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  1. 2351LetterMoss. Va.unnumbered

    Letter (left half only) to Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. Men[ashshe] b. al-Qaṭāʾif mentioning a quantity of 12 dirhams and the upcoming holiday.

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  2. 2352LetterT-S AS 157.132

    Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The top line is a date written in Arabic script (15 Dhū l-Ḥijja). The next line may contain a variant …

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  3. 2353LetterL-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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  4. 2354LetterJRL B 7399

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script in the right margin (the tarjama?). Dating: likely ca. 13th century. On verso refers to the address as …

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  5. 2355LetterT-S NS 34.146

    Letter from Isḥāq b. Mubārak to (his brother?) Abū Naṣr [...] b. al-Mubārak al-jahbadh, in al-Maḥalla. A basmala and the opening four lines are preserved …

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  6. 2356LetterT-S 13J23.5

    Letter from a woman who was the wife of Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī and the mother of Dosa b. Yehoshuaʿ, in al-Raqqa, to her son Dosa b. …

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    1.                        בשמך רח' 
    2. כתאבי יאולדי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך 
    3. וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ואתם נעמה עליך מן אלמסתקר …

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    1. בשמך רח'; 
    2. אני כותבת לך בני, והיקר לי ואצלי מכל האנשים; ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך
    3. ואת אושרך ואת שלומך וישלים
    4. את…

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  7. 2357LetterT-S NS 305.54

    Letter in Arabic script. Tall and skinny. Damaged at the beginning. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. The sender is evidently a merchant en route to India: …

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  8. 2358LetterT-S NS 292.37

    Letter written by the assistant of the Nagid Ishaq Sholal to Alexandria. Dating: early 16th century. Written during a period when the Nagid was "in …

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    1. לקהל
    2. יודע למעלתכם ששמענו איך [[דוד מולינא]] יצחק די לונה שלח לאדוננו הנגיד
    3. לתבע מדוד מולינא שרוצה להשיג גבולו וליכנס אצל ערל אחד שהיה משרת
    4. אות…

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  9. 2359LetterT-S G1.22

    Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, in Bilbays to Berakhot ha-Sar, presumably in Fustat. The subject matter is cryptic; Yehuda assures the addressee that he …

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  10. 2360LetterT-S Ar.30.311

    Rhymed invitation to a festive event on the 29th of the month at 3:00 at the home of Nissim Lumbroso (נסים לומברוזו). Dating: 19th century. …

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  11. 2361LetterT-S 12.190

    IB IV, 32 (ח47). Recto: Letter from Yosef al-ʿAdanī al-Mamsawī (i.e., originally from Aden and now a resident of Mamsa, Morocco) to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. …

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    1. גדו[ל החכמה ו]צניף הבינה מקור השכל והמזמה החכם המופלא המשנה המעולה [...]
    2. מלוה [יי חונן] ד''ל וגו'     חמודות מצרים פאר משפחתו וה[דר] קהלתו בכת…

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    1. (1–2, 4–5 ראה במקור)
    2. ר' חלפון בר' נתנאל זצ"ל. מעבדו
    3. <<כתב>> התלוי רק בחסדו והמקווה לנדיבותו ולחסדיו, יוסף אלעדני אלממסוי,
    4. (אל) אדוני ומרי …

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  12. 2362LetterT-S NS 226.190

    Minute fragment of a letter. Verso reads like a prayer to God for forgiveness.

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  13. 2363LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/21

    A letter from Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl, probably in Fustat, to his father Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ in Alexandria. Ca. 1057. Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl writes that he …

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    1. אליהוד שיי והו כרוג אלעייד ואנא נאכד מכסרה וננפדהא איצא
    2. בעת אלשש סער כא אלי' ארטאל אעלמתך דלך ושלום
    3. וקבצת אלד'נ' גיאד גא וזנה ח' ארטאל ונצף

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    1. אני כותב לך, אבי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויהיה לך ועמך עוזר וסומך:
    2. לפני כן שלחתי לך מכתבים אחרים עם נושאי המכתבים והודעתיך שהגיע מ…

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  14. 2364LetterCUL Add.3338.4

    Letter addressed to a certain ʿIzz al-Dīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni origin. Dating: uncertain, likely no earlier than 13th century. Dealing mainly with details of shipments …

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    1. ואלדי אשאטו מן בקייה אלחב קדח ונצף צנעאני וקדח זואד וקדח
    2. חסיך ותמאני כחלאני חסיך לחמאר סיידי תסע ונצף אלקדח
    3. עשא לאהל אלבהאים ורבע אלק…

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  15. 2365LetterT-S AS 149.130 + T-S AS 149.134

    Letter to the Nagid (or at least to a dignitary titled [...] ha-Yeshiva, probably the same Yaḥyā ha-Sar named in line 7). The sender asks …

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  16. 2366LetterT-S AS 169.167

    Draft of the opening of a deferential letter to someone addressed as 'al-mawlā [...] al-jalīl al-aṣīl al-ḥakīm al-fahīm al-wadīd al-sadīd..." On verso there are similar …

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  17. 2367LetterMIAC 185

    Personal letter beginning with a prayer and reporting that the rain did not fall so they prayed until the rain fell then salutations and regards …

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  18. 2368LetterT-S 10J24.1

    Two paper leaves, very damaged, which form a part of a collection of letters from Evyatar ha-Kohen Gaon b. Eliyyahu, sent from Tyre. The first …

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    1. ויעצימהו [ ] אין להא[ר]יך מיל[ים] לחכם כמוך אבל להזכיר כבודך ותורתך
    2. מה שא[נו] כולנו חייב[י]ם לעזור מטים ומכים כל שכן עיר אלוהינו מקום תהלתו
    3. ה…

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  19. 2369LetterT-S AS 150.39

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions going out of the house and a turban. (Information in part from CUDL)

    1. אלסלאם אלגזי[ל
    2. אלשיך אלאגל אב[
    3. אעטאה אללה סלא[
    4. לא יכליה אבדא [
    5. אכרג מן אלבית ס[
    6. אלעמאמא ולולא א[
    7. כתאבי אלא אנא ואל[
    8. פאן כנת ממן תא . [
    9. על . בהא והדה…

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  20. 2370LetterT-S AS 115.101

    Recto: Letter fragment addressed to a notable, in Hebrew. Verso: Remnant of an official letter or document in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  21. 2371LetterT-S AS 152.320

    Beginning of a letter sent to Nahray b. Nissim. (Information from CUDL)

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  22. 2372LetterMoss. VII,166.2

    Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'brother.' The writer seems to be trying to justify something he said or wrote. …

    1. הדא אלאמר יטיב עלי קלבך וקלב . . . [
    2. . . צר פערפני גואב מא פי הדא אלכתאב וכונך יא אכי
    3. תקול לי יא אכי מא לי שי מן יכון צאנן(?) יכון ענדה שא . ר
    4. . לאל…

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  23. 2373LetterT-S Ar.37.12

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Najm Hillel [...] al-Jawbarī (or al-Gharbarī?). Mentions the following: Hiba b. Yūsuf Ibn al-Baghla ("Son of the Female Mule"—evidently …

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  24. 2374LetterT-S K11.68

    Letter formulary in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary: כגק מר ור פ אור עינינו מנהיג דורנו . . .

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  25. 2375LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 735

    Small fragment from the beginning of a letter or official report in Arabic script: wa-yunhī baʿd [...] al-adʿiya al-ṣāliḥa wa-l-[...] lillāh taʿālā bi-[...].

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  26. 2376LetterJRL B 7971

    Commercial text in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe a letter.

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  27. 2377LetterT-S 10J15.9

    Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). In Judaeo-Arabic. After the greetings, which include wishes for the husband's recovery from illness, she continues, …

    1. I inform you, master of the house, may God always give you happiness, strengthen your well-being,  

    2. cure your sorrows, destroy your enemies and…

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  28. 2378LetterCUL Or.1080 J285

    Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides, written to Nissim Ha-Dayyan (judge). Mentions the wife of Abū Manṣīr b. Abī l-Khayr, the tax-guarantor (ḍāmin, צאמן) …

    CUL Or 1080 J 285, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.237-240,N.H. 04-26-88, (P). Letter from a file of Abraham Maimonides, written to Nissim Ha-Dayya…

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  29. 2379LetterHUC 1119

    Letter in Hebrew. Late and non-Geniza. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. The sender is evidently a circuit judge, based on …

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  30. 2380LetterT-S AS 207.177

    Letter(s) in Arabic script. Dating: uncertain, probably 11th–13th century. Recto includes the phrase "as soon as this letter arrives" (fa-sāʿat wusūl hādhā l-kitāb). Verso appears …

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  31. 2381LetterMoss. IV,24.2

    Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer seem to explain why he had not paid anything to the addressee. He has also sent him some money to …

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  32. 2382LetterYevr. II A 1631

    A letter from Yeshu'a Yosef b. Moshe to Avraham b. Moshe

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  33. 2383LetterT-S Ar.39.299

    Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. Needs examination for content.

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  34. 2384LetterT-S NS 226.174

    Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Maybe asking for charity or a loan of 5 dinars.

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  35. 2385LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/45

    Letter addressed to Abū Sahl ha-Levi (the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, who died in 1211), with greetings also to his brothers Moshe …

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  36. 2386LetterYevr.-Arab. I 4575

    The main documentary item under this shelfmark is a copy of a letter from Rav Hayya Gaon to Avraham b. ʿAṭā' the Nagid of Qayrawān. …

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  37. 2387LetterENA 4189.7

    Letter-writing formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium, containing many letter samples. There are also two lines in Arabic script.

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  38. 2388LetterT-S 13J19.3

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served …

    1. לאהובינו וגדולינו ונכבדנו ושרינו וחשובנו ובבת אישוננו
    2. כב קד מר ורב אברהם הכהן שר העדה הרופא
    3. היקר החשוב [ישמרו] צור יעקב בן זקיננו כק מר ורב
    4. יצחק זקן…

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  39. 2389LetterT-S NS 190.131

    Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very damaged. Mentions kohl.

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  40. 2390LetterT-S 8.256

    Only the bottom of the leaf is preserved, possibly a poetic letter or panegyric. Refers to Nathaniel ha-Sar (the 12th-century Gaʾon Nathaniel b. Moses?). (Information …

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  41. 2391LetterJRL B 7435

    Several lines from the top of a deferential letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.

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  42. 2392LetterT-S 12.367

    Letter from Farah b. Avraham, probably from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. Regarding b. Awkal’s merchandise that arrived in Qayrawan and the writer's …

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    1. כתבת א[טאל אללה בקאך] ואדאם סלאמתך ואעזך ואכרמך וכאן לך וליא וחאפט' פי גמיע אמורך כתאבי 
    2. אליך ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ללה אלחמד עלי דלך וקד כתבת א…

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    1. אני כותב את מכתבי אליך, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת גדולתך ואת כבודך, ויהיה לך מגן ושומר בכל ענייניך, (כאשר) שלומי טוב ואני…

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  43. 2393LetterT-S AS 145.266

    Long strip, only one word preserved from each line, in wide spacing. Probably a poetic Hebrew letter. AA

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  44. 2394LetterMoss. VII,165

    Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Ḥananel, in Alexanria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Second half of the 10th century. The writer reports …

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  45. 2395LetterENA NS 2.15

    Mercantile letter from an unidentified sender, probably in Alexandria, addressed to Abū Isḥāq [Barhū]n b. Mūsā (probably al-Tāhartī), somewhere where one buys flax (the Fayyūm?). …

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  46. 2396LetterT-S AS 146.426

    Minute fragment from a beginning of a letter to a notable. Contains a praise for his sons, but no more details preserved. Red border. AA

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  47. 2397LetterT-S AS 201.396

    Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. Cursive hand. Mentions the name David as well as a collective reference to rabbis and possibly their sons: החכמ[ים] השלמים …

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  48. 2398LetterJRL 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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  49. 2399LetterJRL B 8342

    Recto is a phrase from a letter ויעוד וכתאבנא. Verso is an intriguing list of books or letters (?כתא) including one "to Alexand[r]ia," one called …

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  50. 2400LetterT-S NS 320.115

    Letter from an unknown sender, in Alexandria, to a certain Shalom who has a son named Yehuda, in Fustat/Cairo. (In the actual address, the letter …

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