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  1. 1Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/126

    Primary languages
    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  2. 2LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/52

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

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    1. כתאבי יאכי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
    2. וסעאדתך וסלאמתך מן אסכנדריה לי' כלון מן אלול וסאעת אן
    3. כתבת לך הדא אלכתאב ארתפעת מן אבו …

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  3. 3List or tableENA 3843.5

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso: Accounts with the header "What was sold before the death of Abū Isḥāq b. Abū Sahl known as Ibn al-Ahuv, in the presence of …

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  4. 4List or tableT-S Ar.4.10

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  5. 5LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/36

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  6. 6LetterENA 4100.12

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  7. 7LetterENA 2738.34

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso, with the address on recto: Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān, in Alexandria, to his sister, in Qayrawān. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written in …

    1. כתאבי אליך יאכתי אלעזיזה עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ו[אד]אם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלאסכנדריה
    2. סלך אייר ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה ואלחמד ללה וחדה ואלדי תרידי עלמה אני מ…
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  8. 8LetterMoss. II,198

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  9. 9LetterL-G Glass 15

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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, …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]עיה ורעא[ה . . . [אללה
    2. תעאלי יגעל פיך אלברכה וימלא בך מקום
    3. אבותיך יא.[. . . .]חיאך אללה אנני אסאלך אן
    4. תפעל מעי ל[. . .…

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  10. 10LetterAIU VII.E.4

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    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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    1. כתבת אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלקדס אל
    2. [מ]ב[א]רך ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ללה אלחמד לד כלון מן שעבאן ושוק למא
    3. קבלך כתיר אללה תעאלא יק…

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  11. 11LetterT-S 13J25.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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. …

    II, 11a

    1. בשמ רח
    2. לאלוף השרים. ונזר אדירים. וכתר אבירים. ודגל גבורים.
    3. ולגדול המשרה. וצניף ועטרה. ומקל תפארה. שאו שלום הרים.
    4. וענדוהו ענוד. ביקר גם כבוד.…

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  12. 12LetterHalper 410

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    1. הנה לא ינום ולא יישן שומר ישראל יי ישמרך מכל רע
    2. אלממלוך אלאצגר שלמה המלמד ברבי אליה הדיין סט
    3. ינהי אלי אלמולא אלמנעם אלמתפצל אלצדיק אלותיק
    4. אלרשיד א[ב…

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  13. 13LetterCUL Or.1080 J232

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    Recto

    1. בה

    2. וממא אעלם חצרתה אלסאמיה אנני פארקתה עלי [ ]

    3. וגמעת אלנסכה אלתי תפצלת בהא ואליום אסתעמ[לתהא

    4. פלם ארי להא תאתיר אלא אלחאל הו אלחאל וקד ו[ …

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  14. 14LetterT-S 12.361 + T-S 8J22.9

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  15. 15Legal documentT-S Ar.34.94

    Primary language
    Arabic

    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 …

    Recto

    1. حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب

    2. ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت

    3. وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب

    4. المذكور …

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    1. Nāṣir ibn Jibrīl came to Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the Jewish physician,  

    2. together with his natural daughter called Sutayt,  

    3. in whose left ey…

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  16. 16LetterT-S 13J22.14

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    Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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: …

    recto

    1. וצל כתאב חצרה רבנו אור ישראל ימיו

    2. ימשכו עד בלתי גב[ול]ים ויראה כל תאות

    3. נפשו מן טוב העולם הזה והעולם הבא

    4. ובנו מחמדו יראה שמחתו בקרוב וקר…

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  17. 17LetterT-S 13J26.10

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

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    1.              וא'מרתם כ'ה' ל'חי' וא'תה' ש'לום' וביתך שלום וג'
    2.             י'י ישמרך מכל רע ישמור את נפשך
    3.             י'י ישמר צאתך ובואך מעתה ו…

    Recto

    1. And say to him: All your life - peace upon you, peace upon your house, etc.
    2. The Lord will guard you from all evil, he will guard your soul,
    3. T…
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  18. 18LetterMoss. IIIa,11

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    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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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. כתאבי יאואלדתי אלעזיזה עלי אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם סלאמתהא וסעאדתהא

    3. מן אלסכנדריה סלך איאר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק א…

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  19. 19Legal documentAIU VII.D.85

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Document dated 21 December 1817 CE (12 Tevet 5578 AM) in which Mordekhai Romano details the plan for medical treatment for the children of his …

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  20. 20LetterCUL Or.1080 J1

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    Greek, Hebrew

    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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  21. 21LetterDK 238.3 (alt: X)

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    Recto:

    1. בשמך רחמנה
    2. וצלת כתב חצרה מולי אלאגל אלואלד געלני אללה פדאה
    3. מן כל סו וופקה וגמע שמלי בה בפצלה ורחמתה
    4. אן שא אללה ואלדי תריד עלמה יא מולי אן נחן…

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  22. 22LetterENA 2727.15d + T-S Ar.7.16

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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:

    1. כי אתה תברך צ[דיק ייי
    2. שלום העמוס(?) יופרש על [
    3. מרנו ורבנו אליהו הדיין [
    4. יהי אלהיו עמו בענגו(?) ו . [
    5. ישראל טוב בשם(?) כל ח . [
      6. …

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  23. 23LetterT-S NS J430

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  24. 24LetterENA NS I.33

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    Recto:

    1. בש רח
    2. אלי אכי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי מן אלשוק ואלוחשה
    3. כתיר גמע אללה בינא עלי אסר חאל ואלדי
    4. תחב עלמה אן לי מן חין כרגת מן ענדכם
    5. מא וק . . . . . …

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  25. 25LetterT-S 8J15.3

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    1. בשם רחמ
    2. על כן מלאו מתני חלחלה צירים אחזוני כצירי יולדה
    3. עד ישקיף ו[ירא ייי] משמים
    4. חסדי יי כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו [רחמו (רחמיו)
    5. שלום שלום מארץ השלום העו…

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  26. 26LetterENA 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 …

    Recto

    1. בשמ
    2. ואלדי אעלמך [ב]ה אנני קד אנפדת לך מע בן קשישאת
    3. כתאב ואשרחת ל[ך פיה] אלאמור וקד גמני עודאך (?)
    4. פי הדא אלעיד ואנת תערף חאלי ומא לחקני מן אלמ…
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  27. 27LetterENA NS 35.12

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    Hebrew

    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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  28. 28LetterT-S 13J18.27

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  29. 29LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/16

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    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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  30. 30LetterT-S 13J23.17

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. סבב הדה אלאחרף אלי אלשיך אבו אלמכארם ויעקוב חפצהם אללה ותולאהם
    3. אעלאמהם אן אבו אלרצא אכוהם עלי כטה קביחה תאלף מן אל[נזו?]ל
    4. ואלזחיר אלמפרט והד…
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  31. 31LetterT-S 12.293

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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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    1. בנתה סת דהב געלת פדאה
    2. בשמ רחמ
    3. קד עלם אלכאלק גל תנאה מא עלי //קלבי\\ מן שדה אלשוק ואלוחשה
    4. אלי חצרה מולאי וסיידי וסנדי ואעתמאדי ואעז עלכלק עלי
    5. ו…

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  32. 32LetterT-S 10J11.25

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    1. בש [רח
    2. אעלם חצרה [ס]ידנא אלרייס שר השרים נגיד הנגידים
    3. עוז כל ב[ית יש]ראל יברכו אלהינו וישמרו ויהיה בעזרו
    4. אני אמר[אה] אבו סרי רחמה אללה כנת קד זוגת א…

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  33. 33LetterT-S 8J20.26

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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 …

    1. גיר ואתק בדלך ואלבלד עלי קציה צעבה מן חפר אלכ[נד]
    2. בלד מגלק ואלצכרה ווגדת ימן הי אלדי וקע עליהא אלבאב וגראת
    3. עליהא שדה עטימה ולהא אליום ארבעין יום והי…
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  34. 34LetterT-S 20.149

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    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. …

    Recto:

    1. בש' רח'
    2. יחנ'
    3. אשרי תמימי דרך ההול'
    4. אשרי תמימי דרך ההול
    5. והמשכילים יזהירו כזו'
    6. וידע כל יש מ כ נ שמואל
    7. יוי עוז
    8. קומי אורי כי בא אורך וכ[בוד] יוי ע…

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