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  1. 12101List or tableT-S 20.23

    (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 439-440, App. B 3, dated 1020-1040)

    1. .. מן רחמ[נ]א [...............]מרת ...[.....].מן אם..ה
    2. מערפה אלמסתור................ברהמתה בית אם סרמיה? בנת אב[רה]ם מערפה [.....]ב ב א
    3. אלמעתד.....א…

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  2. 12102LetterT-S 20.133

    Letter sent from Alexandria, in which the writer, Avraham b. Elazar the doctor, reports about the arrival of a ship from Marseilles, containing queries from a distant country to Maimonides (l. 28r), and complains about a new imposition by the Sultan and the general poverty of the local community.

    1. עבדהא אברהם
    2. בשמ רחמ בר אלעזר הרופא
    3. זצל
    4. אלדי אעלם כב חצרה מולאי כגק
    5. מ ור משה הכהן השר הנכבד תפארת
    6. הכהנים פקיד הסוחרים עין העידה
    7. תפארת בני ישראל ויהוד…

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  3. 12103Legal documentT-S 24.80

    Dated: 2 October 1039 CE. Groom: Faraḥ b. Raḥmūn. Bride: Sittūna bt. Naḥum, a virgin.

    1. מצא א[שה ] א
    2. ב]תלתה בשבא דהוא תרסר יומי [בירח] תשרי שנת אלפא ותלת [מאה
    3. [[וח/מ/שין]] וחמשין וחדא שנין למנינא [דרגיליננא] בי'ה בפסטאט מצרים
    4. ד]על נילוס…

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  4. 12104Literary textT-S Ar. 40.58

    Badawi as “Maqāla fī al-madkhal ilā ʿilm al-akhlāq” in his edition of Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn’s (d. 289/910-11) Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Kuwait, 1979), 391-431 based on the appendix contained in the Fas manuscript of the latter.

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  5. 12105List or tableT-S Ar.39.63

    Many details are given about transactions and names of other merchants (e.g., al-Shaykh Manṣūr and Ibrāhīm b. [...] al-Maghribī). One of the commodities mentioned is myrobalan (halīlaj).

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  6. 12106Legal documentT-S Ar.42.215

    Legal agreement between [...] b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī on the one hand (وهو فريق اول) and the brothers Yūsuf and Yaʿqūb and their mother on the other hand (وهم فريق ثاني).

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  7. 12107Legal documentT-S Ar.47.206

    Verso, lefthand page: End of a legal query and responsum from "our rabbi the Rav" (Friedman suggests this is R. Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen) concerning an oath incumbent on ʿArūs for Avraham about the 'fulfillment of the trust' (adāʾ al-amāna).

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  8. 12108Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.54.48

    "The two spread out the chessboard and played in accordance with the rules, play after play, and move after move, when a checkmate (shēh mēt) came in sight to A, without B noticing it." The remaining script indicates that one party was not agreeable.

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  9. 12109Legal documentT-S Ar.54.69

    Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan.

    1. אלתלאת אכמאס אלדי לי פי אלטאחון ואתאת אלבית וגמיע מא יכון
    2. לי תחת כל שמיא אן תאכדה עלם [[מן]] זוגתי מן אלחק אלדי עלי
    3. לאן . . להא . . . קאל לנא בעד דל…

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  10. 12110Literary textT-S AS 129.219

    Dirge in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). The deceased does not appear to be named; he is referred to as ha-Rav ha-Muflaʾ, compared to Rav Ashi and Ravina among other superlative praises, and in the last line his death is compared to the death of Moshe and Aharon.

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  11. 12111Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 146.18

    Short note written and signed by the judge Shemuel b. Saadya stating, “The administrators of the Compound of the Jerusalemites are advised to pay to the ‘Mother of Avraham,’ better known under the name ‘the Mother of the Little Calf’ 9 ½ dirhams, her share in the revenue from the Compound of the Jerusalemites for the year 1477 [of the Seleucid Era, A.D. 1165/6].

    1. ידפע גבאת רבע אלמקאדסה לאם אברהם
    2. אלמערופה באם אלעגיל תסעה דראהם ונצף
    3. מן נציבהא פי רבע אלמקאדסה שנת אתעז
    4. ושלום שמואל בר סעדיה הלוי נע
    1. The administrators of the Compound of the Jerusalemites are advised to pay to the ‘Mother of Avraham,’
    2. better known under the name ‘the Mother of th…

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  12. 12112LetterT-S AS 147.211

    Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto).

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  13. 12113LetterT-S AS 149.41

    On verso there is a writing exercise of poetry in Arabic script (including إِذا كُنتَ في نِعمَةٍ فَاِرعَها فَإِنَّ المَعاصي تُزيلُ النِعَم which is known from other sources and attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib).

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  14. 12114Legal documentT-S AS 149.74 + T-S NS 225.17a

    Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute over a husband's support for his wife during his absence when he was traveling.

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  15. 12115Legal documentT-S AS 150.99

    Recto: fragment of a legal document, in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to a deceased man; the town of Farsīs (near Minyat Zifta?)

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  16. 12116LetterT-S AS 151.85 + NLI 577.10/37

    Letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif.

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  17. 12117List or tableT-S AS 152.13

    On verso, inverted in relation to the main text, there is what appears to be a receipt, mentioning ‘Yaʿaqov … who is with his nephew’, Yiṣḥaq b. Taḥanun for 15 and a half dinars, and ‘3 rubāʿiyya received for the tax collector (ṣāhib al-kharāj)’.

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  18. 12118List or tableT-S AS 152.50

    List of the 'mastūrīn' poor (תבת אלמסתורין אגנאהם אללה ברחמתה). Refers to [Mevorakh b. Saʿadya?] Sar ha-Sarim (misspelled שאר השרים).

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  19. 12119LetterT-S AS 152.246

    Probably from the teacher Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to the cantor Abū l-Majd Meʾir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. Dating: early 13th century.

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  20. 12120Legal documentT-S AS 153.8

    Either a letter or legal jottings, but in any case they all concern a legal case involving Yaḥyā b. Ṭāhir (the same who signed T-S 13J4.10 in 1253 CE?)

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  21. 12121Legal documentT-S AS 165.190

    Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly of legal verbiage.

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    1. כן הוה [... חצר אלי בית דין אבו אלברכאת בן מר' ור' יוסף] 
    2. הידוע אללבדי נ''ע וקאל לנא אשה [דו עלי ואקנו מני מעכשיו ואכתבו ואכתמו עלי בג'מיע אלא…
    1. This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]

    2. known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…

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  22. 12122LetterT-S AS 166.22 + T-S AS 166.21 + T-S AS 166.20

    Mentioning people such as [...] b. Jaʿfar and Mubārak al-ʿAkkāwī. Mentions "the least lands of Egypt" and encourages the addressee to come "in the protection of God" (פי אמאן אללה).

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  23. 12123LetterT-S AS 168.319

    Letter addressed to Abū l-F[araj Yosef] b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusī Ibn ʿAwkal. Written on parchment.

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  24. 12124State documentT-S AS 178.33

    Reused on verso for a list of names (likely a contributions list) with numbers in Judaeo-Arabic: al-Rashīd Elʿazar... Abū l-Munā b. Sālim... al-Nafīs al-Qūṣī... Ibn al-Thiqa...

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  25. 12125List or tableT-S AS 185.234

    Underneath the phrase "Makārim b. Sayyid al-Kull appeared (before the court).

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  26. 12126Legal documentT-S J1.11 + T-S 6Ja3

    Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen with her husband Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. The couple's original trousseau list is found in T-S 10J7.13 (PGPID 3050) from ca. 1090 CE.

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    1. אלדי עדמת מן כתבתהא
    2. בקיה אלמקדם ה חדידה ענ[בר] ג
    3. מכחלה ומיל וכאתם ומדאף א ונצף
    4. מערקה כחל [א?] מנדילין א מלאה ג
    5. מרתבה דביק ומכאדהא ז מרתבה ..בר[.…

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  27. 12127Legal documentT-S J3.24

    Recto: Instructions for drawing up a bill of divorce. Hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi? In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing various scenarios.

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  28. 12128List or tableT-S K3.11

    (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 342 #86) Written by Shemuel b. Saadya. AA Cf. T-S Ar.29.130 (PGPID 41339)

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    1. טאהר בן מחפוט
    2. מכארם
    3. זית טייב רטלין
    4. סאס וורק ¼
    5. בקיה זית חאר
    6. ביד אלמבין ג ½
    7. חראסה רביע
    8. אלאול לקצר אלשמע
    9. וגרירה ט ¼
    10. אלגמלה קס
    11. ⟦ואלי…

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    1. Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ
    2. Makārim,
    3. olive oil, two raṭls.
    4. Oakum and paper, ¾.
    5. The balance for oil for burning
    6. paid to al-Mēvīn, 3½.
    7. Nightwa…

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  29. 12129List or tableT-S K15.13

    This is a single leaf from the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya, written in two columns. A revenue list beginning in the first column continues in the upper part of the second one, and is followed by a list of expenditures.

    verso, right side, right column

    1. תצקיע גבאיה אלשיך [אבו אלביאן לשהרין והמא שבט ואדר]
    2. אלמואפקאן לשואל ודי אלק[עדה]
    3. דאר אלנגיד כ''ב אל[
    4. דאר אלזית י''ח

    I (verso)

    1. The accounting of the collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān for the two months, Shevat and Adar, 

    2. corresponding to Shawwāl and Dhūʾl-qaʿd…

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  30. 12130Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K15.26

    The addressee is asked to do something with the 8 nuqra dirhams and mentions the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Faḍl b. Khalfa(?) and Abū ʿAlī. Needs further examination.

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  31. 12131List or tableT-S K15.112

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning well-known 11th-century merchants such as Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy and announcing the writer's arrival in al-Mahdiyya (this part makes it seem like a note addressed to somebody else, with accounts enclosed).

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  32. 12132Legal documentT-S K22.27

    (Document #33) Engagement deed between Shaʾul aka Shaḥata b. Moshe ha-Levi and Qamr bt. Efrayim ha-Levi, the latter is listed as previously divorced.

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    :Left side of bifolio 4v (Documents 31-33)

    1. בעח׳׳מ בא היקר ונעלה כה׳׳ר אהרן לובריגון (Lobregón) יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו דמו(?) לכם
    2. שאני הולך לנא אמון יע…

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  33. 12133LetterT-S Misc.27.4.5

    Letter from Yaḥyā b. ʿEli Kohen Fasi, in Qayrawān, to his brother Yosef, in Alexandria.

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    1.       [בשמ]ך אלהים

    2. [כתאבי אליך יאסידי] וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אל

    3. [ ] כלת מן שהר תשרי מנה [ ]

    4. [ ש]ש שמח ויזכיך לבנ…

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    1. (2−1) בשמך אלוהים; אני כותב לך, אדוני וראשי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, מ־
    2. .... ב.... בחודש תשרי ....
    3. שש שמח ויזכ…

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  34. 12134LetterT-S NS 31.16 + T-S NS 31.34

    Letter from the congregation of Malta addressed to Moshe Levi b. Zakkār. (Same addressee as in T-S NS 31.2.)

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  35. 12135Legal documentT-S NS 99.11

    Legal fragment in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (ca. 1150–81 CE). In which Abū l-[...] appears before the court -- possibly in the Palestinian synagogue -- and acknowledges receipt of maintenance (mezonot) payments from Manṣūr for a period of four months [beginning in Iyyar] and ending in Av 14[..] […] A portion of Mevorakh's own signature is preserved, along with that of Yaʿaqov [b. Yosef] ha-Kohen.

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  36. 12136Legal documentT-S NS 99.66

    Dated: Iyyar 5243 AM = April/May 1483 CE. Scribe: Yom Ṭov b. Yosef ʿImmanuel. In which Shalom and Yiṣḥaq and a third person declare that they were forced to sign a previous document due to the coercion of the parnasim.

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  37. 12137State documentT-S NS 149.102

    At 90 degrees in the margin there is a note with a statement made by ʿAllūn b. [...] al-Jahbadh: يقول علون بن . . ارة الجهبذ اني اصحح ما . . . . .

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  38. 12138LetterT-S NS 183.76

    Mentions people including Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, Bā Mahdī, and al-shaykh Yabā(?). The sender is in a place he calls "al-ʿayn" (or perhaps "al-ʿayn al-[...]").

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  39. 12139List or tableT-S NS 292.70

    On verso the name Mūsā b. Faḍl (or Fuḍūl?) appears. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century.

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  40. 12140LetterT-S NS 308.58

    He was appointed as Gaʾon already around 1140, when Yehuda ha-Levi arrived in Egypt., and was titled Nagid for a short period after the death of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Moshe was the father of Sar Shalom ha-Levi.

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  41. 12141Legal documentT-S NS 314.5

    Abū ʿImrān Moshe ha-Kohen b. שא[...] (maybe Sheʾerit, which would match the kunya Abū l-Baqāʾ known from other documents) releases his paternal uncle [Abū l-Bahāʾ b.]

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  42. 12142Legal documentT-S NS 340.26

    The lessee may be named Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Futūḥ al-Khabbāz (l. 2). The rental is for half of a dār (ll. 4–5) in Fustat (l. 8).

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  43. 12143Legal documentT-S NS J118

    Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute.

    Recto

    1. [ ] ויכרג מן [ ]
    2. [ ]ה מן תמן אלע[ ]
    3. ארת ואלדהא וכארג ען [ ]
    4. כל מנהמא לצאחבה וענד ד[לך ]
    5. מחפוטה בעד צחה אלמע[רפה ]
    6. אליהא מן דלך לע[ ]
    7. חמור בכלי…

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  44. 12144LetterT-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 note, which contains nothing more than an exhortation to remember to write to his parents.

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  45. 12145Legal documentT-S NS J387

    Different hand (hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?). Involving a house, various sums of money, and renovating a bustān.

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  46. 12146Legal documentT-S NS J528

    Dated: Tuesday, 4 days into ḥol ha-moʿed Sukkot 5325 AM, which is 1564 CE. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Medina the scribe commits to copying out an entire Torah scroll for Meʾir Jibālī for a sum of 30 Venetian ducats (peraḥim zahav banādiqa).

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  47. 12147LetterENA NS 18.35

    Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Sūsa, to his younger brother Abū Zekharya Yehuda b. […] Among the business affairs are reports on shipping, including the following: "You mentioned that you loaded three (loads of freight) onto the qārib of Mufarrij and one onto the qārib of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ," and the former reached Tripoli (r17–18); later in the letter, he adds: "Just now a letter arrived from my lord Abī l-Faḍl Yūsuf b. Khalfa mentioning that the small (laṭīf) ship of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ has also reached Tripoli" (v20–21).

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    1. על שמך

    2. כתבת יאכי וסידי ועזיז נפסי ועדיל רוחי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וחסן עקבאך וע[     ] לקא [     ]

    3. מן סוסה לו כלון מן אלול ערפך אלל…

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    1. (1–2) על שמך. אני כותב לך, אחי ואדוני, היקר לי כבשרי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך וימציא לך הצלחות ....
    2. מסוסה, בו' באלול, …

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  48. 12148Legal documentNLI CAHJP ET-Ca. 63

    The supervisor's name is Suleymān b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, so he probably was the son of the supervisor mentioned in PGPID 40644 (from 1563 CE). The tenant is named Barūkh b. Avraham the Jew from Constantinople. The property under dispute is described as located in the Qaraite neighborhood (maḥallat al-qarāʾīn). […] The purchase of this property in 1554 CE byʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār is described in PGPID 41543.

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  49. 12149Legal documentNLI Ms. Ar. 276.3

    In which the amīr Yūsuf Odabaşı of the janissary regimemnt of the citadel (طائفة مستحفظان قلعة مصر المحروسة) purchases for himself, in the presence of al-Ḥājj Sulaymān b. ʿAbdallāh of the janissaries of اليقحى(??) in Ḥārat al-Yahūd and al-Shihābī Aḥmad b. […] Ibrāhīm ʿAbdallāh of the janissaries of the citadel, from the Jewish woman Raḥel bt. Nissim b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī al-Lāwī known as al-Shāṭir, a property (makān) located in Cairo, Ḥārat Zuwayla, Ḥārat al-Yahūd, at the top of Darb al-Rāʾiḍī(?) […] There follows a chain of prior ownership: it seems that Raḥel purchased it from Barukhʾel (باروخيل) b. Hārūn al-Yahūdī al-Istānbūlī, as established in a document from the Bāb al-Shaʿriyya court dated 18 Ṣafar of the same year (1122 AH, i.e., 18 April 1710 CE).

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  50. 12150Legal query or responsumT-S 16.40

    Legal query written by Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, possibly from ʿAydhāb, to an unnamed sage (הדרת יקרת אדונינו הרב הגדול יחיד הדור ופלאו ממזרח שמש עד מבואו אב בית דין שלכל י̇ש ירום הודו והדרו . . . […] This may be related to Bodl. MS heb. b 11/25 (PGPID 9052), a letter form Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq dating to 1131 CE in which he thanks Ḥalfon b.

    1 תדכאר מא אُגפל דכרה פי מא רُפע להדרת יקרת

    2 אדונינו הרב הגדול יחיד הדור ופלאו ממזרח שמש

    3 עד מבואו אב בית דין שלכל י̇ש ירום הודו והדרו

    4 ודלך פי אמ…

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