS 137.89

    Tabular accounts in Arabic and either Coptic numerals or some form of shorthand (often crossing out an entry with a vertical line). Mentions names such …

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  41. 41LetterMIAC 23973.65

    Letter to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm from Abū al-Futūḥ b. Kanz al-Dawla, with which he sends the eparch two silk garments, four textiles …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم الاكشيل ووزير الملك وصاحب الخيل
    3. اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وهلك عدوه
    4. وضده         توجه موصل هذا الكتاب وهو منعم
    5. احد …

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. I inform the Ikshīl, vizier of the king, master of the horses—
    3. may God prolong his life, c…

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  42. 42LetterT-S 13J25.13

    IB VI, 27 (ח18). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Bharuch, northwest India, probably to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan/Yefet, in Aden. Dating: 1134 CE. The …

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    1. ב̇שר̇ח
    2. קד עלם אלקדים ̇גל ̇תَנَאَה מא י̇גדה עבד אלח̇צרה אלסאמיה אלריّיסיה אלא̇גליّה אלעאליה
    3. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא ועזהא ורפעתהא וסמוהא וס…

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  43. 43List or tableJRL B 3503

    Late donation list, or private accounts. Mentioning a variety of individuals, such as: Eliyahu Ṣahal, Aharon Ḥedef, Khalīfa Arūkh, Shelomo Sonina, Ḥayyīm Ḥazaq, Raḥamīm Ḥāmī, …

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  44. 44List or tableAIU VII.F.20

    Late accounts including for part of 1824 CE (1239 Hijri).

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  45. 45LetterENA 3969.20

    Small fragment of an Arabic letter or official report mentioning mawlāy al-amir. The ends of ~3 lines are preserved. On verso there are jottings (possibly …

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  46. 46State documentT-S Misc.24.113

    Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …

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  47. 47List or tableJRL A 1722

    Small fragment from a late list, might belong to a dowry (the word מהר can be read)

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  48. 48Credit instrument or private receiptJRL B 8394

    Rent receipt in Judaeo-Arabic documenting that Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ has paid three years' rent for his ṭabaqa in advance, from July 1819 through July 1822 (Av …

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  49. 49Literary textENA NS 76.319

    Fragment of a text dealing with sheḥita, possibly with part of the cover page visible on the recto (or perhaps a section heading). Requires further …

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  50. 50Paraliterary textENA 3970.8

    Medical prescription or recipe. In Arabic script. Begins with the glyph.

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