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LetterAIU VII.A.29
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The writer may mention being imprisoned (ḥabsī fī hādhihi l-muda), but this is uncertain without all the surrounding context.
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LetterDK 231.1 (alt: IX)
Letter to Judge Elijah from Alexandria containing a request to send back a man whose daughters were in prison-- see Goitein Nachlass material
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 13/42
Court record. In Hebrew. Fragment (left half only). Location: Fustat. Dated: 21 Tevet 1[3]27 Seleucid, which is 1016 CE. In the time of Efrayim b. …
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LetterT-S NS J554
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: upper right corner only. Addressed to a cousin (ibn ʿamm). Deals with a legal case, a document from the Muslim courts, …
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LetterT-S Misc.20.61
Note in Hebrew requesting that the addressee intervene on behalf of a prisoner in his power (אשר אתה סותם אותו בשבי). It mentions R. Me'ir …
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LetterT-S 12.57 + T-S AS 150.23
Letter/petition from a woman to Yakhin Rosh ha-Qehillot. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. She asks for help for her son, who suffers in …
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LetterT-S 10J15.18 + T-S 8J18.25
Letter. Appeal written from prison by the son of Avraham to Yosef, Yiṣḥaq and Yehuda, sons of Menahem, in Hebrew. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
- קול אומר קרא ואומר מה קרא כי אין בלשוני מלה לדבר ולא בפי תהלות לחבר
- כי אני סום בשפה ולשוני רפה וב . . . . סרעפי בקרבי רעדה אחזתני ואמרתי
- בלבי א . . …
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LetterT-S 12.255
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Hananyah ha-Kohen from "his son" Abu l-Ḥasan. After a flattering introduction, the body of the letter begins about halfway down the …
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Legal documentENA 2741.7
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: Probably 1082 CE. The approximate time period is established by the mention of Yaʾir ha-Nadiv Peʾer ha-Qahal, who also appears …
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LetterT-S 8J16.1
Note in which a physician is asked to help a captive woman, imprisoned probably due to debt. The addressee responds with a brief note on …
- בל אנא ממלוכהא
- אגתמע [[עבדהא]] מע גלאלהא פי אל
- כניסה אלמעמורה בבקא נצר (?) וערפתהא
- מא גרי לעבדהא מע אלגיראן פי מעני
- אלמראה אלמעתקלה אכת סידהם
- וקד שה…
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LetterT-S 16.229
Letter fragment reporting about a dignitary in prison from whom a declaration was taken to be given both in a Jewish and a Muslim court. …
- . . . . . .]ל[. .] אם לה אנא אכתב אלי מולאי אלריס
- . . . . . . . . . .] אליהוד ותצורהם ואלוקת מא יחתמל
- ואלסלטאן פמא ימכן אצחאב אלסיוף מן אלצלם פבעד
- ד…
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Legal documentCUL Add.3423
Deposition from Minyat Zifta, signed by five witnesses, in which two persons testify to the poverty of a man named Sulayman b. Ḥasan, who had …
- נקול נחן אלשהוד אלטארחין כטוטנא אכר הדא אל[מסטור
- אן נחן עארפין בחאל סלימאן בן חסן ואנה רגל פקיר קליל
- דאת אליד וליס נעלם אן לה לא עקאר ולא מאל ואן על…
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We the undersigned witnesses on this wr[it] state that we know the situation of Sulaymān b. Ḥasan, and that he is poor, with few possessions. W…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 107/52
Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Addressed to someone important, possibly the Nagid, and possibly specifically Maṣliaḥ Gaon (based on some flattering phrases …
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LetterENA NS 69.20
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the handwriting similarity combined with the …
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LetterMS 8254, fol. 13
Letter from Moshe Maimonides to Abū l-Munā. Autograph. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Munā is asked to convey Moshe's gratitude to Najm [al]-Dīn on account of the …
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LetterT-S AS 160.151
Part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender refers to being captured or imprisoned twice and then to ransom (קד אסתפכית פדיון). Might be a …
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List or tableBL OR 5549.8
List of prisoners imprisoned for nonpayment of the capitation tax. Fragmentary. twenty-four names preserved, with sums representing the amounts still due, to be provided by …
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LetterT-S Ar.39.238
One side: Draft of the beginning of a letter from a wretched prisoner in "the dungeon" (al-muṭbaq). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly poetry and not a letter. …
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LetterT-S 18J4.26
Letter from Ṭoviyya b. Daniel (as far as the first few words of line 31) and the Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda (from the remainder of …
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- זה גורלם מנת מדם לתת להם כמעשה יד[ם
- להודיע כי כל מלשין ומרכיל חובה להרשיע ותמיד ק[
- ברעתו אותו להכריע בצרעת פורחת גופו להנגיע כי כן ראוי א[
- יאר…
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LetterMoss. II,176.1
Letter in Hebrew written on an irregular piece of vellum from prison. David appeals to Avraham ha-Sar to try to bring about his release from …
- למרבה המשרה. ומקל תפארה. צר תעודה חתום תורה. עזרא
- ביהודים האמללים מרנו ורבנו אברהם השר. המזג ממך לא יחסר
- ותיכון שררותך כמי השילוח קופת הרוכלים עליך …
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LetterMoss. VII,164.2
Note from Yosef Tamish (? טמיש) to Namir. In Hebrew. The sender is in prison (שורתיים אלו להודיע לכה איך אני בבית הסוהר) and he …
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State documentT-S Ar.39.470
Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also used …
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[علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن [وعلى ابائه]
الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي
الحضرة ا…
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LetterENA 2964.19
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness and Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī. Also mentions Shimʿon and "fulān" suggesting it could be a draft or something legal. On …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 108/63
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. From several people, probably addressed to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis. The senders are currently being held in prison and it …
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- . . . רהג אלבלד ואפתכהה וקאל ק[
- ואלחזן וגמיע מן יעתזו בה פאת[
- נכאטבה וכנא מגתממין פי מצוה . . . [
- קד הגם עלינא סכראן פאל . . . ושתם [
- גדיד ארי…
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LetterT-S NS J36
Petition from Ḍiyāʾ bt. Yūsuf al-Qamrī (or possibly "bayt Yūsuf al-Qamrī" = his wife) to her relative Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn al-Firnās (=ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen). …
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- בשמ' רחמ'
- כתאבי אליך יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
- תאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך וכאן לך
- וליא וחאפצא ונאצרא אנה ולי דלך ואלקאצר עליה
- ואלד…
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Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 354
Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, perhaps 13th or …
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1452
Letter draft from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. Regarding a marriage-related legal case that reached …
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State documentT-S K25.214
Petition from Ṣāliḥ al-Khaybārī, a Jew from the community of Baghdad, to the Fatimid amīr Tāj al-Dawla. In Arabic script. Ṣāliḥ petitions regarding a miserable …
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عبده وغلامه صلح الخيبرى البغدادى
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاى الامير تاج الدولة اطال الله بقاه وادام تاييده وعلايه وكبت …
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LetterT-S 18J2.10
Letter to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. Abū l-Khayr al-ʿAkkāwī, Fustat, from his uncle (khāl) Ṣadoq b. Namir he-Ḥaver, Tiberias. "The imprisonment (and torture) of defaulting debtors …
- בשמ רחמ ברוך הגבר אשר יבטח בה' וג'
- מוגב הדה אלאסטר אלי אלולד אלעזיז (אטא)ל
- אללה בקאה וחרסה ותולאה אערפה כתרה אלשוק
- אליה ואלארתיאח נחוה פאללה יקרב אל…
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LetterT-S NS J4
Letter of a prisoner mistreated by a Maghribi guard and affected by illness, who asks a notable ("my brother, Abu Imran") to intervene for him …
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1143
Letter draft from an unknown man in Egypt to Marzūq Chelebi (? גלבי) in Damascus. Both writer and addressee are Qaraites. The latter is greeted …
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LetterT-S 10J19.17
Reuse: Letter sent to Shelomo ha-Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks him for help on account of his illness, poverty, and "hot bedbugs. May God …
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] תפצל אלמגלס
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] אלעאלמי אלאוחדי
- . . . . . . . . . . . . ] נשיאנו שלמה
- . . . . . . . . נשי]א גליו…
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LetterAIU VII.A.43
Letter fragment (bottom half) in Judaeo-Arabic, addressed to an important person (perhaps Avraham Maimonides). Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1541 Seleucid = August 1230 CE. …
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J61
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic to help the cantor Thābit Ibn al-Munajjim, who was ill and had been imprisoned for two months for not paying his capitation …
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LetterT-S AS 146.15
Letter to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya requesting he intervene with the Nagid on behalf of the bearer of the letter, who had spent six …
- ורבצת ואין מחריד וג
- אלי אלמגלס אלעאלי אלריסי אלאגלי [ . . . . . .
- אלאגל כגק מרינו ורבינו אליהו הדיין
- והנבון שצ . . . . אליה ירום הודו אן מוצל
- הדה אל…
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LetterT-S 13J20.2
Letter from a tax farmer in the Fayyum who was cheated of his share by his partners, was unable to pay his debts, and was …
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- עבדהא
- צדקה בן תאמאר
- בשמך רחמנה
- אלמסתגאר באללה ובחצרה סידנא תבת אללה
- מגדהא וצאעף סמוהא וכבת עדוהא
- גיר כאף ענהא חאלה ומא הו עליה מן
- אלפקר וכתרה …
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LetterT-S 13J36.5
Letter from Ramla, from Shelomo b. Yehuda to his son Avraham in Fustat, May 1029, describing in great detail the economic and other calamities which …
- קד כאן יא ולדי וקרה עיני אטאל אללה בקאך נפדת אליך כותבי מן [אלרמלה]
- במא ארגו אן תקף עליהא וערפתך כיף גרא אלאמר פי אלקודס ופי אלרמלה
- ואני נזלת אלי אל…
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LetterT-S 10J7.4
Letter from a man to his sister Umm Bū l-ʿAlāʾ. Sent care of Eliyyahu the Judge. In the hand of a scribe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
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- יתפצל ר אלייה יקרא הדא אלכתאב פי דארה ולא יקף עליה מכלוק אלא אללה//עלי אם בו אלעלא שצ// ואנת ושלום
- אלי כרימתי אם בו אלעלא אדאם אללה עלאהא וקרב ג…
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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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LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/27
Most of a long, very distressed letter from Menaḥem, writing in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo, to a business associate, whose family lives in Fustāṭ/Cairo and who has traveled. …
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LetterDK 230.1 (alt: 22)
Letter from Maymūn b. Khalfa, Palermo, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 18 August 1056 (Gil). Describes the movement of goods and ships to and from …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף ענך [אל]אסוא ברחמתה מן אל
מדינה לה כלון מן אלול כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא באחסן כא…
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LetterT-S 10J19.17
Letter of appeal addressed to Shelomo ha-Nasi. The writer asks for assistance after having been arrested. He suffers severe poverty and illness and bedbugs (al-baqq). …
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