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  1. 101Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.320

    Order of payment. In Arabic script. Bū l-Najm al-Firnās (the parnas) is to pay the bearer a sum of money (10 nuqra dirhams?). Ends with …

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  2. 102Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 184.56

    Recto: Order of payment. Written mainly in Arabic script with Hebrew characters for the "emet" at the top, שצ after the name, and "ve-shalom" and …

    1. . . .      𐋥     אמת
    2. الشيخ ابي النجم الفرناس שצ
    3. يوصل لموصلها //خمسة// دراهم سوه
    4. برسم عن دار البرج من كل بد
    5. ושלום

    Margin:

    1. בתאריך ח
    2. סיון
    3. ישע יקרב

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  3. 103Legal documentT-S J3.47

    Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …

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    1. هذه شهادة ملاك ابو الحسن //داود\\ بن الفرج عمران اלוי אלכהן اليهودي بمهر مبلغه خمسة مائة دينار مائتين منها مقدم
    2. وثلثة مائة مؤخر والخم…
    1. This is a deed of the betrothal of Abūʾl Ḥasan Daʾūd ben al-Faraj ʿImrān al-Levi ha-Kohen, the Jew, with the mohar reaching five hundred dinars. Two…

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  4. 104State documentT-S NS 171.28

    Petition addressed to a Jewish dignitary. Dating unknown. The document is mainly in Arabic script but interspersed with biblical quotations and phrases in Hebrew. The …

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  5. 105Literary textT-S NS 274.17

    Poem/piyyut, the last 10 lines alternating between Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from FGP.) See also T-S NS 306.8 (PGPID 38275).

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  6. 106Literary textT-S NS 306.8

    Poetry in which the lines alternate between Hebrew and Arabic. See also T-S NS 274.17 (PGPID 34763).

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  7. 107LetterT-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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  8. 108LetterT-S NS 321.83

    Recto: Draft of the beginning of a letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya the exilarch. Verso: Praises for God in Arabic, with biblical verses in Hebrew …

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  9. 109LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/17

    Original document: Letter from [...] b. Shemuel to Abū Naṣr Mufarrij b. Ḥusayn b. Shuʿayb. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (for the …

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  10. 110LetterCUL Or.1080 11.2

    Letter in both Ladino and Spanish. Dating: possibly 15th or 16th century. The addressee is likely Señor Don Elyaqim, though there is also another name …

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  11. 111LetterCUL Or.1080 15.50 + T-S AS 153.16

    Letter from Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Faraj, possibly in Ṣahrajt, to Abū l-Ḥusayn ʿAllūn b. Muʿammar (probably identical with ʿEli b. ʿAmram, the head of …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. وصل كتاب مولاي الحابار الجليـ|ـل الفاضل اطال الله بقاه واعلا علاه وكبت عداه
    3. ووقفت عليه وفهمت مضمو|نه وشكرت الله على حسن…

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  12. 112LetterHUC 1135

    Bifolio with letter(s) in both Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew. All appear to be addressed to a notable or notables, praising him and appealing …

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  13. 113Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 226

    Verses from Genesis (e.g., 4:7, 7:11, 7:19) in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew. Fragmented, and the ordering principle is hard to figure out.

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  14. 114LetterT-S 8J19.15

    Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …

    1. ..... עלי החבר
    2. אעלם מולאי אלשיך אלאגל שר העדה פאר הכהנה הוד הזקנים
    3. השר האדיר האציל ישמרהו צור ישראל ויחיש בימיו הגואל
    4. اعلمه كبت الله اعداها والمفسدي…

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  15. 115LetterT-S 24.56

    Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furāt ha-Kohen. Efrayim b. Shemarya and the ḥaver ʿEli b. ʿAmram are mentioned. The …

    1. וחמדת אללה תעאלי עלי דלך וסאלתה מזידה [ ]
    2. ודכר וצול מא אצדרתה אלי גהתה אלמחרוסה ומא כאן מעטופא
    3. עליה ואן לם יותר שיא גמלה וגמני דאך ויעז עליי באנכדאד…

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  16. 116LetterT-S K1.148

    Letter/petition of appeal for assistance written in a combination of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic. (The Arabic is notable for the use of an ihmāl sign …

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  17. 117LetterT-S NS 320.113

    Letter addressed to a dignitary named Yefet. Opens with Hebrew praises and wishes for a speedy recovery, then switches into Arabic (in Arabic script) for …

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  18. 118LetterBL OR 10587.3 + T-S Ar.36.137

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with interspersed Arabic script (header, footer, and sliding blessings). Eloquent and formal style, possibly copied from or for a literary source. Seems …

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  19. 119Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J93 + T-S 8.130

    Court record(s) containing signatures of three Jewish witnesses in Arabic script, in the first of which a Jewish woman is charged by two Muslims with …

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    1. וחצר ר ע[מ]רם בן סעיד בן מוסי ודכר אנה כאן יעמל פי דכאן אבו אלפרג
    2. אבן מעמ[ר] אלשראבי ואנה כאן טביבא יצף עלי דכאן אבי אלפרג
    3. אלמדכור יכנא אבא גא…

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  20. 120Legal documentENA 4010.2

    Partnership agreement. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1347 Seleucid = 8 June 1036 CE. Gil identifies the handwriting as that of Sahlān b. Avraham. The contents …

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    1. [אק] חצר ר שמואל בן סהלאן אלברקי [ושרט עלי נפסה]

    2. [ברצאה בלא אונס] וקאל לנא אנה כאן אנפ[ד] מעי פראח

    3. בן סהלון [מעי] מרגאן מן אלקירואן ווצלת…

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  21. 121Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 27

    Letter in calligraphic Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in. Writer and addressee are unknown. The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 …

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  22. 122LetterT-S NS 320.42

    Letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon to Sahlān b. Avraham. (Identifications by Gil; whereas Goitein says that it is written in the "unmistakable …

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    1. عليها وقوف اﻻجوبه عنها وكتابي هذا يقتضي شرح جميع [ما جر]ى [وهو ان]
    2. قبل راس السنة بيومين وصل اب بيت دين والمغاربه ولما كان في راس السنة لم يكن …

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    1. .... This letter of mine comprises an account of all that happened.
    2. The president of the court and the Maghrebis arrived two days before the N…

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  23. 123LetterBL OR 5566C.13

    Letter in Arabic script from a father to his son Abū l-Majd. "The fire was in our hearts because of you, how you spent shabbat …

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  24. 124LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/45

    Mercantile letter reporting that everyone at home is well and giving the prices of different goods. Wheat: 1 dinar per 9 waybas. Honey: 5 dinars …

    1. וימצאו חן בעיני כל רואיו ויחזירו אל ביתו ב[לבא חדיא
    2. ו]כיסה מליה אמן אמן סלה ממא אעלם חצרתה אלסאמיה
    3. אנני אשתרית אלקמח ואלצביאן פי כל עאפיה ומולאי אלש…

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  25. 125LetterENA 1822a.15

    Letter written on behalf of a woman who complains that someone pawned an amount of one dinar. She asks her addressee to take from him …

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  26. 126LetterENA 4100.24a

    Memorandum by the merchant Faraḥ b. ʿAyyāsh, it seems addressed to his agent "my master the Parnas," explaining the details of a lawsuit which the …

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    1. תדכרה לפרח בן עיאש במא יטאלב בה מולי אלפרנאס
    2. למוהוב בן סעד [[בן]] באן כאן בינה ובין עאלי בן ח[ס]ן
    3. אלואסטי //באבה פרח// עדל כרויא בתאריך צפר סנ…

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  27. 127LetterT-S Ar.30.163

    Letter in Arabic script. The sender is a man from Alexandria who was forced to flee from that city because he was unable to pay …

    1. ] سيدنا حفضه الله تعالا ان رجل من اهال
    2. اسكندرية ان له عشرة ايام بلمشي هو وابنه
    3. ضلموه في ابنه طلبو يوزنوه وما جله(؟) واحتجت احدنا
    4. وهربت ولم املك خروب…

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  28. 128Legal documentT-S K25.240.51

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to give someone some money. Might …

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  29. 129Legal documentT-S K25.240.52

    Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. In both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Abū l-Majd is to give a certain sum of money to …

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  30. 130LetterT-S 12.7

    Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text block containing 8 …

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