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Legal documentT-S 12.221
Large letter in Judaeo-Arabic about communal strife and denunciations. Abū l-[...] Ibn al-Dayyān told 'sayyidnā al-faqīh al-ḥāfiẓ' that the sender had said something derogatory about …
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LetterT-S 12.263
Long letter addressed to Mevorakh b. Seʿadya. Mentions al-Andalus, Bijāya, and Alexandria. Complains about a group of impious people. (Information from Goitein's index card.) Should …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/14
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerning the India trade. Apparently the second or the third folio of a very long letter. Mentions numerous people and family members …
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Literary textT-S Misc.8.59
A first-person narrative or historical account mentioning places in Lebanon (Baalbek) and Syria (Jūsiya, Aleppo and its ruler Ibn Ṣalaḥ, possibly القرعة), the sultan, and …
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LetterT-S Ar.42.132
Letter in Arabic script. From a (Muslim) spiritual authority who is firing a would-be disciple. The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking …
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LetterT-S NS 225.91
Fragment of a private letter, sending regards to a certain man and his son Yosef.
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LetterT-S NS 226.162 + T-S NS 226.185
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a long and well-preserved letter from somebody close to the communal leadership (mentions the Gaon, Av Bet Din, etc) in …
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State documentT-S NS 327.3
Copy of fiscal accounts for the kharāj tax collected in Khorasan and the annexed territories. A Fatimid copy of an Abbasid tax register? Apparently only …
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LetterT-S H2.133
Letter in Arabic script, beautifully written. The upper part and the lower part are missing. On verso there is part of the Passover Haggada. "We …
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LetterENA 2727.30
Calligraphic letter by Mubarak b. Hillel to Abu Sa`id ibn al-`Afsi al-`Attar, dealing with business matters.
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LetterENA 3513.5
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: 11th century. From Salāma(?) and Shūʿa(?) and Maḥfūẓ b. Būlus(??) to Abū Sahl [...]. Rudimentary …
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LetterENA NS 20.5
Letter from an unknown writer, possibly in Abū Qīr, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
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LetterT-S 16.38
Letter to a certain Shemuʾel, in a Spanish hand. Mentions Cyprus and interesting names (e.g. יהודה דולסית). (Information in part from CUDL)
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LetterT-S Ar.18(1).124
Letter sent to Cairo to the house of a ḥaver from the Ibn Qaṭāʾif family, dated Friday, middle of Shevat, describing the writer’s anger over …
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State documentT-S NS 134.34
Either or a petition or a letter of gratitude for the caliph's favorable response to a prior petition. In Arabic script. The ends of approximately …
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LetterT-S Ar.40.65
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. There is one name in Hebrew script (אלמהראני); the addressee is called "my son" (yā waladī); and the writer mentions …
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Literary textX893 J785
Literary text in Hebrew. Late. It is a first-person account of a journey to Gehennom, which the writer composed and sent to Rabban Gamaliel after …
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LetterT-S AS 155.283
Recto: beginning of a letter (or report), followed by a poem in Arabic script, mentioning Baghdad, which may be part of the letter. Verso: rhymed …
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State documentT-S K16.43
Possibly official correspondence. In Arabic script. Long and well preserved. Reused on recto for piyyut.
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LetterCUL Or.1080 5.8
Letter from a woman to her son Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Salāma al-Ghurābī(?). In Arabic script. Well preserved and beautifully written. She writes that she …
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State documentT-S 8J5.21
Verso: Draft of a petition in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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Paraliterary textT-S Misc.25.45
Medical prescription in Arabic script. For a topical remedy. Written in an unusually beautiful hand and formatting, with the ingredients arranged in a list rather …
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LetterENA NS 83.303
Narrative report in Arabic script. Letter, legal query, or literary? Mentions a Jewish man, perhaps named Yūsuf, who came before a governor (wālī). Then refers …
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LetterT-S 16.54
Letter describing a sea voyage from Tripoli to Sicily (CUDL). “Of another Jew we read in a Hebrew letter that in a large ship, in …
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LetterENA 2575.7–8
Letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the …
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LetterT-S Ar.41.83
Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee). It seems that …
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1464
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother' Hārūn Fayrūz in Cairo. This letter contains an update on her stomach illness …
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1478
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. See tag for other letters by her.
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1589
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown, but both are Qaraites. The letter describes the great solidarity of the Qaraites and how they protect each …
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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1591
Letter from a woman named Harja, in Jerusalem, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Firrouz, in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. See tag for other letters …
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List or tableT-S NS 226.167
Book list in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. See T-S K3.41 for a similar booklist in his hand (possibly but not clearly a …
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LetterT-S NS J223
Note from Abū Thābit al-Ṣayrafī to a certain Rabbenu Shemuel asking him to declare a ban of excommunication against whoever cast a spell on someone …
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LetterT-S Misc.28.149
Letter to Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: 1088–1188 CE (14[..] Seleucid). The letter discusses business in flax in the Levant, especially in Damascus. Mentions "the …
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Paraliterary textT-S Ar.34.217
Medical prescriptions for "the little one" (al-ṣaghīra) Sitt al-Bayt(?) and for her son. In Arabic script. There is a section at the top for what …
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LetterENA 2727.29
Letter from Aharon b. Naḥum ha-Tinnisi the scribe. The writer is in need. He lost his job and prices are high, so he left Tinnis …
- ] אעלם מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
- ] סלאמתה ונעמתה אני רגל מן אהל תניס
- ע]אקת מעישתי ודאם עליי גלא אלסער פלם אגד לי ל
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LetterT-S Ar.41.43
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …
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List or tableYevr.-Arab. II 2204
Notebook of a merchant and/or druggist. Bifolium from what was probably a larger notebook. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 16th century. A date is given at …
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LetterBL OR 5566C.13
Letter in Arabic script from a father to his son Abū l-Majd. "The fire was in our hearts because of you, how you spent shabbat …
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Literary textT-S 12.47 + T-S K25.162 + T-S AS 159.195 + T-S NS 224.176
Story of illicit love involving a woman named Hind and her husband, a man named Bishr and an old woman. Cf. H. T. Norris, "The …
T-S 12.47, recto:
- פמתא מא ראך ואנתי שאבה לא יצבר קלבהו ען אלשהוא
- . . רי מנה מא תחבין ולאכן סלי זוגיך מתא יכרג אלא ציעתה
- פאכברני פטאבת נפס הנד בכלאם …
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LetterBL OR 5542.24
Letter from a cantor or teacher to his boss in Cairo. The cantor had been “accused of having assembled a group of young men and …
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Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1701
Legal report in a Qaraite court register. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 1101 CE, but this date does not appear on …
- חבשם יודע תעלומות
- סלמא כתרת אלשנאעאת ען אבו נצר בן קיומא
- מנד עדה סנין באבנה אבו אלמעאלי בן תאמאר אלתי הי
- זוגה אבו סעד בן צדקה אללבאן ואעתמד אלמגון מ…
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LetterMoss. IV,17
Letter from a woman requesting help in receiving her share from her late husband’s inheritance, with various signatures of support. Mentions government interference as well …
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Literary textT-S Misc.8.32
Arabic poem, transcribed into Hebrew script. At least some of the originally Islamic elements were kept ("fa-wa-lladhī anzala furqānahu ʿalā l-nabiyyi l-muṣṭafā l-muntajab"). There are …
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LetterT-S NS J411
Letter from an old cantor to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. He is complaining that his post was taken by someone …
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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 13J18.27
Abū ʿAlī b. ʿImrān, Alexandria, writes to the son of his dead sister, to Abū Mūsā Hārūn b. al-Muʿallim Yaʿaqov, Fusṭāṭ, the shop of Abū …
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LetterT-S 12.293
Letter from Sitt Dhahab, in an unknown location, to Abū Naṣr b. Karīm, in Qāʿat al-Fāḍil, Fustat. She refers to herself as his daughter. Goitein …
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