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  1. 1LetterT-S Ar.42.123

    Business letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. X b. al-Simsār (son of the broker), in Fustat, from his son. 'Aodeh's transcription is available …

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  2. 2LetterT-S NS J463

    Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Damascus, to Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dated: 19 January 1055 CE. Concerning financial transactions. Moshe …

    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולי אל
    2. שיך ואדאם עזה ונעמתה מן
    3. דמשק ליז יום כלת מן שואל
    4. ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד
    5. ללה וחדה ולמא כאן פי יומי
    6. הדא אחצרני מולי אלשיך
    7. א…

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  3. 3LetterT-S AS 177.159

    Business letter in Arabic script, with one name in Hebrew, from an anonymous trader from the circle of Abū Saʿīd (Yūsuf) al-Tāhartī

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كنت قد دفعت لمولاي اطال الله بقاه
    3. وادام تاييده وعلاه كتاب ר שבתי שצ
    4. وسالته ان يكتب في معناه كتاب
    5. سيدي ابي سعيد بن التاهرتي يع…

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  4. 4LetterBodl. MS heb. d 80/43

    Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd Ibn ʿAwkal. The first part of the letter is missing. The writer is in Fustat and writes about debt collection. (Information …

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    1. سرعة دفع اليّ الشيخ ابو سعيد بن عوكل رقعتين الواحدة تتعلق بالعلاقة الذي

    2. عند الرجل الذي في درب الوحل وقد امتثلت مرسومه ومضيت الى عنده فقالي …

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    1. quickly. The elder Abū Saʿīd b. ʿAwkal paid me two bills, one connected with the matter that
    2. is with the man in Darb al-Waḥal (Mud Alley). I o…

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  5. 5LetterMoss. Xa,3.35

    Business letter in Arabic script from Nissim b. Mufarraj b. Kulayf to al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍl Hārūn.

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  6. 6LetterT-S Ar.38.92

    Business letter in Arabic script from Nissim b. Efrayim to his son Efrayim in Fustat, mentioning his pain at not having received letters from his …

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  7. 7LetterT-S Ar.41.59

    Business letter in Arabic script from Yushāʿ (Yehoshuaʿ) b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat discussing commercial information that had come to Nahray via …

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  8. 8LetterT-S Ar.42.168

    Business letter in Arabic script from Avraham b. Isḥaq, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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  9. 9List or tableT-S Ar.42.192

    Business account in Arabic script.

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  10. 10LetterT-S Ar.42.84

    Note in Arabic script from Hārūn b. Nissim to Abū l-Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillāl.

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  11. 11LetterT-S NS 305.43

    Business letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan in Fustat (cf. T-S 13J6.4).

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  12. 12LetterT-S NS 306.112

    Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī in Cairo to his father.

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  13. 13LetterT-S NS 306.113

    Business letter in Arabic and Hebrew script between brothers, anonymous; mentions Muslim business partners.

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  14. 14LetterT-S NS 327.133

    Business letter in Arabic script from Natan b. Nahray to Nahray b. Nissim (Aodeh).

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  15. 15LetterT-S NS 324.113

    Business letter in Arabic script from Natan b. Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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  16. 16LetterT-S Ar.39.11

    Business and/or administrative letter(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than the reign of al-Afḍal (based on the titulature of the petition in T-S Ar.40.38) …

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    1. صلاة الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته
    2. لسيدي ومولاي اطال الله بقاه وادام
    3. تاييده ونعماه وحرسه وتولاه وجعلني
    4. من جميع الاسوا فداه مهنيا له هذا العيد
    5. ا…

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  17. 17LetterT-S NS 321.48

    Business letter from Sulaymān b. Shaʾūl to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā b. Sughmār. In Arabic script, with the address in Judaeo-Arabic (indicating that the …

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  18. 18LetterT-S NS 320.128

    Business letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salāma (aka Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo) to his brother Shemuel b. Shelomo. The phrase "the Maghribī scribe" also appears in the …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الاستاذ الجليل وادام عزه وتايييده وسعادته

    3. ونعمته وكبت اعداه وعن شوق الى حضرته الجليلة ما…

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  19. 19Legal documentp. Heid. Hebr. 14

    Two statements in Arabic characters about small sums owed by Jaʿfar b. Rajāʾ al-Jawdarī to Mubārak b. Avraham (also the addressee of the letter at …

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  20. 20LetterT-S NS 327.11

    Business letter in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl, according to Sabih Aodeh). The sender, writing from Ramla …

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  21. 21LetterT-S Ar.40.126

    Business letter from ʿUmar b. ʿIwaḍ, in Qalyūb, to the notary and qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn, at the Dār al-Wakāla in Fustat. Discussing a shipment of …

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    1. الله خير معين
    2. المملوك عمر بن عوض يخدم مجلس سيدنا ومولانا
    3. المالك صدر الدين اسعده الله وادامه وينهي
    4. ان المملوك توجه لقليوب فلم يجد الوالي
    5. فاجتم…

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    1. God is the best of helpers.

    2. Your servant Omar b. ʿIwaḍ serves the high seat of our master

    3. and lord, my master Ṣadr al-Dīn, may God let hi…

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  22. 22LetterT-S NS 297.260

    Business letter from Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen to Abū l-Banīn. In Arabic script. The sender apologizes for his delay. He has sent camphor candles (shamʿ kāfūrī, also …

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  23. 23LetterT-S Ar.42.128

    Business letter from Ṭāhir b. Sālim to Abū Saʿd b. Hiba, in Damietta. In Arabic script. Concerning the textile and garment trade. Greetings to people …

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  24. 24LetterT-S Ar.39.76

    Business letter in Arabic script. Somewhat crude hand. The sender urges the addressee to purchase 1/2 dinar's worth of Aleppan textiles and 1/4 dinar's worth …

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  25. 25Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 28

    Business letter from Mūsā b. Dāwūd / Moshe b. David al-Levi al-Miṣrī to Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabrā. In Arabic script, with the address in …

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  26. 26LetterT-S AS 180.92

    Letter in Arabic script to the writer's father, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Shubbāṭ al-Siqillī. Only the opening greetings and the address are preserved. The writer …

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  27. 27LetterT-S Ar.42.213

    Letter from Abū ʿImrān b. Ghulayb to Abū l-Bayān Ibn al-Ahuv (probably Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, d. 1212 CE). In Arabic script. (Aodeh misread the …

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  28. 28LetterT-S Ar.38.14

    Letter from an unknown writer, in Damascus, to Abū l-Ḥasan, in Aleppo. In Arabic script. The writer reports that his brother Ismāʿīl arrived in Acre, …

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  29. 29LetterT-S Ar.41.88

    Business letter to a certain Abū l-Munā. In Arabic script with one word in Judaeo-Arabic.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. وصل كتاب حضرة مولاي الشيخ الجليل والولد العزيز اطال الله بقاها وادام تاييدها 
    3. وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها وارتقاها وتم…

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  30. 30LetterT-S NS 327.101

    Business letter in Arabic script, 11th century, to do with the India trade, including pepper and lac. Name of sender and recipient missing. Aodeh: "difficult …

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  31. 31LetterBL OR 5566B.8

    Business letter in Arabic script to Nahray b. Nissim, possibly to Nissim b. Ḥalfon (Aodeh), in Arabic script. On verso, Nahray's notes.

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  32. 32LetterT-S Ar.41.109

    Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الي اخي ومولاي وتاجي واعتمادي اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
    3. ونعماه ومن حسن توفيقه لا اخلاه وعن حال سلامة وعافية
    4. وشوق …

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  33. 33Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 13

    Letter from a scholar and muqaddam (Aodeh identifies him as Avraham b. Ṣedaqa but does not explain why) to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa the …

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  34. 34LetterT-S Ar.38.91

    Business letter from Ṭayyib b. Majjānī to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAwda. In Arabic script. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Sabih …

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  35. 35LetterBodl. MS heb. b 18/22

    Business letter in Arabic script from an unknown trader to another unknown trader regarding textiles: Siqillī, Ṭabarī, and Sūsī cloth. Second half of the eleventh …

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  36. 36LetterT-S NS 338.95

    Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. David, Fustat. Dating: October 22, 1050 (Gil). Faraḥ is worried because …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كتبت اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ و ادام عزه وتاييده  و سعادته و سلامته و حراسته و نعمته من الاسكندرية لثلث خلون من

    3. ج…

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  37. 37LetterT-S NS 320.9

    Letter from Rawḥ Ha-Kohen he-ḥazzan (the cantor) al-Baghdādī b. Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, end of 1029. Bialphabetic.

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    1. שלום עד אין קץ ברכות עד אין מספר ומרובות עד אין סוף והצלחות עד אין שיעור
    2. והבטחות עד אין תכלה ונעימות עד אין קצה לך אדוני וישישי ונזר ראשי ואהב…

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  38. 38LetterT-S 13J27.7

    Business letter to ʿArūs b. Yosef, probably in Alexandria, since he is asked about prices in Alexandria in line 21. Aodeh thinks the author of …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل وادام
    3. عزه وعن شوق اليه في هذه الاعياد وناسف
    4. على مفارقته اسل الله قرب الاجتماع بم…

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  39. 39LetterENA NS 71.6

    Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام

    3. تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها

    4. وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…

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  40. 40LetterT-S Ar.54.62

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script about the sale of silk, flax, olive oil and other commodities. Alludes to "the calamities" which …

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  41. 41List or tableT-S Ar.40.53

    Business account in Arabic script, lengthy, ca. 1055, with a list of bankers and money changers and their locations. Also contains a list of pharmaceutical …

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  42. 42LetterBL OR 5566B.32

    Business letter from Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdawī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his cousin Peraḥya b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Arabic script.

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  43. 43LetterENA NS 2.29

    Business letter in Arabic script from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān b. Ḥassun, in Fustat. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام تاييده وعلاه ونعمته
    3. وسناه وتكمينه وكبت اعداه من عدن عن حال سلامة وعافي…

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  44. 44Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Misc.28.29

    Receipt in Arabic and Hebrew script for a purse full of coins from Nahray b. Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.

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  45. 45LetterDK 232.4 (alt: XXIII)

    Business letter in Arabic script from Mubārak b. Isḥāq to Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī (or al-Baṣīr), expressing longing for the addressee and sending …

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  46. 46LetterDK 199

    Business letter in Arabic script from the circle of Nahray b. Nissim, in Arabic script. Mentions the arrival of a certain Salmān, mentions al-Ashmunayn, Abū …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي الى حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاك وادام

    3. عزك وتاييدك وسعادتك وسلامتك ونعمتك وكبت

    4. بالذل حسدتك واعداك م…

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  47. 47LetterT-S Ar.40.113

    Business letter in Arabic script to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, representative of the merchants, from an anonymous correspondent in Alexandria. Mentions the gaʾon …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    2. كتابي اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام تاىىدها وعلاها وسموها وسنا[ها]

    3. وتمكينها وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حساد…

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  48. 48Legal documentBL OR 5566B.2

    Legal document acknowledging receipt of 110 dīnārs from the account of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf for a shipment of purple dye or cloth (argaman). (information in …

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  49. 49Legal documentT-S Ar.42.174

    Bill of sale of a slave. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn …

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

    2. Ḥanūn ibn ʿAlūn, the Christian clerk in the Dār al-Dībāj, states that: I have sold  …

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  50. 50LetterT-S 13J28.23

    Business letter in Arabic script from Hilāl b. Salmān(?) to his maternal uncle ('my father') Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillel. Consists entirely of greetings and …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. تقدمت كتبي الى مولاي الوالد اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وسعادته وسلامته
    3. ونعمته وكبت اعداه ولم ارى لاحداهم جواب الل…

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