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LetterT-S NS J487
Informal note addressed to a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is a draft of recto. The addressee is asked to go to the sender's …
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Legal documentT-S 10J6.11
Legal query addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Scribed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo, Nathan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver and Ḥalfon …
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Legal documentT-S 16.233
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (long vertical strip from the middle of the document). Dating: ca. 1135 CE, according to …
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LetterUPenn E 16522
Letter from a Jewish shipowner from Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1212 CE. He provides an exciting story about traveling to Cyprus but being diverted by a …
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LetterT-S 10J7.12
Fragment of a letter from Abū ʿAli b. al-Dimyāṭī to his brother Abu Saʿīd b. Hibat Allah (Ḥalfon b. Netanel). The writer mentions the silk …
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באלחריר ואנא... 3
פי אסרע וקת יאכי ומו[לאי]... 4
אללה תבארך ותעאלי סרור יד[כל]... 5
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LetterENA NS 48.29
Letter addressed to Sitt Shaʿl, in Dār al-Nāqa, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J271
Letter from Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to his brother Musa. Around 1075. The writer is worried about their sister, Jarba, who is about …
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LetterT-S Ar.48.113
Letter fragment to an unidentified physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is notable: written in a narrow column, with the width of the margin almost equal …
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LetterT-S Ar.40.184
Letter from a man in Minyat Ghamr to his brother Maḥfūẓ in Fustat. In Arabic script. The writer has been ill, and people tell him …
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من اخوه [. . . . . .] 1
الذي اعلم به الاخ العزيز محفوض 2
الله تعالى وينهي ان مملوكه في …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J214
Letter fragment from Shabbetay b. Avraham he-Ḥaver (the judge of Minyat Zifta, active 1135–78) to Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. This is the upper margin and …
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ואנא מריץ לאן כאן קד בקי פי רגלי 1
עצם כרג בעד אן שדת עליה …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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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LetterBodl. MS heb. e 98/73
Letter, Somewhat cryptic. "As for what you mentioned about the istiʿmāl and the musakhkhināt (warming drugs?) and the [...], and as the 'season' (of illnesses?) …
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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 13J23.14
Letter from Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef (active 990s–1030s CE), in Qayrawān, to his brother-in-law ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim. The sender reports that the addressee's son …
אטאל אללה אכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי בקאך וחפצך ווקאך ואדאם נעמאך 1
כתאבי אליך ערב צום כיפור תקבלה אללה מנא ומנך ו…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J6.5
Letter from Natan b. Yehuda of Alexandria to Sasson b. Meshullam, a judge of Cairo. The letter contains many personal matters that reflect the milieu …
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בש' 1
לגברא …2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J78
Fragment of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The letter deals with trades, especially of fabrics. Yisrael b. …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בק[אך ואדאם] 1
נעמאך מן אלקדס עמרה אללה יד כלון מן כסליו ואלח[אל סלאמה] 2
ונע…2 Transcriptions
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List or tableT-S J1.26
Exact account of expenses for a distinguished, sick foreigner, showing also how these expenses were covered. Written by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active in Fustat …
left column
שבט 1
אלדי כרג יום אלגמעה 2
מזונות ר אלעזר…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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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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 8J22.11
Informal note from an unknown writer to R. Ḥiyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer requests the excellent jug of wine (al-nabīdh al-mamzūj) that Ḥiyya had promised …
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בשמ רחמ 1
כאנת חצרה מולאי רבנא חייא תפארת היראים קד 2
ועדת יום א…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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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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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LetterT-S 12.789
Letter from the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (dated documents 1125-50), in Fustat, to his cousin Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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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 10K15.9
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abū l-Faraj. Only the opening remains. Verso: Letter from Shelomo (likely Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to his father. In …
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LetterT-S 13J22.28
Letter from Ibn Ibrāhīm b. Ṭībān to his brother-in-law Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 11th century. Shortly after these two parted …
קד עלם אללה שדה שוקי אלי מולאי 1
אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם 2
[ע]זה ען ח…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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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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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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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LetterT-S 12.693
Detailed business and personal letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The letter narrates the difficult situation in Alexandria during a siege, probably al-Afdal's siege of 1094, …
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קד עלם אללה תעלי מסרתי בוצול מולאי אלשיך 1
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LetterT-S NS J354
Strongly formulated note by the prominent judge Natan b. Shemuel to a prominent member of the community, urging the man to send him money for …
אעלם מולאי אלגביר חפצה אללה אן קד צבח ענדי מרצא 1
עלי חאל צעב ונחן מחתאגין אלי שראבאת 2
וגיר דלך פתנעם תסייר לכאד…1 Transcription
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J5
Letter sent by a physician from Qalyub, who had opened an office in Fustat, inviting his wife (who is his paternal cousin) to join him …
בה 1
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LetterT-S 13J6.15
Letter from Yosef b. Peraḥya Yijū, in Mazara, writing to an important merchant, also in Sicily., ca. 1154. Yosef states that his sins are the …
III, 57
אטאל אללה בקא מולאי וסיידי ואדאם ו[קאה וצאנ]ה וחרמתה קד ג..... 1
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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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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/40
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Probably 1063. Natan wrote the letter 10 days before Passover. The writer is …
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LetterT-S 16.307
Letter from a man, in al-Maḥalla, to his son or younger relative. In Judaeo-Arabic, elegantly written. Lines 1-4: A Judaeo-Arabic poem, damaged. Lines 5-12: Opening …
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ו[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]רב לא ע[ 1
ופארקת שיכא כנת א[. . . .]בה ארא בעדה אלאיאם והי ליאלי 2
לאן קרב אלל…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 12.414
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat, dealing with sundry small business matters. He orders walnuts, sugar, and Sinnārī …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/60
Letter from Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, in Tripoli (Syria), to Nahray b. Nissim. The letter mentions Nahray's pilgrimage to Jerusalem and shipments of emblic myrobalan and …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונ[עמאך] 1
וסעאדתך…2 Transcriptions
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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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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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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
אבותיך יא.[. . . …1 Transcription
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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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LetterT-S AS 145.6
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver (judge in Fustat, 1150–81) to Shabbetay b. Avraham (judge in Minyat Zifta, 1135–78). Concerning (1) a muqaddam who has …
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LetterAIU VII.A.18
Letter from a man entitled “segan ha-yeshiva” to Aharon the Cantor. Dating: Possibly ca. 1035 CE, based on Goitein identification of the addressee with Aharon …
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סגן הישיבה 1
מ׳ר׳ אהרן החזן תשא ברכה ושלום 2
נאלני מרץ צעב ואנא אלי אלאן פי בקיתה 3
מ…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 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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