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LetterT-S Ar.42.123
Business letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. X b. al-Simsār (son of the broker), in Fustat, from his son. 'Aodeh's transcription is available …
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LetterT-S NS 320.128
Business letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salāma (aka Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo) to his brother Shemuel b. Shelomo. The phrase "the Maghribī scribe" also appears in the …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الاستاذ الجليل وادام عزه وتايييده وسعادته
ونعمته وكبت اعداه وعن شوق الى حضرته الجليلة ما…
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LetterT-S Ar.39.11
Business and/or administrative letter(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than the reign of al-Afḍal (based on the titulature of the petition in T-S Ar.40.38) …
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- صلاة الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته
- لسيدي ومولاي اطال الله بقاه وادام
- تاييده ونعماه وحرسه وتولاه وجعلني
- من جميع الاسوا فداه مهنيا له هذا العيد
- ا…
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LetterT-S AS 177.159
Business letter in Arabic script, with one name in Hebrew, from an anonymous trader from the circle of Abū Saʿīd (Yūsuf) al-Tāhartī
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كنت قد دفعت لمولاي اطال الله بقاه
- وادام تاييده وعلاه كتاب ר שבתי שצ
- وسالته ان يكتب في معناه كتاب
- سيدي ابي سعيد بن التاهرتي يع…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 80/43
Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd Ibn ʿAwkal. The first part of the letter is missing. The writer is in Fustat and writes about debt collection. (Information …
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سرعة دفع اليّ الشيخ ابو سعيد بن عوكل رقعتين الواحدة تتعلق بالعلاقة الذي
عند الرجل الذي في درب الوحل وقد امتثلت مرسومه ومضيت الى عنده فقالي …
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- quickly. The elder Abū Saʿīd b. ʿAwkal paid me two bills, one connected with the matter that
- is with the man in Darb al-Waḥal (Mud Alley). I o…
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LetterT-S NS 324.113
Business letter in Arabic script from Natan b. Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
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LetterT-S NS 327.133
Business letter in Arabic script from Natan b. Nahray to Nahray b. Nissim (Aodeh).
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LetterT-S NS 305.43
Business letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan in Fustat (cf. T-S 13J6.4).
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LetterT-S NS 306.112
Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī in Cairo to his father.
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LetterT-S NS 306.113
Business letter in Arabic and Hebrew script between brothers, anonymous; mentions Muslim business partners.
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LetterT-S Ar.38.92
Business letter in Arabic script from Nissim b. Efrayim to his son Efrayim in Fustat, mentioning his pain at not having received letters from his …
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LetterT-S Ar.41.59
Business letter in Arabic script from Yushāʿ (Yehoshuaʿ) b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat discussing commercial information that had come to Nahray via …
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LetterT-S Ar.42.128
Business letter in Arabic script from Ṭāhir b. Sālim to the shop of the ḥaver in the port of Dumyāṭ.
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LetterT-S Ar.42.168
Business letter in Arabic script from Avraham b. Isḥaq, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
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List or tableT-S Ar.42.192
Business account in Arabic script.
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LetterT-S Ar.42.84
Note in Arabic script from Hārūn b. Nissim to Abū l-Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillāl.
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LetterT-S Ar.40.126
Business letter from ʿUmar b. ʿIwaḍ, in Qalyūb, to the notary and qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn, at the Dār al-Wakāla in Fustat. Discussing a shipment of …
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- الله خير معين
- المملوك عمر بن عوض يخدم مجلس سيدنا ومولانا
- المالك صدر الدين اسعده الله وادامه وينهي
- ان المملوك توجه لقليوب فلم يجد الوالي
- فاجتم…
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God is the best of helpers.
Your servant Omar b. ʿIwaḍ serves the high seat of our master
and lord, my master Ṣadr al-Dīn, may God let hi…
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Legal documentp. Heid. Hebr. 14
Two statements in Arabic characters about small sums owed by Jaʿfar b. Rajāʾ al-Jawdarī to Mubārak b. Avraham (also the addressee of the letter at …
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LetterT-S 13J28.23
Business letter in Arabic script from Hilāl b. Salmān(?) to his maternal uncle ('my father') Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillel. Consists entirely of greetings and …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- تقدمت كتبي الى مولاي الوالد اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وسعادته وسلامته
- ونعمته وكبت اعداه ولم ارى لاحداهم جواب الل…
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LetterT-S NS 327.11
Business letter in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl, according to Sabih Aodeh). The sender, writing from Ramla …
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LetterT-S NS 297.260
Business letter from Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen to Abū l-Banīn. In Arabic script. The sender apologizes for his delay. He has sent camphor candles (shamʿ kāfūrī, also …
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LetterT-S Ar.39.76
Business letter in Arabic script. Somewhat crude hand. The sender urges the addressee to purchase 1/2 dinar's worth of Aleppan textiles and 1/4 dinar's worth …
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LetterMoss. Xa,3.35
Business letter in Arabic script from Nissim b. Mufarraj b. Kulayf to al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍl Hārūn.
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LetterT-S NS 321.48
Business letter from Sulaymān b. Shaʾūl to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā b. Sughmār. In Arabic script, with the address in Judaeo-Arabic (indicating that the …
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LetterT-S NS J463
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Damascus, to Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dated: 19 January 1055 CE. Concerning financial transactions. Moshe …
- כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולי אל
- שיך ואדאם עזה ונעמתה מן
- דמשק ליז יום כלת מן שואל
- ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד
- ללה וחדה ולמא כאן פי יומי
- הדא אחצרני מולי אלשיך
- א…
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LetterBL OR 5566B.8
Business letter in Arabic script to Nahray b. Nissim, possibly to Nissim b. Ḥalfon (Aodeh), in Arabic script. On verso, Nahray's notes.
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LetterT-S AS 180.92
Letter in Arabic script to the writer's father, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Shubbāṭ al-Siqillī. Only the opening greetings and the address are preserved. The writer …
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LetterT-S Ar.42.213
Letter from Abū ʿImrān b. Ghulayb to Abū l-Bayān Ibn al-Ahuv (probably Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, d. 1212 CE). In Arabic script. (Aodeh misread the …
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Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 28
Business letter from Mūsā b. Dāwūd / Moshe b. David al-Levi al-Miṣrī to Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabrā. In Arabic script, with the address in …
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LetterT-S NS 327.101
Business letter in Arabic script, 11th century, to do with the India trade, including pepper and lac. Name of sender and recipient missing. Aodeh: "difficult …
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LetterT-S Ar.38.14
Letter from an unknown writer, in Damascus, to Abū l-Ḥasan, in Aleppo. In Arabic script. The writer reports that his brother Ismāʿīl arrived in Acre, …
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LetterT-S Ar.41.88
Business letter to a certain Abū l-Munā. In Arabic script with one word in Judaeo-Arabic.
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- وصل كتاب حضرة مولاي الشيخ الجليل والولد العزيز اطال الله بقاها وادام تاييدها
- وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها وارتقاها وتم…
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LetterT-S NS 338.95
Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. David, Fustat. Dating: October 22, 1050 (Gil). Faraḥ is worried because …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ و ادام عزه وتاييده و سعادته و سلامته و حراسته و نعمته من الاسكندرية لثلث خلون من
ج…
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S J2.42
Receipt in Arabic script of Mubashshir b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī for goods he sent to the Maghrib in partnership with ʿArūs b. Yosef, ca. 1030 (see …
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Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 13
Letter from a scholar and muqaddam (Aodeh identifies him as Avraham b. Ṣedaqa but does not explain why) to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa the …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. b 18/22
Business letter in Arabic script from an unknown trader to another unknown trader regarding textiles: Siqillī, Ṭabarī, and Sūsī cloth. Second half of the eleventh …
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LetterT-S Ar.41.109
Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتابي الي اخي ومولاي وتاجي واعتمادي اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
- ونعماه ومن حسن توفيقه لا اخلاه وعن حال سلامة وعافية
- وشوق …
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LetterT-S Ar.38.91
Business letter from Ṭayyib b. Majjānī to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAwda. In Arabic script. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Sabih …
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LetterT-S NS 320.9
Letter from Rawḥ Ha-Kohen he-ḥazzan (the cantor) al-Baghdādī b. Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, end of 1029. Bialphabetic.
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- שלום עד אין קץ ברכות עד אין מספר ומרובות עד אין סוף והצלחות עד אין שיעור
- והבטחות עד אין תכלה ונעימות עד אין קצה לך אדוני וישישי ונזר ראשי ואהב…
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LetterT-S 13J27.7
Business letter in Arabic script from Nahray b. Nissim (per Aodeh), perhaps from Fustat, to ʿArūs b. Yosef, probably in Alexandria, since he is asked …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل وادام
- عزه وعن شوق اليه في هذه الاعياد وناسف
- على مفارقته اسل الله قرب الاجتماع بم…
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LetterBL OR 5566B.32
Business letter from Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdawī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his cousin Peraḥya b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Arabic script.
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LetterT-S Ar.41.108
Business letter in Arabic script from Ibrāhīm b. Hillel to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef (who ʿAodeh thinks was in India at the time), mentioning …
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Legal documentBL OR 5566B.2
Legal document acknowledging receipt of 110 dīnārs from the account of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf for a shipment of purple dye or cloth (argaman). (information in …
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List or tableT-S Ar.40.53
Business account in Arabic script, lengthy, ca. 1055, with a list of bankers and money changers and their locations. Also contains a list of pharmaceutical …
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LetterENA NS 71.6
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام
تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها
وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…
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LetterT-S Ar.54.62
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script about the sale of silk, flax, olive oil and other commodities. Alludes to "the calamities" which …
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LetterENA NS 2.29
Business letter in Arabic script from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān b. Ḥassun, in Fustat. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام تاييده وعلاه ونعمته
- وسناه وتكمينه وكبت اعداه من عدن عن حال سلامة وعافي…
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Misc.28.29
Receipt in Arabic and Hebrew script for a purse full of coins from Nahray b. Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.
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LetterDK 232.4 (alt: XXIII)
Business letter in Arabic script from Mubārak b. Isḥāq to Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī (or al-Baṣīr), expressing longing for the addressee and sending …
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LetterT-S Ar.40.113
Business letter in Arabic script to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, representative of the merchants, from an anonymous correspondent in Alexandria. Mentions the gaʾon …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتابي اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام تاىىدها وعلاها وسموها وسنا[ها]
وتمكينها وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حساد…
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