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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/75
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to ʿEli ha-Zaqen the Parnas. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. There are interesting opening blessings, including the phrase "zohar ḥashmalim." …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J269
Letter of appeal from Moshe to R. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic.
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LetterDK 238.1 (alt: IV)
Letter of appeal, begging for charity.
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LetterENA 2558.28
Letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355). Begins in Hebrew, then switches to Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had to mortgage part of …
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LetterENA 2747.14
Letter drafts addressed to a certain Shemuel. In Hebrew. Asking him for more money ("the peraḥ that you sent has already run out"). Dating: Probably …
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LetterENA 3205.1
Perhaps a letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Late. Mentions a woman whom the narrator married in order to save her from poverty.
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LetterENA 2808.23
Letter of for charity addressed to an official. In Hebrew. Mentions the heqdesh.
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LetterENA 2808.31
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Mostly blessings
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LetterENA 3776.1
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Possbly addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The sender is from a distant land. He set out …
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LetterENA 4100.11
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last leaf only. The writer is begging for an urgent loan or gift of 5 dinars, on Sunday. A sum of 20 …
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LetterENA NS 19.18
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The writer praises the addressee, expounds on his difficult circumstances, and asks for a loan of …
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LetterT-S AS 150.81
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Ahuv to [...] al-Levi. Appealing for charity or other assistance. (Information in part from CUDL)
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/26
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a begging letter. The conventional praises of the addressee are exceptionally eloquent and deferent. The addressee has evidently helped the writer …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J103
Appeal for charity by the scholar Mawhūb b. Ḥalfōn ha-Ḥaver Ibn al-Bunduqī (“the son of the Venetian”). The addressee's name is too damaged to read …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 13/11
Very faded document in Hebrew, probably a letter of appeal, as it mentions the writer's misfortunes and how he falls upon the mercy of the …
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LetterMoss. III,230
Letter of appeal for charity. Dating: Possibly 16th century.
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LetterAIU VII.A.36
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, possibly 18th or 19th century. Very long-winded, and full of kabbalistic drashes about Satan and …
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LetterT-S AS 159.124
Petition/letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to someone titled Ḥemdat ha-Nesiʾut, possibly the same person as Sayyidnā in l. 8. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The …
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LetterENA 4101.3a
Letter in Hebrew. Perhaps a letter of appeal for charity: the writer seems to be describing his poverty and pawning possessions.
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LetterENA NS 37.1
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably medieval, possibly an appeal for charity. The addressee seems to be Abū l-Surūr.
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LetterENA NS 53.5
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the person known as "the ḥedvat" (אלחדואת).
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LetterENA NS 59.33
Letter of appeal from Bū Saʿd al-Baghd[ādī] to two people. The Hebrew introduction and a few words of the Judaeo-Arabic body are preserved.
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LetterBL OR 10578M.13
Letter of appeal to the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi from a person newly arrived in Fustat requesting some food by way of charity.
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LetterT-S Ar.30.23
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yehuda b. Shelomo, the cantor of Damsīs, to an unidentified addressee, who is asked to …
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LetterT-S NS 304.43
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Makārim b. Abū [...] and a ḥaver.
- ] אן ימ[
- בקינא תאלפין מן אלערי ואלגוע ומא [
- אלנאס נטלב שי נאכל תכון(?) לנא שי נרגע [
- וכדלך כאן לנא ענד מכארם //אלדי יגבי . . // בן אב[
- טאלבנאה פי אל…
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LetterJRL Gaster ar. 394
Letter of appeal from Yefet addressed to al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. In Arabic script, with the sender's name in Hebrew script. He begs for a small sum …
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LetterENA NS 17.5
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Long, well-written, well-preserved. The sender, now fallen on hard times, may be referring to his own …
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LetterT-S Misc.28.18
Letter of appeal for public charity. In calligraphic Hebrew. The writer is a foreigner who wishes to return to his land, but has no money …
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LetterT-S Misc.8.26
Letter(s) of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are specific stories conveyed here, but the text is written in codex format—so maybe this is a …
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LetterT-S NS 320.119
Letter/petition from Moshe [...] to the "Nagid" [Shelo]mo. Begins in Hebrew, and transitions to Judaeo-Arabic. Probably this is a letter of appeal for charity or …
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LetterT-S NS 320.103
Fragment of a letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew, in a calligraphic, square book hand. The petitioner is unable to pay his (or her) …
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LetterT-S NS 320.85
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the names Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in …
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LetterT-S NS 163.93
Short letter of appeal for charity from a poor and sick man
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LetterT-S J1.32
Letter of appeal, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rhyming (-dī). On a reused list of various expenditures of the community. (See Goitein, Med Soc, II, App. A …
- כתאבי סידי זאדני אן כאד יואוגב לי
- אתזחל פי אלבלאד וכנת ארום אנה ליסנדא
- ונתתרו /ת/אסלך? סנאדי אנת תסמד פיהי בעד
- גרבתי ופקרי ואנפראדי פיא חצרתי לו ...…
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LetterENA 3721.2
Letter of appeal, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the addressee's brother who married a wife. Goes on to complain about the hardships of fate.
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LetterDK 321
Letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to a ḥaver. In Judaeo-Arabic with phonetic spellings (e.g., אלמותראתיף for المترادف and אלבֵרי for الباري and דיליך for …
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LetterDK 250
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains that Sayyidnā al-Rayyis and Abū Man[ṣūr?] al-ʿAfīf have cut off the payments with which they …
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LetterT-S NS J353
Letter of appeal for charity for assistance in moving to the land of Israel.
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LetterT-S 10J15.18 + T-S 8J18.25
Letter in Hebrew from Yusuf, a scholar with minimal assets and now in a perilous situation because of debts, dependents, and sureties on his behalf. …
- ] נתנו יד למצוא קורת
- רוח מן התלאה אשר מצאתנו ועתה רבותי תקרו נא נפשי ספחני [[ ]] ויודה
- נא הבורא למצוא חן בעניכם (!) לדברו באזני העם לעזר לנו ולהענקנ…
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LetterJRL SERIES B 5479
Letter of appeal in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks for something to cover himself with (ilā l-ghulām yataghaṭṭā bi-hi).
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LetterT-S 12.27
Letter fragment asking for a favor and stating that the writer relies on God and on the recipient for the solution of the matter. (Information …
- בן כב גדלת קדשת [ . . . ] . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- תנצבה וא . . . . . [ . . ] . רח [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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LetterT-S 8J17.10
Letter fragment addressed to a communal leader, a ḥaver. In Hebrew. Regarding a matter of inheritance (‘they are orphans and a widow’) and the writing …
- ליום מות שהוא א [
- וחס ושלום שיהיה [
- וימצאו חו . . . . .[
- ואם נעשה בקי ימצא שם [
- הלוי מכל מעש מבואר פי . . . [
- . מהל . . עתה עיני הכל עליך ת . . . [ …
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LetterT-S 6J7.18
Bottom part of a begging letter asking for financial support, it seems reminding the collector (al-jābī) to collect the sums promised in a pesiqa. (Information …
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LetterT-S AS 131.141
Upper part of a letter. Likely addressed to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (שר השרים ונגיד הנגידים). Probably an appeal for charity. The introductory praises are in …
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LetterStras. 5138/23
Most of an eloquent letter of appeal in rhymed Hebrew addressed to Abu l-Faraj Amram b. Levi. The body of the letter begins about 2/3 …
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LetterT-S 8.35
Letter from Sason b. Shemuel to a notable named Elʿazar (or perhaps [...] b. Elʿazar). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender alludes to his bad …
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LetterMoss. II,183.1
Recto: A Hebrew letter begging for charity on Purim, invoking the tropes of hunger and nakedness. The writer suggests that the addressee himself 'or one …
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LetterMoss. II,187.2
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Rabbenu Meshullam, congratulating him on the holidays, and it seems begging for help with travel expenses. The …
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LetterMoss. IV,157
Letter of appeal from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef to an unknown addressee. The first 2/3 consists of rhymed Hebrew praises for the addressee. In the body …
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LetterMoss. II,145.2
Recto: Very brief letter of appeal. "May [God] except you, my lord, last year you gave us a dinar, the price of two robes (maqṭaʿayn). …
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