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  1. 6451LetterT-S Ar.35.5

    Document date
    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter drafts in Judaeo-Arabic on verso, epistolary writing exercises repeated on recto. Dated: 7 Elul 5597 AM which is September 1837 CE. Given the educational …

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  2. 6452LetterCUL Or.1080 J88

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter at one point thought to have been sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor …

    1. . . .] כגק מר ור אלישע [. . . . . . . .
    2. הלויים הירא שמים הנדיב יברכו צורו
    3. ויעזרו ויגן בעדו ויזכהו לראות
    4. שמחת חמודו ותורתו ואריכות ימיו
    5. אמן סלה     מ…
    1. [To the honorable Abū] Naṣr, son of his honor,] greatness and holiness. our master and teacher Elisha, Pride 
    2. of the Levites, the pious and noble, m…
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  3. 6453LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/39

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a son to his father; same writer and addressee as T-S 10J7.3 and T-S 13J21.13 and T-S 13J21.14. He reports that Abū Isḥāq …

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    • 39 recto
    • 39 verso
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    2020
    PGPID
    19325
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  4. 6454LetterT-S NS 324.133

    Inferred date
    Primary languages
    Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

    Letter written in a mixture of Judaeo-Persian and Arabic in Arabic script. Only partly legible. The fragment is labeled "L8" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification …

    1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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  5. 6455LetterENA NS 37.3 + ENA NS 37.2

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Lower section of a late letter in Hebrew to Shelomo [..] regarding a man named Yaʿaqov Naḥman b. Shemuel and a woman named [...] bt. …

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  6. 6456LetterT-S 13J28.23

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Business letter in Arabic script from Hilāl b. Salmān(?) to his maternal uncle ('my father') Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillel. Consists entirely of greetings and …

    Recto

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. تقدمت كتبي الى مولاي الوالد اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وسعادته وسلامته
    3. ونعمته وكبت اعداه ولم ارى لاحداهم جواب الل…
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  7. 6457LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 465

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a letter.

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  8. 6458LetterCUL Or.1080 J161

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter sent from Jerusalem in later medieval times by a woman named Jamila, the widow of Yehuda, addressing two brothers-in-law in Cairo, explaining that she …

    1. האחים המשובחים אשר בצל ה ית ובצלם אני
    2. יושבת כמהר ישועה //נרו// וכמהר [[זלמא .]] יעקב
    3. זלמאטי //נרו// אלו השורותים מאת אחותכם דוניא
    4. גמילה אלמנת כהר יה…
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  9. 6459LetterT-S AS 10.26

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Possibly parts of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  10. 6460LetterENA NS 77.101

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  11. 6461LetterT-S AS 146.353

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Upper part of a letter in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi to a notable named [...] b. Yeshaʿyahu. Opens with a Hebrew panegyric and …

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  12. 6462LetterJRL A 803

    Document date
    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 28 Sivan '85, probably 5585, corresponding to 14 June 1825 CE. The writer is Nissim Sabbāḥ and the addressee is Yaʿaqov …

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  13. 6463LetterBodl. MS Arab. c 56.30

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. Yūsuf, likely in Fustat. He might …

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  14. 6464LetterT-S 13J25.21

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Part of a letter, c. mid-14th century, written by the scribe ʿAzarya ha-Nasi b. Yehalelel the Exilarch b. ʿAzarya the Exilarch b. David ‘the Great …

    1 Discussion

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  15. 6465LetterJRL A 1661

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Minute fragment, contains mostly rhymed sentences, might be from a letter or a poem to honor a certain Halfon, but too little text remained. AA …

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    PGPID
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  16. 6466LetterMoss. IV,2

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions a woman who found the sender in Fustat and said something to him; something about sleeping in …

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  17. 6467LetterT-S AS 152.25

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Fragment from a commercial letter, mentioning that a letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn has arrived, and invoking the ʿaṣabiyya of the addressee to ask him to …

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  18. 6468LetterT-S AS 183.303

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Informal note addressed to a certain Wuḥaysh (al-muʿallim Wuḥaysh ḥarasahū Allāh). In Arabic script. Possibly asking him to convey something to someone else. Additional jottings …

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  19. 6469LetterMoss. VII,183.2

    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Fragment from the beginning of a letter to a dignitary.

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  20. 6470LetterT-S Misc.25.74

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso: Letter addressed to Mubārak. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on the handwriting and the typical names. We did not expect you to fail …

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  21. 6471LetterT-S AS 161.180

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Verso (original use): Bottom of a petition or letter in Arabic script. Mentions the benefaction of sayyidnā al-qāḍī in the first line. The remainder needs …

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  22. 6472LetterYevr. II A 2879

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    A letter from Yosef b. Eliyyahu Qaraj to Yosef b. Ishaq

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  23. 6473LetterT-S AS 149.51 + Bodl. MS heb. d 74/47

    Inferred date
    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Formal petition in Judaeo-Arabic from a group of (sugar?) laborers to a notable titled Peʾer ha-Qahal, (‘the crown of the congregation'). Header: Psalms 41:2. In …

    Bodl. MS heb. d 74/47

    1. הדא אלקול וקאלו [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. אלאנסאן פי צנעה לא תשבה //בה// ולא יחתאג אלי אלנאס ונחן אל.…
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  24. 6474LetterMoss. VII,54.2

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Five lines, well preserved. Written in an elevated register. May begin with a reference to the Torah …

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  25. 6475LetterCUL Or.1080 J75

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The handwriting is very likely that of Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb/Moshe b. Yaʿaqov writing from somewhere in …

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  26. 6476LetterT-S 8J17.23

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Report to a Jewish official, perhaps the Nagid. The sender had been ordered to intervene with Abū l-Makārim, who had been delinquent paying the 20 …

    1. ורדת מכאת[בה
    2. תופיקה יסהל אלי כ[
    3. אלשריף כט מולאנא וסידנא [. . . . . . זאד]ה אללה ע[לוא
    4. ונפאדא וכאן דלך גד חג הסכות המקבה יזכנו לחוג
    5. אותו לפני אדוננו …
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  27. 6477LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 394

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Letter of appeal from Yefet addressed to al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. In Arabic script, with the sender's name in Hebrew script. He begs for a small sum …

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  28. 6478LetterJRL B 7042

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham ben Yiju. This fragment contains the Judaeo-Arabic opening on recto (with an internal address) and an Arabic-script external …

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  29. 6479LetterYevr. III B 904

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yosef and Nissim b. Berakhya (Qayrawan) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal (Fustat), ca. 1020, on the death of the Nagid, Avraham b. …

    Recto

    1. אטאל אללה יא שיכנא וכבירנא ואתירנא עמרך פי אלנעים ואלסרור ואמאט ענך כל אלמ'
    2. מחדור ואגראך עלי אלתופיק פי כל אלאמור כתאבנא יאכינא לח' כלון מן מר…

    O our great and chosen Elder—may God grant you a long life in blessing and happiness, may He ward off all misfortune, and may He bestow upon you succ…

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  30. 6480LetterT-S 12.266

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yosef b. Yishaq Yerushalmi to Ya'aqov ha-Talmid b. Binyamin. He asks him to receive a bashful needy man well and take care of …

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  31. 6481LetterT-S AS 146.188

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on Wednesday, 19 Ḥeshvan. The sender complains that he has been toiling and staying up all night for the last …

    1. סוף תדל [חירת]ך במשיה אללה תעאלי
    2. ואנא פי הדא אלאיאם מן שהר ואלי יומי
    3. הדא והו יום אלד אליט מן מרחשון
    4. פי תעב ומשקה וסהר ליל פי כדמתי
    5. מא לא שהד אללה לי…

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  32. 6482LetterENA NS 7.1

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    IB IV, 53c (*ח53). Letter from an unknown correspondent to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: ca. 1128 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq b. ʿEzra asks to Ḥalfon …

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  33. 6483LetterT-S 13J7.30

    Primary language
    Ladino

    Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …

    recto

    1. בעה [. . . . . . .] יום []
    2. [. . . . . . . . . . . . .] תמוז []
    3. אבא מרי ועטרת לראשי כה״ר נר״ו
    4. דישפואיש די ביזאר וואישטראש מאנוס שירה האזיר ווש
    5. …
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  34. 6484LetterHUC 1018

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in the hand of Daniel b. ʿAzarya or his clerk. Conveying communal news and mentioning Abu ʿAlī and enemies. Should be checked against …

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  35. 6485LetterT-S 8J38.5

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Beginning or address of a letter in Hebrew to two people, one of whom is Shabbetay the cantor.

    1. לשני אוהבנו כבוד מר ורב שבתי החזן הבקי וכבוד מר [ . . . . ] משען הישיבה החוסה בשם יו אלדיו
    2. מגן הוא לכל החוסים בו
    3. א . . ה ה. . . היקר הנדיב והשוע ישו…
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  36. 6486LetterT-S 8J13.10

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Polite but firm informal note to a scholar to send two dirhams, which he owes for the price of a book, because the sender needs …

    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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  37. 6487LetterMoss. IV,90.2

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Saʿīd, probably in Alexandria, to his brother Bū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, probably in Fustat. Dating: early 13th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting …

    Recto

    1. אכוהא סעיד
    2. כתאבי אלא אכי אלעזיז אטל אללה
    3. ואדם עזהא ונעמה ומן חוסן אתופיק
    4. לאכלה גמע אללה ביננא עלא אסר
    5. חל ולדי נעלמו ביה אן מנ יום
    6. אנ כר{ג}ת מא…
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  38. 6488LetterAIU XII.122

    Primary language
    Arabic

    State document, unknown date. Fragment of an Arabic petition (to ". . . al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī. . ."). The titles suggest a date in the …

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  39. 6489LetterT-S Misc.36.207 + Bodl. MS heb. e 44/80 + BL OR 5561B.9 + BL OR 5561B.10 + Bodl. MS heb. e 44/81

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Copy of a letter by Sherira Gaon and Hayye Gaon in the hand of a professional scribe. Originally written in ca. 1005. Sent to Fustat …

    Recto (fol. 2r)

    1. אלוף ובהצלחת מעשיו ובתת חנו ובהגבר
    2. ידיו אשר חסדי ייי האלה עמנו ועם כל ישר
    3. כעל כל אשר גמלנו יי'י ורב טוב לבית ישראל
    4. אשר גמלם כרחמיו ו…
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    5575
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  40. 6490LetterT-S Ar.39.316

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: May be 11th century based on handwriting and formulae. Greetings to Abū l-Riḍā al-Naḥḥās(?) and Abū …

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  41. 6491LetterENA 4101.2

    Document date
    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Communal letter in Hebrew. Faded and torn. From the content it is a letter with legal sermonizing and instructions, though it ends with phrases typical …

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  42. 6492LetterCUL Or.1080 15.19

    Document date
    Primary language
    Spanish

    Letter in Spanish with columns of numerical calculations at bottom that appears to be dated 5 Tamuz 5437 or July 5 1677CE (the "4" is …

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  43. 6493LetterT-S 18J3.18

    Fragment of a letter from Sharira Gaon. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #35) VMR

    Recto

    1. [                                                                               חזקיה] בן מר רב שמואל ראש הסדר ומן [         ]
    2. [             …

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  44. 6494LetterT-S 6J7.14

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a woman, referring to a previous conversation during which the addressee had pointed out that the writer was owed money by a third …

    Recto:

    1. . . . אדאם] אללה עלוה אני גית אלי חצרתך עמרה אללה
    2. ] פקלת לי ליך ענדהם דין פקלת לך לא
    3. ] חתא אני חלפת אן לא אכד אנא
    4. ] . תכון תגריהא עלי ידך מן …

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  45. 6495LetterENA 3910.1

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Petition or report or letter, Mamluk era? A large magnitude from the top of the fragment is missing and a short strip from the right …

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  46. 6496LetterT-S AS 171.115

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions Tripoli, Lebanon (Ṭarāblus al-Shām), Abū l-Surūr b. Muʿammar, and someone traveling to Aleppo.

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  47. 6497LetterT-S Misc.28.66

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting resembles that of Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ (cf. T-S 13J16.19 (PGPID 5888)). Mentions that …

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  48. 6498LetterT-S AS 152.79

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    Hebrew

    A fragment from a letter addressed to a notable. The writer sends his wishes that the position of the addressee will continue—a usual blessing when …

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  49. 6499LetterMIAC 266

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    Arabic, Hebrew

    Invitation for attending the ceremony of Hanukkah hosted by the Tāj Torah society at its center in the Jewish quarter – December 24 1935CE – …

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  50. 6500LetterENA 2804.20 + Moss. Ia,16

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    Hebrew

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda and nine other Jerusalemites confirming the receipt of ten dinars from Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 …

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    1. תראינה ירושלם נוה שאנן אהל בל יצען בל יסע יתידותיו לנצ[ח וכל [חבליו]
    2. בל ינתקו ומעט מהרבה נשארנו כי עונותינו גרמו לנו וחטאינו ענו [בנו כי]
    3. פשענו את…
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