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301LetterT-S Ar.54.23
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from a certain Yūsuf who is ill. In Judaeo-Arabic, with erratic handwriting and spelling, difficult to read. He explains why he couldn't come. …
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Tags
- charity
- dimme
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: colic
- (+ 2 more)
1 Discussion
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2024
PGPID
39328
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302LetterENA 1822a.46
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic script concerning a governor, a bishop and monasteries. In the formal third-person address, the writer apologizes for sending the request in writing …
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Tags
- bishop
- decree
- fatimid
- monastery
- petition
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1 Transcription 1 Translation
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2016
PGPID
11235
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303LetterT-S Ar.54.23
Primary language
Arabic
Verso: Letter of appeal for charity addressed to al-Rayyis Yūsuf. In Arabic script, calligraphic with large letters. Asking him to bestow two garments (thawbayn) on …
Verso
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. يخدم المجلس العالي المولوي
3. المخدومي الاجلي المحترمي
4. الريسي ريس العلامة يوسف
5. ادام الله سعادته وينهي
6. المملوك رجل سعلوك وف…
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Tags
- charity
- dimme
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: colic
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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304State documentENA 1179.29
Primary language
Arabic
Report or petition to a Fatimid caliph or vizier, opening blessings only. Dating: ca. 1100–71. Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal …
Tags
- badr al-jamali
- fatimid
- lost archive
- petition
- report
- (+ 2 more)
1 Transcription
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2017
PGPID
11076
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305LetterT-S 10J15.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter (petition) asking for help to free the writer’s brother who apparently had been incarcerated for failing to pay the capitation tax (here, called kharāj). …
1. ואלרחמה לכל אחד סימא למן יערפוה והוא ברכאת ותר . . . . יוסף אבן
2. אלמלהמי אכו סאביק אלחזן ר אל וקד כאן . עש פי פעל מולאי אשיך
3. וגאהוה עליה אילא אין מאת…
Tags
- 11th c
- capitation tax
- communal
- jaliya
- jizya
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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2004
PGPID
2862
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306LetterT-S AS 150.13
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Communal petition. Petition from a man claiming to be without shelter and saying he was living in a donkey's stable without anything to eat. He …
1. . . . . . . . ] .ך מעאני .[ . . . . . . .
2. . . . . . . . ]כדה ען כד . [ . . . . . . .
3. . . . . . . . ]אנא . ה . [ . . . . . . .
4. . . . . . . . ] אכתרה …
Tags
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: marad
- illness: poverty
- illness: sympathy
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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2020
PGPID
4184
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307LetterT-S 12.493
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a woman to the Head of the Jews, in Fustat. Dating: Early twelfth century (see explanation below). The writer asks the addressee to …
1. לנצח אן [
2. סתהם קד [תופית וליס מן]
3. ידברהם גי[רי ] אן הדה אלדינארין אלדי תוכד
4. פי מאונת[הם מא יחצל] מנהא גיר כסרה כבז פקט עלי
5. מ]וצע אלאמור ואיצא אן הונ…
Recto
[ ... May your rule last] for ever.
The grandmother [of the orphans so-and-so and so-and-so has died and there is now no one] who looks after …
Tags
- 12th c
- coming of age
- communal
- orphan girl
- orphans
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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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1989
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1666
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308State documentT-S Ar.40.16
Primary language
Arabic
Petition to an Ayyubid sultan from a Jewish physician. "The slave Makārim b. Isḥāq, the doctor. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. …
Recto
1. المملوك
2. مكارم بن اسحق المتطبب
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. يقبل الارض فينهى انه ممن نشا طبيبا ماهرا ف…
1. The slave
2. Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the doctor.
3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
4. (The slave) kisses the ground and reports that he …
Tags
- arabic script
- bimaristan
- khan
- makarim b. ishaq
- mediterranean people
- (+ 2 more)
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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2017
PGPID
8262
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309LetterT-S AS 170.226
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter/petition from a man to a group of judges asserting that he pays sufficient support to his wife [...] bt. Ḥayyim(?) b. [..]hā(?) and to …
Tags
- alimony
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- marital dispute
- petition
- (+ 2 more)
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2023
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310State documentT-S AS 150.3
Inferred date
1442 – 1442 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
State document, Mamluk period, 1442. Draft of a petition from the Jewish community of Fustat to the Mamluk government concerning the malpractices of ‘Abd al-Latif …
recto
1. אלממאליך גמאעה אליהוד רע[ייה
2. אלמקאם אלשריף ואלאסלאם אל[כרים
3. יקבלו אלארץ וינהו אנהם [פי] בל[א
4. עטים מן יום תולא [[עליהם]] עבד לטיף
5. אלמתטבב רייס …
Recto
(1)Your slaves, the Jewish community, the su[bjects] of your noble highness and of [gracious] Islam
(3-5) kiss the earth and report that they…
Tags
- 15th c
- communal
- draft
- mamluk
- petition
- (+ 2 more)
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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1986
PGPID
1301
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311State documentJRL Gaster ar. 360
Document date
1182 – 1197 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Draft of copy of a petition in Arabic script addressed to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Sayf al-Islām Ṭughtakīn, the second Ayyubid amir of Yemen (and brother of …
Recto
1. الى ديار اليمن
2. نسخة المنشو[ر](؟) الـ . . . . . . .
3. ىىسور(؟) يقدم بالمقام الاجل الملك العزيز //[سـ]ـيف الاسلام//
4. الاوحد المقدم الامير . . . . .…
Tags
- aden
- ayyubid
- india book (arabic)
- india book unedited
- petition
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1 Transcription
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2021
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33055
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312LetterENA 2806.10
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Petition to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (in office 1127–39). Begins with six lines of Hebrew blessings, and ends with one line of Hebrew blessings. The …
1. קד קצדת אללה תעאלי וחצרה
2. מורינו ורבינו אדונינו גאונינו מצליח הכהן ראש ישיבת
3. גאון יעקב יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון עולם אלהים
4. אלהינו יוסיף לו כבוד על כבו…
Tags
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: marad
- illness: poverty
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1 Transcription
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1986
PGPID
726
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313LetterT-S Ar.51.111
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Tammuz 1232 CE, and almost definitely 1232–37 CE. See below for explanation. Writer and addressee are unidentified. The writer dictated …
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]בקה אלל[ה] תעאלי וגמיע
2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
Tags
- 13th c
- avraham maimonides
- death
- excommunication
- petition
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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2021
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3909
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314LetterT-S 8J22.13 + T-S 10J6.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from Natan, a foreigner from Jerba (the island off the coast of Ifrīqiyya), who claims that he has been unjustly placed under house …
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]ת
2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
Recto
[...h]onor, gre(atness and) hol(iness), our mas(ter) and tea(cher) the great Dignitary [...] his welfare, [...ho]nored and precious, and whose …
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Tags
- communal
- debt
- house arrest
- petition
- state
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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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2004
PGPID
3041
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315LetterCUL Or.1081 J10
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Ibrāhīm, in Sunbāṭ, addressed to a Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting assistance for his family in time of need. His family members are all …
1. עבדהא אברהים אלמקים
2. בסנבאט
3. עבד הדרת הנגידות תכון משרתה לנצח ינהי אלי סאמיהא
4. אנה מקים בסנבאט וענדה אולאד ועאילה
5. ואלכל מרצא וקד קצרת ידה אן ינפק עליהי…
Tags
- appeal
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: poverty
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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1990
PGPID
2282
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316LetterT-S Ar.40.187
Primary language
Arabic
Letter of appeal/private petition in Arabic script. The writer, Faḍā'il al-ʿŪdī b. Baṣīla (?), had lived for 6 years in Alexandria until he had to …
Recto
مملوكه فضائل اليهودي بن بقيلة
2 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
3 عبدها يقبل يديها ويعرفها بان عبدها له اليوم
4 في اسكندرية ستة سنين مقيم باودي والجالية…
Tags
- appeal
- arabic script
- capitation tax
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- (+ 3 more)
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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2017
PGPID
8274
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317LetterL-G Glass 15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Calligraphic letter sent to a notable, possibly the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya, asking him to help Natan ha-Kohen, the legal representative of the writer's family, …
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]עיה ורעא[ה . . . [אללה
2. תעאלי יגעל פיך אלברכה וימלא בך מקום
3. אבותיך יא.[. . . .]חיאך אללה אנני אסאלך אן
4. תפעל מעי ל[. . .…
Tags
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: cost
- illness: eye
- (+ 3 more)
1 Transcription
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318Legal documentT-S 8J4.13 + T-S 20.92
Document date
1094 – 1095 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Three unsigned court depositions. Location: Damascus. Dating: July 1094 CE and March 1095 CE. They have to do with properties owned by the Zawbaʿa ("Tempest") …
A: TS 8 J 4, f. 13 B: TS 20.92
1. אלגרב מלכה איצא (ומן) אלשרק מלך נהאיה ברת סקר זוגה / חפאט בן
2. אלחבאל ומן אלשמאל איצא רואק משתרך ופיה אלבאב ואמא אלמרבט…
Tags
- damascus
- expropriation
- gizbar
- mahdar
- mazalim
- (+ 3 more)
1 Transcription 1 Translation 3 Discussions
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1989
PGPID
2096
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319State documentCUL Or.1080 J7
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Petition to the caliph al-Mustansir concerning the schism of 1038–42 between Shelomo b. Yehuda, the gaʾon of Palestine, and a pretender to the gaonate, Natan …
Verso, upside-down relative to Hebrew text
1. بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم العبيد ينهوا الى الموقف الشريف زاد الله شرف حالهم وذلك ان لما
2. جرى على ريسهم …
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Tags
- communal
- dimme
- draft
- efrayim b. shemarya
- katb shahada
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3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions
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1988
PGPID
4474
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320LetterT-S 10J20.8 + T-S 10J5.22
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya (in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1051 CE. He is worried for his status and thinks that people will prefer Yosef …
1. [ ]יה ותחקקה מעתקד [ ]
2. [ ו]קת תצלני כתב סיידי אלשיך אבו אסחק
3. [אברהם ישמרו] אלהינו [בר] דויד זכרו לברכה ממלוה בשכרה ادام الله
تاييده
1. משחנה באלדעא ל…
Tags
- 11th c
- communal
- daniel b. azarya
- gaon
- leadership struggle
- (+ 3 more)
4 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
In PGP since
1986
PGPID
1534
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321LetterT-S 13J21.3
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from the teacher Abū Yaʿqūb to an unknown recipient. Written in a good hand and pleasant style. This letter implores the addressee to …
1. כאדם חצרתה
2. אלמעלם אבו יעקוב
3. . . . . . ]ת אלכאלק תעאלי וחצרה
4. מול]אי אלשיך אלגליל אלהי ישראל
5. יצלח חאלה ויוסע רזקה ויכפיה
6. מוונה כל אדם //רע// ויגן עליו…
Tags
- arabic script
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: children's
- illness: nazla
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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2017
PGPID
3339
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322LetterT-S 10J19.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of appeal addressed to Shelomo ha-Nasi. The writer asks for assistance after having been arrested. He suffers severe poverty and illness and bedbugs (al-baqq). …
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Tags
- 13th c
- bedbugs
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
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No Scholarship Records
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2021
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33756
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323State documentT-S Ar.42.177
Primary language
Arabic
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
Recto
1. ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
2. وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
1. He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
2. At most times it is d…
Tags
- capitation tax
- disability
- disability: vision
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- (+ 4 more)
1 Transcription 1 Translation
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2018
PGPID
18562
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324LetterENA 3754.11
Primary language
Arabic
Petition. Dating: Late 16th or early 17th century, as it involves the well-known rabbi and judge Ḥayyim Kapūsī (1540–1631). The petitioner makes accusations against a …
Recto
1. يقبل الارض بين يدي الموافق العالية اعلاها الله تعالى
2. وينهي ان ثم رجل يهودي يسمى سعد بن العيصي كان ملتزم بمقاطعة الجوالي سابقاً فانكر عليه
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Tags
- 16th or 17th c
- capitation tax
- capousi
- corruption
- dimme
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1 Transcription
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2017
PGPID
12757
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325LetterT-S 13J13.16
Primary language
Hebrew
Petition to David b. Daniel from a destitute woman with no family and afflicted with a serious illness (leprosy, it seems). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. …
recto
1. יענך יי ביום צרה ישגבך שם אלהי יעקב
2. ישלח עזרך מקודש ומציון יסעדך
3. יחוס על דל ואביון ונפשות אביונים יושיע
4. לכבוד גדולת קדושת הדרת נזר ועטרת וש…
1. ‘The Lord answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!’ (Pss 20:2).
2. ‘May He send you help from the sanctuary, and …
Tags
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: face
- illness: isolation
- (+ 4 more)
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion
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2019
PGPID
3215
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326LetterT-S NS 321.11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of petition from a man to a potential benefactor: 'I hereby inform you that I have been in good health, "concealed" among the people …
Recto:
1. בש
2. עבד חצרה מולאי
3. אלשיך אבו סהל
4. יקבל ידיך וינהי אליך
5. אנה כאן מסתור בין
6. אלנאס באלעאפיה
7. פלמא אן אנפלגת
8. ידי בטלת מן מעיש
9. ובקית פי חאלה אללה
10. תעאל…
Tags
- appeal
- capitation tax
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- (+ 5 more)
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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2017
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327LetterENA 1822a.50
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of request in which the widow of Abu Sa'id b. Shalom, writing to a Nagid, expresses a cry for help on behalf of her …
1. אלעבדה אלממלוכה
2. אמראה אבו סעיד בן שלום נע
3. בש רח
4. והיה מעשה הצדקה שלום ועבודת הצדקה
5. השקט ובטח עד עולם
6. אן אללה תעאלי קד אהל סידנא אלנגיד
7. ירום הודו ויגד…
Tags
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: 40 days
- illness: eye
- (+ 5 more)
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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2017
PGPID
2595
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328LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/16
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Petition to Masliah Gaon from a woman wishing to have a divorce. Probably 1127 CE. Discussed in detail, with translation, in Oded Zinger's dissertation, …
Recto:
1. בשמ רחמ
2. יענך יי ביום צרה ישגבך שם אלהי יעקב וג
3. אעלם חצרה אדונינו גאונינו נזרינו וכתרינו ועטרת ראשינו
4. מצליח הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב יברכהו וי…
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Tags
- abusive marriage
- arabic script
- communal
- divorce
- illness
- (+ 6 more)
2 Transcriptions
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1986
PGPID
568
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329State documentBL OR 5552.2–2a
Primary language
Arabic
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Reporting that an official document belonging to an unnamed person (the -hū of kitābuhū) and dated 4 Rajab 523 …
Tags
- alexandria
- archival bifolio
- decree
- dimme
- glyph
- (+ 6 more)
1 Transcription
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2016
PGPID
30845
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330LetterT-S 8J15.3
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Petition of a cantor, son of a judge, who is sick and poor, asking God and a Nasi for help (the Nagid Mevorakh per Goitein's …
1. בשם רחמ
2. על כן מלאו מתני חלחלה צירים אחזוני כצירי יולדה
3. עד ישקיף ו[ירא ייי] משמים
4. חסדי יי כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו [רחמו (רחמיו)
5. שלום שלום מארץ השלום העו…
Tags
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: chronic
- illness: cost
- (+ 6 more)
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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1990
PGPID
1946
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331LetterT-S 12.303
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the wife of Shemuel, a poor woman from al-Maḥalla, addressed to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. She asks for assistance for herself and for her …
1. אלעב[דה
2. בש רח
3. עבדה ה[ד]רת אדוננו גאוננו מצליח הכהן ראש
4. ישיבת גאון יעקב ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו ויחליף
5. עליו למען שמו בזכר וימלא בו מקומו לקיים
6. מקרא שכ …
Recto
The sl[ave ...]
In (your) n(ame) O Me(rciful)
The slave of your e[x]cellency our lord and Gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen, head of the Academy of the P…
Tags
- appeal
- capitation tax
- charity
- communal
- disability
- (+ 6 more)
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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2017
PGPID
3124
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332LetterCUL Or.1081 J8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of appeal in the name of an old woman, whose mantle was stolen while she was about to wash it in the Nile, asking …
1. בש רח
2. אשריכם זורעי על כל מים משלחי רגל ה והח
3. אשרי שומרי משפט עושה צדקה בכל עת
4. ציון במשפט תפדה ושביה בצדקה
5. אעלם מואלי אלדיאנין נר ואלגמאעה ברוכים
6. יהי…
Tags
- charity
- communal
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: du'f
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333LetterT-S 10J18.15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Petition from Yefet ha-Melammed the schoolmaster to Avraham Maimonides; the latter's answer is on verso, lines 18–26. Yefet writes that he is ill and losing …
1. لے
2. צדיקים יירשו ארץ וג
3. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ באלמקאם
4. אלעאל אעלאה אללה ואסנאה
5. וזאדה נפאדא ואבקאה סידנא
6. ירום הודו מא יכפא ענה חאל
7. ממלוכה מן שדה אלמרץ וקל…
Tags
- appeal
- avraham maimonides autograph
- charity
- communal
- disability
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334LetterT-S 12.575
Document date
19 Adar 1538 Seleucid (16 March, 1227 CE)
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter on behalf of a Byzantine convert named Raḥel, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. The main part of the letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) …
1. בשם רחמ ממלוכתה רחל אלגיורת אלרומיה
2. תקבל אלארץ בין ידי [סיי]דנא אלדיאן כגק מרנו ורבנו אליהו הדיין תפארת
3. הדיינים אלהי ישראל יהיה בעזרו ועליו ישא נזרו…
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- avraham maimonides
- byzantium
- communal
- illness
- illness: changing name
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335LetterT-S 10J11.25
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a penniless woman, the widow of Abū Surrī, to Mevorakh b. Saadya (1094–1111). She begs him to come to her rescue in a …
1. בש [רח
2. אעלם חצרה [ס]ידנא אלרייס שר השרים נגיד הנגידים
3. עוז כל ב[ית יש]ראל יברכו אלהינו וישמרו ויהיה בעזרו
4. אני אמר[אה] אבו סרי רחמה אללה כנת קד זוגת א…
Tags
- 11th c
- al-afdal
- communal
- funeral
- illness
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