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  1. 10901LetterT-S AS 9.212 + T-S AS 9.192

    Possibly a letter. In Arabic script. Extremely faded. (Information from CUDL)

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  2. 10902LetterT-S NS 297.299

    Mercantile letter addressed to Abū ʿUmar al-Arjawānī, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Mentions purple (arjawān) textiles. Reused for Hebrew writing exercises. Needs further examination.

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  3. 10903LetterENA NS 22.15

    Letter from Salah b. Daud, probably from Tinnis, to Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Bnaya. Around 1057. Regarding the difficulties to sell indigo, which the writer …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה ב[קא מולאי אלשיך] ואד[אם עזה]

    2. וסלאמתה וסעאד[ה]

    3. בקין מן אייר ערפ[ף אללה בראכתה ומא יליה מן אל[שהיר ען]

    4. סלאמה פל אלנפס [ …

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  4. 10904LetterT-S NS 321.29

    On recto a fragment letter from [...] Fasi the cantor b. Shelomo the cantor to Efraim b. Shemaria. On verso fragment from a letter written …

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  5. 10905LetterENA NS 42.17

    Letter in which members of the Sholal family are mentioned

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  6. 10906LetterNLI 577.3/8

    Recto: Letter from Yehuda to an unknown addressee. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Distinctive (Levantine or Iraqi?) handwriting. Deals with business matters, mainly produce (plums/prunes, dates, ḥashīsha, …

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  7. 10907LetterENA 2738.22

    Upper left fragment: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions: …

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  8. 10908LetterT-S 18J4.20

    Part of a letter, from Sivan 1508 (= 1197 CE), from a businessman-scholar in Raqqa (Kalneh) on the Euphrates, replying to the recipient’s letter that …

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    1. [               ]אב להם לגדוליהם וקטניהם וספק צורך העת
    2. [     ] וכולה המכור בהתר ולא באסור בבטח ולא בפחד
    3. [        ] לי[        ] ועצבי ושקטתי מ…

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  9. 10909LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/20

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Berakhot (b. Shemuel). Expressing thanks to the poet Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo for his “sweet poems and …

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  10. 10910LetterMoss. II,115.4

    Small fragment of a letter.

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  11. 10911LetterAIU VII.E.188

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bazzal, in Mansurah, to his brother Yosef ha-Levi Iskandari, in Fustat/Cairo.

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  12. 10912LetterENA 2558.21

    Letter from a woman, in New Cairo, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb the brother-in-law of [...], in Malīj. In Arabic script. The sender …

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  13. 10913LetterENA NS 77.7

    Letter in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment containing the name Shelomo and blessings.

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  14. 10914LetterL-G Ar. I.77

    Letter from the Jewish community of Qafṣa (Gafsa), Tunisia, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1016 CE, as it mentions Manṣūr b. Rashīq's …

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    1. אטאל אללה בקא שייכנא ורייסנא ואלעזיז עלינא בקאה ואדאם עיזיך(!) ועלוך ותאידך
    2. וציאנתך ורעאייתך ועלוך ולא אכלא מכאנך וכאן לך ומעאך וליין וחאפץ פי…

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  15. 10915LetterT-S 10J32.8 + T-S NS 310.43 + T-S 10J32.9

    Letter from the Gaon Shemuel b. Yosef ha-Kohen perhaps to Shemarya b. Elḥanan. (Gil revised his guess as to the letter's writer after Menahem Ben-Sasson …

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    1. [ ]גם ראוי לכמותו שיהיו בכל
    2. עת אגרותיו תדורות כווסתו הקדומה כי אכן
    3. הוסיף שבח וכבוד בכל קהלה וקהלה ולולי שאנו
    4. מכירים שמחתו באגרותינו לא התדרנו…

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  16. 10916LetterT-S Misc.27.4.9

    Letter of appeal for charity or assistance. Addressed to Peraḥya ha-Kohen. The sender came down with an illness (wa-thāra ʿalā ʿabdih al-maraḍ) and he has …

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  17. 10917LetterT-S NS 99.41

    Copy of Maimonides' letter to Yosef b. Yehuda which comprises the introduction to the Guide for the Perplexed. In the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel …

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  18. 10918LetterT-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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  19. 10919LetterT-S 12.412

    Letter from an unknown person to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060 (Gil). The fragment contains several details about shipments of goods and money as well …

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  20. 10920LetterT-S 13J18.13

    Letter from Moshe Yijū, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. Dating: ca. June 29, 1155. The writer ("Moshe son of his honor, …

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    1. חמיד אדאב סיידיי אל שיכאן אל גלילאן אל כימאן
    2. אל פצילאן אל נבילאן אל שריפאן האחים הייקרים (!)
    3. כבוד מרנו ורבינו עלי וכבוד מרנו ורבנ' [[…

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  21. 10921LetterT-S AS 181.44

    Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 1150–1250. It seems addressed to a woman (... shidda mā atasallā illā anti mā ʿindī aḥad yuṭālibunī...). Mentions …

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  22. 10922LetterT-S AS 146.353

    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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  23. 10923LetterT-S 12.301

    Letter addressed to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, from a family member in Alexandria. Reporting on a problem about revenue from a slaughterhouse.

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  24. 10924LetterT-S Ar.34.190

    Scribal exercises and copious jottings in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. In the margin of verso there is the draft of an informal note in …

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  25. 10925LetterDK 192

    Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon to Aharon ha-Sar b. Netan'el. Opens with Maṣliaḥ's genealogy: Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu b. Shelomo (thus far all are …

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  26. 10926LetterPER H 135

    Draft of a letter in Hebrew, ca. 1043, from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, the Gaon of Jerusalem. Efrayim requests Shelomo to thank …

    1. שלום וברכה וטובה ערוכה לעד מושכה מרפה וארוכה
    2. {לתכן מלוכה להפריך} //וכל// מסרב להפריכה מתקומם להצריכה
    3. עוזרים לסמוכה מכל דאב לחסכה עשר לשפוכה חן וכבוד…

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  27. 10927LetterT-S 13J25.12

    Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abū Zakariyyā Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār b. Madīnī ("Palermitan"), in Fustat. Dating: ca. March 1055 CE, according …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ושיכי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר מן אלקדס
    2. אלמעמור אלנצף מן אדר ראשון סאעה וחק אלקדס וצול כתאבך אל…

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  28. 10928LetterT-S Ar.42.13

    Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …

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    1. يخدم مجلس المولى السيد الاجل الحكيم الفاضل ادام الله ايامه

    2. وينهي لكريم عالم(؟) ان المانع له عن الحضور بخدمة المولا الان

    3. ما يعلمه المولا م…

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  29. 10929LetterT-S NS 320.113

    Letter addressed to a dignitary named Yefet. Opens with Hebrew praises and wishes for a speedy recovery, then switches into Arabic (in Arabic script) for …

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  30. 10930LetterT-S Misc.28.72

    Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in two different hands. The writer asks the addressee to let the …

    1. כתאבי אליך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך
    2. וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך ואנא מהני למולאי
    3. בהדה אלאעיאד אלמב[ארכ]ה ערפה אללה ברכתהא
    4. וברכה מא יליהא ולא תסאל…

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  31. 10931LetterENA NS 48.4

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahīm to Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Long and well-preserved. Concerning …

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  32. 10932LetterT-S AS 167.207

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother" (yā akhī). Mentions a little salt (qalīl milḥ) and an ounce of …

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  33. 10933LetterENA 2739.4

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Mentions: dirhams; that …

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  34. 10934LetterT-S J3.34

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

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  35. 10935LetterT-S 18J5.1

    India Book, III,11: Letter (large but fragmentary) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Ibn Yiju, India. Dating: 1140 [1139]. Written in the hand of Shemuel …

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    1. אִנִתִהִ[י] עבדה אלי מא שרחה מולאי מן תעזיתה בחי
    2. אלואלד ימֹרחֹ ומא יושך יאשיך אבו אסחאק פי מחבתך
    3. ועבדה יערף אן אלדי טרא ענדה פי דלך מתל אלדי ט…

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    1. I, your servant, acknowledge your words of condolence over the death of my late
    2. father—may he find mercy! I never doubted your friendship, She…

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  36. 10936LetterT-S AS 152.178

    Small and damaged fragment from the top of a letter. Quotes Isaiah 43 כִּי תֵלֵךְ בְּמוֹ אֵשׁ לֹא תִכָּוֶה. AA/ASE

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  37. 10937LetterMoss. II,144.3

    Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso). Refers to a woman's separation from the addressees; "your accompanying …

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  38. 10938LetterENA 2727.49

    Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen to the two brothers Avraham and Yiṣḥaq/Isḥāq Ibn al-Ḥakīm ("the physician"). Identification of the sender based on his distinctive …

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  39. 10939LetterAIU VII.E.52

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Written on behalf of somebody begging for charity from a …

    1. ואלכאלק תעאלי געל[
    2. וללעבד דיון כת[ירה
    3. אלי מולאי אלדיאן [
    4. יעישו בה ומן  . . [
    5. וש]הד אללה אן ל . [
    6. יגמז עליה פי . [
    7. אליום שהרין מגלוק [
    8. כאיף מן דלך לא…

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  40. 10940LetterYevr. III B 1152

    Letter fragment from Saʿadya b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan to Shemuel ha-Sar. What remains is in Hebrew. Only the opening and address are preserved. The same sender …

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  41. 10941LetterT-S 13J11.7

    Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya, who refers to himself simply as Rosh ha-Seder at the beginning of the letter, to those who pray at the …

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  42. 10942LetterT-S 13J23.1

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, probably 1039.

    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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  43. 10943LetterT-S 10J24.7 + T-S 10J29.4

    Letter from the office of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom b. Moshe ha-Levi (in office ca. 1176–95) to a certain community. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Written by …

    1. תורה המקודש ותעלים אולאדכם אלתורה וקצא גמיע כדמכם ואסבאבכם
    2. ודלך בעד מא אחצרנאה וגעלנא מן פאתשה בין ידינא פי שחיטת חולין
    3. פאמא גמיע אלכתובות ואלגטים ו…

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  44. 10944LetterENA 3616.4

    Letter draft from Yiṣḥaq Maslati (מסלאתי) to R. Mordekhay. In Hebrew. Dating: Possibly 16th century. Asking him to send 1,500 new Venetian peraḥim (= ducats). …

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  45. 10945LetterENA 2486.2

    Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Containing only praises and blessings for the addressee. On verso there are some verses of Hebrew poetry.

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  46. 10946LetterENA NS 36.5

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic ca.1800 CE from Nissim Masīs (?) to Karo y Frances & Co.

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  47. 10947LetterT-S 13J14.17

    Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולי אלשיך ואדאם עזה
    2. מן צור ען סלאמה ואלחמד ללה והדה
    3. וצל כתאבה פי יומי הדא ווקפת עליה
    4. ושכרת אללה תעאלא עלי סלאמתה אדאמהא
    5. א…

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  48. 10948LetterENA NS 67.9

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic. The writer requests someone's urgent attendance in Cairo; mentions al-Kohen al-Shaykh Muwaffaq; mentions a tarsīm (fee for house arrest?). See …

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  49. 10949LetterT-S NS J613

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Surūr and [M]anṣūr. Conveys condolences on the death of their mother. On verso are a few words in …

    1. ] . . אל אמונה ואין עול צדיק וישר הוא
    2. ] אלאגלא אלשיך אבי אלסרור שצ
    3. מ]נצור שצ קדר מא חצל לנא מן
    4. ו]פאה אלואלדה אלמרחומה חצל

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  50. 10950LetterBodl. MS heb. f 57/105

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In fact there may be two documents here, written at 180 degrees to each other. (מע סכרה אלכביזה ואלדי ישהד אליה …

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