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Informal note addressed to 'the brother' R. Zekharya. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Is this Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writing to Abū Zikrī?) He asks him not to detain …
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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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Letter from Yosef, in Tripoli, Libya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. Although the address reads "from your son Yosef," the letter is written in …
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Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi b. al-Qaṭā'if to his brother Peraḥya discussing business matters, the illness and recovery of Abu al-Muna, a forwarded letter, …
Informal note from ʿAbd al-Karīm to R. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps Mamluk-era; Yemeni hand? The sender asks the addressee to urgently send his grandmother …
Letter describing two meetings with physicians. At least part of the letter is addressed to the sender's mother. The first meeting was a visit to …
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Letter written by a sick man who asks the recipient to buy him a female slave, for "I have no one to give me medicine," …
Letter from a son to his father with detailed description of his illness and recovery. Same writer and recipient as T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat …
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 …
IB VI, 41. Part of a cluster of letters (IB VI, 41-45) pertaining to Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid, whom Goitein describes as a "low-class India trader from …
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Letter from Shimʿon b. Shaʾul b. Yisraʾel ha-Ṭulayṭulī, in Jerusalem, to his sister Ballūṭa in Toledo. Dated at the last line: the month of Marḥeshvan …
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