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LetterT-S 8.258
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a certain Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥassūn. The writer recounts the legal proceedings following somebody's death and various people bearing false testimony. …
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LetterT-S 13J21.13
Letter sent by a son to his father in a silk shop in Minyat al-Qa'id. He inquires about the eye disease of the addressee and …
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- בשמך רחמנה
- קד עלם אללה תעלי מא עלי קלבי מן חצרה
- מולי אלואלד אלאגל אטאל אללה בקאהא
- ואדאם תאיידהא ועלאהא ותמכינהא
- וכבת אעדאהא ומציהא עלי תלך
- אלח…
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LetterStras. 4110/90
Complete letter in the same unmistakeable hand as several others (see the tag). In other letters, he writes to his father in Minyat Qa'id and …
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LetterT-S 10J11.7
Letter (draft) from individuals in physical discomfort, appealing for help. The writers may be lepers, as they refer to their flesh being damaged and their …
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LetterT-S 12.415
Letter sent from Alexandria by a father to his son, who had run away to the army, trying to bring him back. (Information from Goitein's …
- אלדי אעלם בה ולדי ולעזיז עלי [ו]ענדי קרב
- אללה אלאגתמאע בה קר/י/ב אן שא אללה
- וגיר דאלך מא עמל אחד קבלך ולא בעדך
- מא עמלתה אנא מעך קבל ספרך ביומין וקת …
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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 …
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LetterMoss. II,103.2
Fragment of a family letter, same writer and addressee as T-S NS 338.71, mainly rebuking the addressee for the lack of letters. "Your mother and …
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LetterMoss. II,123.2
Fragment of a business letter, probably sent from Qūṣ (between lines 1 and 2). Mentions "the 8th of Shuwwāl, which is Shevat"; the writer's preoccupation …
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LetterT-S 8J40.5
Letter from Yefet b. Shemuel to Moshe ha-Sar b. Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding the affairs of scholars and inquiring about the needs of a little …
- ממלוכה ואכוה
- יפת ביר שמואל
- . . . שומר מצוה לא ידע דבר רע ועת ומשפט ידע
- . . . כל הנסתרים בש יעלם שדה אשתיאקה ללמולא אל[דיי]ן אלגליל
- כגק מרינו ורבינו …
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LetterT-S Ar.42.146
Letter of condolence from Abū Naṣr to his brother's son ʿImrān. In Arabic script. Aodeh notes that the introduction contains formulae similar to those in …
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LetterT-S Ar.48.113
Letter fragment to an unidentified physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is notable: written in a narrow column, with the width of the margin almost equal …
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LetterT-S AS 147.54
Letter to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee had left when she was ill (marīḍa). The writer mentions Sulaymān, whom they had not seen for …
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LetterT-S Ar.7.28
Letter probably from a man, in Jerusalem, probably to a woman named Marḥaba, perhaps in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with many colloquial forms (incl. the suffix …
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LetterT-S AS 148.7
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks Abu l-Ḥasan to give the (medicinal) syrup that he kindly cooked to the young boy for delivery. (Information from Goitein's index …
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- אלמולי אלשיך אבו אלחסן שצ ידפע ללצגיר
- אלשראב אלדי תפצל אלמולי בטביכה פאן
- אלממלוך שאכר לה אבתדא ואנתהא שלמה
- עבדו
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- ...בה אללה שצ
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LetterT-S 12.31
Letter sent from a village to the capital asking for news and discussing shipments as well as what appear to be seasonal laborers. The writer …
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- בשמך רח
- תקדמת כתבי אלי חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלואלד [ . . . . ] אללה [ . . .
- כמא לא אשך בוקופה עליהא ואלדי אוגב אצדאר הדה אלאחרף תוגה
- מיכאל …
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LetterENA NS 31.5
Letter, possibly a draft, from a man to his family members Moshe and דאני(?). The relationship is unclear: at one point he addresses "my father" …
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LetterT-S 13J7.12
Verso: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. He has arrived safely (presumably from Fustat to Qalyub). He tells the addressee to take …
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LetterT-S AS 215.344
Petition from a woman to a group of men, presumably communal leaders: [...] wa-sādatī wa-l-ʿazīzīn ʿalayya wa-ʿindī. She says "I am perplexed (wa-anā ḥāʾira) and …
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LetterT-S 13J17.2
Letter from Yosef b. ʿEli ha- Kohen al-Fāsī, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. In the handwriting of Salmān b. Hārūn. Yūsuf b. …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה
מן אלמסתקר ערבה אלסכות אדרכך אללה אמתאלה אעיאד כתירה שמיח וטוב ל…
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LetterMoss. II,163.1
Letter from a woman to a female family member. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Ibn al-Rayyis Abū l-B[arakāt] (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu); the addressee's sister; "he does not …
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LetterENA 3796.11
Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his brothers Yūsuf and Ibrāhīm, unknown location. He blames his delay on the ״כר״ that belongs to Baqā', …
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LetterDK 311 (alt: 3, 6)
Business letter from Shelomo b. Avraham [. . .] Ruqqī to Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. Shelomo Ruqqī. "Abū l-Faraj Nissim, the recipient of this letter, …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/46
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Būṣīr, to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tahirti and his cousin Barhun b. Mūsā, in Fustat. Dating: February 11, …
(יש כ?ן דברימ ש?י ? ברורי? מן הטקסט המודפס ויש לבדוק בכתב היד, ?ך ל?
מצ?תי ?ותו)
- כת?בי י? סידי ומול?י ?ט?ל ?ללה בק?ך ו?ד?? סל?מתך וסע?דתך וצרף ?ל
- ?ס…
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LetterT-S 16.36
Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Fustat, to Shelomo ha-Nasi b. Yishay, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1240 CE. The writer describes the difficult economic …
- וצל אלכתאב אלצאדר ען אלמגלס אל[..............] אלעאלי [.....
- שלנשיאנו שלמה......ל.. .אל... .ל אלמנפד מן בלביס ול[.
- .ואה. .דנא בוצולה אלא ענד נאמן אל…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 65/17
Business letter sent from Qayrawan by Efrayim b. Ismail, probably to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Awkal in Fustat (Gil) or from Ifrīqiya by 'Allush b. …
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] כתיר ואלכרא
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LetterT-S 16.163
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tahirtī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: August 3, 1063, based on Gil's assessment. …
- כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמהדיה ה(!) כלון מן אלול
- ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין וצלת כתבך פי אלמראכב ווק…
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LetterUPenn E 16522
Letter from a Jewish shipowner from Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1212 CE. He provides an exciting story about traveling to Cyprus but being diverted by a …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/36
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
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LetterT-S 8J41.1
Brief letter from a person in dire straits suffering from illness and lack of clothing, and unable to buy anything to eat for the upcoming …
- יקבל אלארץ וינהי בין ידי אל [ . . . . . . .
- אלאגל [ . . . . . . . . . . ] הבחור ביקר סט
- אלמנעם אלמתפצל עלי עבדה וגלט.
- פי כל וקת ואלממלוך שאכר מן
- . .…
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[...k]isses the ground and informs the most illustrious [...] “the Precious Chosen One,” (may your) e(nd be) g(ood), the beneficent, who acts k…
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LetterT-S AS 207.180 + T-S AS 207.198 + T-S AS 207.179 + T-S AS 207.178
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. All four fragments likely belong to the same letter. T-S AS 207.180 + T-S AS 207.198 is almost a direct join, and …
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LetterDK 230.4 (alt: 11, I)
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Ismāʿīl al-Iṭrābulusi, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Circa 1060. Discusses the import and export of goods through Ascalon. …
- כתבת אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה וחראסתה
- וכבת אעדאה מן עסקלאן לד כלון מן תשרי אללה תעאלא יתקבל מנה פיה
- צאלח אלדעא ויעיד עליה שנים…
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LetterENA 2804.4
Letter fragment on behalf of the lepers of Tiberias to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fustat.
- שלום] ממלאכי השלום וסוכת שלום
- אוהב שלו]ם ורודף שלום הוא כבוד גדולת
- [קדושת מר ור אפ]רים החבר היקר והנכבד והמיוקר
- ] בן כב גק מרנא ורבנא שמריה רוח
- [יוי…
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LetterENA 4100.12
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. Written in Hebrew (the opening poem and formulae) and Judaeo-Arabic (the body). The writer cites …
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LetterENA 4100.8a
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Abūn conveys a detailed tale of a serious falling-out with another merchant and urges …
Letter from Abon b. Tsedakah, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat(ENA 4100, f. 8, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 3, pp. 252-256 (Doc. #503))2-23-87 JH(P)…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. e 98/73
Letter, Somewhat cryptic. "As for what you mentioned about the istiʿmāl and the musakhkhināt (warming drugs?) and the [...], and as the 'season' (of illnesses?) …
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LetterT-S 13J23.2
Letter from Efrayim b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1070 CE. The writer owns several apartments in Alexandria and …
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וצל כתאב מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה נטרוהי מן שמיא וגברוהי למזלי ווקפת עליה ושכרת אללה
גל אסמה עלי מא תצמנה מן עלם סלאמתה וסאלתה אדאמתה…
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LetterT-S AS 152.34
Letter to a doctor with his reply (CUDL). "Medical enquiry to a doctor with his reply. This document type is a responsa type dealing with …
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LetterBL OR 5544.4
Letter of Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq to the eminent scholar Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel (the Spaniard). The entire letter is a refu'a shelema for the Rayyis Abū …
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LetterT-S Ar.40.84
Verso (secondary use): Petition/letter of appeal for charity in Arabic script. From Manṣūr. The sender and his family have perished from illness (maraḍ, awjāʿ), poverty, …
Margin:
- [المملوك]
- منصور
Top:
- يقصد الله تعالى ويقصد مولانا
Margin:
- المملوك
- منصور
Main text:
- قد علم الله تعالى ان ما له وجه يتجه به اليه
- الى باب…
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Legal documentENA NS I.70
Upper part of a letter by Berakhot b. Shemuel mentioning his being cut off from the recipent on account of his illnesses, including ophthalmia at …
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LetterHalper 419
Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
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LetterENA NS 4.17
Family letter in Hebrew. May be in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. The writer sends wishes for the recovery of a woman in …
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LetterENA NS 42.8
Letter of appeal. The writer states, "The illness was enough for me, and then the capitation tax assailed me." The tone is aggrieved; he complains …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/31
Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Yiṣḥaq Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with the death of Ḥalfon's brother …
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- יא מולאי וסידי עמאדי ודכירתי אלפאצ'ל אלאסעד אלחכים אלאמגד
- ומן אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמתה וארתקאה וסמוה וסנאה ובסטתה
- ונמוה ועלאה ובלגה ובלג פיה…
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LetterT-S NS J29
Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Alexandria, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dating: Shortly before 1227 CE. Abū Zikrī tries to …
- ולא עדם בקאה
- שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך ואין למו מכשול
- וצלת [[כתב]] כתב אלמולי אלסייד אלאגל אלואלד
- אלאעז אלאכץ אלמפצל אלמכרם אלמחתרם
- אלמחסן אלמנעם אלמתפצ…
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LetterENA 1822a.3
Recto: Letter from a teacher to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 11th or early 12th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Bishr …
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- בשמ רחמ
- צבח אללה מולאי אלפרנס אלנאמן באנעם צבאח ו . . . .
- וכפאני פיה כל מחדור ואחיא ולדה קד עלם אלכאלק
- תעאלי דכרה מא אנא פיה מן ציקה דאת אליד…
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LetterT-S 10J25.3
Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Thābit), "the Glory of the Cantors," in Fustat. Dated: 14 …
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- בשמ' רחמ' אלדאעי ללה בכמאל עאפיתה יהודה המלמד
- אלי אלמולא אלשיך בו אלמגד כגק' מר' ור' מאיר השר היקר החזן תפארת
- החזנים חפטה אללה וגמלנא גמיע בב…
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LetterT-S NS 320.11 + T-S NS J209
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī ha-Levi to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. Hillel al-Ḥalabī. The sender reports that he arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday after …
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LetterT-S 13J23.14
Letter from Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef (active 990s–1030s CE), in Qayrawān, to his brother-in-law ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim. The sender reports that the addressee's son …
- אטאל אללה אכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי בקאך וחפצך ווקאך ואדאם נעמאך
- כתאבי אליך ערב צום כיפור תקבלה אללה מנא ומנך ומן כל ישר באלגפראן ואלרצואן
- ען סלאמה ועאפי…
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LetterMS 8254, fol. 21
Verso: Letter of appeal from a poor man [...] ha-Levi addressed to the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300) or David II Maimonides (r. 1355–1410). …
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