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  1. 151LetterT-S NS 304.2

    Fragment of a beginning of a letter. Addressed to Abū l-Wafāʾ, in al-Maḥalla.

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  2. 152LetterT-S AS 151.131

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf. CUL …

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  3. 153LetterT-S AS 155.224

    Letter in a different hand from recto, mentioning (Mishna) Seder Qodashim. See separate entry for recto. (Information from CUDL)

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  4. 154LetterCUL Or.1080 J284

    IB IV, 64 (ח88). Letter from Saʿdān b. Thābit al-Baghdādī ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1135 …

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    1. בִשִמִ' [ר]חמ'
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלפאצל אלנביל אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם
    3. תאיידהא ועלאהא ורפעתהא וסנאהא וסמוהא וארתקאהא ותמכינהא וכבת

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    1. בשמ[ך] [ר]חמ[נא].
    2. הגיעה איגרת הדרת אדוני השיך המפואר ביותר המצוין, האציל, יאריך ה' את חייו ויתמיד
    3. את כוחו ועליונותו ורוממותו וגדולתו ומעלתו וד…

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  5. 155LetterENA NS I.62

    Verso: Letter or possibly a prayer in Arabic script. Very faded. See separate record for recto.

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  6. 156LetterMoss. IV,27.3

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). Yefet refers to a …

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  7. 157LetterT-S 12.58

    Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. Discusses the matter of the 18 dinars owed to the poor of …

    1. [כתא]בי אטאל אללה בקא [מולאי] אלח[בר ואדאם עזה] ותאידה מן אלקודס
    2. [ ] מן אלול וחאלי סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק [אליך שדיד קרב אללה עז וגל

    אל]אגתמאע

    1. [בך בהדא…

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  8. 158LetterT-S 18J3.7

    Letter from Yosef to his father Abū l-Bishr b. Makārim al-Iskandarī to be delivered via Eliyyahu the judge. Dating: first part of the 13th century. …

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  9. 159LetterAIU VII.E.151

    Late letter in Hebrew to the Judge Yeshuʿah Landes (?).

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  10. 160LetterT-S NS 226.160

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to 'mawlāy al-dayyān Abū [...].' Mentions Fustat and selling something.

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  11. 161LetterAIU VII.F.39

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated 1796/7 CE (5557).

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  12. 162LetterT-S AS 152.275

    Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is rebuking the addressee for something (אלנאס . . . גהל . . . …

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  13. 163LetterT-S NS J579

    Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Ibrāhīm. Written once in Judaeo-Arabic and repeated in Arabic script. He asks Ibrāhīm to meet him …

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  14. 164LetterENA 2804.17

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, Fustat, ca. 1046.

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    1. [ ] להודיעכם [
    2. [ ] אחד וחצי אחרי כן הופחת לרב[י]ע וכתב[תי] אל
    3. [ ] לכתבהו כי לשלח עוד דמיו אמרתי אין צורך
    4. כי[ ]תב [ ] הנקרא א[ ]ע[ ] כתוב וה[ ]…

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  15. 165LetterT-S 8.265

    Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tahartī (CUDL), Yosef b. Berekhya or Moshe b. Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawān (PGP), to (Efrayim b.) Shemarya, Fustat. Discusses responsa of …

    1. ]נעמתך וסעאדתך ואתם
    2. תאיידך [ וען שוק לגהתך אלכרימה
    3. ?רי]אסתך אדאמהא אללה לך ולי פיך
    4. ]. אלתי טלקהא אלראיס בחצרתי
    5. ו]כאלה ולא יכפא ענך קול דוד ננ
    6. אללה א…

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    1. (1–5) אני כותב לך, אדוני, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת שלומך ואת אושרך וישלים …. אבל אני מתגעגע לפניך האציליים, …. (הגיע מ…

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  16. 166LetterT-S 13J29.12

    Letter from Efrayim b. Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee …

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    1. כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל

    2. סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל אל…

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    1. אני כותב, אדוני הנכבד והיקר, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך 
    2. כאשר שלומי טוב ואני בריא, אך מתגעגע אליך מאוד; יקרב אלוהים …

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  17. 167LetterT-S Ar.18(1).131

    Letter from Muslim/Musallam, reporting the arrival of a letter from Saʿadya the cantor and mentioning business matters and a certain Barukh, who is coming to …

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    1. כאדמהא
    2. מסלם
    3. ב
    4. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך
    5. וצל כתאב מו סעדיה החזין
    6. העניו ושפל רוח וקראתה ופהמת
    7. מצמונה ושכרת אללה תעאלי עאפיתהא
    8. ווצל אלתוב פלא עדמת ת…

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  18. 168LetterT-S 12.654

    Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Cairo, to Shelomo b. Yishai the Mosul Nasi, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1240 CE. The writer had sent …

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    1. [ב]ש רח 
    2. [אל]לה תע אלעאלם מא ענדי לכיבה אמלי וכגלי [                ]
    3. [לתא]כרי ען כדמה אלמג'לס אלסאמי אלאג'לי אלס[יידי]
    4. [אל]עאלמי אלצדרי אלדאו…

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  19. 169LetterT-S AS 184.40

    Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt al-Isrāʾīlī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Sahl, in the perfumers' market in Fustat. On recto only the upper left …

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  20. 170LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 146

    Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, probably mercantile. Little of the content is preserved. There is an unrelated fragment sharing this shelfmark, which …

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  21. 171LetterT-S AS 149.27

    Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: before 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's …

    1. לאהובנו וחבירנו ויקירנו כגק מר ורב אפרים החבר
    2. [המע]ולה ישמרו צורו וינצרו יוצרו ויהיה בעזרתו בן מר רב
    3. [שמ]ריה המלמד נוחו ע[דן י]שא חברנו שלום גדול מצ…

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  22. 172LetterENA 2740.2 + ENA 2556.4

    Letter from Shelomo ben Halafta, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: 1481/82 CE. - Mentioning events as far away …

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  23. 173LetterT-S Misc.26.21

    Business letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq Sholal ha-Kohen. Dating: Before 1502 CE, because Yiṣḥaq Sholal was not yet the Nagid at the time this letter was …

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  24. 174LetterHalper 403

    Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic address. The writer requests that the addressee give the five dirhams nuqra that al-Rayyis Abū …

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  25. 175LetterT-S AS 86.170

    Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Dating: 15th–17th century. Addresses Aharon and Mordekhay, one or both of whom may be the sender's maternal uncle (khālī). …

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  26. 176LetterENA NS 43.24

    Tiny fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  27. 177LetterMoss. VII,152.1

    Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Fragment. The letter is prefaced with three short decorated lines of biblical quotations. …

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  28. 178LetterT-S AS 151.282

    Brief letter about payment owed to Ṭoviyya, also giving instructions about making a purchase. In Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. On verso there …

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  29. 179LetterT-S Misc.28.79.16

    P16: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The addressee is likely Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (rather …

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  30. 180LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1863/17

    Document about the shipment of a purse containing 113 dinars to Nahray b. Nissim and Yaʿaqov b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. …

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    1. רב סלם ברחמ[ת]ך ובלג

    2. בקדרתך אלי אבי יחיי

    3. נהרא<י> בן נסים ויעקב בן

    4. אסמעיל סורה צחבת

    5. יעקב בן עמנואל אלוזן

    6. ק דינ> ודינארין גיר סודס

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    1. (2-1) אלוהים שים שלום ברחמיך ועשה שיגיע, על פי גבורתך: אל אבו יחיא 
    2. (3–4) נהוראי בן נסים ויעקב בן אסמעיל, כיס, עם 
    3. (5–6) יעקב בן עמנואל ; …

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  31. 181LetterPER H 130

    Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dated 27 Iyyar, which Gil renders 1 May 1052. Contains details about the sailing …

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    1. בסם אללה אלעטים

    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה

    3. יום אלגמעה אכר אלנהאר ללילתין בקית …

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    1. (2-1) בשם אלוהים הנורא; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת אושרך ואת שלומך ואת חסדיו לך, מא…

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  32. 182LetterT-S AS 149.164

    Recto: Fragment of an official Arabic-script document. Includes a blessing: (...wa-stafliḥ...). Verso: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

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  33. 183LetterJRL B 5442

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only formulaic phrases are preserved.

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  34. 184LetterT-S AS 150.115

    Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much of the content is preserved. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe? (Information in part from …

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  35. 185LetterT-S 12.325

    Letter from Dūnash b. Yiṣḥaq from Tripoli (Libya) to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. Describes imagery or exaggerated event, of an attack against …

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    1.                    על שמך
    2. כתאבי אכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך וצאנך ווקאך וכאן לך
    3. ומעך פי גמיע אמורך וליה וחאפצ'ה מן אטראבלס לי' כלון מן

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  36. 186LetterJRL A 439

    A late letter from Yosef, asking to addressee to write a bill of permission to give a loan (שטר עסקא). In Hebrew. On recto pen …

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  37. 187LetterENA NS I.93a

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom only). Dated: 23 Ḥeshvan 1539 Seleucid, which is 1227 CE. Sending greetings from Abū l-Faḍl and asking the addressee to …

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  38. 188LetterBL OR 5538.2

    Letter by Yisrael [b. Shemuel b. Hofni?]. See Mann, Texts and Studies, I, 165–66. Date is given, possibly Elul [1]315 = 1004 CE. Information from …

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  39. 189LetterJRL B 4771.1

    Letter fragment in Arabic script: ...al-ṣāliḥ dhakarū anna...; on verso there is also some Hebrew text.

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  40. 190LetterT-S AS 149.124

    Minute fragment from an opening of a letter to a notable. AA

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  41. 191LetterBL OR 5544.14

    Letter from Yosef קוכו and Shelomo Amarilio, in Salonica, to the judge Yiṣḥaq b. Ẓahal, presumably in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dated: 5480 AM (שנת אקים …

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  42. 192LetterL-G Misc. 10

    Letter from Shemuel b. ʿEli gaʾaon, Baghdad, with opening praises, copied in the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. (Information in part …

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  43. 193LetterNLI 577.3/2

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Eli Alfasi, Tyre. Around 1067. Abu Yaakov Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen is on a ship on …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא
    2. ענך ברחמתה מן מצר ליג כלון מן מרחשון ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק שדיד אליך
    3. קרב…

    Translated by Brendan G. Goldman

    My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your well-being and happin…

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  44. 194LetterT-S Misc.11.228

    Letter from Yosef ha-Levi, unknown location, to Binyamin de Curiel, in Cairo. In Ladino. Dated: Adar 5552(?) AM = February/March 1792 CE. Complete. Needs examination.

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  45. 195LetterJRL B 7709

    Document in Judaeo-Arabic, likely the end of a letter (refers to וחסן עאקבתה).

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  46. 196LetterENA 2727.56

    Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Avraham b. Yosef b. Avraham to a dignitary called Avraham b. Abū l-Faḍl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The overall appearance and …

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  47. 197LetterJRL B 2781

    Late letter in Hebrew signed by ha-ṣāʿir Meʾir [...]. Written in an elevated register with many expressions of self abasement and flattery. Needs further examination.

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  48. 198LetterT-S AS 153.258

    Small fragment from the top of a letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) to a community, written in the hand of his clerk.

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  49. 199LetterT-S AS 146.335

    Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.

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  50. 200LetterMIAC 268

    Personal letter expressing desire for a friend to meet with an American Sulaymān Basha, and other personal news – Ismaʿilīya (Cairo) June 18 1948CE – …

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