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LetterT-S 6J11.11
Business note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the arrival of the merchants and a request that the addressee write something in his …
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LetterT-S 13J24.1
Recto: Letter sent from Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein describes it as a lovely family letter praising the town for its opportunities to make a living …
- . .]. . עלי [. . . .]ן מן אמי . . .
- מנך לאנהא כאיפה מן אללה וכל
- שוקהא [[ל]] בכם ומא ביעוזנא אלא
- נצרך והי מחתרקה אלקלב עלי נצרכם
- גמיע פלא תכשי אמר ומ…
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Legal documentENA 2558.31b
Cheque / order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 10 Kislev 1530 Seleucid, which is December 1218 CE. The beadle Abū l-Ṭāhir is to pay the …
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LetterMoss. 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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LetterT-S AS 145.108
Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in slightly broken …
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LetterT-S NS 305.15
Letter addressed to al-shaykh Abū l-[...] al-Yahūdī in Fustat. From his family members (maybe a brother?) outside of the capital. They urge him to come …
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LetterT-S Ar.35.300
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is in Sammanūd. On recto, there are greetings and expressions of longing, "We have not enjoyed a day of …
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LetterMoss. 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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LetterT-S H7.13
Most of the page contains series of poems. On one page there is a short note addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge from an in-law of …
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LetterT-S 16.290
A letter to Maimonides with his handwritten reply. The writer states that he has acquired a rudimentary knowledge of philosophy but needs an instructor to …
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LetterT-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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Legal documentT-S Misc.35.92
Legal query addressed to Rabbenu Ḥananʾel (b. Shemuel). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who became sick and had some mental confusion (ikhtibāl al-ʿaql wa-shughl al-dhihn) …
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Legal documentT-S 16.233
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (long vertical strip from the middle of the document). Dating: ca. 1135 CE, according to …
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LetterT-S 10J9.4
Recto (secondary use): Letter containing a poem addressed a dignitary. In Hebrew. Possibly a token of gratitude for help that the sender received. The letter's …
- بسم
- חן וחמלה ורוח והצלה וחכמה עם נחלה ושם ותהלה ויקר וגדולה ורנה
- וגילה ושמחה כפולה ורפאות תעלה והסרת מחלה ומילוי כל שאלה משוכן מעלה
- אל יסוד המעלה לי…
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LetterAIU VII.E.25
Letter from a certain Yehosef to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. Written on parchment in a crude Maghribī hand. In Judaeo-Arabic, with ~7 lines of possibly unrelated …
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LetterJRL Gaster ar. 352
Letter addressed to Abū Saʿd. In Arabic script. The sender begs for an urgent loan of 5 dirhams, because he is sick. He will try …
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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 …
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- 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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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 NS 32.14
Letter from Abū Sahl Levi probably to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer conveys the news that the adressee's brother Abū …
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- בש רח
- אללה תעלא לא
- יוחשני מן אלולד
- אלמבארך משה
- ויגמע אלשמל
- בה ברזק ואסע
- אמן ואן אכוך
- אלשיך אבו אל
- חסן עלי גמלה
- אלסלמה ואלעפיה
- מן פצל אללה
- ומא…
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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 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 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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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 3792.4
Letter from Umm al-Khayr, the widow of Eliyya al-Dimunshī, in Ragusa, Sicily, to her son Yehuda b. Eliyya in Fustat. Around 1060. The woman lives …
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מן עברתי אלדי אדא אתדכרת פל דכרך ופי א[ ]
תסבק כלמתי גמיע דאלך מן קוה חסרתי ומן א[ ]
אלשדיד ואשתיאקד אלבעיד פי בלד ל[א לה] [ו]ל[א] קריב ו…
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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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LetterT-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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LetterT-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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LetterT-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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LetterAIU 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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LetterBL 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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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/63
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks Dā'ūd b. Yehuda ha-Kohen to read out a letter of condolence—enclosed with the present letter—to Moshe ha-Kohen and his son Salāma …
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- כי שפתי כהן ישמרו דעת וג
- לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי
- אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין סט
- אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכהן החבר
- היקר ה…
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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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LetterMoss. IV,69.4
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a serious illness (marḍa shadīda). Might be two different letters in two different hands.
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LetterENA NS 2.15
Mercantile letter from an unidentified sender, probably in Alexandria, addressed to Abū Isḥāq [Barhū]n b. Mūsā (probably al-Tāhertī), somewhere where one buys flax (the Fayyūm?). …
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LetterT-S 6J11.6
Letter sent to a Nasi, possibly named Yishay, possibly in Acre. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th century, based on the mention of the judge Peraḥya …
- ]ביה שלומים וחן וחסד ורחמים ו . . [
- ] וינחילך תורת ה . . . . . . . . . . . . . [
- אב]רהם זקן בא בימים . . . . . [
- ] גליות ישראל . . . . . . . . . . […
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LetterAIU VIII.E.63
Letter from Yehuda b. Salama, probably in Ṣahrajt, to a certain Abū Saʿīd, in Fustat. Dated: Elul 4808 AM, which is August 1048 CE. In …
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כתאבי יאסידי וריסי אט[אל אללה בקא]ך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעארתך וציאנתך
וזאד מן אחסאנה אליך וגמל צנעך לך וענדך ברחמתה סבב תאכר כתאבי
ענך יאסידי …
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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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LetterENA NS 19.2
Recto: Letter probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father-in-law al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (beginning only). The sender's wife is very sick. …
- מן סבב . . . . . [
- אלמכין אבי אלפרג אדאם אללה עזה וגמע
- אלשמל בה נעלמה אן אלצגיירה //זוגתי// מריצה
- וא]נא פי שדה ש[ד]ידה . . . מלהא וסתהא
- . . . . . . …
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LetterT-S 8J24.6
Fragment of a letter (right margin, top and bottom cut off). First part discusses the plight of a 'humble' cantor and teacher of small children …
- ] ופיה אלברכה ויקים
- ] יעגב מנך אלדי מא חנית עליה יום כמא. . .יק
- ] לא אבעתת לה קט תחפה פכם יריד אלחזאן אלעניו
- ] שגל תקים בה והו יריד פצה אלכתאב וכלף …
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[...] the blessin[g] and remain [...] surprised that you did not take pity on him for a day, as befits [him] [...] you never sent him any gift…
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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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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,154.1
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. The writer excuses himself from something on account of his illness (ḍuʿfī) and worry (shughl sirrī).
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LetterMoss. VII,159.2
Letter from Ibn al-Nasr (the son of the eagle?) to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal substances. …
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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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LetterMoss. VII,188.3
Fragment of a begging letter addressed to Avraham Maimonides in the name of a poor, sick man.
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LetterJRL 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.
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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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