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  1. 1951LetterT-S AS 145.119

    Original use: Probably a letter from [...] al-Dayyān to Abū Ṭāḥir b. Avraham. Secondary use: Drafts of a deed of sale of a property, specifying …

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  2. 1952LetterT-S AS 153.14

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender and addressee are unknown. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions people such as Abū Yaʿaqov the brother of Tamra(?); a …

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    1.  ] פי אלמרכב

    2.  ] אסאל אללה יכתוב עליהום אלסלאמה וקד ק[בצ]ת יאכי

    3.  ] מא טאר עלי יאכי אלדי ודית דינארין ורבאעי ילזמ[נא]

    4.  ] פלפל רבאעי לאן כ…

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    1. (1–2) .... תפסה אותו קנאה, ואילו אנחנו נסתפק .... אחי .... והפיקדון שהצילו אותו בשבילו, אצל בן אלפכאה, הוא כמו שהיתה ההצלה 
    2. (3–4) .... ; ...…

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  3. 1953LetterAIU XI.260

    Recto: At least two different drafts of late Arabic letters. Bottom of recto and verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic--lists of money received from various individua

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  4. 1954LetterT-S 8J33.9

    Letter, fragmentary, from Tyre in Hebrew and Arabic, including a Passover greeting and mentioning Mevorakh ha-Kohen b. Natan (active during the 1130's and 1140's in …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. שלום השמים וחיי יומים לאלפי פעמים [
    3. ושמחות וגיל אלי הדר כגק מרנו נכב[דנו
    4. ובר(?) א . . אן ומעוטר בסגנון(?) דת לשם . . . . . [
    5. . . . בה …

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  5. 1955LetterT-S Ar.39.207

    Scrap of a letter, only few words preserved.

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  6. 1956LetterT-S AS 146.20

    Letter from a teacher to a certain Moshe informing him that his son, Abū Saʿīd, read his Torah portion with a translation (tafsīr; likely refers …

    1. בשמ] רחמ
    2. אעלם ר משה יש צו אן אבו סעיד
    3. קרא קדאמי וצאפתה פי אלתפסיר
    4. ווצאפתה פי אלנבי קראה גידה
    5. ושכר ואלדהא מן שכר אסתחק
    6. אלמזיד ערפת מולאי דלך ושלום

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  7. 1957LetterENA 3734.8

    Fragment of an official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, declaring a ban of excommunication. Reused on recto for a …

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  8. 1958LetterMIAC 23973.5

    Letter from an unknown sender to an eparch. The sender acknowledges receipt of a letter from the eparch, in which the eparch reported having sent …

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    2. مملوك الحضرة السامية الـ[ـا] جلية الكريمة
    3. ثبت الله قواعد مجدها ووطد سعدها واهلك عدوها وضدها يقبل الارض
    4.  بين يديها ال…

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    1. [In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.]
    2. The slave of the lofty, most glorious and munificent presence—
    3. may God establish the fou…

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  9. 1959LetterMoss. II,153.2

    Short note in Judaeo-Arabic: "Let it be known to Mūsā that Avraham al-Shammāʿ agreed with us that he live in the house that his sister …

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  10. 1960LetterBL OR 12369.8 + BL OR 12369.7

    12369.7 and 8 are drafts of several Judaeo-Arabic letters and documents by Yisrael al-Gevili (אלגוילי) writing in Cairo it seems circa 1755/6 CE (the lower …

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    1. . . . יום שני
    2. אחד . . בעד מזיד אלסלאם עליכם וכתרת אלאשואק
    3. אליכם ליס יכפא ען שריף עלמכם באננא טייבין בכיר
    4. ועאפיא כדאלך נסמע ענכם אמין וגיר דאל…

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  11. 1961LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 309

    Letter(s) in Arabic script. Addressed to 'our son Sulaymān' in 'al-Maḥrūsa' (Cairo), Ḥārat al-Yahud. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. The last line of …

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  12. 1962LetterT-S 13J18.7

    Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to his two sons Abū Zikrī and Shelomo. Dating: early 13th century. According to Motzkin, Eliyyahu is asking his sons …

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    1. אלי חצרה אלאולאד אלעזיזין ופקהם אללה לטאעתה ואוקף להם ענאיתה
    2. למען שמו מעלמהם אדאם אללה סעאדתהם אן מא
    3. יעלם אחד מא עלי קלובנא מנהם פי אלאיאם אלש…

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  13. 1963LetterJRL B 3856

    Document or notes in Arabic script. Perhaps a draft of a letter or petition. Needs examination. On the other side there is Hebrew literary text. …

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  14. 1964LetterT-S 13J16.16

    Letter from Moshe Ha-Sofer, from the family of Meir Gaon, to Avraham b. Sahl Ha-Tustari, approximately 1030.

    1. אתך השר היקיר הנהדר יפדה צור ממעד
    2. ברכותיך יעדיף ויישר לך נהל כי כל צעד
    3. רוחך ישמור בעיתותי אוף וזעם ורעש ורעד
    4. הרקת טובותיך [ישמור] ימשוך מבלי פסק ומע…

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  15. 1965LetterT-S AS 158.127

    Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably regarding business matters. Faded. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṭabīb; a sum of dirhams; someone whose grandfather's name is Yosef …

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  16. 1966LetterT-S 20.138

    Verso: Another letter in a different hand, from a husband to his wife. He encourages her to send their two sons to school in the …

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    1. אלתורה יתו[
    2. לכיר מתל [
    3. הדא אלדי כ[
    4. ורד אללה עאקבתהם [. . . . . .] נחן
    5. מא נחן מכדומין ענד אלנאס אלא בסבב
    6. אלעלם ובמא תבת פי אדהאננא פי חאל
    7. צגרנא…

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  17. 1967LetterAIU VII.E.104

    Letter in Ladino to Muʿallim Ḥabīb from Simḥah de Mordukh (?). He requests money to be sent with Mordekhai Shamano. The writer's location may be …

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  18. 1968LetterT-S AS 152.153

    Letter fragment to the sage Ḥalfon. Only formulaic blessings are preserved. The hand looks Spanish. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  19. 1969LetterT-S NS 306.87

    Letter in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Torn. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The tarjama at upper left appears to read "ʿabd min al-Maḥalla," …

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  20. 1970LetterT-S 10J18.9

    Letter from Yosef Pidonil (? פידוניל) to his father. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th century or later. In Judaeo-Arabic. Note that many of the emphatic and …

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  21. 1971LetterT-S 6J3.22

    Letter from a woman in the countryside to her husband in Fustat. She refuses to join him there in the capital. The letter is to …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כתאבי אלי סיד כלף אטל אללה בקה ואדאם
    3. עזה ונעמאה וגמעני ואיאה עלי אסר
    4. חאל ועאפיה אלדי נעלמך בה אני מן חית אן
    5. כנת קאעדה חאירה מא ענדי מן יקצי …

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  22. 1972LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/25

    Letter from a son to a father. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer thanks the addressee for the wuṣūl (official receipt), since the tax (mas) was threatening. …

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  23. 1973LetterT-S Misc.35.3

    Learned letter in Hebrew with various inquiries addressed to ‘our lord’, including a question about the birkat ḥatanim and about the customs of the meturgemanim …

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  24. 1974LetterDK 230.4 (alt: 11, I)

    Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Ismāʿīl al-Iṭrābulusi, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Circa 1060. Discusses the import and export of goods through Ascalon. …

    1. כתבת אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה וחראסתה
    2. וכבת אעדאה מן עסקלאן לד כלון מן תשרי אללה תעאלא יתקבל מנה פיה
    3. צאלח אלדעא ויעיד עליה שנים…

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  25. 1975LetterT-S 12.392

    IB VI, 1. Letter from a novice India trader in a Red Sea port to his brother, Libya. Dated: 24 Ḥeshvan (4)864 (28 October 1103). …

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    1.  אנה] ולי דלך ואלקאדר עליה אן שא אללה
    2.  א]כי בל סיידי יום אלב לכד יומא כלון
    3.  [מן שהר] חשון סנה תתסד ערפנא אללה בר[כאת]       
    4. [לנא ולכל] ישראל …

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    1. … for he is master of this and has power over it, if God wills.
    2. … on Monday 24
    3. Ḥeshvan, (4)864, may God acquaint us with blessings 
    4.  for us an…

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  26. 1976LetterENA 2744.5

    Letter from Hārūn b. Binyām to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Same sender and addressee as T-S AS 153.193 (PGPID 17823). He states that …

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  27. 1977LetterT-S NS 226.79

    Long vertical strip from the right side of a business letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi, dealing with a partnership (muʿāmala). Mentions Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, …

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  28. 1978LetterYevr. II A 1853

    A ketter to Ishaq b. Ya'aqoc from Shalom b. Simha Ishaq

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  29. 1979LetterT-S NS 324.70

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Hārūn. In Judaeo-Arabic, with idiosyncratic spellings. Addressed to Qayrawān, it seems. Dating: Likely 11th century. Dealing with trade in ṭabarī cloth, …

    Recto:

    1. בסם אללה
    2. כתיבי יא סידי אטאל אלה בקאך [
    3. ללה כתירא וקד כתבת אליך [
    4. וקופך עליה ואלגוב מני באלקו . [
    5. . . . ך ביע אטברי בקיסם אל[ה
    6. . . ד ואחד עמל …

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  30. 1980LetterT-S AS 177.182

    Small fragment from the end of a letter. Greetings to Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāʾigh (the goldsmith) and others.

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  31. 1981LetterT-S 8J10.6

    Letter from Jerusalem written on recto and verso to someone addressed as 'my son and master' (probably Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat). First half …

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    1. בהא אנא אסל ולדי אלעזיז ומולאי אל
    2. שיך אבא אסחק אדאם אללה עזה וכתר
    3. עליה אלסלאמה ואנגח גמיע מ . . . יך . .
    4. ודניא אלא יקף עלי הדה אלאסטר אלא
    5. אלמ…

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  32. 1982LetterBodl. MS heb. b 12/25

    Letter from Neḥemya ha-Kohen, Gaʾon of Pumbedita, probably to the Babylonian community in Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1274 Sel. = November 962 CE. Asks for financial …

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    1. [                                                                                                                  יגדיל שלומו] בתדירה [וישריש…

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  33. 1983LetterT-S AS 149.103

    Letter (draft?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, ca. 16th–18th century based on handwriting and format. In the margins and on recto reused for accounts in Hebrew …

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  34. 1984LetterENA NS 48.10

    Petition for help addressed to a Jewish notable. Written in Hebrew, for the introduction, and Judaeo-Arabic, for the body. The sender is a goldsmith in …

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  35. 1985LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/19

    Letter of recommendation sent from Ramla, presumably to Fustat. In Hebrew. On behalf of Moshe b. Shemuel. His father Shemuel died this winter, as there …

    1. [......]ל... ע[...]ל..ק

    2. [...] שכר טוב מאלוהינו [...]

    3. [...ת]בינו זה [ ..עס]ק משה בן שמואל [...]

    4. אלמא[...] אשר ממדינת רמלה ודע יקירנו כי נפ…

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  36. 1986LetterT-S AS 208.190

    Damaged letter in Hebrew, with only a few lines preserved. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Based on the honorifics in the letter's …

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  37. 1987LetterT-S NS J146

    An urgent summons to appear before the court from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE).

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  38. 1988LetterT-S AS 146.262 + T-S AS 146.261

    Probably two fragments from the same document, but too dark to read. Seems like a letter. AA

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  39. 1989LetterT-S AS 177.95

    Letter in Arabic script. Beginning with taqbīl, formal addresses/blessings, and a report ("anhā al-mamlūk..."). Dating: Probably Ayyubid or early Mamluk era. The sender reports that …

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  40. 1990LetterT-S AS 157.536

    Recto: probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: unidentified. (Information from CUDL)

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  41. 1991LetterT-S AS 206.215

    Letter in Yiddish. Written on grid paper. Dating: probably 19th century. There are also a few words in Latin script in the upper margins. Needs …

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  42. 1992LetterT-S AS 26.312

    Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

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  43. 1993LetterL-G Misc. 55

    Letter sent from Alexandria to Avraham ha-Rav ha-Sefaradi. (Perhaps the same Avraham ha-Sefaradi as in ENA 2558.13, who corresponded with the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides in …

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  44. 1994LetterT-S NS 321.41

    Letter in Arabic script. Fragmentary (right side of recto). Probably commercial in nature. The sender's name looks like [...] b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Faraj. Reused for …

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  45. 1995LetterT-S AS 146.282

    Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Probably late. Phrases: זה המכתב כבר חקקנו . . . שארע לנו מן אלו האנשים . . . …

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  46. 1996LetterJRL B 6267

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains about isolation (al-wiḥda wa-l-inqiṭāʿ) and is anxious for the addressee to give an update about something. The tone is …

    1. ואלאן יא . . . מא אנת באול מן . [
    2. אעלם אן . . . תרי(?) בצרהא(?) . . לי [
    3. אלדי דכל עלי קלבי פעסא אן תערפני מן . . [ 
    4. אן תעמלה בנפסך ואן כאן אלאמר צחי…

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  47. 1997LetterT-S Misc.11.203

    On recto there is a long list of items in Arabic script, mostly or entirely materia medica. On verso there are Greek/Coptic numerals at the …

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  48. 1998LetterT-S NS 235.130

    Three fragments of Arabic documents reused on verso by the same Hebrew scribe for piyyuṭ. Two of the Arabic fragments are from a letter and …

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  49. 1999LetterT-S NS 322.47

    Verso: Formulaic phrases and blessings in Judaeo-Arabic from a letter for a dignitary.

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  50. 2000LetterT-S 18J4.19

    Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham the judge of Minya Zifta to Yehuda b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen. Complaining that Abū l-Makārim b. Abū l-Dhamm (this is probably …

    1. רחמ
    2. . . . . יהיה בכסליך ושמך רגלך ו. .[. . . . . . . . . . .
    3. כ. אורך ימים ושנות חיים ושלום .ס. . .[. . . .
    4. עבד חצרה כקג מרנא ורבנא יהודה השר הגדול
    5. ב…

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