Oxford, Bodleian MS. Heb. c. 28.37

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

One leaf document

Paper

Black (carbon based)

Calamus

No ruling can be seen

22+marginalia

ca 1097

11th Century CE

From the year 1097.

Egypt, Alexandria

Fustat

Judeo-Arabic

Letter

India Book I, 17. Letter from Yehuda Ibn Sighmar, at Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, at Fustat, from the year 1097. The letter contains three parts: First, blessings over Nahray's recovery from illness. Second, a survey of the dealings between Yehuda and Nahray, the details of which remain unclear. Third, the lawsuit of Moshe b. Labrat, the nephew of Yehuda, against Yosef Lebdi. Yehuda, the writer of the letter, was the intended recipient of the gift that Moshe b. Labrat sent with Lebdi from the west. It is clear that this letter was written before the first court session was held.

Sporadic

990053399130205171

https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=KTIV&scope=KTIV&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990053399130205171&SearchTxt=heb.%20c%2028.37,AND (Date accessed: 2025-12-22)

https://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/volume_36 (Date accessed: 2025-12-22)

S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book 1: Joseph Lebdi prominent india trader: Cairo Genizah documents‎ (in Hebrew) (Ben-Zvi Institute, 2009).

S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (Brill, 2008), vol. 1.

M. Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael‎ (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv University, 1997), vol. 4.

Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/5337/ (accessed December 22, 2025).