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  1. 7751LetterT-S AS 155.168

    Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Mentions Rabbenu Hillel ha-M[...]; yearning for the addressee; greetings to the addressee's mother; and the sale of …

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  2. 7752LetterT-S AS 178.174

    Note from Yūsuf to "al-Rayyis Rabbi Eliyya" (= Eliyyahu the Judge). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Giving instructions or making a request …

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  3. 7753LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1863/11b

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Cryptic. Mentions a blazing fire.

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  4. 7754LetterT-S 10J11.25

    Letter from a penniless woman, the widow of Abū Surrī, to Mevorakh b. Saadya (1094–1111). She begs him to come to her rescue in a …

    1. בש [רח
    2. אעלם חצרה [ס]ידנא אלרייס שר השרים נגיד הנגידים
    3. עוז כל ב[ית יש]ראל יברכו אלהינו וישמרו ויהיה בעזרו
    4. אני אמר[אה] אבו סרי רחמה אללה כנת קד זוגת א…

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  5. 7755LetterENA NS 7.77

    Business letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon. Addressed to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Addressed to someone in Fustat (whose name may …

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  6. 7756LetterENA 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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  7. 7757LetterT-S AS 210.133

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely a Maghribī letter of the 11th century. Mentions on recto women named Sittāt and Sitt al-Ahl. Quite faded. Needs examination.

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  8. 7758LetterHUC 1135

    Bifolio with letter(s) in both Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew. All appear to be addressed to a notable or notables, praising him and appealing …

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  9. 7759LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 695

    Letter, fragment, in Arabic script. Beginning of a basmala and few honorifics preserved on recto. The text on verso has faded out and not very …

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  10. 7760LetterT-S NS J304

    Recto: A summary of the different names terms applied to girls at different stages of life, perhaps from a halakhic standpoint. Verso: Informal note in …

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  11. 7761LetterT-S AS 205.155

    Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.

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  12. 7762LetterT-S NS 323.24

    Letter in Hebrew. Late. The writer is asking advice about payment of a debt.

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  13. 7763LetterL-G Misc. 30

    Letter in Hebrew. Probably written in Corfu, probably addressed to al-Shaykh Yūnus. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. Discussing competition between Venetians and other …

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  14. 7764LetterT-S AS 104.72

    Recto: ʿamida for Rosh ha-Shana with Judaeo-Arabic heading צלוה ראש השאנה (sic). Verso: Arabic text, probably a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  15. 7765LetterIOM D 55.11

    Letter from Ṣadoq ha-Kohen, in Sunbāṭ, to Peraḥya ha-Kohen, probably in Malīj. Dating: 1460 Seleucid, or shortly thereafter 1148/49 CE. Reporting on the substance of …

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  16. 7766LetterT-S 8J13.3 + T-S NS J250

    Letter fragment in the hand of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi Nisaburi about his cost in an affair concerning Abu Sa‘id Makhlūf al-Nafusi. (Information from Goitein's index cards; …

    Recto of T-S NS J250:

    1. כאן תאכרהם . . . ף חאלהם קל . . . . . . . .
    2. אליום . ף ס׳ יום חתי //מא// תצרפת גיר פי הדה אל . מן
    3. ומא כתבת הדה אלכתאב אלא בכלפת…

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  17. 7767LetterJRL A 489

    Business letter from Yiṣḥaq to his brother Avraham. In Ladino. Dated: 20 Raḥamim (Elul) 5544 AM = 6 September 1784 CE. The letter carrier is …

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    1. ב׳׳ה 20 רחמים (אב) תקמ׳׳ד
    2. ארש כ׳׳ר אברהם יצ׳׳ו
    3. אד׳׳ש קון חוסין קאפיט' ארנאוט ווס איסקריב'י אי ווס מאנדי אונה קאשה
    4. די 64 אוקאס זינג'יפ'רה ע׳׳י …

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  18. 7768LetterJRL B 7399

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script in the right margin (the tarjama?). Dating: likely ca. 13th century. On verso refers to the address as …

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  19. 7769LetterBL OR 5535.1

    Segment of a letter from Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon b. Eliyyahu, Damascus, to Ulla ha-Levi b. Yosef, Fustat, Dated: 19 Adar 1427 Seleucid = 5 March …

    1. כי רם יו
    2. מן שלמה הכהן הנקרא בגאון יו ונשגב
    3. בשם קדשו משגב לנו אלהי יעקב סלה
    4. ביר גאון נין גאון נכד אהרן קדוש יו זקל
    5. ברכות שמים מעל וברכות תהום רובצת ת…

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  20. 7770LetterT-S 10J15.9

    Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). In Judaeo-Arabic. After the greetings, which include wishes for the husband's recovery from illness, she continues, …

    1. I inform you, master of the house, may God always give you happiness, strengthen your well-being,  

    2. cure your sorrows, destroy your enemies and…

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  21. 7771LetterT-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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  22. 7772LetterT-S 10J16.1

    IB VI, 11. Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in Sindabūr (India), to his uncle and father-in-law ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fusṭāṭ,. In Judaeo-Arabic. He found …

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    I am writing to you, my father, who is dear to me and with me, may God prolong his life and make permanent his honoured position, his support a…

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  23. 7773LetterBL OR 5566D.34

    Recto: The lower part of a letter mostly in Arabic (concluding blessings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic) from a parent to a son. The addressee is …

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  24. 7774LetterT-S 12.436

    Letter to the son/boy R. Elazar, from Yusuf the brother of Mansur. About three-fourths of recto is taken up with self-pitying expressions of how sad …

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  25. 7775LetterENA NS 72.9

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Mentions the owner of the boat (ṣāḥib al-markab) and Alexandria.

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  26. 7776LetterT-S AS 146.190

    Verso: Note in Arabic script to someone addressed as al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq. Mentions the bearer ʿImrān, two houses (ʿan al-dārayn al-mukhtaṣṣa bi-[...]), Masjid al-Qubba (a mosque …

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  27. 7777LetterT-S 18J3.9

    Letter in which Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, describes the earthquake, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, or to the community of Fustat, December 1033 CE. The …

    1. ....
    2. יצאו מן הבתים לרחובות כי ראו הבתים הכתלים מטים ועומדים והקורות יוצאות
    3. נפרדות מן הקירות ושבות חוזרות והבינינ[ו]ת המחוזקות נופלות והדירות החדשות
    4. …

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    (ln. 9-11) Many resigned themselves to divine judgement, reciting ‘The LORD is the true God, the living God and the everlasting King etc’ (Jere…

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  28. 7778LetterT-S J3.34

    From a book of formulas of letters. Compare with T-S J3.3

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  29. 7779LetterT-S K25.240.29

    Recto: Bottom of a letter from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. Dated: 15th day of the ʿOmer 1529 Seleucid, which is …

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  30. 7780LetterT-S K15.18

    Pledges for charity on Sabbath lekh lekha of the year 1647, the third week of the Jewish liturgical year, falling in October 1335 (Goitein). The …

    1. שבת לך לך אסמו ללפ[קרא]
    2. הד' מר ור שמואל הדיין הכה[ן
    3. 20
    4. אלשיך אלמופק אכיה יצחק
    5. 5 5
    6. אלכ' יוסף אלשיך צדקה אלשיך
    7. 5 10 5
    8. אברהם אבן נגיב נאצר בן יעקב
    9. 1 1
    10. …

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  31. 7781LetterENA 2560.9 + ENA 2727.35

    Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh and one other person, in Ashqelon, to Avraham b. Elʿazar, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1130 CE. Bottom missing. …

    ENA 2727.35

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. עבדא אלחצרה אלסאמיה אלאגליה אלתקתיה אל[שר]יעיה הדרת כגק מרנו ורבנו נז[רנו]
    3. וכתרנו אברהם השר הגדול המשכיל בתורת האלהים החכם והנבו…

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  32. 7782LetterMIAC 69

    Letter dealing with religious matters – circa 1912CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 69) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein …

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  33. 7783LetterT-S 8.44

    Recto: Letter of appeal for assistance. Damaged and faded. Opens with several lines of Hebrew blessings for the addressee. The body of the letter begins …

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  34. 7784LetterT-S 13J23.1

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: probably 1039 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …

    1. אל אהובנו וחברנו שומר משמרתנו וסר אל משמעתנו כגק מר ור
    2. אפרים החבר בסנ גדו יהי צור עזרו וצל סתרו שלומותיו להרבות
    3. וברכותיו לצוות ברבי שמירה נוחו עדן ק…

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  35. 7785LetterCUL Or.1080 J221

    Letter of condolence in Hebrew.

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  36. 7786LetterT-S 12.336

    Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to a man in Fustat concerning a replacement for the supervisor who was responsible for the butchers in Fustat, after …

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    1. שלום ושלוה יהיה אדם יחידי בה וראה [
    2. ויעמידם על טופס הכתב וייטיבו עצה לראות [
    3. הנזכרות ויתנה עליו מה שחקקנו ויכתוב אל[
    4. שיבדקהו בשחיטה ובדיקה ויר…

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  37. 7787LetterT-S Ar.54.66

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated (v2–3): 16th of the ʿOmer '195, meaning 4800+195=4935 AM, which corresponds to 15 May 1235 CE. (Not 1595 Seleucid, corresponding …

    1. הנדיב תנצרה אדאם אללה עזה ורוח
    2. סרה וכפאה כל מחדור וינהי שדה
    3. שוקה אליה ואפתכארה פי הדה אלאיאם
    4. אלדי כאן בהא ענדהם פי דמוה תו
    5. ומא כאן לי פרגה וכאדך דכו…

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  38. 7788LetterT-S 13J30.6

    Public letter in Arabic script. An appeal to the community, to be read in the synagogue, against a certain 'Rayyis' who had rented a newly …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. يا معشر اليهود اين انتم من 

    3. الله تخلوا الريس يسكن ابن 

    4. المصموري في الدار الذي

    5. خلف كنيسة العراقين

    6. التي اشتروها ملاز…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
    2. O community of the Jews! Where are you in relation to
    3. God? You allow the rayyis to lodge …

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  39. 7789LetterMIAC 26

    Letter sent from Aleppo to Egypt whose sender is reporting of the arrival of cargo – 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 26) …

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  40. 7790LetterNLI 577.10/12

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions that he sent two dirhams to his cousin and wants him to purchase two kohl containers for him. …

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  41. 7791LetterENA NS 2.22

    Verso (probably original use): Letter in Arabic script. Nearly complete. Mentions someone who recovered from an illness (ابن . . . وحب الله بالعافية); Ghālib …

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  42. 7792LetterENA NS 45.31 + T-S 20.90

    Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya possibly to Yoshiyyahu b. ʿAzarayahu ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1055 CE (per Gil). Verso is covered with Arabic-script jottings …

    1. הדא אלכבר ענד אלקהל באלתהניה לי ואלמסרה אלעטימה וכאן דאך
    2. לגמאעתנא כיום טוב וגדרו באלצום כמא וגב עליי ואן כנת אקצר ען קצא
    3. מא יגב עליי ב[ ] אלנעמה אלת…

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  43. 7793LetterT-S NS 99.40

    Fragment of an 11th-century mercantile letter mentioning Ifriqiyyah, Markab al-Amīr, and Abu Avraham Ismail.

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  44. 7794LetterCUL Or.1080 3.42

    Long Hebrew letter of condolence to Seʿadya ha-Ḥaver upon the death of somebody (his father?). The writer describes the physicial and emotional agony that came …

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  45. 7795LetterT-S NS 99.58

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. One side deals with routine business matters. The other side reads, ". . . out of your favor (inʿāmak), prescribe for …

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  46. 7796LetterT-S NS 277.132

    Damaged fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Discussing whether the sender will go to the adressee's location. Requests news of the tax (? כבר אלמאס). …

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  47. 7797LetterL-G Misc. 55

    Letter sent from Alexandria to Avraham ha-Rav ha-Sefaradi. (Perhaps the same Avraham ha-Sefaradi as in ENA 2558.13, who corresponded with the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides in …

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  48. 7798LetterBodl. MS heb. d 76/60

    A pregnant woman, seemingly well-to-do, complains to her sister in the city about neglect and expresses apprehension that part of her house will be taken …

    1. ב[שמך] עבדהא אבראהים געל פדאהא
    2. אלי אכתי ואלעזיזה עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאהא
    3. וגמע אלשמל בהא ען קריב וגיר דלך אנני כתי[רה]
    4. אלשוק אליכם אלחמד ללה אלדי ל…

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  49. 7799LetterENA NS 7.50

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Deals with trade, including in pepper and flour. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Ibn Sibāʿ.

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  50. 7800LetterMIAC 23973.50

    Letter from Lāmiʿ ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm providing important political news to the eparch and historical information for us: …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل ووزير الملك اطال الله بقاه
    3. وادام تاييده وحراسته وسلامته ونعمته ان متحملها صاحبى
    4. وممن يكرمنى او…

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. I inform the Ikshīl and Master of the Horses, the vizier of the king—may God prolong his l…

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