Oxford, Bodleian MS. Heb. d. 75.24

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

One leaf document

Paper

Brown (iron-gall)

Calamus

No ruling can be seen

15

276

180

1049-1050

11th Century CE

Fustat. Tinnis

Letter

Letter from a prominent member of the Yeshiva in Palestine writing to a communal leader in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Ends with the motto "yeshuʿa." Goitein identified the sender as Daniel b. ʿAzarya; the addressee as possibly Sahlān b. Avraham; and the date as 1361 Seleucid, which is 1049/50 CE. Gil misread the date as 1391 Seleucid and therefore identified the sender as David b. Daniel b. ʿAzarya. The purpose of the letter is to announce an upcoming visit "for the renewing of the covenant" (tajdīd al-ʿahd) with the community of Fustat. The response should be sent to Tinnīs.

No vowels or accents

Bought through J. Offord in 1906. From the Genizah.

990053424740205171

https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/itempage?vid=KTIV&scope=KTIV&docId=PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990053424740205171&SearchTxt=d.%2075.24,AND (Date accessed: 2026-02-13)

https://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/volume_94#MS_Heb_d_75-part24-item1 (Date accessed: 2026-02-13)

S. D. Goitein, "New sources on Daniel b. Azarya, Nasi and Gaon‎" (in Hebrew), Shalem‎ 2 (Yad Izhak Ben Zvi / יד יצחק בן-צבי, 1976), 41-102.

Moshe Gil, Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634–1099)‎ (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv University, 1983), vol. 3.

Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/595/ (accessed February 13, 2026).