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LetterT-S 8J19.33
Letter from a brother in Byzantium to his sister in Fustat.
] לא אהיה בטוב כי 1
]מ[ ]חק מצא אותנו עת רעה 2
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LetterT-S NS 228.49
Letter from Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī (al-Mahdiya?) to his son Wāfī (Fustat?), probably spring 1059. Badly preserved. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 114.)
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LetterENA 4100.2
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Long. Dating: Probably 13th century or later, based on the script, but this is a guess. Mentioning some problems in the family. …
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LetterT-S 16.150
Verso: Drafts of at least half a dozen letters and other texts in Arabic script. One letter (written between the lines of another one) is …
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LetterT-S Ar.42.70
Letter, possibly a draft. In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender may be writing from Qūṣ (l. 3). The letter contains many greetings, …
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Legal documentT-S 18J1.23
Verso: A man who possessed five-eighths of a house gives one-eighth to his wife and her son as lodgings 'belonging to them forever.' Dated Shevat …
חצר אלינא אנן חתומי מטה אלשיך 1
אבו אלחסן בן כגק מ ור נתנאל ראש 2
הקהילות וקאל לנא והו פי צחה 3
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LetterT-S 10J12.28
Letter from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya(!) to his mother in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He apologizes for not visiting the house while he has …
כתאבי אליך יאולדתי אלאעז אלכלק עליי וענדי אטאל 1
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LetterT-S 10J11.11
Letter from a brother admonishing Sitt Ikhtiṣār and Sitt al-Wasṭāniyya to take good care of their mother and younger sister (by pawning something to send …
ואן אלערצי ואל . . . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
אללה יע…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterMoss. II,131.2
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makmūrī (Fustat) to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa (Alexandria), ca. 1050. Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makmūrī asks ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa to secretly find …
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LetterL-G Misc. 109
Letter from Sulaymān to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. There is also a basmala in Arabic script …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم المملوك سليمان 1
מודדה סלימאן כתאבי אלי אלשיך ואלדי אלעזיז 2
גמע אללה ביננא אן שא אללה ואן וצלו כ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J11.3
Letter. Family letter dealing with grain and payments, and extending greetings. Largely effaced. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . יאסיי]די אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם ע[זך . . . . . . . . . 1
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LetterT-S 8J18.16
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tahirtī, in al-Mahdiyya, to a younger relative. Around 1050. Barhūn informs that a shipment of goods is on its way, …
עלי אל אלאכבאר ואלדי אעדפך בה אני אסתכרת 1
אללה וחמלת פי הדה אלקאפלה מחמד בן סלומה בן אלולדה (?) אלגמא…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J22
Letter from Yosef b. Shemuel al-Dani in Palermo to Isma’il b. Avraham in Damsis. The first part of the letter deals with the tragedy that …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 13/46
Deathbed will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/21
Letter from a mother in Aden to her son in Egypt.
בעד 1
מן אלואלדה אלעזיזה תכץ חצרה אל…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J19.8
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim from Fustat to a person in Qayrawan. Around 1045. Mentions galls, Camphor, and shipment of money. Nahray Also expresses his …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/29
Detailed but incomplete letter to an army doctor, possibly from his son-in-law, end of the 11th century. Contains many details about accounts, selling of books, …
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LetterT-S 18J3.4
Letter in Judeo-Arabic to Sitt al-Nas bint Moses b. Josiah from a female cousin (both are also in-laws), the daughter of Joseph b. Josiah, asking …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J278
Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his mother, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or maybe 13th century. He speaks about his children …
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Legal documentT-S 24.44
Legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid, which is July/August 1102 CE. The blind teacher Abū Saʿīd …
שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא] כן הוה חצר אלינא אבו סעיד מר חלפון המלמד סגיא נהור בר מבורך נע 1
וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו מני מ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/7 + Bodl. MS heb. b 3/8
Draft(?) of a court record. Dated: 29 Nisan 1543 Seleucid, which is April 1232 CE. The widow (Sitt al-)Tujjār bt. Manṣūr claims that 10 shares …
למא כאן יום אלתלתא אלתאסע ואלעשרין מן שהר ניסן אתקמג 1
חצר אלי [[בית דין]]//נא// אנו בית דין החתומים למטה תגאר בנת 2
מ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J17.3
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (active 1190s–1212 CE), in Qalyūb, to a family member in Fustat. Moshe requests a silver mirwad (stick for applying …
בעד אלסלאם עליכם ותקביל איאדיכם אשכו 1
אליכם בעץ שוקי אליכם פאללה תע לא יכליני 2
מנכם למען …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S AS 151.2
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of the court clerk Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The letter opens with condolences for the addressee's loss. …
ותשועת צדיקים מייי מעוזם בעת צרה 1
נחמו נחמו עמי יאמר אלהיכם 2
כאיש אשר אמו תנחמנו אנכי אנחמכם 3
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LetterT-S 10J14.12
Letter from Mansur b. Salim in Alexandria to a friend in Cairo inquiring about his son, who had run away to the army and had …
שאכר תפצלהא 1
מנצור אבן סאלם 2
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Legal documentT-S NS J2
A mother buys her little son the privilege of reading the book of Esther in public, Damira in the Nile Delta, February/March 1244.
TS NS J 2, ed. S. D. Goitein, "Side lights on Jewish education from the Cairo Geniza", Gratz College Anniversary volume, 1971, pp. 105-106…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterBodl. MS heb. b 13/52
Family letter from Natan b. Yehuda (Alexandria, ca. 1160) to Moshe b. Ṣemaḥ and his brother (Fustat), the writer’s cousins-in-law. Natan b. Yehuda reports that …
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LetterDK 238.3 (alt: X)
Letter (likely a draft) dictated by the wife and written by the son (Zayn al-Dār) of the India trader ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, beseeching him to …
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בשמך רחמנה 1
וצלת כתב חצרה מולי אלאגל אלואלד געלני אללה פדאה 2
מן כל סו וופקה וג…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 12.386
Letter from Mevasser b. David, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 22 Elul (25 August [1068 — Gil's inference]), with …
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LetterT-S Ar.18(1).137
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the …
אלדי [א]עלם בה ולדי ולעזיז עלי גמע אללה אלשמל 1
בה קריב אן שא אללה וגיר דאלך מא ראית ולא 2
סמעת לא מתל כ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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