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  1. 1State documentT-S Ar.38.13

    Probably a petition, but possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. About 6 lines are preserved. Includes phrases such as "as your [excellency] …

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  2. 2State documentT-S Ar.39.493

    Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script, in a Fatimid chancery hand, with huge space between the lines. Portions of two lines are preserved: ...ʿalā yadih …

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  3. 3State documentT-S Ar.40.3

    Petition (draft) from […] Mukhliṣ, in Minyat Ghamr, to an Ayyubid dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner complains about the young son of a neighbor …

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    1. المملوك [           ]
    2. [          ] المخلص من اهل منية غمر
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. وينهى الى مجلس المولا شمس الدين سيف المجاهدين 
    5. عمدة الملوك وا…

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    1. The slave
    2. [ ] Mukhliṣ, inhabitant of Minyat Ghamr.

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

    4. (The slave) reports to the seat o…

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  4. 4LetterT-S NS J88

    Letter/petition from an unknown writer to the Head of the Jews. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman …

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    1. יא סידנא רייס אליהוד
    2. לא תסאל מא נחן פיה
    3. מן עבד אלעזיז אלעאדה
    4. אלדי תערפהא מנה מא
    5. תגיירת ירמי להא אלכב[ז
    6. וחדה ואלפלוס תבקא חאירה
    7. עלי מן ישתרי ל…

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  5. 5LetterT-S NS J591

    Letter/petition to a certain Net[an'el]. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains; mentions household items (ḥawā'ij al-bayt) and the writer's shame.

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  6. 6LetterT-S NS 264.74

    Letter in Hebrew. Fragment, only the first few lines are preserved. Calligraphic and formal style. Probably the beginning of a letter of appeal.

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  7. 7State documentENA NS 77.200

    Fatimid state document, perhaps a petition (...min iḥsānik...). On verso, Hebrew literary text.

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  8. 8State documentENA 1487.71

    Petition from a man described as having many dependents (the first two lines read: wa-huwa ṣuʿlūk kathīr al-ʿāʾila wa-yasal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-al-iḥsān ʾilayhi bi-khurūj ilā …

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  9. 9LetterENA 4020.5

    Right fragment: Letter/petition in Hebrew from the widow of the well-known judge Hiyya b. Yishaq (active in Fustat 1129–60s) to the Jewish congregation of Fustat. …

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  10. 10LetterENA 2540.1

    Letter of petition to Saʿadya the great prince, probably the father of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. The writer complains that he and his family are hungry. …

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    1. [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
    2. מידות השבח היא הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת
    3. מרנא ורבנא סעדיה השר האדיר בישראת…

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  11. 11State documentT-S Misc.11.221

    Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …

    1. استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها       وعليها..

    2. صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[    ]

    3. من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة…

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  12. 12State documentT-S NS 305.19

    Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …

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    1. ولمولاي الامير الجـ[ليل
    2. فيما يامر به الـ[ـالراي الاعلى
    3. والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله[على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم تسليما]
    4. [وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل]

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  13. 13State documentT-S Ar.42.94

    State document. Dating: early 13th century (Ayyubid period). Petition from Khuyalāʾ b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the …

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    1.                              الناصرية

    2.                            خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش

    3.                             بن احمد

    4. بسم الله ال…

    1. [ ] al-Nāṣiriyya
    2. Khuyalāʾ ibn Ḥasan and Abū al-Jaysh

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

    4. The slave kisses the ground before the…

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  14. 14State documentT-S Ar.39.219

    End of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for permission to enter Egypt on behalf of a group of people. In a different hand, there …

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  15. 15State documentENA 3935.4

    Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …

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  16. 16State documentT-S NS 111.63

    Official correspondence in Arabic script. Maybe a petition (at least in the sense that the sender is buttering up the addressee and asking for a …

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  17. 17State documentT-S AS 111.37

    Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …

    1. ]ـته ورفعته عالي الراي في
    2. ]الى ديوان الشام المعمور واجابة العبد بما يمسكه(؟) و
    3. ان شا]الله تعالى

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  18. 18State documentT-S AS 150.2

    Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Contains phrases such as: "wa-l-kashf ʿammā . . . al-sharīfa …

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  19. 19LetterENA 1628.35

    Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …

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  20. 20State documentT-S 6J1.16

    Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition from the group/community/tribe of Banū al-Thimāl(?). Only the opening blessings for the caliph are preserved. Someone has re-copied …

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    1. العبيد المماليك
    2. جماعة بني الثمال
    3. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    4. صلوات الله ونوامي زكواته] وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا
    5. وسيدنا الامام              …

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  21. 21State documentT-S H5.129

    Petition to an Ayyubid sultan, possibly Al-ʿĀdil I (13th century), opening only. On verso there is a piyyuṭ, possibly for Yom Kippur. (Information from Khan …

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    1. …….
    2. [    ا]لهمام ناصر الاسلام غياث الانام سيف المومنين سلطان جيوش المسلمين 

    3. خليل امير المومنين وادام قدرته واعلى ابدا كلمته وانفذ احكامه

    1.     …..

    2. [ ] the heroic, the helper of Islam, the succour of mankind, sword of the believers, sultan of the armies of the Muslims,

    3. the friend of…

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  22. 22State documentT-S Misc.28.169

    Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man seeking employment in the caliph’s service. Draft, opening only. Dating: ca. 427–87/1036–94. On the other pages is …

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    1. الحمد لله وحده الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على خير خلق من الورى
    2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا
    3. ال…
    1. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings be upon our master and lord

    2. the imām al-Musta…

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  23. 23State documentT-S 12.1 + T-S B12.39

    Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …

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    1. عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين 

    2. صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين

    3. ومملوكه حسين…

    1. The servant of our master and lord, the imām al-Zāḥir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,

    2. the blessings of God be upon him and upon hi…

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  24. 24State documentENA 2808.56

    Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …

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    1. ويكون المملوك مملوك مولانا عمري كل يحرجني
    2. ان اشتكي للسلطان على هذا المقدار
    3. ومولانا محاشا من هذا المملوك ينهي
    4. ان وسيد المملوك الذي في البلد ما …

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  25. 25State documentT-S 13J36.12

    Verso (original use): Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The specific request is hard to make out, perhaps for government employment. Needs further examination.

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  26. 26State documentT-S Misc.22.286

    Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. [صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته 

    3. على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    2. The blessings and benedictions of God, his increasing benefactions and mostexcellent salutation…

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  27. 27State documentJRL Gaster ar. 372

    Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …

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    1. بسم الله] الرحمن الرحيم

    2. المملوك يقبل الارض امام الحضرة السامية الاجلية] القضائية السعيدة الماجدة الامينية

    3. ذ]خيرة(؟) الدين جمال الروسا صـب…

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  28. 28State documentT-S Ar.41.131

    Petition likely addressed to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, al-ʿĀdil Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53), regarding a fief worth 5500 dinars and a market …

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    1. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]

    2. ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب 

    3. وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باعا…

    1. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings [and peace]
    2. ... what was assigned to them as th…

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  29. 29State documentT-S Ar.20.21

    Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and …

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    1. وقد فسد بذلك نظامهم ويعذر عليهم

    2. الاقامة بموجبات شريعتهم واختلت

    3. اجتماعاتهم وهم يسالوا من المراحم العـ[ـميمة]

    4. ان يشملهم من العدل ما شمل م…

    1. And it affects their order and makes it difficult for them

    2. to adhere to their tenets of faith and demobilizes

    3. their congregations. They seek fr…

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  30. 30LetterJRL Series A 527

    This is a fragment of a letter asking for assistance, possibly on behalf of a man and his dependents. The author mentions that the subjects …

    1. ......]א[...............
    2. ....א]לדי יפ[..............
    3. ]רגל מעיל פי כמסה מן אלעילה
    4. ]ת עשרה .... עריאנה ומא לעבדך
    5. ...] מולאי אל[ש]יך אלאגל באן ינעם
    6. ...…

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  31. 31LetterT-S 10J17.29

    Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Kohen. Contains initial greetings, a request for assistance, a congratulations on recovering from an illness, and wishes for the forthcoming high …

    1. עזרי מעם ייי עושה שמים וארץ
    2. ויהי דויד לכל דרכיו משכיל וייי עמו
    3. חזקו ויאמץ לבבכם כל המיחלים //לייי//
    4. אשרי משכיל על דל וג ימלטיהו ייי
    5. מלוה ייי חונן דל…

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  32. 32LetterT-S Ar.38.128 + T-S Ar.42.195 + T-S K11.57

    (Bottom) Charity letter from a woman, in Arabic script. addressed to a dignitary (al-rayyis al-jalīl). After a long, rhymed introduction, the sender complains of poverty …

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    1. ليس لمن قلت حيلته وعظمت فاقته وعميت بصيرته اطال الله بقا مولاي الريس الجليل وادام تاييده وعلوه وتمكينه

    2. وكبت عدوه ملجا يلجا اليه ولا سندا يح…

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  33. 33LetterT-S 8J16.30

    Letter requesting charity in which the petitioner describes that he is unemployed, starving, from a distant land (al-Raḥba), and has ‘uncovered his face’ to the …

    1. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימל{טהו} ייי
    2. אשרי שומרי משפט עושה צדקה ב{כל} ע{ת}
    3. אשרי איש ירא את ייי במצותיו חפץ מ{אד}
    4. כתבת הדה אלאחרף לחצרה מולאי אלשיך

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  34. 34State documentT-S NS 306.159

    Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Difficult hand. Portions of 5 lines are preserved. It could be a draft or was later reused for …

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]

    2. [المملوك يقبل] الارض امام المقام الطاهر النبوي ضاعف الله 

    3. [واعلى]ابدا مناره    ويسل الانعام عليه والاحسان اليه

    1. ]In the name of God the merciful and compassionate]
    2. ]The slave kisses] the ground in the pure Prophetic presence, may God multiply
    3. ]and elevate] its…

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  35. 35LetterT-S 8J21.12

    Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. Shelomo, requesting his help in countering a decree …

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    צד ימין

    1. וללוי אמר [ ]ב' שומ[ר הבטחתו ] כי אורך ימים

    צד שמאל

    1. [ ]אלי יסתגיב פי אלחצרה אלסאמיה [אל]כרימה הדרת כג'ק מ'ר' ור' שמואל השר היקר שר ה…

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  36. 36State documentT-S NS 261.128

    Petition. Small fragment. Contains a taqbīl clause (and not much else). The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings during the time of the …

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    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    2. المملوك يقبل الارض امام[الموقف النبوي الطاهر ضاعف الله انواره]
    3. [و]اعلا مناره               وينهي

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  37. 37State documentT-S Ar.39.418

    State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary but from what is preserved, it is indicative that the petition is addressed to a caliph due to the …

    1. قيوله ويتلو خدمته مـ[

    2. من الرقعة والتوقيع والجواب على[

    3. في ارجـ[..؟] الثمن عنه على العادة كونه لم يبلغ

    4. الحكم فسبوني عليه وطالع بذلك

    5. امتثالا ل…

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  38. 38LetterT-S 8J28.4

    Letter in Hebrew, complete but letters smudged on right side and crossed out in line 7. Apparently an appeal for charitable assistance.

    1. יבא דבר אדוננו אם יצלח לי
    2. . . . . . . . . . . המתוק בעת אשר
    3. . . . . . . . עומד אל עם רמון
    4. ואמוץ מימיו אם //אכל// לחמו בתוך
    5. . . . עמים עדיין אני עומד…

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  39. 39State documentENA 2762.8

    State accounts (makhzūma) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line. Written …

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  40. 40LetterT-S Ar.6.26

    Business or official letter in Arabic script, top only; continues on verso. Likely from Ḥamīd b. Qāsim to a qāḍī; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Salīm. …

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  41. 41LetterT-S 8J20.24

    Letter from a certain Efrayim concerning consignments of wheat and sums of money, written in a very polite form with many Hebrew phrases, among them …

    1. וכתאב לחצרתך [
    2. אשתכית מן תפצלך ותבעת לעבדך ד אראדב קמח מנהא ארדבין ונצף מן תמנהם

    // מקארב מן סער סו דרהם אלארדב // וארדב ונצף

    1. תתצרף בהא עלי עבדך ג…

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    I wrote to your excellen[cy …]. I entreat[ed] you to kindly send your slave 4 irdabbs of wheat // above the line: their price is about 15 dirhe…

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  42. 42State documentT-S Ar.42.200

    State document, in Arabic script. Petition, Mamlūk era.

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  43. 43State documentT-S NS 134.34

    Either or a petition or a letter of gratitude for the caliph's favorable response to a prior petition. In Arabic script. The ends of approximately …

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  44. 44LetterHalper 379 + T-S AS 160.324

    Petition appealing for help from Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59). A woman asks him for help paying the capitation tax for her husband, who is in detention …

    1. لے
    2. אלעבדה תנהי אלי הד[רת מרינו ורבינו אדונינו
    3. שמואל הנגיד הגדול [שר השרים ונגיד הנגידים
    4. ימין המלוכה גביר ה|[גבירים נז]ר הנשיאות תכון
    5. משרתה לנצח אן […

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  45. 45LetterT-S NS J277

    Letter of request, in which a silk-weaver who owed money to his employer, but wanted to quit his job, asks the Nagid to instruct his …

    1. עבדהא אבו אלעלא
    2. בן אבו אלפצל בן
    3. אלעניני
    4. אשרי תמימי דרך ההולכים בתורת ייי אשרי איש
    5. ירא את ייי במצותיו חפץ מאד הדרת אדונינו ואור
    6. עינינו ומחמד לבינו וע…

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  46. 46LetterT-S NS J343

    Petition to Avraham al-Nafis from Bu al-Faraj. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 602) EMS

    1. אלממלוך בו אלפרג יכדם מגלס אלמולי אלשיך אלאגל אלתלמיד ר אברהם אלנפיס שצ
    2. וינהי בעץ אלשוק למשא [ . . . . אל]בארי יקרב אלפרג ויעין עלי דלך במנה ולטפה
    3. ו…

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  47. 47LetterT-S Ar.42.13

    Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …

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    1. يخدم مجلس المولى السيد الاجل الحكيم الفاضل ادام الله ايامه

    2. وينهي لكريم عالم(؟) ان المانع له عن الحضور بخدمة المولا الان

    3. ما يعلمه المولا م…

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  48. 48LetterT-S 13J20.4

    Calligraphic letter requesting help for a man who is out of work and has a large family which would be satisfied with getting a mere …

    1. בש רח
    2. והיה מעשה הצדקה שלום ועבודת הצ וג
    3. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ייי ג
    4. אללה תעאלי דכרה יסתגיב פי מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    5. צאלח אלאדעיה ויאריך ימיו …

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    In (your) n(ame, O) Me(rciful) 

    "For the work of charity shall be peace, and the effect of ch(arity, calm and confidence forever)" (Isaiah 32:1…

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  49. 49State documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.31 (Michaelides 31)

    Petition to ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar to Jawhar al-Ṣafawī, asking him for money. [Described on a separate small piece of paper: "Important"; [next line] "A letter …

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  50. 50LetterT-S 10J14.18

    Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …

    1. פתחו שערים ויבא גוי צדיק שומר אמונים:
    2. ויהי ייי משגב לדך משגב לעתות בצרה:
    3. רודף צדקה וחסד ימצא חיים צדקה וכבוד:
    4. קראו לפתחי תום ושערי רחמים יפי מגוריכם…

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