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  1. 4901LetterBL OR 5566C.7 + BL OR 5566C.6

    Letter (tadhkira, memorandum) on two sheets of paper, written and signed by Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī, probably in Fustat, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, perhaps …

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    1.           תדכרה לשאכרך
    2. מנשה ביר' דויד אלצירפי 
    3. אנא אסאלך חרס אללה ערך אדא וצלת 
    4. [א]לי אסכנדריה ואתפק אנתמאעך באלשיך 
    5. אבי אברהים אסמעיל אדאם אללה…

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    1. (2-1) תזכיר של המודה לך מנשה בי"ר דויד השולחני.
    2. אבקש ממך, ישמור אלוהים את גדולתך, כי אם תגיע
    3. לאלכסנדריה ותיפגש במקרה עם האדון
    4. אבו אברהים אסמעי…

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  2. 4902LetterT-S AS 153.62

    Verso: Informal but deferential note from Ḥananel b. Shemuel (cf. ENA 2808.53), informing the addressee that he has sent something for (? bi-rasm) the qiddush. …

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  3. 4903LetterT-S AS 145.303

    Letter from Shemaryahu ha-Kohen b. Aharon. In Hebrew with the address (to Fustat, to mawlāy al-jalīl) in Arabic script. The letter proper ends with a …

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  4. 4904LetterJRL B 7165

    Letter fragment in Arabic script. Some of the opening greetings are preserved and part of the address (...dukkān...). It seems to have been reused for …

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  5. 4905LetterCUL Or.1080 J146

    Letter from a Qaraite probably of Persian origin. His location is unknown (perhaps Ramla or Fustat), as are the identity of the addressee and his …

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    1. לכבוד גדלת קדושת מעוטר במיני עטורין ומוכתר כתרים כתר כהונה כתר שיבה
    2. וכתר שם טוב על גביהן אהוב לשמים ומכובד לבריות במעשיו הטובים ובדרכיו
    3. הישרות…

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  6. 4906LetterYevr. II A 2874

    A letter from Avraham b. Levi to Shmuel b. Ishaq Luzki

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  7. 4907LetterMoss. VII,186.1

    Fragment of a letter in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic, partially in rhymed prose. Refers to the dearth of proper legal documents (ketubba, barāʾa, maʿase, sheṭar) among "the …

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    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]קרב בה אלי אללה
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . ה נאשי פי אלתורה צנאעתה
    3. . . . . . . . . .…

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  8. 4908LetterENA 2149.50

    Letter in Arabic script. Opens with greetings to "sayyidī" (my master) followed by greetings to "sittī" (my lady). Most of the remaining text is in …

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  9. 4909LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/57

    Letter from the judge Eliyyahu, in the Sinai desert, to his son the physician Abū Zikri, in Jerusalem. Eliyyahu admonishes him to live in peace …

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    1. ???
    2. אעלם אלולד אלעזיז אלחכים אבו זכרי ופקה אללה תע
    3. אנני וצלת אלי אלמטילב יום אלגמעה אכר אלנהאר בעד
    4. אן תרכנא אלקאפלה וסרת מע אתנין אעראב ראפקת…

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    (In Your name) 

    This is to inform you, my dear son, the physician Abū Zikri, may God, the ex(alted), grant you success, that I arrived at al-Mu…

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  10. 4910LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 242

    Letter addressed to al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā, in Fustat. Only the address remains, which is in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or …

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  11. 4911LetterENA 4020.60b

    Letter from Avraham al-Muʿṭī and Yosef b. Ezra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Most of the substance of the message is lost.

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  12. 4912LetterHUC 21

    Letter in Hebrew. Probably late and related to the Kurdistani material in the rest of the HUC collection. Mentions "that idiot Moshe." Needs examination. NB: …

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  13. 4913LetterBodl. MS heb. f 102/29

    Recto: Order from al-Shaykh al-Makīn of endive seed (bizr hindibāʾ), purslane seed (bizr rijla), unripe dates (busr), and sugar. (Information in part from Goitein's index …

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  14. 4914LetterENA 2727.11e

    Letter. A Hebrew address is all that survives from a letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, the judge, to the school of higher studies (Heb. …

    1. יגיע לנא אמון למדרש רבנו יצחק נט מאת העבד הצעיר
    2. שלמה בן אליהו הדיין סט

    Upside down

    1. יגיע הכתב אל הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרנו ורבנו יצחק הרב
    2. המובהק י…

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  15. 4915LetterBodl. MS heb. c 13/18

    Fragment of a letter from the lepers of Tiberias to Mukhtar and his brother.

    1. [ שלום] כלול לשני האחים העשירים היקרים [ ]
    2. [ ] אוהבי תורה ובעליה עושי [חסדים] בני רבנ[א ]
    3. [מנו אחיך המתפללים על אריכות] חיך והמבקשים טובתיך ומצורינו…

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  16. 4916LetterNLI 577.1/34

    Letter in Arabic script. The letter is written in colloquial Arabic in full obeisance and flattery. Needs examination.

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  17. 4917LetterHUC 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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  18. 4918LetterT-S NS 321.83

    Recto: Draft of the beginning of a letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya the exilarch. Verso: Praises for God in Arabic, with biblical verses in Hebrew …

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  19. 4919LetterT-S AS 149.95

    Recto: Document in Arabic script. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved, containing a few words from the opening and a …

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  20. 4920LetterT-S NS J229

    Letter in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat, probably to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb. This is a brief, informal …

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  21. 4921LetterT-S Ar.7.7

    Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with the Hebrew names (Shabbetay b. [...] and Barukh) written in Hebrew script. Mentions Shavuʿot (al-ʿAnṣara) and a Christian named …

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  22. 4922LetterT-S 6J8.4

    Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (d. 1237) or his son David asking a cantor to arrange a collection in the synagogue on a …

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    1. אמת     
    2. אלחזן אבואלרצא ש"צ     
    3. ידבר חאמלהא פי
    4. פרוגין וכבז יום   
    5. אלכמיס פי בית   
    6. הכנסת תחצלהם לך         
    7. ענד כרוג ספר     
    8. תורה  המקודש   
    9. …
    1. Truth  
    2. May the cantor AbuʾI-Riḍā, (may your) R(ock) p(rotect you),
    3. kindly arrange a collection for the bearer for
    4. two chickens and bread on
    5. -8. Thu…

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  23. 4923LetterT-S AS 203.79

    Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  24. 4924LetterMoss. VII,145.2

    Letter from someone calling himself Raʾs al-Kull (a title of the yeshiva, in the address) to somebody in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in …

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  25. 4925LetterENA NS 21.10

    Letter of recommendation on behalf of a proselyte. The conversion took place by the time of R. Menahem (b. Sasson?) and the proslyte was imersed. …

    1. בששון ועלצ[ון
    2. וסואה אעלאמה דאם עזה ול. . . .להא
    3. אלשיך מ[בור]ך גר הצדק כ[. .]ה כאן מן
    4. מדה [סני]ן פי זמאן רבינו מנחם זקל חצר
    5. אלי מגלסה ומלו אותו לפניו…

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  26. 4926LetterENA NS 71.18

    Letter, in Arabic script, well preserved. Begins with basmala and “wallahi la-qad ṣadaqa ḥaḍrat mawlāya l-shaykh,” "my Master was right". The sender seems to be …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. والله لقد صدق حضرة مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده

    3. وعلوه وتمكينه وسموه و . . . ته وكبت حسدته واعداه  …

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  27. 4927LetterENA NS 63.13

    Letter from "Sāsī" to R. D[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1517 CE (uses the term 'basha' twice), but not long after (Avraham Castro appears in …

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  28. 4928LetterT-S NS 342.132

    Minute fragment from the top part of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), who is named …

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  29. 4929LetterT-S NS 327.127

    Upper part of a letter to a dignitary ('al-sayyid al-fāḍil'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably originally a long rotulus. Resembles T-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + …

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  30. 4930LetterT-S 12.283

    Question submitted to "sayyidnā," it seems the Head of the Karaite community, about a case that had come before the governor/chief of police (wālī) of …

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  31. 4931LetterENA 1157.23

    Business letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Not mentioned in the literature. Avraham b. Yamān is mentioned. The sickness of …

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  32. 4932LetterT-S 12.121

    Verso: Note in Arabic script. Seems to be addressed to Ibrāhīm al-Firnās, asking for assistance with something. Mentions several names including Farrūj, Rabbi Mūsā, Rabbi …

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  33. 4933LetterMoss. VIII,411.2a

    Damaged bifolio containing a Judaeo-Arabic narrative regarding communal controversy and excommunication. Mentions: something "the great" (ha-gedola); Saturday; the eighth; someone prevented from presenting himself; witnesses; …

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  34. 4934LetterT-S NS 320.6

    Letter from Masʿūd b. Mawhūb to his brother Sābiq b. Mawhūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is agitated about the news he heard from Umm Subayʿ …

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  35. 4935LetterT-S AS 145.73

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, in which the sender gives an excuse for something.

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  36. 4936LetterT-S 6J7.8

    Letter mentioning school fee. (Information from Goitein, Education in Muslim Countries, p. 106)

    1. החזן מריות בן אלדיאן יקבל ידי מולאה
    2. אלמהדב שצ ויסאלה אן יחסן עוץ ממלוכה
    3. בכמיס ארבעה אסאביע אלתי אועד בהא
    4. ממלוכה מן אגל אולאד אלתעתוע ואללה
    5. אלעצים לו…

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  37. 4937LetterENA 1822a.44 + ENA 1822a.45

    Business letter from 1094, addressed by Avraham b. Natan Av (former judge in Ramla and later Cairo) to Nahray b. Nissim, when the latter was …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. [כ]תאבי אטאל אללה בקא רבנו ואדאם
    3. עזה ותאיידה ועלאה וכבת אעדאה
    4. מן אלמסתקר בצור ושוקי לחצרה
    5. רבנו שדיד ואספי עלי אלבעד מנהא
    6. עטים ונדמי …

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  38. 4938LetterMIAC 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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  39. 4939LetterJRL B 6155

    Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Mentions al-muʿallim Yaʿaqov several times; an epidemic (המגפה); and money.

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  40. 4940LetterT-S K2.107

    Verso: two different letters, glued together to create a rotulus for the calendar on recto. Both are mercantile letters from the mid-11th century. (II) The …

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  41. 4941LetterT-S AS 117.270

    Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter: واما الثالثة ان واعوذ بالله ولم يوفق(؟) مملوك سيدنا من حسن رايه وكثرة رحمته ورافته وبركة تدبيره …

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  42. 4942LetterMoss. II,115.2A + Moss. II,115.2B

    Small fragment of a letter from Ibrāhīm b. Nāḥūm to Bū l-Surūr, in Fustat. Mentions Abū Saʿd. Almost nothing else is preserved.

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  43. 4943LetterT-S 12.277

    Letter by Mansur Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge dealing in sugar candy (see also T-S 16.303). The page is divided vertically, and there is another …

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  44. 4944LetterT-S AS 166.233

    Recto: Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning an amir and someone saying "O dogs and sons of dogs!" (יאכלאב יאולאד אלכלאב). Reused on verso for …

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  45. 4945LetterT-S AS 149.257

    Letter from Mūsā b. [...] to Abū Isḥāq. Small fragment. Reporting on business matters ("what I received of gold"). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  46. 4946LetterT-S 12.244

    Fragment of a letter in which a proselyte (from Christian Europe), probably named ʿOvadya, expresses in beautiful Hebrew his thanks to a distinguished woman, who …

    1. האשה החכ]מה היראה את ייי . . . . .
    2. אל גברתי] ואדונתי אכתוב . . . . .
    3. הטובות שעשית ] עמי אין להם מנין ואין לי פה
    4. ]שת עשי
    5. שב]חתיך כי אתיבש (=אתביש) שכ…

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  47. 4947LetterT-S Misc.29.42a

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Needs examination.

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  48. 4948LetterT-S 10J15.24

    Document concerning financial issues. Mentions a sum of money, and says that if the parties take an oath they will incur the guilt of violating …

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  49. 4949LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1614

    Letter from a Qaraite in Palestine. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5415 AM (19th year of the 285th maḥzor), which is 1654/55 CE. But catalogued as 1555 …

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  50. 4950LetterT-S 8.24

    Begging letter in Hebrew. In which the writer explains that he has arrived in Alexandria bringing three of his eight dependents with him. He is …

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