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  1. 6001LetterMoss. II,102.1

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (?), mentioning someone who died in Balad al-Rūm and licorice (sūs). The handwriting is …

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  2. 6002LetterMoss. IV,23

    Letter of business in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf and Tyre and the value of the Tyrian dinar. The address is on verso …

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  3. 6003Legal documentMoss. VII,57.2

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Avr[aham] and there is probably enough text here to determine the genre …

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  4. 6004LetterT-S 12.379

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …

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    1. תדכרה למחבך יא מולאי נהראי
    2. לי עלי יד אלכהן מתן עלי משתרי אלצפר (!) אלגוי

    ע׳׳ב:

    1. בן אלשויך הסופר, יש לי אצלו י׳׳ד קונטרסים, קיבלתי ממנו ד׳ קונטרסים,
    2. נותרו לי אצלי י׳: אם גמר אותם, שלם לו ד׳ דרהמים יתרת המגיע לו, וקח אותם
    3. ע…

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  5. 6005LetterT-S 13J8.27

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. A scholar is asked for the hand of his daughter in a complete letter (written calligraphically by a scribe) asking the …

    1. אלנץ (?)
    2. צדר הדא בקולה בבקר זרע את זרעך
    3. ולערב אל תנח ידך כי אינך יודע אי זה
    4. יכשר הזה או זה ואם שניהם כאחד טובים
    5. מא מקצוד אלחכים פי הדא אלנץ אלמזרוע

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  6. 6006LetterT-S 13J17.17

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032). Dating: approximately 1026 (per Gil) but it is worth noting that Shelomo …

    1. את אהובנו וגדולנו ונשיא[נו] כב[וד
    2. הנשיא לצאת לארץ ישראל והודעתי כי לבי טוב עד למאוד
    3. להשלים אליו היות לפניו מוציא ומביא את עם יי כי אין לפנינו
    4. בארץ י…

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  7. 6007LetterT-S AS 145.401

    Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. Most of the content is missing. Written at the end of Sivan. The sender's name seems …

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  8. 6008LetterT-S AS 149.211

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Large but very faded. The writer asks the addressee to have Abū l-ʿIzz write something; perhaps the copies whose price is mentioned …

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  9. 6009LetterT-S AS 151.282

    Brief letter about payment owed to Ṭoviyya, also giving instructions about making a purchase. In Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. On verso there …

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  10. 6010LetterT-S AS 157.408

    Letter to a Nagid, mentioning Ibn Sharwīn and a youth from Mosul. The handwriting is known from the circle of Mosul Nasis from the early/mid-13th …

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  11. 6011Legal documentT-S AS 173.329

    Small fragment of a legal document. Involving Siwār (unless this word is "siwāhu"), Yosef, and a Torah codex. Refers to a period beginning with the …

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  12. 6012List or tableT-S AS 207.171

    Accounts in Arabic listing many names. The scribal hand does not appear to be the same as the neighboring interrelated shelfmarks. Dating is 16th-century or …

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  13. 6013List or tableT-S AS 214.11

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. On verso refers to Tuesday; a ship (the word markab is written with an elongated bet); and perhaps ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ b. …

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  14. 6014Legal documentT-S NS 224.91

    Very damaged legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mostly involving transactions relating to property. There is also imprinted …

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  15. 6015LetterT-S NS 321.109a

    Letter fragment (upper left corner of recto and remnants of the address on verso) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mentions the latter's son Abū Zikrī …

    1. ממלוכה [. . . . .]
    2. יכדם מושב הדרת יקרת צפיר]ת תפארת מר ור הדיין ה{ח}כם והנבון
    3. אליהו שמ צורו בר כגק מר ור זכ]ריה ראש הקהל נע וינהי באן ממלוכה
    4. . . . .…

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  16. 6016LetterYevr. III B 1152

    Letter fragment from Saʿadya b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan to Shemuel ha-Sar. What remains is in Hebrew. Only the opening and address are preserved. The same sender …

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  17. 6017Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 J277

    A miscellany. On recto there are very elaborate praises for God in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are three different keys to Hebrew ciphers. The first …

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  18. 6018Literary textENA 3982.22–23

    Arabic poetry. With a popular character: it has extremely short verses with dense rhymes: (1) wa-starhabūhā al-ruhbān. . . wa-staqsamū [..] al-ṣulbān. . . (2) …

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  19. 6019LetterENA NS 32.18

    Letter from חצרייה(?) and her mother to פוצילא. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 14th century. The writers report on the condition of the …

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  20. 6020Legal documentENA NS 48.27

    Legal record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Munajjā has received from Hiba al-Zaki 108 qinṭārs of "red glass" (zujāj aḥmar) and 105 qinṭārs of "local glass" (zujāj baladī). …

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  21. 6021Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 85

    Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Lessor: "Shaykh al-Islām" ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿIbādī(?). Lessee: Shemuel b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī al-Rūmī. The property is a first floor …

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  22. 6022Legal documentMS 9160.6

    Recto: Legal document (iqrār) for debts acknowledged between business partners. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: 5 Adar 5588 AM, which is 1828 CE. Involving Raḥamim …

    1. בע׳׳ה 
    2. אקר ואשהד עלא נפסהו הר׳ רחמים ביבס הי׳׳ו אן פי טרפו ופי דמתו מטלוב אלא הר׳ יוסף בילובוס הי׳׳ו
    3. חואלת אל סי׳ יעקב ביבס מבלג וקדרהו אלף ומיתין ג…

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  23. 6023LetterT-S 6J6.11

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender beseeches the addressee to send him the remaining 35 dirhams he is owed from the sale of an animal. He …

    1. סעדא אטאל אללה אעמ[ארהם ו]אדאם עזהם [
    2. ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאהם וגמעני אנא ואיאכם
    3. עלי אסר חאל אן יכון וסוא דלך אני מש[ת]אק אליכם
    4. וינהי אן אלממלוך מט…

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  24. 6024Legal documentT-S 12.166

    Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: 1503 Seleucid, which is 1191/92 CE. Nasab bt. Barakāt sells part of her house with the permission of her …

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  25. 6025List or tableT-S Ar.54.61

    Account of a partnership. Dated: Sivan 1529 Seleucid = May/June 1219 CE. Fragment of a leaf on which the accounting for the apartment of Ibrāhīm …

    1. עלא בית מא אגר מו
    2. סיון אתקכט סכן אברהים בן אלשאער פי דאר חבס ר מנשה
    3. אלמקבוץ מנה ללגמלה ביד אבו אלמגד מ ורמי תראב ז
    4. ואצלאח אקפאל ג וצאחב רבע ב וביד א…
  26. Paid to the Christian, the collector, 30. Plus 28¼.
  27. Total, 58¼.
  28. Owed by him, from Nisanto the last of Marheshwan, our share, 75.
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  30. 6026LetterDK 238.4 (alt: XIII)

    11th century letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq near Tripoli to his son Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra. See Oded Zinger’s dissertation, which mentions this letter …

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    1. אלי ולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך וצאנך ווקאך ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך נעלמך אן כרגת

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  31. 6027LetterENA NS 18.30

    India Book (IB) IV,34 (ח58). Letter drafts from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1139 CE. This fragment contains three different drafts …

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    1. מולאי וסידי אלמע̇צם בחקה אלסני אלמקדם בסבקה אלחצ'רה אלעאליה אלסניה ומן אטאל אללה בקאהא
  32. ...אף על פי כן
  33. יודע האל יתעלה כיצד כתב עבדו, כשהלב כואב והאצבעות רועדות.
  34. recto, right margin

    (תוספת א)

    1. אשר ענד את המעלות כענק לצווארו והקיף את העולם בחסד ובאצילות, ומעלותיו גדלו וחסדיו הגיעו למרחקים.

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  35. 6028LetterT-S 8.164

    Potentially the same handwriting as T-S 12.417, JRL SERIES B 2601, and/or ENA NS 2.40. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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  36. 6029LetterBL OR 5544.9

    Letter from the wife of Wahb, Tiberias, to her brother Khalfa b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭabīb b. al-Ṭabarī, Fustat, eleventh century. She dictated the letter to her …

    1. בשמך
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכי וסיידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדם עזה ען חאל סלאמה
    3. ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וכרמה ואני קד
    4. אנפ…

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  37. 6030Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/62

    Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid, which is January 1185 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …

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  38. 6031LetterT-S 12.501

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly sent from Alexandria to an unidentified dignitary in Fustat (though Goitein suggests that the sender is in Fustat and the addressee …

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  39. 6032LetterT-S Ar.40.187

    Letter of appeal/private petition in Arabic script. The writer, Faḍā'il al-ʿŪdī b. Baṣīla (?), had lived for 6 years in Alexandria until he had to …

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    مملوكه فضائل اليهودي بن بقيلة

    2 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3 عبدها يقبل يديها ويعرفها بان عبدها له اليوم

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  40. 6033LetterT-S 10J12.24

    The letter starts with two biblical quotations (line 2, Prov. 3:26, line 3, Dt. 7:15). (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 164, 462, Goitein's index cards, and CUDL.)

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    1. בש רח
    2. כי ייי יהיה בכסלך ו[שמר רגלך מלכד
    3. והסיר ייי ממך כל חלי וג [

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  41. 6034LetterDK 192

    Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon to Aharon ha-Sar b. Netan'el. Opens with Maṣliaḥ's genealogy: Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu b. Shelomo (thus far all are …

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  42. 6035Legal documentENA 4100.9c

    The part written with a wider pen resembles business accounts, while the part written with a thinner pen looks like a portion of a legal …

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  43. 6036LetterJRL B 2288

    Small fragment from the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably from a father to a son. The sender reports that [She]muel intended to travel to …

    1. ש[
    2. . . .
    3. אלדי אערף אלולד אלעזיז אלמ[ופק אלסעיד . . . . . . . . . . . . . . גמע אללה ביננא
    4. במנה וופצלה תע אנא . . [
    5. מע עלמך מא נחן פיה [. . . . . . .…

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  44. 6037LetterT-S 8J19.5

    Fragment of a letter probably addressed to Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (“ha-Nagid ha-Gadol”). In Judaeo-Arabic. Uses an unusual variant of a blessing formula: khallada allāh suʿudahā …

    1. עליה ימין [
    2. מא ביע [
    3. הדא אלאסבוע [
    4. יריד יטרח עליהם [
    5. כלד אללה סעודהא ב[
    6. אלאגל אבו אלפכר ותסתנגז [
    7. באן לא י[ט]רח עליהם לא עוד ולא עסל ואלמשרף פהו אלס…

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  45. 6038Legal documentT-S 24.13

    Ketubba, Qaraite. Groom: Marzūq b. Yefet. Bride: (Sitt al-)Furs bt. Simḥa. Location: Fustat. Dated: [13]75 Seleucid, which is 1063/64 CE. Ḥananya b. Elnatan (Abū l-Tāhir …

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    1. … ביי' יצדקו וג'    ישמח ישראל וג' ונפשי
    2. … לך עוד וג'     כי בעליך ע' וג' כי אלהים וג' וזרע וג'

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    1. … In the Lord they shall be justified etc. (Is. 45:25).

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  46. 6039Paraliterary textT-S Ar.37.7

    Bifolio from a sort of commonplace book. In Judaeo-Arabic. (There are a few words in Arabic script from an earlier document that was recycled.) On …

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  47. 6040LetterT-S AS 152.191

    Fragment from a letter/petition from Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muʿallima to Maḍmūn b. [Ḥasan] the Nagid of Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with long introductory formulae in Hebrew. …

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  48. 6041LetterT-S AS 167.243 + T-S AS 167.155

    Letter fragments. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words in vocalized Hebrew. Addressed to 'my son.' The sender reports that the late ḥaver (mawlāy al-ḥaver, may …

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  49. 6042Legal documentT-S AS 177.275

    Legal documents (or copies or drafts) in Arabic script. Recto and verso could be the same document or two different documents. Dating: mentions the year …

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  50. 6043LetterYevr. II A 1409

    Letter addressed to Avraham Kohen, in Istanbul. Dated: Shevat 5409 AM, which is 1649 CE. In Hebrew. "We have not received any letter from you …

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  51. 6044LetterCUL Or.1080 J102

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely first half of the 12th century based on handwriting and the names mentioned, but this is tentative. Mentions dealings …

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    1. ] . מ . . ואנני מא ארצאני סערה לאנני מא אנפדת דלך אלשוי אלא
    2. ללאמיר שבל אלדולה כתב אללה סלאמתה ועלי אנה הו אלדי יתולא

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  52. 6045LetterENA 4011.34

    Verso (original use): Legal deed in Arabic script. (Abū l-)Faḍāʾil b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī, the tax farmer of the silk, has to receive 474 dirhams …

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  53. 6046LetterENA NS I.29

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. There is the bottom part of one letter and then halfway down the page a new letter begins from a son …

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  54. 6047Legal documentNLI Ar. 723

    On verso, another deed of conveyance, date faded, in which the buyer from recto sells half of the property to another Qaraite.

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  55. 6048LetterPER H 85

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to "the one I am angry at," viz., his father-in-law Abu l-Faraj in Alexandria. Shelomo is upset at the lack …

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    1. אלמקר באנעאמה שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין היב
    2. כתאבי אלי מן אנא עתבאן עליה והו אלמולא אלשיך אלאגל אלמכין אבו אלפרג אטאל

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  56. 6049LetterT-S 12.257 + T-S AS 145.278 + T-S K25.209

    Letter from a cantor of Mosul. T-S 12.257r is continued in T-S K25.209 and ends in T-S 12.257v. The letter is written in childish script, …

    recto [for T-S 12.257, verso]

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  57. 6050Legal documentT-S AS 154.1

    Verso: bottom part of a beautifully illuminated ketubba, signed by Yaʿaqov b. Simḥa. It seems to be too damaged to extract much of the content. …

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