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Small fragment from a letter addressed to a dignitary (תפ]ארת השרים [...]ת הנשיאות]). Seems to be in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Only a …
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Small fragment of a personal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ‘one of my (deceased) brothers’ and gives an excuse for why the sender didn't write earlier. …
Letter from Ḥizqiyya b. Shelomo to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. In Hebrew. Letter of appeal for charity, reporting that he lost money and asking him to …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Verso: Upper part of a letter in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū Zikrī. Mentions Ibrāhīm al-Khandaqī(?): . . . . حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل ابو …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Same sender as Moss. V,274.2B + Moss. V,274.2A (PGPID 16946).. Mentions Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd; Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shofeṭ and Abū Isḥāq. …
1 نسخ
Letter from ʿEli b. Hillel to his brother-in-law Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer opens with expressions of mourning for the …
Fragment (narrow sliver containing the beginnings of the lines) of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭā'if
Opening few words of a letter and part of the address: to mawlāy al-ḥazzan (my master the cantor) al-[...] from ואדה ושאכרה (the one who …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. The handwriting may be known. Deals with trade in pepper, brazilwood, saffron (zarnaba), dragon's blood (qāṭir), a …
Small fragment from a letter, with a line of text deleted, and extensive marginalia on one side. Dated: 1431 Seleucid = 1119/20 CE. (Information in …
Subsequent use: Draft of a formal letter containing polite phrases and blessings written out multiple times (e.g., ḥaḍrat mawlāyya al-shaykh al-jalīl). 'Addressed' to Abū Naṣr …
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.
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Letter from Yeḥiel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Dating: No earlier than 1221 CE, as that is the year Anatoli died. He sends …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Letter fragment. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Some interesting phrases but difficult to make sense of anything given the fragmentary nature. (Information in part from …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi (Nīsābūrī), in Alexandria, to Ṣadaqa b. Yaḥyā al-Nāʾib ('the deputy'), in Fustat. He writes about a partnership in a …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from (Abū Saʿd) Ibrāhīm b. Sahl al-Tustarī (d. 1048) to [...] b. ʿAzarya. In Arabic script. The most common [...] b. ʿAzarya in the …
Informal note from a certain Avraham. In Judaeo-Arabic. He sent the note accompanying אלסדר (perhaps a prayerbook, but it is apparently a collective noun—could be …
Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (ca. 1007–55 CE). Address on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Recto (probably the secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of the same supporter of Daniel b. ʿAzarya who also wrote T-S K25.244. Probably …
Fragment from a communal letter. Probably from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides or one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (the phrase ואלחק תע is very …
Letter from Zikri to R. Natan b. Shemuel 'The Nezer', containing only the address. Dating: ca. 1128-1164 CE, based on the years when the recipient …
נע זכרי
Cryptic document in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a letter or fragments of two letters. Discusses liturgy and the reading of the Torah. Mentions asking R. Seʿadya b. …
Recto: small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Hebrew quotations, similar to Psalms 137:6. (Information from CUDL)
Letter to a qāḍī (addressed "al-jināb al-ʿālī"). In Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era. The letter concerns a horse that was purchased for 17 dinars; also …
1 مناقشة
Letter from the judge Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen, apparently in or near Ashqelon, to ʿAmram b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār b. Ḥusayn), apparently in …
Letter from the community of Ashkelon to Shema'ya ha-Ḥaver, Jerusalem.
A letter from Avraham to Shlomo b. Aharon
Letter to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef concerning business matters, mentioning the arrival of Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd b. Sighmār. Verso: jottings of accounts in the …
Recto: fragment of a spaciously written Arabic document, and address of the letter on verso addressed to Abū l-Ḥusayn Nissīm b. Ṣedaqa. Verso: letter, mentioning …
Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Might concern a group of people who haven't received …
Letter from Abū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to Barakāt b. Hārūn Ibn al-Kūzī, in Alexandria, sent via the shop of Maḥāsin al-Ḥarīrī. …
Fragment of a letter from Sharira Gaon. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #35) VMR
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip). Dating: probably 11th century. Quotes Proverbs 6:19 (משלח מדנים...). Mentions Nahray, ʿEli he-Ḥaver, a qāḍī, the Qaraites (contrasted …
Letter from a supporter in Alexandria to the nasi Shelomo b. Yishay, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1240. The writer arrived in Alexandria on commercial business to …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Menashshe b. Pinḥas to Yoshiyyahu ha-Sar, in New Cairo. The addressee's father's name appears in the main text, but is very faded. Consists …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: likely ca. 16th century.
Letter fragment concerning delayed news and communications from a high-ranking addressee, probably a lower state official. The writer expresses concern for the addressee’s safety and …
Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic regarding a business matter (vessels of wine and water?). Excerpts: עבדהא יקבל ידהא ויערפהא אנה . . . קנטאר תמניה(?) כבאלי(?) …
Small fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers.
Letter sent from Alexandria by Shemuel b. Aharon to Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Moshe in Fustat, explaining why he could not send the silk which …
Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: 1094–1111 CE. Shela reports that the local community was happy to hear that …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Minute fragment of a letter of appeal for charity. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Might be related to T-S AS …
Letter from Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān, the pilgrim, to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. The purpose of the letter is to update Uruwī on various …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish or Spanish-influenced hand, calligraphically written. High register and rhyming. The content is mostly formulaic. Dating: perhaps 12th century.