16354 records found
T-S 18J3.17
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
T-S 18J3.18
Fragment of a letter from Sharira Gaon. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #35) VMR
T-S 18J3.19
Letter, detailed, sent from Tripolitania, Libya, by a man to his brother who had settled many years before in Alexandria. Dated August 1089. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
T-S 18J3.2
Awaiting description - see Goitein notes and index card linked below.
T-S 18J3.20
Awaiting description - see Goitein notes linked below.
T-S 18J3.21
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
T-S 18J3.22
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
T-S 18J3.23
Recto: fundraising letter from the leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron to the leaders of the Jewish community in Egypt (16th-17th century). Verso: jottings and the imprint of a seal in ink, bearing the name ‘Jacob [...]’. (Information from CUDL)
T-S 18J3.24
Letter in Ladino from Sidon from Joseph b. Joyya and Masʿūd Bunan to Abraham Monson and Judah Aseo in Cairo concerning community financial matters. Dated Nisan 5518 of the Era of Creation (= 1758 CE). Mentions Abraham del Bedere and Abraham Sagri. (Information from CUDL)
T-S 18J3.25
Recto: letter from Abraham Masʿūd, dealing with trade in silk and linen, and mentioning Elijah Saloniko (אליא שלונקו). Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
T-S 18J3.3
Letter to the (male) writer’s paternal aunt, mentioning other relatives including Abū Manṣūr and Sitt al-Yumn, and cities such as Alexandria and Damascus. (Information from CUDL)
T-S 18J3.4
Letter in Judeo-Arabic to Sitt al-Nas bint Moses b. Josiah from a female cousin (both are also in-laws), the daughter of Joseph b. Josiah, asking her to live with her after the death of her husband. On verso is an Arabic love poem (in a different hand). (Information from CUDL and Cecilia Palombo)
T-S 18J3.5
Letter of a refugee from Acre, who lives in Alexandria and who is experiencing problems with the community there, to Yosef b. Yahya, Fustat. Approximately 1115.
T-S 18J3.6
Legal document, probably some kind of testimony, signed by [...] b. Yefet, ʿOvadya b. Ṭahor and [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, followed by another legal document, probably related to the one above. (Information from CUDL)
T-S 18J3.7
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
T-S 18J3.8
Letter to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an elaborate opening in Hebrew. In the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis? (Information in part from CUDL)
T-S 18J3.9
Letter in which Shelomo b. Semah, Ramla, describes the earthquake, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, or to the community of Fustat, December 1033. The letter details the terrible effects of the earthquake and its aftershocks on the inhabitants of Ramla and remarking on how many more would have died had the earthquake happened during the night. The initial earthquake is said to have taken place on Thursday, 12th Ṭevet (= December, 1033 CE). The reaction of the victims was to fast and cry out to God for mercy and the writer comments how the mercy of God was demonstrated in that there were survivors. The survivors are still living outside the city in difficult conditions. (Information from CUDL)
T-S 18J4.1
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
T-S 18J4.10
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (Alexandria) to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge (Fustat), explaining a recent incident involving two cloaks worth 109 dirhams and a brush with the police. He congratulates Eliyyahu on the upcoming wedding of his son Abū l-Barakāt (=Shelomo). Simḥa has been unable to fulfill an obligation to Eliyyahu because his wife (Eliyyahu's daughter) has been sick for the last year, and he has been unable to travel. See also T-S 13J24.10.
T-S 18J4.11
Congratulation letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b, Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, Cairo, approximately 1055.