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  1. 10901LetterT-S 8J27.8

    Recommendation letter in the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef, mentioning Abū l-Makārim, Avraham and his brother Ḥananʾel, Abū Isḥāq, Moshe (Maimonides), Rabbenu al-Maskil, and Sitt …

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    1. [ . . . ] . . . מן . [ . . . . . . . ] דתהא פי אכתר אלאוקאת
    2. וכדלך מולאי אלשיך אבי אלמכארם ואכותהא אלהי
    3. ישראל יחמדהם אלעאקבה פי אנפסהם ופי אלחצ…

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  2. 10902LetterT-S 10J29.14

    Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to the Head of the Congregations, perhaps R. Eliyyahu the Dayyan, describing a meeting of about fifty elders …

    1. לאדון התורה שר התעודה נג[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. כבוד גדולת קדושת מרינו ורבינו אדונינו [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. . . . …

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  3. 10903LetterJRL B 2672

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓuyan, Me'ir ben Naʿim, dated Aug/Sept 1824 CE (Elul 5584).

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  4. 10904LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/38

    Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Aharon ha-Kohen b. Avraham. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and quite eloquent. The addressee and his father have long strings of …

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    1. בש רח
    2. וענוים ירשו ארץ והתענגו
    3. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך
    4. כי שפתי כהן ישמרו דעת
    5. לנטע השכל ונצר היושר וגזע הבין וסעיף הכושר
    6. שתיל הדעת והמזמה נחל נובע…

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  5. 10905LetterT-S AS 155.194

    Recto: probably a document or letter. Verso: possibly a document, mentioning Moses. (Information from CUDL)

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  6. 10906LetterBL OR 10578H.29

    Document in Arabic script, perhaps a trade letter/document. Mentions sending something, probably a letter and milk "ḥalība maḥmūla", in the companionship (suḥba) of someone and …

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  7. 10907LetterENA NS 35.8

    Late family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Elʿazar Sadīd. He greets numerous people including Yūsuf Shoshan, Doña Najma, the boy Aharon Shoshan, the brother David Sadīd, …

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  8. 10908LetterT-S AS 116.334

    Placeholder [ASE]

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  9. 10909LetterT-S 8J10.5

    Letter addressed to R. Hananel he-Hasid, written in the time of David I Maimonides (l. 11r). (Information from Paul Fenton, Tarbiz 55 [1956], p. 78) …

    1. אללה תעא לא יוחשנא ען גמאל אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגל
    2. אלמולוי אלסידי אלעאלמי אלאוחדי שלכגק מרנו
    3. ורבנו חננאל הרב הגדול בישראל ראש הדיינים
    4. דגל הרבנים גדול הח…

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  10. 10910LetterAIU VII.E.106

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic with a few rows of writing exercises (?) in the margin. There are also a few words in Arabic.

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  11. 10911LetterENA 1177.65

    Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Needs examination.

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  12. 10912LetterT-S AS 146.279

    Fragment of a letter opening from Sharira Gaon to Efrayim b. Sadok from Fustat. Around 980. Mentions Amram b. Mishui, the Gaon’s uncle (his mother’s …

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    1. .... ראש הישיבה של[גו]לה בן משוי נכד יצחק ראש הישיבה שלגולה [                                         ]ם המשמחם בנאמו ומשעשעם ומלמדם דרכי יושר…

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    1. יימסר .... בבית החולים אלצולי(?), אל … הרופא,
    2. ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתו ואת עזרתו לו ואת שלומו ואת אושרו,
    3. כדי שימסור אותו למ…

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  13. 10913LetterT-S Misc.28.183

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, and written in an elegant script. The sender gives a convoluted account of a business/legal dispute, involving stakes of over …

    1. ]נעם פ . [
    2. ]ב לי אלגר אלז אל . . . . . [
    3. אן גא עם אול וקת אקלא[ע] מ. אדב(?) כלמתו וקאל ח[
    4. וקלת לה סאפר פי אמאן אללה ווצל אטראבלס ונזל [
    5. לאחד מעה שי …

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  14. 10914LetterT-S NS J615

    Letter fragment from Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the closing greetings are preserved.

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  15. 10915LetterT-S 10J20.9

    Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …

    1. כי לך יי הוחלתי
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא סידי אלחבר אלמעולה ואדאם תאידה וחראסתה ואתם נעמתה
    3. עליה וענדה מן עכא ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה למוליהמא דואם הדה אלמנה …

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  16. 10916LetterT-S AS 153.269

    Recto: Lower part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender places an order worth 16 dirhams, including for 1/2 ounce of Iraqi copper sulfate (zinjār). …

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    1. רטל [
    2. ואעלמני תמן אלגמיע [
    3. כל חאגה וכד לי זנגאר עראקי
    4. נצף וקיה גמלה אלדראהם
    5. סתה עשר דרהם ואעלמני
    6. איש גרא לך פי [[הדה]] אלאמר
    7. אלדי תחדתנא פיה ו…

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  17. 10917LetterT-S NS 297.43

    Letter draft. Unclear if this is a genuine letter or a formulary/specimen. On verso there are gnomic sentences in Arabic script and in Hebrew.

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  18. 10918LetterT-S AS 155.378

    Small fragment from a letter, mentioning 'the dyer'.

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  19. 10919LetterENA 3172.6–7

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). Possibly a literary letter.

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  20. 10920LetterENA 2808.43

    Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Alexandria twice, but the context is unclear. "I went to the R[īf?]." Mentions 'maqāṭiʿ.'

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  21. 10921LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 352

    Letter addressed to Abū Saʿd. In Arabic script. The sender begs for an urgent loan of 5 dirhams, because he is sick. He will try …

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  22. 10922LetterT-S 10J17.30

    Letter requesting an invitation to meet the addressee in person. This letter is written in a similar hand and style as T-S 10J17.27–30 (per Goitein). …

    1. מגדל עוז שם ייי בו וג
    2. כי תקדמנו ברכות טוב תשית לראשו
    3. עטרת פז חיים שאל ממך נתתה
    4. לו ארך ימים עולם ועד: גדול
    5. כבודו בישועתך הוד והדר תשוה
    6. עליו כי תשיתהו…

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  23. 10923LetterENA 2750.3

    Business letter in Hebrew. Mentions bandits (lisṭim). Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. Needs examination

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  24. 10924LetterYevr. II A 1577

    Letter from 1627. Polish poem? on the verso

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  25. 10925LetterENA 3734.11

    Recto: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Nahray b. Nissim? Dating: 11th century. Mentions names such as Yosef, ʿAyyāsh, Barhūn, and Ghālib. The term barqalū …

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  26. 10926LetterT-S Ar.53.65

    Recto (secondary use): Short letter from a teacher to a father. In Judaeo-Arabic. "This is to inform you my lord, the elder, may God make …

    1. אעלם מולאי אלשיך
    2. אדאם אללה עזה
    3. אן אבו אלחסן מא
    4. אנתקל אלא ועינה
    5. ללכתאב ואעטם
    6. מא עליה אבו אלחסן בן
    7. והיב קאם כסר לוחה
    8. בעלם אלצביאן ושלום

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    This is to inform you my lord, the elder, may God make your honored position permanent, that Abu ʾl-Ḥasan, after his transfer to my school, sho…

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  27. 10927LetterT-S AS 16.34–35

    Letter in Hebrew. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Late.

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  28. 10928LetterMoss. VII,186.2

    Official letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from the office of one of the 13th or 14th century Maimonidean Nagids, based on the motto and the hand. …

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  29. 10929LetterT-S K2.107

    Verso: two different letters, glued together to create a rotulus for the calendar on recto. Both are mercantile letters from the mid-11th century. (I) The …

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  30. 10930LetterENA 2806.4

    Petition from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He reports that he has opened a shop in Suwayqat [...] near the shop …

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  31. 10931LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1446

    Letter from an unknown writer, in Jerusalem, to "the community of Qaraites." In Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew verses at the top. Dating: Unknown. The letter …

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  32. 10932LetterT-S NS 69.6

    Letter in Arabic script. Large script, moderately wide space between the lines. Recommending the bearer of the letter, a poor man named Salam(?), for charity …

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  33. 10933LetterT-S NS 297.74

    Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Verso is the first page. Mentions 100,000(!) mithqāls; Bū l-Faraj; a ship; the sender has enclosed a second letter for …

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  34. 10934LetterIOM 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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  35. 10935LetterENA NS 72.16

    Recto and three lines of verso: Note in Hebrew addressed to some important person. The hand and spellings are very rudimentary. The writer seems to …

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  36. 10936LetterAIU VII.E.84

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Yiṣḥaq Bialobos.

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  37. 10937LetterT-S Misc.36.140

    Opening of a letter from the yeshiva, probably fall 1053.

    TS LOAN 140, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.760-762 (Doc. #411), C.B. 04-07-88 (p)Opening of a letter from the yeshiva, probably fall 1053.

    1. יצא והקרב…

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  38. 10938LetterENA 2808.57

    Letter with a long Hebrew prologue, followed by Judaeo-Arabic. Written in an elegant square book hand, and indeed this sender seems to be a professional …

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  39. 10939LetterT-S Ar.47.139

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer describes coming to a certain place and finding its synagogue in a dangerous state of disrepair and its columns …

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  40. 10940LetterT-S NS J539

    Letter of appeal for charity for assistance in paying the capitation tax. In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). From the cantor …

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  41. 10941LetterMoss. IV,47.3

    Fragment of a letter or legal document. Looks like the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Content unclear.

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  42. 10942LetterT-S 8J16.13

    Letter from a former official and representative of the Nagid (na’ib) of the Alexandrian community to the Nagid, requesting that he intervene on the writer’s …

    1. ]צדר אלמתאמן כרמאתהם
    2. ואפתקאדהם אן עבדך ועבדהם אנא פי כל
    3. חין אשכר ואתני אחסאנהם אליי ותפצלהם
    4. עליי טול מקאמי בינהם ומא כנת אשתהי
    5. אגיב ענהם פי הדה אלמד…

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  43. 10943LetterMoss. VIII,339.2

    Opening of a letter to David Hanagid - needs examination. Image not available

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  44. 10944LetterENA 2727.7a

    Letter from Aharon ha-Levi, Yosef ha-Borsaqī ("the tanner") to Abu'l-Ma'ali, ca. 1120. A certificate regarding the Estate of the Jerusalemites. The bearer of the letter …

    1. ממא אערף מולא אלשיך
    2. אבו אלמעאלי נט רח אן הדא
    3. מ אהרן הלוי הזקנ בן מ יוסף
    4. הלוי הבורסקי נע ופאץ כנאה
    5. פי דאר אלפד פי אלקדס
    6. תבנה במהרה בימינו ובימי
    7. כל עמ…

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    1. I inform our Master al-Shaykh 

    2. Abūʾl-Maʿālī, may God preserve him, that this 

    3. our Master Aaron ha-Levi ha-Zāqēn the son of our Master Jos…

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  45. 10945LetterT-S AS 150.74

    Letter mentioning Abū l-Barakāt. (Information from CUDL)

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  46. 10946LetterBodl. MS heb. d 80/45

    Letter from a father to a son. On vellum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This fragment opens with updates on the health of various …

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  47. 10947LetterT-S AS 147.53

    Letter from a certain Bū ʿUmar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Asking the addressee to ask al-Qāḍī al-Murtaḍā for 1,294 1/4 …

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  48. 10948LetterT-S 12.321

    Letter sent from Fustat by 'Ayyash b. Sadaqa to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, dealing with money matters and the selling of merchandise, and mentioning goods …

    verso - bottom margin - address

    1. לשיכי וסידי ומולאי אבי סחק ברהון בן מוסי מן עיאש בן צדקה נע ושלום רב

    2.                                 בן ברהון נע

    verso, address

    לאדוני ורבי ומרי אבו אסחק ברהון בן מוסא בן ברהון נ"ע, ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומו ואת אושרו ואת חסדו לו; מעיאש בן צדקה …

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  49. 10949LetterENA 1822a.12

    Letter from Nissim b. Salāma to his father Salāma b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. The writer reports on various financial matters, reports that …

    1. בשמך רח
    2. וצל כתאבך יא ואלדי אסאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וקראתה
    3. ופהמת מצמ[ונה] סרני עלם סלאמתך ועאפיתך
    4. אדאמהא אללה לך וקד וצל אלינא י דרהם וקד
    5. סמעת אנ…

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  50. 10950LetterBodl. MS heb. f 99/24

    Letter in Arabic script. Opens with an ornate "al-izza lillāhi taʿālā." Addressed to al-amīr al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍāʾil. The letter gives instructions concerning business matters and …

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