Search the Princeton Geniza Project

Shelfmark:

BL OR 5542.30

Letter from Eliyya ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov al-Siqillī to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Al-Mutaṭabbib Ibn Furāt, in Ramla. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The sender is an old, sick man in a foreign land who asks for (unspecified) help. Ends with the rhyming motto ישע יוחש לעם שאין בו נחש (an allusion to Numbers 23:23).

Editor: Ed. Moshe Gil, "Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634–1099): Additions, Notes, and Corrections‎" (in Hebrew), Teuda‎ 7 (1991).

Library: BL

Type: Letter

^string	Matches the text at the beginning of the string
string$	Matches the text at the end of the string
.	Matches any single character (including special characters)
a*	Matches the sequence of zero or more of the specified character
a+	Matches the sequence of one or more of the specified character
a?	Matches zero or one occurrence of the specified character
abc\|def
[abc]	Matches any one of the specified characters

מולאנא מולאי	Search for rows that contain either of two words by simply typing them consecutively. In this case, the search will find documents that contain either מולאי or מולאנא.
כתאבי +מולאי+	Use a + sign before word to search for rows that contain all of them (in this case the words כתאבי and מולאי)
כתאבי AND מולאי כתאבי OR מולאי	The keyword AND indicates that both search terms must be present in the results. OR matches either search term.
כתאב –כתאבה	Use a - sign to exclude a term from your results (in this case, the search will include כתאב but exclude כתאבה)
כתאב ?כתאב*	Use an asterisk or a question mark as a wildcard. An asterix matches any number of characters. A question mark matches any single character

Geniza Lab

Princeton Geniza Project

Regular expressions

Boolean Search

BL OR 5542.30

Contact information