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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S AS 169.297
Medical prescription, apparently topicals for a wound.
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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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View document detailsLiterary textT-S NS 224.146 + T-S Misc.11.120
A very interesting glossary for materia medica, giving correspondences between different terms. Join: Alan Elbaum.
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LetterT-S 18J3.2
Appeal to the public by a young woman to help her against her neglectful husband, her cousin Yosef b. Kulayb al-Kohen, the brother-in-law of Ibn …
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View document detailsState documentT-S AS 181.2
Fragment of a petition. Hard to piece together the story but contains various interesting references such as to the judges (al-quḍāt) and to عبد يشوع …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Ar.20.6
Letter fragment to 'rabbenu'. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 200 dinars, a wālī and the territory of al-Muʿaẓẓam (ʿĪsā?), who is in conflict with his brother (al-Kāmil?). …
- . . . .] ואמא אכבאר . . . . [
- . . . .]ת אללה . . . . . . . . . כתאב . . . . [
- . . . .]סלם . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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View document detailsList or tableT-S Ar.39.399
Accounts in Arabic script. Detailing the arrival of various consignments of Oriental goods, it seems all by caravan. Dated: Jan–March 994 CE (Dhū l-Qaʿda - …
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View document detailsLetterT-S AS 169.231
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Opening with very deferential praises (. . . וארתקאהא ותמכינהא . . . ). The content is a set of technical instructions, …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/17
Letter from Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen (also called ha-Talmid ha-Navon Segan ha-Kohanim). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter begins with condolences upon the …
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View document detailsState documentT-S NS 305.119
Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso is covered with unidentified writing in Arabic …
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List or tableENA 2818.49
List of expenses in Judaeo-Arabic. Large, very neat, and unusual. Lists many names, including many Muslims and at least one Christian.
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LetterT-S 12.421
Letter from the cantor Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, in a provincial town (Benhā is mentioned), to Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet b. Eli, in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Ar.41.67
Letter/petition from Bū Bakr to a notable named Burhān al-Dīn, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand, layout, and formulary. Asking …
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View document detailsLetterT-S AS 206.202
Long business letter mainly in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era. At the top of recto there is a summary of accounts with R. Avraham during …
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View document detailsLetterT-S 12.824
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a Rosh Yeshiva named Moshe; his honorifics are unusual if not unique for the Geniza. The sender opens …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Misc.25.104
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions acquiring a muʿtaṣimī (a wooden tray with small compartments, named after the Abbasid Caliph al-Muʿtaṣim) from Bū ʿAbdallāh and pawning it …
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View document detailsLiterary 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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View document detailsList or tableT-S AS 169.165
Recto: Contributors list, of money and/or of wheat. Crude handwriting. Headed by "sar ha-sarim" (Mevorakh b. Saʿadya?) who donates "3." Other entries include Abū Saʿd …
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View document detailsLetterAIU VII.E.13
Fragment (lower left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter probably from a woman to a male family member. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. She requests …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS 321.27
Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Wafāʾ Tamīm al-Kohen. Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century, based on …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S NS 225.101
Medieval glossary in Judaeo-Arabic for "God" or "God of heaven" (or perhaps "OMG") in 15 languages including but not limited to Aramaic ("Targumiyya"), possibly "Samaritan," …
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Legal documentT-S J1.42
Legal document, draft or copy. No signatures. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods for which ʿArūs b. Yosef owes …
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LetterT-S 8.23
Letter from (or to?) Minyat Zifta in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning various community affairs and expressing concern about the lack …
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Legal documentENA 3975.4
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Nearly completely preserved. In Arabic. Dated: 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 AH = 2 June 1143 CE. The declaration is made by …
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S Ar.41.73
Rental contract (hādhā mā istaʾjara . . .). Lessee: ʿAbdallāh b. [...] al-Dawla [...] al-Tājir. Lessor: Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb (Moshe b. Yaʿaqov) al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir. Dated: …
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LetterENA 3616.21
Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ to his father Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses transactions of white lāsīn silk. Abū ʿImrān b. …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS 226.185 + T-S NS 226.162
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps late 11th century or early 12th. This is a long and fairly well-preserved letter from somebody close to the Jewish …
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LetterT-S 12.245
Letter in a Spanish hand to R. Yiṣḥaq al-ḥaver al-jalīl. The sender was in great anxiety until Abū Zekharya b. Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī …
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LetterT-S 28.10
Letter to a Nagid, informing him of various matters in the community, and complaining about the general state of its decline. Mentions individuals such as …
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View document detailsLetterL-G Lit.III.85
Letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya to his 'brother and father' Wāfī b. Ḥasan and Avraham b. Ṣedaqa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Dealing in …
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- אלי אכי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה
- פי אלכיר בקאך נעלמך סלמו
- אללה ולא אסלמך באן א
- גא חמוך אלמסלם וקל לי באן
- כלץ לכום תולתין מאלכום
- וברוך ייי עלא אסל…
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View document detailsLiterary textT-S AS 177.209
Poem in Arabic rhyming on "-dī," possibly about old age and death and mentioning numerous biblical and Quranic figures. Needs examination. ايطمع بعد سبعين بعيش …
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View document detailsLegal 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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View document detailsLetterT-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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View document detailsState 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 16.154
Letter from Yosef, a provincial muqaddam, to Avraham b. Natan ("Yesod ha-Yeshiva"). Dating: ca. 1100 CE. In this poignant letter Yosef complains of being neglected …
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LetterT-S 16.349
Leaf from a letterbook containing copies of at least three different letters in Ladino. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Av 5493 to Tishrei 5494 AM = late …
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LetterENA 3504.3
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
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LetterT-S 18J3.1
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya and his three sons. The writer asks for one dinar so that he …
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS 225.91
Fragment of a private letter, sending regards to a certain man and his son Yosef.
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View document detailsLetterT-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 K6.176
Letter from Avraham b. Seʿadya he-Ḥaver to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Binyām. In Judaeo-Arabic, with one line in Arabic script on verso (saying that he …
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S AS 177.218
Legal document involving several amīrs, including ʿIzz al-Mulk Bahāʾ al-Dawla wa-Sadīduhā Dhū al-[...]. Also concerning Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī, the ʿArīf ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammmad, and another …
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View document detailsState documentT-S Misc.26.37
Official letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.
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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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View document detailsState 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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View document detailsLetterT-S 12.399
Letter fragment (upper part of recto, address on verso). From the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Shelomo b. Shela ha-Sar" On recto, the …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S AS 176.155
Gnomic sayings made by a physician to a king. Begins with reference to a list of attributes of animals (e.g., the legs of a lion, …
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View document detailsLetterBL OR 5566D.34
Recto: The lower part of a letter mostly in Arabic (concluding blessings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic) from a parent to a son. The addressee is …
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LetterT-S 6J6.4
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), …
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LetterT-S 8.20
Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl Sukkarī. The two also corresponded in T-S 8J27.13 (PGPID 3747), ca. 1056 …
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