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  1. 151LetterBodl. MS heb. d 68/108

    Letter from David b. 'Ammar and Musa b. al-Hayy from Alexandria to Yeshua b. Ismail al-Makhmuri in Fustat. The letter describes a situation of insecurity …

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    1. על שמך
    2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אל[אסוא]
    3. ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה לי'א' בקין מן תשרי כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך…

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  2. 152LetterT-S AS 214.145

    Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. On recto, from Menashshe ben Naʿim to [...] ben Naʿim. Dated: (5400 +) 182 = 5582 AM, which is 1821/22 CE. Mostly …

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  3. 153LetterENA 4046.1

    Letter from Daniel b. Azarya. The letter was later covered in large writing excercises in Arabic script.

    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. וצלת רקעה מולאיי אלשיך האביר האציל החכם הנבון והמשיכל יברכה[ו]
    3. אלהינו ויעודדיהו וקראתהא ופהמת מא תצמנתה מן גמלה סלאמתה אדאמהא
    4. אללה תעאלי וס…

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  4. 154LetterJRL Series A 527

    This is a fragment of a letter asking for assistance, possibly on behalf of a man and his dependents. The author mentions that the subjects …

    1. ......]א[...............
    2. ....א]לדי יפ[..............
    3. ]רגל מעיל פי כמסה מן אלעילה
    4. ]ת עשרה .... עריאנה ומא לעבדך
    5. ...] מולאי אל[ש]יך אלאגל באן ינעם
    6. ...…

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  5. 155LetterT-S 12.14

    Letter requesting aid for the poor of Palestine, 11th century. Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)

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    1. [ ] ואין משדל נשדל לא שמטה
    2. [ ] אשר הם צעקות ברננות
    3. [ ] מכורים ואין מקבל מוספיה
    4. [ ] שקר מכוער לאין חקר כנואם [ ]
    5. [ ]מו וירחם עמ[ו] אשר בחר נאמן …

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  6. 156LetterENA 4045.16

    Letter (ending only) addressed to David b. Naʿim and Moshe b. Naʿim in Alexandria ( נא אמון). Written in Judaeo-Arabic (body) and Ladino (address). Dating: …

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  7. 157LetterT-S NS 320.105

    Possibly a letter of praise. Consists almost entirely of poetical Hebrew phrases. At the bottom there is the writer's name: Kalev b. Yehuda. At the …

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  8. 158LetterBL OR 5542.28

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a formulary, in the most general terms, written in large, monumental script. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  9. 159LetterYevr. II A 458

    Yevr. II A 458/2a: Letter from Eliezer, in Castoria (קסטורייא), to his wife. In Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman era. Mentions Moscow. Currency: levanim (= silver akçe).Yevr. …

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  10. 160LetterENA NS 73.20

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains; mentions [ar]bāb al-dawla.

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  11. 161LetterT-S 13J9.13

    Business letter in Ladino from Yehudah Fariente to Yehudah Gatenio, dated Kislev 167 (= 5567) of the Era of Creation (= 1807 CE). Mentions people …

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  12. 162LetterT-S NS 264.1

    Letter fragment from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic …

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  13. 163LetterMoss. V,346.3

    Un-conserved and damaged. Letter from Aharon to his brother Abu Sa’d al-Kohen. AA

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  14. 164LetterCUL Or.1080 J36

    Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Taharti, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dated: June 1, 1054. Mentions shipments and details about ships. Also …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך

    2. ברחמתה לז בקין מן סיון כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך באחסן כאתמה וא…

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  15. 165LetterMoss. Ia,18

    Business letter from Aden to ʿAydhāb, mentioning Yīṣḥaq al-Nafūsī and Hiba Ibn al-Dabbāgh (‘the tanner’), referring to ships and dinars. (Information from CUDL.) [NB: PGP …

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  16. 166LetterT-S 8J36.1

    Letter to Abu al-Faraj Nissim b. 'Ayyash from an unidentified sender in Alexandria concerning the payment of 43 dirhams. Reference is made to a woman …

    1. אטאל אלל]ה בקאך ואדאם עזך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך
    2. . . . . . . . ] אלאך מן אלאסכנדריא ען חל סלאמה
    3. . . . . . . . ]מא תחב עלמה יא סידי אן א . .
    4. . . . . . . . ]…

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  17. 167LetterT-S AS 41.156

    Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  18. 168LetterT-S 8J18.22

    Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Ḥalfon. Dating: ca. 1037 CE. The writer excuses himself for not seeing the recipient off. The writer was not …

    1. ]אל כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנא ורבנא חלפון
    2. ] החכם והנבון יברכהו אדון האדונים וינצריהו שוכן
    3. עליו]נים וינחילו שומר אמונים חיים ארוכים ושנים נעימים
    4. לחדש לו …

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  19. 169LetterT-S AS 150.55

    Recto: Arabic document, probably a letter. Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Both sides are extremely faded. (Information from CUDL)

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  20. 170LetterJRL SERIES B 5996

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  21. 171LetterT-S AS 148.93

    Fragmemt from a top of a letter by Moshe the Proselyte, probably asking for financial support. (Information from Moshe Yagur, FGP)

    1.      ועזרת גלויתנו זה איש [הא]להים רב החכמים ראש

    2.      התמימים כל מבקש... ישמע על פיו...

    3.      כבוד ילך במוסריו מופת החכמה ומעין התבונה והמזמה…

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  22. 172LetterT-S 6J6.6

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting looks like one of the Mosul Nasis active in the 13th century. The sender says that he (or she?) …

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  23. 173LetterT-S AS 145.329

    Letter mentioning the currency ashrafī. (Information from CUDL)

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  24. 174LetterMIAC 32

    Letter letting a friend know of the sender's arrival to Jerusalem – 27 September 1923CE– Museum of Islamic Art – (number 32) – in Arabic. …

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  25. 175LetterT-S 18J4.8

    Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī to his father Abū l-ʿIzz b. Faḍāʾil. In Judaeo-Arabic, in rhymed prose. The portion preserved here consists …

    1. בש רח
    2. מן [אל]ולד אבי אלפצל בן אבי אלעז
    3. אלשראבי
    4. כתבת כתאב ואלפאד כאיב ופי אלקלב מן
    5. תדכארך להב
    6. ולי מקלה אגפאנהא קד תקרחת ולי כבד
    7. דוב אל . . . . ידוב
    8. ק…

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  26. 176LetterMoss. VII,199.1

    Very short note from Elʿazar to R. Yosef: "I need the silver very much, please send it with the bearer." Verso has a few letters …

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  27. 177LetterF 1908.44B

    Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham, the judge of Minyat Zifta, to Yehuda b. Elazar ha-Kohen, the judge of Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1169–78 CE, based …

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  28. 178LetterT-S 8J21.19

    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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  29. 179LetterT-S 10J30.14

    Letter fragment by Avraham, son of the Gaon.

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    1. אנה לא תכ[
    2. פיהא ואנא אסאלכם [
    3. פי מכס אלכראג וגירה [
    4. אלשוכר אלעטים מן [
    5. מן אללה תקדסת אסמ[אה
    6. בעזרת שדי סאיר אלי [
    7. פאריד אצל ואעלם גמ[
    8. אלאנסאן וכ…

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  30. 180LetterT-S 13J13.10

    Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: after 22 Tevet = December 15, 1139 CE. Yeḥezqel updates …

    1. ב̇ש רח̇מ
    2. קד עלם אללה תבארך ותעאלי מא קלבי מן פראק
    3. מן אלאך אלעזיז אחיאה אללה וגעלני מן סו פדאה
    4. אללה תבארך ותעאלי ימן בגמע אלשמל בה עלי
    5. אפצל אלמחאב במ…

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  31. 181LetterT-S 13J19.14

    Letter addressed to She'erit ha-Ḥazzan, the cantor in the Palestinian synagogue. The writer thanks She'erit and his wife, Umm Shemuel, for their hospitality, and asks …

    1. ב[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. אור זרו[ע . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. והבוטח ב[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

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  32. 182LetterENA 1822a.1

    Recto with the address on verso: Letter from a man whose name is too faded to read, near al-Mahdiyya, to his 'brother' ʿArūs b. Yosef, …

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  33. 183LetterT-S AS 149.77

    Official letter. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The hand may be known. Wide space between the lines. Addressed to a community, and containing a recommendation (or …

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  34. 184LetterENA NS 17.9

    Letter from Yisrael ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel. April 1019, in the handwriting of Israel ha-Kohen b. Shemuel b. Hofni. The letter is addressed to one …

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    1. העיר[       ]נו [           ] ונהללהו ונספר נפלאותיו 
    2. [מו]דיעים כי אליהנו יתברך ש[מו] הבטיח את נאמני עמו לשים עינו עליהם 
    3. [ל]טובה ככת עיני [בנ…

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  35. 185LetterENA 2804.18

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, approximately 1048.

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    1. אל אהובנו וחברנו וסגולתנו כגק מ ורב אפרים החבר ישמרו קד[ושנו]
    2. וינצרו משגבנו ויחזק ידו ויאמץ זרועו ויהי בעזרו ויכין צעדו בט[וב]
    3. וב[נועם] וחן וח…

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  36. 186LetterT-S 13J11.9

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the community of Tatay, approximately 1030.

    1. לכל אחינו ויקירינו וזקנינו הקהל הקדוש אשר בתטאי בראש החזן
    2. והזקנים ושאר הקהל ישמרם צור ויברכם שאו שלום גדול
    3. מצור יעקב יתרומם וממנו ומחמודנו ומסמוכי י…

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  37. 187LetterDK 165

    Bottom part of a letter from the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham ha-Levi. In Hebrew. Dating: 12th century? Conveying gratitude to many people by name. See …

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  38. 188LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/12a

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly asking for letters from the addressee. 8 lines of the main text are preserved and 4 perpendicular lines in the …

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  39. 189LetterMoss. IV,57

    Petition of a widow to a communal leader. She asks him to help her with her late husband's orphans, as he helped her husband in …

    1. י?עשה צדקה ומ[ש]פט נבח[ר] ל[י"י] מז[בח :]
    2. מלוה י"י חונן דל וגמלו ישלם לו :
    3. ביראת י"י מבטח [עז] ולבניו יהיה מחסה :
    4. קד עלם אללה תבארך ותעאלא מא קד תכא…

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  40. 190LetterT-S 24.56

    Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furāt ha-Kohen. Efrayim b. Shemarya and the ḥaver ʿEli b. ʿAmram are mentioned. The …

    1. וחמדת אללה תעאלי עלי דלך וסאלתה מזידה [ ]
    2. ודכר וצול מא אצדרתה אלי גהתה אלמחרוסה ומא כאן מעטופא
    3. עליה ואן לם יותר שיא גמלה וגמני דאך ויעז עליי באנכדאד…

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  41. 191LetterT-S NS J277

    Letter of request, in which a silk-weaver who owed money to his employer, but wanted to quit his job, asks the Nagid to instruct his …

    1. עבדהא אבו אלעלא
    2. בן אבו אלפצל בן
    3. אלעניני
    4. אשרי תמימי דרך ההולכים בתורת ייי אשרי איש
    5. ירא את ייי במצותיו חפץ מאד הדרת אדונינו ואור
    6. עינינו ומחמד לבינו וע…

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  42. 192LetterJRL SERIES G 26

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Extremely faded.

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  43. 193LetterT-S 8.53

    Recto: letter of introduction for [...] b. Aharon, addressing a community and urging them to show charity to the poor. The text appears to have …

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  44. 194LetterT-S AS 145.216

    Letter fragment (middle third, missing both right and left sides). A lot of text remains, but it is frustratingly vague. The name(s) on verso may …

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  45. 195LetterJRL Series L 214

    Respectful greeting card to Maymun b. David. At the bottom are named Abu l-Husayn and Shemuel ha-Shelishi ba-Havurah, who lived ca. 1000 CE and may …

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  46. 196LetterT-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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  47. 197LetterBL 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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  48. 198LetterBL OR 5566B.1

    Family letter. In Arabic script. Maybe from a man in serious trouble with his wife, writing to his son who appeased or reached a settlement …

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    1. ما(؟) حيث(؟) صالحت ستك السحاقة الذي ما رضيت مجي[ء] اليك حتى

    2. انفذت تسالها وسالتها قبحت عليها ست علم وغيرها يصوم (؟) تحتا . (؟)

    3. انفذ لنا فض…

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  49. 199LetterT-S 13J26.10

    Verso: Letter draft (beginning only) in Arabic script. From a certain Abū l-Ḥasan to "the brothers, the physicians."

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. مملوك الاخلا الاطبا حفظهم الله وابقاهم
    3. العبد الو الحسن

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  50. 200LetterT-S AS 152.399

    Recto: Hebrew Bible (Psalms). Verso: letter. (Information from CUDL)

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