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  1. 1701Unknown typeT-S AS 150.169

    Very cursive hand and much faded. Dating: a partial Hijri date possibly appears in l. 6 of the recto: Shawwāl 1[...]

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  2. 1702LetterT-S AS 206.203

    Very faded letter from the convert (or simply 'the foreigner') Yiṣḥaq b.

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  3. 1703Legal documentT-S NS 224.36

    The parties are Abū l-Faḍl Yosef and Elʿazar ha-Levi. The nature of the dispute is specified in l. 4, but it is tricky to read (אלרפאת?).

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  4. 1704LetterT-S NS J277

    Petition from Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-ʿAnīnī to the Nagid. The addressee can be identified as Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (r. 1140–60) based on the titles and the fact that there are blessings for his two sons. The petitioner is also known from a dossier of five capitation tax receipts in his name (see his "People" page) ranging from the 1130s to 1150/51. […] He asks the addressee to issue an order to the judges (al-dayyānīn) to allow him to repay the debt in installments, lest he be arrested.

    1. עבדהא אבו אלעלא
    2. בן אבו אלפצל בן
    3. אלעניני
    4. אשרי תמימי דרך ההולכים בתורת ייי אשרי איש
    5. ירא את ייי במצותיו חפץ מאד הדרת אדונינו ואור
    6. עינינו ומחמד לבינו וע…
    1. From his servant Abu 'l-ʿAlāʾ
    2. b. Abu 'l-Faḍl
    3. al-ʿAnīnī
    4. Happy are they that are upright, who walk in the law of the Lord. Happy is the man
    5. who fears …

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  5. 1705LetterBL OR 5557K.9

    Letter or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Almost complete with the top honorifics missing. The writer confirms receiving 4 dīnars (of tax?) […] Several letters were sent at the hands of Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq to the Amīr Ṣafīyy al-Dawla and towards Alexandria seeking the fulfillment of their requests.

    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    2. […………………………….اطال الله] بقاه وادام تأييده وعلاه وتمكينه وسلامته
    3. شاكرا لله تعالى ولها ولما حصل الخرج (الجرح؟) بالاربعة دناني…
  6. ...The slave weighed them and bears witness to God,
  7. from it are eighty-six dirhams as payment for Karar (?), the Turk, between Abu al-Dhar and the Abu al-Faḍl the elder. And the remaining seventy-four [dirhams]
  8. we sent them in these twenty days, except that his eminence, may God preserve his glory, had promised his slave,
  9. at the hands of Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥaq, who wrote the letters to Ṣafī al-Dawla bin Bulus(?)
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  11. 1706Literary textAIU XII.98

    There are only a few, faded lines on page 4. There is a single word on page 6.

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  12. 1707Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 101/16

    Dealing with a complicated lawsuit of a case in which Abū l-Faḍl had sold 91 jars of wine to Hillel b. Yosef for 9 dinars.

    1. אתפנא קדאמנא בי דינא אל[שיך] אבו [אלמנא]
    2. ואלשיך אבו אלאפצל נט רח אתה אדא תטלבה
    3. הלל בן יוסף אלתסעין //אחד// גרה נביד מן קבל אבי
    4. אלפצל חצלת חינוד //הי…

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  13. 1708LetterENA 2713.51

    and a person whose name is too faded to read and ʿEzra. The writer explains that he has no work except for the Torah, and he would be eager to read the Torah or teach children or serve as shammash in the addressees' yeshiva.

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  14. 1709Legal documentMoss. VII,96.1

    There may be a man named Abu l-Faḍl. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  15. 1710LetterT-S 8J26.1

    Secondary use: Note to Abū l-Faḍl b. Elʿazar. In Judaeo-Arabic. "You are neither a scholar nor a relative nor a friend of mine because of what you did!"

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    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלאגל אבו אלפצל יעלם באבך מא אנת לא מן
    3. אלתלאמיד ולא מן אלאקארב ולא מן אלאצחאב לאגל
    4. מא פעלתה פאן אנת אסתדרכת דלך במגיך
    5. באכר ואלא [[מ]]…

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  16. 1711LetterT-S Ar.50.33

    The entire letter, or at least what is not too faded to read, is an order for many types of materia medica.

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  17. 1712Unknown typeT-S AS 183.96

    The righthand page on verso is a list of names including Abū l-Majd Nāṣir [...], Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Najm, Abū l-Bahāʾ, Abū l-Riḍā. The lefthand page may be the opening section of a letter or literary text: ودوام عز لم يزال . . .

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  18. 1713LetterT-S NS 312.142

    Nissim (called 'Nahray ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq'). The sender's name is faded. The letter opens with large section of Hebrew blessings accompanied by biblical verses.

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  19. 1714LetterT-S K8.95

    She invokes the trope that it is best not to grieve for too long, "because it does no good, all I have gained from sorrow and weeping is blindness." […] Greetings to Mūsā and to all the addressee's sisters again. Abū ʿAlī, Hiba, and Surūr send their condolences. One of them (likely Surūr) is "sick and ruined" ever since he came from Ṣedaqa with the news. Greetings to Faḍāʾil and Abū Saʿd. On the identity of the addressee: Sedaqa b.

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    1. מן עמתה לא עדמתה

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    1. הצור תמים פעלו כי כל דרכיו משפט אל אמונה ואין עול
    2. צדיק וישר הוא באשר דבר מלך שלטון ומי יאמר לו…

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  20. 1715LetterT-S AS 163.50

    On verso, at 180 degrees to the address, there is a list of about a dozen names in Arabic script, e.g., Bū Isḥāq Maʿālī, Abu l-Faḍl, [...] al-ʿAṭṭār, Bū l-Munā, Yūsuf. Some family relations are given.

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  21. 1716LetterT-S 10J11.22

    The significance of 'dhubayla' is ambiguous not only here but also in the medieval Islamic medical literature: see the thorough discussion in Alvarez-Millan, “Disease in Tenth-Century Iran and Irak according to al-Razi’s Casebook”, Suhayl 14 (2015), pp. 69f. Also ambiguous is whether 'raʾs al-fuʾād' refers to the stomach or rather to the skin overlying the heart (as it does in al-Razi's casebook). […] It is faded and difficult to read but does mention the stomach (al-miʿda).

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    1. כתאב[י אלי]ך יאואלדי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך 
    2. ונעמאך וכבת אעדאך מן אלמסתקר ען סלאמה לא אכלאך אללה מנהא 
    3. ועאפיה געלהא …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אבי, והיקר לי ואצלי מכל הבריות, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך
    2. ואת אושרך ויכה את אויביך, מהבית. שלום לי, אל ימנע אלוה…

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  22. 1717LetterAIU VII.E.173

    On verso mentions 'the Jews' and 'the law' in the context of a shipment and a payment; and the arrival of seven mats (antāʿ) for Abū l-Faḍāʾil.

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  23. 1718Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/44

    Yosef Beḥir ha-Misra sells 1/4 of a house to Abū l-Faḍl ha-Sofer ha-Mahir b. Yosef ha-Sar ha-Kohen for 150 dinars ("good gold dinars").

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  24. 1719Legal documentENA 4011.34

    Recto (secondary use): Legal document according to which a debtor Khalaf must pay to Faḍāʾil only one half of the sum stipulated in the Muslim document.

    1. שרוט אלקנינאת בלפסטאט באן . . .
    2. יקים בהדה אלמאיתין [סבעה] ותלתין
    3. דראהם ללשיך אבו אלפצאיל הל. .
    4. מכתוב בבאטן הדה אלחגה פי . . . .
    5. אתנין ותאלת מן שהר א…

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  25. 1720LetterENA NS 77.189

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a neat scribal hand. Very faded. The sender seems to be a woman (based on "sākina" in l. 8).

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  26. 1721Legal documentT-S 12.814

    The case involves Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ṣedaqa. Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon appears to be a party in the case itself (rather than just a reshut clause).

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  27. 1722Legal documentT-S 13J6.8

    Nearly the full document is preserved, but it is very faded; needs examination.

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  28. 1723Legal documentT-S AS 160.171

    Shemaʿya] נבתויא. Very damaged and faded. Mentions Aden; Abū Isḥāq Ibn Sughmār; 20 dīnārs; meeting with someone in ʿAydhāb (אגתמע בה בעידאב ואלגואלי?

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  29. 1724LetterT-S NS J309

    biqyār) and their prices. Mentions Abū l-Faḍā'il and R. Natan. ASE.

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  30. 1725LetterENA 1822A.91

    Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Probably 13th–15th century. Headed מן המצר קראתי יה וכול.

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  31. 1726Legal documentMoss. VII,110.1

    ʿAmram who undertakes to pay 80 dinars to Abū l-Faḍl David b. Yosef for wine. The latter had to wait six months for this payment, after selling wine to Abū l-ʿIzz.

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    1. עדות [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] שנת אתקלא לשטרות למנייננו אשר הורגלנו למנות בו פה
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

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  32. 1727Legal documentT-S AS 158.172

    Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Complete but very faded. Resembles a legal query: "What have our sages said concerning a man who died...

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  33. 1728Legal documentT-S Misc.25.8

    Inventory of a dead perfumer's shop, taken for purposes of dividing the goods between his son Abū l-Faḍl and Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Manṣūr. The executor is Netanel ha-Sar ha-Rofe.

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  34. 1729Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.7

    Abū l-Ḥasan owes 30 (dirhams) to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Faḍl and will pay him 1 dirham weekly starting from the 'month of the holiday.'

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  35. 1730LetterT-S 13J8.4

    Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Maṣliaḥ Gaon, in Fustat. Dating: 1127–38 CE. […] The purpose of the letter is to beseech Maṣliaḥ to investigate the matter of the death of a family member of the writer, a case with which Maṣliaḥ was clearly somewhat familiar already. It seems that the legal proceedings in Alexandria had not gone in the writer's favor, and he blames a group of evildoers not only for this but also for the death of the family member in the first place. […] He then cites a (sadly faded) saying of certain physicians about the delirium (hadhayān) that certain illnesses produce; all the more so for someone (the dead man) who suffered multiple illnesses, of mind, of body, and a conspiracy (ghabīna) against him.

    1. בש רחמ
    2. אלממלוך ינהי אלי חצרה סידנא כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנו ואור עינינו ועטרת
    3. ראשנו משא רוחינו ונפשנו מצליח ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב תכון משרתה עד
    4. ביא…

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  36. 1731LetterJRL B 1924

    The year 1814 CE appears on the left bifolium of the recto but the ten's place is so faded that this document may come from a different decade during the nineteenth century.

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  37. 1732Legal documentT-S 12.506

    Legal document, faded, but mostly intact and mostly legible with effort.

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  38. 1733LetterT-S Ar.30.107

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: פי הדא אלאסבוע . . . .

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  39. 1734LetterT-S Misc.28.190

    In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this in the aftermath of an illness and while traveling (עלקת הדה אלאחרף עלי . . . . .ואעקאב מרץ אלי חצרה מולאי וסידי וסנדי ואלדכירה לאבדי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עלוה וסנאה ורפעתה וארתקאה . . .).

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  40. 1735Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.8

    Abū l-Ḥasan declares that he owes 30 dirhams to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Faḍl and will pay one dirham weekly following ʿaẓeret (shavuʿot?)

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  41. 1736LetterT-S Misc.28.11 + T-S NS J120

    Letter from Alexandria by a man to his friend, reporting that he had settled the dispute between Shabbat (the recipient's son-in-law) and his wife (the recipient's daughter) with the help of Shabbat's brothers, and recommending a poor and bashful cantor, who was exiled from Spain.

    T-S NS J120 recto

    1. אללה יחרסהם עליה (vacat) וכאן מן איאם גרא בין שבת ז'ב"ן
    2. אלצביח כלאם ואשרף עלי אלטלאק מא זלת אלטף בה
    3. ובאכותה אתיואהם אללה מא קצרו ו…

    T-S NS J120 recto, right margin

    1. and to your brothers,
    2. may God endow them with life, (I send) the utmost greetings of peace,
    3. and to my lord Abū
    4. al-Faḍl the parnas,
    5. and to his child,
    6. greetings.
    7. My (paternal) uncle sends you
    8. greetings.

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  42. 1737Legal documentYevr. III B 349

    Mevorakh to collect the remainder of the debt, part of which has already been collected. The parties may have disagreed about the remaining amount of the debt because some of it was equity in one or more joint enterprise (kull mu‘āmala), initiated by Natan (Avraham’s father).

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     .בתרי בשבה דהוא עשרין ושיתא יומין בירח אייר דשנת

    2 .אלפא ותלת מאה ותמנין וחד שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט

    3 .מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן…

    (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Nissim the Elder, known as the Elder Abū Ḥusayn, known as al-Tinnīsī (who) r(ests in) E(den) and the Elder
  43. Abū al-Faḍl (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Amram the beloved b. (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Ephraim the Elder, known as the Elder Abū Kathīr (who) r(ests in) E(den), and the
  44. Elder Abū al-Faraj al-Jubaylī (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Yeshu‘a the beloved ha-Levi b.
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  46. 1738Legal documentENA 2808.50

    Left fragment: Court record. Very faded and damaged. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

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  47. 1739LetterENA NS 22.12

    Someone has ophthalmia (r16) and a certain girl "went mad" when she heard something (r23)—perhaps the prospect of marrying Faḍāʾil. The addressee is asked to send wheat urgently (v3, v7).

    1. ] ואלדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואד[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ] ענה ולם תדכר שי מן אלשוק אלא וענדי אצעאפה [. . . . . . . . . . . …

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  48. 1740Legal documentMoss. V,380

    Ḥananya. In which Abū l-Faḍl Shela acknowledges a debt of 6 7/8 dinars to Shemarya b.

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  49. 1741LetterT-S 8J6.5

    Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Surūr (probably an elder relative, since he is addressed as "father"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged, and only the upper part is preserved.

    1. ולדה אבו אלברכאת ולד אבו אלפרג בן אלריס זצל
    2. אלדי אעלם בה חצרה מולאי וסיידי ועזי וסנדי וגאיה
    3. אמלי אלמולא אלשיך אלאגל אלואלד אבו אלסרור א[דאם
    4. אללה סעא…

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  50. 1742Legal documentT-S 12.485

    (Information from Goitein's index card.) There are faded jottings on verso in both Hebrew script and Arabic script, it seems accounts.

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  51. 1743Legal documentT-S AS 147.189

    Story in Judaeo-Arabic. Long but quite faded. Might be a legal document in that it begins with ("lammā...") but it would be an unusual sort of a legal document.

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  52. 1744Literary textMoss. Xa, 3.43 + Moss. IXa,2.24

    Folio from a fiqh manual entitled "kitāb al-iqtiṣār" by the 10th-century Fatimid chief jurist, al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān.

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    1. الَىْ اَهْلِهَا مُكَذّباً بِفَرْضِها اَوْ مُدَافِعاً لِهاْ وَجَبَ قتالهُ وَقتلَه
    2. اذا قَدِر عَليهِ الّاَ اَن يَتُوبَ وَكُل من حَالَ دُوْن حَدٍّ…
  53. As for one who repents from it, he may take back only his capital, and the excess (al-faḍl) must be returned

  54. Verso

    1. if both parties agree to it, and there is no objection.

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  55. 1745LetterMoss. VII,209

    He should avoid evil occupations like drinking wine. The writer also sends condolences to Rabbenu. He hopes that the son will get a post (with the Nagid Mevorakh?). […] Ṣemaḥ (ZL), dated Tammuz 1100 (where he is quoted) and T-S 10J6.14 (which he also wrote). There are a couple very faded lines on verso.

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  56. 1746LetterENA NS 18.35

    The letter also conveys family news about the Banū Sughmār. […] He uses the same excuse for his failure to maintain his correspondence with "al-rav al-ajall," the most exalted teacher (v5). […] Khalfa mentioning that the small (laṭīf) ship of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ has also reached Tripoli" (v20–21). (Information in part from Gil.)

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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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  57. 1747LetterT-S 12.255

    He reports that were it not for the Shaykh Abū l-Faḍlal-Dāʿī, he would have been in trouble (?) (קטע אמרנה = אמרנא) over 2.5 dinars. He was imprisoned for one day until Abu Saʿīd al-Tinnīsī bailed him out on Friday night. Abu l-Ḥasan begs Hananya to send him his circumcision knife without delay (ולו כ/א/נת חצרתה חצרה למא גרי עלינא פי הדה אלסנה מן אל]. . .]

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  58. 1748Legal documentBL OR 5566B.9

    Large fragment, containing at least two distinct entries. Damaged and faded. There is a testimony that begins on line 25 of recto and continues onto verso.

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  59. 1749LetterBodl. MS heb. d 65/36

    The letter itself is very faded. An 'iqtiḍā'" is mentioned twice, and perhaps the addressee's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq.

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  60. 1750LetterENA 3965.14

    Fragment (the lower part is missing, and the right margin may be missing if it existed); the letter continues in the upper margin of recto. Uneven hand, faded ink, and some creases. Begins with a basmala and cursory blessings (yā mawlāy juʿiltu fidāka min kull suʾ aw min kull [...]).

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