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5151State documentT-S Misc.22.233
Primary language
Arabic
In lines 17–19, the scribe was supposed to sum up and account for the whole agricultural production of the five villages after each new entry (min al-ghallāt: qamḥ, šaʿīr, fūl). The sum of the whole production would then have been converted into counted gold money and the number obtained would have been added in front of the entry min al-ʿayn (l. 16).
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1. نواحي ذلك
2. بسوط نهيسه
3. تصل منه
4. الفي مايتي ثمنية ارادب ونصف
5. قمح الف مايتي وسبعة وثمنين ار(د)با
6. ربع وثمن
7. شعير ماية وتسعة وسبعين ار(د)با
8. ثلث وثمن
9. ف…
Verso
1. Districts of that (account?):
2. Basūṭ Nahīsah.
3. Of which has come in:
4. 2,208 ó irdabbs.
5. Wheat: 1,287 irdabbs
6. ¼ and ⅛,
7. barley: 179 irdabbs
8. ⅓ and ⅛…
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5152List or tableT-S NS 38.79 + T-S NS 297.77
Primary languages
Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Armenian
On recto, there are two lines of what was originally an enormous decree; only ~3 words from the ends of the lines are currently preserved (يستكمل... ؟؟؟ لاموال).
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5153LetterT-S NS 313.6
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender reports that he spoke on the addressee's behalf to Mubārak Ibn Diqlāṣ prior to the latter's travel to Yemen and there ensued a fight between them. It seems that the sender was unable to collect a debt due to lacking a power of attorney (ומא כאן בידי [וכאלה או?]
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5154LetterYevr. II A 1554
Document date
11 Av 5484 Anno Mundi (31 July 1724 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
They were charged 23 אלטס en route in Ramle, and they said, "Our peqid in Jerusalem will pay for us." […] If someone objects that the Qaraites of Damascus should cover this expense, (the answer is not entirely clear; something is very bad in Damascus, and one cannot even walk in the roads).
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5155Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328
Document date
27 Elul 5324 Anno Mundi (4 September 1564 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
There are additional notes below this court record related to the same case, comprising an unfinished draft of the next entry in the register record #68, where another debt, of 100 [ashrafī] jadīd, is listed with a two-month repayment period that ends in Ḥeshvan (right before the one described here in record #67 is set to begin at 3 ashrafī per month).
Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 22v
1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלכמיס כ׳׳ז שהר אלול המכו׳ סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ד ליצירה [[חצר]] תם אשהד
2. /(margin) חצרו יצחק אלכהן אבן ושריכה / …
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5156LetterAIU VII.E.155
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, ending with a ḥasbala in Arabic script (left upper margin).
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- sicily
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5157List or tableAIU VII.F.11
Inferred date
1775–1825 CE
Dating: c. 1785–1825 CE, based on the active dates and mention of the scribe/judge Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm– but likely earlier in this range given that his father Shalom is still alive/referenced. With entries naming dozens of people, arranged in a curiously alphabetical way, with sections devoted to orphans and wives and daughters and divorcees.
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5158LetterBL OR 5557B.19
Primary language
Arabic
Mentions: al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf; Tripoli (presumably the Syrian one); that the addressee must not delay; al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf again; Ṣamṣām al-Dawla; Rashīd; and that the addressee should honor the sender with his errands. Ends with a ḥasbala. Reused on verso for Hebrew literary text in the hand of ʿEli b.
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5159LetterBL OR 5561B.8
Primary language
Arabic
There is then a word with a horizontal bar spanning an entire line (wa-kutiba?), and the next line is tricky to make out.
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5160State documentBL OR 5566B.3
Primary language
Arabic
(Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA 2886.1–7, T-S NS 71.64, T-S NS 198.61, T-S 8H22.18, Moss.
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- fiscal register
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5161Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16
Document date
1 Adar 5443 Anno Mundi (27 February 1683 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Natan Benawī and groom Moshe Menashe b. Nissim ha-Levi. The entry comprises an abbreviated version of the full ketubba, mentioning key marital payments and conditions for the marriage.
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:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
1. בהיות שרצתה היקרה מ׳ חביבה ת׳׳מ בת הר׳ אלעזר נקיב אלמנת הר׳ משה גוואני נ׳׳ע לישבע שבועת
2. אלמנה המוטלת עליה ולגבות סכ…
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5162List or tableBodl. MS heb. b 11/5
Primary language
Arabic
Several additional revenue items and debts are listed. The account ended on 30 August 1041. For the recto, see PGPID 517.
1. ]على موجب المشروح من
2. اثن]ين وثلثين واربعماية
3. ا]لعين تسعه عشر دينار ونصف قيراط
4. ومن الورق الف واحده وماتين واحدى عش…
1. …. in accordance with the (aforesaid) explanation ….
2. 432 ….
3. In gold: 19 dinars and ½ qīrāṭ ….
4. and in the waraq: 1211½ dir.
5. The total amount of rent…
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- 11th c
- account
- communal
- draft
- qodesh
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4414
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5163Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/29
Document date
Monday, 3 Nisan [47]88 Anno Mundi (1 April 1028 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
(Information from Goitein’s index card) Same case as entry #2 in T-S 8K20.1.1 (PGPID 7734).
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5164LetterBodl. MS heb. e 100/54
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He may quote al-Mutanabbī at the end: وما الناس بناس [بموضع منك خال].
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5165List or tableCUL Or.1080 J198
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Each page lists the amounts owed (in the form of orders of payment or ruqaʿ) by certain people. The entries are crossed out with stylized vertical lines, presumably after they were settled.
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5166Legal documentCUL Or.1081 2.58
Document date
Heshvan 5578 Anno Mundi (11 October 1817–9 November 1817 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1817 CE (end of Heshvan 5578) in which David Dayyan declares an investment partnership with Barakha Goren.
1. בע׳׳ה
2. בפ׳׳עח׳׳מ הודה כ׳׳ר דוד דייאן [יצ׳׳ו] הודאה גמו׳ שרירא וקיימת מדעתו ורצונו והגמור עלי זכר שום מין
3. אונס כלל ש[נ]תחייב צלא.ר(?) להר׳ ברכה גורין …
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- partnership
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5167List or tableENA 2727.48
Primary languages
Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic
Yoshiyyahu the descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaʾon appears twice (known from other documents ca. 1140 CE, e.g., ENA 4020.8, T-S 13J2.25, and T-S AS 145.79).
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- list
- to edit
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5168Legal documentENA 2735.14
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
On the back (recto) of this document are the remains of four lines in wide spacing; a mirror image of ENA 2735.15 which must have been attached to this document (and they were later placed next to one another in the same folder).
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5169List or tableENA 2898.10
Primary language
Hebrew
This list in Hebrew is likely from a broader booklet ENA 2898.7-14 where other accounts mention payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE).
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- 15th or 16th c
- numismatic dating
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5170State documentENA 3145.4
Document date
523 Kharājī
Primary language
Arabic
There is another partial date at the top of the fragment, which reads as x12. Each of the bottom entries consists of a header (probably people's names, one of them is Ḥusayn b.
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5171Legal documentENA 3811.2
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Contains few lines from the dowry list, the monogamy clause, the trustworthiness clause and the stipulation regarding the bride's ritual bath after menstruation, enacted by Maimonides in 1176 (see M.A Friedman, "Social Realities in Egypt and Maimonides' Rulings on Family Law” Maimonides as Codifier of Jewish Law [N.
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- ketubba
- marriage
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5172Legal documentENA 3844.9
Document date
1423 Seleucid (5 September 1111–22 September 1112 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Legal notes, or maybe formularies and legal procedure. The top entry is a bill of divorce dated 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111/12 CE.
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5173Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3924.6
Document date
1189 Hijrī (4 March 1775–20 February 1776 CE)
Pinholes at the margin ~5–6mm apart suggest that this fragment may once have once been sewn together with ENA 3924.5 (but not by the original owners given the different dates).
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5174Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3942.13
Document date
10 Shaʿbān 997 Hijrī (24 June 1589 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
This may be the same Salmūn al-Yahūdī who appears in ENA 3924.5, (PGPID 10270); T-S Ar.38.111 (PGPID 20707); T-S Ar.39.425 (PGPID 20938); T-S AS 178.88 (PGPID 36909).
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5175Paraliterary textENA 4010.35 + ENA 4196.15 + ENA NS 85.1317
Document date
1357–59 Seleucid (1045–1048 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
(Information in part from Goitein’s index card.) Join with ENA NS 85.1317 identified by Alan Elbaum.
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5176LetterENA 4100.13 + T-S NS 325.113
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
In Hebrew (first ~20 lines) and Judaeo-Arabic (last ~5 lines). Consists almost entirely of blessings. The sender asks for an unspecified favor in the last preserved line.
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5177LetterENA NS 38.29
Primary language
Arabic
The sender then gives an account of his travels: "we ended up in al-Buḥayra and we stayed. . . I set out to the salty sea, and I stayed on the sands(?).
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5178LetterENA NS 42.8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The writer states, "The illness was enough for me, and then the capitation tax assailed me."
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5179LetterENA NS 54.10
, both names are not entirely clear. The letter sender mentions a certain Yeshūʿa Ben-Moreno in the opening lines and then R.
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5180LetterENA NS 83.237
Primary language
Arabic
Unclear what the content is. Ends "waffaqahu allāh taʿālā in shāʾ allāh." On recto there is Arabic love poetry (to paraphrase, 'my nights with the beloved passed in a flash, and now that they're gone, my night is the night of the blind with no hope of morning') عهدي بنا ورداء الوصل [يجمعنا] والليل اطوله كاللمح بالبصر والآن ليلي مذ غابوا فديتهم ليل الضرير وصبحى غير منتظر
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5181List or tableHalper 462
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The last eight lines, filling to the end of the page, is an explanation in Judeo-Arabic in the importance of recording the Davidic decent of the Exilarchs."
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- exilarchs
- genealogy
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5182LetterJRL A 794
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
End of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably to one of his brothers.
1. .......] ועלי סת נעים אלסלאם ואבו אלחסן בן [אל]שופט אלסלאם
2. ....]ל אנסאן רומי אסמה שאלתיאל [בן מר] ור יוסף
3. אל[תר]גמאן ומעה אכר אסמה נחמן תכצהם אלסלאם
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5206
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5183List or tableJRL C 155
Document date
Nisan 5590 Anno Mundi (25 March 1830–23 April 1830 CE)
List in Judeo-Arabic of monetary amounts and calculations related the communal "chest / ארגז" of the Mustʿarabīm in the end of Nisan 5590 which is March-April 1830CE. The monetary figures are expressed in two columns, one in "silver / פצה" and the other "גה" which must be an abbreviation but is unclear in meaning.
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5184Legal documentJTS MS 8254.18
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
See Goitein, Med Soc II, 546 no. 16, where this is the "unidentified ENA manuscript" mentioned. Information in part from Friedman, Maimonides Appoints R.
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5185LetterL-G Misc. 25
Inferred date
1007–1055 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: End of 1034 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b.
1. כל הפיות ילאו מספר עוצם תהלות שמם וגם כל הלשונות לא יספיקו להודות
2. חולקם בגולמם כי כולם יתמו ותהילותיו והויידותיו יתנו[ ]
ושלומו ואליו
1. נאה להעתיר ב…
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5186Legal documentMIAC 15
Document date
1915 (25 October 1915 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
It may be a duplicate of the same bill of exchange or a repeat entry in the MIAC catalogue. MCD.
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- 20th c
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5187LetterMoss. VII,54.2
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Verso: Note probably in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Ends with the legal phrase והכל שריר ובריר וקיים.
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5188LetterMoss. VII,154.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn Qayyūma, who appears also in ENA 3793.6 (PGPID 9564) ca. 1050 CE. Mentions having purchased something "and all I received was 60 dinars and 1000 dirhams."
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5189LetterMoss. VII,205
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Enigmatic fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic describing what happened to the writer in front of the addressee's house; how people were appealing for help on account of the capitation tax; how the writer has lost 25 dirhams; and how there is 'ḥamas' in the country.
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5190Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 12
Inferred date
1130–1150 CE
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an entire short book devoted to this document (Albert Dietrich, Zum Drogenhandel im islamischen Ägypten, 1954).
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تذكرة مباركة صحبة الشيخ
2. مشرقه كتب الله سلامة اصحبه عبده خلف
3. بن اسحق صرة هيل الوزن اربعة عشر رطل يتفضل حرس الله
4. عزه ويسا…
Recto
1. בשם אלוהים הרחמן הרחום. תזכיר, יהיה לברכה, (הנשלח) עם האדון
2. משרף בן .... יכתוב אותו אלוהים לשלום, מסר לו עבדך חלף
3. בן אסחק : צרור קרדמון משקלו …
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- aodeh
- arabic script
- ib-untranslated-eng
- ib2
- india book
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5191LetterT-S 6J5.3
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
The sender heard that his brother Yosef died in India, and he asks the addressee to enquire with a certain Ibn al-Dajājī as to exactly how it happened.
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- account
- ib-addenda
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5192LetterT-S 8.91
Primary language
Arabic
On recto there is a ketubba (see separate entry). (Information in part from CUDL)
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5193Legal documentT-S 8.112
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Engagement contract in which Ṭahor b. Yehuda b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen pledges his minor daughter after 5 years to Muhadhdhab b.
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- engagement
- minor daughter
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7086
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5194Legal documentT-S 8.223
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Menashshe (active 1100–1138 CE). Verso: end of a court record regarding the marriage of Qaraite woman and a Rabbanite groom (perhaps the couple on recto?).
Verso
1. שלא הוא משחיטת הרבנים או הכריחה על אכיל[ת ]
2. על עצמה שלא תחלל עליו את מועדיו ושתשמ[ ]
3. קדמנא אנן חתומי מטה וקנינא מן מרור [ ]
4. עלי הכהן החזן ביר …
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5195Legal documentT-S 8J5.16
Document date
Thursday, 24 Ṭevet 1406 Seleucid (4 January 1095 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
(Information from CUDL.) Same hand as ENA NS 22.6 (PGPID 2710)
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7640
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5196Legal documentT-S 8J6.1
Document date
End of Sivan 152[.] Seleucid (1209–1218 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Location: Fustat. Dated: End of Sivan 152[.] Seleucid, which is 1209–18 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides.
1. ]תמות ידנא לתתא בשלהי סיון שנת ארבעת
2. ] ליצירה דהיא שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ועשרין
3. ] ן למימני ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס
4. ] הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק נר המערבי
5. …
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- testimony
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2175
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5197LetterT-S 8J18.29
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The letter was sent to Fustat to the caravanserai of al-Mahalli (‘funduq al-Mahalli’), a well-known compound, large enough to accommodate a mosque. The note is likely from the early thirteenth century; the writer refers to Avraham Maimonides as Nagid, a title he bore from 1213 to 1237.
1. עמיעשו
2. ממלוכה מעאני
3. לנטע השכל וגזע הבין ותפארת הכוהנים כבוד גדולת קדושת מר ור
4. כרמי התלמיד היקר יש/מ/רהו צורו ויהיה תמיד בעזרו אמן נצח סלה
5. ואלדי יעלם…
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- teacher
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5198LetterT-S 8J19.28 + T-S 13J26.12
Document date
28 Ṭevet 4898 Anno Mundi (13 January 1138 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dated: 28 Ṭevet 4898 AM, which is 13 January 1138 CE. India Book 4 (full English description to come.) See also Shaked, "Persian-Arabic Bilingualism" in From A Sacred Source, pp. 322–24 (edition and translation)
recto
1. בש רח
2. שלום לאסוף / לאין תכלית ואין סוף / וטוב אשר לא יסוף / וברכות לאין סוף /
3. וישועה קרובה ותאוה נהיה ואורה ושמחה וחסד ורחמים ויקר
4. וגדולה / ומ…
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1. (1–13) (פתיחה פיוטית בעברית; ראה במקור.) אדוננו ומרנו ועטרת ראשינו ופארנו ואוצרנו
14. (14–15) בזמננו. לו ניסינו לפרט את ה…
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5199LetterT-S 8J22.19
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Judaeo-Arabic
Pinḥas, in New Cairo (based on ENA NS 2.11). In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with expressions of longing; "Every day I mention you, every moment, every minute."
Translated by Renée Levine Melammed.
My letter to you, oh my sister, the most honored of creatures to me and by me, may God prolong your life and per…
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5200Legal documentT-S 8J34.5
Record of writ of release. End of a legal document concerning Abū Maʿālī and financial matters (?)
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] אבו אלמעא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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