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LetterJRL SERIES B 4263
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness (maraḍ) and aṣḥābunā.
- ] . . . . בקאך ואדאם
- ] חאל סלאמה ועאפיה
- ] . חאל אנה ולי דאלך
- ] בה אנני כרגת מן
- ]ל מרץ אלא אסאעה
- כ]תיר ואיצא אנמא(?) כרגת
- ] . . קאת בעצהא פי אל
- א]צחא…
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LetterJRL SERIES A 864
Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning that the addressee recovered (naqahtu) from an illness. Also mentions Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm [al-Q?]ābisī.
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- על שמך
- ו[צלת] כתבך יא שיכי וסידי . . . . . . . . [
- מ . . א עלי מא סררת בה מן נ . אם חאלך ו[
- הו אלוקת אלדי נקהת מנה(?) מן מרץ כאן אול . [. . .…
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View document detailsLetterMoss. VII,185.1
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Neither sender nor addressee are named. The first half consists of good wishes for the addressee's recovery from illness and the writer's …
- קד עלם בוחן לבבות וכליות מא עלי קלבי
- מן מרץ מולאי רופא חנם ישלח דברו
- וירפאהו וימלט משחיתות נפשו ויוקף לה
- אלצדקות ואלמעשים טובים אלדי יפעלהא
- הו ומולא…
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LetterJRL SERIES B 3848
Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is typical to the 13th century, and is probably that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu …
- יקבל אלארץ אמאם מגלס אלמולי אל[מו]פק אלסייד אלאמין
- אלנפיס אלראיס אלאדיב אלפהים אלואלד אלגליל אלאציל אלחכים
- אבו עלי דו אלפכר ואלמעאלי סייד אלחכמא תאג…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/80
Note of a person confined to his house owing to illness this evening, requesting a friend to lend him the Book of Creation by Saadya. …
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- יא מולאי וסידי אעלי אללה קדרך ואגרי אלי אפצל מא תכתארה גמיע
- אמרך לולא פרץ (?) צעף לחקני הדה אלעשיה לכנת מכאן
- כתא{ב}תי (??) הדה אליך ראגבא פי …
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LetterT-S AS 169.251 + T-S AS 151.205
Letter fragment (two pieces comprising the lower left corner). The sender mentions that he was sick with a fever and cold and nobody (or nobody …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J361
Letter from Eli b. Yakhin, probably from Alexandria, to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Aaron, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding money and payments, including a debt of 50 …
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בשרח
כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה סלאמתה וסעאדתה ונעמאה
וכבת באלדל אעדאה ומן אחסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה וכאן לה ומעה ולייא
ונאצרא …
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LetterENA NS 60.18
Letter of appeal or recommendation addressed to Moshe ha-Kohen. The introduction is in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that the bearer …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/45
Letter addressed to Abū Sahl ha-Levi (the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, who died in 1211), with greetings also to his brothers Moshe …
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LetterENA 1157.23
Business letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Not mentioned in the literature. Avraham b. Yamān is mentioned. The sickness of …
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LetterENA 3792.5
Letter from Shemarya to his brother Yaʿaqov. Written in non-fluent Hebrew (e.g. uses אהיה as a copulative when there is no need; and more). The …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Ar.13.15
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 12th–14th century. "When the letter arrived which you sent with the wife of my maternal uncle to Ibn Ṣaghīr …
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View document detailsLetterBL OR 10794.16
Letter of appeal for charity. There are 10 lines of flowery Hebrew praises for the recipient followed by a space and then six lines of …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS 225.12
Letter from Yosef to his brother Elʿazar aka Abū Manṣūr b. Abū l-Surūr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Fragment (upper part of …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J480
Recto: Beginning of a letter/petition addressed to a judge named Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic, with three Hebrew biblical citations at the top. The sender has sent …
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LetterT-S NS J95b
Letter to the judge Peraḥya (b. Yosef?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender (also a judge?) woke up sick, so instead of coming to work he sends …
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View document detailsLetterAIU VII.E.167
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Rudimentary spellings. The sender expresses concern about the addressee's illness and the capitation tax (kharāj); also mentions describe …
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LetterT-S 10J18.6
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father-in-law Abū l-Faraj. The addressee's daughter Sitt Ghazāl is well. Shelomo writes that when two letters went unanswered, …
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LetterMoss. VII,160.1
Letter in which the sender addresses a cantor, who has been sick, and whom the writer has not recently seen, and from whom he now …
- פארקת מולאי אלחזאן אלגליל נט רח
- והו עלי מא כאן עליה מן אלוגע
- ואלי אלאן לם נגתמע וקלבי בה
- משגול אללה לא ישאהדני פיה
- מכרוה וסאלתה יתפצל ינפד אליי
- מא כ…
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View document detailsLetterMoss. VII,188.3
Fragment of a begging letter addressed to Avraham Maimonides in the name of a poor, sick man.
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LetterENA 2744.4
Upper fragment: Letter fragment addressed to Ṣadaqa ha-Ḥakham. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer conveys his sympathy for the addressee's illness. He mentions that R. Sasson has …
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View document detailsLetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/17
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is recovering from illnesses and is in difficult financial straits. He asks for a loan of 62 dirhams. Dating: likely …
- ירום] הודו ויגדל
- כבודו . . . . . . . . . . .] . מולנא אן אלשיך . . . . . אכד
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] ען שהרין מן [אלשיך] אלסדיד
- . . . . . .…
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LetterT-S 13J21.15
Letter, draft, from Shelomo to Avraham ha-Sar, Ner ha-Maʿaravi, in childish script. He is unable to come because his father is ill. Information from Goitein's …
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LetterT-S 13J18.5
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov the judge, whom he calls his son. He writes about some small business matters …
- בשמך רחמנה
- ברוך הגבר אשר יבטח בייי והיה ייי מבטחו בורא
- ניב שפתים שלום שלום לרחוק ולקרוב אמר ייי ורפאתיו
- ישא ייי פניו אליך וישם לך שלום ואמרתם כה לאח…
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LetterT-S 13J18.9
Letter from Shabbetay b. Moshe to Peraḥya b. Sasson 'ḥemdat ha-yeshiva'. Mainly in Hebrew, with a few phrases in Judaeo-Arabic and part of the address …
- בש רח
- אשרי כל ירא יהוה ההלך בדרכיו
- אשרי תמימי דרך אשרי ההוגים
- בתורת יהוה יומם ולילה
- משמים שלומות יאספו שרים ברכות יתוספו
- הצלחת מעשים יתעופפו בנאות ד…
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LetterT-S 8J33.7
Upper part of a letter from Musa b. Yusuf b. Nissim, possibly to Ishaq al-Nafusi (line 8), who had written regarding the wife of his …
- ממלוכה שאכר תפצלה
- מוסי בן יוסף בן נסים נע
- בשמ רחמ ותשועת צדיקים מיוי וג
- וצלת כתב מולאי וסיידי וסנדי ועזתי ואעתמאדי אטאל אללה
- בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ו…
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LetterT-S 12.227
Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, in a city in middle Egypt, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 11th century. The covering …
- כתאבי אליך יאשיכי ורייסי וגלילי ...[אטאל אללה בקא]ך ואדאם נעמאך ותולאך
- ורעאך ומן תופיקה לא אכלאך ען חאל [סלאמה לא עדמתהא ונע]מה לא כלות מנהא ואלחמד …
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LetterT-S 12.389
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, in Fustat, to Khallūf b. Mūsā, in Palermo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמאך מן אל
פצטאט לה איאם מצת מן אייר ערפך אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה ברחמתה
ואלח…
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View document detailsLetterT-S 8K13.5
Short letter from Bū l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), Fustat, to Bū l-Futūḥ (Yehuda b. al-ʿAmmānī), Alexandria. Meir reports that he received the letter containing the …
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LetterT-S 8J19.23
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣedaqa (Jerusalem) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Dating: 10 March 1064 CE (Gil). Abūn mentions that he is unable to travel …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS 99.7
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter addressed (in Arabic) to Abū l-Ḥasan Bishr b. Hilāl al-Baghdādī. The writer refers to his illness ([mā] anā ʿalayhi min …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J139
Letter addressed to the Nagid Abū l-Faḍl Shemuel (= Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Evidently a letter …
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LetterT-S 8J15.12
Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to his son Shelomo (Abu l-Barakāt). The writer asks Shelomo to come immediately to his mother, who is ill, because …
- יברכך ייי מציון ואלדה אליהו היב'
- אעלם ולדי אבו אלברכאת רזקה אללה אלברכאת
- אנני עמלת פי הדא אלעיד מצוה עצימה יכאפיני
- אללה בהא חית אנני אפתרק תמנה (?) …
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View document detailsLetterT-S AS 145.19
Informal note in Hebrew. Asking for money for supporting the sick people (?חולין) in the writer's household. (Information from Goitein's index card)
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LetterT-S AS 146.182
Letter fragment (lower part of recto). The recipient's brother-in-law is to pay something to Ḥayyim b. [...]. The writer urges the recipient to help him, …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J26
Letter in which an heir informs his correspondent that no one, the government included, had any claim on his inheritance and adds that his case …
- בשמ
- תקדם כתאבי אליך יא סיידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
- נעמאך אעלמתך פיה וצולנא אלי קוץ ואן מצית בתוקיע
- אלי מולאי אלקאצי יוגת (!) פיה אן מא להם ואר…
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LetterT-S 13J24.18
Letter sent from Fustat by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan to Sitt Rayhan, expressing concern about her health (r3–11, v20, address), dealing with a house of …
- אלי סת ריחאן וגה אללה להא באלעאפיה
- וגמע שמלנא בהא קריבא במנה
- נעלמהא אן מא יעלם אחד מא עלי
- קלובנא מן אגל מרצך ולם יתגדד
- לנא כתאב ולא כבר יטמן קלובנא …
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LetterT-S 13J35.13
Letter from Abū l-Riḍā to his brother Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Asking for urgent help with "ghathth al-bayt" (a problem …
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LetterENA 1822a.32
Half of a letter (left side of recto, right side of verso) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He …
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- ]ים
- ] יהיו תמימים
- ] שוק אליכם ומן כוני
- ]עא. . .[. .] ביננא עלי כיר
- סל]אמה ואלעאפיה מן פצל אללה תעאלי
- ]י אן לילה אלעיד לחקני לכם וחשא
- ]כם אלי …
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LetterT-S 12.38
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. The Arabic document is the first page of a letter. The formulaic greetings extend to three lines from the bottom, …
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LetterENA NS 12.12
Letter, draft, very cursve and hard to decipher. Mentions an illness, a ghulām. Telling a narrative. Recto contains few words in large Arabic script. Also …
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LetterENA 2808.25 + T-S AS 148.117
Recto: Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe to his 'brother' Abū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a previous rebuke; the arrival of the physician …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Ar.40.117
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Possibly a draft, as it is covered with subsequent jottings. Addressed to 'the brother' Abū l-ʿAlā' (this is not completely …
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LetterMoss. V,353.1
Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the …
- וחק אלשריעה לו כשפת חאל מולאי לקד כנת תרתי לה ממא הו פיה
- מן אלשדה ואלהמום אלתי עליה ואנת אלטביב אלמאהר ואנא
- אלמריץ בין ידיך אפעל מעי לאגל כאלקך תדאפ…
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LetterMoss. VII,159.2
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal …
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LetterT-S 6J2.30
Letter from Yeḥezqel, unknown location, to Avraham ha-Melammed, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to find out from Abū l-Bahā' if …
- ב
- חצרה אלשיך אלאגל אלתלמיד אלגליל ר אברהם המלמד החכ[ם
- והנבון שצ מכצוצה באגל סלאם מן כאדמהא אלדאעי להא
- יחזקאל וינהי אלי גלאלהא אנה כאן סאל תפצלהא פי …
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Legal documentT-S NS 327.51
Legal testimony. The witnesses have examined (bāsharū) the Jew Ibrāhīm b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, and found that he had developed leprosy (judhām) on account of a …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- شهد من يضع خط واثبت اسمه وهو المسلمون [الاحرار]
- الامنا والمقبولو القول في سهادتهم انهم باشروا ابراهيم بن بو العلا
- اليه…
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View document detailsLetterMoss. VII,150.2
Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yijū to Saadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Fragment. Dating: ca. 1160s. Same writer and addressee: Moss. VII,152.1, ENA 4020.1, ENA …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Ar.35.276
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower part only). In lines 2–3 there is a report on the illness of a woman, who is now doing …
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LetterT-S AS 152.227
Letter of appeal for charity. Fragment (upper part only). The op line is in Arabic script (the address?), and the rest in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender …
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