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Hebrew

Letter addressing a communal leader, a certain ʿOvadya. Other names mentioned are Yaʿaqov b. Aba Mari Moshe, and [...] b.

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• iran

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Aramaic

Power of attorney appointing Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya as agent. Dating: Probably ca. 11th century, but no date is legible. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Opening of a letter from 'the community of Jews on the jazīra(?)' (verso) to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Shemarya (1007–55 CE), with extensive rhymed phrases. …

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• island

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Primary language

Hebrew

Poem of praise, or example of a poetic opening to a letter addressed to a community. Excerpts: בשורו בן בליעל . . . חשבו צר …

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya was active, but this date range might be narrowed further based on the years when the potential senders were active/alive.

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• geonim
• musa al-taherti
• qayrawan
• responsum

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Primary language

Hebrew

Poetical opening of a letter to the Nagid Mevorakh (Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, 1079-1111 CE).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in which the writer describes a business affair in which he was under threat (taḥta al-tahdīd) and also involved the sultan. …

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• business

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Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Note to a man with many titles. In the margin there is the actual information: someone had gone to Rashid and Abu l-Faraj and …

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• minyat zifta
• rashid

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of invitation from David b. Daniel probably to a personality in Fustat, late 11th century.

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• 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commentary or discussion in Judaeo-Arabic on the difference between men and animals, with citations from Ecclesiastes 3:17 and Psalms 49:21. (Information from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card contains several conflicting suggestions about the handwriting of the sender and the dating. The sender is pained that his …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Thābit b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh. Dating: ca. 1062. The writer mentions a shipment of goods and he …

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• 11th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

I did not find any bandage (or plaster/dressing) of palm fibers (marham al-nakhlī) in the house and could not move her; for she cannot get up or sit; she bends forward only a little (qad ittajaha qalīl).

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• alexandria
• corvee
• crusade
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein reconstructs the situation somewhat differently, "The writer's wife quarreled with the wife of the recipient.... The recipient should visit next Sunday, since he was at peace with the writer's wife.

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• abu sahl levi
• astrologer
• marital conflict

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter or possibly a decree to a lower official in a chancery hand. Upper part only. Someone has attempted to wash out the text of …

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• chancery

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as al-Najīb, the sender's paternal uncles Hiba and Abū l-Majd, and his paternal aunt and her son Abū l-Ḥasan.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Small fragment of an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Secondary use: Note to Abū l-Faḍl b. Elʿazar. In Judaeo-Arabic. "You are neither a scholar nor a relative nor a friend of mine because of …

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts containing a list of names and numbers in Arabic script with Coptic numerals, in the right margin and on the back of a letter (see PGPID 3737).

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• account
• coptic numerals

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community. (Information from Mediterranean …

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• alexandria
• communal
• complaints
• petition
• qaraites

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. Refers to the beginning of the ebbing of the Nile. The rest …

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …

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• 11th c
• efrayim b. shemarya
• yeshiva

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). On verso is the continuation of the letter and a (draft of a) letter in a different hand and ink, mentioning Abū Zechariah b.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Farah b. Yusuf sending condolences for the death of a relative of the addressee and also discussing business. (Information from Gil)

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq by way of Binyamin ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Repeating a request that a cantor leave the capital for the writer's village …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning and address of a letter from Tahor b. Avraham to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are 5 lines of an unrelated account in Arabic script, referring to rent for a house and listing amounts and names. At the top of recto there is alphabet writing practice in Hebrew.

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Primary language

Arabic

Account referring to rent for a house and listing amounts and names. Written on the back of a letter (see separate entry).

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Primary language

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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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Mentions: papers (awrāq), riqāʿ, the judge Menaḥem and the son of the judge (Ibn al-Dayyan); dodder …

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Nissim to Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. mentioning the recipient's deliverance from some disaster.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Rahamim b. 'Imran in Tinnis to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dated ca. 1055.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee may be the judge Abū l-Bayān Moshe (the sender swears by his name on verso, בחיאה מולאי אלדיין אבו אלביאן ר משה), whom Goitein tentatively identifies as Moshe b. […] He explains that the request "is the interests of your congregation and nation, it is not for me myself, I have no needs at all myself" (v3).

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• appeal
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: injury
• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning business matters such as the sale of gum mastic, and mentioning people including Tamīm Ibn al-Zayyāt, Munajjā b. Abī l-[...], Abū Naṣr, Abū Yaʿqūb, and the fact that Shemuel is arriving in Fusṭāṭ.

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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. […] Mentions Mevorakh b. Se’adya the Nagid, about helping orphans. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #437) VMR

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Bayān, probably in Fustat, to his brother Bū ʿImrān the son of the Jewish teacher, in Qūṣ. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. The …

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Inferred date

1355–1367 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the wife of Baṣīr (or rather Nuṣayr) the bell-maker (al-jalājilī) to the Nagid David II Maimonides, asking him to help return her husband, who was living in a Sufi community, to his family and to the Jewish faith. […] Goitein identifies the addressee as David II rather than David I based on the reference to the Sufi master "al-Kūrānī," who he says is no doubt identical with Yūsuf al-ʿAjamī al-Kūrānī, who died in Cairo in January 1367. As David II became Nagid in 1355 following the death of his father Yehoshuaʿ, this letter dates to the years 1355–67.

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• david ii maimonides
• distant husband
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: barber
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which the writer remarks that he was pleased to learn that the recipient, who had not written in a while, was well and …

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Document date

1464-07-19 Seleucid (17 March 1153 CE)

Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan. (Information from Goitein's index card) Edition from Yagur's dissertation, #4

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Avraham b. Natan ('ata) concerning the disorder in Tunis and concerning the burial of his father in Jerusalem, 1st quarter of the 11th century.

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• 11th c
• avraham b. natan
• tunis
• unrest
• war

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Notice from Eli 'Keton ha-Ḥaverim' to Josiah ha-Nasi b. Shelomo ha-Nasi. Informing Josiah ha-Nasi that his opponent Abu al-'Ala had not appeared in the synagogue.

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• mosul nasis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Abu Ishaq Barhun b.

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• 11th c
• barhun b. musa
• busir
• jahbadh
• nahray b. nissim
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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Meʾir ben Naʿim, mentioning business matters and the name Abraham Ashkenazi.

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• 18th or 19th c
• ben na'im
• business

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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• passover
• wheat

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Inferred date

October 1136–October 1136 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Sedaqa in Tripoli, Libya, to the physician Shemuel in Cairo, thanking him for his ransom when the sender was captured by …

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• ransom

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Khumsa (כומסה) with a postscript from Yaʿaqov Shalom. Mentions David Bibas and Alexandria. Dating: 18th or 19th century. (Information from CUDL)

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• 18th or 19th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of condolence from David b. Daniel to Abu'l Muna.

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• condolence
• david b. daniel
• personal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Goitein suggested based on T-S K6.149 that this man may have been an orphan or his father unknown, since he is only identified by his mother's name; however in T-S AS 155.271 we learn that his deceased father was Abū ʿAlī.)

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• nar

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Document date

1 Ḥeshvan 1450 Seleucid (8 October 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A court record for a release given by Sitt al-Nasab bt. Yūsuf. Probably involving her husband and support he provided while away. There is another document on the other side of the fragment, also involving Sitt al-Nasab and mentioning her husband ʿAmram b. Avraham.

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Document date

Tishrei 1483 Seleucid (1171 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and asks her elder son Abū Naṣr to release her. The court warns him that he will be responsible for his younger brother.

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