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  1. 6851LetterCUL Or.1080 J203

    Letter fragment from Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. Preserving only the last two lines, including his signature (wreathed in tiny letters).

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  2. 6852LetterT-S 16.103 + T-S Misc.22.245

    Verso (original use): Three distinct document in Arabic script, which have been cut and glued together for the sake of reuse on recto. (1) T-S …

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  3. 6853LetterYevr. II A 1854

    Long letter to Ishaq Noah b. Avraham in Kokizov. The writer is mentioning the communities in Jerusalem and Damascus, and referring to the observation of …

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  4. 6854LetterT-S 10J9.4

    Recto (secondary use): Letter containing a poem addressed a dignitary. In Hebrew. Possibly a token of gratitude for help that the sender received. The letter's …

    1. بسم
    2. חן וחמלה ורוח והצלה וחכמה עם נחלה ושם ותהלה ויקר וגדולה ורנה
    3. וגילה ושמחה כפולה ורפאות תעלה והסרת מחלה ומילוי כל שאלה משוכן מעלה
    4. אל יסוד המעלה לי…

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  5. 6855LetterMoss. II,138.1

    Recto: Draft of a letter. In the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Probably addressed to Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, and related to T-S 8J40.1 (PGPID …

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  6. 6856LetterT-S AS 172.315

    Small fragment of a letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?

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  7. 6857LetterT-S AS 147.175

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. To Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-faqīh(?) ʿAbdallāh. Little of the content of the …

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  8. 6858LetterT-S AS 101.269

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions dinars, writing a book(?) for Abū l-Surūr; the details (? nuqūṭ) of someone's wedding;

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  9. 6859LetterMIAC 97

    Announcement from the council of teachers of the Jews of Cairo to parents on the matters of the beginning of the school year in 1954/55 …

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  10. 6860LetterCUL Or.1081 2.5

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to جناب حضرت الحجب(؟) المحترم حاخام زادة(؟) . . . . اليهود الربان. The sender's name includes Ṣāliḥ, …

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  11. 6861LetterT-S 13J34.7

    Letter from Shemuel b. Khalīfa, in Damascus, to Yosef Abū l-[...], in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Perhaps ca. 17th century. Specifically Friday, Erev Rosh Ḥodesh …

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  12. 6862LetterENA 3099.6

    Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Opens with discussing various transactions and orders, including for a kind of sugar (sukkar murammal), myrtle (marsīn), …

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  13. 6863LetterT-S AS 210.159 + T-S AS 202.342

    Two fragments from a late private letter. In (Maghribī?) Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions a woman who is in great distress. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  14. 6864LetterAIU VII.E.75

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.

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  15. 6865LetterT-S NS 342.9

    Small fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.

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  16. 6866LetterT-S AS 146.263

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part). Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. Mentions people such as Iskandari, Farajallāh, and Yiṣḥaq Mināwī. (Information in …

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  17. 6867LetterT-S AS 162.167 + T-S AS 151.29

    Letter from a certain Abū l-Faḍl to his maternal cousin in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. He urges her to make a pilgrimage to the Land of …

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  18. 6868LetterCUL Add.3341

    Letter of recommendation sent by seven elders of the Jewish community in Minyat Zifta to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, recommending Moshe, the son of a …

    1. . . . . . . . . . ועז מ]לך משפט אהב
    2. . . . . . .] יקבלון אלארץ באלמגלס אלסאמי מושב הדרת יקרת צפירת ת[פארת
    3. מרנו ורבנו אדוננו אברהם הרב המובהק אות הזמן…

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  19. 6869LetterAIU XI.266

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abu l-Ḥasan, sending money with the messenger and asking Abu l-Ḥasan to purchase hashish for the writer.

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  20. 6870LetterT-S Ar.41.67

    Letter/petition from Bū Bakr to a notable named Burhān al-Dīn, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand, layout, and formulary. Asking …

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  21. 6871LetterJRL B 6525

    Letter fragment (upper right corner). In Hebrew. Addressed to some dignitary: ha-Sar ha-Gadol Rabbenu [...]. The sender explains that he has come from a far-away …

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  22. 6872LetterT-S 13J23.12

    Condolence letter from Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat.

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    1. תנחומי ש[ ]רצ [
    2. נחרצות מחוללים [ ]צות יסורים [ ]
    3. זעוכים וזעומי הפרצות דרכיו גוחימו בעליצה אשר יאשרי[מו]
    4. לאחוז צדקימו במועיצות לדעת בטוהר ידימו…

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  23. 6873LetterDK 228.3 (alt: 228/B, XIX)

    Letter (fragment) referring inter alia to a Nile voyage in the entourage of 'the king,' probably al-Malik al-Afḍal (r. 1095–1121). Excerpts from recto: "... send …

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    1. ] . . .
    2. ינפדה מע מן אתפק ודפעת
    3. לה תמן עלפה לילתין וקלת לה
    4. רבמא לם יתפק לך מן ידבר
    5. אליום מא אמתנעת אן אכד
    6. אלסרג ואללגאם אלא כוף מנך
    7. לילא יצעב ד…

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    1. …

    2. [I will] send it with whomever you come to an agreement with and I will give him

    3. the price of fodder for two nights. I told him 

    4. it w…

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  24. 6874LetterT-S AS 145.178

    Brief letter to Saʿadya the cantor. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century. Politely asking him to obtain a response to the letters (legal queries?) which …

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  25. 6875LetterT-S AS 182.108

    Letter in Arabic script. Very faded.

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  26. 6876LetterENA NS 8.31

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Legible phrases: "...idol worship... I have no way to... all kinds of death... he behaved excessively... and peace. וחי בהם (Leviticus …

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  27. 6877LetterENA 1822a.6

    Letter, fragmentary, from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. ca. 1065

    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה ב[קאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך מן אלקדס]
    2. ע[מר]ה אללה ליב בקין מן שבט ערפך אללה ברכתה ומ[א יליה מן אלשהור]
    3. ואלחאל סל…

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  28. 6878LetterBL OR 5538.2

    Letter by Yisrael [b. Shemuel b. Hofni?]. See Mann, Texts and Studies, I, 165–66. Date is given, possibly Elul [1]315 = 1004 CE. Information from …

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  29. 6879LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/10

    Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq the Qaraite, in Jerusalem, greeting various Qaraite notables in Fustat including Shemuel b. ʿAzarya b. Mevasser, ʿEzra b. Shemuʾel b. …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלפאצל ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה
    2. וחראסתה וסלאמתה מן אלמסתקר אלקדס אלשריף חרסה אללה ועמרה
    3. בבקאיה לתמאן כלון מן שעבאן …

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  30. 6880LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 279

    Fragment of a letter, probably. Mentioning the ingredients (ḥawāʾij) for a medicinal powder (dharūr) and then proceeding to give a recipe/prescription (wa-hādhihī ṣifatuh) for it. …

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  31. 6881LetterCUL Or.1080 J268

    Second leaf of a long letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of both recto and verso). Partially concerning a dispute of religious scholars. Continuous reference …

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  32. 6882LetterT-S AS 157.274

    Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he approached [Abū] Nāṣr Kātib al-Jaysh (=Ḥesed b. Sahl al-Tustarī?) and discussed …

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  33. 6883LetterT-S Ar.53.67

    Continuation of a long business letter sent from Alexandria to Cairo. Dating: Ca. 1235 CE, based on the date of T-S Ar.54.66 which is by …

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    1. תוגהו אלא אלתגר אפתח כתבהם
    2. ואקראהא תגד אוזאן אלפצה [[ויע]]
    3. וינעם סידנא ופקה יטלע ללקאהרה
    4. לאולא כגק מו מנחם תתולא צרפהא
    5. בחית לא יצרו אנפסהם ותא…

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    (If) they have already left for Alexandria, open the letters and read them. You will find in them the weights of the (various consignments of) …

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  34. 6884LetterMoss. Ia,19

    Letter in Hebrew from the exilarch [ʿAzarya] b. Shelomo b. Yoshiya to [...] b. Ḥusayn. Large space between the lines. Verso contains the address, inverted, …

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  35. 6885LetterMIAC 120

    Letter promoting the ancient learnings of the age of the first prophets – 1952CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 120) – in Arabic. …

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  36. 6886LetterCUL Or.1080 J285

    Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides, written to Nissim Ha-Dayyan (judge). Mentions the wife of Abū Manṣīr b. Abī l-Khayr, the tax-guarantor (ḍāmin, צאמן) …

    CUL Or 1080 J 285, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.237-240,N.H. 04-26-88, (P). Letter from a file of Abraham Maimonides, written to Nissim Ha-Dayya…

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  37. 6887LetterT-S G1.53

    Private letter almost entirely in Aramaic, with a few phrases in Hebrew. (It is rare for a letter to have this much Aramaic.) Dating: maybe …

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  38. 6888LetterBL OR 10578E.46

    Letter to Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the mother of someone... something to be purchased for the writer... three capitation tax payments... taking the receipts... someone …

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  39. 6889LetterT-S NS 325.39

    Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew. Mentions 'our master . . . Shelomo' and ha-Rav Moshe b. Sheʾrit and "your slave Yiṣḥaq" (probably the …

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  40. 6890LetterT-S 13J27.2

    Business-family letter showing the concern of the Jews of Egypt for those of Yemen. Dated Thursday, middle of the month Elul. (Information from Goitein's index …

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    1. כי ייי יהיה בכסליך ושמר וג
    2. אלבארי עאלם מא.צי אלממלוך מן שדה
    3. אלשוק נחו טלעתך אלסעידה ולו שרחת בעצה
    4. למא כאן יסעה קרטאס ולא יחויה דרג ואלחצרה
    5. עאל…

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  41. 6891LetterT-S AS 161.234 + T-S AS 161.233

    Letter from Yosef b. ʿEzra to 'my brother' Avraham b. ʿAṭāʾ (probably the same one as in Bodl. MS heb. d 66/36). In Judaeo-Arabic. Few …

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  42. 6892LetterT-S NS 226.118

    Small fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi

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  43. 6893LetterT-S NS 292.72

    Small fragment of a letter. Elevated register, but little substance preserved. On verso there are two crossed out lines mentioning the bearer Abu l-Fakhr.

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  44. 6894LetterENA NS 83.303

    Narrative report in Arabic script. Letter, legal query, or literary? Mentions a Jewish man, perhaps named Yūsuf, who came before a governor (wālī). Then refers …

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  45. 6895LetterT-S AS 84.136

    Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably late, based on handwriting. Concerns some legal issues and contains a sharp rebuke against someone (the addressee?), including the …

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  46. 6896LetterT-S AS 153.186

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 14th–16th century, based on handwriting and linguistic features. Nearly the whole page is preserved, but the text is extremely …

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  47. 6897LetterT-S NS 292.67

    Complete note written in both Arabic script and in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand. Quite faded. Mentions honey. Needs examination for content.

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  48. 6898LetterMoss. V,366.1

    Fragment of letter granting the privilege of slaughtering birds, written in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (or rather Efrayim b. Shemarya?). (Information …

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  49. 6899LetterT-S AS 151.27

    Mentions names such as Abū Naṣr; Ibn Qayyūma; Ibn al-Fakhkhār. Mentions commodities such as flax, brazilwood, cinnamon, and pepper. Also mentions חאמס = ḥamas = …

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  50. 6900LetterT-S NS 277.226

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively large and complete, but faded, and there is no address on verso. The sender has sent 8 dinars and 15 …

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