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Letter from al-Mubārak b. Yosef b. Yazdād, Yosef b. Binyamin, and Ḥasan b. Tayyib in Fustat, to two former partners of a deceased man asking …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Informal note. In the name of the wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī. Instructing Abū l-ʿAlāʾ to meet with Eliyyahu the Judge and deal with the sale …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Shemuel Sidi to Moshe ha-Levi. Written on Friday, 1 Heshvan. The letter's origin and destination are unclear. See T-S 12.318 for another letter …
1 نسخ
Recto: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Nahray b. Nissim? Dating: 11th century. Mentions names such as Yosef, ʿAyyāsh, Barhūn, and Ghālib. The term barqalū …
Lower part of a letter, in which members of a local community object to a muqaddam imposed on them. (Information from Goitein's typed texts.)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Upper fragment: Mercantile letter addressed to Nahray b. Nissim regarding the sale of ambergris. (Information and transcription in Goitein's notes linked below.)
דכר אלענבר וביעה []
ותפצלה אללה []
ישראל בבקאה וקד []
כיף יאכד אלשיך צב[]
ווחק אכי אן צאחבך []
לא עדמני אללה אהתמאמה ולא []
אבדא …
.... כתבת על הענבר ועל מכירתו .... ובחסדך: אלוהים .... (לך ולכל) ישראל בזכות חייך …. איך ייקח האדון .... ; אני נשבע באבי כי שותפך .... אל ישלול…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Nissim of Qayrawan to the Tunisian port of Qabis, c. 1000. The letter concerns legal questions asked by the addressee from …
Letter to Abu al-Faraj Nissim b. 'Ayyash from an unidentified sender in Alexandria concerning the payment of 43 dirhams. Reference is made to a woman …
Fragment from the beginning of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
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Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen and Yeshuʿa b. Yefet, in Ashqelon, to Eliyyahu b. Evyatar ha-Kohen. Dated: 13 Ḥeshvan 1424 Seleucid, which is 1112 …
Fragment from the middle section of a letter about business affairs. Mentions the name Nuṣayr and the figure 2,000. The sender seems upset. (Information in …
Opening of a letter to the yeshiva in Safed, from the beginning of the 16th century. The sender is informing on the demise of Shemuel …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: likely ca. 16th century.
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). The address (to Fustat, market of the perfumers) is partially preserved. Needs further examination.
Letter to someone addressed as mawlāy al-rayyis. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Mentions Malīj, al-Maḥalla and Ibn al-Ḥabrāwī, coming to …
Probably a commercial letter, citing a dispute. In Arabic script. Large, but faded/damaged. mentions Damietta. Needs examination. On verso, there are drafts of Hebrew poetry, …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd al-Bazzāz, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Yefet, at the shop of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (better known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī), …
Mercantile letter. On parchment. Dating: Early 11th century. The address is only partially legible and written in a confusing way. The sender appears to be …
Fragment of a legal document. Mentions: [...] b. Bayān; a warning; Yefet b. Menashshe and his wife; his sister al-Turfa bt. Menashshe and their mother; …
Letter to Rafael Mamon חרוק in Dimyat from Shabbetay Skandarī in Cairo, mentioning Ḥayyim Barukh and Abraham Ḥefeṣ. The dating is likely early nineteenth century …
Letter from a father to his daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. He describes how he is a poor man, but even so he has recently sent 2 …
Note(s) from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Hibatallāh, concerning fatwās. Below there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: Formulaic phrases and blessings in Judaeo-Arabic from a letter for a dignitary.
Jewish communal letter in Arabic script. Mostly in Arabic language, with at least one word in Hebrew (اليشوعا, v8). Opens with blessings for the caliph …
Letter sent from Jerusalem in later medieval times by a woman named Jamila, the widow of Yehuda, addressing two brothers-in-law in Cairo, explaining that she …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
Letter fragment describing the visit of the Nasi in the Babylonian synagogue. (Information from E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 25)
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: March 1062 CE. Among other matters, Yisrael reports that he is in bad …
Letter or petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (lower part only). Probably a business letter (...al-taṣarruf fī l-mawḍiʿ...), but with quite a deferential tone (...fa-yatafaḍḍal ka-mā …
IB VI, 6. Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Hillel, Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf on the conclusion of the latter’s second or third voyage to the …
2 نسخين
Small fragment of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
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 …
Petition to David b. Daniel from a destitute woman with no family and afflicted with a serious illness (leprosy, it seems). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Business letter from the druggist Binyām to Zayn Ibn al-Ger. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early to mid-12th century. For the same sender, see also DK 232.2 …
Letter (fragment) containing greetings and copious praises for Shemuʾel Rosh ha-Seder. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Fragment of a letter from Alexandria, probably from Avraham b. Yosef al-Sabag, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Contains information about merchandises that have …
Leaf from a letterbook containing copies of at least three different letters in Ladino. Location: Cairo. Dated: Av 5493 to Tishrei 5494 AM = late …
Recto: Letter from a teacher to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 11th or early 12th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Bishr …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū Isḥāq, who is addressed as "the esteemed and precious brother." In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (top part only). …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1107 CE, since Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī appears also in T-S 13J2.15 from that year. The sender of this letter gives …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi al-Nīsābūrī to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid aka ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi al-Dimashqī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1100 CE. The sender …
1 مناقشة
Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …
Letter in Hebrew. Late and non-Geniza. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. The sender is evidently a circuit judge, based on …
Letter from Ṣadoq, a prominent public figure in Alexandria, to ݂the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, in Fustat. Dated: ḥol ha-moʿed of Sukkot 4800 …