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LetterT-S 10J15.34
Letter of condolence to Abu al-Faraj Yeshua b. Shabbatay on the death of his father. The letter starts with four Bible quotations (line 1, Dt. …
הצור תמים פעלו כי כל דרכיו משפט וגו 1
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LetterT-S 20.174
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writes to a relative (his father-in-law Abū l-Faraj?) complaining about the behavior of Abū l-Barakāt (Sitt Ghazāl’s paternal uncle and Shelomo’s first …
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]ן אעיאן מצר נכשא 1
אנני אדא…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/40
Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
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LetterBL OR 5542.24
Letter from a cantor or teacher to his boss in Cairo. The cantor had been “accused of having assembled a group of young men and …
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LetterT-S NS J411
Letter from an old cantor to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. He is complaining that his post was taken by someone …
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LetterENA NS 2.5
Letter from Abū Zikrī to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 12th or early 13th century. The letter conveys eloquent greetings for …
עבדה ולדה 1
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LetterT-S 13J16.6
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, the muqaddam of Sunbāṭ (see T-S 24.25v, dated 1149 CE), to the Nagid. Yiṣḥaq reports that the chief cantor died …
אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ וינהי פי אמר אלחזן אלגדול נע אנהא 1
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LetterT-S 10J7.16
Letter from Yefet to Abū l-Barakāt the physician, in Fustat (bāb qaṣr al-shamʿ). which the writer alludes to some bad news ("ever since I heard …
בש רח 1
אעלם חצרה מולאי אלשיך 2
אדאם אללה סלאמתה אנני 3
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LetterT-S 10J9.1
Letter of condolence written by a man to his sister, Rayyisa, on the occasion of their mother's death. "If you cried for a thousand years, …
כאיש אשר אמו תנחמנו כן אנוכי אנחמכם ובירושלים תנוחמו 1
אכוהא ברכאת כפ פיהא אלאסוא …1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 12.495
Letter from a woman, probably in Alexandria, to her paternal uncle. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The writer's family, a family of merchants that …
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LetterENA NS 18.30
Letter drafts from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1139 CE. This fragment contains three different drafts of letters. The first draft …
ח58
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LetterF 1908.44Z
Informal note from the cantor Abū Sahl Levi to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (identification based on handwriting and typical content). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
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בש[ ] 1
[ ] אללה תעאלא 2
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LetterENA 2739.15
Letter from Al-Mubārak b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Sabra to his "father" (paternal uncle?) Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra. He reports that Ibn Siman Ṭov …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J210
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Only the last three lines are preserved, then two lines in Hebrew, 'may I be the ransom of the …
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LetterT-S 13J17.21
Letter from Shemuel b. Daniel b. Azarya describing his illness, which was caused by his father's death. (Information from Goitein's index cards, and Goitein, Mediterranean …
. . . . . . . ן . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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LetterENA NS 6.24
Letter by the son of the judge (dayyan) of Minyat Zifta to a certain Peraḥya, requesting his intercession with a certain sayyidnā David. Dating: If …
ו.נת[. . . . . . . . . . . מא לא 1
יליק דכרהא מן…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 8J18.33
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhirtī al-Maghribi, in Fustat, both prominent in the Geniza correspondence of the …
כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעא[דת]ך 1
מן תניס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן לי מדה מא קרית לך כתאב…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J5.10 + T-S 10J11.13
Letter from Abun b. Sedaqa in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dating: November 1064 CE. The main subject is the tension between the …
וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה סאעה כתאבי הדא 1
אליה והו יום אלאתנין יומין בקין מן תשרי אעאד …3 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 12.435
Business letter by a young Spanish merchant writing from Fez to his father in Almeria, Spain, revealing that he preferred not to use his father's …
בשמ רחמ 1
אערף חצרה סידי ומולאי ועדתי ומעתמ[די . . . . . . …1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 24.72
Letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī, physician to the sultan al-Malik al-ʿAzīz (Saladin's son and successor), sent to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In …
גמיע אלמלבוס אלדי כאן עלי לם יבק עלי שי יסתר סוא 1
אלחזה ואלעמאמה נצפהא עלי ונצפהא פי אלטין מרמיה 2
וכל מן יבצרני פי דלך אלחאל ימ…2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S NS J24a
Letter from Araḥ b. Natan, also known as Musāfir b. Wahb, in Alexandria, to his brother, Avraham b. Natan the seventh, in Cairo. Dating: 1094–1111 …
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תרום ידך על צריך וכל אויביך יכרתו 1
שלום ממרומים כנחלי ימים וחס…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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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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LetterMoss. Ia,23
Letter of condolence from a certain Yaʿaqov to Eliyyahu the Judge ("wherever he is"). Dating: Early 13th century. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The orthography, including …
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LetterT-S 12.575
Letter on behalf of a Byzantine woman named Rachel, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. The main part of the letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) …
בשם רחמ ממלוכתה רחל אלגיורת אלרומיה 1
תקבל אלארץ בין ידי [סיי]דנא אלדיאן כגק מרנו ורבנו אליהו הדיין תפארת …2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 16.179
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in al-Mahdiyya, to his brother Yehuda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: January 9 (12 Shevat), 1058 CE (Gil) …
על שמך 1
כתבת…4 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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