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Letter fragment, in an official looking hand. First preserved line contains blessings "المالك سبحانه بالعلا" and in the next line "سبحانه من شا". Also mentions …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Informal note from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu, presumably in Bilbays, to a certain Sheʾerit, who may also be called Ṣāliḥ, and who is probably a cantor, …
End of a letter from 'your brother Avraham Perdonel.' Late. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter, in Arabic script, well preserved. Begins with basmala and “wallahi la-qad ṣadaqa ḥaḍrat mawlāya l-shaykh,” "my Master was right". The sender seems to be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والله لقد صدق حضرة مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده
وعلوه وتمكينه وسموه و . . . ته وكبت حسدته واعداه …
1 نسخ
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The names are missing, except part of the sender's name at upper right. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. …
Informal note. Mercantile. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Asking the addressee to arrange for one of the writer's representatives or colleagues in Alexandria or …
Letter in Arabic script containing an order for materia medica, mentinioning simples such as endive, Armenian bole, and red arsenic (realgar) and yellow arsenic. Many …
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In this appeal, typically addressed to the community ('your excellencies, my masters, the illustrious lordly judges, and...the elders of Israel'), a widow and mother of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
IB V, 43. Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Sulaymān. In Judaeo-Arabic. Less a letter—there are no opening or closing pleasantries—and more an order of …
2 نسخين
Letter from Egypt concerning agricultural business matters, mentions a pair of oxen purchased for ’15 large dinars’ and a pregnant young donkey for 4.5 dinars. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Naṣr b. Kanz al-Dawla to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm, appearing to establish a new relationship between Naṣr (son of Kanz al-Dawla) …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter or petition, probably. In Arabic script. Three lines are mostly preserved. Seems to be talking about assisting a group of people.
Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Ḥalfon, al-Maḥalla, to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov (who has a son named Yaʿaqov as well), Cairo. The writer reports that he …
Letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dated: Kislev 1497 Seleucid, which is 1185 CE. With a …
1 مناقشة
Formularies for letters of condolence. (Information from Goitein's index card.) Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Well-written. Refers to "three breads (akhbāz) a week." (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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 …
Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, greeting a dignitary and his two sons, including Ḥayyim ha-Sar ha-Adir he-Ḥakham. Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning something …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, possibly in Bet Guvrin (verso, l. 16), to a certain Shemuel, in Jerusalem. The letter is in Hebrew for the …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is unusual. Refers to an amīr, the width and height of something, and ends "wa-l-salām."
Hebrew letter, sent by Shemuel b. Shelomo of Lucena, Spain, to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya requesting assistance. By Mevorakh's honorifics we can date this …
Letter dated ca. 1050, sent by Sedaqa b. Zakariyya from Alexandria to his partner Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Fustat. The letter mentions shipments of …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat.
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Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Yahaboy, probably in Amalfi, to a partner, in al-Mahdiyya. Dating: ca. 1040. Describes a long sea voyage that lasted …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Business letter from Yiṣḥāq Luria (=the Ari) to Shimʿon. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. The business dealings include purchase of 'khiyār' (cassia fistula?). Mentions Yehuda …
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Abī l-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā. Around 1075. The writer is worried about their sister, Jarba, who is about …
כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
וסעאדתך וסלאמתך מן אסכנדריה ליב כלת מן שהר אייר ען סלאמה
ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed at least in part to R. Yaʿaqov; also mentions Meʾir, Yiṣḥaq, Yosef, and Shemuel. Fragment (middle part). Dating: Late, likely 14th–16th …
Recto: fundraising letter from the leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron to the leaders of the Jewish community in Egypt (16th-17th century). Verso: jottings …
Letter from Sahlān b. [...] to Abū Zakariyyā. Dating: mid-11th century. Regarding a silk binding that a Spanish person gave the addressee with instructions who …
Long letter to the judge Avraham b. Natan of Ramla, Palestine, from the late 11th century; probably sent from Tyre. The writer wishes to go …
Letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to someone titled Sayyidnā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era (i.e., after ca. 1250) based on paleographic features, position of …
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlā Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dating: 29 December 1057 CE (Gil) or ca. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Secondary use: Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96. Dealing with numerous business matters. He reports that Shemuel dropped a vessel …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī al-Ḥay (Tinnīs) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1062. Mūsā reached Tinnīs by land because he was scared to travel …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל <אללה> בקא מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם
עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה מן [אלאסכנדריה] תניס לי מצת מן מחשואן(!)
ען חאל סל…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf and issuing instructions about commodities such as fine Andalusian …
Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ b. Yosef to Yehuda b. Sighmar. The letter reflects the economic difficulties of the Jewish community of Alexandria due …
Fragment of a letter from Menashshe, maybe to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1063. Only the writer’s first name in known. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. …
אטאל אללה בקא]ך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך
ברכ]תה ואסעה במא יליה מ[ן אלשהור ]
]פיבלגני מא י[ס]רני [ ]
סי]די אבו אלפצ[ל
] כתבי [ ו]הב…