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  1. 4951LetterYevr. II A 1859

    A long letter from the communities of Poland and Lithuania to Shlumiel b. Shmuel.

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  2. 4952LetterT-S 13J35.13

    Letter from Abū l-Riḍā to his brother Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Asking for …

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  3. 4953LetterENA NS 47.5

    Letter in Ladino. The sender has an unskilled hand and sometimes makes numerous attempts to spell a word correctly (e.g., אין[[בייידו]] [[בייאדו]] ביאדו). Mentions R. …

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  4. 4954LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/46

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Būṣīr, to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī and his cousin Barhun b. Mūsā, in Fustat. Dated Friday 1 …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אל
    2. אסוא ענך ברחמתה מן בוציר יום אלגמעה ר'א'ש' ח'ד'ש' א'ד'ר' ערפך אללה
    3. ואיאנא ברכת…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ויסלק
    2. כל רע ממך, ברחמיו, מבוציר, ביום ו׳, ראש חדש אדר, יודיע אלו…

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  5. 4955LetterENA NS 71.6

    Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام

    3. تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها

    4. وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…

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  6. 4956LetterT-S AS 128.48

    Verso (original use): Remnant of an address of a letter from Hārūn b. Binyām, sent to Abū Zikrī Kohen, who then reused it as scrap …

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  7. 4957LetterT-S AS 152.283

    Letter(s) in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic containing many terms of praise, mentioning Moshe, [David] ha-Sar ha-Ṭafsar, [...] ha-Kohen the cantor, and R. Ḥalfon. May be a …

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  8. 4958LetterT-S 13J19.26

    Letter perhaps addressed to a Nagid. Poetical. Praising the Levites. Contains decorative elements at the end of the widely spaced lines. (Information from Goitein's index …

    1. לפני אשר תלה אדמה על בלימה ועש אדם לעטר היקומים
    2. ובחר מכללם זרע ישורון ושם בניו מרובים גם עצומים
    3. ומהם זרע בני לוי אשר עושים רצונן לילות וימים
    4. אשר עומ…

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  9. 4959LetterYevr. II A 1803

    A letter to the community of Troki from Vilna

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  10. 4960LetterBL OR 5542.23

    Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju to Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya [b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī]. In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). This …

    1. אלממלוך אבי סעיד יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמולא
    2. אלשיך אלרצי אללה תעאלי יוסע רזקך ויתבת סעאדתך
    3. ויקים גאהך ויחבס עליך ולדך ולא יקטע בך יא מולאי
    4. לולא יעלם א…

    Your servant Abī Saʾīd kisses the ground before my lord, the elder al Rāṣūy. May God increase your income, stabilize your success and enhance your ho…

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  11. 4961LetterENA NS 77.75

    Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  12. 4962LetterT-S AS 146.300 + T-S AS 151.211

    Letter probably from [Shem]uel Algıdın (? אלגידין). In Hebrew. Dating: Possibly 16th century. Much of the letter is missing, so the content is obscure. Mentions …

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  13. 4963LetterT-S AS 17.152

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a Sefaradi hand, laid out almost like a literary text. Not very much is preserved. On the other side there is …

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  14. 4964LetterENA NS 46.4

    Letter from Yaʿīsh b al-Kadīḥī(?) to Sālim b Yūsuf al-Jiyār(?). In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: 19th century. The writer asks the addressee to send …

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  15. 4965LetterT-S 10J20.13

    Fragment of a letter from Abu Sad al-Magribi, might be from Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060. The writer mentions Jerusalem, Ishaq b. Aharon, …

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    1. [ ] ונעמתה וסעאדתה

    2. [ ] כתירה

    3. [ ] אכדת אלכתב וקראתהא ווקפת מנה עלי חסן סלאמתה

    4. [ ] לי תצל טי כתבי ללגרב ואשתגל סרי

    5. [   ] סידי אלשיך אבי…

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    1. …. (1–3) (אני כותב לך, וכו') .... (ויתמיד) את חסדו לך ואת אושרך .... הרבה .... לקחתי את המכתבים וקראתים, וקראתי בהם על שלומך הטוב 
    2. (7-4) .…

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  16. 4966LetterT-S 13J15.6

    Letter from a Mevorakh b. Avraham from Sham (Syria). The addressee's is name not given. The writer asks for a shirt (qamis) because he is …

    1. בשם ד'
    2. לזקן הנכבד היקר החכם והנבון הזך הירא את ד'
    3. מר ור כב גד קד אדננו הזקן מוצא טוב נין אב המון
    4. גזע הנעקד רובע ישראל הנדיב והוא על נדיבות
    5. יעץ ישמרו…

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  17. 4967LetterT-S 13J34.12

    Polite letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in which the sender explains that he had been reluctant to visit the addressee, as he surmised that his 'brother' Abū …

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  18. 4968LetterT-S AS 39.273

    Recto: part of a letter in Arabic.Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

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  19. 4969LetterT-S 13J24.3

    Left side of a letter sent by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) to his brother in law, in which the sender writes that Eli …

    1. ]ם תאיידך ונעמאך ומן תופיקה אלחסן
    2. ]. .ודל לענדי אלנטר אלי טלעתך אלסעידה
    3. ] עלי ראסי אגלאל לה ותעטים לקדרה
    4. ]. . סלאמתך אדאמהא אללה לך ולי פיך
    5. ]ל אללה …

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  20. 4970LetterT-S NS 321.83

    Recto: Draft of the beginning of a letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya the exilarch. Verso: Praises for God in Arabic, with biblical verses in Hebrew …

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  21. 4971LetterT-S 10J31.5

    Letter to Abū Saʿd Yaḥyā b. ʿEzra from his cousin (ibn ʿamm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Reminding the addressee that al-Ḥemdat had sent with him אלדרקה (probably …

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  22. 4972LetterT-S 13J24.6

    Letter from a certain Manṣūr to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, regarding an error made with the dispatch of some books. Mentions Abū l-Ḥajjāj and …

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  23. 4973LetterT-S AS 47.117

    Too little text remains to identify, possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  24. 4974LetterBL OR 5566B.32

    Business letter from Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdawī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his cousin Peraḥya b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Arabic script.

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  25. 4975LetterT-S NS 329.858

    Recto: a very faded and damaged, barely legible, letter, mentions Damascus and a certain Zekharya b. [...] Verso: literary material

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  26. 4976LetterHUC 1107

    Recto: Letter addressed to Shimʿon Shemuel Duga, the ḥakham of ʿImādiya. Other persons, scholars and laymen, are mentioned by the writer, who was evidently a …

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  27. 4977LetterT-S AS 177.29

    Note in Arabic script, with the final word (ve-shalom) in Hebrew. Referring to "the accounts which the master wrote at the top of this page" …

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  28. 4978LetterT-S NS 338.70

    Letter from Moshe b. Abidirham. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Concerning philanthropic activities for the benefit of the rabbis of Egypt. …

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  29. 4979LetterT-S 10J16.20

    Letter. Commercial letter from Murjī to his son, Meʾir b. Murjī, listing repayments from various individuals, including Moses [...] and David [...]. Address on verso. …

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  30. 4980LetterT-S AS 146.449

    Fragment from a letter or account, mentioning 5 raṭl. (Information from CUDL.) In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212).

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  31. 4981LetterT-S 8J26.4

    Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). On verso is the continuation of the …

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    1. [סררת יא]מולאי אלי וצול כתאבך תדכר סלאמתך אדאמהא אללה לך במנה ותדכר וצול מפרג וקד

    2. [וצלני] כתאבה אנה אקלע מן ברניק ועדא ארגו מן אללה יגעלה פ…

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    1. שמחתי, אדוני, בבוא מכתבך שבו אתה כותב ששלום לך, יתמידו לך אלוהים בחסדו. אתה כותב שהגיע מפרג', וכבר
    2. קיבלתי ממנו מכתב שהפליג מברניק ויצא לים הפת…

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  32. 4982LetterT-S 8J20.29

    Letter to Peraḥya ha-Ḥaver about a visit of the carrier of the note, Abū l-ʿAysh, to the Nagid for the issue of whether he had …

    1. אל הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כגק' מרנו ורבנו פרחיה החבר החכם והנבון
    2. ישמרהו צורו ויהיה תמיד בעזרו אלסבב פי אצדאר הדה אלכדמה
    3. אלי גלאלה אלמחרוס חצור חאמלהא…

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  33. 4983LetterMoss. II,187.2

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Rabbenu Meshullam, congratulating him on the holidays, and it seems begging for help with travel expenses. The …

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  34. 4984LetterMoss. VII,193

    Letter likely from Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen Sarārifī(?), in al-Maḥalla, to [...] b. Mordekhay ha-Kohen, in Fustat. Fragment (long vertical section). In Judaeo-Arabic. Due to the …

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    1. בש רח
    2. מ]ולאי וסידי אלאע[ז] ענדי אבקא[ה א]ל[לה
    3. מ]ן אלמחלה בעד וצולי אליהא סאלם [
    4. ] למוצעך אלכרים ואלאגלאל לא[
    5. ] מא אנא פיה [מ]ן אלבכי ואל . . [
    6. …

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  35. 4985LetterAIU VII.E.94

    Letter from Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in Cairo, to his mother, in Damietta. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Adar I 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. He is …

    1. בע׳׳ה היום ٢٠ אדר א (הת)קס׳׳ב
    2. אשה חכמת לב מרגניתא דלית בה טימי ה׳׳ה היקרה וצנועה מב׳׳ת היא אדונתי אמי
    3. רחל ת׳׳ם
    4. אחדש׳׳ו עם פו׳׳ק נערפך יא אמי אננ…

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  36. 4986LetterT-S AS 153.124

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a dignitary named Avraham. Beginning with taqbīl and inhāʾ formulae.

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  37. 4987LetterENA NS 77.83

    Minute fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions arriving in Alexandria and meeting with somebody, and possibly a boat.

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  38. 4988LetterFrankfurt 217

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is a name preserved (Abū something), possibly in reference to a debt owed, but not much else is preserved. …

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  39. 4989LetterT-S Ar.35.159

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On recto there is a medical text in Arabic script. On verso there is further Arabic text on medical themes, but it …

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  40. 4990LetterT-S 12.418

    Letter fragment (far right of recto). The writer filled the entirety of the main text with praises and conventional phrases, leaving the business for the …

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  41. 4991LetterT-S Misc.25.132 + T-S Misc.25.139

    Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to ʿEli b. ʿAmram in Fustat. Mentions a ban of excommunication against Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya, who among other …

    1. [ אל]מפרד ואלגמי[ע]
    2. [ אבו אל]חסן ירום הודו
    3. [ ח]צרתה //מא// פאן אסתקר
    4. [ ] עלי א[חראם א]לגמיע פיפעל ואן ראי מן אלצואב
    5. תקדים חרם בן שכניה ותאכיר חרם או…

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  42. 4992LetterENA 2799.4

    Fragment in Ladino, probably from a business letter. Needs further examination. Very faded accounts on verso.

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  43. 4993LetterT-S 12.124

    Letter of Avraham b. Simhon, Ifrīqiya, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. (A large hole from line 11 to line 22 has obliterated much of the letter.)

    Recto:

    1. אטאל אללה יא שיכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם תאיידך ונעמאך וזאד מן פצלה ואחסאנה
    2. ואחסאנה לדיך וענדך כתאבי אליך ען חאל סלאמה וסתר למוליהמא אלח…

    ע׳׳א:

    1. ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורבי היקר לי, אריחות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו ואת חסדיו לך ויטה לך רוב חסד וטובה
    2. בכל אשר לך. אני כותב לך מתוך שלום וביטחון,…

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  44. 4994LetterT-S NS 163.86

    Draft of the beginning of a letter to a woman addressed as "al-Sitt al-Fāḍila." Probably written by Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen, active in the early …

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  45. 4995LetterT-S 12.256

    Letter fragment from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to a community, approximately 1020.

    1. יאשיהו ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב בירבי
    2. אל [ ]ל[ ] טובה ראייתם ואמרי שפר הגייתם
    3. ומצות וחוקים עשייתם והצנע לכת נתיבתם ודרכי שלום
    4. הליכתם ובתי כניסיות ב[צ]דק …

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  46. 4996LetterT-S 13J15.24

    Letter sent by a ḥaver to "al-Ḥemdat" Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi, complaining that he has been snubbed and persecuted by the latter's son-in-law. …

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    1. שלומות מוחשות לא זזות ולא משות לבקרים חדשות לא זחות
    2. ולא פורשות ופרודות לא עובשות וברכות מכל מגרשות באות
    3. ומתחדשות לזקן ושר פחה וטפסר איש מוסר ל…

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  47. 4997LetterT-S NS 339.6

    Letter in Arabic script concerning a delivery of stones and wood, and wages to be paid to manufacturers. Relatively well preserved. Merits further examination. On …

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  48. 4998LetterT-S AS 161.37

    Recto, with the address on verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified sender (his name might appear in the address) to Abū l-Riḍā Nissim b. …

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  49. 4999LetterJRL A 1112

    Small fragment (upper left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Dating: 11th or 12th century. None of the substance is preserved.

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  50. 5000LetterCUL Or.1080 J4

    Fragment of a letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli b. Amram, Fustat, mentioning the successful visit of Eli ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver b. Yehezkel in Fustat …

    Right Margin

    1. בשורת [
    2. הצדק ויי אל יתעלה[
    3. ממנו וישלח [
    4. שנים עג[ונ]ה אנונה
    5. הסירה ה[א]ל [הט]וב
    6. ויי צ[ ] דינם
    7. ושלומ[ו יג]ד[ל
    8. וכבר [נת]פש הק…

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