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  1. 8501LetterMIAC 97

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 29).

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  2. 8502Legal documentMIAC 116

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 73).

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  3. 8503LetterMIAC 123

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 60).

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  4. 8504LetterMIAC 146

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 65).

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  5. 8505Legal documentMIAC 225

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 68).

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  6. 8506Literary textMIAC 241

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 47).

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  7. 8507Legal documentMIAC 251

    (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 68).

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  8. 8508LetterMoss. II,194.2

    Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmāni to Me'ir b. Yakhin, mentioning the latter's brothers Hilāl and Saʿīd. […] Referring to family news, a nice circumcision that took place in the house of Ibn al-Rashīdī; mentions the term ṣahrīj (vat/basin).

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  9. 8509LetterMoss. IXa,3.7

    The seal depicts the Cave of the Patriarchs. There are also Latin-script initials (SML?). Two fragments.

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  10. 8510LetterMoss. V,344.2

    Mentions the arrival of Abū l-Surūr with the news that (probably the Nagid) had obtained or issued a favorable rescript (tawqīʿ) for a petition. Also mentions the capitation tax and Ibn Barukh.

    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. ] סידנא אנגיד ישמרו צור אן וצל אבו סרור
    3. ] וצחבתה אתוק/י/ע אלדי אנעמת אל חצרה
    4. ] . . . . . סאל בורי הכל אן יפבת (=יתבת?) גאהך
    5. ] ב . . ם אל …

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  11. 8511Legal documentMoss. VII,118.1

    Same hand as the unusual Palestinian ketubba T-S 8.129; the Khalaf ha-Kohen ha-Gizbar mentioned here may be identical with the [...] ha-Kohen ha-Gizbar mentioned there. This fragment also mentions [...] b. Mawhūb, Ḥasan, the phrase שלא מוכרחים, and the term לעסק.

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  12. 8512LetterMoss. VII,151

    Business letter in which the sender writes that he is concerned after meeting in Qus a business relation to whom he was able to sell three dinars worth of white linen while the buyer also paid him thirty-two dinars minus one fourth.

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    1. . . . . . . . . . . אלת]ופיק לאכלאה גמע אללה ביננא עלי
    2. . . . . . . . . ]מה וכרמה אן שא אללה ואלדי תריד עלמה
    3. אני עלי גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעאפיה לם א…

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  13. 8513LetterMoss. VIII,312.2

    The name Daniʾel is mostly effaced and it may also be possible to read this as David. Reused on verso for Hebrew poetry.

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  14. 8514LetterT-S 8.26

    Letter from Yosef b. Farah from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. October 25, 1056.

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    1. סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וכאן לך ומעך [ולי] וחאפץ מן אל

    2. מסתקר לנצף מן שהר מרחשון כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה

    3. וערפך ברכת מא י…

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    1. (אני כותב לך), אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך ויהיה לך ועמך מגן ושומר,
    2. מהבית, בחצי מרחשון, יחתום אותו אלוהים עליך ב…

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  15. 8515LetterT-S 8J19.11

    The writer regrets that he does not have lacquer with his because there is a demand for it in Tetai. Also writes about collecting debts and a shipment of “lasin”.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה

    2. ונעמתה מן תטאי ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך כתב אן

    3. עדה ולם נרא לואחד מנהא ג…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך
    2. ואת חסדו לך, מתטאי; שלומי טוב ואני מאושר. אודיעך ש…

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  16. 8516LetterT-S 8J27.3

    Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, she did not seek for material gain. She also mentions having gone to Atfīḥ. (Information from and translation in Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 309-310)

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    1. [. . . . . . .  אל]חצרה אלאגליה ואן ע [ . . . . . . . . ]
    2. [. . . . . . . ] לם אבדל לא עיד ולא סבת
    3. [. . . . . . . ] אן אמות פי מדהב ישראל ופ [ …

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  17. 8517LetterT-S 8J36.10

    In the margins of recto and on verso, there is also a will concerning gold for a man's daughter.

    1. אגדי השלומות להצ[עיד] ומגדי הנעימות להתמיד
    2. חמדי נחמדים להחמיד ונכדי עם ניני להעמיד
    3. לאיש הראש ושר ואמיר ומחכים גם משכיל ומלמיד
    4. לכל חכם ושכל ותלמיד בח…

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  18. 8518LetterT-S 10J19.9

    Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī in Susa to Abu Zakariyya Hayyim b. `Ammar, who writes about a disaster at sea that overcame the boats, in which was traveling Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī. The writer fears for his fate. Dated ca. 1052.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך

    2. ונעמתך ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל פי אלסר מן מא קדר אללה תעאלי

    3. וחכם אלדי …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת עזרתו
    2. ואת חסדו לך, כאשר שלומי טוב בגופי, אבל לבי נסער מגזרת …

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  19. 8519LetterT-S 12.371

    Letter sent by ʿAṭā' b. Zikri from Alexandria to Mevorakh b. Israel Januni in Fustat, containing a legal question to Nahray b.

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    1. כתאבי אלי מולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה
    2. ותאיידה ונעמאה מן אלאסכנדריה ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל
    3. פי אלקלב אללה תעאלי ירד אלעאקבה אל…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך
    2. ואת עזרתו ואת חסדיו לך. מאלכסנדריה; שלומי טוב בגופי, אבל יש לי עוגמת
    3. …

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  20. 8520LetterT-S 13J15.3

    The letter opens with a full-fledged congratulation, referring also to the Feast of Tabernacles (following close after the Day of Atonement), and discussing business matters.

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אהני חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
    3. תאיידה ועלאה וסמוה וארתקאה ורפעתה וסנאה ותמכינה
    4. וכבת אעדאה בהדא אלצום אלעטים אלמועדים אל
    5. ש…

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  21. 8521LetterT-S 32.9

    Underneath there is the name Meir b. Yakhin and also Meir b. ʿAmram. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  22. 8522State documentT-S Ar.3.5 + T-S Ar.30.209

    Two copies of a draft of blessings for the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the beginning of a petition: [[אלאמיר אלמופק]] אמיר אלמומנין במא וכלה ייי אליה מן שיאשת אלאמה ועדקהא(?) […] פי מא כאנת מצלחתהא פיה עאמה פידאעי . . . Join: Alan Elbaum.

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    1. [[אלאמיר אלמופק]]
    2. אמיר אלמומנין במא
    3. וכלה ייי אללה מן שיאשת
    4. אלאמה ועדקהא בה
    5. מן תדבירהא [  ]אב
    6. פי מא כאנת
    7. מצלחתהא פיה[[.]]
    8. عامة פ…

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  23. 8523Literary textT-S Ar.30.3

    Discussion of the four primary causes of damage: ha-shor, ha-bor, ha-mav'eh and ha-hev'er presented in the form of questions and answers. Verso also contains a square of numbers expressed in Hebrew letters.

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  24. 8524List or tableT-S Ar.30.123

    Includes details about different types of payment for transporting goods from Fustat to Alexandria and loading them onto the ships. Several ships are known from Ibn Awkal’s accounts.

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    1. ולזם אלברקלוין אלבקם ואלפלפל 
    2. חק כרוג וברטיל ודפע ט''ו 
    3. וגואז אלבאב וחראץ          דרגי 
    4. וען ג' אעדאל כתאן מנהא ב' 
    5. פי מרכב אלאנ…

    recto, left column

    1. שילם בשבילי בן האלכסנדרוני 
    2. דמי הובלה ב(אונייה) החדשה, ל…
    3. שילמתי לגלול(?) ג' דְרָהַמים; ל"ה קיראטים(?). 
    4. סך הכול י"ד דינר ושישית 
    5. …

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  25. 8525LetterT-S Ar.30.163

    The sender is a man from Alexandria who was forced to flee from that city because he was unable to pay the capitation tax for his little boy.

    1. ] سيدنا حفضه الله تعالا ان رجل من اهال
    2. اسكندرية ان له عشرة ايام بلمشي هو وابنه
    3. ضلموه في ابنه طلبو يوزنوه وما جله(؟) واحتجت احدنا
    4. وهربت ولم املك خروب…

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  26. 8526LetterT-S Ar.35.335

    Letter addressed to "the noble amir" (al-amīr al-ajall). In Arabic script. The letter is on recto, with two lines continuing onto verso.

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  27. 8527Legal documentT-S AS 40.227

    Regarding the welfare of orphans and mentioning Cairo. Also signed by Ṭāhir b. David, and ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen.

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  28. 8528LetterT-S AS 146.323 + T-S AS 146.293

    Blessings arranged according to the alef-bet (headed "מכתובה עלי אלף בית") followed by epistolary formulae.

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  29. 8529Legal documentT-S AS 147.132

    Debt contract in which Masʿūd acknowledges a debt of 23 ducats (peraḥim zahav dīwānī). Also mentions 'his brother Menaḥem' and the creditor Aharon.

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  30. 8530Legal documentT-S AS 151.277

    Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209). Mentions Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sukkarī. Signed on verso by [Yo]sef ha-Levi b. [...] and [...] b. Shemuʾel (all this might be a single signature). (Information in part from CUDL)

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  31. 8531LetterT-S AS 153.141

    The sender conveys good wishes for the holidays; mentions the terms waraqa and biṭāqa; and mentions al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy Abū l-[...] b. Daniel. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  32. 8532Legal documentT-S AS 160.347

    There is a list of witnesses' names on verso: Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dayyān, Abū Saʿd b. Azḥar, and […] Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif.

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  33. 8533LetterT-S AS 169.251 + T-S AS 151.205

    The sender mentions that he was sick with a fever and cold and nobody (or nobody [except ...]) visited/asked after him (mā iftaqadanī [...]). Mentions 'my master al-Ḥemdat' and 'my master, the rayyis, our rabbi Avraham (Maimonides?).' Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  34. 8534LetterT-S AS 170.192

    The sender says that the community promised to honor him with the job of making the doors for the synagogue; now he writes to confirm this. There is also a portion of a letter on verso, unclear if this is the continuation or a separate letter.

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  35. 8535List or tableT-S AS 186.190

    Mentions ʿUmayr; pepper; Abū Isḥāq; Avraham; al-Segulat; Abū Naṣr; Abū ʿAlī; ʿūd; nutmeg; two qanīnas of syrup; a burniyya; zanānīr; shoes (?

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  36. 8536List or tableT-S AS 202.253

    , Salāma, Rahhis, Khayyāṭ, and sesame oil (sīraj) and shaʿlūla(?). Also refers to receipts (וסולאת).

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  37. 8537LetterT-S AS 204.188

    On verso is a remnant of a printed postal form in German, likely spelling: "Veltpost-Ver[ein]," an international postal service system founded in Bern in 1874, also known as the Universal Postal Union. MCD

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  38. 8538List or tableT-S K3.34

    (Information from CUDL. See also Goitein's index card.)

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  39. 8539State documentT-S Misc.22.300

    State or legal document in Arabic script. 6 lines are preserved, with moderately wide space in between. Mentions "wa-khaṭṭ al-shaykh Abū l-Faraj" and "[...] al-madhkūr." On verso there is Hebrew text in a rudimentary hand (possibly the same reuser as T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)).

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  40. 8540List or tableT-S Misc.28.29

    Nissim probably to Moshe b. Yahya al-Majani. Around 1065. Detailed the coins that were in a coin packet. Verso: Details about several dinar amounts, as well as the name b. al-Majani. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #301) VMR

    recto

    1. אלחאפט' אללה נהראי בן נסים צרה אלעדד ע''א דינ' ונצ' ונצ' רבאעי 
    2. מנהא ט''ו דינ' מראבטיה 
    3. י''ו דינ' ונצ רבאעיה 
    4. ואלבאקי תמימיה        וזן אלגמיע…

    recto

    1. אלוהים השומר. נהוראי בן נסים, כיס: המספר ע"א דינרים וחצי רבע דינר
    2. מהם ט"ו דינר מֶרָאבְּטי', 
    3. י"ו דינרים וחצי ברבעי דינר, 
    4. והשאר (דינרים) שלמים…

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  41. 8541State documentT-S NS 184.65

    Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There are also a few words in Arabic on the related fragment T-S NS 224.52, which comprises a join to the legal document on the recto (PGPID 8640).

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  42. 8542Paraliterary textT-S NS 265.9

    Stanzas of Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the voice of a woman, at least in part a complaint about domestic duties: spinning (al-mighzal al-mayshūm), perhaps a crying baby and sleepless nights, and possibly living with her mother-in-law and a stepdaughter.

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  43. 8543Paraliterary textT-S NS 325.185

    Moshe (ZL) clarified." There is also an (ownership?) note naming Shemuʾel b. Yefet.

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  44. 8544LetterT-S NS J13

    The writer expresses his wishes that the addressee will recover from his illness. Also writes about receiving payment for shipments of asphalt and nuts.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
    2. ונעמתך מן דמסיס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יא [ס]ידי אן כ[נת כתבת]
    3. אליך כתבא עדה ולם נרא לואחד […

    recto

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו
    2. ואת חסדו לך, מדמסיס. שלומי טוב ואני מאושר. אודיעך, אדוני, שכתבת…

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  45. 8545List or tableT-S NS J444

    Dating: Probably early or mid-12th century, since Abū l-Naṣr Ibn Zubbaybāt appears also in T-S NS 323.19, a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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    1. .... בן .[...וא]בנה ויבה
    2. אבו סעד בן רשיד ויבה
    3. בן צביאן ויבה מוהוב אלדהבי [
    4. מבארך אלצירפי ויבה בן מחבו[
    5. ת]מאם אלטביב ויבה
    6. אבו אלפרג אלאסכנדראני…

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  46. 8546List or tableT-S NS J471

    Mentions places such as Tyre and Alexandria. Mentions goods such as copper/brass, crimson, silk, and kohl(?).

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  47. 8547Paraliterary textYevr. II A 814

    Of documentary interest in part because many of the writing exercises appear to be copies of actual letters. There are also many names of people and places, presumably in Cairo.

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  48. 8548Legal documentCUL Add.3412

    Natan appears before the court and asks them to summon Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Sahlān al-Arjawānī. The court summons Abū ʿAlī, who acknowledges that his business partner Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Arjawānī had given him a vessel (fuqqāʿa) containing mercury (zaybaq) intended for Abū l-Surūr Sason b. Natan. Abū ʿAlī states that if Sason pays him the 12 dirhams which he paid for the mercury, he will give it to him.

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    1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרה יומי בירח
    2. טיון דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ועשר שנין
    3. למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצריט
    4. דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה חצר אלי בית
    5. ד…

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  49. 8549Legal documentJCC 1

    Judicial record of a discussion on the legality of the Rabbanite synagogue in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood in Cairo (al-Qāhira), during the reign of al-Mustanṣir (1038 CE). […] The owner of the asset, Abū Imrān Mūsā b. Yaʿaqūb b. Iṣḥāq al-Isrāʾīlī, who is presented as "head of the community (tāʾifa) of the Rabbanites, Qaraites and Samaritans" was brought forth. […] It was catalogued by Yisrael Ben-Zeev in the 1930's, and he also made some photocopies. The archive has since been lost, and it seems that it was deposited in the Egyptian National Library (see Rustow, A Lost Archive, p. 496 note 8).

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  50. 8550LetterT-S 13J20.9

    He expresses his longing and exhorts her to look after their son and to get along with Umm Thanāʾ, whose ḥumash he still needs to complete. […] MS heb. f 56/49 (PGPID 6538) (1186 CE), and she appears also in T-S K15.3 (PGPID 1332) (ca. 1200 CE) and BL OR 5549.6 (PGPID 479) (ca. 1201 CE). […] Levi ha-Levi (suggestion of Oded Zinger), which fits with the dating. It is also possible that the puzzling phrase after the sender's name (יש לו עצה(?))

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    1. שלום רב וישע יקרב ממזרח ומערב לאשתי
    2. הכשירה והצנועה והיום ידעתי במעשיך הטובים
    3. ואין פה לפרש ועם רובי שלומיך הנה לשלום מר
    4. לי מר על פרידתי מכם ופר…

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