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  1. 3301LetterT-S NS 289.18

    Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script, possibly a letter or account. Needs further examination. On recto: Hebrew poetry on astronomical (and/or mystical?) themes.

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  2. 3302LetterT-S AS 152.329

    Much damaged small fragment from a top of a letter. AA

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  3. 3303LetterT-S NS 255.22

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. This may have been appended to a letter written on a separate sheet. "After I had already written this letter, your letter …

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  4. 3304LetterT-S Misc.25.123

    Letter of condolence in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, on the death of 'the father.' Beautiful prose and calligraphic script. Likely a formulary.

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  5. 3305LetterT-S 13J29.11

    Fragment from a letter from Mūsā b. Yaḥyā Majjānī. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Mentions the receipt of expressions of condolence (on the death of …

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  6. 3306LetterMoss. II,123.1.2

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of recto). Yefet …

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  7. 3307LetterT-S 8.68

    Part of a letter, mentioning debts. It probably addresses a community, since the plural address is used. (Information from CUDL)

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  8. 3308LetterT-S 10J12.16

    Letter from a woman, in Fustat, to her son Abū l-Maḥāsin, in Funduq al-Qamra, Alexandria. Dictated to Abū Manṣūr. Likely belongs with T-S 10J19.26 (PGPID …

    Recto:

    1. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתך ואין למו מכשול
    2. שלום שלום לרחוק ולקרוב אמר ייי ורפאתיו
    3. אלדי אעלם בה ולדי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי גמע אללה שמלי בה קריב עלי מא י…

    Translated by Dora Zsom

    There shall be peace for those who love Your Torah; they stumble not (Psalms 119:165).

    There shall be peace, there shall b…

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  9. 3309LetterJRL B 7658

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  10. 3310LetterAIU VII.E.92

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company, from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez. Dated 29 Elul [5]569 AM Information from Wagner, Linguistic …

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  11. 3311LetterT-S 12.57 + T-S AS 150.23

    Letter/petition from a woman to Yakhin Rosh ha-Qehillot. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). She asks for help for her son, …

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    1. אלעבדה תצרני [...........]ה הקדושה
    2. פי אצטנאע [...]ץ [...]ה מנ[...] פי אלנטר
    3. פי חאל הדא אלצבי[.] אלמח[ב]וס אלדי קד ק[...]
    4. אל[...]ף והו מר[...] פ…

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  12. 3312LetterYevr. II A 1754

    A letter to Shlomo b. Nahmo Yerushalmi (his name is written in acrostic on the write column) asking for financial support. The writer residing in …

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  13. 3313LetterT-S AS 206.6

    Much faded and damaged fragment of a letter, not much can be saved. Probably a recommendation for a certain Yosef (wa-huwa rajul jayyid....).

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  14. 3314LetterT-S NS 31.27

    Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps addressed to a Moshe (l. 2). Concerning small business transactions.

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  15. 3315LetterT-S NS J461

    Verso (original use): Fragment of a business letter in Arabic script. Three lines are preserved and part of a line in the margin.

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  16. 3316LetterT-S 8J19.27

    Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, in Ramla, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fusṭāṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. …

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    I trust in God. Praised be the Lord who resurrects the dead.

    My master and lord, may God prolong your life, make your wellbeing and happiness …

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  17. 3317LetterT-S 13J14.3

    Letter in which a father imposes on a friend to immediately go see “the cursed matchmaker Mother of the Black” and ask her to tell …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. לו אכדת אצף מא גר[י] עלי כאדם חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אללה אדאם עזה
    3. מן אלוכילה אלמלעונה אם סודא קבח אללה פעלהא למא וסעתה רקעה
    4. וקד כנת אמס עול…

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  18. 3318LetterT-S AS 158.64

    Minute fragment from a letter: ומגאראתך עלי . . . תסלם עליך . . .

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  19. 3319LetterT-S Ar.18(1).48

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dealing with the book trade. In a slightly crude hand with some orthographic features more usual for later Classical Judaeo-Arabic letter writing, …

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  20. 3320LetterENA NS 12.20

    Business letter addressed to Abū l-Khayr b. Mufaḍḍal al-Yahūdī al-Bilbaysī(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Maghrebi hand. Dating: Likely ca. …

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  21. 3321LetterT-S AS 149.142

    Letter addressed to Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue. This is a well known figure mentioned in documents from ca. 1180–91; …

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  22. 3322LetterJRL A 685

    This is the beginning of a very fragmentary letter which mentions a certain al-Dar'i (Dar'a is a town in Morocco). It is possible that the …

    1. תדכרה מוגהה לסיידי
    2. פבאע אעלמך אן כאן בקי[
    3. ל]נא ענד בן מכאן [ל] גיר יט ב..[
    4. שח. אלי אן כתב לי כתאב אלי..[
    5. אלדרע[י] ביד[ה] אלדי בקבאל..[
    6. אלדי ענדה פקא…

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  23. 3323LetterT-S 6J5.4

    Recto: pen trials and drafts of letters in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Arabic. Verso: illegibly rubbed, faded and stained Arabic and jottings in Hebrew script. (Information …

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  24. 3324LetterDK 246.1

    Letter from Faraj, the “freed” of Barhun (ha-Tāhartī?) from the Maghreb, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal and his sons, Fustat; ca. 1015. Regards a …

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    1. כתאבי יאסאדתי אטאל אללה בקאכם ואדאם סלאמתכם
    2. וסעאדתכם ואתם נעמתה עליכם ברחמתה לד' איאם כלון
    3. מן ומצאן אסל אללה יגעלה עליכם ועלי כ'ל' י'ש'ר' אימן
    4. …

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  25. 3325LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1419

    Letter from Sulaymān al-Skandarī, in Damascus, to his brother-in-law Faraj Allāh Ibn Fāḍil and his wife (the writer's sister), in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …

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  26. 3326LetterT-S NS 183.82

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, probably no earlier than 14th century. From a man initially addressing a group of people and subsequently a woman …

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  27. 3327LetterT-S NS 190.14

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Resembles the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis (cf. T-S 12.654 and the related fragmented edited by Gil). Mentions …

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  28. 3328LetterT-S NS 324.16

    Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. "I arrived safely in Sambūṭya (=Sunbāṭ)... may His blessing fall on him and …

    1. הגעתי שלום לעיר סנבוטיה [
    2. ברכתו תחול עליו ועל חמודו לטוב ואני בעזרת
    3. שמים מסכים ללכת לדמיאט //אי כפתור// ומשם לתניס //אי חנס// ללכת [

    Margin:

    1. מושבו…

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  29. 3329LetterMoss. II,164.1

    Letter from the raʾs al-kull (= rosh kalla) Isrāʾīl b. Dāniyāl / Yisraʾel b. Daniʾel to Abū l-Ḥasan Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-[Ṣayrafī], in Fustat. In …

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  30. 3330Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 25

    Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions [al-shaykh] al-ʿAfīf and someone else; that something did not arrive the previous year; "on this day"; …

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  31. 3331LetterT-S AS 149.246

    Letter of condolence (possibly a copy) to a public figure. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Quotes Jeremiah 15:2. The name Faḍl appears in l. 1, [Abū …

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  32. 3332LetterMoss. II,135.2

    Small fragment of a letter on paper lined with red ink, mentioning Nasi Galiyot Yehuda ve-Yisrael.

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  33. 3333LetterT-S 13J28.23

    Business letter in Arabic script from Hilāl b. Salmān(?) to his maternal uncle ('my father') Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillel. Consists entirely of greetings and …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. تقدمت كتبي الى مولاي الوالد اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وسعادته وسلامته
    3. ونعمته وكبت اعداه ولم ارى لاحداهم جواب الل…

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  34. 3334LetterT-S 24.78

    IB VI, 25. Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering …

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    1. בש רח
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללא בקא חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    3. ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ורפעתה וסנאה ותמכינה
    4. וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה אעלמה אן לו רמת אלי
    5. שרח אליסיר ממא גר…

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    1. In your name, O merciful.
    2. I am writing to you my lord, the most illustrious elder —
    3. may God prolong the life of your excellency and make perma…

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  35. 3335LetterT-S 12.147

    Karaite document, compiled by a delegation of 12 Gaza and Jerusalem Karaites, regarding the state of fields in the spring in order to determine whether …

    1. יקול מן כת[ב כט]ה פי הדא אלמחצר ו[ ]ה
    2. ומחצרה מן אלמקאדסה ואלגזיין אלכא[ ]מה אליהם
    3. אנא וקפנא יום אלגמעה מסתהל דו אלקעדה סנת תלת וארבעין
    4. וארבע מאיה על…

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  36. 3336LetterT-S AS 153.151

    Letter or other document. Mentions that which Yeshuʿa b. Dunash said concerning 'the two noble brothers' Shelomo b. [...] and Ṣedaqa b. Moshe the elder. …

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  37. 3337LetterHalper 389

    Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā of Sfax, in Mazar, Sicily, to his partner Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The longest letter …

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    1. סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמאך כתאבי אליך מן מאזר לז' בקין מן אלול ען סלאמה ונעמה 
    2. ושכר ללה תעאלי אסאלה אלמזיד מן כל כ…

    recto

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת רווחתך, ממאזר, בכ"ג באלול; שלומי טוב ואני מאושר,
    2. ותודה לאל י…

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  38. 3338LetterENA NS 22.13

    Letter from Yusha` b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim.

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    1. על שמך
    2. תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה [ואדאם עזה וס]עאדתה

    3. וסלאמתה ונעמתה עדה ואכ'רהא עלי יד[י              וכנת מ]נתטר

    4. לוצול כתאב…

    recto

    1. (1 – 2) על שמך; שלחתי לך לפני כן, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת אושרך
    2. ואת שלומך ואת חסדו לך, מכתבים אחרים, האח…

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  39. 3339LetterT-S AS 147.235 + T-S AS 147.236

    Letter from Abū Niʿma to Eliyyahu the Judge. Concerning a complaint filed by the daughter of the late Abū l-Maḥāsin. Mentions Bilbays and Muslims. There …

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  40. 3340LetterT-S AS 153.112

    Address of a letter in Hebrew to Meʾir the cantor, with, beneath it, (the same?) address in Arabic (to the elder Abū l-[...]). (Information from …

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  41. 3341LetterMoss. Ia,27

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …

    1. אל אח בתורה וחבר ביראה באהבה גלויה לא נפלאה לא בהבלי העולם
    2. תלואה ולא בעניניו קנואה כי אם קבועה כמראה בעלי קנאה לא
    3. ימירוה ומטילי שנאה לא יחליפוה ואם …

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  42. 3342LetterT-S NS J303c

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions the phrase/title/name "Sar Shalom." Little else …

    verso

    1. [ ] אבנה געל פדאה ולא עדם
    2. [ ] בקאה יפת בן משה נע
    3. [ ] אלקטאיף אמאנה מודאה

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  43. 3343LetterMoss. II,146.1

    Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen, unknown location, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (= ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen, active ca. 1057–1107), in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic …

    Verso, address:

    1. يصل الى مصر الى ابي الحسن עלון אלפרנאס
    2. אלכוהין
    3. מן ברכאת אלכוהין
    4. עבד אהבאתא ושומי
    5. ר בריתא

    Recto, upper margin

    1. ولا تسل ما يلفظ في ال…

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  44. 3344LetterBodl. MS heb. f 107/53

    Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer needs help paying the capitation tax (jāliya). The addressee had previously said something about talking to …

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  45. 3345LetterT-S 8J27.13

    Letter from Farah b. Yosef b. Farah in Alexandria to Abu Sa'd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat mentioning a shipment of coats, turbans, robes, and …

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    1. תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאידה ונעמאה 
    2. ארגו וצולהא אולהא צחבה בן עקבאן וערפתך אנני חמלת אליך צחבתה 
    3. ג' צרר וזנהא קק…

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    1. כתבתי לך לפני כן, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו ואת חסדיו לך, מכתבים אחדים,
    2. אקווה שהגיעו אליך. הראשון עם בן עֶק…

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  46. 3346LetterENA 2808.10

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a beautiful hand with wide line-spacing. Quite faded. Approximately 9 lines are preserved from the main text and another 8 lines …

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  47. 3347LetterENA 2739.6

    Lower fragment: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Ḥalfon or Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Essentially none of …

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  48. 3348LetterT-S AS 155.271

    Letter from Maḥāsin b. Abū ʿAlī, probably in Alexandria, to his mother Sitt Ghazāl bt. Abū ʿUmar, in Fustat. (The letter is to be delivered …

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  49. 3349LetterT-S 6J1.23

    Letter to Eli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas dealing with money owed.

    1. שלומך אהובנו וחביבנו רבנא עלי
    2. הכהן הפרנס נאמן הישיבה יגדל:
    3. יגב אן יעלם חרסה אללה אני אסתחק
    4. עליה ארבאעון אלדי אכדהא מני ואסתחק
    5. איצא עליה דינ/א/ר חק א…

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  50. 3350LetterT-S NS 340.53

    Letter in Arabic script. Small fragment. Written on parchment. Mentions "40 dirhams... every dinar... he said, 'I cannot be patient....'" On verso mentions someone called …

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