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  1. 1LetterMoss. VII,145.2

    Letter from someone calling himself Raʾs al-Kull (a title of the yeshiva, in the address) to somebody in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in …

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  2. 2LetterENA NS 58.10

    Letter fragment addressed to [...] b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th century. The writer sends …

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  3. 3LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1501

    Letter from Ibrāhīm al-Ḥakīm, unknown location, to ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Maʿānī(?), in Cairo. The letter is in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic …

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  4. 4LetterMoss. II,134.1

    Letter to Abū l-Faraj [...] Yaʿaqov b. David, Fusṭāṭ. In a calligraphic Hebrew opening with a poem. Fragment of the beginning. The address on verso …

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  5. 5LetterJRL SERIES A 808

    Fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic preserving only the beginning and the address in Arabic script. The writer seems to be Abū l-Ḥasan and …

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  6. 6LetterJRL SERIES B 5028

    Letter, possibly. Recto is in Hebrew script and verso may be the address in Arabic script: Ibrāhīm [...].

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  7. 7LetterCUL Or.1081 2.1

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 11th century. Recto preserves only the beginning, mentioning "the khaṭṭ of my master for 22 dinars," and …

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  8. 8LetterENA NS 12.20

    Business letter addressed to Abū l-Khayr b. Mufaḍḍal al-Yahūdī al-Bilbaysī(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Maghrebi hand. Dating: Likely ca. …

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  9. 9LetterBL OR 10587.21

    Long letter in Hebrew, probably first half of the 11th century. Very damaged. Mentions the Mount of Olives and "this woman." The name Shemarya b. …

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  10. 10LetterENA 3616.27

    Letter fragment (opening lines on recto, address on verso). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th century. There are no names …

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  11. 11LetterENA 2739.10

    Letter of thanks from Manṣūr to Khalaf. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

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  12. 12LetterENA NS 50.16

    Letter addressed to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī ("the gallnut merchant") al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The addressee is known …

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  13. 13LetterENA NS 7.52

    Letter fragment from Mubārak b. Isḥāq (=Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The hand does not appear to be the …

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    1. בשמ 
    2. וצל כתאב חצרת מולאי אלשי[ך אלאגל אדאם אללה
    3. תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה [
    4. עלי כבר אלצמאן פאכתר [
    5. בין אלסחר ואלנחר וק[
    6. גמיעה צחיח ומא פי [
    7. ענה וב…

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  14. 14LetterENA NS 70.14

    Letter fragment, addressed to some dignitary. Recto preserves the flowery introduction of the letter. In Hebrew. There is very faded text in both Hebrew and …

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  15. 15LetterMoss. VII,143.1

    Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Tiberias (جماعة اليهود بطبرية العامد(؟) المحروسة) to Abū Isḥāq [b. Ibrāhīm b.] Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib, probably identical with Avraham …

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  16. 16LetterCUL Or.1080 J234

    Letter from Ḥassūn(?) b. Daniel (حسون(؟) بن دانيال) to a certain Abū l-Ṭayyib. On parchment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic …

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  17. 17LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/116

    Letter from a woman, in Fustat, to her brother Yūsuf al-Kharrāṭ(?), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The scribe writes the …

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    1. כתאבי אלי מולי ואכי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדם עזה ושלמתה
    2. ונעמתה גמע אללה ביננא פי כיר ועאפיה ואלדי תריד
    3. עלמה אן מא וצל לי מנך כתאב ולי גואב ובקי
    4. קלב…

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  18. 18LetterCUL Or.1080 J47b

    Letter to someone addressed as mawlāy al-rayyis. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Mentions Malīj, al-Maḥalla and Ibn al-Ḥabrāwī, coming to …

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  19. 19LetterT-S AS 204.163

    Letter from Thabit b. Ibrāhīm a.k.a. Yakhin b. Avraham (cf. T-S NS 98.14 (PGPID 39010)) to Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address …

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  20. 20LetterJRL Gaster ar. 258

    Letter fragment addressed to the dignitary Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Ibn al-Furāt (aka Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen), sent either to or from al-Ramla. Only …

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  21. 21LetterT-S NS J207

    Letter from an unknown writer, in an unknown location, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Isḥāq al-Talmid, in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic and the …

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  22. 22LetterT-S Misc.20.225

    Nearly complete family and business letter from a father Mawhūb b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-[...] to his son. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …

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  23. 23LetterT-S AS 145.267

    Letter. Mainly in Hebrew, with some phrases in Judaeo-Arabic, and the address partially in Arabic script (يصل هذا الكتاب الى مصر حماها الله אמונה שמורה). …

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  24. 24LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/44

    Letter from the Qaraite Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abu l-Faraj Nissim b. ʿAmram al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. Dating: Mid-11th century. The letter is …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלפאצל ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה
    2. וסלאמתה מן אלקדס אלשריף חרסה אללה ועמרה פי איאמה: לכמסה כלת
    3. מן ניסן ערפה אללה ברכתה …

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  25. 25LetterT-S Misc.28.244

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm addressed to 'ha-Rav ha-Gadol,' someone close to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dealing entirely …

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    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. סבב הדה אלכדמה מן עבד חצרה מולאי אלרב אלגל[יל
    3. אדאם אללה תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה וכבת אעדאה
    4. סואל הדרתו הקדושה פי אן תרכב אלי חצרה סידנא
    5. ה…

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  26. 26LetterF 1908.44ii

    Letter from Yisra'el b. Daniel, in one of the towns of the Rīf, to Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. …

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    1. כתאבי יסידי ומולאי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך סלך צפר ען סלאמה

    2. ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין וכאן קד וצל אלחאיך אלי הונה וסט אלעיד וגאתני

    3. רס…

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  27. 27LetterJRL SERIES A 684

    Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Asks Nahray to …

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  28. 28LetterMoss. Ia,27

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat, ca 1030. Address on verso in Arabic and Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

    1. אל אח בתורה וחבר ביראה באהבה גלויה לא נפלאה לא בהבלי העולם
    2. תלואה ולא בעניניו קנואה כי אם קבועה כמראה בעלי קנאה לא
    3. ימירוה ומטילי שנאה לא יחליפוה ואם …

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  29. 29LetterENA 4100.25

    Letter from Bū Manṣūr to ʿAmram (aka Bū ʿImrān) ha-Talmid, c/o al-Shaykh al-Nafīs. The addressee may be the brother-in-law of the writer (the address includes …

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  30. 30LetterT-S NS J204

    Letter from a certain Yūsuf, in an unknown location, to Abū Isḥāq and Abū [Rabī?]ʿ, in Fustat, behind the mosque. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic …

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  31. 31LetterMoss. IV,34.2

    Fragment of a letter in the hand of Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (Ibn Shaʿyā), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic …

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  32. 32LetterJRL SERIES B 2448

    Fragment of a letter from Abū l-Faḍl to [.........] al-Shāmī. The addressee's name is given both in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic but is very faded. The …

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  33. 33LetterJRL SERIES B 3605

    Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Nahray b. Nissim (address in Arabic script). Refers to "the matter of the qaysāriyya" and ships.

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  34. 34LetterJRL SERIES B 4657

    Letter fragment sent from Jerusalem. The body is in Judaeo-Arabic and the address is in Arabic script. Dating: Possibly 11th century, based on the hand …

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  35. 35LetterENA NS 14.25

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Tiny fragment: preserves only the opening and part of the Arabic-script address. The hand is almost certainly the same as several other …

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  36. 36LetterENA NS 7.77

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Addressed to someone in Fustat (whose name may be legible). Dating: Probably 11th century. Deals …

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  37. 37LetterENA 2711.25

    Letter from Mūsā b. Abū [...] to an unknown addressee (c/o a certain Turjumān). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. …

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  38. 38LetterT-S 10K15.13

    Letter from Hilāl, in Alexandria, to al-Shaykh al-Najīb b. Mufaḍḍal b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat, to the shop of Ibn al-ʿŪdī, Sūq al-‘Attārīn. In Judaeo-Arabic with …

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  39. 39LetterJRL Gaster ar. 242

    Letter addressed to al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā, in Fustat. Only the address remains, which is in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or …

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  40. 40LetterENA NS 20.5

    Letter from an unknown writer, possibly in Abū Qīr, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …

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  41. 41LetterBodl. MS heb. f 101/43

    Recto and verso: Letter from Meir (b. Yakhin) to a certain Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The identification is based on …

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  42. 42LetterENA NS 7.29

    Letter fragment from Faraḥ b. Yosef al-Qābisī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions a legal case and a female …

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  43. 43LetterENA NS 16.26

    Business letter sent from Tripoli, Lebanon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions terrible economic depression in the Levant and asks the addressee to send …

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  44. 44LetterENA NS 52.9

    Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yefet to two brothers, to the dukkān of Bāb al-Futūḥ, which means this was probably sent to New Cairo rather than …

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  45. 45LetterENA NS 54.30

    Letter fragment sent to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Liikely 11th century. Little of the content remains. "... the response... …

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  46. 46LetterT-S 8J19.20 + T-S 10J10.18

    Letter from Hillel to his son Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel al-Baghdādī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic. In which the writer discusses a …

    1. בשמ ר]חמ
    2. קד ת]קדמת כתבי אליכם אטאל אללה בקאכם ואדאם עזכם וחראסתכם ערפתכם
    3. ] ה מן אחואלי ומא קאסיתה מא אגנא ען דכרה ההנא וסבב הדה אלא[חרף

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  47. 47LetterT-S Misc.28.93

    Letter from Yoshiyyahu, grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaon, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

    1. [כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אל]חבר ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה מן צהרשת

    ואלחאל

    1. [סלאמה ועאפיה וק]ד עלם אללה תעאלי מא לחקני מן אלוחשה ומקדאר שוקי

    אליה

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  48. 48LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/24

    Letter from Avraham b. ʿAmram to Nahray b. Nissim (and Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ?), Fustat, 1067 CE. The letter includes information about the Tahertis who are …

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  49. 49LetterT-S Misc.25.22

    Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. After many nice phrases, the body …

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  50. 50LetterMoss. 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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