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LetterDK 231.5 (alt: XVII)
Letter of a father to his son in Damietta (written by a scribe), reporting about a lawsuit and urging him to stay with his mother …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.38.48
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (the right halves of ~7 lines). Needs examination. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. One of the parties …
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Legal documentPER H 89
Will of a pregnant woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: New Cairo. Dated: Tishrei 1449 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. Testator: Sitt …
אלדי נעלמה אנו חתומי מטה ונחקה ונשהד בה אננא חצרנא ענד אלשיך אבו אלפרג מרו"ר ישועה הזקן 1
בר מרו"ר יהודה הזקן הנכבד נע דידיע …3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
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LetterT-S 10J13.18
Letter from Bū l-Karam to his brother Abū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting and spelling. Business letter in which the writer informs his brother about …
בש רח 1
אלי אכי אלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל 2
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LetterT-S AS 158.213
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Small fragment, with hardly any text left. It states that the husband of a woman related …
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Paraliterary textENA 3207.17
Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and magical script. Including a birth control recipe: "If you want a woman not to become pregnant. . …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J173
Letter from the mother of Dā'ūd, in a provincial town, to her son Sulaymān al-Jamal, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She complains about a lack of …
מן ואלדת דאוד לסולימאן יצל דוכאן 1
אלגמל קצר אלשמע אן 2
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LetterT-S 6J3.3 + T-S Ar.7.26
Letter of appeal for help, mentioning a recent death, apparently of a husband, leaving the writer (the widow) without livelihood and unable to live with …
T-S 6J3.3
מולאי מא ענדנא מן שוגל 1
אלקלב וממן תופי פי הדה אלאשהר 2
אללה תעאלי יעוצהא ומא לי לא עיש 3
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LetterT-S 10J18.17
Petition of a pregnant woman describing herself as a 'lonely foreigner' (gharība qatīʿa). Ibrāhīm, the scribe, emphasizes the great reward and place in heaven the …
אן וצל כתאבך וכא[ן 1
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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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LetterCUL Or.1080 J98
Family letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Almost certainly from a woman, addressed to her cousin (ibn ʿamm). Goitein describes it as a "fragment of a family letter …
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LetterT-S K25.85
Letter from a man to his brother. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a lovely hand. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Refers to the addressee's pilgrimage the preceding …
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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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LetterENA 2634.1 + ENA 2634.2
Letter from Mordekhai ha-Levi Mizraḥi, probably in Meron or Safed, to Moshe Ḥayyim and Yiṣḥaq Ḥayyim, unknown location. This fragment also contains the end of …
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LetterENA 2634.2 + ENA 2634.1
Letter from Mordekhai ha-Levi Mizraḥi, probably in Meron or Safed, to Agha Meir b. Eliyyahu, unknown location. The letter continues onto the upper part of …
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LetterT-S K25.92
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, to be read in the synagogue, on behalf of a pregnant woman who has no money …
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LetterT-S NS J14
Letter from the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Ramle, to his son Abū Isḥāq Avraham, in Tyre or Damascus (Shelomo does not know which, so …
TS NS J 14, ed. Gil, Palestine, pp. 208-210 (Doc #115),N.H. 2-23-88, (P). Letter from Solomon b. Judah, Ramle, to his son Abraham.
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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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LetterT-S 13J21.18
Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's daughter to her maternal uncle ʿEli b. Hillel, the deputy overseer (nā'ib al-nāẓir) of Bahnasa. In the hand of Ḥalfon …
בשמך רחמ 1
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 76/60
A pregnant woman, seemingly well-to-do, complains to her sister in the city about neglect and expresses apprehension that part of her house will be taken …
ב[שמך] עבדהא אבראהים געל פדאהא 1
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LetterENA 1822a.2
Letter from Umm Abū ʿAlī, in the Rif, likely near Damīra, to her son Isḥāq, in Fustat. The latter may live with his aunt and …
בשמ 1
כתאבי אליך יא ולדי אלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם 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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