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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Three lines of a calligraphic letter to the community of Sambutiyya. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

العلامات

• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Beginning of an official epistle to a community headed by [Goitein left empty] b. Shela the judge (הדיין), the fifth judge in the group (Havura) …

العلامات

• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Beginning of a letter by the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya (in office 1140-1159) to the community of al-Mahalla, written in the hand of Shemuel b. …

العلامات

• jewish community

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a Nagid, R. Yosef, from a community, mentioning that a certain orphan, the son of Avraham, has nothing left for food or clothing. …

العلامات

• jewish community

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note of a Nagid to the 'noble congregation' of Fustat (same type as described in Mediterranean Society, II, App. C 101-112) asking them to complete …

العلامات

• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter (draft) from Elḥanan b. Shemarya, in Fusṭāṭ, to the Babylonian congregation in Damascus, sending greetings as part of his efforts to raise funds for …

العلامات

• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, apparently to the holy congregation in Shafrir Misrayim (Fustat), similar to 10J24f. 9 recto. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in calligraphic style from a community written by Sahlān b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)

العلامات

• 11th c
• jewish community

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Babylonian community in Fustat to Hayya Gaon, acknowledging a letter he had previously sent to Avraham (Avraham b. Sahlan). The community refer …

العلامات

• jewish community
• yeshiva

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Upper part of a twin list in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, seemingly a draft, one list with amounts, and one mostly without amounts. …

العلامات

• charity
• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of an opening of a letter by Shelomo b. Semah, Ramla, to the communities of Fustat, probably December 1033.

العلامات

• communal
• jewish community

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Calligraphic list of 29 persons (to be solicited), professions ranging from butcher to physician. A list of potentially related names in Arabic script appears on …

العلامات

• charity
• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment. Beginning of a solemn letter addressed to the community, apparently of al-Mahalla, probably by Mevorakh ha-Nagid b. Saadya (1094-1111). Verso: Arabic jottings including …

العلامات

• jewish community
• mevorakh b. saadya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K15.66 forms the upper part and T-S K15.14 the lower part, of one list of about a hundred persons, contributing or being asked to …

العلامات

• charity
• jewish community

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter (communal) in the hand of Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, writing on behalf of the community of Alexandria. Only the elegant rhymed prose opening of the …

العلامات

• communal
• jewish community

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya, gaʾon of Jerusalem, as identified by the titles “our Nasi, our Gaon.” Dating: 1051–62 (Daniel's gaonate). In which the correspondents …

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العلامات

• famine
• jewish community

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from the Yeshiva directed to 'all the communities of Israel in Palestine and in its fortresses, its town and villages...which have remained in …

العلامات

• circular
• jewish community
• yeshiva

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Primary language

Hebrew

An epistle from the community of Alexandria to that of Mastuara (in Byzantium). The letter deals with the ransoming of Byzantine Jews taken captive, and …

العلامات

• byzantines
• captives
• jewish community

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to be read in "the two synagogues," to help an old man named Yeshuʿa to travel …

العلامات

• 14th c
• jewish community
• yehoshua maimonides

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Document date

First decade of Iyyar 1540 Seleucid (1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testimony made by unknown members of the Jewish community (the signatures are either cut off or were never added). Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of …

العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• jewish community
• testimony

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Official letter from either the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (r. 1310–55) or his father Avraham II Maimonides (served 1300 to ca. 1316). (Goitein favors the …

العلامات

• 14th c
• avraham ii maimonides
• jewish community

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, in which the nagid asks the community in Fustat to take up a charity collection for a …

العلامات

• 14th c
• jewish community
• yehoshua maimonides

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mufaḍḍal, probably in Fustat, to Abū l-Majd al-Melammed, in Qūṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Uncertain, but perhaps ca. 1230s CE, since T-S 13J26.6 (1234 …

العلامات

• jewish community
• medicine
• physician

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the communities, first half of the 11th century.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• jewish community
• shelomo b. yehuda

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of an opening of a letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the communities.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• jewish community
• yoshiyyahu gaon

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to a community, approximately 1020.

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• jewish community
• yoshiyyahu gaon

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Document date

Iyyar 1497 Seleucid (1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom b. Moshe ha-Levi (in office ca. 1176–95) to a certain community. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Written by …

العلامات

• circumcision
• jewish community
• mevorakh b. natan
• sar shalom ha-levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Nagid David I Maimonides (d. 1300) to the community of Ashmūm. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning someone named Yosef who was in …

العلامات

• ashmum
• david i maimonides
• david i maimonides autograph
• jewish community
• nagid

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Moshe ha-Levi the Jerusalemite to Yefet ha-Neʾeman b. Elʿazar, the representative of the community of al-Maḥalla. Dating: לate 11th or early …

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: prayer
• illness: waja'
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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