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  1. 4801LetterT-S K25.102

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With some unusual and careless spellings. Requesting that the addressee purchase various commodities, including two pounds of myrtle and different kinds of …

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  2. 4802LetterDK 243 (alt: XII)

    Business letter to Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (Avraham David does not think it is Luria).

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  3. 4803LetterBL OR 5542.34

    Letter from Barhūn b. Yisḥaq al-Tāhartī to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96 CE. The sons of the late Nagid, who are owed favors, have asked …

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    1. עלקת אליך יאכי אלעזיז עלי הדה אלוקעה עלי סרעה ודלך אן [כאנו] ס[אלוני]
    2. אולאד סידנא אלנאגיד נ'ע' פי רכוב אסחק בן כאלהם אלי אלאסכנדריה ואנת
    3. תעלם …

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    1. אני מוסיף לך, אחי היקר לי, פתק זה, בחיפזון, וזאת מפני שביקשו ממני
    2. הבנים של אדוננו הנגיד נ"ע שייסע אסחק, בן דודם אחי אמם, לאלכסנדריה, ואתה
    3. יודע…

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  4. 4804LetterT-S Misc.35.28

    Letter describing the wanton destruction of a community and the ransoming of captives. It talks of Palestine (אר‫ץ הצבי‬) and Byzantium (אדום). (Information from CUDL)

    TS LOAN 28 Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.18-21 Doc. #15 Letter about the distribution of communities in Palestine SH [11-12-87] (P) א

    1. קבלם ותאבכו [ ]ניה…

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  5. 4805LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/29

    Letter from Farajallāh to the judge al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Naṣrallāh. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew and with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably no …

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  6. 4806LetterT-S 8.1

    Calligraphic letter from a scribe to the judge Efrayim b. Yisraʾel ha-Kohen. Requesting high-quality ink so that he can finish a certain project. The bearer …

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    1. אמתתל ממלוך הדרת כגק מר ור אפרים הדיין המשכיל צורבא מרבנן
    2. אב החכמה מודע התבונה שצ מא רסמתה מן אמרהא אלעאל וכתבת אלורק
    3. אלדי וגדתה מעי והו נחו ס…

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  7. 4807LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/108

    IB V, 8. Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham Ibn al-Majjānī, probably in Aden, to (Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The …

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  8. 4808LetterT-S 6J4.28

    Letter from the nephew of a Ḥaver (whose eldest son is Abū l-Maʿānī), mentioning the 13th-century judge Anatoli. (Information from CUDL.) The sender might be …

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    1. . . .
    2. אכי פי הדא אלמעני חתי לם יפצלה
    3. בינכם באיש נגאובה גלבת פי קצתנא
    4. נקול לה כדלך פחלף לה באלחראם
    5. אני מא נבכל עליך לי במשיי ולא
    6. באלכלאם פלם י…

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  9. 4809LetterT-S AS 147.60

    Recto: business letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī and Abū l-Manṣūr. Verso: letter in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand. (Information …

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  10. 4810LetterYevr. II A 1633

    A letter from Avraham to Shlomo b. Aharon

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  11. 4811LetterT-S NS J487

    Informal note addressed to a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is a draft of recto. The addressee is asked to go to the sender's …

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  12. 4812LetterT-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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  13. 4813LetterENA 2739.17

    IB VII, 60. Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a husband to his wife. Note that Goitein calls this manuscript ENA 2739.16 in Letters of Medieval Jewish …

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    In (Your name!)

    A. DEATH OF THE JUDGE

    Just is the Lord in all his ways, etc. (Psalm 145:17)

    The righteous man has gone, etc. (Isaiah 51:1)

    Co…

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  14. 4814LetterMoss. VII,188.2 + Moss. VII,188.1

    Two fragments of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Sulaymān Palias (?).

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  15. 4815LetterT-S NS 324.35

    On recto beginning of a letter to Avraham Maimuni from Abu Sa'id (identification according to BL 5542.14. He also wrote T-S 8 j 21.12). On …

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  16. 4816LetterT-S AS 147.49

    Letter from a community of Jews (ʿabīduhā jamāʿat yahūd [...]) to the dignitary Yakhin b. Netanʾel (a.k.a. Abū l-Faḍl Thābit b. Hibatallāh) Rosh ha-Qehillot (روش …

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  17. 4817LetterT-S NS J369

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The handwriting and the layout resemble those of Ḥalfon b. Netanel's Spanish correspondents (see India Book IV)—but none …

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  18. 4818LetterENA NS 45.9

    Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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  19. 4819LetterT-S AS 174.215

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Mūsā, someone idle (baṭṭāl), the sender's perplexity (wa-anā ḥāʾir), a living, and the sender's difficulties "with no house (=wife?) and …

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  20. 4820LetterT-S 20.84

    Letter from one community to another (possibly from Byzantium to Egypt). On parchment. In Hebrew. Large but extremely faded. Appealing for assistance on behalf of …

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  21. 4821LetterT-S 8J26.5

    Letter from Farah b. Yusuf sending condolences for the death of a relative of the addressee and also discussing business. (Information from Gil)

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    1. תקדמת כת[בי
    2. עדה ואכרה [3
    3. ואלדה אללה ינסי א[גלך
    4. אן //הם// בן מנשה ואבן חא[
    5. קלב מן בלגהא וללמציבה אלדי חדת לאבו אלעלא והדה אל
    6. מותה אלמישומה אקול…

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    1. שלחתי לך לפני .... (אדוני ורבי וכו', מכתבים)
    2. אחדים, האחרון שבהם .... (על מות)
    3. אביך, תיבדל אתה לחיים ארוכים ....
    4. שהם בן מנשה ואבן חא.... (ציער …

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  22. 4822LetterMIAC 210

    Invitation from the administration of the Tāj Torah society for attending a special celebration of the reform of traditional religious Jewish learning – undated – …

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  23. 4823LetterT-S 13J27.19

    Letter mentioning Damascus and possibly Ramla (though Goitein subsequently read this word differently). Very faded. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)

    1. יא סידי יא מול[אי] . . . . . . . . . . . . . אדאם עזך
    2. ותאידך מן אללה . . . . . . . . שר . . . . סלאמה
    3. ועאפיה . . . . . . . . .
    4. אללה עז וגל . . . . .…

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  24. 4824LetterT-S AS 118.54

    Verso, and possibly part of recto (original use): Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably first half of the 11th century. Mentioning quantities of goods …

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  25. 4825LetterT-S 13J34.12

    Polite letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in which the sender explains that he had been reluctant to visit the addressee, as he surmised that his 'brother' Abū …

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  26. 4826LetterENA 2727.26

    Letter from Makārim b. Faḍā'il, probably in Qūṣ, to Hibat Allāh (at least a mawlā of this name is respectfully greeted at the end), presumably …

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  27. 4827LetterENA NS 38.18

    Business letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj (Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb?) Ibn ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. This document appears to have been overlooked by past Ibn ʿAwkal scholars. …

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  28. 4828LetterT-S Ar.39.192

    First-person report about a discussion, possibly a polemic between the writer and other people. This fragment begins in Arabic script, switches to Judaeo-Arabic for the …

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  29. 4829LetterT-S 10J14.24

    Letter from a physician to a Kohen expressing thanks for condolences. At the end he writes a prescription for the growing of hair on skin …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כאן קד תקדם כתאב חצרה מולאי אלכהן אלגליל
    3. אטאל אללה [בקאה ואדאם] עזה ותאיידה ורפעתה
    4. וארתקאה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה והו יעזיני פי
    5. רבנו ז׳ל׳ פכיף את…

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  30. 4830LetterT-S NS J373

    Letter addressed to Elʿazar he-Ḥasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. The substance of the letter begins in l. 15 (wa-siwā dhālika...) after a long …

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  31. 4831LetterT-S 10J19.23

    Letter in Ladino to Yosef Melamed from Yiṣḥaq Molkho(?) in Cairo, mentioning ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān and Marseille (l. 9, מארסילייאה). Dated: 15 Shevaṭ 5488 AM = …

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  32. 4832LetterT-S Misc.25.76

    Letter in Ladino with interspersed Hebrew phrases. Dating: ca. 18th century? This is a letter of appeal for charity. There may not be any information …

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  33. 4833LetterT-S Ar.41.98

    Letter from ʿAlī b. [...] addressed to Sharaf al-Dīn of apparently requesting clarification of a decree. Full address (unclear where Baker/Polliack got this from): al-malik …

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  34. 4834LetterT-S AS 147.176

    Letter in the hand of Abraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mentions a certain Elijah - probably Elijah b. Zekharya. AA

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  35. 4835LetterMIAC 268

    Complaint from an Egyptian Jew to the head of an iron foundry – January 31 1947CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 268) – …

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  36. 4836LetterENA NS I.58

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. Recommending the bearer for assistance. The bearer had a partnership in a commodity with Bū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥakīm known …

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  37. 4837LetterT-S NS 292.53

    Fragment from the lower right corner of a letter. Public letter exhorting a congregation to contribute money for a man in need.

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  38. 4838LetterJRL B 3315

    Recto: Draft of a formal letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a superior by ha-Qaṭan Shemuel. After a long string of honorifics, "sabab iṣdār hadhihi l-khidma. . …

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  39. 4839LetterT-S Ar.39.69

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (aka Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān) to a physician named Abū l-Maḥāsin (titled al-Shaykh al-Sadīd). In Arabic script with one …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. شهد من ثبت شهادته في هذا الكتاب [
    3. المسمين فيه جميعا وفرادى فمنهم من كتب بخطه [ومنهم من كُتب
    4. عنه بامره ومحضره واش…

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  40. 4840LetterT-S Ar.52.248

    Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat. …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. صح لمولاي يحيى اليهودي الرباني
    3. عن حكر املاكهم بقصر الشمع بمصر
    4. سنة ست وخمسمىة
    5. من الورق خمسين درهما
    6. نصف ثمن
    7. يهودا بن اب…

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  41. 4841LetterT-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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  42. 4842LetterT-S AS 181.72

    Letter in Arabic script, with several phrases in Hebrew mixed in. The writer may be named Abū l-Faraj (upper right of recto, although this is …

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  43. 4843LetterT-S Ar.38.52

    Letter(s) of appeal for charity. Likely drafts. In Arabic script. The one on recto is addressed to Abū Manṣūr and the one on verso is …

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  44. 4844LetterT-S Ar.20.22

    Letter in both Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). Dating: Likely 11th century. Approximately 6 lines are preserved. (There are also additional jottings in both …

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  45. 4845LetterBL OR 10112D.22

    Letter fragment (top only) from Yisra'el b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yisra'el tells Nahray to add the dinars to the money he …

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  46. 4846LetterT-S NS 242.8

    Bifolio containing multiple documents. On two pages, there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On one page, there is a portion of a …

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  47. 4847LetterT-S AS 177.102

    Recto: Lower left piece of a letter in calligraphic Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on the hand and the names. Mentions al-Ḥājj Yūsuf and …

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  48. 4848LetterENA 4101.6a

    Letter (possibly) from Moshe b. Yehuda, addressed to a certain Saʿīd. Dated: 23rd of the ʿOmer מטר, i.e., 5249 AM (probably), which is 1489 CE. …

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  49. 4849LetterENA NS 83.411

    Letter from [...] b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. In Arabic script. Small fragment. There is some Hebrew script on verso. The address was originally written across a …

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  50. 4850LetterT-S AS 151.153

    Letter from a woman to Eliyyahu the Judge. Small fragment (upper right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is likely his wife Sitt Rayḥān; she is …

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