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  1. 10501LetterT-S 20.80

    IB IV, 58 (ח68). Letter of Abu Ali Yehezqel b. Netanel, Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon, 1140, written on a fragment of a Fatimid decree …

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    1. וצל כתב מולאי ואכי ומעתמדי ואעז אלכלק עלי וקד עלם אללה תבארך
    2. ותעאלי אן סאעה קבולהא עלי אקבלהא ואסר למא ידל עליהא
    3. מן דואם עאפיתה וסלאמתה אללה י…

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    1. הגיעו מכתבי אדוני ואחי ומשענתי והיקר לי בבני אדם. ויודע ה' יתברך
    2. ויתעלה שברגע שאני מקבל אותם אני מנשק להם ושמח אני על
    3. התמרת בריאותו ושלומו הנר…

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  2. 10502LetterT-S NS 308.119

    Business letter from Musa b. Ishaq b. Hisda to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ibn Awkal. This letter is a response to a letter sent by the …

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    1. כתאבי אליך יאשיכי ורייסי וגלילי וכבירי אטא<ל> אללה בקאך ואדאם געמאך
    2. ותולאך ורעאך ומן תופיקה לא אכלאך ען סלאמה ושגל פי אלקלב ממא
    3. ורד עלי קלבי מ…

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  3. 10503LetterENA 3982.47

    Letter in Arabic script, in a beautiful hand. Dating: 11th century, based on the reference to the Tustaris. The sender is a professional scribe, probably …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. قد عرف مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه //وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه// شرح حالي مع خصومي على اختلاف احوال المطالبة وصفاتها 

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  4. 10504LetterT-S 6J5.3

    Recto: Lower part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender heard that his brother Yosef died in India, and he asks the addressee to enquire …

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  5. 10505LetterT-S Misc.10.129

    Verso (original use): Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (he signs Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān) to al-shaykh al-rashīd Abū l-Faḍl. In Arabic script, with the last line …

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  6. 10506LetterCUL Or.1080 J224

    Letter from an unknown writer in al-Maḥalla to Sar ha-Sarim (Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya) in Fustat. Written in Hebrew, with the address in Arabic on …

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  7. 10507LetterENA NS 41.1

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Refers to many losses over the last two years. …

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  8. 10508LetterHalper 484

    Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Ḥakīm, the physician of the amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The writer seems to …

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  9. 10509LetterENA 2804.19

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Shemuel Ha-Kohen b. Avtalyon concerning a trial that took place in Ramla ca. 1030 (per Gil). Dating: ca. 1025–1051 …

    ENA 2804, f. 19, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.198-199 (Doc. #107), C.B. 02-25-88 (p) Letter from Solomon b. Judah to Samuel Ha-Kohen b. Avtalyon con…

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  10. 10510LetterENA NS 77.84

    Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Commercial. Dating: Likely 11th century.

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  11. 10511LetterENA NS 38.18

    Business letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj (Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb?) Ibn ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. This document appears to have been overlooked by past Ibn ʿAwkal scholars. …

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  12. 10512LetterT-S 13J35.4

    Letter addressed to Netanʾel b. Aharon and his son Shelomo. The letter consists entirely of blessings for the holidays. Mainly in Hebrew. The passages in …

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  13. 10513LetterJRL B 4423

    Letter fragment addressed to some dignitary (rabbenu ha-rav). In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the flattering introduction is preserved. Congratulating him on a happy union (wedding? al-wuṣla al-saʿīda …

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  14. 10514LetterT-S NS J380

    Abū l-Faraj b. Khalaf (?), probably in Minyat Ghamr, writes to his cousin (ibn ʿamma), Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. These cousins had prior correspondence …

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    1. מן אבו אלפרג בן כלף
    2. אלדי אעלם אלשיך אלאגל
    3. רבי אלייה אטאל אללה בק[אה]
    4. ואדם עזה ונעמה ומן חסן
    5. אלתופיק לכלה וגמע שמל
    6. בה קריב ולדי אעלמך בה
    7. אן וצ…

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  15. 10515LetterT-S AS 150.37

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to Abū [...]a b. Faḍl. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). None of the content of the message is preserved. …

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  16. 10516LetterT-S 8J15.25

    Recto: letter from Binyām to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī concerning business matters regarding commodities such as tamarind (tamar hindī) and pomegranate flowers (jullanār). Mentions people including …

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  17. 10517LetterT-S Ar.19.9

    Recto: Letter from Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. In Arabic script. Dated: 538 AH = 1143/44 CE. Mentions the bearer of the letter, Karīm b. Zak[kūr? b.] …

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  18. 10518LetterT-S AS 151.65

    Communal letter, or perhaps a letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The handwriting resembles that of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. (Information in …

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  19. 10519LetterCUL Or.1080 J264

    Letter from Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to his father-in-law, Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060s CE according to …

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    1. שיכי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם לך אל
    2. סלאמה ואלנעמה ואלכראמה כתאבי אליך ען חאל
    3. סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק לחצרתך אלשריפה קרב
    4. אללה אלאגתמאע בך בפ…

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  20. 10520LetterENA NS 36.26

    Letter from a certain Bū l-Fatḥ "al-Malikī al-Kāmilī" to a distinguished physician. No details are preserved beyond the grand titles of the addressee. The sender …

    1. الملكي الكاملي
    2. مملوكه بو الفتح
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. ورد كتاب المولى الحكيم الاجل
    5. العا[لم] الرىيس الاوحد الفاضل
    6. المفضل الاكمل الاسعد الريس جمال
    7. الع…

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  21. 10521LetterJRL A 924

    This letter concerns a transaction in wheat (possibly one irdabb) and involving among others a haver ('member of the yeshiva'). If al-shaykh Yeshu'a (lines 3-4) …

    1. אלמולא אלמלמד שצ אלדי יעלם[.]
    2. לאבני דכל פי דכנה ויכד קמח
    3. אנ..........ה אלשיך
    4. ישועה שצ ואן חצל ידי ואן אכד ארדב
    5. ואדכל אלדי קבצה אלחבר מע אי מן גא
    6. ואל…

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  22. 10522LetterENA NS 61.15

    Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: אעלם . . . . חבס אלקאצי פי חאגה . . . רחמתה . . . לם …

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  23. 10523LetterMIAC 217

    Announcement to the members of the Jewish community of Cairo on the occasion of the yearly visit to the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat – …

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  24. 10524LetterT-S 8J17.7

    Letter sent to Abū l-Barakāt Ibn Shalīda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer calls the addressee 'my uncle' (ʿammī). The purpose of this letter is …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי אעלם בה חצרתה אן וצל אלי ענדי אלחזאן אבו סחק ודכר לי אנך
    3. פי חאל אן צעב מן אלוגע וקלי (=וקאל לי) פי גמלה חדיתה אנך קלת לה
    4. א]נני מא . ק .…

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  25. 10525LetterT-S Ar.39.7

    Business letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part). Faded. "By that which I believe of the Holy Law (al-sharīʿa al-muqaddasa)! I didn't receive anything from …

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  26. 10526LetterT-S NS J261

    Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Yosef b. Shabbetay al-Rūmī, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential, filled with language of patroange (e.g. li-l-mawlā ʿuluww al-ra'y fī …

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    1. עבדו יצחק
    2. בש רח
    3. קד וצל אלי אלממלוך אלמכאתבה
    4. אלשריפה והו כט מ ור יוסף
    5. ביר שבתי זצל וקראה אלממלך
    6. ופהם מא פ[י]ה ואמתתלת
    7. דלך ובעד דלך קד סיר אלממ…

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  27. 10527LetterAIU VII.E.63

    Letter of recommendation for charity for the bearer, from Trieste, dated 22 June 1863. The body of the letter is in Hebrew and gives the …

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  28. 10528LetterT-S 6J6.14

    Bottom of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions pearls; Abū ZIkrī Ibn Sughmār; a request to buy camphor; his sister's son Ḥammād(?); …

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  29. 10529LetterT-S 13J25.3

    Letter from the future Gaon Daniel b. ʿAzarya, in al-Mahdiyya, to the leader of the Babylonian community Sahlān b. Ibrāhīm (aka Abū ʿAmr Sahlān b. …

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    1. בשמך רח מן דנ[יאל] בן עזריהו הנש[יא]
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא [מולאי וסיידי סהלאן ה]אלוף [ ואדאם עזה]
    3. [ות]אידה מן מהדיה יום אלג יא בתש[רי ] יגדיל ע…

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  30. 10530LetterT-S 13J23.10

    IB II, 2. Letter from ʿAmram b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, asking Nahray to intervene with Ḥasan b. Bundār. Dating: 1094–97 CE. …

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    1. לכבד גד' קד' מרינו ורבינו נהוראי חכם הישיבה החבר בסנהדרין גד' 
    2. אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ותאיידה ונעמתה
    3. ען שוק שדיד לטאָלְעתהם אל שר…

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    1. (2−1) לכבוד, וכו', ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת עזרתו ואת חסדו לך.
    2. אני מתגעגע לפניכם האצילות, ישמרך אלוהים. אף ע…

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  31. 10531LetterT-S Ar.34.188

    Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ḍamān, "al-taqqaṣī wa-l-ijtihād" (finding something out diligently), a turban, and Abū Naṣr. On verso mentions half a dinar minus …

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  32. 10532LetterT-S 8J17.1

    Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a contact in Fustat. He heard that al-Shaykh al-Yesod would like to spend Shabbat in Fustat, and …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקאכם ואלאן מא כאן
    2. מן אללה תעאלי אלא כל כיר וקד סמעת
    3. אן אלשיך אליסוד יחב יסבת פי מצר
    4. פאתפצלו אמצו אליה ואוצוה עליה
    5. ולא תודוה(?) אן ע…

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  33. 10533LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/15

    Letter from Ṣedaqa b. ʿAyyāsh, in Alexandria, to Abū Naṣr al-Faḍl b. Sahl al-Tustarī (aka Ḥesed b. Yashar), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1023 (Bareket and …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא שיכנא וגלילנא ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה
    2. ונעמתה לד בקין מן אייר אלמבארך ען סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא
    3. אלחמד כת'ירא וען שוק שדיד ק…

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    1. אני כותב, ייתן לך אלוהים –– אדוננו ונכבדנו –– אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו ותמיכתו בך
    2. ואת אושרך, בכ׳׳ה באייר, יבורך; שלומי טוב ואנ…

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  34. 10534LetterENA 2739.16

    Letter from Khalfa to his 'brother' (brother-in-law?) Mūsā b. Sāmiḥ, in Cairo. Concerning various family matters. (1) No answer to letters. (2) Abū l-Faḍl came …

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  35. 10535LetterT-S AS 145.237

    Letter to a Rosh Kalla, mentioning a certain Yehuda. Mentions the arrival in Damsīs of the representative (nā[ʾib]) of the amīr Muẓaffar(?) al-Dawla. (Information in …

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  36. 10536LetterMIAC 95

    Personal letter from a Jew residing in Jerusalem to Mr. David ʿAntabi in Cairo referencing his daughter's ketubbah – c. 1900 – Museum of Islamic …

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  37. 10537LetterT-S AS 156.231 + T-S AS 156.232

    Letter mentioning a certain Joseph. Arabic jottings on the other side. (Information from CUDL)

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  38. 10538LetterT-S AS 171.184

    Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century.

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  39. 10539LetterT-S NS 225.19

    Recto is a piece of a letter or petition describing legal negotiations, in which a woman makes a declaration, someone is granted permission to meet …

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  40. 10540LetterHalper 382

    Letter from ʿOvadya, Avraham, and Yefet the sons of Shemarya to Avraham b. Natan 'the Seventh', titled Ḥemdat ha-Yeshivot. The letter opens with a paragraph …

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  41. 10541LetterT-S AS 145.288

    Draft or unfinished letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  42. 10542LetterT-S 13J26.19

    Letter sent by the manager of a farm far away from the capital, named Abū l-Faraj b. Hillel, to the landlord, the Nagid Mevorakh (in …

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    1. סבב הדה אלאחרף אטאל אללה בקא חצרה סידנא שר השרים
    2. נגיד הנגידים עוז כל בית ישראל ירום הודה ויגדל כבודה
    3. אעלאמהא אן אלנחל אד לם ישתרי לה שי יקוא ב…

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  43. 10543LetterT-S K5.47

    Official letter from the Yeshiva to a notable whose name is torn away. In Hebrew for the exordium and Judaeo-Arabic for the body. Dating: 11th …

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  44. 10544LetterT-S NS 315.24

    Letter fragment in Hebrew. Very faded. Probably addressed to a notable; everything legible seems to be blessings and praises, widened space between the lines. Reused …

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  45. 10545LetterT-S NS J59

    Informal note/petition addressed to Avraham Maimonides, here with the title "Nagid" (thus, post-1213 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks when Avraham will spend Shabbat in …

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    1. כאדם אלמגלס אלס כבוד גדולת קדושת
    2. מרנו ורבנו שרנו אדירנו נגיד הנגידים וראש
    3. ליהודים פועל המעוז המגדול הגאון
    4. הגדון(!) מרנו ורבנו אברהם ירום הודו …

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  46. 10546LetterT-S 10J17.29

    Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Kohen. Contains initial greetings, a request for assistance, a congratulations on recovering from an illness, and wishes for the forthcoming high …

    1. עזרי מעם ייי עושה שמים וארץ
    2. ויהי דויד לכל דרכיו משכיל וייי עמו
    3. חזקו ויאמץ לבבכם כל המיחלים //לייי//
    4. אשרי משכיל על דל וג ימלטיהו ייי
    5. מלוה ייי חונן דל…

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  47. 10547LetterMoss. IV,91.2

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee, one Ibrāhīm, had asked the writer to copy out the "ṣadr" (in context probably meaning "protocol") of the letter …

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  48. 10548LetterENA NS 57.33

    List in Hebrew. Perhaps items pertaining to a shop or a house. On verso there is a date in Arabic script: 4 Dhū l-Qaʿda 505 …

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  49. 10549LetterT-S Ar.39.426

    Letter addressed to a sister. In Arabic script. The handwriting is quite beautiful and distinctive. It seems that a later scribe reused a lot of …

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  50. 10550LetterENA 1822a.53

    Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyūb, addressed to his father, the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi) in Fustat. Moshe reports on the receipt of various …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקאכם ואד/א/ם עזכם
    2. ונעמאכם גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר
    3. חאל במנה וכרמה אנה אלקאדר עלי דלך
    4. ואמא גיר דא פאני עלי גמלה אלסלאמה
    5. ואלעאפי…

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