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  1. 201State documentT-S NS 113.14

    Petition for charity from Bū Bakr b. al-Bābā al-Ṭūrī to an amīr with many titles (including al-isfahsalārī). In Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era, based on …

    1. المملوك بو بكر بن البابا
    2. الطوري
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. يخدم الجناب العالي المولوي الآمري الاجلي الكبيري
    5. الاسفهسلاري المجتبا المختار عمدة الملوك اختا…

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  2. 202State documentT-S NS 193.76

    Petition. In Arabic script, in a beautiful chancery hand. Portions of 4 lines are preserved. Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in …

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  3. 203State documentT-S NS 245.49

    Fragment from the bottom of a petition in Arabic script, containing a portion of a raʾy clause and blessings for the addressee (ṣalawāt allāh ʿalā …

    1. الراي العالي في ذلك ان شا الله

    2. ….المذكور

    3. عبده

    4. امتثل عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ما رسم وتولى المجلس المذكور يمتثل…

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  4. 204State documentT-S NS 305.97

    Petition from Ḥātim to Nuwayr al-Dīn(?) In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era. The first ~6 lines are preserved.

    1.   المملوك حاتم

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3. يقبل الارض بين يدي المولا الاجل الكبير الاوحد الامير نوير الدين

    4. اطال الله في العز الـ[ـدا]يم بقاه وادام…

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  5. 205State documentT-S NS 320.45

    Petition submitted to the Fatimid caliph al-Mustanṣir upon his accession in 1036 CE. Requesting that he confirm the appointment of Yosef ha-Kohen, a judge of …

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    1. وفاته وبـ[ـعده تولى] يوسف الهارونى [
    2. [[رحمه الله]] ولم يزل يوسف الهارونى المقدم با[
    3. يوشيا راس المثيبة رضى الله عنه وبعد //وفـ[ـاته]// طو[ل ايا…
    1. …for Joseph the Aaronite...) 

    2. may God have mercy upon him.And Joseph did not cease to administer the affa(irs of the Alexandrian community until …

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  6. 206State documentT-S NS 321.100

    Verso (original use): Lower left corner of a petition in Arabic script, apparently asking for charity or assistance for a woman: . . . . …

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    1. عاد اليها الصدقة[
    2. السجـ]ـل الكريم زاده الله شرفا ونفاذا بالصدقة عليها
    3. ]....ويسل الفسح عنها انعاما عليها
    4. ]......ادام امرها
    5. ]عليه الراي العالي ف…

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  7. 207LetterT-S NS J70

    Letter conveying instructions from the Nagid on behalf of a female orphan, evidently the response to a petition. She has lost most of her father's …

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  8. 208LetterT-S NS J103 + T-S 10J17.6

    Verso: Letter from Daʾūd (probably muqaddam of Bilbays) to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. This is a petition in which the sender expresses his alarm …

    Top left margin, diagonal lines. Tarjama.

    1. אלממלוך אלאצגר דאגר

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    1. ברוך הגבר אשר יבטח בייי
    2. ורבצת ואין מחריד
    3. ינהי אלי חצרת אלסאמיה אלאגליה
    4. אלעאלי…

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  9. 209LetterT-S NS J287

    Petition from Cairo to Gaon Sar Shalom (ca. 1177-1195) in which the wife of Abu al-Ḥasan, the miller, requests that the latter not be permitted …

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    1. ור]בצת ואין מחריד וחלו פניך רבים:
    2. כי ייי יהיה בכסלך ושמח רגלך מלכד
    3. ייי ישמרך מכל רע ישמור את נפשך
    4. ייי ישמור צאתך ובואיך מעתה ועד
    5. עולם כי אורך ימים…

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  10. 210LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1064

    Letter "to the Sulṭān regarding. . ." written in calligraphic and vocalized Judaeo-Arabic. The header is too faded to be easily read from the microfilm. …

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  11. 211State documentBL OR 5566B.19

    Petition from al-Ḥasan b. Abū Saʿd probably to a vizier (several of the titles are similar to those of Ṭalāʾiʿ Ibn Ruzzīk). He complains of …

    1. المملوك

    2. الحسن بن ابو سعد

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. خلد الله تعالى ايام المجلس السامي السيدي الاجلي الناصري

    5. الـعادلي ناصر الائمة كاشف الغ…

    1. The slave
    2. al-Ḥasan b. Abū Saʿd  
    3. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate
    4. May God, may he be exalted, prolong the days of the lofty, lord…

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  12. 212LetterCUL Or.1081 J13

    Letter sent from al-Mahalla by a man who is sought by the controller of revenue, asking a friend to obtain for him a letter from …

    1. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמולי אלשיך
    2. אבו נצר חפטה אללה תעאלי ואקאם גאהה ותבת
    3. סעאדתה ויא מולאי לא תסאל מא אנא פיה מן
    4. אלמרץ וצעף אלקוה ואלקלה ואלכו…

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  13. 213State documentENA 1822a.60

    Petition in Arabic script from a physician employed in the hospital in Cairo who had received orders to the effect that his pay would be …

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    1. وانه من جملة الطب المستخدم بالبيمارستان بالقاهرة المحروسة يجاز هذا …..

    2.  ....لا يفوز باوده وانه كان حصل له من المجلس العالي خلد الله سلطانه …

    1. And he is among the physicians in the hospitals of Cairo that this is approved...
    2. ...He does not make enough to survive, and he has obtained from h…

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  14. 214LetterENA 2727.29

    Letter from Aharon b. Naḥum ha-Tinnisi the scribe. The writer is in need. He lost his job and prices are high, so he left Tinnis …

    1. ] אעלם מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
    2. ] סלאמתה ונעמתה אני רגל מן אהל תניס
    3. צ]אקת מעישתי ודאם עליי גלא אלסער פלם אגד לי מלגא אל[א
    4. אלכ]רוג…

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  15. 215State documentENA 3285.19 + ENA 3285.18

    Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely …

    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]

    2. [صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستعلي بالله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين]

    3. واب…

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  16. 216State documentENA 3923.2 + ENA 3923.1

    Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī …

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    1. فـ[ـسطاط مصر بزقاق بني نكير بحافة جلنار يعرف بالقاضي السد[يد

    2. ]ـها …. في موضعها ومن حقوق كلية العبد كوم كان منها قديما صفية(؟) مرقل(؟)

    3.    …

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  17. 217LetterENA 3961.9

    Beginning of a petition -tarjama, basmala, formulae, on the right side 4 lines diagonally- from a Jewish woman (al-mamlūka [...] Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Ḥaver). In …

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  18. 218LetterENA NS 2.21

    Letter of request for money addressed to the Qaraite community on occasion of a circumcision. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Goitein may have identified it …

    1. בר
    2. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ייי
    3. ייי אלהי אבתיכם יוסף עליכם ככם אלף פעמים
    4. כנת קד כתבת עדה רקאע ללגמאעה ברוכים
    5. [יהיו] לשמים ערפתהם //פיהא// אח…

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  19. 219State documentENA NS 71.12

    Tax receipt, Fatimid, from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahab with a registration mark "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih" dated 25 dhū l-ḥijja 403. On …

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  20. 220State documentENA NS 78.30

    Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic, Fatimid-era, possibly from a woman (l. 2: وسوالها), or this could just be referring to a preceding mamālīk/ʿabīd, …

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    1. ]ادى هذا [  ] فيخلني(؟) او محالـ[    ] هذا(؟) جعلت [
    2.   ]ها وسوالها اقصار يد هذا الريفي مما يوصله [جـ]ـعله الي
    3.   ]جميع اشغالي ما اول [ ]ـصر لتح…
    1. ]
    2. ]
    3. ]her/their request is to restrain the hand of this countryman from getting the commission which is meant for me
    4. ]all of my troubles......dissipa…

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  21. 221LetterMoss. II,176.1

    Letter in Hebrew written on an irregular piece of vellum from prison. David appeals to Avraham ha-Sar to try to bring about his release from …

    1. למרבה המשרה. ומקל תפארה. צר תעודה חתום תורה. עזרא
    2. ביהודים האמללים מרנו ורבנו אברהם השר. המזג ממך לא יחסר
    3. ותיכון שררותך כמי השילוח קופת הרוכלים עליך …

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  22. 222State documentMoss. IV,21.3

    Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …

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    1. אלממלוך אבו עלי אבן אבי אלעז
    2. יקבל אלארץ באלמקאם אלעאלי אלסלטאני
    3. אלמלכי אלסיפי אלעאדלי כלד אללה מלכה
    4. וינהי אנה רגל פקיר לא יקדר עלי אלקיאם
    5. בגאל…
    1. The slave Abū ʿAlī b. Abī l-ʿIzz
    2. Kisses the ground in the elated, mighty,
    3. powerful, brave, and just presence [of al-ʿĀdil] may God perpetuate his re…

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  23. 223State documentMoss. Xa,3.10

    Petition to the Ottoman sultan from Pinḥas son of Yūsuf. After the standard honorifics addressing the arzuhal (arḍ-u ḥāl) to the unnamed sultan in lines …

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  24. 224State documentPUL Garrett Additional 20.12

    State document or a legal document beginning with invocations and blessings upon Fatimid caliph al-Mustanṣir. The layout of the document in different from typical Fatimid …

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  25. 225State documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.29 (Michaelides 29)

    Petition from a group of Sufis written in the style of a testimony with a dozen witness statements, addressed to someone referred to as "mawlānā …

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  26. 226LetterT-S 8J14.1

    Letter/petition. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century, during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The sender asks the addressee to assist him …

    1. ] פודה אליסורים בעונות[ינו ה]רבים ואלדין
    2. ]ד אלשי פי מתל הדא אלמועד ואסעה
    3. חצר אלממ בין ידין סידנא יסתמטר
    4. אנפאדה באן יעטדה ענד בעץ אלגמאעה
    5. בתדביר ס…

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  27. 227LetterT-S 8J14.6

    Letter/petition from Asher, Yisachar, and Dan, three Jewish converts in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 13th century and probably later. They express their …

    1. יענך ייי ביום צרה וג'
    2. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך וג'
    3. אלממאליך אלגרים והם אשר ויששכר ודן
    4. אלמקימין במליג יקבלו אלארץ בין ידי
    5. מולאנא וסיידנא ירום הודו ויגדל…

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  28. 228LetterT-S 8J18.19

    Letter from a widow, with one orphaned daughter and whose house had collapsed, petitioning a high-ranking official in the community for assistance. The woman employs …

    1. עבדתה אלדאעיה לה
    2. יתימה בן אלעאבד נע
    3. בשמך
    4. אעלם חצרה מולאי אלריס אלאגל אדאם אללה תאיידה
    5. אן קד וקעת אלדאר אלדי כנת אנא ואליתימה נתאוא פיהא
    6. וקד בקינא חא…

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    Your slave who prays for you 

    The orphan girl, son [sic] of al-ʿĀbid, (who) r(ests in) E(den) 

    In your name, O Lord 

    I inform my master the mos…

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  29. 229LetterT-S 8J19.17

    Letter of petition, draft, addressed to “our lord” Mevorakh during his first term in office, from the “holy community of Malij and its cantor.” Only …

    1. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך ואין למ. מכ
    2. שלום שלום מאדון השלום העושה במרומיו שלום וברכות
    3. עד אין חקר ועוז ותעצומות ורני פלט עם שאר הברכות
    4. האמורות על יד הנבי…

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  30. 230LetterT-S 10J12.9

    Letter. Petition in Hebrew of which only the first 20 lines, containing introductory wishes, have been preserved. The letter contained a request for help. The …

    1. תמים החבר בר טוביה ננ תנצבה
    2. בייי יצדקו ויתהללו כל זרע ישראל:
    3. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ד
    4. אמיתת שלומות אגורות מכל נאימות לירש בם שני עולמות
    5. ול…

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  31. 231LetterT-S 12.14

    Letter requesting aid for the poor of Palestine, 11th century. Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)

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    1. [ ] ואין משדל נשדל לא שמטה
    2. [ ] אשר הם צעקות ברננות
    3. [ ] מכורים ואין מקבל מוספיה
    4. [ ] שקר מכוער לאין חקר כנואם [ ]
    5. [ ]מו וירחם עמ[ו] אשר בחר נאמן …

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  32. 232LetterT-S 13J14.14

    Complaint of a ḍāmin (tax farmer) in al-Minya about competitors from Tyre, submitted to the Nagid Mevorakh around 1096–97 (Goitein, perhaps on the basis of …

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    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. אללה תעלא ישמע מן אלעבד מא ידעי לחצרה אדנינו
    3. כגק מר ור מבורך אלוף הבינות חכאם(!) השיבה(!)
    4. סנהדרה רבא עוז בית ישראל שר השרים נגיד
    5. הנ…

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    1. In your name, merciful one.
    2. May God the exalted listen to what his servant implores of his excellency our lord,
    3. his honor, greatness and holin…

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  33. 233LetterT-S 13J17.9

    Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū Naṣr David b. Yiṣḥaq. In Hebrew. The sender explains that he had been forced to flee from …

    1. [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . וש]מחותיו
    2. וטובותיו יגלמוהו גלום ויתברך מעתה ועד
    3. עלמי עילום בזכות אתא ממזרח ובא
    4. מאורח וחלם חלום…

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  34. 234State documentT-S 13J20.5

    Petition, draft, addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aka the vizier Ibn al-Salār), in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, asking that he release the estate …

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    1. ינהון אן ואלדהם סק[ט באלופאה ]

    2. צגאר ואן מתולי אלמע[ונה ]

    3. ואלדהם וואלדתהם ולמ יבקי אלמאל [ ]

    4. בה וכלף להם דוירה יסתקרון פיהא [ ]

    5. מן אלמ…

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    1. They report that their father has died [ leaving three] .

    2. small [children] and that the head of the police [ ]

    3. their father and their mo…

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  35. 235LetterT-S 16.256

    Recto: A woman complaining to the Nagid Mevorakh about her inefficient brother-in-law who was unable to secure her children's estate from his partner, expresses the …

    1. נחן מסתגיתין באללה תע[אלי . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. קדשת מרינו ורבינו מבורך [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    3. שר השרים נגיד הנגידים [. …

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  36. 236LetterT-S 16.304

    Later document: Petition/letter of recommendation from an unidentified sender, apparently in Fustat, to Yoshiyyahu Gaon. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 1020 CE. This is a letter …

    1. [ש]לום אגביר וברכות אשגיר
    2. [ליקי]ר ואביר מידי אד[ם] לאיש
    3. שם בהקו כל שם [ ] הוא
    4. יסוד ולא סוד //איש// רב [תבו]נה
    5. שלום יהא לו מכל עבריו שלום
    6. לאנשיו ועוז…

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  37. 237State documentT-S Ar.22.140 + T-S K25.221

    Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …

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    1. ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه 

    2. الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله

    3. والحمد لله وصلواته على…

    1. To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…

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  38. 238State documentT-S Ar.34.197

    Petition, draft, from an ex-government servant asking for work, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly earlier. Recto, from later reuse: …

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    1.   عـ[ـبدها ]

    2. [بسم الله ا]لرحمن الرحيم

    3. [عبدها ومملوكها ينهـ]ـي الى جلالها حرس الله عزها وضاعف سعدتها

    4. [وكبت حسادها وضعفها] وينهي انه من ج…

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  39. 239State documentT-S Ar.35.48

    State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.

    1. [صلوات الله عليه وعلى اباىه الطاهرين وابناىه الـ] 

    2. منتظرين والاجابة عن ذلك له في غيرها ذلك و[رايـ]ـها [العالـ]ـي 

    3. فيما سله بثقته ان شا الله تعال…

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  40. 240State documentT-S Ar.40.125

    Petition, draft. in Arabic script. Arranged in four columns on a bifolio, with additional text at 90 degrees in the space between columns. Mentions a …

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  41. 241State documentT-S Ar.41.83

    Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee). It seems that …

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  42. 242LetterT-S AS 215.344

    Petition from a woman to a group of men, presumably communal leaders: [...] wa-sādatī wa-l-ʿazīzīn ʿalayya wa-ʿindī. She says "I am perplexed (wa-anā ḥāʾira) and …

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  43. 243State documentT-S Misc.8.67 + Halper 465

    Two fragments from the middle and bottom of a petition to a vizier. Dating: likely 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya seems to be Gaʾon …

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    1. . . . ها فيها في كف القوم الذين قد ذكر رجالهم عما يعتمدون وقصرهم [
    2. عنه والامر بالشد من الـداوودي وتقوية يده ومنته وتنفيذ كلمته
    3. لـيستثمر بذلك ح…

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  44. 244LetterT-S NS 31.8

    Petition of a widow whose only remaining son had been killed by the Ghuzz (Seljuks), while her four other grown-up sons had died as well, …

    1. בש[מך רחמ]נא
    2. אנא אסל הקבהו ואסל
    3. ישר אן ינטרו פי חאלי פאני
    4. אמרא]ה מנקט[ע]ה כ[אנת ו]כאן
    5. לי] כמסה אולאד . . . . . . . . . .
    6. קתלוה אלגז וכאן רגל מלתחי
    7. ו…

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  45. 245LetterT-S NS 110.26

    Blessings on the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-aḥkām Allāh (1101-31 CE) and on the Gaon Masliah b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, head of the Jerusalem Yeshiva, which then …

    TS NS Box 110, f. 26 + Mosseri L 62, ed. S. D. Goitein, "Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the head of Jerusalem Yeshiva, the Jewish commu…

    1. In (Your name, o) Me(rciful). 
    2. And we pray for the life of our lord, the g(reat) k(ing), //
    3. the prince of the sons of Kedar, our master and lord, th…

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  46. 246LetterT-S NS 321.99 + CUL Or.1080 J192

    Letter addressed to ʿEli the Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender petitions on behalf of a divorcee who came to him "complaining and crying" that her …

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    1. אלס[גל?]ת ר עלי הפרנס הנאמן ירבה ויסגא לעד
    2. אן כאנת מכאתבתי מנקטעה ען מולאי אלפרנס . [
    3. ואדאם עלוה ותמכינה ופסח פי מדתה פאלק[
    4. טאמחה ויתצל בי אכ…

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  47. 247LetterT-S NS J36

    Petition from Ḍiyāʾ bt. Yūsuf al-Qamrī (or possibly "bayt Yūsuf al-Qamrī" = his wife) to her relative Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn al-Firnās (=ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen). …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ'
    2. כתאבי אליך יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    3. תאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך וכאן לך
    4. וליא וחאפצא ונאצרא אנה ולי דלך ואלקאצר עליה
    5. ואלד…

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  48. 248LetterT-S NS J393

    Letter/petition from Yehuda(?), probably in Cairo, to an important person called Sayyidnā, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary orthography. Dating: Probably late 12th or early …

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  49. 249State documentBodl. MS heb. b 18/23

    Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which an official of a congregational mosque, perhaps the chief khaṭīb, complains about delayed …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. لمولاتنا السيدة الكريمة خلد الله ملـ[ـكها وحرس عـ]ـزها وادام عـ[ـلاها]
    3. وكبت اعداها في اصطناع المعروف وفعل الخير 
    4. عواىد …

    verso

    1. (Iftitāḥ: protokoll) In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. 
    2.  To our mistress, the noble lady, may God make her dominion eternal…

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  50. 250LetterCUL Or.1081 J9

    Letter from a Byzantine silk dyer to the elder al-Najib Ezra in Fustat, detailing that the writer is afflicted by severe agony (al-ʿadhāb al-shadīd) after …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. עבד חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלנגיב יעזרהו צור
    3. ישראל ינהי אלי חצרתה אנה רגל כאן מתעיש פי
    4. דיאר אלרום פי אלצבג פאגיב אליה תיאב חריר להא
    5. קדר יצבג…

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