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Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition/letter of appeal for charity. In Arabic script. On recto, in a different hand, there is a slightly misquoted …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Copy of a letter attributed to Yehuda ha-Levi (l. 9) to the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (l. 1) "when he was in a ship [awaiting …
1 مناقشة
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Draft of the beginning of a letter to a notable. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.
1 نسخ
Recto: Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Only flattering phrases in Hebrew are preserved.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Reporting on the widow of Tamīm and how she learned of his death. Possibly concerning his possessions/inheritance. On …
Letter in Arabic script. Concerns philosophical theology; comments on a treatise the writer had read. Mentions raʾs al-mathība. (Join: Marina Rustow) Reused for letter drafts …
Letter to a Nagid, informing him of various matters in the community, and complaining about the general state of its decline. Mentions individuals such as …
Letter addressed to the Jewish community concerning the appointment of David I b. Avraham b. Maimonides as Nagid. Dating: ca. mid-13th century; Goitein suggests 1238 …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably from Alexandria, to Yeshua b. Isma’il, Fustat. Around 1050. Some mentions of trading oil and crocus. …
] כלון מן טבת ערפך אללה ברכתה [
וצל כתאב מול]אי ידכר חאל אלצרר וקד כאן את[
] קבלך ואגתה[ד ] פי חמל אל[
] לי אכי אבי אלסרור אכדהא לם יפע…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (upper margin only on recto, address only on verso), from Ḥasan b. ʿAmram to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. …
Letter in Ladino to Shelomo Almanas or Almatango[?] on verso from Aharon ha-Kohen. Dated below signature Jumada I 1_78AH [?]. The most likely reading based …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic family letter. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? The writer mentions his mother and a sick woman; the money that …
Letter in Arabic script. Written on particularly thin paper. "In which the widow of Mubārak b. Mundhir b. Sābā asks a ḥaver in the name …
Minute fragment from the top of a court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). A person known as Ibn Qudayra is mentioned …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains about isolation (al-wiḥda wa-l-inqiṭāʿ) and is anxious for the addressee to give an update about something. The tone is …
Letter from ʿAzarya b. David to a notable, probably Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, based on the concluding blessing for "our teacher and rabbi Mevorakh the ḥaver …
Letter from Damascus, from a Maghribi who intends to go to Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hajay, approximately 1035.
Letter from Mubārak b. Ṣadaqa al-Ṭarābulsī to an addressee whose name is mostly faded. In Arabic script. The first four lines on recto are preserved, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps dated 1818/1819 CE ([5]579 AM). The letter recipients are Menaḥem Barakha and Barakha Goren, sender: Shelomo Sonino. Requires further examination for …
Fragment from the top of an informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains about being told "only froth and no substance" and asks to be …
Petition from Yaʿaqov b. Aharon, a man of some learning. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. The sender petitions the addressee for financial help and for an …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Beginning of a letter (possibly official) in Arabic script. Addressed to a Qāḍī (بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يعلم القاضي الاجل الاوحد . . . …
Opening of a letter or state document in Arabic script, written in a chancery hand and with wide line spacing, but might in fact be …
Much damaged letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The content is unclear. The writer reports that he went on Saturday to the majlis of the rayyis. On recto …
Formal letter from Yūsuf to someone he titles Sayyidnā al-Rayyis [...]. Mainly the address (in Arabic script) is preserved, along with a few words in …
Letter from Iṣḥaq b. David b. Sughmār to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, mid 11th century. The writer asks Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī to purchase for …
Two bifolios containing various Hebrew texts, a jotting of a quadruped, and two pages of Arabic text in a rudimentary hand, apparently excerpts or drafts …
Letter from Yosef b. Hiba, unknown location, to Abū Sahl Menashshe b. Ṭoviyya, in Jubayl (likely Byblos in present-day Lebanon, but there is also a …
Second leaf of a letter from an unidentified merchant, probably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 1052 by Gil and 1066/67 by Goitein (in Mediterranean Society, …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a letter. The phrase كشف خبره appears - referring to investigating someone's news.
Medical prescription mentioning lemon, sugar, almonds, rose, lily, chicory, licorice, coriander.
Brief letter ("ruqʿa") from Ibrāhīm to Abū l-{A}frāḥ Yūsuf (probably ʿArūs b. Yosef). In Arabic script. There does not seem to be much substance to …
Public appeal of a blind woman to the congregation of Fustat to pay the fee of 4 dinars charged by a Muslim physician for the …
Letter from Ascalon to the Nagid in Egypt concerning a dispute in the community over synagogue expenditures, 1st half of the 12th century.
. . . not for renovations, but to buy mats for the synagogue on which the congregation can sit. The answer of the congregatio…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment, addressed to Avraham ha-Talmid. What remains is the flowery introduction, in Hebrew. Several biblical verses are cited. Cf. ENA NS 19.9 (PGPID 11725).
Possibly the bottom of a poetic Hebrew letter.
Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic with introductory rhymed praises in Hebrew. Addressed to al-shaykh al-Talmid. Little of the substance is preserved. Mentions ḥannuka and shabbat. Recto: …
Beginning of a letter draft in Arabic script. Contains a basmala, usually letter formulae and blessings and a name, likely the addressee Abū Saʿīd b. …
Letter mentioning real estate and rent in Cairo, the writer's son, qarārīṭ (carats). Folded once vertically then rolled and folded horizontally. Wormholes. Item 14 in …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, Alexandria, to Binyamin b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal. Around 1025. The writer has returned from travels in Sicily, where he …
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