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  1. 1LetterBL OR 5561B.1

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter of request to send 20 good new poems composed by one Abu Sa'id. The writer mentions that he had already sent 7 letters on …

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    1. עקב[
    2. על משכבי בלילות בקשתי את שאהבה נפשי[
    3. תשוקתי לך דודי רמוזה ואהבתך בתוך לבי המ . . .
    4. ואם רחק גבולך מגבולי תמונתך בקיר לבבי גזוזה
    5. וזכרך יער…

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  2. 2Legal documentENA 1822a.38

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Narrow vertical strip of paper. Instructions to a scribe according to Goitein's index card, but seems more likely to be an inventory of existing documents …

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  3. 3LetterBL OR 10599.8

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Bayān, requesting that he let him copy a volume of responsa, either bringing it to Shelomo or having …

    1. אלשיך אלאגל אבו אלביאן שמצ ינעם אן חצלת לה
    2. פרגה יתפצל יגיב אלאוראק ונסכה אלפתאוי נכתב
    3. לה מצמונהם ואן אראד אנא אגי אלי אלבית ואכתב
    4. גמיעהם לאן אלאנסאן…

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  4. 4Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J200

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document about an agreement to write a copy of a codex of the eight Prophets (nevi'im ahronim). Based on details worked out in the …

    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. יקול אברהים בן בנימין אלמעלם אנה חצר מע סלימאן בן דאוד פי אלכניסה במחצר
    3. מן גמאעה ותואקפו(!) אלי כתבה מצחף נביאים אלתמאניה כאמלה ותראציא ג…
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  5. 5LetterENA 2672.50

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment, in a scribal hand, in a narrow column on the verso of a page of piyyuṭim (in the hand …

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  6. 6Paraliterary textENA 2840.6

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    Arabic

    Verso: Scribal practice in Arabic, medieval-era. The basmala is repeated in the opening lines and some of the subsequent exercises resemble an accounting-based structure. Recto: …

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  7. 7LetterT-S 6J1.8

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in which a notable to whom Abu al-'Izz b. Imran owed about 60 dirhams proposes, as a charitable act, to let him work off …

    1. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ טאיעא ללה תע אמאם מגלס סיידנא אלנגיד ירום
    2. הודו ויגדל כבודו יחייה חמודיו יברכם ישמרם ישימם לכבוד ולתהלה אמן
    3. וינהי אן לה ענד אלשיך …

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    The slave kisses the ground, paying obedience to God the ex(alted), before the seat of our lord the nagid, may your glory be exal[t]ed and your…

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  8. 8Legal documentT-S AS 145.52

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 4754 AM, which is 993/94 CE. Two cantors, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī and Palṭiel b. Efrayim, divide up liturgical and …

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  9. 9LetterT-S NS 155.76

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in the hand of the professional scribe Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya (fl. early 13th century). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a draft. He is reporting …

    1. בעד אדא אלממלוך אלחקוק אל . . . [
    2. ואגב אלמגלס אלכרים עמרה אללה באלעז וולא
    3. וחסן אלעאקבה אכרא       וינהי אנה קד כתב
    4. תתקילה [[ואנמא]]       ל . ל . . …

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  10. 10Literary textT-S 8D1

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Autograph texts by Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Recto: a draft relating to the copying of the Mishna and the Gemara. On the bottom of …

    recto

    1. אני יוסף ראש הסדר ברבי יעקב ראש בי רבנן זצ״ל כתבתי
    2. זה הסידור שלרבנ[ו סע]דיה גאון ז״ל [באלק]אהרה באייר [א׳ת׳]ק׳יב׳ לנפשי
    3. ובאייר א׳[ת׳ק׳  ] באלק…

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    1. I, Joseph Rosh ha-Seder son of  Rabbi Jacob “the Head of the Rabbis’ House” wrote this Siddur of Rav [Saa]dya Gaon – may his memory be blessed…
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  11. 11Legal documentT-S 10J4.8

    Legal deed, draft, regarding the estate of Avraham ha-Levi the teacher b. Yosef b. ʿAnan, which had been deposited by the Beit Din with ʿEli …

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    1. מקר ענדכם באנני תסלמת מן בית דין נטרוהי מן שמיא [ . . . . . . . .
    2. בודיעתה ענד עלי בר אפרים אלתניסי והו אחד וארבעין דינאר ורבע דנריס
    3. וצארת פי ג…

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  12. 12LetterT-S NS 342.3 + T-S NS 342.7

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Informal note addressed to a scribe (al-sofer) instructing him to write a petition to 'our master' (sayyidnā) on behalf of a woman in which she …

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  13. 13Literary textENA 3916.21

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    Arabic

    Title page (verso) and opening lines of an instructional manual in accounting: كتاب اللباب في الوفق والعدد والحساب. The work's author is محمد بن الحسن …

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  14. 14State documentMoss. V,26

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    Arabic

    Bifolio. Containing an official order; probably a copy of a decree/sijill, but also written in an elegant script. Stating that Manṣūr b. Sahl, one of …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. من جملة الكتاب المستخدمين في ديوان الجيوش المنصورة
    3. منصور بن سهل وهو[
    4. وهو ملازم للخدمة[
    5. وامر ضامن(؟) مستخدما في خدمة غيره
    6. الى …

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  15. 15Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 954

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    Hebrew

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 13 Shevat 5501 AM, which is 1741 CE. Scribed and signed by Eliyyahu Rofe Ḥazan known as Ẓaʿir/Ṣaʿir. The document …

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף באן חצרו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳ יהי׳ פי מנזל החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר אליאו רופא יצ׳׳ו -
    2. ואחיו החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר ישועה רופא יצ׳׳ו תם חצרו …

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  16. 16LetterT-S 13J21.25

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 23 Shevat, 1208 CE. …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ' כאדמה [. . .]יהודה המלמד
    2. אלי מולאי וסיידי אלשיך בו אלמגד תפארת החזנים ועוזם
    3. אדאם אללה עזה ונעמאה ורפעתה וסנאה ומן חסן אלתופיק
    4. [לא א…
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