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  1. 11351LetterT-S 12.775

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to the trustee of a Yeshiva in an unidentified place, approximately 1055.

    1. בכיר
    2. שלום ופתח תקוה וחן וכבוד וחמלת יי ושלום ושקט
    3. וארך ימים ושנות חיים ויקר לאדר היקר הנחקר ונסקר
    4. הוא כגק מרב הנאמן לבית דין הגדול ישמרו צו[רו]
    5. [י]ו…

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  2. 11352LetterJRL B 3852

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Needs examination.

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    34520
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  3. 11353LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1490

    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter of condolence from Yūsuf b. Shemuel to his 'partner' (sharīk) Naṣrallāh. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  4. 11354LetterT-S 13J27.1

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from the Nagid David I Maimonides (d. 1300) to the community of Ashmūm. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning someone named Yosef who was in …

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    1. הנה אל ישועתי וכול
    2. אל הקהל הקדוש הנכבד קהל אשמום
    3. ישמרם צורם ויאדרם יוצרם ויהיה
    4. בעזרם מאת דורש שלומם
    5. ומכבד מקומם אחיהם
    6. דוד ברבי אברהם זצל
    7. סבבה…
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  5. 11355LetterT-S NS 37.44

    Primary language
    Arabic

    rabbinic discussion concerning witnesses written on a former Arabic official letter- only few Arabic words preserved- needs examination.

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  6. 11356LetterT-S 20.80

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  7. 11357LetterT-S AS 201.438

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Letter addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. On recto, only pieces of two lines from the beginning are preserved.

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  8. 11358LetterENA 2743.5

    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Includes the rather violent lines, …

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  9. 11359LetterENA 4011.17

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from David b. Daniel to a parnas (leader of the Jewish community). Written in his own hand, per Gil. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing the addressee …

    ENA 4011, f. 17 ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 3, pp.336-337 (Doc. #537), C.B. 11-11-87 (p) Short letter from David b. Daniel to a parnas (leader of the Jew…

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    1. In your name, O Merciful 
    2. My lord the parnas, may God support you, shall [r]eceive from the elder Abuʾl Riḍā Solomon
    3. b. Mevorakh, may God watc…
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    PGPID
    769
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  10. 11360LetterMoss. II,140

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic the recipient of which is unknown, but this individual is referred to with an honorific form of address (l.2-3). The letter is …

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  11. 11361LetterJRL A 617

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Fragment of a letter from a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic, headed by Hebrew verses. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Only the beginning of …

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    2019
    PGPID
    28296
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  12. 11362LetterMoss. II,196.1

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Fragment of a note which on recto contains only formulaic praises and on verso contains an enigmatic sentence (something about "every Jew") and the name …

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  13. 11363LetterJRL B 6391

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Four letter fragments in Judaeo-Arabic. At least two of them (fols. 1 and 4) are probably from the same letter, but the other two fragments …

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    2019
    PGPID
    28849
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  14. 11364LetterT-S 8J41.9

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Verso (original use): Letter. Beginning lines only, mostly honorifics, very faded. Wide line-spacing, grand layout of the type that became more common starting in the …

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    39330
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  15. 11365LetterYevr. II A 1807

    Document date
    Primary language
    Hebrew

    A letter to the community of Vilna

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  16. 11366LetterT-S Ar.50.78

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of appeal for charity. Mentions the desolation of the synagogue of the Iraqis. This is the clean copy …

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  17. 11367LetterENA 2727.25b

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter and response. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 16th century. The writer of the original letter is in some distress and requests help …

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  18. 11368LetterYevr. II A 1838

    Document date
    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Business letter from Shmuel b. Yeshu'a to Ishaq b. Avraham

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  19. 11369LetterT-S AS 179.33

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Fragment of a letter or possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. Seven lines are partially preserved on recto. Legible phrases: ينفذ الى . . …

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  20. 11370LetterT-S Misc.28.129

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Legal document somehow related to verso. Verso: Legal document. Dated: Tammuz 4831 AM, which is 1071 CE. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya. (This is rare; others …

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  21. 11371LetterENA 2727.40

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Surūr b. Sughmār, who is traveling to Dimyāṭ (Damietta). The sender will send another letter to the judge (al-shofeṭ).

    1. ] . וסעא [
    2. ] פואללה אן [
    3. ] . כיר אמרה מא
    4. ] . י . תה אלא אללה תעאלי
    5. ] . ררה באעלאמי מא
    6. ] מן אמרה וקד [[עלמת]] עלמת
    7. מסיר אלשיך אבו אלסרור בן סגמאר
    8. אלי…
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  22. 11372LetterJRL AF 249

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Small fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Shelomo. See JRL SERIES AF 255 (PGPID 32596).

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  23. 11373LetterAIU VII.E.224

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Nissim M[...] to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated 11 Adar [5]568 AM (1808 CE).

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  24. 11374LetterT-S Ar.49.15

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. This is the recto of folio 3; the other five pages are literary. Looks like the hand …

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  25. 11375LetterT-S NS 164.12

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Note related to a legal case written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. "O my lord, Abū l-Makārim b. Sitt Ziyāda b. al-Shaykh al-Talmid Abū …

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  26. 11376LetterT-S NS 199.98

    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Poetical letter addressed to a certain Yiṣḥaq. Recto consists of a Hebrew poem in his praise, and on verso the conclusion of the letter is …

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  27. 11377LetterT-S AS 156.140

    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Probably a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  28. 11378LetterT-S AS 152.239

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter, apparently sent from Samannūd (in the Nile delta). The writer, who is apparently on his travels, is very worried about his children as he …

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  29. 11379LetterT-S NS 304.10

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), probably in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. …

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  30. 11380LetterT-S 8J10.9

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter requesting to buy through “Ibrahim, the slave merchant” a female slave for the Nezer (Diadem [an honorifc]). (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:452; and …

    1. אלי אברהים אלנכאס יוצל אליה
    2. כתאבי חתי ישתרי ללנזר
    3. אלוציפה וכדהא א[דעהא
    4. ענד מן סהל אלי אן תנחדר
    5. גיבהא צחבתך ומהמא כסרת
    6. עליהא מן מונה או כרא
    7. מרכב או ג…

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  31. 11381LetterENA NS 83.220

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Letter in Arabic script. Dated: 29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 12[.]0 AH, which is 1796 CE at the earliest. This date may in fact belong to a …

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  32. 11382LetterT-S 8J7.1

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Short letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva ("the head of the (Palestinian) Academy") to an unknown recipient (called only Rabbenu). In Judaeo-Arabic. Acknowledging the …

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  33. 11383LetterT-S 8J21.19

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter addressed to a dignitary (ha-rav ha-gadol, ha-maʿoz ha-migdol—a title usually reserved for Maimonides or his son). The handwriting is distinctive (especially the curly זs). …

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  34. 11384LetterCUL Or.1080 J202

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "R. Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen spoke with Rab[benu?] ha-Meʿulle, and he said to him, 'I heard that Abū l-Faraj al-Jub[aylī?] divorced …

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  35. 11385LetterT-S NS J281

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter/petition to a certain David ha-Sar in which the writer asks him to intercede on his behalf with al-Sadīd. Dating: late 12th or early 13th …

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  36. 11386LetterMoss. IV,37.1

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter addressed to Sulaymān the beadle. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding fundraising for captives, asking the addressee to take charge of it, and also "to collect something …

    Recto

    1. [העלאמה של הנגיד]

    2. אל שמש אל ש' סלימאן אללה יכון עונה ויודע לה ולדה

    3. יעלם באן אל שבויים חצ'רו אלי ענדנא כתיר ומא אמכננא  

    4. נרסלהם לכם ונק…

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