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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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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 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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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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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 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 1
. . . . . . . . . .] אליהוד ותצורהם ואלוקת מא יחתמל 2
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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 1
כי אני …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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 1
אגתמע [[עבדהא]] מע גלאלהא פי אל 2
כניסה אלמעמורה בבקא נצר (?) וערפתהא 3
מא גרי לעבדהא מ…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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Paraliterary textT-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 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 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 …1 Transcription
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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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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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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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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 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 1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . ] אלעאלמי אלאוחדי 2
. . . . . . . . . . . . ] נשיאנו שלמה …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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 1
ביהודים האמללים מרנו ורבנו אברהם השר. המזג ממך לא יחסר 2
ותיכון שררו…1 Transcription
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LetterT-S NS J36
Note from Ḍiyā' ("Light") bt. Yūsuf al-Qamari, who is in distress over her son’s imprisonment, addressed to her relative Abu al-Ḥasan Allun al-Firnas, alias Eli …
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בשמ' רחמ' 1
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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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LetterAIU VII.A.43
Letter fragment (bottom half) in Judaeo-Arabic, addressed to an important person (perhaps Avraham Maimonides). Dated: Middle third of Elul 1541 Seleucid, which is 1230 CE. …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 108/63
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From several people, probably addressed to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis. The senders are currently being held in prison and it sounds like they are …
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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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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 Ar.39.470
Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, probably the khizānat al-bunūd, which was also used as …
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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' 1
מוגב הדה אלאסטר אלי אלולד אלעזיז (אטא)ל 2
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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 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 …
עבדהא 1
צדקה בן תאמאר 2
בשמך רחמנה(!) 3
אלמסתגאר באללה …1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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 1
אלי אלמגלס אלעאלי אלריסי אלאגלי [ . . . . . . 2
אלאגל כגק מרינו ורבינו א…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J61
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic to help Thābit al-Hazzan b. al-Munajjim, who was ill and had been imprisoned for two months for not paying his capitation tax. …
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LetterT-S 10J7.4
Letter from a man to his sister Umm Bū l-ʿAlā'. 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…1 Transcription 1 Discussion
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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] 1
במא ארגו אן תקף עליהא וע…2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
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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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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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