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List or tableENA 3843.5
Recto: Accounts with the header "What was sold before the death of Abu Ishaq b. Abu Sahl known as Ibn al-Ahuv, in the presence of …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/52
Letter from Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Musa, probably in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1075 CE. 10th of Elul, a few weeks …
כתאבי יאכי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך 1
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List or tableT-S Ar.4.10
Verso: Account of payments to a physician (al-Rayyis) by five patients: Bū ʿAlī, Ibn Shahrīn or Shahrayn (a 2-month-old boy?), Muslim, Muḥsin, and Karīm. He …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/126
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Reuven b. Yaʿaqov married a widow. He sickened and died, when she was 6 months pregnant. He left behind …
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LetterENA 2738.34
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān, in Alexandria, to his sister, in Qayrawān. Address on recto. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The writer describes his fortunes ever …
כתאבי אליך יאכתי אלעזיזה עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ו[אד]אם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלאסכנדריה 1
סלך אייר ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה ואלחמד ללה וחדה ואלדי תר…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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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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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LetterMoss. II,198
Letter from Saʿdān to ʿEli. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he is prostrated in his house (maṭrūḥ fī l-bayt) and the doctor …
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LetterL-G Glass 15
Calligraphic letter sent to a notable, possibly the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya, asking him to help Natan ha-Kohen, the legal representative of the writer's family, …
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]עיה ורעא[ה . . . [אללה 1
תעאלי יגעל פיך אלברכה וימלא בך מקום 2
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LetterAIU VII.E.4
Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to his partner Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. ʿEli ha-Kohen Fāsī, Fustat, ca. 1052. This was Avraham's first sojourn …
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כתבת אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלקדס אל 1
[מ]ב[א]רך ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ללה אלחמד לד כלון …1 Transcription
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LetterT-S 13J25.6
Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe to Avraham b. Bundār. Location: Fustat. Dating: Early 12th century. Ornate thank you letter and narrative in which Ḥalfon b. …
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LetterHalper 410
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an unidentified benefactor. Shelomo asks him to help him out with the payment of the capitation tax, as he …
הנה לא ינום ולא יישן שומר ישראל יי ישמרך מכל רע 1
אלממלוך אלאצגר שלמה המלמד ברבי אליה הדיין סט 2
ינהי אלי אלמולא אלמנעם אלמתפצל אלצ…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 12.361 + T-S 8J22.9
Letter from Avraham Ibn Miṣbāḥ, in Alexandria to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Written in the hand of Avraham ha-Melammed b. Yefet. "I arrived in …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J232
Recto and beginning of verso: Letter from a sick man to a physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has collected the prescription that the …
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LetterT-S 13J26.10
Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in Palermo, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt known as Ṭāriq, in Fustat. Abū Saʿīd reports that he had fled the unrest …
ואמרתם כה לחי ואתה שלום וביתך שלום וג 1
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LetterT-S 13J22.14
Letter from an unknown writer, in al-Maḥalla, to Nahray b. Nissim, presumably in Fustat. The body of the letter is in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
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LetterENA 2727.15d + T-S Ar.7.16
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu (muqaddam of Bilbays, active 1170s–1219). In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a complaint about illness. The purpose of writing seems …
ENA 2727.15d, recto:
כי אתה תברך צ[דיק ייי 1
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LetterMoss. IIIa,11
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, in Alexandria, to his mother and father, in Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The address bears the name of …
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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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LetterCUL Or.1080 J1
Letter from a woman named Archondou, in Alexandria, to her son Fuḍayl, in Fustat. Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants …
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Legal documentAIU VII.D.85
Document dated 21 December 1817 (12 Tevet 5578) in which Mordekhai Romano details the plan for medical treatment for the children of his niece Raḥel, …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.34.94
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
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LetterT-S 8J15.3
Petition of a cantor, son of a judge, who is sick and poor, asking God and a Nasi for help (the Nagid Mevorakh per Goitein's …
בשם רחמ 1
על כן מלאו מתני חלחלה צירים אחזוני כצירי יולדה 2
עד ישקיף ו[ירא …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterENA 2738.23
Two letters. (a) Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef [..]ān al-Barqī to Shemarya b. Shemuel. He decribes the difficult winter they have had, not to mention …
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LetterT-S 13J18.27
Abū ʿAlī b. ʿImrān, Alexandria, writes to the son of his dead sister, to Abū Mūsā Hārūn b. al-Muʿallim Yaʿaqov, Fusṭāṭ, the shop of Abū …
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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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LetterENA NS I.33
Letter written to "my brother," apparently from Qus, dealing primarily with family members' medical issues. There are many eccentric spellings. Recto 4-12: The writer has …
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בש רח 1
אלי אכי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי מן אלשוק ואלוחשה 2
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LetterENA NS 35.12
Hebrew letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Zeraḥya known as Faryol (?), a physician, to Avraham Talmid (known from other letters, fl. ca.1600). The first part of …
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LetterT-S 13J23.17
Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to the brothers Abū l-Makārim and Abū Yaʿqub ha-Kohen. The writer describes in detail the severe fever and dysentery …
בשמ רחמ 1
סבב הדה אלאחרף אלי אלשיך אבו אלמכארם ויעקוב חפצהם אללה ותולאה…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 12.293
Letter from Sitt Dhahab, in an unknown location, to Abū Naṣr b. Karīm, in Qāʿat al-Fāḍil, Fustat. She refers to herself as his daughter. Goitein …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/16
Late letter that begins in Hebrew and transitions into Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified merchant to Yosef Muḥibb. He writes that he traveled this year to …
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LetterT-S 10J11.25
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 …
בש [רח 1
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LetterT-S 8J20.26
Letter from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: Bottom half only. Dating: There are reports of men seized for forced labor to dig a ditch …
גיר ואתק בדלך ואלבלד עלי קציה צעבה מן חפר אלכ[נד] 1
בלד מגלק ואלצכרה ווגדת ימן הי אלדי וקע עליהא אלבאב וגרא…1 Transcription 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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