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Arabic

Document concerning financial issues. Mentions a sum of money, and says that if the parties take an oath they will incur the guilt of violating …

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• oath

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: fragment of a recommendation letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli ha-Ḥaver b. Amram, Fustat. The name of the person who is recommended is …

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• recommendation

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter draft addressed to a Nagid who has two sons. The opening titles and blessings fill 12 lines. The remainder of the page is filled …

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• draft

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Hebrew

Large but extremely faded letter that refers to "our master Hayya Gaon" (recto, line 2). Hayya's name is not followed by ז״ל, so perhaps this …

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Document date

1057 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. ʿEli ha- Kohen al-Fāsī, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. In the handwriting of Salmān b. Hārūn. Yūsuf b. …

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: recovery
• movement of ships

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the top of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script on verso. Dating: ca. 12th century. Somewhat wide space between …

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Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment (the end only) from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, referring to a debt. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years …

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer describes coming to a certain place and finding its synagogue in a dangerous state of disrepair and its columns …

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• amir
• construction

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mufaḍḍal b. al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin Bunduq(?) al-Maḥallī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very faded, but much of it may be legible with …

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man to his 'brother' Abū l-Khayr and to his brother Manṣūr al-Dhabbāḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. …

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• arabic address
• bonesetter
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: back
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Primary language

Hebrew

IB ח94. Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, apparently in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. Dating: Ca. 1145–46 CE. This document was not …

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• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a late Hebrew document, possibly a letter mentioning Salonika (שלנוקי) in the first line. Needs examination.

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• salonica

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Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an agent (wakīl); Sicilian cheese; "we are all Jews, and the Truth (al-Ḥaqq) unites us all"; and "the Sicilian Kohen …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter to 'he-ḥaver ha-meʿulle.' Handwriting of Shelomo b. Yehuda?

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic, probably a letter. Medieval-era. Three partial lines are visible from the body of the text and two marginal lines are well-preserved. The …

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• arabic reused

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Describes a legal arrangement, probably a partnership in a store or business. Dating: 12th century, based on the typical hand. Mentions Abū …

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• business
• letter

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hayyim b. Immanuel b. Qayoma from Mahdiyya, probably to Yehuda b. Ismail al-Andalusi. Around 1055. Concerning a shipment of boswellia and clothes. The …

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• trade

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Arabic

Address of a letter to the judge Eliyahhu b. Zekharya. In Arabic script with רבי אליה in Hebrew script. None of the letter is preserved.

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• bialphabetic

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter dating to around 1800 CE (12 Adar [no year]). The opening salutation may contain the recipient's entire name, but its meaning is not …

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• 19th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from David Kohen to the Nagid R. Natan Sholal, the penultimate Nagid of Egypt. Dating: end of the 15th century.

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• 15th c
• mamluk
• nagid

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Primary language

Hebrew

Business letter, first half of the 16th century. The subject matter is a dispute between merchants who dealth in skins, pepper, and tin. An Avraham …

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• 16th c
• late heb

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Primary language

Hebrew

Part of a letter, probably from the first half of the 11th century, possibly written by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen, on behalf of the Jerusalemite …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions 7 bales and documents instead of turbans (? wa-fī l-ʿamāʾim riqā).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Large, but faded and damaged. Refers repeatedly to excommunicating certain people; also mentions a fatwā related to …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter. Second leaf of a long letter relating what happened to the writer's brother, Abū Naṣr, on an adventurous business voyage on the Nile. Abu …

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• business
• sea voyage

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in the same hand as the nearby fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century. This is the lower right corner. …

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew. Very faded. Scattered phrases: גבולו ולהרבול שלום . . . מצרים . . . בבנינו . . . היום קרוב לשנתים ואפילו …

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of condolence in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mubārak b. [ʿIyad?]. On the death of a woman in his family (אלאשה …

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• bialphabetic
• condolence

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Inferred date

1054–1054 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt. Dating: ca. 1054. Gil suggests that the letter was written when both Daniʾel …

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Document date

26 Ḥeshvan [4817] Anno Mundi (6 November 1056 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohn Fāsī, in Fustat. 6 November 1056. Discusses goods arriving from al-Andalus, Italy and the …

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• commodities
• cotton

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon (ca. 1100–38). Very damaged and faded.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment addressed to a certain Elʿazar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reports that the addressee had sent a pair of tefillin with 'the mamlūk,' whom the sender …

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning a letter 'to the cook' (al-ṭabbākh); that the sender advanced 2 dinars to someone; the [sec]retary(?) of Muʾayyad al-Mulk came and …

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a late letter in Hebrew signed by Seʿadya b. Moshe ha-Dayyan. See Arad, D. (2008). Syria’s links with the Jews of Cairo in …

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• fotm
• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy from Alexandria to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Inferred dating: around 1055 (Gil). The writer is available to work …

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• 11th c
• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recommendation letter for an Iraqi merchant who lost everything in a shipwreck. He is advised to write to Abū l-Bishr and his cousin. (Information from …

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• shipwreck

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Inferred date

1146–1146 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB III, 13 + 14. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, India, mainly about shipwrecked goods. Dating: almost certainly 1146. This …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā twice, swears by Jerusalem, and mentions the unit of currency rubāʿī.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Consisting almost entirely of business accounts. The sender acknowledges receipt of a letter discussing a foreigner (? gharīb) and possibly a deposit. …

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. The first five lines are formulaic. The substance may begin after وبعد in l.5. It is quite faded and damaged; unclear …

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Arabic

Recto: Note from Abū l-Barakāt (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to Abū l-Majd. Informing him that he sent three quires and hopes that there will be no …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Faraj b. Mansur, informing his brother of the death of his own boy and admonishing him not to open the writer's store. (Information …

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the cantor Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) about the bad behavior of his son Abu al-Ḥasan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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• address as seal

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Hebrew

Letter. Commercial letter from Rashid (Rosetta) to Damietta, mentioning Christian Italian merchants (e.g., גירונימו/Geronimo), and a French consul. The text has a number of European …

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• damietta
• rashid

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a woman (ואלרזמה אן כנתי מא ודיתיהא...). Written in an odd format with only one or two words per …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an ardent supporter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1055 CE (per Goitein). This is the first leaf of a longer …

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• communal
• condolence
• conflict
• conversion
• daniel b. azarya

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