Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Bottom of a letter in Arabic script, probably a family letter. Ends with a Hebrew שלום. Fragmentary and faded.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragments of a letter. T-S AS 147.106: From the upper part of recto. Flowery blessings for the addressee. ". . . . with sayyidnā al-Rayyis …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentioning Fusṭāṭ; the arrival of a ship from Tripoli, Libya; Muslims; and sums …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. But needs further examination.

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Inferred date

1785–1825 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe Ghaylioun (גאילייון) to Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in Cairo. Dated in the penultimate parsha of the liturgical calendar: "בסדר הרנינו גוים עמו" (Deut. 32:43) …

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العلامات

• 18th c
• ben na'im

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter, possibly, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Six lines are preserved, with wide line spacing. Explaining that …

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العلامات

• muslim courts

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Primary language

Arabic

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, …

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb, probably to his father Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat. …

العلامات

• book trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• gift
• wine

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Document date

Tammuz 1350 Seleucid (26 June 1039–24 July 1039 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Natan b. Avraham to ʿAmram b. Yefet, in Fustat. Dated: Tammuz [1]350 Seleucid = June/July 1039 CE. Reporting that the letter of Mevorakh …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Address of a letter. Addressed to Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation for charity, probably. Describing an unfortunate man. "... in this city... in all places, because... his condition... he was robbed (nuhiba) of …

العلامات

• recommendation

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of appeal for charity from a Byzantine man named Mosqos (=Μόσχος). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. The scribe, also a Byzantine, has been identified by …

العلامات

• appeal
• byzantines

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Inferred date

1020–1039 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Shofeṭ probably to the community of Aleppo. Dating: ca. 1020 CE (Gil) or late 1020s—early 1030s (Frenkel). Gil identified the sender as …

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العلامات

• communal

2 نسخين 3 مناقشات

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a letter. Small fragment from the lower right corner. Mentions a letter sent to Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively long vertical strip. Mentions a dyer (al-ṣabbāgh).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an amīr, a community, al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, and it seems some sort of controversy.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge. He asks for a letter to be forwarded to Bilbays to Yosef b. Makārim; instructing …

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines written …

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto looks like a small letter fragment: חכים(?) מעה אלי גזה . . . אלי כדמתך ונחן באק . . . ובינך פלא תכון אננא …

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: אעלם . . . . חבס אלקאצי פי חאגה . . . רחמתה . . . לם …

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1520–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shemuel Muslim to his uncle (ʿamm) Dāwud b. Berakha. It seems that the writer recently received a letter to the …

العلامات

• ibrahimis
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Family letter in Arabic script, from a distant man to his children and wife. Dating: Probably Mamluk era, or possibly early Ottoman era, based on …

العلامات

• dimme
• distant husband
• paper trail
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as high-quality knives and kerchiefs and black and red necklaces and a ring.

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

None

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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. …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Pages from a manual of writing letters.

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Inferred date

1168–1201 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in which a physician traveling from Cairo to Damascus describes how he was honored by the Jewish judge of Bilbays. The addressee is Shemuel …

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العلامات

• bilbays
• physicians

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …

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العلامات

• 10th c
• babylonian geonim
• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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 …

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat, to his paternal aunt (Umm Dāʾūd) and paternal uncle (Abū Manṣūr), probably in Alexandria. He says …

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: skin
• mail-order medicine
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Arabic

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 …

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Inferred date

1420–1420 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter written by [Joseph b.] Elʿazar in Palestine, mentioning various individuals including Abū l-Faraji, Elʿazar the doctor, Joseph the doctor, ʿAbd al-Karam, Sulayman b. ʿAbd …

العلامات

• 15th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Yefet b. Sason (aka Ḥasan b. Surūr) who is described as 'the Modest' (הצנוע). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the introductory blessings in Hebrew …

العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

None

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. He wants to know if the addressee has purchased the book of Psalms yet (al-muṣḥaf al-tehillim). If so, …

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (aka Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān) to a physician named Abū l-Maḥāsin (titled al-Shaykh al-Sadīd). In Arabic script with one …

العلامات

• bilingual
• dimme
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document, probably a letter, which mentions the pre-marriage payment. (Information from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the synagogue and Ibn al-Siqillī. Ends, "And God knows" (ואללה אלעאלם).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender describes how someone came to him after a financial loss. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.

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العلامات

• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the physician (rofeʾ) Moshe b. Ṣadoq ha-Dayyan ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. The paper is …

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العلامات

• pilgrimage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Misgavya b. Moshe to the ḥaver Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Av Bet Din, in Aleppo. Asking him to send certain liturgical poems and to …

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