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Letter from Yusuf b. Ḥalfon in Damsis to Abu Nasr Da'ud b. Nahum in Fustat, mentioning business with the prominent merchant Abu Zikri. Dated to …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
A letter to Biמyamin Yerushalmi from the Karaites of Qal'a
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Alexandria, to his son Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl, in Būṣīr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Gil suggests 23 September 1056 CE. This …
ולדי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר אלאסכנדריה
ליב כלאת מן תשרי געלך אללה מן אלפאייזין ומן אלמקבולין ותקב…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
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Letter from a father to a son. On vellum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This fragment opens with updates on the health of various …
Letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Relatively large and well preserved, probably missing only the top few lines. Seems to be from a family member. The …
Letter from Isḥāq b. Mubārak to (his brother?) Abū Naṣr [...] b. al-Mubārak al-jahbadh, in al-Maḥalla. A basmala and the opening four lines are preserved …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions "his turban" and 20 dirhams. Might be related to the cluster of letters around T-S NS …
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov, Jerusalem, to his wife's brother Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: June 1053 CE. The letter is mainly about arrangements for …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhāni to a notable named Moshe (Moshe ha-Sar... ha-dayyan ha-mesūyyan... al-Shaykh al-Sadīd...). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Meʾir asks the addressee …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. David, Fustat. Dating: October 22, 1050 (Gil). Faraḥ is worried because …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ و ادام عزه وتاييده و سعادته و سلامته و حراسته و نعمته من الاسكندرية لثلث خلون من
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3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
IB III, 33. Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov, in Dhu Jibla, Yemen, to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the renting of a house. Around 1150-51.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Informal note from Munajjā to Abū l-Riḍā. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Written on verso of a page of accounts in Arabic script …
Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish community of Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. May mention [Ḥayyim b.] Yaʿaqov ha-Sef[aradi] (who …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
A letter to Shmuel b. Aharon
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 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Barakāt and two books containing 'accursed' magic (al-siḥr al-mayshūm). The sender greets his or her brother …
1 نسخ
Two letters (or drafts) in Arabic script. Same handwriting on each side. Recto: Addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ, asking him to send 100 nuqra dirhams with …
Fragment of a late letter in Hebrew. Line 15 mentions a dīwān.
Fragment of a letter addressed to Sayyid al-Kull, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Thin strip from the middle. Mentions a ḥaver, and perhaps a wedding on …
Interesting fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with wide space between the lines, addressing al-Mukhtār Muntajab al-Dawla Badr. There is a date and …
Letter of complaint to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat (mid 11th century) about the Christian governor Ibn Gorgas, who built a church next to …
Small fragment from the top of a letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) to a community, written in the hand of his clerk.
Copies of letter to the Karaite community of Qal'a from Istanbul regarding communal matters
Informal note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan asking him for the favor of speaking to Abū Saʿd, "because he תגייר (converted?) and will enter …
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be late. Mentions "her husband," coming back, a guaranty (al-ḍamān), something Venetian (bunduqī), and the phrase "תכלץ …
Letter from Abu al-Nasr b. al-Melammed mentioning the impending divorce of his nephew and niece. Abu al-Nasr describes himself as suffering 'dispersion and separation from …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Refers to the arrival of a ship from Bīsh (מרכב ביש), i.e., Pisa, usually …
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a trade letter/document. Mentions sending something, probably a letter and milk "ḥalība maḥmūla", in the companionship (suḥba) of someone and …
Letter sent from the Maghreb by the Judayla family to Ismail b. Barhun al-Tahati, asking him to obtain flax from Sha'ya in return for the …
Small fragment of a letter addressed to a mother. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Yosef ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq
IB VII, 62. Letter from a trader in India to his cousin, who was also his brother-in-law, in Egypt. The writer had apparently been in …
Letter from a mother, probably near or in Qayrawān, to her merchant son, in Fustat. Dating: ca. early 11th century. Includes some information about the …
2 نسخين
Very faded fragment from the beginning of a letter in to ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil (who is named, but the name is very faded - Zekharya?). Reused …
Family letter from Natan b. Yehuda (Alexandria, ca. 1160) to Moshe b. Ṣemaḥ and his brother (Fustat), the writer’s cousins-in-law. Natan b. Yehuda reports that …
Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems from a man to his brother Shemuel (or less likely his father, if the letter is read as …
Letter in Hebrew, with an extensive Judaeo-Arabic note, in a different hand, in the top margin. Mentions a pinqas. Written on Thursday, 8 Tishrei (unclear …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.Refers to Rabbenu Simḥa he-Ḥakham; Cairo; [...] b. Abū Sahl; that …