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  1. 5301LetterHalper 415 + Halper 416

    Letter draft from an anonymous shaliaḥ, in Fustat/Cairo, to an unknown addressee, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 22 Raḥamim, 5595 AM, which is 1835 …

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    1. כתיב יום ב׳ כ״ב לחודש | [ר]חמים שנת התקצה לפ״ק

    2. ראשית דברי בקידה ובהש|תחויה למאור הגדול מורינו ורבינו ועטרת ראשנו הרב

    3. הגדול מעוז ומגדול …

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  2. 5302LetterT-S AS 177.134

    Small fragment from the end of a letter: لا احتاج الوصا على ذالك انا اخصكم باتم اسلام

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  3. 5303LetterMoss. II,99.2

    Letter fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He says that the Nagid had issued a letter/document …

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  4. 5304LetterYevr. II A 1765

    A letter to Ya'aqov Kohen the cantor from Guzlawa from Ishaq b. Yosef

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  5. 5305LetterT-S AS 204.135

    Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Eliʿ[ezer]

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  6. 5306LetterT-S 13J25.10

    Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: end of the 10th or beginning of the 11th century. From Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Abitur, in Spain (either Merida …

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  7. 5307LetterT-S NS J21 + T-S 8.19

    IB III, 13 + 14. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, India, mainly about shipwrecked goods. Dating: almost certainly 1146. This …

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  8. 5308LetterT-S Ar.30.76

    Fragment (middle part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. The writer describes his woe and distress, and how he and his wife and children are perishing, but …

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  9. 5309LetterBodl. MS heb. b 12/25

    Letter from Neḥemya ha-Kohen, Gaʾon of Pumbedita, probably to the Babylonian community in Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1274 Sel. = November 962 CE. Asks for financial …

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    1. [                                                                                                                  יגדיל שלומו] בתדירה [וישריש…

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  10. 5310LetterT-S AS 137.173

    Phrases from a letter addressed to a Jewish notable: מרדכ]י הזמן ראש מערכות ישראל . . . ירום הודו וירבה כבודו . . . ממשלתו …

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  11. 5311LetterT-S AS 150.68

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentioning Fusṭāṭ; the arrival of a ship from Tripoli, Libya; Muslims; and sums …

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    1. ] מ . [
    2. מ]ן הו צאדק [
    3. ] שאהדין ב . . . . דינר 
    4. ] מן מצר וירפעני אלי אל
    5. ] וקד סאלת [
    6. ] לי אדא תבת עליה שי [
    7. ] . וכילה דפעה נשתהי מן תפצלך
    8. ] . …

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  12. 5312LetterENA NS I.72

    Informal note related to business matters. Probably sent from Fustat. In Arabic script. The sender instructs the addressee to acquire a blue Dustarī (=Tustarī) fabric …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. ساعة وقوفك يا سيدي اطال الله
    3. بقاك وادام عزك على رقعتي هذه
    4. تجتهد في تحصيل ثوب دستري
    5. ازرق يصلح للطراحات جيد مليح
    6. فان كان لك صعو…

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  13. 5313LetterT-S 6J9.9

    Letter to Abī Sālim (?) b. Efrayim and Yaḥyā b. Efrayim, replying to previous correspondence, explaining the writer’s bad situation and asking for support. In …

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  14. 5314LetterT-S 13J21.25

    Recto: Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 23 Shevat, 1208 CE. …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ' כאדמה [. . .]יהודה המלמד
    2. אלי מולאי וסיידי אלשיך בו אלמגד תפארת החזנים ועוזם
    3. אדאם אללה עזה ונעמאה ורפעתה וסנאה ומן חסן אלתופיק
    4. [לא א…

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  15. 5315LetterENA 4020.25

    IB VI, 31 (ח71). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, in ʿAydhāb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: 25 Iyyar [4900] AM, which is 14 May …

    1. וצל כתאב מולאי וסידי אלחכם אל[... מ̇ר ור̇ב חלפון]
    2. הלוי בר כבוד מ̇̇ר ורבנא נתנאל הל[וי החכם והנבון]
    3. ̇ת̇נ̇צ̇ב̇ה א̇גל אלכתב ואעלאהא אדאם אללה עזהא
    4. וסעא…

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  16. 5316LetterYevr. II A 1592

    Karaite letter mentions various place in Lithuania ?

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  17. 5317LetterT-S AS 183.189

    Ophthalmological text, mentioning the lens and layers of the eyes, and couching as a treatment for cataracts. In the margins are many different jottings in …

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  18. 5318LetterT-S NS 34.146

    Letter from Isḥāq b. Mubārak to (his brother?) Abū Naṣr [...] b. al-Mubārak al-jahbadh, in al-Maḥalla. A basmala and the opening four lines are preserved …

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  19. 5319LetterENA 2808.37b

    Four lines from a Hebrew letter. Dating: probably 11th century.

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  20. 5320LetterT-S 13J34.11

    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 when …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא סידי אלחבר [ואדאם עזה] ותאיידה ונעמתה מן אל
    2. רמלה לכמס בקין מן צפר ען חאל סלא[מה] לא זאלת ענה ואן כאנת
    3. כתבי מנקטעה ענה פאנני לא א…

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  21. 5321LetterBL OR 5544.4

    Letter of Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq to the eminent scholar Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel (the Spaniard). The entire letter is a refu'a shelema for the Rayyis Abū …

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  22. 5322LetterAIU VII.E.29

    Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: Letter in Ladino from Masud Bonan to Judah Asio, Cairo 1764. AA

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  23. 5323LetterT-S AS 176.55 + T-S AS 176.54

    Mercantile letter. The sender is in Asyūṭ or near there and mentions goods which are in demand there. Mentions waiting for a caravan. Needs further …

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  24. 5324LetterCUL Or.1081 J19

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to "my brother." The writer mainly communicates that he arrived at his destination safely, and that he rejoiced to learn of the …

    1. בש רחמ
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכי ואעז אלכלק [עלי
    3. וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    4. עזך ונעמאך ומן חסן אלתופיק לא [[אכ]]
    5. אכלאך גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל
    6. במנה וכרמה א…

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  25. 5325LetterT-S AS 178.95

    Petition/letter of appeal for charity. In Arabic script. From Dāʾud the son of the sister of Menashshe (this reading is uncertain). He is a "blind, …

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  26. 5326LetterT-S NS 264.61

    Ladino letter reclaiming a debt signed Ḥayyim Abraham Boṭon s[iman] ṭ[ov]; Boṭon had lent the money in Argel (Algiers/Algeria); he owes money which he borrowed …

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  27. 5327LetterT-S 8.80

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Asking a dignitary for help on behalf of a group of people, by loaning them money or …

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  28. 5328LetterT-S AS 206.297

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. Refers to the bearer.

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  29. 5329LetterT-S NS 304.14

    Verso: opening lines of an Hebrew letter addressed to a dignitary written in a different hand from recto. There is also one line of Arabic …

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  30. 5330LetterT-S AS 146.214

    Business letter to Abū l-[...]. Little of the substance is preserved. Dating: 11th or 12th century. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  31. 5331LetterMIAC 151

    Announcement from the store of Maʿtuq Ḥayyim about kosher cheese for Passover under religious supervision, urging Jews to make their orders before the rush – …

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  32. 5332LetterENA NS 47.23

    Letter of recommendation from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) addressed to the congregation of 'Goshen' and surrounding villages, at their head the judge Shemuel. In …

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  33. 5333LetterT-S 13J20.25

    Part of a letter, describing negotiations between the Muslim pirates Yabqā ibn Abī Razīn, Mukhtār and Mukhtār’s son Jabbāra, and Natan ha-Kohen, perhaps on behalf …

    1. . . . . . לו קחה ממנו כמו שלקח קרובך יבקי בן אבירזין
    2. . . . . . כי אם מאתים וחמשים זהובים ושלח ולקח אותם
    3. . . . . . שמעם ועינוים ועבודתם הקשה ויש בהם …

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  34. 5334LetterT-S 8.118

    Recto and upper part of verso: Formulary for an elaborate letter of appeal for charity from a dignitary. Lower part of verso: Copy of a …

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  35. 5335LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/16

    Late letter that begins in Hebrew and transitions into Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified merchant to Yosef Muḥibb. He writes that he traveled this year to …

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  36. 5336LetterYevr. II A 1848

    A letter to Moshe b. Yosef the cantor from Simha Ishaq b. Moshe from Luzk. Non-Geniza.

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  37. 5337LetterT-S AS 152.118

    Minute fragments probably from a letter. Reference to 'our Nasi'. AA

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  38. 5338LetterENA NS 37.20 + ENA NS 43.2

    Business letter in Ladino. Currency: muayyadi/medin. Join by Idan Perez. erso: Table filled in with numbers, presumably for lots.

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  39. 5339LetterDK 333 (alt: 18)

    Letter from Ḥayyim he-ḥaver b. Shelomo/Salāma, Jerusalem, to Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov he-ḥaver, Fustat, regarding a debt owed to the latter from someone named Thābit who …

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    1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מן
    2. אלקדס עמרה אללה ען סלאמה ללה אלחמד ולה אלשכר עלי
    3. אחסאנה קד עלם אללה תעאלי שגל קלבי באכבארך ומא
    4. …

    Translated by Brendan G. Goldman.

    My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your strength—from Jerusale…

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  40. 5340LetterT-S AS 83.258

    The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …

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  41. 5341LetterMoss. VII,166.1

    Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting that the addressee return the collaterals after the settlement of a debt. "To the elder, the Understanding (ha-Mevin), may his …

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  42. 5342LetterT-S NS 324.124

    Late letter to Avraham Ardiṭi (אברהים ארדיטי) in Ladino. Difficult to read. Izmir is mentioned. Also mentioning R. ʿAmram. AA/ASE

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  43. 5343LetterT-S NS 164.124

    Two autograph instructions written by Moshe Maimonides on the blank space of a literary fragment about the laws of blessings. The first instruction is that …

    1. אלשיך אבו אלתמאם יצלי
    2. לילה אלכמיס פי אלכניסה
    3. אלעראקיין מטלקא להא
    4. מן בין ידינא ושלם
    5. משה בר מימון זצל

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    1. אלדיאן אלמשכיל בו הבה אללה             …

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  44. 5344LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/11

    Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a certain Rosh ha-Qehillot. It is written entirely as a Hebrew poem. There are lengthy descriptions of the …

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  45. 5345LetterENA NS 36.10

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th. century. Containing detailed accounting in the body of the letter. Mentions a funduq; Abū Avraham Yiṣḥaq; saffron; baby's …

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  46. 5346LetterJRL L 4

    Late letter (or letters?) in Judaeo-Arabic from Ya'aqov Bibas in Cairo (פה מצרים) to Shimʿon Frances in Alexandria (נאאמון). Based on the people referenced, this …

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  47. 5347LetterENA 3360.7

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as T-S 12.271. Needs examination. On recto (secondary use): Hebrew poetry.

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  48. 5348LetterT-S AS 153.225

    Much damaged and faded letter. Alexandria is mentioned. Barely legible.

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  49. 5349LetterT-S 18J4.26

    Letter from Ṭoviyya b. Daniel (as far as the first few words of line 31) and the Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda (from the remainder of …

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    1. זה גורלם מנת מדם לתת להם כמעשה יד[ם
    2. להודיע כי כל מלשין ומרכיל חובה להרשיע ותמיד ק[
    3. ברעתו אותו להכריע בצרעת פורחת גופו להנגיע כי כן ראוי א[
    4. יאר…

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  50. 5350LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1409

    Letter from Gedalya Fayrūz, Fustat/Cairo, to Shelomo Berakha, Jerusalem. Dating: Unknown. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to consist mostly of greetings. Needs examination.

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