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  1. 51LetterBL OR 10578B.1 + T-S 8J15.28

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    Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Description from BL OR 10578B.1: Letter from Maʿānī, in an unknown location, to his brother Mūsā, in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic with the …

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    1. אכוה מעאני
    2. لے
    3. אלדי אערף בה אכי אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
    4. וגמע שמלי בה קריב אן שא אללה וסוא דלך
    5. בחק אללבן אלדי אתראצענאה ואלבטן
    6. אלדי חמלנא ובחק . ב…
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  2. 52LetterBodl. MS heb. e 98/72

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a certain Khalaf b. Isḥāq to someone whose name includes Shemaʿya, sent to the house of Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Qudsī, in Fustat. In …

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  3. 53LetterCUL Or.1080 J178

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    IB VI, 9. Letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a shipment of tartar and a report about the arrival …

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  4. 54LetterENA 3363.2

    Letters of thanks, drafts, mostly in rhymed prose, to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and his cousin Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, for their gifts and loyalty to …

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  5. 55LetterENA NS 20.5

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the …

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  6. 56LetterT-S 8J17.16

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend carried for him …

    1. צדרת כתבי לחצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
    2. אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ונעמאה וכבט
    3. אעדאה ולם ארי לאחדהא גואב ואעלמה אנני
    4. אנפדת אליה מע אלשיך אבו אלוליד יונס…
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  7. 57LetterT-S Ar.41.108

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    Arabic

    IB VI, 6. Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Hillel, Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf on the conclusion of the latter’s second or third voyage to the …

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  8. 58LetterT-S AS 155.101

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Mercantile letter. Very faded. Mentions Aden in l. 7 and ʿAydhāb in l. 10. Later (l. 18) reports that Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī traveled this year to …

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  9. 59Legal documentT-S Misc.34.42

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). Mentions "all that …

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  10. 60Legal documentAIU VII.A.38.2

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. In the lower right corner of 'recto,' at 90 degrees to the other text blocks, there is …

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  11. 61Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J137

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. Partnership. Dated: 1215-1216 CE. This fragment emerged from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The partners ʿImrān Moshe al-Iskandarī b. Bū Manṣūr ha-Zaqen and …

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    1. ש]נת אלפא וחמש מאה ועשרין ושבע[ שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא
    2. [מו]תבה רשותיה דאדוננו נגידנו אב[רהם הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק נר 
    3. [המע]רב…

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    1. [the y]ear one thousand five hundred and twenty-seven [years (of the Era) of Documents, in Fusṭāṭ Egypt,]
    2. [si]tuated [on the Nile River,] jurisd…
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  12. 62LetterT-S 8J17.15

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in 'Aydhab, to his sons, before embarking again for the east. He reports that he had dismissed his traveling companion …

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  13. 63State documentT-S Ar.30.273

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    Arabic

    Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with …

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    1. العبد المملوك

    2. موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا

    5. وسيد…

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    1. The servant and slave

    2. Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.

    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    4. The benedictions of God a…

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  14. 64LetterT-S AS 155.307

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the …

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  15. 65LetterT-S G1.61

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    IB VI, 42. Letter from Abū l-Faḍl Shela, in Alexandria, to his son Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid al-Yahūdī, in Aden. Probably dictated to his son Yosef b. …

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  16. 66LetterENA 4020.25

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    IB VI, 31 (H71). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, in ʿAydhāb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: 25 Iyyar [4900] AM, which is 14 May …

    1. וצל כתאב מולאי וסידי אלחכם אל[... מ̇ר ור̇ב חלפון]
    2. הלוי בר כבוד מ̇̇ר ורבנא נתנאל הל[וי החכם והנבון]
    3. ̇ת̇נ̇צ̇ב̇ה א̇גל אלכתב ואעלאהא אדאם אללה עזהא
    4. וסעא…
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  17. 67LetterHalper 405

    Business letter (fragment) from Iṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī (Fustat) to Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef (Alexandria), ca. 1080. Iṣḥaq b. Aharon reports about money he sent, …

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    1. סידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך

    2. ותאידך ונעמאך ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך נעלמך

    3. סלמך אללה אן וזנת ענך פי אלדיואן ד דנ> וח קראריט

    4. ו…

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    1. אדוני היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך,
    2. ואת עזרתו ואת חסדיו לך, ואל ימנע ממך את מיטב ההצלחה. אודיעך,
    3. ייתן לך אלוהים שלום, …
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  18. 68LetterT-S 12.7

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text block containing 8 …

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  19. 69LetterT-S 24.78

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering monk,' Abu Najah, …

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    1. בש רח
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללא בקא חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    3. ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ורפעתה וסנאה ותמכינה
    4. וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה אעלמה אן לו רמת אלי
    5. שרח אליסיר ממא גר…

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    1. In your name, O merciful.
    2. I am writing to you my lord, the most illustrious elder —
    3. may God prolong the life of your excellency and make perma…
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  20. 70LetterT-S Misc.28.33

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter probably sent from a man in Alexandria to his brother in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely second half of the 12th century. Rudimentary handwriting …

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  21. 71LetterT-S 12.392

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a novice India trader in a Red Sea Port to his brother, Libya. Dating: 1103. Complains in rhyme about the hardships of travel. …

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    1.  אנה] ולי דלך ואלקאדר עליה אן שא אללה
    2.  א]כי בל סיידי יום אלב לכד יומא כלון
    3.  [מן שהר] חשון סנה תתסד ערפנא אללה בר[כאת]       
    4. [לנא ולכל] ישראל …

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    1. … for he is master of this and has power over it, if God wills.
    2. … on Monday 24
    3. Ḥeshvan, (4)864, may God acquaint us with blessings 
    4.  for us an…
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  22. 72LetterENA 2558.30a

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from an unidentified sender in India to an unidentified addressee in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. The fragment begins cryptically: "...and he …

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  23. 73LetterT-S 10J14.11

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    IB VI,24. Letter from Makhlūf b. Musa, Alexandria, to Abu Yiṣḥaq Avraham b. Yahya Fasi, Fustat. The main part of the letter is an apology …

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    1. ק]ד עלם אללה סבחאנה מא עז עלי ספר חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    2. א]טאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה
    3. אלדי לם] נגתמע בה וסבבה אני מן אלמ…
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  24. 74LetterT-S 13J28.15

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a certain Yosef, in Alexandria, to his brother, an India trader. Mentions Aden (verso, right margin, l. 15) and people including Avraham al-Miṣrī, …

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    1. תאני
    2. בש רח
    3. אלדי תריד עלמה יא אכי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ועלאך ומן
    4. אלתופיק לא אכלך גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וגודה
    5. אן שא אללה וגיר דלך …
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  25. 75LetterF 1908.44i

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    IB VI, 41. Part of a cluster of letters (IB VI, 41-45) pertaining to Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid, whom Goitein describes as a "low-class India trader from …

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    1. בש רח
    2. כתאבי אליך יא אכי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    3. עזך ועלאך ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאך גמע אללה ביננא
    4. עלי אסר חאל במנה וכפי לטפה אן…
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