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Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (with motto) to the cantor Faraj Allah urging him to collect the jibāya for Yom Kippur. Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides' …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter fragment addressed to a certain Elʿazar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reports that the addressee had sent a pair of tefillin with 'the mamlūk,' whom the sender …
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …
1 نسخ
IB IV, 42 (ח45). Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician, possibly in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Almeria. Dating: 1138–39 CE. Same sender as T-S …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from Shelomo ben Halafta, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: 1481/82 CE. - Mentioning events as far away …
Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Peraḥya the judge. Perhaps abandoned partway through. What remains consists of formulaic respectful greetings.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. Simḥa describes in moving terms the …
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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Late letter in Hebrew from Yosef b. Emmanuel Ergas in Livorno to Abram Segre. Dated 3 Adar 5489 AM which is 1729 CE. The address …
Verso: writing exercises in Hebrew and Arabic, and the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic jotting in the upper margin is in …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community. (Information from Mediterranean …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Regarding shipment of clothes and scarves. The writer asks for the prices of …
ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יאסידי אן כתבת אליך כתב אן עדה ולם נרא לואחד
מנהא גואב …
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Beautiful handwriting. The sender is exhorting the addressee (an in-law?) to treat his wife well. Also …
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso) . Very few words remain. ASE.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, preserving only some of the closing greetings ([al-salām] al-jazīl wa-atammuhū).
IB III, 30. Letter from Perahya b. Yosef in Mazara, Sicily, to Avraham b. Eliyyahu in al-Mahdiyya, inquiring about Perahya's uncle, Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter from the Gazan judge Elʿazar b. Zekharya ha-Kohen to ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. early 12th century. …
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Mahdiyya) to his nephew Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. Describes a dispute between the sender and another merchant, Abū Yaʿqūb. Mentions …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment of a communal letter in Hebrew. Moderately wide spacing between the lines. Contains praises for a distinguished scholar and addresses 'our brothers, the holy …
Letter fragment (upper right corner). Addressed to the writer's father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a young man from Aleppo and a medicinal syrup. The letter is …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Greetings to a cook (al-ṭabbākh)? The address mentions Abū l-Karam(?) al-Ṣabbāgh. In a different hand …
Letter in Arabic script. The lower ~10 lines are preserved. Faded in places. Some phrases: "...if he is still alive..." (l. 4); "going up to …
Letter addressed to Rabbenu Ḥayyim (מרנו ורבנו חיים הרב הגדול בישראל). Letter of recommendation for the bearer, the nephew of the Kohen Abū l-ʿIzz(?). Small …
Letter from a woman to her brother in Fustat expressing her loneliness. She gives advice regarding the recipient's relationship with their other brother. "You know …
Letter from Toviyya ha-Kohen b. Eli ha-Kohen ha-Me'ulle to his brother-in-law, the judge Natan ha-Kohen he-haver ha-Me'ulle b. Shelomo ha-Kohen he-Hasid, regarding various errands concerning …
IB V, 1 (ח15). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dated: Monday, 1 Shevaṭ 1444 Seleucid, which is 9 January …
Bifolio with Hebrew literary text. One of the four pages is filled with elegant Arabic writing exercises, containing draft of phrases from the beginning of …
Letter, possibly a draft, from a man to his family members Moshe and דאני(?). The relationship is unclear: at one point he addresses "my father" …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Names of writer and addressee are not immediately apparent. Their locations are also not explicit but it should be possible to deduce …
Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: אעלם . . . . חבס אלקאצי פי חאגה . . . רחמתה . . . לם …
Family letter. In Arabic script. To 'my father.' Asking for clothing for the children and maintenance expenses, and telling the addressee to return. Dating: Probably …
Complaint submitted to the Nagid, quite possibly Avraham b. Maimonides (1205-1237), regarding Siba al-Faqusi who had interrupted the synagogue service. The writer apologizes for troubling …
Letter from Salāma b. Ismaʿīl to Ismaʿīl b. [...] concerning business affairs. Dating: 11th century. (Information from CUDL.)
1 مناقشة
Letter in Arabic script to unknown recipients from a certain Ibrāhīm mentioning a variety of Christian contacts such as Abū Adraūs and Abū Jirjis. Dated …
After [expressing our] most affectionate [?] longing [ ].
The abundance of your love is well-known [lit., ‘not hidden’], which was the reas…
Letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi to Abu al-'Ala al-Dimashqi of Cairo, instructing him how to provide for the family of Abu …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, sometimes rhyming. In which the sender asks the addressee to send him a quarter raṭl of agaricum (ghārīqūn) that ‘the perfumer’ owes …
Announcement by the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Cairo for the opening of a public clinic in the neighborhood of the communal synagogue on Rosette Gardens …
1 ترجمة
Verso (original use): Letter fragment. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. This is from the end of the letter. Tells the addressee to …