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  1. 1501LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/1

    A long letter of recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte, by Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq of Aleppo, written in elegant and vocalized Hebrew. For more …

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  2. 1502LetterBL OR 5542.27

    Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1060. The writer tells Nahray b. Nissim about the news in Alexandria and …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמאה מן אל

    2. אסכנדריה בעד וצול כתאבה אעזה אללה ידכר סלאמתה אדאמהא אללה ברחמתה …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני החבר גדול הישיבה, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו ואת חסדיו לך,
    2. מאלכסנדריה, אחרי בוא מכתבך, ייתן לך א…

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  3. 1503LetterJRL B 6465

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.

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  4. 1504LetterT-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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  5. 1505LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1863/7a

    Letter fragment addressed to a Nagid. ʿAmram? [...] b. ʿAmram? Only a small sliip from the introduction is preserved.

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  6. 1506LetterT-S 13J6.3

    Letter by Shemuʾel b. ̔Elī Gaon to Egypt appointing one disciple as receiver of collections for the Academy. Dated Iyyar (1)487 (Sel.), which is April-May …

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    1. ת[י]קרהו כראוי לשלוחי הישיבה ותלמידיה ואליו ימסרו רשויות הישיבה ונדבותיה
    2. בעין יפה כדי שיתברכו מן השמים והמסרב והמעיז פניו יעשה בו דין
    3. והשומע ל…

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  7. 1507LetterT-S 8J20.14 + AIU VII.E.56

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions Minyat Zifta; urges the recipient not to delay with something; mentions the wālī, the qāḍī and the mushrif; mentions …

    AIU VII.E.56, right margin (Elbaum edition):

    1. ונכרג . . . .
    2. לא תברח
    3. חין וצולי אליך
    4. אן שא אללה
    5. ונעלם חצרתה
    6. מא ינכתב פי
    7. כתאב סיידנא
    8. מא יכון פיה
    9. אלצלאח …

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  8. 1508LetterENA 3941.11

    Letter in Arabic script. Or maybe a petition—the second block opens with "yuqabbil al-arḍ wa-yunhī." Needs examination.

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  9. 1509LetterT-S AS 157.66

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter of recommendation for charity. Refers to someone known as al-Ḥasid, the name Yehuda, and various expressions …

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  10. 1510LetterBL OR 12292.9

    Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Written in purple ink. Late, probably 18th or 19th century.

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  11. 1511LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/73

    Short letter from David b. Daniel.

    1. דויד בן ראש הגולה
    2. שלומך נכבדנו חשובנו אהוב לבנו החביב עדינו ו[ י]ברכך אלהינו
    3. וישמרך ויגן בעדך וברכותיך ירבו לעד אוחשני תאכרך יא נכבדנו
    4. החשוב המשכיל …

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  12. 1512LetterT-S 8J18.14

    Letter from Yosef b. Yeshu'a, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Awkal (1028 or 1029).

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    1. כתאבי יאמולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם אלנעמה עליך
    2. ברחמתה ליומין בקין מן אלול אכתמה אללה עליך באברך כאתמה וצל כתאבך אלגלי…

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    1. מכתבי, אדוני, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת שלומך ואת אושרך וישלים את חסדו לך
    2. ברחמיו (נכתב) בכ׳׳ח באלול, יחתום אותו אלוהים …

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  13. 1513LetterJRL A 581

    Fragment of a letter in Ladino. The name of the addressee is preserved, something like: דוד וילייז לובושון.

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  14. 1514LetterT-S NS 99.52

    Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yūsuf b. Manṣūr Ibn al-Shofeṭ, sent either to or from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …

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  15. 1515LetterT-S NS 306.5

    Recto (secondary use): Letter from Yosef b. Nadiv ha-Ḥazzan(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh Asad on Sunday, sums of 10 and 3 dirhams, …

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  16. 1516LetterT-S NS 224.202

    Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Beautiful handwriting. The sender is exhorting the addressee (an in-law?) to treat his wife well. Also …

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    1. ואיצא אלצביה צאחבה ביתך אלדי קד אלתגת אלי אללה ואליך פלא תקטע
    2. בהא פאנהא מא תבקי פי מא תעמלה מעהא מן אלגמיל ואלכיר ממא
    3. תסוסהא ותקאסיהא ותדור חו…

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  17. 1517LetterT-S 8J39.12

    Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Ca. 1055 (Gil). Regarding a shipment of textiles that Nissim b. Ḥalfon had …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומו[לאי אטאל אללה בקאך ו]אדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך מן תניס לגי

    2. בקין מן אב ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה חק חמדה אעלמך יאסידי אן וצל כ…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת חסדו לך, מתניס, בי"ח
    2. באב, שלומי טוב ואני מאושר, תודה לאל…

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  18. 1518LetterBL OR 5566B.18

    Letter from Ḥananel (حاننال), it seems in Tyre (recto, l. 3), to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat. In Arabic script. A vertical strip from the …

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  19. 1519LetterT-S NS J301

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower piece of a long vertical letter). Mentions a qāḍī twice; the government; …

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  20. 1520LetterT-S 10J14.12

    Letter from Mansur b. Salim in Alexandria to a friend in Cairo inquiring about his son, who had run away to the army and had …

    1. שאכר תפצלהא
    2. מנצור אבן סאלם
    3. קד עלם אללה תעאלה(!) שדד(!) שוקי לחצרה מולאי
    4. אלשיך אלאגל אלמונעם אלמותפצל שצ וגיר
    5. דאלך יא מולאי ממלוכה יעלם אלמולא אן
    6. ולד…

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  21. 1521LetterT-S 12.334

    Letter fragment (missing the upper right corner), mercantile, from someone to "my maternal uncle [...] Avraham b. Salih b. [...]," probably 11th century. The writer …

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  22. 1522LetterMoss. VII,161

    Recto (secondary use): Upper part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only formulaic phrases are preserved.

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  23. 1523LetterAIU VII.E.90

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Yosef b. Faraḥ (or possibly [Faraḥ b.] Yosef b. Faraḥ). Dating: 11th century. Fragmentary and very faded; content unclear.

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  24. 1524LetterT-S AS 180.206 + T-S AS 180.207

    Fragment of a letter or petition. Layout is more like a letter, but does seem to mention "[...] al-karīma" and then "al-mamālīk" (recto, l. 5). …

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  25. 1525LetterENA 2738.23

    (b) Perhaps the response. What remains begins on verso (the beginning is missing) and spills over onto recto. This letter is written in a crude …

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    1. ותמר אלא אבו עמראן אבן אלטוילה ותאכד מנה אל
    2. כתב וכתאב צאחב אלעיאדא (?) ותדפעה למן [[שיתה]]

    3. שיתם וכל מן גא נקול אן סעאדה ובני נוח (?) רקו פצ…

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  26. 1526LetterENA 2808.36

    Letter from an in-law probably to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, entreating him to divorce his wife (Sitt Ghazāl).

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    1. ואן כאן הדה אלוצלה אלגיר צויה
    2. חצל מנהא אלאנקטאע מן אללה
    3. תע ואלתצגר באלואלדין בסבבהא
    4. תחת אן חצלת להם בהא פואיד
    5. עצימה ענד אללה וענד אלנאס
    6. פהדה א…

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  27. 1527LetterJRL L 201

    Recto: Part of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, one of the few in this folder from the classical Genizah period. All that remains is a formulaic, very …

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  28. 1528LetterMoss. IXa,2.22

    Letter in Arabic script, with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender congratulates the addressee on the holidays, alludes to the …

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  29. 1529LetterYevr. II A 1592

    Karaite letter mentions various place in Lithuania ?

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  30. 1530LetterT-S AS 150.108

    Small fragment of a letter, mentioning Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyan, 'al-ḥasid al-muʿallim,' and Abū Zikrī. (Information mainly from CUDL.)

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  31. 1531LetterCUL Or.1081 J60

    Document in striking red ink. Appears to have the form of a letter (opens with "that which you desire to know:") but consists of a …

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  32. 1532LetterT-S AS 178.152

    Letter from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Sulaymān to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm al-Amshāṭī al-ʿAṭṭar, in the perfumers' market, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The top of …

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  33. 1533LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 134

    Letter, probably, or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the ground tax "al-ḥikr" and "siwā l-mablagh al-taṣarruf". Needs examination. [Or rather likely a legal document …

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  34. 1534LetterMoss. II,114

    Long letter in Hebrew, very faded. Byzantine hand? Probably an appeal for charity or other assistance. Needs further examination.

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  35. 1535LetterMoss. Ia,25

    Recto: Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning Abū Sahl and books, including Kitāb al-Madkhal (of Shemuel b. Hofni) and Halakhot Gedolot. Very faded. Information from FGP. Needs further …

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  36. 1536LetterT-S 13J28.14

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yoshiyahu ha-Nasi to a dignitary whom he addresses as "Sar ha-Teʿuda" and "Nagid Ereṣ Yisraʾel ve-Yehuda." Dating: probably 13th century. After …

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  37. 1537LetterT-S 8J14.15

    Fragment of letter containing polite formulae and mentioning the fast day of Yom Kippur. EMS

    1. ] אללה תע וקרב לקאה ורזקני ב
    2. ] כתבתה יא מולאי ען קלב
    3. יטיר שוקא אליך ונפס תתשוק ללוקוף בין
    4. ידיך ואללה תעלי (!) יקרב דלך לם תצל
    5. אליי אלכתב אלדי דכרת א…

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  38. 1538LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/18

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq bayt ʿAṭṭān, in Syracuse, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Contains a colorful …

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  39. 1539LetterT-S 8J15.9

    Letter addressed to Eli (‘Allun) ha-parnas, active 1057-1107, which mention his less well-known son, the parnas Abu Kathir (Efrayim ha-Kohen b. ‘Eli). (Oded Zinger, Women, …

    1. בשמך רחמ'
    2. גיר כאף ען חצרה מולאי אלפרנס אלגליל אלנאמן נאמן
    3. בית דין הגדול נטרה רחמנא מא אלממלוך פיה
    4. מן כתרה אלעיאל וקלה אלפאידה ואנני קד בקית
    5. וחיד פקי…

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  40. 1540LetterT-S 8.51

    Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh (1079–1111 CE), it seems from the community of al-Maḥalla. Mentions Yosef al-Dimashqī, Ibn al-Mushaṭṭab(?), and Hillel (b. ʿEli) al-Ḥazzan al-Baghdādī. …

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  41. 1541LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/31

    IB IV, 17 (ח66). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Yiṣḥaq Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with the …

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    1. יא מולאי וסידי עמאדי ודכירתי אלפאצל אלאסעד אלחכים אלאמגד 
    2. ומן אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמתה ואשתקאה וסמוה וסנאה ובסטתה 
    3. ונמוה ועלאה ובלג'ה ובלג' …

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    1. אדוני ומדי, משענתי ומטמוני, המצוין הראוי ביותר, החכם המשובח ביותר,
    2. ומי שה' יאריך את חייו ויתמיד את אושרו ומעלתו ורוממותו והדרו וגדולתו
    3. ודרגתו …

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  42. 1542LetterT-S AS 158.218

    Small fragment from a letter, might be by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's hand, contains mostly blessings. He is also rebuking the addressee (ואנני לאים . . …

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  43. 1543LetterENA 3616.6

    Letter from [ʿAll?]ūsh b. Yūsuf to Efrayim b. Yefet. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer for charity.

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  44. 1544LetterMoss. IV,73

    IB V, 18. Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to the well-known merchant Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …

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  45. 1545LetterT-S AS 142.159

    Bifolio. Secondary use: Draft of formulaic phrases in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic, and a couple words in Arabic addressed to some dignitary (likely anonymous based on …

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  46. 1546LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/29

    Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Only the address is preserved.

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  47. 1547LetterCUL Or.1081 2.46

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dated 29 January 1807 (20 Shevat 5567), from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and his partner Avraham ha-Levi.

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  48. 1548LetterT-S NS J393

    Letter/petition from Yehuda(?), probably in Cairo, to an important person called Sayyidnā, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary orthography. Dating: Probably late 12th or early …

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  49. 1549LetterT-S AS 170.230

    Copy of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Literary format.

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  50. 1550LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1418

    Letter from Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, probably in the Levant, to his son Shemuel b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Catalogued as 15th …

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