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  1. 1LetterBodl. MS heb. f 57/102 + Bodl. MS heb. f 57/103

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. Avraham (or possibly ʿArabiyya) stood security for …

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    1. וצל כתאב יסוד הישיבה [במעני אלת]מאס אלראות ולם יגד אחד [. . .] שהד לה אלא ב[. . .]
    2. אלפרנאס ואלחזן כג.א.[. . . . .]ד ולם יכן חאצרין ולו כנא חאצ…
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    • 102 recto
    • 102 verso
    • 103 verso
    In PGP since
    1989
    PGPID
    2503
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  2. 2LetterENA NS 28.18

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter of appeal. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is under house arrest (tarsīm). He asks the addressee to take care of a wicked man. Excerpts: פלמא …

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    • recto
    • verso
    In PGP since
    2017
    PGPID
    11731
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  3. 3LetterENA NS 59.19

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century based on handwriting. Reporting that someone is in a sorry state and under house …

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    In PGP since
    2017
    PGPID
    12202
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  4. 4LetterENA NS 67.9

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic. The writer requests someone's urgent attendance in Cairo; mentions al-Kohen al-Shaykh Muwaffaq; mentions a tarsīm (fee for house arrest?). See …

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    In PGP since
    2017
    PGPID
    12227
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  5. 5LetterT-S 13J21.33

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the currency ashrafī. Mentions goods like saffron and …

    1. שילת לקי ת.אמיי
    2. אלדי יעלם אלאך אלעזיז אלמופק אלסעד אלח יוסף יל
    3. אבקאה אללה תעאלי פי כיר ועאפיה ונעמה אן שאפיה
    4. אנס אללה תע אן יגמענא נחן ואיאך פי מסתק…

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    • 1v
    In PGP since
    2017
    PGPID
    3341
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  6. 6LetterT-S AS 151.159

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions tarsīm (payments for house arrest).

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    2018
    PGPID
    16760
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  7. 7State documentCUL Or.1080 J80

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Petition to a Fatimid dignitary regarding a theft of money. The archer Manṣūr b. Zakī al-Dawla (or: Rukn al-Dawla, which seems more likely given al-Maqrīzī's …

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    1.                     المملوك 
    2.                     منصور بن زكى الدولة
    3.                      احد الرماة تحت ركابها
    4.                      السعيد
    5.   …

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    1. The slave
    2. Manṣūr ibn Zakī al-Dawla,
    3. one of the archers under the commander of his
    4. auspicious horse guard.
    5. In the name of God, the merciful and…
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    • 1r
    In PGP since
    2018
    PGPID
    29349
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  8. 8LetterENA 1822a.30

    Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid regarding taxation, including the fee for the police (tarsīm). Mentioned in Goitein, "The Twilight …

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    2017
    PGPID
    11944
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  9. 9Legal documentT-S NS J332 + T-S AS 167.35 + T-S NS J617 + T-S NS 190.13

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Four fragments comprising most of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 16th century, or possibly 15th century. Ashtor edited T-S NS J332 and suggested …

    1. אלדי יחיט בה עלם אלמכדום באני ארסלת לך
    2. כתאבין ואני אעלמך בכל מא יגרא פי אלמדינה
    3. ואני אעלמתך בכל מא גרא ואן מוגב תצטיר
    4. הדה אלכתאב נעלמך באן אכתי ארסל…
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    In PGP since
    1988
    PGPID
    1429
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  10. 10LetterT-S Misc.27.4.10

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter/report/petition addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Concerns Ḥāzim the tax rallier (ḥashshār) who was placed under house arrest (tarsīm) and relieved of his …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כי שמש ומגן ייי אלהים חן כבוד
    3. יתן ייי וג ומצא חן ושכל טוב בעיני אלהים ואדם
    4. להדרת יקרת אדוננו נגידנו שמואל הנגיד
    5. [הגדול] שר השרים ונגיד…

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    2022
    PGPID
    35304
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  11. 11LetterT-S 8J18.20

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, in Ramle, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. "When, on a rainy day, the …

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    1. גמע אלד ביננא קריבא אן שא אלד ווצלת מן אלקדס אלמעמור
    2. ודכלת אלי אלקאצי אשאורה פי ביע אלרחל פרסם עלי רגל
    3. בכמסה דנאניר פי יום שתא ואנא וגע לא יפאר…
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    In PGP since
    1987
    PGPID
    2012
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  12. 12LetterT-S 8J22.13 + T-S 10J6.17

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Letter from Natan, a foreigner from Jerba (the island off the coast of Ifrīqiyya), who claims that he has been unjustly placed under house …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]ת
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

    Recto

    [...h]onor, gre(atness and) hol(iness), our mas(ter) and tea(cher) the great Dignitary [...] his welfare, [...ho]nored and precious, and whose …

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    In PGP since
    2004
    PGPID
    3041
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  13. 13LetterT-S Misc.28.137

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …

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    • 1r
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    In PGP since
    2017
    PGPID
    8379
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