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LetterT-S 8J15.28
Letter from an Alexandrian trader who is on a journey, possibly in the Persian Gulf, to a family member. The writer wants to visit Baghdad …
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Unknown typeT-S 8J23.20
Judge Elijah orders a white "burda", some handwriting exercises at the bottom
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LetterT-S 8Ja1.4
Letter from an unknown writer in Qūṣ to an unknown addressee in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. The writer reports that the children and …
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Legal documentT-S NS 320.58
Order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov asks Abū Saʿīd to give Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd the price of the bundle (ṣurra) …
- בשמ
- אלמסאול מן תפצל מולאי אלשיך אבו
- סעיד כבת אללה אעדאה יסלם למולאי אלשיך
- אבי אלחסן בן מסעוד תמן אלצרה אלבאן
- לאנה קד תפצל ועמל לי קליל יין ושלום
- עבד…
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LetterT-S Ar.39.480
Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Goitein notes that this …
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LetterT-S NS 264.1
Letter fragment from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic …
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LetterENA 2741.4
Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dating: mid-12th century. Apart from the introduction and address, only about a dozen …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/19
Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Ṣedaqa Ibn Nufayʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender sent previous letters with Sālim b. Efrayim, including …
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List or tableT-S K15.98
Estate of Nissim b. Yaʿqūb, a merchant who died in Suakin (present-day Sudan) on Monday, 7 Shaʿbān 503 AH (approximately 1110 CE). The handwriting appears …
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LetterT-S 8.69
Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Dealing with the India trade. Dating: Mid-12th century. Mentions names such as Zikrī b. Sar Shalom; Maḥrūz; Ben Yiju; Ibn …
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LetterT-S 10J16.1
Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in Sindābūr (India), to his uncle and father-in-law ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fusṭāṭ,. In Judaeo-Arabic. He found a slow market …
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LetterT-S 13J18.2
Letter from a Jewish trader in India to his partner in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Among many other matters, he mentions donations to pilgrimage sites in …
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LetterT-S 13J21.6
Letter from [...] b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions commodities such …
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LetterT-S 13J24.22
Letter from a woman named Najma, in Fustat/Cairo (l. 4), to her father Moshe Perdonel. Dating: ca. 16th century. There is a detailed summary in …
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LetterT-S 8J40.1
Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanel Dimyāṭī. Accusing him and Abū Naṣr b. Elishaʿ of conspiring to cheat him out …
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Legal documentT-S 16.23 + T-S 10J5.2
Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. These two fragments are part of single document, which contained …
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LetterT-S 16.298
Commercial letter sent from Isaac and Joseph (probably in Babylonia) to Judah ha-Sar, mentioning a voyage to India and commodities including gold and silver slag …
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LetterT-S 16.308
Letter from Daʿūd Fasī to the cloth merchant Abū l-Afraḥ ʿArus b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes below.
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LetterBL OR 5535.2
Letter from Avraham b. Mu'ti Tilimsani, having arrived safely in Aydhab, to Abu Sa'd b. Azhar, in Fustat. He provides an update on a matter …
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Unknown typeHalper 405
Awaiting description
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LetterT-S 12.216
Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: Mid-12th century. In Hebrew (for the long, eloquent introduction) …
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LetterENA 4020.8
Letter from Makārim b. Mūsā Ibn Nufayʿ, in ʿAydhāb, to (his son-in-law?) the ḥaver Yeshuʿa b. Yoshiyya(?) the descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon, in Fustat. In …
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LetterT-S 13J21.1
Letter from Moshe b. Yefet to Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (apparently a merchant trading in the East). Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1421 Seleucid, which …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.54.20.3
Fol. 3: Legal document. Left side of an agreement with a wife that she would receive the rent from the middle story of a house, …
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LetterJRL Series A 284
Letter in what Goitein identifies as the handwriting and style of well-known India trader Abu Nasr Avraham informing recipient about events, apparently taking place in …
- ]פי דהלך [...............
- ]. פי אלגזר [.............
- ]בדהלך יח יומא ברי[ח
- ]אללה אן י..נא ריח אלסלאמה
- ] ואמא אלמ... פקד איסנא
- ]ארו. קע ווצל אנסאן מן …
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List or tableT-S 8K22.2
Karaite Nesiim. A memorial list.
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- דכרן טאב לניחא נפשתה לזיכר
- המשפחה המיוחשה משפחת בית
- דויד הנשיאים השרים הנכבדים
- עד כבוד גק מו נו וע רו יפת הנשיא
- הגדול וכגק מור נו וע …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. e 98/71
Letter from Yaḥyā b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, in Fustat, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (aka Avraham?) b. Yosef, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. Yahya, probably …
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- כתאבי אלי מולאי וסידי [אטאל אללה באקה
- ואדאם תאיידה וסעא[דתה
- וגמיל צנעה וקד עלם אללה שדה שוקי אליה בחית לא
- אטיק וצפה קרב אללה אלגמע בה עלי אסר…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 13/24
Letter from a certain Yosef, in Aden, to Yosef Ibn Shanju, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Early 16th century, based on the greetings to Efrayim …
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LetterENA NS 2.29
Business letter in Arabic script from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān b. Ḥassun, in Fustat. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام تاييده وعلاه ونعمته
- وسناه وتكمينه وكبت اعداه من عدن عن حال سلامة وعافي…
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J178
Letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a shipment of tartar and a report about the arrival of ships from …
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LetterT-S 6J1.5
Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains a request to …
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LetterT-S 16.262
Letter from Moshe b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to the Head of the Jews of Egypt (Moshe b. Mevorakh) asking him to assist the son of …
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J1
Letter from David Maimonides, in ʿAydhāb, to his brother Moses Maimonides, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1170 CE. This is the last letter David wrote before …
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- אלי אכי ואלעזיז עלי ר מש[ה ביר] מימון זצל
- דוד אכיך אלשאיק אליך גמע אללה בך עלי אסר חאל במנה
- כתבת אליך הדא אלכתאב מן עידאב ואנא עלי גמלה אלסלא…
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LetterT-S Ar.41.108
Business letter in Arabic script from Ibrāhīm b. Hillel to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef (who ʿAodeh thinks was in India at the time), mentioning …
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LetterENA NS 48.4
Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahīm to Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Long and well-preserved. Concerning …
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Legal documentF 1908.44A
Recto (written later): Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1428 Seleucid …
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LetterENA 2560.5
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef to a certain [son of] Natan he-haver. The letter mourns the passing of Madmun (the Nagid of Yemen) and is …
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LetterBL OR 5566D.6
Letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān in ʿAydhāb to his son ʿAllān b. Nahray in Alexandria concerning shipments. Based on a letter from another India trader …
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LetterT-S 8J17.16
Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 C.E. from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend carried for him …
- צדרת כתבי לחצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
- אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ונעמאה וכבט
- אעדאה ולם ארי לאחדהא גואב ואעלמה אנני
- אנפדת אליה מע אלשיך אבו אלוליד יונס…
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LetterT-S 8J17.15
Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in 'Aydhab, to his sons, before embarking again for the east. He reports that he had dismissed his traveling companion …
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LetterMoss. Ia,18
Business letter from Aden to ʿAydhāb, mentioning Yīṣḥaq al-Nafūsī and Hiba Ibn al-Dabbāgh (‘the tanner’), referring to ships and dinars. (Information from CUDL.) [NB: PGP …
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LetterT-S G1.61
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl, in Alexandria, to his son Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid al-Yahūdī, in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dated: Iyyar of …
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Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J137
Legal document. Partnership. Dated: 1215-1216 CE. This fragment emerged from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The partners ʿImrān Moshe al-Iskandarī b. Bū Manṣūr ha-Zaqen and …
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State documentT-S Ar.30.273
Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with …
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العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
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LetterT-S 24.78
Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering monk,' Abu Najah, …
- בש רח
- כתאבי אטאל אללא בקא חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
- ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ורפעתה וסנאה ותמכינה
- וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה אעלמה אן לו רמת אלי
- שרח אליסיר ממא גרי עלי …
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LetterT-S Misc.28.33
Awaiting description - see Goitein notes linked below. This letter may be continued in Bodl. MS heb. d 66/14 (identified by Oded Zinger).
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LetterT-S 12.7
Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text block containing 8 …
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LetterT-S 12.392
Letter from a novice India trader, ʿAydhāb, to his brother, Libya. Dating: 1103. Complains about the hardships of travel from Fustat to ʿAydhāb. He had …
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LetterENA 2558.30a
Letter from an unidentified sender, in India, to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. This fragment begins cryptically: "...and he …
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LetterT-S 13J28.15
Letter from a certain Yosef, in Alexandria, to his brother, an India trader. Mentions people including Avraham al-Miṣrī, Abū l-Maʿānī, Abū l-Surūr, Ibn Khalaf and …
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