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  1. 4701LetterENA 2808.35a

    Letter addressed to Yehuda b. Yosef. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Needs examination.

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  2. 4702LetterT-S AS 169.98

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a beautiful hand, different from recto. The sender seems to be in Akhmīm in Upper Egypt and to be upset …

    Verso

    1. אללה תע באן [
    2. אלסלאמה תצמן ע[
    3. מן אכמים ויחסן כלאצי מנ[הא
    4. ואראד ודלך בלטף אללה וענאיה אלמולא פא[סל
    5. אללה תע אן יחסן תופיק אלמולא ויגעל פי עמרה
    6. א…

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  3. 4703LetterBL OR 10587.22

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf Manṣūr; the term qumāsh; various commodities including a cotton garment; six 'of crimson' (qirmiziyyāt); the supervisor of the …

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  4. 4704LetterT-S AS 203.183

    Verso: Small fragment of a faded text in Arabic, likely a letter.

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  5. 4705LetterT-S AS 91.331

    Possibly a letter of praise for a notable named Yoshiyyahu, mentioning Yoʾav ben Ṣeruya, the temple, and the Sanhedrin. In Hebrew. Reused on verso for …

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  6. 4706LetterENA 2808.59

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender excuses himself from an invitation, reminds the addressee to fulfill his promise, conveys blessings for Yom Kippur, and asks for …

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  7. 4707LetterT-S AS 148.205

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. This is the last leaf of a longer letter, as it is headed "tamām …

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  8. 4708LetterT-S 13J22.11

    Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yaʿīsh to ʿArūs b. Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū …

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  9. 4709LetterJRL A 1282

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not a lot of content remains. Dating: ca. 11th century. Might mention Tinnīs and customs (mukūs). Abū Isḥāq and …

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  10. 4710LetterT-S 13J22.4

    Letter from Mashā'il (=Misha'el?) b. Natan, location unknown, to Khalaf b. Barakāt b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has had no news of …

    Recto:

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי וקרה עיני
    3. וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    4. עזך גמע אללה ביננא קריב אן שאללה
    5. וממא אעלמך אן מן יום כרגת מן
    6. ענדכם מא סמע…

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  11. 4711LetterT-S AS 147.215

    Fragment (upper left corner) of a letter to Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan ha-Gadol.

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  12. 4712LetterT-S 6J7.25

    Letter, referring to a person who writes piyyuṭim. Refers to someone (God?) who is "present and near, for he is the spring that one is …

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  13. 4713LetterT-S Ar.46.6

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly an appeal for help of some kind, but it seems more complex than the usual flattery and litany of …

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  14. 4714LetterENA NS 32.19

    Note in Judaeo-Arabic informing the recipient that the bearer had a good reason for his tardiness this week, and please forgive him.

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    1. בש רח
    2. אעלם חצרה מולאי
    3. אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה
    4. עזה אן מוצל הדה
    5. אלרקעה כאן לה עדר
    6. ואצח פי תאכרה פי הדא
    7. אלסבוע פינעם במשאמח/תה/
    8. ושלומה יגדל

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  15. 4715LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 664

    Address of a letter, in Arabic script. The addressee is "مولاي الشيخ الجليل ابو المنا يوسف اليهودي" and the letter is from Abū Mūsā al-Maghribī(?).

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  16. 4716LetterHUC 1118

    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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  17. 4717LetterENA 3957.2

    Recto, with the address on verso (secondary use): Letter addressed to al-Rayyis al-Rabīʿī (=ha-Reviʿi) Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Mentions people named Manṣūr and Abū …

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  18. 4718LetterENA 3952.2

    Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 5 lines are preserved on both sides in addition to the marginal text. Refers to the difficult situation of a …

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  19. 4719LetterBodl. MS heb. d 65/32

    Letter addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. The writer's name may be preserved as well, but the conservators have …

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  20. 4720LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/42

    Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Dealing with various business matters, mainly raisins. Mentions Ibrāhīm Shuwaykh …

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  21. 4721LetterT-S AS 150.62

    Letter fragment, maybe a draft as many phrases are crossed out. Seems to consist mainly of settling accounts -- either commercial or related to an …

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  22. 4722LetterMoss. IV,82

    Letter from Yisra'el b. Natan to a relative in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1060 CE. The fate of the addressee was apparently a cause …

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    1. [ ] من اسرائيل بن سهلون الفسطاط
    2. ان ساء الله

    Recto

    1. [כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אלעזיז] אטאל אללה בק[אך]
    2. [ואדאם עזך ותאידך מן אלקדס] עמרה אללה…

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  23. 4723LetterMoss. VIII,479.4

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a notable (moshav ha-[...]). Conveying a report about Abū l-Kar[am?] (or Abū l-BR[...]); the sale of an enslaved woman …

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  24. 4724LetterT-S 16.298

    IB VI, 48. Commercial letter sent from Isaac and Joseph (probably in Babylonia) to Judah ha-Sar, mentioning a voyage to India and commodities including gold …

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  25. 4725LetterCUL Or.1081 2.59

    Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Sivan 5568 AM, which is 27 May 1808 CE.

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  26. 4726LetterENA NS 18.19

    Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu, probably in Bilbays, to Yiṣḥaq b. Yehuda, probably in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently putting in a good word …

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  27. 4727LetterENA 2896.15

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Mordechai Masis (? משיש) that has been reused for pen trials in square Hebrew letters and possibly a literary …

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  28. 4728LetterT-S AS 126.100

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved. Mentions dirhams, a place, Umm Ibrāhīm, the term "taʿzīl" (a retreat as in T-S …

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  29. 4729LetterT-S 13J21.10

    Recto (secondary use): Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro (=Sara?) and your daughters Reina and Raḥel and your …

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    1. שלום רב וישע יקרב למורי ואדוני אור עיני ועטרת
    2. ראשי אדוני אישי כבוד ר שלמה הסופר יל קבל
    3. רוב שלום מאדון השלום ומני דונה סורו זוגתך
    4. ובנותיך ריינה…

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  30. 4730LetterENA NS 77.163

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to a debt and wages.

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  31. 4731LetterYevr. II A 1721

    Non-Geniza. Letter from Simḥa b. Shelomo ha-Qusdini, in Istanbul, to Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo, in Chufut-Kale (קירקייר), Crimea (קירים האי). Dated: 1789 CE.

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  32. 4732LetterT-S AS 176.111

    Official-looking letter in Arabic script. First ~5 lines are preserved. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. Needs examination.

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  33. 4733LetterENA NS 21.7

    IB II, 47 (12ח). Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1131 CE. Ḥalfon …

    IB II, 47 (IB IV, Ḥ12/ח12) recto

    1. [... א]כִד כתאב דכר [...]
    2. אלכתב ויגריהא ואן [לם] יראה ראי פיתרכה [...]
    3. [כ]תבת למולאי נסכה אִ[לר]סאלה והדה נסכתהא כ[…

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  34. 4734LetterT-S AS 157.167

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. The addressee is Tamīm al-Ṣay[rafī?]. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  35. 4735LetterMoss. IV,51.3

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions wheat, blessings for somebody, a request to purchase something, and having sent something to Rabbenu Elʿaz[ar].

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  36. 4736LetterT-S AS 147.161

    Letter mentioning Abū l-Faḍl, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Kurazī (?), Abū Manṣūr al-Tabib, Abū l-Ḥasan and the elder Jalāl al-Mulk (here not used as a title …

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  37. 4737LetterENA 4010.21 + ENA 4100.24b

    Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Gil dates this letter to August 10, 1047. The letter mentions usual …

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    1. כתאבי יאסיידי ומולאי אטאל אללה פי אלכייר בקאך ו[אדאם עזך...מן אל]

    2. מסתקר אסכנדריה לנצף מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ונעמ[ה

    3. יאסיידי קד וצל אליי כתאבך…

    recto

    1. (1–6) אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים בטובה ויתמיד את גדולתך .... (מה)בית, אלכסנדריה, במחצית אב; שלומי טוב, ואני מאושר ...…

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  38. 4738LetterENA NS 32.10

    Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237 CE) on verso. Needs examination.

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  39. 4739LetterT-S 8J17.13

    Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, in which the nagid asks the community in Fustat to take up a charity collection for a …

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    1. אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין במצר יברכם
    2. צורם ויהיה בעזרם יוצרם אנס יעלמו באן
    3. מצות צדקה עטימה ענדה תע וכצוצ
    4. למן פיה ריח תורהו וקאצד אלתוגה אלי ירו…
    1. In the name of the Compassionate
    2. [. . .]
    3. The noble community in Fustat, may their Rock bless them, and their Creator help
    4. them, a(men) n(esah) s(ela…

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  40. 4740LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/23

    Letter from Yosef b. Khalfa from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. Regarding a large deal of pearls, which the writer has a …

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    1. כתאבי לאכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמאה ומן תופיקה לא אכלאה מן אסכנדריא לי' בקין
    2. מן שהר מרחשון כתמה אללה אחסן כתמה ומא יליה מן אלאשהור ונע…

    recto

    1. אני כותב לך, אחי ואדוני, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך ואל ימנע ממך הצלחה, מאלכסנדריה, בכ׳ (או בכ"א)
    2. בחודש מרחשון, יחתום אותו …

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  41. 4741LetterENA NS I.78

    Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria, to Abū Bishr Azhar b. Manṣūr (aka Avraham), in Fustat, ca. 1075. Mentions a shipment of …

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    1. תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עלאה וכב[ת]

    2. עדוה עדה גואבא ען כתבה אלואצלה אגבתה ען כל פצל פיה[א ואמא]

    3. מא דכרה מן קבצ…

    recto

    1. כתבתי לך לפני כן, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ויכה את
    2. אויביך, מכתבים אחרים, תשובות על מכתביך שהגיעו, ועניתי …

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  42. 4742LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1860/6

    Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. One line only. No names preserved except "Abū l-"

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  43. 4743LetterT-S 16.261

    Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Shelomo Ha-Rofe b. Eli, Tripoli (Lebanon). Dating: ca. 1039 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on …

    1. השלומות התמימות המקוימות הרשומות החתומות ליקירנו וזקיננו
    2. וחשובנו כב קד מר ורב שלמה הזקן הרופא החכם והנבון העשוי נחת
    3. רוח במבצר סינים האוהב בעלי תורה …

    Translated by Amir Ashur and Benjamin M. Outhwaite.

    May complete well-being be brought about, inscribed, and sealed up for our dear one and our elder…

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  44. 4744LetterT-S 13J21.34

    Recto: fragment of a recommendation letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli ha-Ḥaver b. Amram, Fustat. The name of the person who is recommended is …

    1. כאן תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלחב[ר
    2. ותאיידה וסעאדתה ונעמתה [
    3. אלי גליל חצרתה במא אסתגני ע[
    4. קריב תם אעלמתה וצול אלש[
    5. וצחבתה כתאב מן מולאי אלנגי[ד
    6. ציאנתה וקד …

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  45. 4745LetterCUL Or.1080 J201

    Note(s) from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Hibatallāh, concerning fatwās. Below there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  46. 4746LetterT-S 10J18.8

    Fragment of a letter perhaps to a brother mentioning among other things that one bale sent by the writer on a ship that sank was …

    1. צביאן אחיאה אללה ותקרא עליה
    2. כתאבי ליעלם עדרי פי אנקטאע
    3. כתאבי ענה ותסלם לה כתאבי
    4. אלמנפד פי הדה אלאחרף וכדלך
    5. מולאי אלרייס אבו אלבר/כ/את חפצה
    6. אללה ותגמ…

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  47. 4747LetterT-S AS 156.237 + T-S AS 156.238

    IB VII, 70. Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, Aden, after his return from a difficult voyage to the southern coast of India, to ʿArūs b. …

    T-S AS 156.237 recto

    1. [Your servant took notice of... and your yearning] for him, a feeling shared by me. [May God ordain that]

    2. prosperity and he…

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  48. 4748LetterCUL Or.1080 15.16

    Letter from Mose de Toledo and perhaps one other person, in Gaza. In Spanish. Dating: Probably 15th–16th century, on paleographic grounds (assessment kindly provided by …

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  49. 4749LetterMIAC 283

    Personal letter for someone named Yosef Ḥirāz – (number 283) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue …

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  50. 4750LetterT-S AS 147.82

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The handwriting looks like that of Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy. Mentions al-khalīj; Ibn ʿAntar; sūsī; גוש (=al-Jīsh?); …

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