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Subsequent use: Draft of a formal letter containing polite phrases and blessings written out multiple times (e.g., ḥaḍrat mawlāyya al-shaykh al-jalīl). 'Addressed' to Abū Naṣr al-Faḍl b. Sahl (al-Tustarī). There are ~4 'senders' listed, whose names are prefaced with 'khādimhā': one is ʿAlī b. [...] and one is Ṭībān b. Khalaf.
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Original use: Letter from Eliyyahu b. Shelomo Gaʾon to David b. Yeḥizqiyya Rosh Ha-Gola. Dating: ca. 1046. In Hebrew. Published by Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, doc. 416. The transcription below is from Mann, who only edited BL OR 5546.1.
Ed. Moshe Gil, Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634–1099) (in Hebrew) (1983), vol. 3; also ed. Jacob Mann, The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fâtịmid Caliphs (1970), vol. 2.