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  1. 11151LetterENA 4010.11

    Recto: Draft of a letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to 'the mountain of beauty' Shelomo b. Yehuda, who served as Gaon between 1025–1051 CE.

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  2. 11152LetterAIU XII.48

    Business letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century (paleographic dating). Written in a chancery hand with very large space between …

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    1. فاما ما اتمنته في معنى التمر والصباغ [------]ـين

    2. صحبة المندوبين عليهما فمنها صح بلا عنبار

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  3. 11153LetterAIU VII.E.10

    Recto: a few lines of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, partly having to do with commercial matters (mentioning coal and glass) and the somewhat opaque phrase "if …

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  4. 11154LetterT-S AS 145.198

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he went to the house of Abū l-Manṣūr and read them the letter, to which they …

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  5. 11155LetterT-S NS 320.103

    Fragment of a letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew, in a calligraphic, square book hand. The petitioner is unable to pay his (or her) …

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  6. 11156LetterT-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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  7. 11157LetterT-S 8J24.8

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 4 days remaining in Nisan 1415 Seleucid = 24 April 1104 CE. Inquiring about a traveler, whether his ship …

    1. . . . . . . . .]צק ו[. . . . . .
    2. ואעדאה אללה . . דלך .ל[. . . . .
    3. דאמהא אללה לה . ומ[. . . . . .
    4. ומסתקציה אל.[. . . . . . . . .
    5. אב. ש.[. .]א כא[. . …

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  8. 11158LetterT-S Ar.7.4

    Letter fragment addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps late 12th or early 13th century, based on the handwriting. The writer accuses her of …

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  9. 11159LetterHalper 398

    Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be'). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …

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    1. מן [ממ]לוכה א[בי] אלמנצור ומן .......
    2. לא אוחש אללה מן חצרה מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן אלתופיק לה אכלאה גמע אללה ביננ…

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  10. 11160LetterJRL B 5787

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. On verso there are calendrical notes.

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  11. 11161LetterJRL A 808

    Fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic preserving only the beginning and the address in Arabic script. The writer seems to be Abū l-Ḥasan and …

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  12. 11162LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1864/2

    Letter of appeal for charity. Fragment. In Hebrew. At the bottom, in a different hand, "David ha-Nasi b. [...] Ga'on b. [???].

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  13. 11163LetterMoss. IV,34.2

    Fragment of a letter in the hand of Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (Ibn Shaʿyā), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic …

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  14. 11164LetterT-S AS 151.54

    Fragment of a letter, damaged. Opening lines are in Hebrew and the body is in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is likely that of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli …

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  15. 11165LetterAIU XII.117

    Recto: Letter/petition, or letter in the style of a brief petition, from "your student Bū l-Majd" to a high-ranking physician. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably …

    1. الحكيمي

    2. بو المجد تلميذه

    3. المملوك يجدد الخدمة الكريمة المولوية المالكية

    4. الحكيمية ويسأل اجابة حضوره فان

    5. المملوك حصل له الم في رجله وباب العمار…

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  16. 11166LetterMoss. IV,33.2

    Possibly part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, or a philosophical or linguistic composition (discussing metaphor). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  17. 11167LetterMoss. IV,24.1

    Part of a letter, mentioning Abū l-ʿIzz and the sum of 10 dirhams. A note, in a different hand and ink follows and refers to …

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  18. 11168LetterT-S 10J17.31

    Letter from Yahya b. Ya'ish to Avraham b. Ḥasan Sa'd addressing three brothers and asking for a favor for someone. Written on the third day …

    1. היום יום ג לחדש כסלו שנת ת . לב
    2. לוה שלום לקראת ומעלת השם הטוב הייקר
    3. הנעימים האחים הטובים השלמים הקרובים
    4. לליבי ורחקים(!) מיעני(!) יי כהר שלום בין מור

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  19. 11169LetterT-S NS J14

    Letter from the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051), in Ramle, to his son Abū Isḥāq Avraham, in Tyre or Damascus (Shelomo does not know …

    TS NS J 14, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp. 208-210 (Doc #115),N.H. 2-23-88, (P). Letter from Solomon b. Judah, Ramle, to his son Abraham.

    1. כתאבי יאולדי אלעז…

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  20. 11170LetterENA NS I.10

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Avraham he-Ḥasid to a disciple with pietistic instructions. Ed. Fenton, "A Pietist Letter from the Genizah" HAR 9 (1985).

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  21. 11171LetterJRL B 6575

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Little of the content remains.

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  22. 11172LetterENA 2808.11a

    Recto: Business/family letter in Hebrew. Dating: Perhaps 16th century or later. The sender mentions someone named Meʾir סאול . . ., and greets his mother. …

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  23. 11173LetterT-S 10J13.7

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi to Abu al-Mansur Elazar the scribe from whom the writer asks a favor. The letter opens with six lines …

    1. בר אהובו וצגיר
    2. תלמידיו . . . .
    3. בר יוסף ירושלמי
    4. היוכלו דבריו להכיל אמריו
    5. ואינם באצבע אלהים כתובים
    6. ומי יתנני בכנפי נשרים
    7. להשיג אהובים רחוקים קרובים
    8. וא…

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  24. 11174LetterT-S AS 181.287

    Letter fragment. Addressed to Fustat, to the alley of [...], to Abū l-Faḍāʾil al-Yahūdī.

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  25. 11175LetterT-S 8J28.7

    Recto: Letter in which a teacher complains about an unruly pupil. "Whenever I beat him, I do so excessively; but as soon as I begin, …

    1. צפרך טב ובריך אעלם בה
    2. אלמולי באן קד גלבת פי תרביה הדא
    3. אלצגיר אבו מנצור פלעל אן תקדר
    4. עלי מסאעדתי פיה פאנני אנה
    5. אדא צרבתה אסרף פי צרבה ואנה
    6. אדא צרבתה …

    Translated by Amir Ashur and Benjamin M. Outhwaite.

    What I have to inform my lord is that I have been defeated in educating this young man, Abū Manṣū…

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  26. 11176LetterT-S 10J14.29

    Letter from Shelomo (Abu l-Barakat) in Alexandria to to his brother, the physician Abu Zikri son of Abu l-Faraj (Eliyyahu the Judge), in Fustat. Only …

    1. הנה אל ישועתי וכל
    2. שלום רב לאהבי תורתיך וכל
    3. שלום שלום לרחוק ולקרוב וכל
    4. לכ ג ק מר ור זכריה השר הנכבד החכם והנבון המשכיל האהוב
    5. הרפא האח היקר נט רח ופלל…

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  27. 11177LetterT-S AS 183.301

    Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Written (unusually) on a bifolio. Mentions in the beginning that 'the owner of the myrobalan' (ṣāḥib al-halīlaj) came …

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  28. 11178LetterT-S Misc.28.138

    Letter from Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Judaeo-Arabic. The whole letter is preserved, but the text is extremely faded. In one of the …

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  29. 11179LetterT-S NS 228.49

    Letter from Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī (al-Mahdiya?) to his son Wāfī (Fustat?), probably spring 1059. Badly preserved. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 114.)

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    1.                         ] להדא אלוקת פוצל כתאבכם מע
    2.            וז]נת עליהא ח דנא ושק עלי דלך ווצל אל
    3.                 ]יס טויל אלרוח כמא ת…

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    1. .... עד הזמן הזה, ואז הגיע מכתבכם בידי
    2. .... שילמתי בעדם ח' דינרים, והיה הדבר קשה עלי. והגיע
    3. .... בעל אורך רוח כפי שידוע לך. בני הוא כפי שהיה.

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  30. 11180LetterJRL B 4170

    Recto: Letter, right side fragment, in Arabic script. Mentions Khalaf b. I[shāq? Ibrāhīm?] and a parnas (firnās) and Abū Kathīr. Verso: Possibly remnants of a …

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  31. 11181LetterAIU VII.E.48

    Two letters, one in Ladino and one in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 23 Tammuz [5]571 AM which is 1811 CE. The remainder of the pages are filled …

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  32. 11182LetterT-S 8J23.11

    Letter to a Nagid, R. Yosef, from a community, mentioning that a certain orphan, the son of Avraham, has nothing left for food or clothing. …

    1. . . . .]אע.[. . .]מים וכל הכ[. . .
    2. תרשמוה מפי כל נביא וחוזה וכהן [. . . .
    3. תאומצנה ותקובצנה ותבואינה ותהינה ל[.
    4. ועטרת וכליל וכותרת לצניף תפארת וא[.
    5. ג…

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  33. 11183LetterBodl. MS heb. c 56/18

    Most of a long letter in which the writer uses colorful language to narrate his woes of the last 10 years. The addressee's father is …

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    1. זואל(?)  . . . . . נגחת פיהא וקאס[ית מן
    2. אלסחאכי(?) ואלדראכי(?) ואלאכטאר ואל
    3. אמראץ ורגעת כיף יעלם אללה
    4. תעאלי וסאפרת תאניה וקאסית מא
    5. קד עלמה אלל…

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  34. 11184LetterJRL B 7834

    Letter fragment? In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that some people say about someone "that he came to live among us to rule/preside over us" (וקאלו תקד . …

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  35. 11185LetterCUL Or.1080 J196

    Letter fragments. Six small pieces of a letter from [...] ha-Yerushalmi b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥazzan, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Goitein's note card.

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  36. 11186LetterT-S 8K6

    This polemical letter, in a manuscript of which only one sheet has been preserved (T-S 8K6), shares features in common with Letters 1 and 2 …

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  37. 11187LetterENA NS 22.9

    Letter from the cantor Abū l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to his brother Abū l-Najm Hilāl, presumably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th …

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    1. אכוהא בו אלמגד
    2. חצרה אלאך אלשקיק ואלרכן אלותיק
    3. אלשיך בו אלנגם הלאל אדאם אללה
    4. עזה ועלאה ומן אלתופיק לא כלאה
    5. גמע אללה אלשמל בה עלי אחסן חאל
    6. ואנע…

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  38. 11188LetterT-S Ar.39.210

    End of a letter. Needs examination

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  39. 11189LetterT-S 16.150

    Verso: Drafts of at least half a dozen letters and other texts in Arabic script. One letter (written between the lines of another one) is …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتب عبد سيدنا الناصر للدين عماد المسلمين
    3. للاجل الاوحدالمكين سيد الوزراء وتاج الاصفيا
    4. قاضي القضاة وداعي الد…

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  40. 11190LetterT-S 13J23.14

    Letter from Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef (active 990s–1030s CE), in Qayrawān, to his brother-in-law ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim. The sender reports that the addressee's son …

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    1. אטאל אללה אכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי בקאך וצאנך ורעאך והפט'ך ווקאך ואדאם נעמאך
    2. כתאבי אליך ע'ר'ב' צ'ו'ם' כיפור תקבלה אללה מנא ומנך ומן כל יש'ר' באלגפ…

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  41. 11191LetterHUC 1126

    Letter addressed to the community of Amadiya (in Kurdistan), regarding a shaliaḥ from Jerusalem. Late. Cut and glued onto a book cover.

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  42. 11192LetterT-S 13J27.11

    Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin ("the Glory of the Cantors and their strength"), in Fustat. …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ' מן שאכר תפצלה יה[ודה]
    2. וצלת כתב מולאי וסיידי אלשיך אב[ו למגד]
    3. מאיר החזן ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו גמע אללה
    4. אלשמל בנטרה אלשריף אמן אלהי אמ…

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  43. 11193LetterT-S NS 320.110

    Letter from Abū ʿAbdallāh to Abū l-Ṭayyib Mevasser al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ~12th century. Only the beginning, the upper margin of recto, and the …

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  44. 11194LetterT-S AS 124.56

    Letter fragment in Arabic referring to the renovation of a house. Mentions making a saw (minshār) for the addressee. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information …

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  45. 11195LetterAIU VII.E.226

    Late letter or drafts or records of letters in Judaeo-Arabic, on lined paper. May be a continuation of the preceding shelfmark (both contain poetic lines …

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  46. 11196LetterT-S 8J20.22

    The document begins with four faint lines from the end of a text concerning a halakhic problem and ends with the expression ישע רב , …

    1. שליח בית דין תחצרהם גמיע ותערפהם מוגב
    2. אלשרע פי דלך פקד(?) מאתן(?) ואכד . . . . לחיים
    3. ואלא פיטלעו חתי . . צלה ואן . . . פכד עליהם אל
    4. שהאדה חתי ינפד פ…

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  47. 11197LetterFrankfurt 24

    Verso seems to be comprised of two or three documents pasted together. One of them looks like an Arabic (state?) document. Another looks like an …

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  48. 11198LetterT-S 12.124

    Letter of Avraham b. Simhon, Ifrīqiya, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. (A large hole from line 11 to line 22 has obliterated much of the letter.)

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    1. אטאל אללה יא שיכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם תאיידך ונעמאך וזאד מן פצלה ואחסאנה
    2. ואחסאנה לדיך וענדך כתאבי אליך ען חאל סלאמה וסתר למוליהמא אלח…

    ע׳׳א:

    1. ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורבי היקר לי, אריחות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו ואת חסדיו לך ויטה לך רוב חסד וטובה
    2. בכל אשר לך. אני כותב לך מתוך שלום וביטחון,…

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  49. 11199LetterMIAC 170

    Letter covering family matters – [dated June 29 1923] – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 170) – in Hebrew. (information translated from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …

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  50. 11200LetterT-S NS 190.117

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very faded. Mentions the kohl that was with Abū l-Riḍā; if Abū l-Riḍā …

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