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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the cantor of Ṣahrajt, Malīj, and the son of the late Abū Yaʿqūb al-Kohen al-Ṭabīb. Hand of Nahray b. Nissim …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barki, from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Ca. 1053 (Gil). The writer is in Busir for the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Verso: Letter addressed to Mubārak. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on the handwriting and the typical names. We did not expect you to fail …
Official-looking letter in Arabic script. First ~5 lines are preserved. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. Needs examination.
Letter sent by Perahya the second b. Yosef the second to Shelomo ha-Nasi, dealing with various matters, including an ordinance (taqqana). Mentions the Nagid R. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Draft of a letter to a dignitary (הפטיש החזק נר המערבי דגל הרבנים יחיד הדור נמשול), probably the Nagid, who would probably be Avraham Maimonides …
Narrow vertical strip of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a business letter (ביע . . . כאן לא . . . תמן להא . . …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. Mentions Yūsuf (l. 1), a ship, a commercial partnership (ṣuḥba), and a qāḍī (l. 3). On verso there is …
Letter from a father who had undertaken to pay the capitation tax for his son but was robbed. Asks the recipient to pay the tax …
Bifolio with several different sorts of writing in both Hebrew and Arabic script. 1. A copy of a letter from Yeḥiziyahu b. David b. Yeḥizqiyahu …
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1 نسخ
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Small fragment of a letter, probably.
IB IV, 48 (ח51). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shabbā, al-Andalus, to Spain Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, probably 1138–39. The writer expresses longing for Ḥalfon, comparing separation …
Letter to Abū Yūsuf Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥaver b. Yiṣḥaq, the leader of the Jewish community in Aleppo. In Hebrew. Mentions a letter recieved from the addressee's …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Recto: Business letter in Arabic script. Mentioning various small transactions and giving instructions. Verso: Barely legible Hebrew text
IB II, 58. Letter. Memorandum from Abu Zikri Kohen to Mahruz. Alexandria, ca. 1136-1149.
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Letter from Moses the schoolmaster petitioning ʿAmram ha-Levi for a charitable donation. He had not earned any fees over the holiday period. He asks for …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Recto and first line of verso: Hebrew letter to Gabriel Conforte. The author of the letter mentions a number of books he has received, among …
Part of a letter mentioning the Rosh ha-Seder and 'my master the Nasi.' Probably a letter of appeal for charity or a recommendation for a …
Minute fragment from a letter: ומגאראתך עלי . . . תסלם עליך . . .
Letter addressed to ʿEli the Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender petitions on behalf of a divorcee who came to him "complaining and crying" that her …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Bottom of a communal letter, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Goitein: "Signature of the future Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh ha-Nagid. Important. Mevorakh …
1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower part only). Dating: Late 11th century. Describing communal strife and what appears to be an uprising of common people …
Letter in the hand of a member of the Maimonides family, mentioning the elder Yosef. Mentions a package of letters including one from "the judge …
Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1020. Mentions a shipment of money and papers, …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe (b.?) Avraham Bibas to Yaʿaqov Bibas and his partner Shomal (Shemuel?) Azulay, dated 3 September 1818 (2 Elul 5578). …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 14th–16th century, based on handwriting and linguistic features. Nearly the whole page is preserved, but the text is extremely …
Part of a letter referring to books (dafātir), mentioning Rabbenu Hai z”l, presumably Hai Gaʾon. The speaker mentions Abū Saʿd his sister's son (ibn ukhtī). …
Recto: (draft of a?) letter with jottings. The sender mentions "his headache" and the sender's intention to travel east (אלממלוך קד עזם קולא ואחדא עלי …
Letter in Hebrew. Fragment: right side only. Dating: Likely 16th century. Involves trade in barrels of wine (ḥaviyot and "barilas").
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī to ʿUlla Dimashqī. Mentions Alexandria, Ashqelon, shipments of rhubarb, and a business dispute brought to court. (Information in part from …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Recto: Letter from Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. In Arabic script. Dated: 538 AH = 1143/44 CE. Mentions the bearer of the letter, Karīm b. Zak[kūr? b.] …
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Aharon the cantor is mentioned. Might be a letter of condolence since the word תנחומות …
Letter of appeal for charity from Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Nafūsī to Moshe Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim. He states that he is an old man from Nafūsa (Libya) and …
Minute fragment in a poetic Hebrew. Probably from a letter (ויזכו לחזות רבים . . . סביבתם ושלום . . . ). AA/ASE
Letter/report in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a formal layout, with slightly widened space between the lines. This is the lower left corner of what must have …
Fragment from the opening of a short note, addressed to Abū l-Munā and instructing him regarding the choice of two copies of a book, one …
א]מתתלת אמר מולאי
אלשיך אבו אלמני אדאם
אללה עזה פי אלתכייר בין
אלנסכתין ואלדי ענדי אן כאן
אלתמן ואחד פכד אלרק
ואן כאן אלרק אזיד ת…
Letter from the people of the Palestine Yeshiva to the community (qahal) of Fustat, mentioning Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1080 CE.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The scribe is identical with the scribe of PER H 86, which means this is the second autograph of the famous Spanish …
Letter in Hebrew. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Late.
Letter from Toviyya ha-Kohen b. Eli ha-Kohen ha-Me'ulle to his brother-in-law, the judge Natan ha-Kohen he-haver ha-Me'ulle b. Shelomo ha-Kohen he-Hasid, regarding various errands concerning …
IB IV, 18 (ח3). Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Lukhṭūsh, in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Fustat. Dated: middle of May, 1130 CE. The …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Strongly formulated note by the prominent judge Natan b. Shemuel ("al-Nezer"), active 1128–1164 CE, to a prominent member of the community, urging the man to …
Letter from a certain Abū l-Khayr, probably in Minyat Zifta, to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (only the upper margin of recto and the …