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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 103/41
Legal record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. On 27 Kislev, the blind woman Sitt Ṣāfī receives from Abū l-Makārim Jābī l-Rubʿ 10 dirhams …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J213
Letter from Moshe b. Nissim to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks the addressee to sell on his behalf four copies of th She'eltot …
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LetterMoss. IV,4
Letter of appeal for charity from Manṣūr b. Ibrāhīm Ibn Naḥum to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender opens by mentioning that …
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Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J48
Recto: Letter of recommendation addressed to Aharon ha-Ḥazzan. In Hebrew, calligraphically written. Headed with the title 'Rosh ha-Seder.' Requesting that Aharon look after a blind …
ULC Or 1080 J 48 + TS 8 J 22, fol. 14 + ENA 4011, fol. 25, ed. S. D.Goitein, "The Communal activities of Elhanan b. Shemarya" (Hebrew),Jos…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterENA 2727.35 + ENA 2560.9
Letter from Natan ha-kohen b. Mevorakh, Ashkelon, to Avraham b. Elazar, Fustat. Dated 1130. This is a letter of recommendation for a man who recently …
ENA 2727.35
בשמ רחמ 1
עבדא אלחצרה אלסאמיה אלאגליה אלתקתיה אל[…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterENA 2560.9 + ENA 2727.35
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh and one other person, in Ashqelon, to Avraham b. Elʿazar, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1130 CE. Bottom missing. …
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LetterT-S 8J16.29
Letter written by a Byzantine scribe in Egypt on behalf of an unnamed blind man, addressed to a charitable administrator called ‘Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim …
לכבוד גדולת קדושת הדרת נזר ועטרת 1
אל מרנא ורבנא עלי הפרנס הנאמן החכם והנבון 2
הצדיך התם הישר שעשה עמי טובות הרבה 3
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LetterT-S 12.3
Letter from a Maghribi silversmith named Efrayim b. Ishaq of Ceuta, Morocco, who had fled Almohad persecution in his native country about 35 years earlier. …
לו בכם זכרים [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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LetterT-S 12.13
Letter. The sender, a newcomer in Fustat from Yemen, describes himself as 'a pigeon whose wings have been clipped' (line 1), writes to his brother …
אלי בנתה וקד בקית מתל חמאם מקצץ אלאגנחא ולמא קד 1
ת . . . ת עלי נפסי פי אלספר אלי אסכנדריא קולת עסא אני . . . 2
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LetterT-S 8J37.10
Petition from Yusuf requesting help from the addressee, Natan, for a woman who has weak vision and a blind daughter. The sender also enquires after …
]יב נתן הזקן הקבה לא 1
] פהמת תצמנה וקד עלמת 2
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LetterT-S 12.24
Begging letter, prefaced with a rhyming poem, from Isaac the blind ("bereft of all the pleasures of the world"), asking for assistance from Ismaʿīl b. …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J235
Abū l-Majd, in Alexandria writes to his cousin Judge Elijah, in Damascus (?) on a business trip. See Goitein Nachlass material. Judge Elijah may in …
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Legal documentCUL Add.3417
Recto and verso: Draft of a legal document. Abu Saʿd al-Levi undertakes to provide his elderly father Shemuel with food and drink and the money …
. . . אמונה אטעמה ואסקיה ואזן ענה נצף גאליתה אן דאמת 1
עלי הדא אלצרף //אעני…1 Transcription
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LetterT-S 6J2.10
Letter from a certain Ḥ[alfon] (?) to Shemarya b. David requesting an appointment as a religious functionary. Egypt, 1213 (?). He cannot work because of …
II, 68
אלעבד חל[פון...] 1
יק צפ תפ הוד ועטרת וצניף כותרת מ[רנא ורבנא] 2
שמריהו הנגיד הגדול נגיד הנגידים…1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 13J18.18
Letter from the wife of Maʿānī. Desperate letter of appeal to the 'courts' (judges) from a blind woman whose husband had fled to Alexandria and …
אשריכם זורעי על כל מים משלחי רגל ה(שור) והח(מור) 1
אשרי שומרי משפט עושה צדקה בכל עת 2
אשרי…1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S Ar.53.37
Letter from a blind man in Salonica to his son Ismāʿīl in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on vellum in a scholarly hand. The first page …
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מע צביה [[נ]] צגירה ולהא חט ואיצא אליהוד מא 1
יתחשוני ומא ענדי שי נכרג בה אליכם ואנא פי 2
ג נפוס ואכשא אן נת…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 16.284
Letter from a son to his mother describing the events of his journey from Alexandria to Fustat and mentioning the illness of his uncle. Much …
.] שיויתי ייי לנגדי תמיד כי מימיני בל אמוט 1
ו]לדהא אבו אלברכאת געל פדאהא כתאבי אלי 2
ח]צרה אלואלדה אלעזיזה …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 13J35.15
Letter from Abū l-Faraj and his son Abū l-Majd in Bilbays to Eliyyahu the Judge (who is the cousin, ibn khāl, of Abū l-Faraj). They …
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מן ענד ממלוכה אבו אלמגד וואלדה אבו אלפרג 0
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LetterT-S 12.780
Letter from a scholar from Ramla (who had lived for twenty years in Baghdad) to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1095. Seems like a part of …
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] יראה בטוב ירוש 1
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LetterT-S 13J28.10
Letter of appeal for charity from Yeḥezqel b. Ibrāhīm (the writer) and the former judge Moshe b. Shemarya to Abū ʿImran Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, …
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שלום רב לאוהבי תורתך ואין למו מכשול 1
סבב כתאבנא הדא אלי סידי הזקן היקר המכובד סגלת הישיבה 2
הקבה…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S Ar.42.165
Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. Maḥfūẓ, dictated to …
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LetterT-S 13J18.14
Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare …
עבדהא יחיי אלאסכנדראני
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State documentT-S Ar.42.177
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 74/37
Letter of appeal from an elderly, blind woman, mother of several sons and grandsons, to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. Dating: 1127–38, based on the tenure of …
ולתתך ע]ליון על כל הגוים אשר עשה 1
לתהלה] ולשם ולתפארת ולהיותך עם 2
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LetterT-S 12.303
Letter from the wife of Shemuel, a poor woman from al-Maḥalla, addressed to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. She asks for assistance for herself and for her …
אלעב[דה 1
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LetterT-S 10J17.9
Letter from Yeshūʿa ha-Kohen b. Avraham ha-Galili, in Shubra Damsīs, to Efrayim b. Meshullam (judge, active 1142–54). Dated: 1142 CE (month of Av). The writer …
בשמ ר]חמ 1
ערף] אלקדים סבחאנה מא ענדי מן שגל 2
אלקלב ו]אלשוק ואלאר…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S NS J430
Public appeal of a blind woman to the congregation of Fustat to pay the fee of 4 dinars charged by a Muslim physician for the …
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1457
Letter from a woman named Harja (הרגה), somewhere in Syria, to her mother, the wife of Mūsā Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, …
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LetterT-S 16.287
Letter dated 15 Sivan 1208 from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-'Ammani (Alexandria) to Abu l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Fustat). The first part (r.6-17) deals with …
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בשמ רחמ כאדמה יהודה המלמד
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LetterT-S 10J18.15
Petition from Yefet ha-Melammed the schoolmaster to Avraham Maimonides; the latter's answer is on verso, lines 18–26. Yefet writes that he is ill and losing …
(the "mysterious sign") 1
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LetterT-S 10J12.16
Letter from a woman, in Fustat, to her son Abū l-Maḥāsin, in Funduq al-Qamra, Alexandria. Dictated to Abū Manṣūr. Likely belongs with T-S 10J19.26, in …
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שלום רב לאוהבי תורתך ואין למו מכשול 1
שלום שלום לרחו…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 13J9.4
Letter from Shimʿon b. Shaʾul b. Yisraʾel ha-Ṭulayṭulī, in Jerusalem, to his sister Ballūṭa in Toledo. The writer (a Rabbanite) relays two years of news …
בשם רם ונשא 1
כתאבי אליך יאכתי וחביבה קלבי אטאל אללה…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 20.149
Letter from the Egyptian physician ʿAfīf b. Ezra, in Gaza (detained there en route from Cairo to Safed), to Shemuel b. Yequtiel al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. …
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בש' רח' 1
יחנ' 2
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