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  1. 1LetterT-S Ar.39.433

    Two letters (or drafts) in Arabic script. Same handwriting on each side. Recto: Addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ, asking him to send 100 nuqra dirhams with …

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  2. 2Legal documentENA NS 77.363

    Verso: Ketubba fragment on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century, with a partial year visible, [13]46 or [13]76 Seleucid. The dowry list is partially preserved with …

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  3. 3Legal documentENA 2747.6

    Upper fragment: Copy of a contract of betrothal (erusin) according to the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: Before 1037 CE. Written by Yosef b. …

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  4. 4State documentT-S AS 177.572

    Accounts in Arabic script. Might be state/fiscal. Mentions Fustat and 10 dinars.

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  5. 5Unknown typeMIAC 192

    Fragment from the publication The Forward discussing fifty-five Jews from the armed forces (the organization of veteran fighters) and one Palestinian, and discussing the sentencing …

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  6. 6List or tableAIU VII.F.80

    Late accounts, naming goods in multiple colors.

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  7. 7LetterT-S AS 155.10

    Letter in Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Little of the substance is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  8. 8State documentT-S AS 176.180

    Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script, possibly fiscal.

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  9. 9LetterT-S 13J31.1

    Letter from Natan b. Avraham, Ramla, to Netanel b. Rawḥ, Fustat, July 1039.

    1. נתן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב
    2. בירבי אברהם זכרו לברכה
    3. ליקירנו חשובנו אבירנו גדולנו אצילנו משוש לבנו [חמדת]
    4. נפשנו ערוגת בשמנו מגדלות מרקחנו שושנת ע[מ]קנו מר…

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  10. 10Legal documentT-S NS 224.162

    Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script involving Jewish silk traders (al-qazzāzīn al-isrāʾīliyyīn). Two signatures are preserved. Underneath, the tops of the letters are …

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S 12.125

    Recto: Trousseau list. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Mentioned in Med Soc. IV, section IX, B, 2, notes 465, 472, 486–88. Dating: ca. 1155 CE (based on?).

    1. מה שהיה בפנינו אנו ביתדין הקבוע באלמחלה הגדולה
    2. מלפני (
    3. ( ) מחבס חדידה יבדהב ג' זוג תכאני י'
    4. עו חואיג כיום ב' זוג באברתלתה ונצף
    5. עקד תסעה פרדה סואר לו…

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  12. 12LetterENA 4100.10

    Letter addressed to ʿAbd al-Karīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably 14th century at the earliest. The writer and addressee are Qaraites. Very long. Conveys information …

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  13. 13Unknown typeENA NS 85.771

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  14. 14State documentT-S AS 183.196

    Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Khalaf in Fustat for the year 513 AH = 1119/20 CE (if read correctly).

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  15. 15Legal documentT-S K25.240.36

    Verso: Note in a crude hand instructing Abū Naṣr b. Abū l-Maʿālī to immediately present before the court.

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  16. 16Unknown typeENA NS 85.978

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  17. 17Legal documentT-S AS 152.170

    Legal document written for a woman and signed by Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av Bet Din and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (fl. 1150–1181), both known from …

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  18. 18LetterMIAC 204

    Letter in which one Jew is reporting to another about receiving Italian citizenship – 24 November 1913CE – (number 204) – in Arabic. (information from …

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  19. 19LetterENA 3903.6

    Business letter. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, based on overall appearance and use of the honorific "effendi." The dated accounts on the verso may be …

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  20. 20LetterT-S K25.145

    Letter addressed to a Jewish notable (המעולה... הפטיש... ). In Hebrew for the introduction and Judaeo-Arabic for the body. The name Shemuel ha-Levi (the sender?) …

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  21. 21Literary textT-S Ar.53.2

    Two folios from a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem. Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of …

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    1. ] פלמא גאר
    2. ]אבל חיל
    3. ] . ומ . [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]אדא גאת אל
    4. אשתיה יפיר(?) אלמא(?) ו[. . . . . . . . . ]עטים אלי סיל
    5. ג …

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  22. 22LetterT-S 8J13.10

    Polite but firm note to a scholar to send two dirhams, which he owes for the price of a book. (Information from Goitein's index cards) …

    1. אור זרוע לצדיק ולישרי לב שמחה
    2. לעל יתפצל מולאי אלחבר אלאגל שצ ינפד לי אל
    3. דרהמין אלדי רפההא עלי מן תמן אלדפתר
    4. פאני אחתגת להא מן מטאלב לי פאנעם
    5. בהא ושל…

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  23. 23Unknown typeENA NS 85.1078

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  24. 24Literary textT-S H5.183

    This piyyut was written by Jacob bar Dunash bar Akiva for recitation on Rosh Hashanah. In it, Jacob expands upon a poem by Eleazar be-Rabbi …

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  25. 25LetterMoss. II,156.3

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  26. 26LetterYevr. II A 1718

    Non-Geniza. Letter from Simḥa b. Ẓadoq, in Lutzk, to his wife Shelomit bt. Yosef ha-Zaqen, in Halych. Dated: 1802 CE.

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  27. 27Paraliterary textENA 3949.7

    Arabic document, one line preserved. Mentions some quantities of commodities, including two qīrāṭ of oil. Needs examination.

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  28. 28Unknown typeT-S AS 151.135

    Small fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic (wa-mā yajūz an... wa-l-ʿudwān).

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  29. 29List or tableT-S AS 150.112

    Accounts, mentioning Abū [...] (Manṣur?) son of the elder Abū l-Fakhr al-Sharābī (‘the wine trader’). (Information from CUDL)

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  30. 30Unknown typeENA NS 85.633

    Minute fragment, possibly blank or with extremely faded text.

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  31. 31Unknown typeENA NS 85.1465

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  32. 32Legal query or responsumJRL Genizah Ar. 806

    Two legal documents concerning the same case. The first is a Muslim legal query together with the ruling/fatwā, in Arabic script. The second is a …

    1. ما  قولكم دام فضلكم في يهودية هلكت عن زوجها واخيها فتعرض لهما رجل و طلب اخذ دراهم رشوة علي عادتهم فهل
    2. لا تطيب له الدراهم الماخوذة علي هذا الوجه و به…

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  33. 33State documentAIU VII.E.43

    Petition or official report. Arabic script, wide line-spacing, chancery hand. The document is dated 502 H, which is extremely rare for petitions, and contains a …

    1. شـ]ـرفا وثباتا سنة اثنتين وخمس ماية…..

    2. ]ساميها الى النايب عنها فيها على يد كاتبهم

    3. ]..على ذلك استخراج ذلك لهم وعضده وزكاته

    4. ]هم الله على السدا…

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  34. 34LetterT-S AS 158.192

    Fragment of a letter from a woman to a benefactor and/or family member. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with a taqbīl and goes on to describe her …

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  35. 35List or tableAIU VIII.C.7

    8 pages of grids filled with Hebrew letters, presumably for casting lots.

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  36. 36Unknown typeENA 3935.10

    Arabic script (VMR)

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  37. 37Literary textCUL Or.1081 2.7

    Bifolium from a verse narrative in Judaeo-Arabic involving the exploits of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn.

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  38. 38LetterBodl. MS heb. b 13/54

    Letter from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla (?), to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE based on the years …

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    1. ליק כגק מור אפרים החבר ביר שמריה תנצבה
    2. שמרו צורו ועזרו

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    מאהבו ודרש שלמה

    Verso, address, right

    1. لسيدي …

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  39. 39Legal documentENA 1822a.80

    Official record of some kind in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 742 AH ("לישמעאל"), which is 1341/42 CE. Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef …

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  40. 40Unknown typeMoss. VII,204.2

    Small vertical slip containing some words in Hebrew script.

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  41. 41Legal documentENA NS 77.224

    Minute fragment from a legal deed (upper left corner) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] al-Amshāṭī and [...] …

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  42. 42LetterT-S 12.274

    India Book (IB) IV,29 (ח28). Letter from Yosef b. ʿEzra and Avraham b. Muʿṭī, in Tilimsān, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: After Purim 4898 AM, …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ'
    2. קד אתקדמת כותבנא אלי חצ'רה מולאנא אלשיך אלאגל אדאם
    3. אללה עזהא וסמוהא ועלאהא וארתקאיהא ורפעתהא וכבת באלדול אלמהין
    4. חסדתהא ואעדאהא וכאן …

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    1. בשמ[ך] רחמ[נא].
    2. כבר נשלחו מכתבים שלנו אל הדרת אדוננו, השיך המפואר ביותר, יתמיד
    3. ה' את יקרו וגדולתו ועליונותו ורוממותו ומעלתו ויכניע בהשפלה מבזה

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  43. 43State documentT-S AS 117.66

    Small fragment of a petition or official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of three lines are preserved. Mentioning the army and the Rīf: وسعادته …

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  44. 44List or tableT-S Ar.51.144

    Account of revenue from rent ca. October 1201. A double leaf of a notebook, of which only the upper part is preserved. It was originally …

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    1. תצקיע אלמסכון לחדש
    2. מרחשון והו מחרם סנה חצ
    3. אלמסטאח י>
    4. דאר אלברג בקא בן מחפוט ב
    5. זוגה ופא ב
    6. אבנה ברכה בן נפיע [ ]
    7. דאר אלנגיד ז
    8. אבו ס…

    Column a (verso, left side)

    1. Accounting of the inhabited (apartments) for the month of
    2. Marheshwan, corresponding to Muḥarram of the year [5]98:
    3. The…

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  45. 45State documentT-S 13J24.16

    State document, in Arabic script. Decree. "...the manshūr was drawn on 23rd Dhū l-Ḥijja" (.....ينسخ....المنشور موقع بتاريخ ثلث وعشرون من ذي الحجة).

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  46. 46List or tableJRL B 7964

    Recto is an unidentified document in Arabic script. Verso is accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 12th or early 13th century. Related to …

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  47. 47Legal documentT-S NS 224.86

    Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.

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  48. 48Unknown typeENA NS 35.14

    Unidentified text in Arabic script. The layout looks literary and it is partially rhymed. Mentions the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (r. 1218–38) twice (r6, r22); …

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  49. 49Legal documentT-S AS 145.155

    Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA

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  50. 50Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#84) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Tishrei 5325 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 29r

    1. [[למא בתא׳ נהאר אלתלאת]]
    2. למא בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלגמעה י׳׳ז פי שהר אלול המכו׳ סנה
    3. ה׳ש׳כ׳ה ליצירה חצל כנאק וצ…

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