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  1. 1

    LetterDK 231.1 (alt: IX)

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    2017
    PGP ID
    6555

    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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  2. 2

    LetterT-S Misc.20.61

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    2020
    PGP ID
    23310

    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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    LetterAIU VII.A.29

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    2019
    PGP ID
    27272

    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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    LetterT-S NS J554

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    2019
    PGP ID
    26513

    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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    Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 13/42

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    2017
    PGP ID
    6397

    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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    Paraliterary textT-S Ar.39.238

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    2017
    PGP ID
    8240

    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 10J15.18 + T-S 8J18.25

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    2004
    PGP ID
    2863

    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)

    1. קול אומר קרא ואומר מה קרא כי אין בלשוני מלה לדבר ולא בפי תהלות לחבר
    2. כי אני סום בשפה ולשוני רפה וב . . . . סרעפי בקרבי רעדה אחזתני ואמרתי
    3. בלבי א . . …

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  8. 8

    LetterT-S 8J16.1

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    1990
    PGP ID
    1950

    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 …

    1. בל אנא ממלוכהא
    2. אגתמע [[עבדהא]] מע גלאלהא פי אל
    3. כניסה אלמעמורה בבקא נצר (?) וערפתהא
    4. מא גרי לעבדהא מע אלגיראן פי מעני
    5. אלמראה אלמעתקלה אכת סידהם
    6. וקד שה…

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    LetterT-S 16.229

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    2004
    PGP ID
    3458

    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. …

    1. . . . . . .]ל[. .] אם לה אנא אכתב אלי מולאי אלריס
    2. . . . . . . . . . .] אליהוד ותצורהם ואלוקת מא יחתמל
    3. ואלסלטאן פמא ימכן אצחאב אלסיוף מן אלצלם פבעד
    4. ד…

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    LetterT-S 12.57 + T-S AS 150.23

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    2018
    PGP ID
    3182

    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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  11. 11

    LetterT-S 12.255

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    2020
    PGP ID
    19924

    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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  12. 12

    Legal documentENA 2741.7

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    2019
    PGP ID
    29722

    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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    List or tableBL OR 5549.8

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    2017
    PGP ID
    6240

    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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  14. 14

    LetterT-S 18J4.26

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    1988
    PGP ID
    1765

    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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    1. זה גורלם מנת מדם לתת להם כמעשה יד[ם
    2. להודיע כי כל מלשין ומרכיל חובה להרשיע ותמיד ק[
    3. ברעתו אותו להכריע בצרעת פורחת גופו להנגיע כי כן ראוי א[
    4. יארי…

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    LetterENA NS 69.20

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    2017
    PGP ID
    12234

    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

    In PGP since
    2019
    PGP ID
    19576

    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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  17. 17

    LetterT-S AS 160.151

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    2018
    PGP ID
    18025

    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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  18. 18

    LetterMS 8254, fol. 13

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    2021
    PGP ID
    32290

    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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  19. 19

    Legal documentCUL Add.3423

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    2004
    PGP ID
    3973

    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 …

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלטארחין כטוטנא אכר הדא אל[מסטור
    2. אן נחן עארפין בחאל סלימאן בן חסן ואנה רגל פקיר קליל
    3. דאת אליד וליס נעלם אן לה לא עקאר ולא מאל ואן על…

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  20. 20

    LetterMoss. II,176.1

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    1990
    PGP ID
    875

    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 …

    1. למרבה המשרה. ומקל תפארה. צר תעודה חתום תורה. עזרא
    2. ביהודים האמללים מרנו ורבנו אברהם השר. המזג ממך לא יחסר
    3. ותיכון שררותך כמי השילוח קופת הרוכלים עליך …

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    LetterMoss. VII,164.2

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    2018
    PGP ID
    16985

    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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    LetterBodl. MS heb. f 108/63

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    2019
    PGP ID
    19581

    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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  23. 23

    State documentT-S K25.214

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    2018
    PGP ID
    18941

    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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    1.         عبده وغلامه صلح الخيبرى البغدادى

    2.     بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    3. عبد مولاى الامير تاج الدولة اطال الله بقاه وادام تاييده وعلايه وكبت …

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    Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 354

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    2020
    PGP ID
    28096

    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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    LetterAIU VII.A.43

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    2019
    PGP ID
    27282

    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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    LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1452

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    2020
    PGP ID
    31681

    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

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    2018
    PGP ID
    16767

    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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    1. [علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن  [وعلى ابائه]

    2. الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي

    3. الحضرة ا…

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    LetterT-S NS J36

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    2004
    PGP ID
    5295

    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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    1. בשמ' רחמ'
    2. כתאבי אליך יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    3. תאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך וכאן לך
    4. וליא וחאפצא ונאצרא אנה ולי דלך ואלקאצר עליה
    5. ואלד…

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    LetterT-S NS J4

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    2017
    PGP ID
    8702

    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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    LetterT-S 10J19.17

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    2021
    PGP ID
    2935

    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 …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] תפצל אלמגלס
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] אלעאלמי אלאוחדי
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . ] נשיאנו שלמה
    4. . . . . . . . . נשי]א גליו…

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    LetterT-S 18J2.10

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    2017
    PGP ID
    1752

    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 …

    1. בשמ רחמ ברוך הגבר אשר יבטח בה' וג'
    2. מוגב הדה אלאסטר אלי אלולד אלעזיז (אטא)ל
    3. אללה בקאה וחרסה ותולאה אערפה כתרה אלשוק
    4. אליה ואלארתיאח נחוה פאללה יקרב אל…

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    LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1143

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    2020
    PGP ID
    27901

    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 AS 146.15

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    2019
    PGP ID
    4102

    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 …

    1. ורבצת ואין מחריד וג
    2. אלי אלמגלס אלעאלי אלריסי אלאגלי [ . . . . . .
    3. אלאגל כגק מרינו ורבינו אליהו הדיין
    4. והנבון שצ . . . . אליה ירום הודו אן מוצל
    5. הדה אל…

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  34. 34

    LetterCUL Or.1081 J61

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    2017
    PGP ID
    8959

    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 13J20.2

    In PGP since
    2017
    PGP ID
    3312

    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 …

    1. עבדהא
    2. צדקה בן תאמאר
    3. בשמך רחמנה(!)
    4. אלמסתגאר באללה ובחצרה סידנא תבת אללה
    5. מגדהא וצאעף סמוהא וכבת עדוהא
    6. גיר כאף ענהא חאלה ומא הו עליה מן
    7. אלפקר וכתרה אלע…

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    LetterT-S 10J7.4

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    2020
    PGP ID
    3056

    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: …

    1. . .
    2. יתפצל ר אלייה יקרא הדא אלכתאב פי דארה ולא יקף עליה מכלוק אלא אללה//עלי אם בו אלעלא שצ// ואנת ושלום
    3. אלי כרימתי אם בו אלעלא אדאם אללה עלאהא וקרב ג…

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    LetterCUL Or.1080 J98

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    2017
    PGP ID
    8882

    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 13J36.5

    In PGP since
    1988
    PGP ID
    1137

    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 …

    1. קד כאן יא ולדי וקרה עיני אטאל אללה בקאך נפדת אליך כותבי מן [אלרמלה]
    2. במא ארגו אן תקף עליהא וערפתך כיף גרא אלאמר פי אלקודס ופי אלרמלה
    3. ואני נזלת אלי אל…

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    LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/27

    In PGP since
    2020
    PGP ID
    19292

    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)

    Document Date
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    2018
    PGP ID
    5668

    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

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    2021
    PGP ID
    33756

    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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