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Legal documentBL OR 12292.29
Testimony or narrative about events in Florence (פירנצה). Dated: 17 Tevet 5609 AM (January 1849). A man who was known as an impious alcoholic fell …
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Unknown typeJRL SERIES B 2804
Recto: Mentions a hypothetical cantor or reader of the Torah who went mad and stole something and was caught. Verso: From a halakhic discussion on …
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Paraliterary textENA 2462.17
Magical/medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in a Yemeni hand (the text on verso is in a different, clearly Yemeni hand). There are recipes for incense …
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Unknown typeT-S Ar.30.49 + T-S Ar.30.115 + BL OR 10156.10 + JRL SERIES B 3087 + ENA 2191.5
A bizarre Judaeo-Arabic composition reminiscent of "clanging" in schizophrenia: disorganized thoughts associated on the basis of sound rather than content. Notable phrases include "for every …
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Literary textAIU VIII.B.16
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic paramedical treatise on the virtues of various kinds of animal substances. ¶ . . . grind it …
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Literary textT-S Ar.37.74
Popular literature. In Judaeo-Arabic. The portion of the story on this fragment opens with the appearance of a healer before a king: "...and princes and …
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LetterT-S 13J21.10
Recto: Family letter in Arabic script, mentioning transactions and a Qāḍī. Verso: Late letter in Hebrew to R. Shelomo ha-Sofer from "your wife Dona Soro …
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LetterYevr. III B 669
Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Shemuel to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Sitt ʿAnbar is very sick, and she has developed a delusion …
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LetterT-S 13J8.4
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Maṣliaḥ Gaon, in Fustat. Dating: 1127–38 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The purpose of the letter is …
בש רחמ 1
אלממלוך ינהי אלי חצרה סידנא …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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Legal documentENA 3748.13
Recto: Legal query with responsum. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Concerning a cantor who took an oath not to lead prayers in the …
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Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 1727
Magical fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 16 Adar 5005 AM, which is 1245 CE. Gives a spell for annulling other spells, warding …
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Paraliterary textT-S 10J22.6
Astrological instructions for a doctor regarding how to know the illness of a patient by using the constellation of the stars at the time of …
בשמ רחמ 1
הדא חסאב אלסאעאת אלז וא . כאמהא . 2
אולהא חמה והו אלשמס אדא גאך אלסאי…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 13J27.15 + T-S 8J13.2
Letter from Eliyahu b. Nissim, in Alexandria, to Shela b. Isḥāq, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. The sender, a foreigner, asks …
בש רח . . . . . תוחלת ממשכה מתלה לב . . . . אצגר אלממאליך אליה בר נסים נע 1
יקבל אלארץ בין ידי…2 Transcriptions 2 Discussions
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LetterENA NS 18.35
Letter from Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Sūsa, to his younger brother Abū Zekharya Yehuda b. Moshe, in Fustat. Dating: August 1056 (Gil). This …
על שמך 1
כתבת יאכי וסידי ועזיז נפסי…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterBL OR 5544.1
Letter from a Spanish community to Egypt concerning an impoverished and aging man from Rhodez, France, who appraoched the ruler of his land for redress …
הם אחינו מקהילות קדש תפוצת הגולה [ 1
הו[ ]רים אוצרי חיים …2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterMoss. VII,182
Letter from the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. Narrow strips were torn from both the left and right …
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בש רח 1
ותגזר אומר ויקם לך 2…1 Transcription
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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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LetterDK 238.4 (alt: XIII)
11th century letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq near Tripoli to his son Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra. See Oded Zinger’s dissertation, which mentions this letter …
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אלי ולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך וצאנך ווקאך ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך נעלמך אן כרגת 1
ענא כתב אללה ס…1 Transcription
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LetterT-S 12.431
Letter from an unidentified writer to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer conveys condolences for a death in the family of Eliyyahu (r6–9). He …
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