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LetterENA 2808.25b
Recto: Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe to his 'brother' Abū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a previous rebuke; the arrival of the physician …
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State documentT-S NS 158.95
Formal letter in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. From ʿAbdallāh b. [...]. He reports that he has obeyed the …
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LetterMoss. V,353.1
Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the …
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LetterT-S 13J28.6
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably from Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: Probably from November 17, 1046. The letter contains personal information: the …
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LetterAIU XII.117
Recto: Letter from "your student Bū l-Majd" to a high-ranking physician. In Arabic script. The writer asks the addressee in formal terms to come by …
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LetterT-S AS 152.34
Letter to a doctor with his reply (CUDL). "Medical enquiry to a doctor with his reply. This document type is a responsa type dealing with …
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LetterT-S NS 324.73
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Your friend, my brother Abū Bishr Al-Ṭabīb (the physician) sends his regards and asks you to honor him with whatever you need. …
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LetterT-S 10J14.3
Letter from Sahlān b. Avraham perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Written in a calligraphic hand and beautiful biblical style. Only the …
. כומות השלומות לה חב[ 1
רצופות להחפות ולהגבר [ 2
מ . ו // . //תכם לכב גד קדש מר[ 3
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LetterT-S Misc.25.130
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Dā'ūd, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. Regarding the debt and goods belonging to the …
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LetterENA NS 34.14
Fragment from the beginning a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in lovely and distinctive handwriting. The writer has been forced to stay in a funduq due to …
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Legal documentHalper 357
Legal document in Arabic script. A woman named Jamīla has an eye disease and contracts Hibat Allāh b. Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī to treat her. …
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LetterT-S AS 152.4
Letter in which a patient reports to his physician, describing his illness and asking for a prescription. Full translation by Goitein, Mediterranean Society, V, 105. …
בר 1
יא מולאי אלרייס אבו אלרצא 2
תעלם חצרתך ואני נפצתני 3
אלברד ואלחמא מן…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterENA 2805.10
Letter from Isḥāq b. ʿAlī al-Majjānī, probably in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Aound 1040. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with disagreements …
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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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LetterF 1908.44C
Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, Fusṭāṭ, around 1075 CE. The writer, whose livelihood depends on payments from the addressee, …
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LetterT-S 13J18.20
Letter from an army doctor, in Ashmūm Ṭannāḥ (present-day Ashmūn al-Rummān), to his son, in an unknown location. The purpose of the letter is to …
ואלדה כפי פיה אלאסוא 1
וצל כתאב אלולד אלאגל אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה וכבת אעדאה 2
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LetterT-S 8J16.27
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Fustat, to his cousin Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen, in a smaller town, in which the writer refers to the …
כתבת הדה אלאחרף אלי מולאי אלחבר נט רחמ 1
ענד כתרה שוקנא לכתאבה אד קד אנקטע ענא 2
מדה ארגו יכ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterENA 3962.5
Letter from a physician in Arabic script giving detailed instructions for the care of a sick man, especially about diet, baths, and regimen. It concludes …
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LetterT-S NS 99.58
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. One side deals with routine business matters. The other side reads, ". . . out of your favor (inʿāmak), prescribe for …
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J42
Recto: Note from Rashīd inviting a physician to come urgently to Rashīd's home, and to bring a friend. Verso: The physician responds that if he …
אלאך אלעזיז אלמופק יחצר סרעה 1
פי בית אלרשיד פאן אלצרורה דאעיה 2
לחצורך ואן כאן לך אחד מן אלאצחא…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S Ar.39.9
Letter from a sick man to a physician. In Arabic script. The verso is written at 90 degrees to the recto, which is unusual, but …
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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 AS 149.17
Letter of Abū l-Maḥāsin b. ʿAlī the trader, introduced by citations from Proverbs 3:4, Psalms 37:11 and 119:165. Mentions consingments of medical commodities such as …
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LetterT-S 12.234
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, probably in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the …
. . . . . קד על]ם סובחאנה כתרה שוקי אלי הדרת כגק 1
מרנו ורבנו] נתן הכהן החכם והנבון ישמר…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 102/52
Letter probably from Yedutun ha-Levi, in Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb. (Identification is tentative, based on handwriting and typical phrases …
אלדי אערף בה אכי בעד אלסלאם עליה 1
ותקביל ידיה אן אלכבירה וצלת סאלמה וערפתנא 2
מא אנת עליה פאללה לא ישגל לך קלב ואן א…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J12.1
Letter from a physician to his uncle. Tells the writer's sad story, which involved the death of his beloved wife, an unfortunate second marriage, and …
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בשמ רחמ 1
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LetterT-S 8J13.3 + T-S NS J250
Letter fragment in the hand of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi Nisaburi about his cost in an affair concerning Abu Sa‘id Makhlūf al-Nafusi. (Information from Goitein's index cards; …
Recto of T-S NS J250:
כאן תאכרהם . . . ף חאלהם קל . . . . . . . . 1
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LetterT-S 8J17.3
Letter from Bū l-Faraj to Umm Yūsuf the mother-in-law of Bayān al-Bukhtaj ('the cooked,' from Middle Persian pokhtag), sent via Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
יתפצל ר אליה יקרא הדה אלבטאקה עלי אם יוסף חמאת אלשיך ביאן 1
אלבכתג ולא יעיקהא סאעה ובלגני מרצהא פלא תפווה בהדה אלמצוה …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 13J24.10
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. Simḥa describes in moving terms the …
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ממלוכה אלאצגר ר שמחה 1
בש רח צדקת יי עשה ומשפטיו וג 2
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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 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 16.174
Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, in Sūsa, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1052 CE. The letter mentions the connections that Nahray …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך 1
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/141
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the dated …
בשמ רח 1
וצלת אלרקעה אלדי אנפדתהא הדרת רבנו ישמרה 2
צור…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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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LetterT-S 20.176
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably 13th-century or later, from a physician or druggist to a respected person named Avraham who also has a son named Shelomo. …
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LetterT-S Ar.3.4
Interesting letter from a sick man to Mevorakh, probably his brother. The language is Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew vowels (!). The writer revised the letter, probably …
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LetterT-S 16.287
Letter dated 15 Sivan 1208 from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-'Ammani (Alexandria) to Abu l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Fustat). The first part (r.6-17) deals with …
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בשמ רחמ כאדמה יהודה המלמד
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LetterT-S 13J21.20
Letter from a male family member, probably in Damīra, to a physician, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating unknown. The letter is convoluted and repetitive, …
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בש רח 1
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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 13J36.6
Letter from ʿEli b. Yehezqel ha-Kohen, Jerusalem, to Eli b. Hayyim ha-Kohen, Fustat, concerning Eli b. Yehezqel's travels to Acre and Tyre, return to Ramla, …
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כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלכהן אלפרנאס ואדאם עזה ותאידה מן אלרמלה 1
ליג בקין מן אב וכאן קד סאפרת אלא צור מן נצ…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J7.3 + T-S AS 144.258
Letter from a son to his father with detailed description of his illness and recovery. Same writer and recipient as T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat …
בשמך רחמנה 1
קד כאן כתבי נפד אלי חצרה מולי אלוא[לד אלאגל אטאל אללה] 2
בקאהא ואדאם…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J11.22
Letter from Shemuel b. Ibrahīm, in Fustat, to his father Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Shabbetay (aka Shubbāṭ), in Palermo. Fragment: upper part of the letter …
כתאב[י אלי]ך יא ואלדי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך 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 24.38
Recto: Letter from an unknown busybody in Minyat Zifta to the Nagid Avraham (II?) in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The purpose of the letter …
נוטה ]קו הפליל מסלפת ממלכת האל[וף 1
מרי]מה דגל דת משה המבארת תלמוד רב 2
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LetterT-S 13J21.17
Letter from a physician in Silifke (Seleucia) to his sister's husband, presumably in Fustat. Dated 21 July 1137. "The Emperor John II Comnenus was on …
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אישה כי תזריע ושאן . . . ן 1
דכר כמא כתבת אליך פיוט עמלתה …2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 8J40.8
Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician (known as 'the effective'), in Shamṭūniyya, near Kūfa, Iraq, to his pupil and perhaps son-in-law Yūsuf, in Jūma Mazīdat (unidentified …
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מברכו יעקב בן [ ] 1
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