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Letter to the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva (in office ca. 1170–71 and 1173–95), in which the muqaddam of Qalyub (the …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from ʿAlī b. [...] addressed to Sharaf al-Dīn of apparently requesting clarification of a decree. Full address (unclear where Baker/Polliack got this from): al-malik …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
IB III, 13 + 14. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, India, mainly about shipwrecked goods. Dating: almost certainly 1146. This …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter addressed to a dignitary named Aharon. It opens with a panegyric in Hebrew in which the addressee is called "the Rav" and "the Nagid …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham. Dating: 1048 (per Gil) and ca. 1034–1049 CE based on the years when Sahlan b. Avraham …
Letter from Yoshe’a b. Natan, probably from Bahanasa, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. September 29, 1051. The letter contains many details about the last phase …
על שמך
תקדם כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה עלי יד עלי בן
גלפיוה אלנותי וטיה כתאב אלי בן מנארה בתסלים י תלאליס קמח …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Saʿd and an agreement upon a monthly payment of one dinar, possibly for a communal office. Mentions the Nagid. …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. Discusses the matter of the 18 dinars owed to the poor of …
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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria. Around 1060. Describes the situation in Alexandria that is not safe, and the influence …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Very faded. The sender reports that he is sick.
P4: Letter from Ismaʿīl to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) al-Shaykh al-Ḥaver David ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Mentions Mūsā al-Ashmūnī attending …
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Probably September 25, 1056. The letter contains details about shipments of goods, probably …
[כתאבי יאסידי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ערב סכות תזכה ל[ ]
] אנא אהניך במא אשרעת פיה יתן …
Recto: Bottom of a letter of appeal for assistance. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. early 12th century. in Judaeo-Arabic. The address is asked to meet with …
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Mentions a woman named Simḥa; Sutayta; the addressee;s mother; and the addressee's brother-in-law Menaḥem.
Letter probably to a dignitary called Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm/Avraham. With a long Hebrew introduction, the body in Judaeo-Arabic, and the address in Arabic script. (The …
Letter from Ḥushiel b. Elḥanan, in Qayrawān, to Shemarya b. Elḥanan, in Fusṭāṭ. In which Ḥushiel praises both the addressee and his son Elḥanan, and …
Letter sent in response to a message from the addressee, with well-wishes related to the addressee's illness or frailty (iltiyāth). Elevated register. Dating: 11th or …
Fragment of an opening of a letter by Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, to the communities of Fustat, probably December 1033.
Letter in Arabic script, ending with two words in Hebrew ([...] shalom). Refers to an illness (fī l-maraḍ) and an agent (al-wakīl). Needs further examination.
Letter from a person in Jerusalem – 28 March 1920CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 183) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Describing hearing bad news on the 3rd of Ṭevet which caused the sender to …
1 مناقشة
Letter from a European Jew whose ship sank en route on his way to fulfill a vow to visit Jerusalem, and lost all his belongings …
Letter from Yosef and Nissim b. Berakhya (Qayrawan) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal (Fustat), ca. 1020, on the death of the Nagid, Avraham b. …
O our great and chosen Elder—may God grant you a long life in blessing and happiness, may He ward off all misfortune, and may He bestow upon you succ…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Note to R. David to summon a Maghribi named Abu Dawud Khayyat, whose grown-up son had died and whose wife is critically ill with dysentery …
Letter from Yaʿaqov Ibn ha-Nagid to a notable named Shelomo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card identifies the sender as "Yaʿaqov b. David Maimonides" …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with the Hebrew names (Shabbetay b. [...] and Barukh) written in Hebrew script. Mentions Shavuʿot (al-ʿAnṣara) and a Christian named …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions someone sick, the community, and a price the addressee should obtain from the teacher ʿIwaḍ. Reused on …
Small fragment of a business letter in Arabic script.
Fragment of a letter from Abū ʿAli b. al-Dimyāṭī to his brother Abu Saʿīd b. Hibat Allah (Ḥalfon b. Netanel). The writer mentions the silk …
Recto: Accounts (or prescription?) in Arabic script. Sepiolite (zabad al-baḥr), 2.5 dirhams; rock salt (milḥ andarānī); white lead (isfīdāj); pepper (filfil); long pepper (dār filfil); …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, to Salāma b. Nissim al-Barqī, in Buṣīr. Dating: ca. 1046 (Gil). Asking him to acquire various items in …
Letter from Salāma Ḥāmī, Jerusalem, to Yeshuʿa Ḥāmī, in Fustat or Cairo, more likely, based on the dating/paleography. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this …
Part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only formulaic expressions of longing are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Petition to a woman from a prisoner (?) in rudimentary script and spelling, asking her "on the life of al-Shaykh Abū l-Maḥāsin" to do a …
1 نسخ
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār Madīnī of Palermo, Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe al-Ṣayrafī (Fustat). Ca. 1060. The sender, who is writing from …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאיי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
לט כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה וללה אלחמד דאימא
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Content unclear. Jotted accounts on verso.
Letter from Yosef Qolon b. Pereẓ, in Jerusalem, to Nissim Bibas, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: First quarter of the 16th century, almost certainly 1511 …
Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. In Arabic script. T-S NS 322.101–17 all …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is aggravated that the addressee has allowed "the two of them" to sit idle all day long, and demands …
A letter to Yoashiyahu b. Yehuda
Letter sent from Sicily by a widow to her son, Abu Sulayman Dawud b. Na'aman in Barqa, asking him to take care of his brother …
Letter from unknown writer, unknown location, to his 'brother,' in Fustat. The address is almost entirely gone, but one of them is named Bū Saʿd. …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a certain Avraham, c/o the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣā'igh, in Fustat. The sender asks the addressee to send …
Letter from Shemuel b. Sahl al-Hawwārī, in Aleppo, to [...], in Fustat. (The names are written in Arabic, so the writer's is tentative and the …
Letter from Shemarya b. Aharon ha-Kohen the descendant of Eliyyahu ha-Kohen to Avraham b. Natan Av Bet Din (and his brothers Aḥiyya and Berekhya?). In …
Letter from a certain Avraham, in Gaza, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, in an unskilled hand. The sender is en route to Damascus. …