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  1. 1LetterT-S NS J37

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Beginning of a letter by Yeḥezqel b. Shemuel to the cantor and teacher ʿAbd al-Bāqī Sheʾerit, informing him that he had sent him 20 dirhams …

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    1. חצרה אלשיך אלאגל עבד אלבאקי כב מר
    2. ורבנא שארית החזן והנבון(!) שצ א . מ . אל
    3. יהיה בעזרו מכצוצה באגל סלאם ואעצם(?)
    4. תחייה ואכראם מן מחבהא אלדא[עי …

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  2. 2LetterT-S NS 321.21c

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender says that the addressee sent the wrong copy (nuskha) of a liturgical text, but it's for the better, …

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  3. 3Unknown typeMoss. IV,44.3

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Document, either a legal fragment or a letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat and the cantors David b. Shekhanya and Meir, …

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  4. 4LetterT-S 6J6.17

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    Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    The cantor Abu al-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin) asks a father when he wants to celebrate his son's circumcision. Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 475. …

    1. עבדהא אלחזן
    2. בו אלמגד
    3. אברך אלאולאד יקר אלעיון
    4. בנצרה כתר אללה מן אל ביתה
    5. אלשריפה ממלוכה מהני
    6. לה באלולד אלנגיב אלסעיד יהי
    7. אח לשבעה וגם לשמונה אמן
    8. אעלם …

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  5. 5LetterDK 16

    A cantor orders a religious poem in which each stanza concludes with a biblical quotation which has as its last word "God," such as Numbers …

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  6. 6Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/30

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: 2[.] Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid, which is 1040 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq b. Seʿadya al-Manbijī agrees to teach Fahd ha-Levi the liturgy …

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  7. 7Legal 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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  8. 8LetterT-S Ar.30.250

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a man to his father or teacher. On a bifolium. The first half is in Hebrew and the second half in Judaeo-Arabic. The …

    folio 1, recto

    1. ⟦ולשתות מי שיחור ולבי עצור ועזוב לאחור⟧
    2. מי יתניני כמו הייתי בכיתו וכל עת
    3. אצא לקראתו ואמש הייתי בסכלי
    4. לא אשמע מא יאמר לי ועתה יהיה
    5. עלי…

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  9. 9LetterCUL Or.1080 4.42

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    Arabic

    Letter probably from a cantor named Sayyid al-Ahl, in Alexandria, to his son Faḍāʾil and other family members, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Well preserved. …

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  10. 10LetterBL OR 5561B.6

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    Hebrew

    Letter from an unidentified Nagid to R. Abraham regarding an insubordinate cantor. Given this shelfmark's prior identification as late and Dotan Arad's attribution of the …

    recto

    1. [ ה'עלאמה' של הנגיד] 
    2. [ ה'עלאמה' של הנגיד] 
    3. הדרת החכם הנעלה לשם ולתהלה ר' אברהם הי"ב
    4. מה שאמרת מענין ר' אברהם טרטושי וגם ר' פרץ
    5. ששלח הנני משתדל…

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S 13J6.27

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document written under the authority of Nathaniel ha-Levi concernning payment of fees for an orphan preparing himself for the profession of his late father, …

    1. נקול נחן אלמתבתין כטוטנא אכר הדא אלמחצר אננא כנא חאצרין במושב הדרת
    2. יקרת צפירת תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנו יחיד דורנו נסיכנו ונשיא
    3. אלהים בתוכנו…

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    We, the undersigned at the bottom of this document, declare that we were present in the court of … (12 titles) ... our lord Nethanel ha-Levi, t…

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  12. 12Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1397

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Court record approving a payment for Ya'aqov Berakah the cantor b. Moshe for his service in communal prayers for five years. Dated Tuesday, 12th Nisan …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר
    2. אלתלאת תאני עשר חדש ניסן המ׳ סנה הת׳׳ב
    3. לליצירה חצ'ר אלאך כה׳׳ר יעקב ברכה חזן יצ׳׳ו
    4. בכ׳׳ר משה ברכה יצ׳׳ו ותבר…

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  13. 13Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1378

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    Hebrew

    Recto: Qaraite legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 25 Av 5335 AM, which is 1575 CE. The context is a communal struggle over who would …

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אל אתנין כ׳׳ח שהר אב יא׳׳ל סנה ה׳ש׳ל׳ה׳ ליצירה חצל קאל וקיל 
    2. וצ'ראב וכנאק ובקי //כל// מן קאם יחב יתקדם אלי וטאיף אלמר׳ כ׳ר׳ יעקב ה…
    1. On the date Monday, 28th of Av, may God turn it for the better, of the year 5335 of the creation [=1575], prattle
    2. and quarrel and dispute had happen…

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  14. 14LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/25

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a son to a father. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer thanks the addressee for the wuṣūl (official receipt), since the tax (mas) was threatening. …

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  15. 15LetterT-S NS J411

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  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. …

    Recto:

    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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  17. 17Legal documentENA 3748.13

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Legal query with responsum. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Concerning a cantor who took an oath not to lead prayers in the …

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  18. 18LetterL-G Misc. 67

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a man, in Damascus, to his father, perhaps in Fustat. The sender expresses his longing and desperation in this foreign land, especially after …

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    1. כי ייי יהיה בכסליך וגו
    2. בלכתך לא יצר צעדיך וגו
    3. אשרי איש ירא ייי וגו
    4. אשרי האיש לא הלך וגו
    5. ואמרתם כה לחי וגו
    6. וצל כתאב ואלדי אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקא…

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