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  1. 201LetterT-S Ar.18(1).113

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    Letter from Berakhot b. Shemarya, in Damietta, to his parents or at least elder relatives or in-laws (ואלדיה). The address is made out to his …

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  2. 202State documentT-S Ar.41.83

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    Arabic

    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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  3. 203LetterT-S AS 180.140

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    Arabic

    Jewish communal letter in Arabic script. Mostly in Arabic language, with at least one word in Hebrew (اليشوعا, v8). Opens with blessings for the caliph …

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  4. 204LetterT-S NS 225.3

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Mercantile letter. On parchment. Dating: Early 11th century. The address is only partially legible and written in a confusing way. The sender appears to be …

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  5. 205List or tableYevr.-Arab. II 2204

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Notebook of a merchant and/or druggist. Bifolium from what was probably a larger notebook. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 16th century. A date is given at …

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  6. 206LetterAIU VII.A.43

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    Letter fragment (bottom half) in Judaeo-Arabic, addressed to an important person (perhaps Avraham Maimonides). Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1541 Seleucid = August 1230 CE. …

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  7. 207LetterBL OR 5566B.10

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter of condolence on the death of a woman. From an unidentified sender, probably in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Karam and his son Abū Isḥāq b. …

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  8. 208LetterBL OR 5566C.13

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    Letter in Arabic script from a father to his son Abū l-Majd. "The fire was in our hearts because of you, how you spent shabbat …

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  9. 209LetterENA NS 48.26

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the horrific tortures inflicted on the writer and his colleagues in the citadel at the hands of four jailers and …

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  10. 210LetterENA NS 48.29

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter addressed to Sitt Shaʿl, in Dār al-Nāqa, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. …

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    1. . . . . . . . . . . . אדאם] אל בקאכם ואדאם עזכם ומן חסן אלתופיק
    2. לא אכלאכם גמע] אללה אלשמל ביננא עלי אסר אלאחואל במנה
    3. וכרמה אנה ולי דלך ואלקאדר…

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  11. 211Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 54

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    State document in Arabic, an order of payment from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr), a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated …

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  12. 212LetterMoss. II,123.2

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Fragment of a business letter, probably sent from Qūṣ (between lines 1 and 2). Mentions "the 8th of Shawwāl, which is Shevat"; the writer's preoccupation …

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  13. 213LetterMoss. IV,17

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a woman requesting help in receiving her share from her late husband’s inheritance(?), with various signatures of support. Mentions government interference as well …

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  14. 214Literary textT-S 12.47 + T-S K25.162 + T-S AS 159.195 + T-S NS 224.176 + CUL Or.1081 2.41

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Story of illicit love involving a woman named Hind and her husband, a man named Bishr and an old woman. Cf. H. T. Norris, "The …

    T-S 12.47, recto:

    1. פמתא מא ראך ואנתי שאבה לא יצבר קלבהו ען אלשהוא
    2. . . רי מנה מא תחבין ולאכן סלי זוגיך מתא יכרג אלא ציעתה
    3. פאכברני פטאבת נפס הנד בכלאם …

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  15. 215LetterT-S Ar.40.81

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    Arabic

    Letters in Arabic script. Recto and verso are in two different letters in two different hands. Verso seems to be about a hunting dog which …

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    1. وادام تاييده و . . . . . وسلامته ونعمته
    2. على هذه الاحرف يقدم حضوره
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . الخيرة(؟)
    4. الى حيث . . . . يشتروه و . . . . …

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  16. 216LetterT-S AS 181.219

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    Arabic

    Petition/letter of appeal for charity, in Arabic script, addressed to the qāḍī ʿImād al-Mulk. The writer mentions his distress (al-shidda wa-l-ḍīqa wa-l-khawf). Later (three lines …

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  17. 217Legal documentT-S J1.42

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document, draft or copy. No signatures. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods which he sent to the Maghrib …

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  18. 218LetterT-S Misc.20.153

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …

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  19. 219State documentT-S NS 306.48

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    Arabic

    Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in …

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    1. عبدها ومملوكها سليمان بن
    2. موسى اليهودي المتطبب
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. عبد حضرة مولـ[يين] الشيخين الاجلين حرس الله عزهما
    5. وثبت سعدتهما وادام علوه…
    1. The slave Sulaymān b.
    2. Mūsā, the Jewish Physician
    3. In the name of God, the merciful and beneficial
    4. The slave, of two noble and eminent masters, may G…

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  20. 220LetterT-S NS 320.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Masʿūd b. Mawhūb to his brother Sābiq b. Mawhūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is agitated about the news he heard from Umm Subayʿ …

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  21. 221State documentT-S NS 321.47

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    Arabic

    Fatimid-era petition. From Muʿammar [...] al-Tūnisī, in trouble on account of the capitation tax. He says he does not have enough money to buy food …

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  22. 222LetterT-S NS 327.93

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    Letter from ʿAmmār b. [...] to al-Rayyis Bū l-Mufaḍḍal. In Arabic script. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. The writer reports on a particular course …

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  23. 223LetterBL OR 5542.24

    Letter from a cantor or teacher to his boss in Cairo. The cantor had been “accused of having assembled a group of young men and …

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  24. 224Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J51 + CUL Or.1080 5.13

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    Legal document. Large release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated 1130 CE. Khalaf/Ḥalfon b. Yosef Ibn Qashqūsh declares to have no claims whatsoever …

    CUL Or. 1081 J51 recto

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כו הוה חצר אלינא מרור חלפון הזקן הנקרא
    2. כלף בר מרור יוסף הזקן נע דידיע בן קשקוש …

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  25. 225State documentT-S Ar.41.43

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    Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …

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  26. 226Literary textT-S Misc.8.32

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    Arabic poem, transcribed into Hebrew script. At least some of the originally Islamic elements were kept ("fa-wa-lladhī anzala furqānahu ʿalā l-nabiyyi l-muṣṭafā l-muntajab"). There are …

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  27. 227LetterT-S NS J411

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    Letter from an old cantor to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. He is complaining that his post was taken by someone …

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  28. 228LetterT-S S 157.68 + T-S AS 157.67

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    Letter, probably, though the layout is literary. Might be a literary text conveying the text of a letter. The addressee is Yaʿqūb ("yā muʿallim Yaʿqūb"). …

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  29. 229Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1701

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    Legal report in a Qaraite court register. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 1101 CE, but this date does not appear on …

    1. חבשם יודע תעלומות
    2. סלמא כתרת אלשנאעאת ען אבו נצר בן קיומא
    3. מנד עדה סנין באבנה אבו אלמעאלי בן תאמאר אלתי הי
    4. זוגה אבו סעד בן צדקה אללבאן ואעתמד אלמגון מ…
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  30. 230LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/28

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    Large letter from "the two congregations" of Alexandria to the Palestinian community of Fustat, and particularly to Efrayim b. Shemarya, regarding fundraising for the ransom …

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  31. 231LetterT-S 12.7

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    Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text block containing 8 …

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  32. 232State documentT-S Ar.11.35

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    Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …

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  33. 233State documentT-S Ar.11.35

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    Recto: Petition in Arabic script from "the son of one of the doctors" to two addressees. The petitioner mentions his desire to open a shop …

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  34. 234LetterT-S AS 170.226

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    Letter/petition from a man to a group of judges asserting that he pays sufficient support to his wife [...] bt. Ḥayyim(?) b. [..]hā(?) and to …

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  35. 235LetterENA 3962.5

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    Letter from a physician in Arabic script giving detailed instructions for the care of a sick man, especially about diet, baths, and regimen. It concludes …

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  36. 236LetterT-S 32.7

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    Letter from Abū l-Bayān either to his father or to a distinguished elder. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The father is titled …

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  37. 237LetterT-S NS 264.8 + T-S 13J21.12

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    Letter from Maʿālī b. Abū l-Khayr al-Dimashqī, in Fez, to his father Abū l-Khayr b. Maʿālī al-Dimashqī, in Almeria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in …

    TS 13 J 21.12

    1. הִל עאשִ פיִ[... ]
    2. ורבע שבִ. אלגמיעִ [... ]
    3. שב פִיהִאִ רבעין [... ]. וִעִ.[... מ]ןִ
    4. אלניל פענד וצול אִ[ל... ] תביע במא קסם
    5. אללה ואלקנט…
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  38. 238LetterT-S AS 149.17

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    Letter of Abū l-Maḥāsin b. ʿAlī the trader, introduced by citations from Proverbs 3:4, Psalms 37:11 and 119:165. Mentions consingments of medical commodities such as …

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  39. 239LetterT-S 13J18.27

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Abū ʿAlī b. ʿImrān, Alexandria, writes to the son of his dead sister, to Abū Mūsā Hārūn b. al-Muʿallim Yaʿaqov, Fusṭāṭ, the shop of Abū …

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  40. 240LetterT-S 12.293

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Sitt Dhahab, in an unknown location, to Abū Naṣr b. Karīm, in Qāʿat al-Fāḍil, Fustat. She refers to herself as his daughter. Goitein …

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    1. בנתה סת דהב געלת פדאה
    2. בשמ רחמ
    3. קד עלם אלכאלק גל תנאה מא עלי //קלבי\\ מן שדה אלשוק ואלוחשה
    4. אלי חצרה מולאי וסיידי וסנדי ואעתמאדי ואעז עלכלק עלי
    5. ו…

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