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2651LetterT-S 10J18.11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment (right half of recto, left half of verso) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 270-272, 585.) There are Hebrew alphabet and Arabic jottings in the margins.
1. שלום רב וג
2. אלדי אעלמכם בה בעד אלסלאם [
3. אללה תע בכל נעמה לא . [
4. אלסקלי נכבה אללה מא . . . מא [
5. וקאל יטלב מנה עשרין דרהם בשטר [
6. וקד דכל מן יום אלאתנין…
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2652LetterAIU VII.E.154
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment of a medievalletter in Judaeo-Arabic giving a detailed account of a legal case involving a husband, a wife, her ketubba, sums of 12 and 17 dinars, and a baby girl (ṭifla). Muslim courts may be mentioned. One of the characters named is Abū Isḥāq (written אבוסחק) Zayn. Mentions the term muwāṣafa (מואצפה) several times.
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2653LetterMoss. II,123.1.1
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of recto). Discusses business affairs, one of them involving a fur garment (farw). Mentions Abū l-Surur (their brother Peraḥya?). (Information in part from CUDL)
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2654LetterMoss. IV,72.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso (original use): Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is missing, so this sender/recipient identification requires further explanation. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Armenian bole, Abū ʿImrān, Marāzībī tutty, and greetings to various people.
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2655LetterT-S AS 148.120
Document date
4890 Anno Mundi (16 September 1129–5 September 1130 CE)
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Verso: Letter, probably. Dated 4890 from the creation and 1441 of the Seleucid Era (= 1130 CE); at the end of the letter important Jewish biblical figures are listed, such as Adam, Seth, Methusela, David, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, etc., and up to the Messiah (both Mashiaḥ b.
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2656Legal documentT-S AS 149.247
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning the city of Maḥalla al-Kubrā; Abū l-Ḥasan; and Abū l-Munā Tiqva ha-Levi (possibly the same as the one mentioned in T-S 12.683 and Bodl.
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2657Legal documentT-S AS 152.85
Document date
1127–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions a woman and her father Munajjā (possibly related to Bodl. […] Dating: 1127–38 CE, as the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon is mentioned (r. 1127–39).
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2658LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/98
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Shelomo b. Netanʾel ha-Shulḥani (the moneychanger), in Fustat, to Ṣadoq b. Levi ha-Levi, president of the court. Dating: ca. 1030, according to Gil. Mentions Abū Isḥāq Araham b. Mevasser Segol ha-Qahal and Yoshiyyahu al-Ḥaver.
1. [ ] אדירינו מחמד עינינו עטרת ראשינו וכליל
2. [ ] כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנא ורבנא צדוק
3. [בן כב]וד גדולת קדושת מרנא ורבנא לוי הלוי נח
4. [ מו]ליי סיידנא אלראיס א…
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2659LetterENA NS 63.2
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letters. Copies. The first letter is in Judaeo-Arabic, from the Shāmiyyīn to the Miṣriyyīn. […] Dating: Probably no earlier than 15th century. The second letter gives a detailed explanation of the intercalation of the calendar and the observation of the aviv (barley crop), meaning that the writers are probably Qaraite. The first letter indeed mentions דת בני מקרא (line 17). Needs further examination.
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2660LetterDK 311 (alt: 3, 6)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
"Abū l-Faraj Nissim, the recipient of this letter, was an India trader, against whom, while in India selling precious Western textiles and mercury, a power of attorney was issued in Fustat. […] See Med. Soc., i, 298-299." Goitein, Letters, 239–40. […] Cf. the word ruḥiyya in this letter, and Med Soc V, x, B, 2, no. 111. From the letter: "Business here is slow and practically at a standstill.
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2661Legal documentT-S AS 145.8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Marwān releases the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. Avraham ha-Levi from all obligations. Signed by Araḥ b. Shelomo, Merayhot b. Meshullam and Elʿazar b. Menaḥem. The document is written by by Avraham b. […] Shabbetay, Elʿazar b. Yosef ha-Levi and Yosef b. Avraham ha-Levi. On verso there are rhymed wishes including citations from Psalms 115:12 and Malachi 3:16.
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2662Legal documentT-S AS 219.128
Inferred date
1127–1138 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Small and much damaged fragment from a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38) under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). There are mirror imprints of another legal document in Aramaic on both verso and recto, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; much of the text is legible, but few or no specifics of the case.
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2663LetterT-S 13J21.1
Document date
Monday, 8 Adar I 1421 Seleucid (31 January 1110 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB VI, 19. Letter from Moshe b. Yefet to Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (apparently a merchant trading in the East). […] The hand is probably that of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also sends his regards. The letter opens with a strong rebuke for failing to write and goes on to mention the arrival of merchandise/gifts, and greetings to and from various people.
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2664List or tableT-S K15.66 + T-S K15.14
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The notables whose employees are mentioned (Dosa, Ibn Sughmār, Ibn ʿAwkal [son of the merchant Yosef], Bahūdī, Ibn Ḥirbish) were active around 1040. […] Note: 3 kinds of shoemakers in a single list: iskāf, ḥadhdhāʾ, kharrāz (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 422 n81; p. 440, App. 4-5.)
.... אל.[.].סי רב[
T-S K15.66v, lefthand page:
1. אלבאקי
2. סעד אללואז [רב]אעי
3. מוסי אבן מגאן רבאעי
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2665LetterENA 4011.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from David b. Daniel to a parnas (leader of the Jewish community). […] Instructing the addressee to obtain from Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo b. Mevorakh 60 wariq (low-quality) dirhams and to pay them to the divorcee of Abū l-Baqāʾ Shemuel.
ENA 4011, f. 17 ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 3, pp.336-337 (Doc. #537), C.B. 11-11-87 (p) Short letter from David b. Daniel to a parnas ( leader of the Jewish community) written in his own hand. (Gil)
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1. In your name, O Merciful
2. My lord the parnas, may God support you, shall [r]eceive from the elder Abuʾl Riḍā Solomon
3. b. Mevorakh, may God watc…
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2666List or tableT-S NS 321.6
Distribution of 23 jukhaniyyas to thirteen women, seven men, and three persons defined as 'acquaintance of' or 'the house of.' […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 456, App. B 64 [dated 1100-1150])
א[ב]ן מ[....] גוכא'
אלרומ[י] אלרמי (in Arabic letters
[[מ]]
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2667LetterENA NS 77.51
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions Bunyām al-Parnas.
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2668LetterT-S 13J36.9
Primary language
Hebrew
Fragment (top) of a letter to [...] b. Menaḥem ha-Levi ‘Av Bet Din of the House of Meeting (שלבית הועד).'
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2669Legal documentT-S AS 145.28
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)
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2670LetterT-S AS 150.57
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably an 11th-century mercantileletter. Mentions [D]āʾūd Ibn Sughmār and [...] b. Hārūn. (Information in part from CUDL)
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2671Legal documentT-S NS J401h
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? […] Warns someone about paying something and may mention the Gaon or at least someone important (hadrat adonenu).
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2672LetterT-S 10J15.15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to his son Farah, Fustat. […] This would be an unusual use of "lā ḥīla," since usually the writer means to say, "nothing can be done [except trust in God]." […] On verso in line 2, he mentions the arrival of some letters ḍabāratan, in a bundle or a file, possibly one pierced and loosely bound with string (on which see this short lecture by Marina Rustow https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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1. קד כאתבך ר נהראי אדאם אללה ע[זה] פי מא בקי לנא במצר וקד אעלמתך איש הו אן לם יקר לי עלי שי
2. או אעמל עלי טלועי [ ] בל אנה יטלע ללמדינה ולא…
Verso
1. What was written for him, and my letters which were supposed to reach Kohen al-Ramlī
2. In the ḍubāra binding, reached Maimūn, which I had pierced with a hole
3. And I have sent them towards Kohen with the messenger carrying this letter
4. Give him one silver for all of it.
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2673LetterENA NS 29.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century, as Eliyyahu the Judge is mentioned. […] He complains that he is all alone ('I have no one to wet my throat or give me a thread of silk'). The addressee's brother Surūr had a son born to him, given the name Bū l-Faḍl, on the day this letter was written. […] "Let the response be quick, lest you earn the sins of your mother."
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2674LetterT-S 13J8.13
Letter from Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī. Around 1057. […] Mentions the year ד'תתט"ו but the letter is later than that. Mentions big changes in the Dinar rate vs. the dirham.
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1. אכר חסאב אן דפעה אלמרחום ממא אנפדת אליה נסכתה בקא עלי אלכלטה לה
2. סלף כמסין דינ ותלתין מנהא לו דינ תסקט מן אללו דינ אלדי וצלת לידה אולא מן
3. …
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1. החשבון האחרון שמסר הנפטר עליו השלום, שאת העתקו שלחתי לך: הגיע לו מהשותפות
2. חוב של חמישים דינר ושני שלישים, מזה יש לנכות ל"ו דינרים, הם ל"ו הדינ…
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2675LetterMoss. Ia,17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. […] Mercantileletter concerning the trade in commodities such as pepper and mentioning Abū Saʿd and traders from al-Andalus. Mentions the geographical area of Jazāʾir al-Qurashī (also mentioned in T-S 16.13) and awaiting a group of people called al-Fīshāniyyīn or al-Fayshāniyyīn (also mentioned in Sassoon 713).
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2676LetterT-S AS 155.283
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: beginning of a letter (or report), followed by a poem in Arabic script, mentioning Baghdad, which may be part of the letter. Verso: rhymed continuation of the letter on recto, in which the writer recalls his meeting with the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva as well as other historical events.
1. נהר אלמלך נאחיתי : ושרחת ליהודהא קצתי : ומא גרי
2. מן קאעדתי ענד סידנא ראס אלמתיבה נור אל יעקוב :
3. תאג אסראייל : אלמכתץ אלמחבוב : אלמסתקים אלמחסוב
4. אלמנס…
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2677LetterT-S NS 163.73
Primary language
Arabic
Bottom of a letter addressed at least in part to a woman. In Arabic script. "... and I will come to Cairo. […] Whtever you want from [...], send and letme know so that I can bring it with me." Ends with an urging to respond quickly, then prayers for Muḥammad (ṣalwala) and a ḥamdala.
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2678LetterENA NS 19.6
Inferred date
1007–1055 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Shelomo b. Semah of Ramla to Efrayim b. […] Shemarya was active. Mentions someone called Faraj b. ʿAlī, who may have been persecuted by merchants (mā jarā ʿalayhi min al-shidda... dhālika min al-tujjār...).
ENA NS 19, f. 6 ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp.370-371 (Doc. #204), C.B. 01-28-88 (p) Fragment of a letter from Solomon b. Semah of Ramle to Ephraim b. Shemarya written in his own hand. (Gil) Ca. 1030
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2679LetterAIU IX.B.23
Document date
9 Iyyar 5545 Anno Mundi (19 April 1785 CE)
Primary language
Ladino
Letter in Ladino dated 19 April 1785 (9 Iyyar 5545), from Rubi[?] […] Two other individuals are mentioned within the letter: Yaʿaqov Naḥmias (l.4), Yehuda Gaʾon (l.5). Line eight mentions the cities Rashid and Ancona and line 13 mentions Izmir.
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2680LetterBL OR 5566B.11
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. This is a long, dense, and well-preserved family/mercantileletter. Mentions grains and produce in large quantities: 400 irdab wheat, and 600 irdab harvest. Also mentions large sums of money, a tax, probably capitation, and a record of something on a paper (kāghaẓa).
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2681LetterENA 2740.5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from 'the representative' (al-Nāʾib), in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid, presumably in Fustat. […] He reports on previous correspondence and messengers ([...] al-Ḥalabī, Ṭāhir, and ʿAbd al-Baqī) and confirms receipt of the Nagid's letter and orders. He says he will obey immediately. He may mention Tinnīs (Ḥanes) and someone titled Nāṣir al-Dawla.
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1. ממלוך הד[רת . . . . . .] הנגיד הגדול נגיד . . . . . עם ייי צבאות
2. יכון כסאו לנצח יקבל קדמיהא וינהי בסאמיה[א . . . . . . .] . . . .
3. ] אלחלבי באל…
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2682Legal documentENA NS 33.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Fragment of a legal document mentioning [...] b. Menashshe and Shelomo and [...] b. Faraḥ and sums of money. Verso: Fragment of a legal document mentioning Abū l-Khayr Shelomo b.
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2683Legal documentMoss. VII,116.1
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment (upper part). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Involves the glazier (zajjāj) Elʿazar/Manṣūr b. Meshullam/Muslim/Musallam. Also involves [Abū l-]Faḍl al-ʿAsqalānī, a son named Ḥalfon, and a sum of dinars.
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2684LetterT-S AS 150.114
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter/petition Judaeo-Arabic. The sender may be complaining about his poor salary as a communal official; mentions 10 dinars; the community of Egyptians or people of Fustat (Miṣriyyīn), and "they established for me a negligible amount. . . and not a salary (rātib) that suffices. . . please letme know what arises. . . ." On verso alphabet writing exercises.
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2685LetterT-S AS 157.68 + T-S AS 157.67
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter, probably, though the layout is literary. Might be a literary text conveying the text of a letter. […] Dating: likely 15th century, based on the mention of the nuṣf fiḍḍa (first coined in 1415). […] disputes, illnesses, and medical treatment. Merits further examination. ASE
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2686LetterT-S K6.183
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter(s). Dating: late 18th or early 19th century. Most of the fragment contains literary-seeming Hebrew text, but this is followed by a note with regards to various family members signed by David ha-Levi ʿAjamī and another note signed by the well-known merchantMeir ben Naʿim, whose wife has just had a baby boy.
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2687Legal documentT-S Misc.34.42
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). Mentions "all that my son left" (when he died?)
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2688Legal documentT-S NS 224.53
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE) involving a freedwoman (המשוחררת) named Ikhtiṣār, who is mentioned in Appendix 1 of Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt.
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2689LetterJRL L 33
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic sent by Nissim Meshish to [Mercado] Karo and [Shimʿon] Franses, in Cairo.
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2690Legal documentENA 4011.11
Inferred date
1127–1138 CE
Primary language
Aramaic
Geṭ ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. […] The widow is named Mufaddā bt. Menashshe ha-Levi. Her late husband is Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi, and the brother who performs the ḥaliṣa is Moshe b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi.
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2691LetterENA 3917.6
Primary language
Arabic
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions the faqīh Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maghribī al-Anṣārī; mentions a funduq. Seems to be discussing a legal issue. Needs further examination.
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2692LetterMoss. IV,60.1
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto).
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2693Legal documentT-S AS 220.78
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably a bill of release. Mentioning the inheritance of Abū ʿImrān. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)..
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2694Legal documentT-S NS 225.35
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a legal deed, probably a bill of release, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Name mentioned: [Ab]ū l-Ḥasan.
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2695Legal documentT-S NS 338.65
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Draft, with many corrections. Concerning someone's will. Mentions Abū l-Wafā "my sister's son."
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2696LetterENA NS 36.15
Inferred date
1800–1850 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps an unsent draft. Dating is early 19th-century based on the letter recipients mentioned in the heading, Ḥayyīm and Avraham Cesana, who are known from a wide variety of other fragments and resided in Alexandria. Saʿadīa Pinto is also mentioned in the body of the letter. MCD.
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- 19th c
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2697Legal documentT-S NS 224.48
Document date
1434 Seleucid (4 September 1122–21 September 1123 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Narrow strip from the left side of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1434 Seleucid = 1122/23 CE. Disposing of the estate of the late Ḥassūn. Mentions Abū Saʿīd; Abū ʿAlī; Ṣedaqa; and it seems the raising of an orphan daughter (ויתולא תרביתהא).
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- halfon b. menashshe
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2698LetterT-S NS 292.62
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Upper part of a letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He says he is doing well and thanks God for something having to do with his brother Abū l-Ḥasan (=Yedutun ha-Levi). Verso also contains an earlier document in Arabic script, which mentions wheat and may be a fiscal account.
Recto:
1. لے
2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקאכם
3. ואדאם עזכם ונעמאכם
4. ומן חסן אלתופיק לא
5. אכלאכם וזכאכם שנים
6. רבות ושנים נעימים
7. למען שמו ואלדי תרידו
8. עלמה אני מן פצל אללה
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- moshe b. levi
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2699LetterT-S 10J24.4
Document date
12 November 1141 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was written in the 12th of November 1141. […] In addition: "I and every human being in the house was ill for forty days. I have not left the house. . . . Your letter arrived in which you asked me to deliver the bales of silk to Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Bahgdadī al-Laffāt. […] See Goitein's note card #27107, and Med Soc V, 103.
recto
1. בשמ' רחמ'
2. לו דהבת אצף לחצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלסייד אלנביל
3. אלפאצל אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם תא[יי]דהא ועלאהא
4. וסמוהא וארתקאהא וכבת באלדל חסדתהא וא…
recto
1. בשמ[ך] רחמ[נא].
2. לו ניסיתי לתאר להדרת אדוני השיך המפואר ביותר, גבירי האציל,
3. המצוין – יאריך ה' את חייו ויתמיד את עצמתו ועליונותו
4. ורוממותו וגדולת…
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- epidemic
- ib-untranslated-eng
- ib4
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
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2700LetterT-S AS 178.14
Primary language
Arabic
Fragment of a letter from a child to a father ("yā wālidī"). May mention a meeting with a cantor (la-qad ijtamaʿa al-ḥazzān....) and mentions pounds of meat (arṭāl laḥm...).
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