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  1. 1

    State documentT-S Ar.39.219

    End of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for permission to enter Egypt on behalf of a group of people. In a different hand, there …

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    State documentT-S 16.102

    Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era. Goitein's reading is that the petitioner had bought some merchandise from the dīwān, but had to return it, …

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    LetterENA 4020.5

    The widow of Hiyya, a well known Fustat judge active 1129-1160s, wrote this expressive Hebrew petition to the Jewish congregation of Fustat. Her father was …

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    State documentENA 2808.56

    Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …

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    LetterENA 2540.1

    Letter of petition to Sa'adya the great prince - probably the father of Mevorakh b. Sa'adya. The writer complains that he and his family are …

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    State documentENA NS 77.200

    Fatimid state document, perhaps a petition (...min iḥsānik...). On verso, Hebrew literary text.

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    State documentT-S Ar.39.493

    Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script, in a Fatimid chancery hand, with huge space between the lines. Portions of two lines are preserved: ...ʿalā yadih …

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    State documentT-S Ar.40.84

    Recto (original use): Bottom of a formal petition in Arabic script, mentioning "al-thaghr" (=Alexandria?) and merchandise and the money of the diwan. يذكر فيه وصول …

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    LetterT-S Ar.42.13

    Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …

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    LetterT-S Ar.42.200

    According to Polliack & Baker catalogue this is a petition. It seems to have address on verso- needs examination. (AA.) Dating: looks late, probably Mamluk-era.

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    LetterT-S Ar.35.368

    Very simple petition in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the sender(s) appear: Ibrāhīm …

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    State documentT-S Ar.38.13

    Probably a petition, but possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. About 6 lines are preserved. Includes phrases such as "as your [excellency] …

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    State documentT-S Ar.35.126

    Verso: Fatimid petition, right side only. With blessings for 'al-mawqif al-ashraf' and 'al-maqām al-sharīf al-ṭāhir.' Verso as catalogued, but written before the legal document on …

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    LetterT-S NS 264.74

    Letter in Hebrew. Fragment, only the first few lines are preserved. Calligraphic and formal style. Probably the beginning of a letter of appeal.

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    State documentT-S NS 305.19

    Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …

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    State documentT-S Ar.51.107

    State document, Fatimid period. Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with …

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    1. المملوك 
    2. أبو عبد الله بن يحيى الفران بمصر
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا 
    5. الإ…

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    LetterENA 1628.35

    Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …

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    State documentENA 1487.71

    Petition from a man described as having many dependents (the first two lines read: wa-huwa mamlūk kabīr al-ʿāʾila wa-yasal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-al-iḥsān ʾilayhi bi-khurūj ilā …

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    State documentT-S Ar.42.94

    State document. Dating: early 13th century (Ayyubid period). Petition from Khuyalāʾ b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the …

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    1.                              الناصرية

    2.                            خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش

    3.                             بن احمد

    4. بسم الله ال…

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    Legal documentT-S Ar.51.106

    State document. Petition to a Fatimid official titled ʿAmīd al-Dawla requesting that the state seize the petitioner's properties in Palestine because they are not producing …

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    1. والاجحاف به وبهم والظلم له ولهم وعدل الدولة النبوية خلد الله ملكها وحرس عزها

    2. ومولاى الاجل عميد الدولة ادام الله نعماه وكبت حاسديه واعداه يم…

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    State documentT-S NS 111.63

    Official correspondence in Arabic script. Maybe a petition (at least in the sense that the sender is buttering up the addressee and asking for a …

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    State documentT-S AS 218.155

    Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …

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    LetterT-S NS J591

    Letter/petition to a certain Net[an'el]. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains; mentions household items (ḥawā'ij al-bayt) and the writer's shame.

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    LetterT-S NS J88

    Letter/petition from an unknown writer to the Head of the Jews. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman …

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    1. יא סידנא רייס אליהוד
    2. לא תסאל מא נחן פיה
    3. מן עבד אלעזיז אלעאדה
    4. אלדי תערפהא מנה מא
    5. תגיירת ירמי להא אלכב[ז
    6. וחדה ואלפלוס תבקא חאירה
    7. עלי מן ישתרי ל…

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    Legal documentT-S Ar.35.126

    Legal document in Arabic: acknowledgement (iqrār). Recto as catalogued, but written after the Fatimid petition on verso (see separate record). Date isn't easy to read; …

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    State documentT-S NS 305.23

    Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Approximately 5 fragmentary lines are preserved both on recto and on verso. Recto refers to Dīwān al-Mufrad al-Khāṣṣ, possibly …

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    State documentJRL Gaster ar. 372

    Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …

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    LetterT-S AS 183.254

    Petition, or petition-like letter. From a woman ("al-mamlūka"). Very damaged; unclear if any of the substance of the request is preserved.

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    State documentT-S Ar.20.21

    Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and …

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    State documentENA 3935.4

    Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …

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    State documentT-S NS 327.131

    Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. From ʿAlam(?) b. Muslim, Muʿammar b. Ibrāhīm, and Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm al-Najjār. Opens with blessings for the caliph …

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    State documentT-S 6J1.16

    Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition from the group/community/tribe of Banū al-Thimāl(?). Only the opening blessings for the caliph are preserved. Someone has re-copied …

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    State documentT-S AS 111.37

    Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …

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    State documentT-S 12.1 + T-S B12.39

    Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …

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    1. عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين 

    2. صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين

    3. ومملوكه حسين…

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    State documentT-S Misc.22.286

    Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. [صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته 

    3. على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين

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    State documentT-S Misc.11.221

    Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …

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    LetterT-S 8J21.12

    Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. Shelomo, requesting his help in countering a decree …

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    צד ימין

    1. וללוי אמר [ ]ב' שומ[ר הבטחתו ] כי אורך ימים

    צד שמאל

    1. [ ]אלי יסתגיב פי אלחצרה אלסאמיה [אל]כרימה הדרת כג'ק מ'ר' ור' שמואל השר היקר שר ה…

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    LetterMoss. IV,57

    Petition of a widow to a communal leader. She asks him to help her with her late husband's orphans, as he helped her husband in …

    1. י?עשה צדקה ומ[ש]פט נבח[ר] ל[י"י] מז[בח :]
    2. מלוה י"י חונן דל וגמלו ישלם לו :
    3. ביראת י"י מבטח [עז] ולבניו יהיה מחסה :
    4. קד עלם אללה תבארך ותעאלא מא קד תכא…

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    LetterMoss. IV,88

    Petition, probably to Avraham Maimonides, of a widow who lives in a small upper apartment of a ruin belonging to the pious foundation. Recently the …

    1. אלממלוכה
    2. תנהי אלי סיידנא אבקאה אללה תעאלי אנהא קד
    3. אסתכרת אלי אלכאלק ואלי בית י"י ודלך אנהא סאכנה
    4. פי טביקה כראב שעתה דהרה לא כזאנה ולא כ/ו/ם
    5. ולא חוט …

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    LetterT-S 20.148

    Enormous letter from Yoel ha-Melammed to Avraham the pious and to his brother Yosef, containing a request for help. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. שלומות רבות מרוכב ערבות וישועות קרובות
    2. ממביך מחשבות ומשיב לבבות לרבני הגולה
    3. ושרי עם סגולה גבירי המשרה וצורי התורה
    4. . . . . סוד פירוש המקרא וידעי דעת …

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    LetterT-S NS J277

    Letter of request, in which a silk-weaver who owed money to his employer, but wanted to quit his job, asks the Nagid to instruct his …

    1. עבדהא אבו אלעלא
    2. בן אבו אלפצל בן
    3. אלעניני
    4. אשרי תמימי דרך ההולכים בתורת ייי אשרי איש
    5. ירא את ייי במצותיו חפץ מאד הדרת אדונינו ואור
    6. עינינו ומחמד לבינו וע…

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    LetterT-S NS J343

    Petition to Avraham al-Nafis from Bu al-Faraj. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 602) EMS

    1. אלממלוך בו אלפרג יכדם מגלס אלמולי אלשיך אלאגל אלתלמיד ר אברהם אלנפיס שצ
    2. וינהי בעץ אלשוק למשא [ . . . . אל]בארי יקרב אלפרג ויעין עלי דלך במנה ולטפה
    3. ו…

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    LetterJRL Series B 3727

    End of a petition from someone identifying himself as a certified hazzan to two people in Cairo requesting their assistance. The writer refers to someone, …

    1. .....]..[
    2. רף אלס[.....] כאן תג
    3. ......]... אלצ[...] .ב
    4. ..]באל[.]. פי דאר אלמלך
    5. ..]...[..]לדא ... ...ם ל
    6. תעלם[..] אלחסן אבו סהל ת.
    7. ינדר לי פי כניסה אל…

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    LetterJRL Series A 527

    This is a fragment of a letter asking for assistance, possibly on behalf of a man and his dependents. The author mentions that the subjects …

    1. ......]א[...............
    2. ....א]לדי יפ[..............
    3. ]רגל מעיל פי כמסה מן אלעילה
    4. ]ת עשרה .... עריאנה ומא לעבדך
    5. ...] מולאי אל[ש]יך אלאגל באן ינעם
    6. ...…

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    LetterJRL Series A 546

    Beginning of a letter of appeal by an individual named Makin who addresses his plea to an elder. The verso contains a much faded letter …

    1. אלממלוך מכין]
    2. יכדם כבוד גדולת]
    3. אלהי ישראל יבר[ך
    4. שני חמודיו ויאר]
    5. בנעימים אלדי .]
    6. ותערף אן אלמ]מלוך
    7. ........]ואל]

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    LetterJRL Series A 668

    Document containing blessings for the caliph al-Hafiz li-din Allah (1131-1149 CE). See also see T-S NS 110.26. (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the …

    1. ].א גמיע אלאצדקא ומן סאל ענא אלסלאם אלגזיל[
    2. ]הא אלסלאם אלגזיל ואבו סלימאן דאוד אלסלאם ולשיך[
    3. ]אן תכצה אפצל אלסלאם ואבו אסחק בן אלתוזי אלסלאם[
    4. ]מולאי…

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    LetterCUL Add.3345

    Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Simha, asking for help. In Hebrew. The writer was hit by a crisis that forced him into poverty and …

    1. אברכה את ייי בכל עת תמיד
    2. תהלתו בפי
    3. בייי תהלל נפשי ישמעו ענוים וישמחו
    4. פודה ייי נפש עבדיו ולא יאשמו כל החוסים בו
    5. חונה מלאך ד' סביב ליריאיו ויחלצם
    6. חזקו…

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    LetterCUL Or.1080 J195

    Letter fragment, written in poetical phrases, in which the writer asks Yehuda and his brother Meshullam for help. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

    1. ידיד שבטי ישורון גם פארם ומעוזם והודם והדרם
    2. חכינו אל כסלע תוך ש. .ה .ע. . . . . . . . . .ם ו. . .ם
    3. וגם שמו כמו פלג בעייה לכל צחים כי .ו. . ירם
    4. אשר ג…

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    LetterT-S 8J27.3

    Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, …

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    1. [. . . . . . . ] חצרה אלאגליה ואן ע [ . . . . . . . . ]
    2. [. . . . . . . ] לם אבדל לא עיד ולא סבת
    3. [. . . . . . . ] אן אמות פי מדהב ישראל ופ [ . …

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    LetterT-S 8J28.4

    Letter in Hebrew, complete but letters smudged on right side and crossed out in line 7. Apparently an appeal for charitable assistance.

    1. יבא דבר אדוננו אם יצלח לי
    2. . . . . . . . . . . המתוק בעת אשר
    3. . . . . . . . עומד אל עם רמון
    4. ואמוץ מימיו אם //אכל// לחמו בתוך
    5. . . . עמים עדיין אני עומד…

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