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  1. 1LetterT-S AS 181.48

    Petition/letter of appeal for help. Mostly preserved, but damaged. Needs examination.

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  2. 2LetterJRL B 5333

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly the closing greetings are preserved (Abū l-ʿIzz sends his regards to all in the addressee's location). On the other side …

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  3. 3LetterMoss. V,336.3

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting.

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  4. 4LetterT-S AS 176.384

    Verso: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses at length a family in distress on account of poverty and the capitation tax; the specific details are not …

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  5. 5LetterT-S NS 321.92

    Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With crude handwriting and spellings. The addressee is called 'my son' and rebuked for his obstinacy and urged …

    1. ] מן אלגה[ל א]למישומה
    2. . . . . וא . . א . . ל האד אלדי
    3. תעמל אן מ . . איש תעמל
    4. אבוך הונה יגיך . . . . ק ות . . . 
    5. בחק אללה יא בני ארג{ע} לה לא תקטעהו

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  6. 6LetterJRL B 5787

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. On verso there are calendrical notes.

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  7. 7LetterT-S 16.139

    Recto: poetic letter in square script. Each line ends in the rhyme -let and is followed by a dot. Letters are extended to give a …

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  8. 8LetterT-S 10J32.3

    Letter fragment from the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (r. 1140–1159 CE) to Sasson the judge, mentioning Mūsā b. ʿIwāḍ. In the hand of Mevorakh b. …

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  9. 9LetterT-S AS 145.139

    Letter addressed to Natan b. Yiftaḥ (possibly the same as in ENA NS 19.7 (PGPID 11579)). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning a circumcision conducted by the sender, …

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  10. 10LetterT-S NS 305.114

    Letter of gratitude. In Arabic script. Full of expressions of patronage and no specific details. The sender's name may be Zayn and the addressee's name …

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  11. 11LetterJRL B 6043

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew (with two words in Arabic script after the basmala). The tone is hostile and sarcastic; the specific issue is difficult …

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  12. 12LetterT-S 13J19.22

    Beginning of a letter with rhymed prose introduction. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic text, list?

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. ארומם אל ואודהו תחלה ואנעים לו בשיר ושבח תהלה
    3. איחדהו ואגיד תעצומו אתנהו אסלד לו בחילה
    4. אשר נשא בגבהי מעליות ונתעלה במרכבה מעולה
    5. והוא חוקר וגם…

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  13. 13LetterBL OR 5563C.19

    Letter from Efrayim b. Ismaʿīl al-Jawharī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Provides information about goods, mainly textiles, that came from the Maghrib …

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    1. [כת]אבי יאס[ידי ומו]לאי וריסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם איאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך לו' בקין מן
    2. תשרי אעאדה אללה עליך סנין אן כתירא בעד וצול כתב מולא…

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  14. 14LetterT-S AS 160.422

    Mercantile letter. Dating: 11th century. Addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov [Ibn ʿAwkal?]. Mentions people including Mūsā b. Barhūn, Ibn Jashmard (a Persian? בן גשמרד), and …

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  15. 15LetterT-S AS 152.146

    Letter from Moshe b. {Sar?} Shalom ha-Levi Gaʾon to Tamīm ha-Talmid. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format. The sender is writing to recommend the bearer …

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  16. 16LetterCUL Or.1080 J34

    Letter from the office of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat, to the community of Alexandria (נאמון). Dating: ca. 1220 CE. He instructs them …

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  17. 17LetterT-S NS 304.7

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū Isḥāq, who is addressed as "the esteemed and precious brother." In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (top part only). …

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  18. 18LetterT-S AS 157.394

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Faraḥ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  19. 19LetterMoss. II,116.2 + Moss. II,116.3

    Fragment of a 13th-century letter, probably from the family of the judge Eliyyahu, mentioning Abū l-Barakāt, Sitt Rayḥān and Sitt Jawhar. There is a request …

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  20. 20LetterT-S AS 151.6

    Note from Abū l-Faraj to Abū ʿAlī, urgently summoning him to the sender's home, it seems for a medical appointment ("to show me your eye"). …

    1. יא מולאי אלשיך אבו עלי אשתהי מן תפצל
    2. אלמולא אן תוריני עינך פי אלבית פאן [[אלחגה]]
    3. אלחאגה דאעיה ללאגתמאע באלמולא
    4. [[ממלוכה]] אכי ורפיק שפיק
    5. אבו אלפרג

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  21. 21LetterT-S 6J1.14

    Beginning of a letter to a Rayyis: [...] b. ʿAzarya (ZL) the head of the yeshiva (raʾs al-mathība). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כאן כתאבי תקדם אלי חצרה
    3. מולאי אלרייס אלגליל אטאל
    4. אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה
    5. . . . . . .]כינה וכבת אעדאה

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  22. 22LetterT-S 8J16.2

    Letter (bottom part) from Alexandria to Fustat, dictated by Abu l-Najm Hilal, written down by Abu l-Muna, and addressed to Abu Ishaq b. Yaʿaqov at …

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    1. ותבלג סואלי לזוגתך ולא [
    2. לי פי אלסטל מן כל בד ואנא [. . . . . . . . . . ] והדא
    3. פתח אללה בשי אנפדה יהון עליך [סער?] אלגאליה פי ...הא
    4. וקד אלתקא…

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  23. 23LetterT-S AS 148.140

    Recto: accounts, mentioning different quantities of weight. Verso: note. (Information from CUDL)

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  24. 24LetterJRL B 6155

    Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Mentions al-muʿallim Yaʿaqov several times; an epidemic (המגפה); and money.

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  25. 25LetterT-S 13J9.14

    Business letter dating to around 1800 CE (12 Adar [no year]). The opening salutation may contain the recipient's entire name, but its meaning is not …

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  26. 26LetterT-S AS 157.34

    Informal note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan asking him for the favor of speaking to Abū Saʿd, "because he תגייר (converted?) and will enter …

    1. ממלוכה [. . . . . . . . . . .] זצל
    2. אלמקר באחסאן אלמולי אלשיך אלרשיד אבי אלחסן אחסן אללה
    3. אליה ישתהי מן אנעאמה אן יכמל גמילה יכלם אלשיך
    4. אבו סעד שמ צו …

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  27. 27LetterENA 2808.66

    Letter from Avraham b. Natan Av, judge in Cairo, to al-Mumhe, i.e. "the specialist," meaning a permanent member of the court, whose name is not …

    1. [ ] וצלח [
    2. [ ] תולי חביבי ולד ק[ ]ת[
    3. [ יכ]ון אלמשי ענדי אסהל מן רכוב דאבה דון פלמא
    4. [ ]אב עישי וזאלת אלאמראץ ואלעלל וצח אלגסם
    5. [ ]אלממחה חפטך אללה אן …

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    1. .... 

    2. ....appointed my friend, the son…

    3. .....it is easier for me to walk than to ride an animal, so that when 

    4.  . . . . my life, and th…

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  28. 28LetterAIU VII.E.74

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shelomo Barūkh to Meʾīr ben Naʿim. Dated: 20 Av 5560 AM (August 1800 CE). Locations: the letter was sent from …

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    1. בע׳׳ה היום ב׳ כ׳ מנחם ש׳(ת)ק׳ס

    2. הודינו והדרינו ועטרת תפארת לראשינו ה׳׳ה היקר

    3. נבון וחכם כמה׳׳ר נר׳׳ו

    4. אחדש׳׳ו בעד תקבל איאדיכם אלכוראם מעא…

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  29. 29LetterT-S Ar.25.133

    Recto: Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni’s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26f. Verso: Arabic jottings, possibly a maxim or poetry; the lower text block is a copy of …

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  30. 30LetterT-S 10J6.9

    Letter by a man to his brother in Fustat whom he informs about the attempted delivery of 38 dirhams of his (brother's) money to a …

    1. בש
    2. אלי אלאך אלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאה
    3. ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וכבד חאסדה ואעדאה
    4. וננהי אן נחן כתירין אלשוק אלי נטרך וכאצה ואלדתך
    5. כיף עבר עליהא הדא אלע…

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  31. 31LetterDK 369

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Reports on a scandalous matter involving one of the supporters of Ibn al-Sadīd, one of the slaves of the king, a …

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    1. יא סידי שלום אלאמר
    2. אלדי סמענאה אן שכץ מן

    3. מעינין בן אלסדיד צאר

    4. לה ממלוך מן ממאליך אלמלך

    5. מרסום קאל לה מא אכתב עליך

    6. אלא במא יתבתהם(?) ור…

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  32. 32LetterT-S AS 101.273

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. Mentions: a wedding; Sālim; Yosef; someone's son.

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  33. 33LetterNLI 577.3/11

    Letter from a Qaraite, in Jerusalem, to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn Ibn Saghīr, in Cairo. To be read to the whole Qaraite community. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …

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  34. 34LetterT-S 32.10

    Letter from a certain Elishaʿ to a notable titled Rabbenu Moshe Av Bet Din (הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק . . . דגל הרבנים הרב הגדול …

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    1. אתה סתר לי וג
    2. שלום משמים נשקף . סד . . 
    3. [מ]ארבע רוחות הארץ נ . ק . 
    4. לאשכול הכופר ה[נות]ן אמרי
    5. [שפ]ר יקרת מעלת תפארת
    6. ועטרה מרנו ורבנו אור עי[ני…

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  35. 35LetterT-S Ar.38.41

    Letter from Natan b. Khalaf to Abū l-Faraj Ismāʿīl b. ʿEzra and ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl. Either the sender or the addressees are in Fustat. In …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كتابي يا سيدي وريسي اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك وسعادتك وتاييدك وجعلني من كل سو فداك لنصف من المحرم عن سلامة والحمد لل…

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  36. 36LetterT-S AS 153.491

    Recto: small fragment of a letter or note. Verso: unidentified Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

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  37. 37LetterT-S AS 103.196

    Unidentified text, possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  38. 38LetterT-S Misc.20.61

    Note in Hebrew requesting that the addressee intervene on behalf of a prisoner in his power (אשר אתה סותם אותו בשבי). The addressee is R. …

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  39. 39LetterT-S AS 160.230

    Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  40. 40LetterT-S AS 157.536

    Recto: probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: unidentified. (Information from CUDL)

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  41. 41LetterBL OR 5542.19

    Business letter from Avraham ben Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to Abū al-Faḍl Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma al-Sukkarī in Fustat. Datable to ca. 1062 on …

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    1. [כתאבי] אטאל אללה בקא סידי ומולאי ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסלאמתה מן

    2. [אלמסת]קר לי בקין מן אללה ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכה מא יליה ואל

    3. חמד ללה רב אלע…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך,
    2. מהבית, בכ' באלול, יודיעך אלוהים את ברכתו ואת ברכת…

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  42. 42LetterT-S Ar.34.90

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. Mentions Yūsuf (l. 1), a ship, a commercial partnership (ṣuḥba), and a qāḍī (l. 3). On verso there is …

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  43. 43LetterENA 3124.4

    Letter (FGP). May actually be literary. Very faded

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  44. 44LetterT-S Misc.20.234

    Letter probably sent from Palestine to Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: ca. 13th–15th century (paleographic dating). There are two folios, which probably originally joined, …

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  45. 45LetterENA NS 10.11

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. The text on verso is likely the address: ... الخادم محمد بن علي كلامها املى — so maybe Muḥammad b. …

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  46. 46LetterENA 2727.51

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. …

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  47. 47LetterT-S NS 321.66

    Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim Ha-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1045.

    1. [כתאבי אלי חצרה מולאי אלחבר אל]מעולה
    2. [אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמ]תה וסלאמתה
    3. [ מן אלקדס עמ]רה אללה ען חאל
    4. [סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק] אליה שדיד גמע
    5. [אללה ביננא…

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  48. 48LetterT-S NS J476

    Letter/note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. He wants to know if the addressee has purchased the book of Psalms yet (al-muṣḥaf al-tehillim). If so, …

    1. . . . .] מולאי אלאגל ר[. . . . . . . . .
    2. . . .] שוקי אליה ולא שך באנני נשתהי
    3. מן אנעאמה אן כאן אשתרי אלמצחף
    4. אלתהלים פיערפני דלך חתי נסייר
    5. לה בעץ אלמב…

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  49. 49LetterT-S AS 148.91

    Business letter, mentioning commodities such as silk. Very faded. Dating: probably 11th century. (Information from CUDL)

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  50. 50LetterT-S AS 150.166

    Commercial letter mentioning Abū Saʿd. Small fragment, little of the content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)

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