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  1. 1LetterT-S 10J10.4

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter from Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov b. Shemuʾel to his teacher Avraham b. Ḥaggay. In Hebrew. With greetings for the high holidays and a request for …

    Recto

    1. In the name of the Merciful 
    2. "The righteous man holds his way, he whose hands are clean, etc." (Job 17:9).
    3.  I send peace, peace / to the man o…

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  2. 2LetterT-S 13J20.3

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter from Yehi'el b. Elyaqim to Yefet the teacher, giving instructions as to the method of teaching his son. On verso a short postscipt, and …

    recto

    1. תבואתך טובה ורחבה ונסבה בך ובנחלתך ובכל נפשות ביתך רעי 
    2. אשר כנפשי מר׳ ור׳ יפת המלמד תכון בארץ ושאננת מפחד רעה 
    3. אמרתי <אגלה> את אזנך את כל ההוה…
    1. ‘May goodness come’ (Job 22:21) to you and yours and to all the members of your household, [a goodness] ‘that widens and turns ever upward’  (Ezek 4…
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  3. 3LetterBL OR 5542.14

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from the teacher Abū Saʿīd to al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy, in which he asks in the most humble terms to be paid the fees due to …

    1. אלממלוך אבי סעיד יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמולא
    2. אלשיך אלרצוי אללה תעאלי יוסע רזקך ויתבת סעאדתך
    3. ויקים גאהך ויחבס עליך ולדך ולא יקטע בך יא מולאי
    4. לולא יעלם …

    Your servant Abī Saʾīd kisses the ground before my lord, the elder al Rāṣūy. May God increase your income, stabilize your success and enhance your ho…

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  4. 4LetterCUL Or.1081 J4

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in which a father writes to the teacher of his boys complaining about insufficient attainments and explaining their being late.

    1. בש רח
    2. כאטבת אלמעלם אדאם אללה עזה פי מעני אלולדין אחיאהמא
    3. אללה וסאלתה אן יזיד פי אלאהתמאם בהמא וכאצה אבי מנצור יש צו
    4. פימא יחפטה ויקראה ואן יכון יעיד …

    Recto

    In Y(our name,) O Mer(ciful) !

    I have written you before, most esteemed teacher, about the two boys — may God keep them alive — asking you to p…

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  5. 5LetterT-S 8J18.29

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Alexandria expressing the deep gratitude of the community after the appointment of an inspired teacher and judge. The letter was sent to Fustat …

    1. עמיעשו
    2. ממלוכה מעאני
    3. לנטע השכל וגזע הבין ותפארת הכוהנים כבוד גדולת קדושת מר ור
    4. כרמי התלמיד היקר יש/מ/רהו צורו ויהיה תמיד בעזרו אמן נצח סלה
    5. ואלדי יעלם…
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  6. 6LetterT-S Ar.53.65

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto (secondary use): Short letter from a teacher to a father. In Judaeo-Arabic. "This is to inform you my lord, the elder, may God make …

    1. אעלם מולאי אלשיך
    2. אדאם אללה עזה
    3. אן אבו אלחסן מא
    4. אנתקל אלא ועינה
    5. ללכתאב ואעטם
    6. מא עליה אבו אלחסן בן
    7. והיב קאם כסר לוחה
    8. בעלם אלצביאן ושלום

    Recto

    This is to inform you my lord, the elder, may God make your honored position permanent, that Abu ʾl-Ḥasan, after his transfer to my school, sho…

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  7. 7List or tableT-S AS 152.69

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Accounts with Hebrew numerals. Mentions the teacher Mami Sidikari (?) and a certain Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)

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  8. 8LetterT-S Misc.28.52

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Petition of a teacher. Fragment of a letter written by a teacher, apparently to one of the parnasim of the qodesh. Insisting that he is …

    1. [ ] אעתראף אלממ באלצדקאת
    2. אלעמימה ואלאסם דו אלגמאיל פהו תע יגעל מולאנא
    3. מקצוד לא קאצד פאלממ מא ידל אלא עלי מן פיה יראת
    4. שמים ומתאדן עלי איצאל אלכיר ואל…

    Recto, main region

    1. (1-2) .... (your) servant recognizes the wide beneficences and (your) name as benefactor. And may He, His Name be praised, make …

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  9. 9Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 321.28

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Receipt. In Judaeo-Arabic. A teacher, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Riḍā al-ʿAṭṭār confirms that he has received 12 dirhams for teaching 3 children for the duration …

    1. בש רח
    2. וקבצת איצא ען אב ואלול גמיעא
    3. אתני עשר דרהם ען אלתלתה צגאר
    4. והם אבן הלאל אלסקא ואבן בנת כלף
    5. אלדי הו אבן דקאק אלרז ואבן בנת
    6. מסכה וכתב אבו אלחסן א…

    Recto

    2. And I received also for the months of Av and Elul together
    3. 12 dirhems  for the three little boys,
    4. namely:  the son of Hilal, the water carri…

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  10. 10LetterCUL Or.1080 J81

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Bu l-Khayr to the local school teacher, asking him for a loan of 400 dirhams against a security to help him out until …

    Recto:

    1. כאדמה
    2. בו אלכיר
    3. ב
    4. יכדם מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    5. אלמלמד אדאם אללה עזה
    6. יא מולאי כאן סבק ועדך
    7. לי בן תסלף ממלוכך שי
    8. ואלאן קד אחתאג אלכאדם
    9. אלי סלף ארבע מא…

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  11. 11LetterENA NS 72.19

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Recto: Letter in Arabic script, regarding financial matters "innanī katabtu ilā marʾ(?) lahu ʿindahu danānīr", concerning a teacher (qad addanī muʿallim l-ṣabīyy). Also mentions Cairo. …

    1. قد صدق سيدي المعلم حرسه الله انني وعدته
    2. ورجوت ان يصلي شي فعذره حتى انني
    3. كتبت الى مر له من عنده دنانير فقلت له قد ارني
    4. معلم الصبي واحتشمت مما اردده و…
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  12. 12LetterT-S 18J2.8

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Avraham Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 15th century. Reports on the complaint of a teacher from Ṣafad who had settled in Gaza, to …

    1. . . . .]. . . והו מקבל ואמא ק[. . . .]ל אן
    2. צל]טנא עליה צביאן אליהוד וחק אל
    3. תו]רה אלקדושה לם צלט עליה אחד ולא
    4. אדנת ולא וכלת ולא צדר מני פי חקה
    5. שי מן …
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  13. 13LetterT-S Ar.38.1

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Letter in Arabic in which a teacher reports to "my lord the Kohen" that the boy Mūsā had come to school after having absented himself …

    1. اعلم الموﻻ الكاهان وفقه الله تعالى
    2. ان موسى اليوم دون اﻻيام دخل
    3. وقدامى صغير يقرا قلت له خذ
    4. الفر[اشا واقرا اربع خمس دفوع حتا
    5. يفرغ الصغير حلف بالله تعا…

    Recto

    I inform my lord, the Kohen, may God, the exalted, give him success, that Mūsā, after some days of absence, entered the school while a boy was …

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  14. 14LetterT-S NS J35

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa …

    1. . . . . .] ב. .א.[. . . .
    2. יגריני עלי עואידה אל
    3. כרימה אלמאלופה מן
    4. פעלה אלגמיל מע כל
    5. עובר ושב וכאצה
    6. מע בעלי תורה ומא
    7. כפא ענך חאלי וחאל
    8. עאילתי וכאצה
    9. מע…
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  15. 15Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/119 + T-S NS J404

    Document date
    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Records of book sales, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1540 Seleucid = 9 July 1229 CE. "To increase their …

    page a

    1. אבאע אלשיך אבי אלביאן אלדלאלה עלי ידי ללמולי אלרצוי שצ
    2. באתנין ותלתין דרהמא קבץ הו ל וקבצת אנא סמסרה ב
    3. ודלך פי יום אלאתנין סאדס עשר תמוז אתק"מ…

    Recto

    1. The elder Abu'l-Baya'n, (may his) R(ock) p(reserve him), sold through me the small [treatise on the] Art [of medicine] to the elder

    2. Fad'l A…

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  16. 16List or tableT-S Ar.30.129

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

    Accounts and other jottings in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Right side of recto: calculations in Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left of recto: list …

    Recto - left page

    1.          لے      סעד
    2. ואלשיך אבו סעד
    3. אדאם אללה עזה
    4. לה ענדי ען גזיה אול
    5. ורק י̇ג̇ ולה ען שרי
    6. בצל דרהם ולה ען
    7. גזיה ב̇ י̇א̇ אלגמלה כ̇ה̇
      8. …

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  17. 17Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.27

    Inferred date
    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to pay the bearer, Nissim the teacher, 6 dirhams for …

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  18. 18LetterT-S 10J8.2

    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks his teacher, the judge R. Hananel, to inform his father Eliyyahu that he is very ill, suffering from …

    Recto:

    1. אבי אבי רכב ישראל ופרשיו
    2. עבדו בן מודה חסדו שלמה ביר אליה הדיין סט
    3. אלממלוך אלאצגר יקבל אלארץ טאיעא ללה תע
    4. אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי אלאכמלי…
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  19. 19LetterT-S 8J28.7

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Letter in which a teacher complains about an unruly pupil. "Whenever I beat him, I do so excessively; but as soon as I begin, …

    1. צפרך טב ובריך אעלם בה
    2. אלמולי באן קד גלבת פי תרביה הדא
    3. אלצגיר אבו מנצור פלעל אן תקדר
    4. עלי מסאעדתי פיה פאנני אנה
    5. אדא צרבתה אסרף פי צרבה ואנה
    6. אדא צרבתה …

    Verso

    A good and blessed morning! I have to inform you, my lord, that I have not been successful in educating this boy, Abū Manṣūr. Perhaps you can h…

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  20. 20LetterCUL Or.1080 J31

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a man from the land of the Persians, who, after the loss of his fortune, had come to Egypt to seek a post …

    Recto

    "For the Lord will be your trust; He will keep your feet from being caught"(Proverbs 3:26). 

    "The Lord will guard you from all harm; He will gu…

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  21. 21State documentAIU VII.E.166

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …

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