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  1. 1151LetterMoss. IV,84.2

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions several luxury textile goods and a trader [probably Yiṣḥaq] b. Makh[lū]f al-Nafūsī. Dating: ca. 1130s CE. …

    1. בן מכ[לו]ף אלנפוסי . [
    2. דאלך תוב דביקי [ר]פיע מקצור חרי[רי
    3. בג קטע ומנדיל סבאעי מקצור מדהב
    4. ולפאפה מקצור בד אעלאם [אצפר . . . .
    5. מזנר כאם רפיע תוני ואן …

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  2. 1152LetterT-S 12.247

    Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.

    1. [ורבנא] שלמה הנכ[בד בעל ח[ ] אי[ש
    2. הסברה ויראת[ו] הטהורה מסלתו הי[שרה כשמש]
    3. מאירה בן רבנא יהודה נוחו עדן
    4. שא שלום גדול עמנו מושך והולך בארבעה רא[שים]

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  3. 1153LetterT-S 10J12.18

    Letter from a woman to her mother ʿAzza al-ʿIblāniyya (from Iʿbillīn, a village in western Galilee), in Fustat. She is asked by her daughter to …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי אריד בה אעלמך יא ואלדתי אני וצלת אלי אלמחלה
    3. וקלבי ענדך אללה תעאלי יגעלך פי חייז אלסלאמה
    4. וענדי מן אלשוק ואלוחשה לפרקכם מא לא אחסן…

    Translated by Renée Levine Melammed

    In Your name, O Merciful One.

    That which I wish to inform you, mother of mine, is that I arrived in al-Maḥalla, b…

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  4. 1154LetterT-S AS 147.87

    Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Yehuda to Mevorakh, with a long Hebrew introduction full of biblical citations (such a Psalms 133:1 and 128:4) and allusions to …

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  5. 1155LetterCUL Or.1080 J47c

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing mainly with business matters. Mentions the bearer of the letter; Ṣadaqa; and Yūsuf. Asks the addressee to confirm receipt of some …

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  6. 1156LetterMoss. V,361.2

    A small piece from a letter mentioning the elder Abū l-Ḥasan al-Levi, written in the hand of Hananel b. Shmuel. AA

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  7. 1157LetterENA NS 29.30

    Letter from Shemuel b. Sīd. In Hebrew. Dating: 1600–35 CE, based on Avraham David's assessment. It is unclear whether Shemuel wrote this letter while still …

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  8. 1158LetterT-S NS J134

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a beautifully styled request. This may not be addressed to the writer's mother and father. Rather, the sender is making …

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  9. 1159LetterCUL Or.1080 J107

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Fustat, 1034.

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    1. מחיקה יד זהובים ויהי ממחרת ואקבצם וייצאו ופניתי האב[נים]
    2. והעפר מן הדרך ויתחילו הבונים להכין יסוד ואני ובני ורב מן
    3. העם שוקדים עד לסבוב הקיר ועד …

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  10. 1160LetterBL OR 10578E.33

    Fragment from near the beginning of a letter in Arabic script, chancery-esque hand.

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  11. 1161LetterT-S NS 225.104

    Two letters in Judaeo-Arabic; recto and verso are in different hands. Dating: likely second half of the 11th century. Recto: Lower part of a letter …

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  12. 1162LetterT-S 16.285 + T-S AS 134.204 + T-S NS 325.115

    Letter/petition addressed to a notable. In Hebrew (for the poetic opening) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). In a typical 11th or early 12th century hand. …

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  13. 1163LetterENA NS 42.2

    Letter fragment in Ladino. Addressed to David. Mentions the name Shelomo, and the congregation and the poor (el qahal y ʿaniyim). Needs further examination.

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  14. 1164LetterT-S Ar.39.66

    Possibly a letter - needs examination.

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  15. 1165LetterCUL Or.1080 J90

    Letter addressed to Mevorakh/Mabrūk b. Yefet. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the arrangements for the sender's upcoming marriage (e.g., the stipulations of the ketubba and the size …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אוגה הדא(!) אלאסטר אעלם אלחצרה
    3. אן כאן כתאבהא אלכרים וצל לחאל
    4. אלגיזה וקד אנפדת כתאבין במא
    5. יכון ומא אעלם הל וצלו אם לא ואלדי
    6. אעלם אלחצרה איש מ…

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  16. 1166LetterT-S 12.396

    Circular letter, fragment, by the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananyah. The format closely matches that of 12.238 and BL OR 5533.1 (circular letters by Maimonides). Only …

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  17. 1167LetterAIU VII.E.141

    Legal document mostly in Ladino, with some Hebrew and Aramaic that affirms a transaction for a sum of 100 "pataqas" ("סומה די פטקאס") from Shemuel …

    1. אינטרגו(?) ייו אל אפירמאדו אבאשו קוואל מ..יני(?) ריסיבי די הר׳ שמואל
    2. בכ׳׳ר יצחק די אנקונה ה׳׳י אי דיל הר׳ מסעוד אזולאי ה׳׳י סומה די
    3. פטאקאס //100// ס…

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  18. 1168LetterPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.35 (Michaelides 35)

    Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Poetry? Phrases from letters? Verso: In a different hand, a note in Arabic script instructing the addressee to pay …

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  19. 1169LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 143

    Letter, official-looking, in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. Central part of …

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    1. المملوك المظفري

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3. يقبل الارض وينهي بعد استمرارة على الادعية الصالحة

    4. فلـ[..]عىه [                         ]

    5. تقبله…

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  20. 1170LetterT-S AS 172.111

    Bottom of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Conveys a message for Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj al-Sharābī.

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  21. 1171LetterCUL Add.3348

    Verso (original use) Letter of appeal for charity. The writer lost his wealth "in an instant" and had to wander in search of help. He …

    1. יש מתעשר ואין כל מתרושש וג
    2. יש הבל אשר נעשה על הארץ וג
    3. את הכל ראיתי בימי הבלי יש צדיק וג
    4. ואני אמרתי בשלוי בל אמוט לעולם וכמעט
    5. הייתי בכל רע בתוך קהל ו…

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  22. 1172LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/17

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is recovering from illnesses and is in difficult financial straits. He asks for a loan of 62 dirhams. Dating: likely …

    1. ירום] הודו ויגדל
    2. כבודו . . . . . . . . . . .] . מולנא אן אלשיך . . . . . אכד
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] ען שהרין מן [אלשיך] אלסדיד
    4. . . . . . .…

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  23. 1173LetterT-S AS 117.270

    Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter: واما الثالثة ان واعوذ بالله ولم يوفق(؟) مملوك سيدنا من حسن رايه وكثرة رحمته ورافته وبركة تدبيره …

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  24. 1174LetterT-S AS 150.156

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Mentions Mūsā al-Ṣay[rafī?], Sayyidnā, "not sleeping at night," and Cairo. (Information in part from …

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  25. 1175LetterT-S 13J19.25

    Late letter to Abd al-Karim Kashani dealing with orders for goods. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. לקי
    2. סלאם אללה תעאלה וברכאתה וזכי תחייאתה
    3. עלה אלאך אלעזיז עבד אלכרים ואלקפץ וצל לי
    4. יום אלתלאת וקלבתה חאזה ואלתרנגביל
    5. אלי הוא אלאצל מא ראיתה ואשכית אנ…

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  26. 1176LetterT-S 13J11.1

    Letter. Opening with marriage congratulations in Hebrew, beginning with a quote from Ruth 4:11–12. This is followed by an appeal for assistance in Judaeo-Arabic. The …

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  27. 1177LetterJRL B 2121

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Karo y Frances & Company to Moshe Bibas. Unusual, since the vast majority of their correspondence that has been preserved …

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  28. 1178LetterT-S 13J18.10

    In this appeal, typically addressed to the community ('your excellencies, my masters, the illustrious lordly judges, and...the elders of Israel'), a widow and mother of …

    1. גאריתכם מרה ארמלה
    2. מסכינה מדיונה
    3. ומעהא ארבעה איתאם
    4. בשם המביט אל עני ונכה רוח
    5. קד געלת אללה תע שפיעי אלי חצרה מואליי אלדיאנין
    6. אלסיידין אלאגלין ואלי זקנ…

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    1. Your slave woman, the wife // widow //,
    2. destitute and debt-ridden 
    3. with four orphans 
    4. In the name of "Him who looks after the poor and broken-…

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  29. 1179LetterMoss. IV,79

    Letter from Barhūn b. Isḥāq al-Tāhartī, from al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Alexandria. Around 1045 (Gil). Nahray is sending goods to the Maghrib …

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    1. כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך רצרף אל
    2. אסוא ענך ברחמתה ער'ב' ראש השנה דרכך אללה אמתאלה סנין כתירה ואש…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אחי ואדוני היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת הגנתו עליך ויסלק ממך
    2. כל רע ברחמיו, ערב ראש השנה, יוד…

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  30. 1180LetterMIAC 44

    Donation request for the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva in Meydān al-Ẓāhir in Cairo – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 44) – in Arabic. …

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  31. 1181LetterENA 3918.10

    Letter(s) in Arabic script. Recto and verso are probably distinct letters. Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The letter on recto appears to be from …

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  32. 1182LetterT-S NS J456

    Letter with greetings for the holidays, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. There appears to be a genealogy in a different …

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  33. 1183LetterT-S AS 157.364 + T-S AS 157.365

    Two fragments of a letter probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to the cantor Meʾir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th …

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  34. 1184LetterT-S Ar.40.196

    Copy of the beginning of a letter addressed to a religious authority. In Arabic, written in ornate prose. The layout is literary; it may have …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. امتثلت ما رسمته حضرة مولاي الشيخ الجليل
    3. حرس الله عزها وكبت حسدتها وحمل الكافة 
    4. ببقايها واعدت اليها ما تطولت بانفاذه من
    5. اجوبة …

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  35. 1185LetterMoss. VII,188.1 + Moss. VII,188.2

    Two fragments of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Sulaymān Palias (?).

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  36. 1186LetterT-S 12.168

    Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef (of Qayrawān, active 990s–1030s). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Mentions "my partner" Barhūn b. Faraḥ. The left side of the …

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  37. 1187LetterBL OR 5542.25

    Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his brother, the physician Abū Zikrī, written in an extremely cursive script. He informs Abū Zikrī that the turban …

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    1. אבו אלברכאת געל פדאה
    2. אלי אלאך אלחכים אלעזיז אדאם
    3. אללה סלאמתה יערפה אן קלובנא משתאקה
    4. אלי נצרך וא[ן] אלעמאמה אלדי סיירתהא ואלעשרה
    1. כאתם פקד וצ…

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  38. 1188LetterENA NS 39.4

    Recto: Large fragment of a late (18th/19th c) business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: A short note signed by Yisakhar Groso (?) and Yehuda b. (?) …

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  39. 1189LetterT-S NS 327.133

    Business letter in Arabic script containing an order for lac and pepper. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Ṣārifī, Masʿūd, and ʿAbd al-Karīm. Also requests …

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  40. 1190LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/14

    Top fragment: Address of a letter to the cantor Abū l-Majd al-Iskandarānī.

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  41. 1191LetterBL OR 10794.16

    Letter of appeal for charity. There are 10 lines of flowery Hebrew praises for the recipient followed by a space and then six lines of …

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  42. 1192LetterT-S 18J3.15

    Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan, in Alexandria, to his relative the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1228 CE, according to …

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    1. [ ] מולאה ומן אגל אןקטאע(!)
    2. כתבה מנה יעלם אלמולא אן אלממלוך מא יצלח לה אן יכאתב
    3. מתל אלמולא ולאכן אלמולא יחתמל אלממלוך עלא גהלה
    4. אללה יעלם כיף ק…

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  43. 1193LetterT-S Ar.18(1).50

    F. 1r: Draft of letters, one to Abū l-Faḍl Sahl (maybe al-Tustarī?). Shelomo b. Aharon b. Abū […] and Shela b. Yehoshuaʿ are also mentioned. …

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  44. 1194LetterT-S 16.296

    The Nagid R. Yehoshuaʿ warns against disqualified kosher butchers. Middle of the 14th century.

    1. יברכם
    2. [אלמקי]מין במצר
    3. [נא]צר אלגואלי ביחרק
    4. שונאי ישראל מן אלאצל
    5. הם שנוא ותמעיר
    6. אנתבהו לאנפסכם ותזנו כל אחד גאליתה
    7. ואלמגרם אלדי נאבהם ותעלמו אן אחד מ…

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  45. 1195LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 490

    Letter, probably. In Arabic script. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved.

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  46. 1196LetterMoss. Ia,27

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …

    1. אל אח בתורה וחבר ביראה באהבה גלויה לא נפלאה לא בהבלי העולם
    2. תלואה ולא בעניניו קנואה כי אם קבועה כמראה בעלי קנאה לא
    3. ימירוה ומטילי שנאה לא יחליפוה ואם …

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  47. 1197LetterT-S NS 321.86

    Letter from Malkiel Ashkenazi to his brother Moses in Egypt. Family letter from Malkiel Ashkenazai fro Hebron (mid. 16th century) to his brother Moshe in …

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  48. 1198LetterT-S AS 148.189

    Letter to ‘[ha-me]ʿ[u]le ba-havura gedol ha-yeshiva’. (Information from CUDL)

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  49. 1199LetterT-S AS 148.210 + T-S AS 148.211

    Informal note, or draft of the beginning of a letter. The sender says that he has not requested any money from the addressee, Abū l-ʿIzz, …

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  50. 1200LetterT-S 10J13.13

    Letter of recommendation for the bearer, a certain Yefet, an inhabitant of Fustat, who is said to be a respectable man who fell on hard …

    1. שלום עד אין קץ ואין מספר וברכות רבות כחול וכעפ[ר
    2. וברית עולם אשר לא יופר וחן מפואר והוד והדר
    3. ועטרת רצון וגיל ועלצון ואריכות ימים ומשוכות
    4. הזמן לכבוד ג…
    1. I send peace unbounded and infinite / and multitude of blessings like sand and dus[t]/,
    2. and everlasting covenant which will not be broken, / glorio…

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