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3101
LetterMoss. III,232
Autograph letter by Isaac Luria, sent either from Egypt or Safed (probably the latter), concerning various matters, but principally the payment of monies. Dated only …
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3102
LetterMoss. IV,4
Letter of appeal for charity from Manṣūr b. Ibrāhīm Ibn Naḥum to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender opens by mentioning that …
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3103
LetterMoss. VII,164.2
Note from Yosef Tamish (? טמיש) to Namir. In Hebrew. The sender is in prison (שורתיים אלו להודיע לכה איך אני בבית הסוהר) and he …
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3104
LetterMoss. VII,168
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. …
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3105
LetterT-S 10J13.26
Letter from Meʾir ben Naʿim, mentioning business matters and the name Abraham Ashkenazi. End of 18th century. (Information from CUDL)
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3106
LetterT-S 10J13.27
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moses ben Naʿim concerning business matters, dated 188 (5588 of the Era of Creation = 1827 CE). Mentions people …
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3107
LetterT-S 10J17.33
Recto: Letter from Abraham Sagis (סאגיש) in Safed to an individual in Egypt who had previously studied with the sage Moses di Trani in Safed. …
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3108
LetterT-S 10J19.22
Business letter to Karo y Frances from Nissim M[...], c. 1800 CE. (Information from CUDL)
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3109
LetterT-S 24.63
Letter from Yaʿaqov ha-Meshorer b. Yiṣḥaq b. David Maʿaravi, in Hebron, to Yehoshuaʿ, descendant of the Negidim. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly Mamluk era. …
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3110
LetterT-S 6J11.6
Letter sent to a Nasi, possibly named Yishay, possibly in Acre. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th century, based on the mention of the judge Peraḥya …
- ]ביה שלומים וחן וחסד ורחמים ו . . [
- ] וינחילך תורת ה . . . . . . . . . . . . . [
- אב]רהם זקן בא בימים . . . . . [
- ] גליות ישראל . . . . . . . . . . […
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3111
LetterT-S 6J4.31
Letter from Moshe Binyamin to Isaac Luria (CUDL). "A certain Moshe Binyamin sent two letters from Rashid to Luria in Egypt, probably either in 1555 …
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3112
LetterT-S 6J5.22
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. Mentions [Kāti]b al-ʿArab; a matter that was only resolved by bribing one of the eunuchs; the Nagid's …
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- ] מן אלחסאב נש . . . . . . [
- ] . . שי אלא בכתאב . . . . . לאן סיידנא [
- אלשי פנשתהי אן תערפנ[א] מא נעמל וכאן אל[
- וצלת צחבה אלכרוק אלחריר אלדי …
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3113
LetterT-S 6J6.6
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom five lines). Faded, and difficult to understand any of the content. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting looks like …
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3114
LetterT-S 6J9.5 + T-S 8J16.2
Letter from Hilāl to his brother Abū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century, as these figures are known from …
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3115
LetterT-S 6J9.7
Letter to Mishaʾel ha-Sar from Hiba Ibn Zaʿafrān, a poor inhabitant of Fusṭāṭ. Hiba asks for assistance paying the capitation tax, and has already been …
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3116
LetterT-S AS 132.237
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …
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3117
LetterT-S AS 145.15
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (introduced with his usual motto) to the community in Cairo concerning a lawsuit between Hiba b. Abū l-Faraj …
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3118
LetterT-S AS 145.190
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Mentions the city of Rashīd (Rosetta). Narrating a story about the death of a girl and perhaps conflict …
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3119
LetterT-S AS 145.338
Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)
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3120
LetterT-S AS 146.182
Letter fragment (lower part of recto). The recipient's brother-in-law is to pay something to Ḥayyim b. [...]. The writer urges the recipient to help him, …
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3121
LetterT-S AS 147.5b
Formal letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, addressed to an unidentified community. Written on behalf of a captive who has been granted a …
- ]עה וטלע בה אלי מצר לתגמע
- ו]קת לה וקת יסיר גדא וקד
- א]ללה תעאלי ולכם פי אגראה עלי אל
- ]כם ופצלכם ותעינוה פי מא יכמל
- ] קד פעלנא מעה מא קד תקדם דכרה
- ] מ…
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3122
List or tableT-S 10J16.33
Accounts concerning sugar and honey, with Coptic numerals. Mentions al-qāḍī Shihāb al-Dīn b. Shirīn, Jonah from Damietta and Abū l-Barakāt. Dated 934 Hijra (= 1528 …
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3123
LetterT-S AS 152.227
Letter of appeal for charity. Fragment (upper part only). The op line is in Arabic script (the address?), and the rest in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender …
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3124
Legal documentT-S Ar.38.61
Marriage contract. Dating: Probably 11th century. Groom: Ṣāfī b. ʿAbdallāh, freedman of the elder Abū l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Anbārī. Bride: Dhakhīra (or Dhukhayra) …
Recto - ʿalāma
الله العمدة
Recto - registration mark
ثبت في ديوان الحكم الموفق lلمعمور
..... بمال ثمنه معروف (؟)
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بسم الله الرحمن …
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3125
Legal documentT-S AS 182.291
Legal query to Muslim jurisconsults regarding the practice of prostration (sujūd) and genuflection (rukūʿ), during the synagogue liturgy. The said practice was customary for the …
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3126
Legal documentT-S AS 111.164
Recto: Hebrew prayer. Verso: last lines of an autograph responsum by Maimonides, and part of a liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL.) See Outhwaite, …
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3127
Legal documentT-S NS 324.100 + T-S 16.104
Part of the heading for a highly decorated ketubba (in Hebrew, although the ketubba text would likely have been in Aramaic). All of the main …
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3128
LetterT-S 6J4.15
Recto: letter to the Nasi Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Jesse, mid-13th century). Verso: accounts with Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
- ] . . ב ומא נזל נעטר אלמגאלס
- בנשר אוצאפהמא אלגמילה ומנאקבהמא
- אלגלילה וחית אגתמענא בכדמה סידנא אחינו
- כגק מרנו ורבנו אדוננו נשיאנו נסי…
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3129
LetterT-S J2.39
Recto: Maimonides’ autograph draft of a 3-line poem he composed and included at the beginning of his philosophical work ‘Guide for the Perplexed’. Verso: letter …
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3130
State documentT-S K25.214
Petition from Ṣāliḥ al-Khaybārī, a Jew from the community of Baghdad, to the Fatimid amīr Tāj al-Dawla. In Arabic script. Ṣāliḥ petitions regarding a miserable …
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عبده وغلامه صلح الخيبرى البغدادى
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاى الامير تاج الدولة اطال الله بقاه وادام تاييده وعلايه وكبت …
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3131
Legal documentT-S NS 320.34b + T-S NS 320.34a
Recto: fragment from a Karaite ketubba for Ḡāliyya bat Joseph b. Abraham and Ṯābit b. Jacob. The bride’s father acts as her agent. Ca. 11th …
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3132
List or tableT-S AS 149.244
Accounts, mentioning houses, sums of money in dirhams and names such as [...] b. Sulaymān and Ibn Bashāra. According to Bareket it is a register …
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3133
LetterMoss. Ia,29
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭa'if to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Yefet has sent with Efrayim a vessel containing 20 dirhams of lizard …
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3134
LetterMoss. Ia,6
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very deferent. The writer has been slandered by somebody and wishes the addressee to write to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Meshullam (dated …
- ] התקועה
- ] . הגדול ישמריהו צורינו וישימהו
- לשם ולתהלה בכל הארץ וצלת אל
- מכאתבה ואמתתל אלממלוך אלמרסום
- לה מן אלמולא ושכר אללה תעלי אלוצולה
- מ . . . בת א…
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3135
Legal documentT-S AS 150.98
Order of payment referring to 1 raṭl of flax oil; signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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3136
Legal documentT-S AS 146.224
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to pay the elder Khalīl a raṭl of olive oil. (Information from CUDL)
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3137
Legal documentT-S AS 146.334
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to pay 6 raṭl and a sum of money to the elder Khalīl. (Information from CUDL)
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3138
Legal documentT-S AS 151.145
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay two dinars to the carrier of the note on the account of …
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3139
Legal documentT-S AS 149.100
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking the elder Khalīl to pay the bearer of the note one raṭl of [...]. (Information from CUDL)
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3140
Legal documentT-S AS 146.313
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay Abū Manṣūr. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal documentT-S AS 146.168
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen; instructing Abū l-Khiyyār to pay the carrier of the order the price of mercury. (Information from CUDL)
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3142
Legal documentT-S AS 149.235
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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3143
Legal documentT-S AS 152.117
Order of payment written by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr to pay money to the bearer of the note. Dated Tammuz 1451 Seleucid era …
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3144
LetterMoss. VII,159.2
Letter from Ibn al-Nasr (the son of the eagle?) to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal substances. …
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3145
LetterT-S 10J16.24
Letter from Shemuʾel to his father, David Conforte, in Ladino, which was then reused for a draft of a halakhic treatise on divorce. (Information from …
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3146
LetterT-S AS 160.297
Letter in the handwriting of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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3147
Legal documentT-S AS 153.67
Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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3148
Legal documentT-S AS 156.49
Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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3149
Legal documentT-S AS 146.88
Recto: order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay Abū l-Barakāt (dated 7th Nissan 1450 = 1139 CE). Verso: Arabic …
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3150
Legal documentT-S AS 146.91
Recto: order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay Abū l-Makārim. Verso: Arabic document or jottings. (Information from CUDL)
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