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Detailed accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
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Account of building operations ca. 1240. Written on a sheet of paper made into a booklet of four leaves, it is a record of current …
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Interesting accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for a construction project—carpenters for installing the door, acacia wood for the door, nails, gypsum, tiles/paving stones, the wage of the …
Most of a long letter in which the writer uses colorful language to narrate his woes of the last 10 years. The addressee's father is …
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Letter from a wretched Abū l-Ḥasan b. Yūsuf begging for charity from a dignitary, probably Avraham Maimonides or his father. The handwriting appears to be that of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1211), who could have acted as scribe for Abū l-Ḥasan.
Letter from Eliezer Zussman, in Jerusalem, to his son Avigdor. In Hebrew. It has an unusual form for a letter: there are no greetings and …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1688/89 CE (תגילו = 449), from the Jewish community of Izmir to the Jewish community of Pisa, following the economic distress …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1726/27 CE (487 = בל תמוט), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1726/27 CE (487 = לך לאות), begging for charity from the Jewish community of Pisa. The writers, in Istanbul, call themselves …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1735/36 CE (496 = קרן לעמו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1747/48 CE (508 = בשרו), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1759/60 CE (520 = תהֿלה לכֿל), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1778/79 CE (539 = ותקוה טובה) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial …
Their shaliaḥ is Yosef b. Robi (? יוסף ן רובי). Probably non-Geniza.
Letter in Hebrew dated 1791/92 CE (552 = וינטלם וינשאם) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Letter in Hebrew dated April/May 1807 CE (Nisan 567 = ונשמחה בכל ימנו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, …
Fragment containing mirror-image imprints of Hebrew text in a late hand. Probably literary, though it is not out of the question that verso is a …
Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Damietta, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria.
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Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס) writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, based on the associated fragments.
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. Mainly in Hebrew with some Judaeo-Arabic (isolated words throughout and a block of text in the middle of verso).
Letter addressed to Moshe [b. Yehuda]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.
Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Crete, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria.
Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס), in Syracuse (שראקוסה), writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, based on the associated fragments.
Letter from anonymous writer, unknown location, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, based on the associated fragments.
Letter from the Nagid Natan Sholal ha-Kohen, in Fustat/Cairo, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Before 1502 CE and perhaps after 1498 CE (since Shalom b. […] Issuing instructions concerning provisions for the orphans of R. Avraham b. Ḥisān, who previously lived in Alexandria but moved to Jerusalem to live with their mother upon the death of their father. […] Ṣedaqa Nes (of Alexandria); and R. Shalom b. Zaytūn. (Information from Avraham David via FGP.)
Letter from Yiṣḥaq bayt ʿAṭṭān, in Syracuse, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.
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Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda (aka Mūsā b. Yahūda al-Turjumān), in Alexandria.
Letter from David b. Yaʿaqov al-Shammās to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria.
Letter from the Nagid Shelomob. Yosef to the community of Alexandria. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from David (b. Yaʿāqov) al-Shammās to Moshe b. Yehuda of Alexandria. […] Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Also signed by Aharon b. Ḥasde'el ha-Levi. "As for what you mentioned concerning your wife, it is not that she hates you and desires a bill of divorce for that reason. For she has been patient..." It seems that Moshe b. Yehuda promised to return on a certain date in a certain year and then delayed his return and failed to communicate properly with his wife when that date approached, and now people are getting anxious that he may have had a change of heart.
Letter from Ṣuriel Dayyan, in Tripolis (Greece? or Libya?), to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Romance words.
Letter addressed to to Moshe, probably Moshe b. Yehuda, the head of the community of Alexandria in the last quarter of the 15th century.
Letter from Ṣedaqa Nes, probably to Moshe b. Yehuda. Fragment: left half only. Reporting on business matters.
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.
Communal letter addressed to the congregation of Alexandria. Probably from the office of the Nagid. Dating: Probably last quarter of the 15th century. Only a …
Among the communal officials is Moshe b. Yehuda, whose personal archive is the source of much of Bodl.
Probably addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 5 Nisan 5245, which is 1485 CE.
The portion on verso mentions Moshe b. Yehuda (whose archive is found in Bodl. MS Heb. c 72).
Letter from Hārūn to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. […] He reports that a man named Shelomo Siqillī is en route to Alexandria with R. […] There is yet another man coming to Alexandria who also needs help with the capitation tax; this one is named Mūsā b. Marʿaqa(?). If Moshe b. Yehuda and Ṣedaqa Nes do not act on all these requests, Hārūn will be forced to involve the Nagid.
Likely addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. […] Mentions numerous people, including the good-for-nothing Yaʿīsh and his partner Manṣūr; Sulaymān; the late Zayn al-Dīn and his son; the ṣayrafī; the khwāja; Ṣalāh al-Dīn; a certain youth (ṣabiyy) about whom the sender was going to complain to the king; Aḥmad b. al-Ṣafīr(?); and R. ʿAmram.
Likely addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda or to the community of Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to multiple people, perhaps the community of Alexandria as a collective. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Concerning a …
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.
Letter from Ṣedaqa Nes, probably to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: last quarter of the 15th century.
Letter in the hand of David b. Yaʿaqov al-Shammās, probably addressed to Moshe b.
Probably from the archive of Moshe b. Yehuda. Dating: last quarter of the 15th century.
Mirror image (imprint) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerning communal issues (the synagogue, insubordinacy). Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century.