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  1. 1Legal documentT-S AS 184.444

    Fragment of a deed of sale in Arabic script.

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  2. 2List or tableT-S NS 314.36

    The main text consists of prayers in Judaeo-Arabic. The blank space on verso was reused for a medical recipe and an account in Arabic script.

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  3. 3List or tableJRL P 167

    Probably a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. The word ʿalā is abbreviated as an ʿayin with a dot over it (ע̇ אחסן חאל). …

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  4. 4LetterENA NS 64.7 + ENA NS 77.168 + ENA NS 16.4 + ENA 77.168 + ENA NS 77.167

    Verso, with address on recto (original use): Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel. NB: The joins were made by Moshe Yagur. Several additional fragments were …

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  5. 5Legal documentT-S NS J32

    Legal document in which Abu al-Baqa gives to his married son Mukaram the rights to one half of the black female slave named Musk he …

    1. למא כאן יום אלאתנין והו יום אלואחד ועשרין
    2. מן שהר תמוז חצרת אנא ואלמלמד אבו
    3. סעיד שצ ושהדנא עלי אלשיך אבו אלבקא
    4. אלמערוף באבן אלמצן אנה קד אוהב אל.
    5. ולד…

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  6. 6Literary textT-S NS 311.86

    Page from R. Hai Gaon Book of Legal Deeds

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  7. 7State documentT-S Ar.35.31

    Verso (primary use): end of a petition containing a raʾy clause mentioning istikhrāj (extraction of taxes).

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    1. فان امرت مملوكها بالاستخراج من مولاي وخر...[
    2. ... مملوكها ذلك ولها ثبت الله النعم عليها وعنده الراي[الاعلى في ذلك ان شا الله

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  8. 8LetterDK 243 (alt: XII)

    Business letter to Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (Avraham David does not think it is Luria).

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  9. 9List or tableENA 2591.14 + ENA 2591.15

    Accounting for five months, ca. 1230. Two leaves, the first of which has writing on both sides. The first part is an estimate of the …

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    1. ת       בש    רח
    2. תסקיע אלרבע אלמסכון מנה באלאגרה
    3.                   זקאק אלכניס
    4. אלשיך אבו אלסרור שצ אלשיך אבו אלמפצל
    5.        כ    …

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    1. In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
    2. The accounting of the (part) of the Estate that is inhabited for rent:
    3. The lane of the syna…

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  10. 10LetterT-S NS 69.6

    Letter in Arabic script. Large script, moderately wide space between the lines. Recommending the bearer of the letter, a poor man named Salam(?), for charity …

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  11. 11List or tableL-G Misc. 58

    List of receivers of alms containing rare names, women and foreigners. The Hebrew alef evidently stands for ūqiyya, ounce. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. …

    1. אם כפא אלמחליה אם ...ז
    2. ג א ג א ג א
    3. א[ל]צוריה תופיק אלדמשקיה זוירה
    4. ג ג ג א ג א
    5. אם בי סעיד אלמכפא [[אלשיך מ]]
    6. ג א ג א
    7. שיכין מגארבה אבראהים אברהם
    8. ג א ג…

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  12. 12Legal documentT-S 20.64

    Ketubba. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 5 Ḥeshvan 1553 Seleucid = 11 October 1241 CE, without any reshut clause. Bride: a widow called 'al-Sitt al-Fāḍila' bt. …

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  13. 13Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 12/13a

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower left corner). Groom: Natan b. Yosef ha-Dimashqi. Bride: Baṭrīqa bt. Ṣemaḥ, a virgin. No details of the marriage payments or …

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  14. 14Literary textT-S Ar.20.1

    Arabic literary text with monumental medallion and calligraphy at the top of the column.

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  15. 15LetterMoss. X,128.8

    A letter signed by Barukh Halevi. No image

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  16. 16LetterENA NS I.89b

    Letter in Hebrew to the communal leaders of Sicily (maybe Palermo?). On the back is a writing trial from the book of Esther and some …

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  17. 17Unknown typeENA NS 76.573

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  18. 18LetterBL OR 10599.1A

    Lower fragment: Letter fragment addressed to Yehuda ha-Kohen ha-Sar ha-Adir

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  19. 19LetterT-S NS 320.129a

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century or early 12th century. Mentions Abū Kathīr; the sender was distressed to learn that the addressee received …

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  20. 20Unknown typeENA NS 85.1337

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S 16.330

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …

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  22. 22Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/133

    Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they …

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  23. 23LetterT-S AS 200.374

    Business letter from [...] b. Yeḥezqel or possibly b. Yaḥyā. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions indigo (nīl) and bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and a merchant named Yiṣḥaq.

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  24. 24LetterENA 2736.2

    Letter from X b. Ya’qub from Qayrawan, to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat. Describes a dangerous situation in Fustat. Also informs about the passing …

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    1. אטאל אללה] בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ועלוה ותאידה ותסדידה [וכאן] 
    2. ולה וליא וח]אפצ'א כתבת יאשיכי מן אלקירואן ען סלאמה תממהא אללה באלא[גת…

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    1. ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת מעלתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת הדרכתך ויהיה
    2. לך שומר ומגן. אני כותב אדוני מקַיְרַואן…

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  25. 25List or tableT-S NS 224.106

    Minute fragment. A list of items belonging to a Jew, including a table cover (sufra) and an iron pan (ṭājin). (Information in part from FGP.)

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  26. 26List or tableT-S K15.94

    List, long, irregularly written, mostly effaced, of males. In many cases sums like 1/3, 1/4 (dinars) 5 qirats added; in other instances, a well-to-do person …

    1. ............................]ה רבע דינר
    2. .....].ים..ל.. חסן בן אברהים
    3. [רב]ע דינר רבעי
    4. ....]ב צדר[י] הבה בן בשר אבו לבוה
    5. [ת]מן ד
    6. ....]..לם אל..[..] [.…

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  27. 27Paraliterary textT-S AS 176.494

    Recipe written on a spare piece of parchment. Simples included are for example Roman bole and horned poppy. Not a continuation of a letter. Has …

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  28. 28Literary textT-S AS 150.40

    Unidentified literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Jonah and the whale and words like "praise" and "the merciful." (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  29. 29Unknown typeENA NS 85.686

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  30. 30LetterJTS MS 3596.4

    Letter to Yehuda b. Elya to Egypt (FGP). Image not available.

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  31. 31LetterMoss. IV,14.2 + AIU VII.E.119

    Letter from Mufaḍḍal, probably in Fustat, to Abū l-Majd al-Melammed, in Qūṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Uncertain, but perhaps ca. 1230s CE, since T-S 13J26.6 (1234 …

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    1. ממלוכה מפצל
    2. יצל הדא אלכתאב אלי אלמולא אלאגל אלמנעם אלמתפצל עלי פי כל וקת
    3. חאצר וגאיב אלשיך אבו אלמגד אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
    4. ונעמא|ה ומן חסן …

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  32. 32List or tableENA NS 48.21

    Note concerning the wages of the teacher Abū Isḥāq for four weeks (Teruma through Vayaqhel). Each week he taught 3 boys and earned 1.5 dirhams.

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  33. 33State documentT-S AS 11.381 + T-S AS 11.389

    Petition from Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī to a dignitary whose name is torn off. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan, who may be a kātib. (Information in part …

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  34. 34State documentT-S AS 182.15

    Fatimid capitation tax receipt for somebody's payment in New Cairo.

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S NS J469

    Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased was an adult (kāmil) woman Ḥusn bt. Mūsā, and she was survived …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. المماليك ينهو وفاة حسن اليهودية الامراة الكامل ابنه موسى
    3. اليهودي وخليت من الورثة المستحقين لميراثها ثلاث اولاد ذكور
    4. وهم…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    2. The slaves report the death of Ḥusn, the Jewess, an adult woman, the daughter of Mūsā,

    3. the …

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  36. 36Legal documentT-S NS J466

    Legal document from al-Mahalla mentioning ha-zaqen b. R. Pinhas. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 614) …

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    1. מדכור [. . .] כלל קהלות הקדש [. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. הזקן ביר פינחס נע וסרור בר מר ור א. . . . . פרחיה
    3. נע ענדנא באלמחלה ומעה .ג. סקלי מ. …

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  37. 37List or tableT-S AS 184.128

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unusual tabular format. Distinct entries are headed by the word حط or خط with an elongated horizontal line. …

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  38. 38Paraliterary textT-S AS 184.70

    Magical fragment in Arabic script.

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  39. 39List or tableJRL C 165

    Accounts related to various coinage types such as gold mahmudiye and kuruş thaqīl (heavy kuruş). The former helps date this fragment as no earlier than …

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  40. 40Literary textENA 3968.24–29

    Medical notebook/handbook in Arabic script.

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  41. 41Literary textMoss. VIII,119.2

    IB II, 41. Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.

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    ולה קינה מתל דלך

    1. (א) אל מה ישראל סופדים בנפש מרה
    2. על שר כי נעדר ופס במהרה
    3. ועל מה ישראל בוכים ברוח נשברה
    4. על נגיד כי נפטר ונגנז ארון התורה

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  42. 42Unknown typeT-S NS 209.31

    One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is …

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  43. 43Literary textJRL Genizah Ar. 152

    Literary text in Arabic. Looks medical/pharmaceutical.

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  44. 44State documentT-S Ar.38.139

    Draft of an official letter or correspondence, in Arabic script. The sender writes to the addressee "al-Amīr al-Raʾīs" that he will remain steadfast in his …

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    1. الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلام 

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. ]من خدمة سيدنا الامير الاجل الريس
    3. ادام الل…

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  45. 45LetterT-S 8J25.2

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Confirming the arrival of 10 dirhams with Abū ʿImrān, …

    1. בש
    2. אלדי אעלמך בה יאכי וסידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה
    3. בקאך ואדאם עזך וסלאמתך ונעמתך אני כתיר אלשוק
    4. אליך מא לו וצפת בעצה לטאל שרחה אללה תעאלי
    5. יגעלך פי חי…

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  46. 46Unknown typeENA NS 85.391

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  47. 47Unknown typeT-S AS 184.80

    Possibly a piece of a tax receipt but too damaged to be sure.

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  48. 48Legal documentT-S NS 172.15

    Draft of the opening sentence of a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or possibly Hillel b. ʿEli. Stating that Yehuda ha-Kohen …

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  49. 49Legal documentT-S AS 147.73

    Bottom part of a ketubah. No further details. AA

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  50. 50LetterBL OR 5554A.46

    Letter of appeal, probably. In Hebrew. Addressed to an important personage and narrating the writer's woes. There is a large, calligraphic "I speak so that …

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