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Judaeo-Arabic

Giving instructions concerning a visit(?) of Eliyyahu the Judge. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• unedited judge eliyyahu

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter conveying greetings and relating that the community is expecting word from or about Yiṣḥaq who was obviously expected to come and visit. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first part of the letter (r1–17) includes lengthy apologies for failing to visit when he heard that his mother was sick. He was unable to come because of the expense of renting an animal, the danger of the journey, and because he was suffering from ophthalmia ('but now, thank God, I am better'). […] His wife is distressed on behalf of her mother-in-law's illness and wishes to come to visit. Goitein suggests that the key to why Surūr neglected to tell his mother or ask her permission prior to the marriage lies in his neglect to mention his wife's name or that she comes from a good family. […] He then gives "signs" to remind the Nagid of his case: how, when he visited Bilbays, he spoke with Surūr about the copy of a Bible belonging to Yaʿqūb the brother of the teacher; how the Nagid was involved in Surūr's divorce from his first wife; and how the Nagid went to see the head of police (wālī) of Bilbays, who directed him to the Qadi, who was not available.

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العلامات

• 14th c
• bilbays
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• (+ 6 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

September 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter deals almost entirely with the troubles that befell Ḥalfon in Egypt upon his return the previous year from Spain. […] Because of the troubles that have overwhelmed him in Egypt, Ḥalfon regrets having left Spain at all where he had enjoyed the company of Yehuda ha-Levi; he wishes he had remained in Spain and then accompanied Yehuda ha-Levi on his journey eastward (verso, ll. 37–38; recto, l. 7). […] Additionally, the burden of the capitation tax on the Jews was increased, and benefits they had previously enjoyed were canceled (recto, l. 28). The Jews found comfort in the appointment of the Nagid Shemuʾel b.

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العلامات

• ib4
• india book

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Requesting a Nagid to intervene with the government officers (ʿummāl) in Shaṭnūf during his forthcoming visit to the place. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

After the holiday, certain people will decide whether or not they will visit the recipient. Verso: Shabbat zemirot?

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Upper half of a letter in which the writer expresses his gratitude to his father-in-law, the 'sar' Yehoshuaʿ, for treating him well, and mentions his visit to Ṣoʿan (Fustat). (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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Primary language

Arabic

The text in the center is a tradition related by Prophet Muḥammad on the Mahdī, parts of the text match a text from "Biḥār al-Anwār (http://surl.li/zlpcqk)". YU/AE.

العلامات

• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Their mother is going to pay a visit to Sitt 'Abid, Sitt Aqran, while their father is going to pay a visit to Abu ‘Ali and al-As‘ad (family members of ‘Imrān’s wife?)

العلامات

• circumcision
• yedutun ha-levi

2 نسخين

Primary language

Hebrew

This letter describes a difficult and very brief visit to Jerusalem involving a controversy about some Jewish captives.

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• 11th c
• captives
• communal
• shelomo b. yehuda

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hilāl had recently departed from a brief visit after a prolonged absence ("being away for 10 years and visiting Fustat for 3 days—a person would not believe it").

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: copy of a legal document, concerned with marital arrangements (for example the husband will not forbid his wife to visit her mother and brother). Verso: list of names such as Abū l-Khayr, Ibn Saʿd and Abū [...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: list of household expenses in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning types of oil, soap, camphor, and green lemon; payments to a laborer; and a visit to the bathhouse. For other lists of this type see Med.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Miṣbāḥ, who reported that Abū Zikrī and his wife plan to visit. Shelomo heard that their paternal aunt's husband Manṣūr traveled to Barqa.

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العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Spain. Dating: Perhaps the end of summer, 1138 CE. Dealing with the return of a defective mithqāl. […] Ibn ʿEzra writes that he plans to visit Ḥalfon the following week, and he passes on regards from two Muslim viziers: Abū Muḥammad b.

العلامات

• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Document date

22 Ṭevet Anno Mundi

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeḥezqel updates Ḥalfon about what has happened since his visit to him in Alexandria. The trip on the Nile was difficult and took a long time. […] His younger son, Abū l-Fakhr, stayed with Ḥalfon in Alexandria, and the writer asks his brother to repay him a favor. Towards the end of the letter, there is news about the imprisonment of vizier Riḍwān.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 4 Av 1758 Seleucid (17 July 1447 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Mubaḥtara" derives from standard Arabic "mubaʿthara," i.e., scrambled eggs mixed with other items (source: Aklat Beirut on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig54N_FTu_g). Witnesses: Shemuel b.

العلامات

• food
• wine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are further descriptions of other places and sites he visited with his companions (including the tomb of Joseph in Bal[āṭa]), but the paper is torn and the names are mostly missing.

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العلامات

• pilgrimage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

He wanted his mother-in-law to come visit her daughter and sick grandson, so Shem Ṭov told her that he had beaten her daughter. […] Shem Ṭov made a fist and threatened her in order to end the argument. The husband concludes by reporting the words of his vow to refrain from wine and, it seems, not to leave his wife alone on Sabbath (meaning that he would fulfill his conjugal obligations), "Yo recibo nezirut Shimshon bar Manoaḥ baʿal Delilah con todos sus tena'im de non dexarla עלא דומתי (?) […] Weiss has full transcription and translation of the document to English (JQR 68 [1977]:99-103). ASE.

العلامات

• illness
• illness: eye
• ladino
• late heb
• marital dispute

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Nathan, asking him visit and to stay with the writer over the Sabbath should he arrive by then.

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العلامات

• 13th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"The troubles caused by agnates—but endured with resignation—are vividly brought home in a letter from Alexandria, addressed to the sons of a dead sister in the capital. […] As though that were not enough: two sisters of those nephews lived in a house belonging to their family in Alexandria. The house was ill-omened (mayshūm), probably because someone had been killed there, or had died an unnatural or premature death. No one came to visit the girls, and they lived in complete solitude, "the most miserable creatures in the entire city with no one to care for them."

العلامات

• capitation tax
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• (+ 7 المزيد)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel Glick identifies Yiṣḥaq ʿOvadya as potentially the same individual who published אגרת דופי הזמן in Venice in 1598– full text available at: https://hebrewbooks.org/52557 (Information from Shmuel Glick's description/edition in FGP) NB: Minna Rozen lists the location of Siderokapısı as "some eight kilometers southeast of Thessaloniki," but this geographical association does not seem possible (Rozen, The Corvée of Operating the Mines in Siderokapısı, 37).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer mentions the silk trade, describes his joy when he learned that Ḥalfon recovered after taking a medicine, and invites him to visit him in Fustat. Transcription from Goitein’s handwritten notes.

العلامات

• halfon b. netanel
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• illness
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is suffering from an ailment of the ear: "If my ear were not bound, I would have come to visit you." (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 271, 273.)

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: ear
• illness: recovered
• personal
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Hebrew

David ha-Kohen who is visiting Damascus with 200 gold pieces to exchange them for other gold and silver.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• baalbek
• damascus
• illness
• illness: cost
• (+ 7 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi reports that 'the girl' (=Moshe's wife) is currently ritually impure and will immerse herself on Sunday, so he should endeavor to come visit on Sunday—and to make sure to come to Fustat directly instead of stopping in Cairo—while she is ritually pure.

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العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• menstrual purity
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

10 Marḥeshvan Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter includes a report on the social uproar caused by Yehuda ha-Levi’s visit in Alexandria when everybody was eager to invite him. […] Abū Naṣr complains about his eye illness: "I only wrote these few letters as I was housebound with a flare of ophthalmia that came over me." At the end of recto and beginning of verso, this proves relevant: "The account is in the shop and I am at home, so I do not have the precise details to inform you."

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• (+ 5 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

The person who delivers the letter is one of the Maghreb merchants and he's supposed to send the letter after his visit in Jerusalem. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #50) VMR.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Peraḥya ha-Ḥaver about a visit of the carrier of the note, Abū l-ʿAysh, to the Nagid for the issue of whether he had to pay the capitation tax (jāliya) in Fustat or in Peraḥya's location.

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العلامات

• communal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter sent from Jerusalem in later medieval times by a woman named Jamila, the widow of Yehuda, addressing two brothers-in-law in Cairo, explaining that she could not come with the last caravan since she had visitors from Damascus who had fled from the plague, but promising she would come with the next caravan.

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العلامات

• damascus
• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• late heb
• women's letters

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, extensive and profuse, by a cantor in a provincial town to his widowed mother named Umm Farjun, inviting her to Cairo(?) to visit him and her grandson who yearn for her. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 242, 338, 479, 503).

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العلامات

• personal

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Primary language

Aramaic

The bride's father gave her an appartment in Acre where the couple will live, under the condition that he (the father) can stay in the appartment with them whenever he wants, alone with other family members, for a visit or for good. Text in Arabic script on verso.

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العلامات

• acre
• ketubba
• marriage
• tyre

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has recently returned from a long visit to Yemen. The addressee has recently moved from Ḥamāh to Shayzar (a smaller town nearby), and is planning to emulate his brother and travel overseas.

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a woman who is all alone; the addressee should urge her family to come visit her. (Information in part from CUDL)

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