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  1. 1LetterJRL SERIES B 7822

    Letter fragment addressed to ʿAbd al-[Raḥī?]m. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; uses the currencies medin and ashrafī. The bullk of the letter …

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  2. 2LetterENA NS 32.6

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE. The writer seems to be beseeching the addressee for a loan of a certain sum of …

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  3. 3List or tableENA 2627.51

    Verso: Accounts in a late hand mentioning ashrafi coins and a certain Rivqa. The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment …

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  4. 4LetterF 1908.44DD + F 1908.44BB

    Letter from Damascus to Fustat. Same hand as F 1908.44DD, which is very likely the end of the same letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier …

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  5. 5LetterF 1908.44BB + F 1908.44DD

    End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as F 1908.44DD, which is very likely the beginning of the same letter. Dating: No earlier than …

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  6. 6LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1470

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century, since it mentions the currency ashrafī. Deals mainly with business matters. Mentions …

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  7. 7LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1511

    Letter from an unknown writer, in Damascus, to his parents. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 25 Tammuz 5341 AM = 1581 CE (unless we are only …

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  8. 8Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1412

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday night, 3 Iyyar 1648 Seleucid, which is 1337 CE. (Date erroneous in Goitein, corrected according to the document following …

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  9. 9LetterT-S Misc.11.55

    Recto and verso are both late family letters in Judaeo-Arabic by the same writer, perhaps to different recipients. The writer goes into great detail about …

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  10. 10LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1465

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency ashrafī. The letter deals in great depth with a …

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  11. 11LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1416

    Letter from Avraham al-Tawrīzī to al-Shaykh al-Fakhr al-Skandarī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency ashrafī. Catalogued as 16th century. Mentions …

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  12. 12LetterT-S Misc.20.153

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …

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  13. 13LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1418

    Letter from Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, probably in the Levant, to his son Shemuel b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, in New Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Catalogued as …

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