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Address of a letter. In Arabic script. Probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem (see …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter addressed to a certain Abu Ibrahim Ishaq, dated in the month of Marheshvan (the rest of the date is missing), and mentioning equipment of …
1 نسخ
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. Yūsuf, likely in Fustat. He might …
Letter. Small fragment. In Hebrew, rudimentary handwriting. The sender mentions amīr al-[...], money perhaps received from "your congregation," and the city of Arsūf.
Recto: Letter, left side, in Judaeo-Arabic with a long preamble, greeting Eliyya ha-Sar. In the body of the letter, at the bottom, the writer requests …
Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.
Small fragment from the margin of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the Rīf, Sambūṭya (=Sunbāṭ) and an old woman named Umm [...]. (Information in part …
Letter written by a sick man who asks the recipient to buy him a female slave, for "I have no one to give me medicine," …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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Long fragment of a letter mentioning dignitaries and members of the Yeshiva.
Minute fragment from a beginning of a letter to a notable. Contains a praise for his sons, but no more details preserved. Red border. AA
Letter from ʿEli ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1045 …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
IB II, 70. Fustat, 1146. The draft of a letter from the rabbinical court of Fustat to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan regarding the estate of Ḥalfon …
אנו בית דין חתומי מטה נועדנו במושב אדננו נגיד אל־ים בתוכנו נגידנו שמואל הנגיד,
יכון שמו לנצח, להשתדל ולשקוד על עסק עזבון מר' ורב' חלפון בר שמריה…
We, members of the court, assembled in the presence of our lord, the prince of God in our midst, our Nagid, Samuel the Nagid—
may his name be est…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Mostly effaced note specifying sums of money. Accounts on verso. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to "our master" with regards to "our master David." Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century (paleographic dating). Much of …
Letter from Yisrael ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel b. Ḥofni to one of Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Se’adya’s sons in Fustat. January 1021, in the handwriting of …
2 نسخين
Bottom part of a letter referring to a Jewish community (שלקהלת ש . צורץ(??)). No further details preserved.
Recto: A curse in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew against whoever is spreading false rumors about the writer and stirring up conflict between him and (probably) …
Letter fragment. Probably addressed to Abū Ṭāhir Shemuel al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat (sent to "al-murabbaʿa"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner of recto and part …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. Avraham. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions items …
Verso: Informal note addressed to a certain Moshe asking him to help procure half a wayba of wheat as charity for the bearer Fakhr al-[...], …
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 …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Verso: opening lines of an Hebrew letter addressed to a dignitary written in a different hand from recto. There is also one line of Arabic …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter to a certain Berakhot. The hand looks familiar from the circle of Eliyyahu the Judge (early 13th …
Fragment of a letter from al-Kabira, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1055. Al-Kabira informs Nahray that she sent him silk by the …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאיידה
ונעמאה [ו]כבת אעדאה ען סלאמה ושוק אליך
קרב אל[לה] אל[א]גתמאע בכם עלי חאל אלמו[ראד]
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter. Small fragment only. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) asking the holy congregation of Egypt to pay the tax to the Muslim Amir. …
Letter from a certain Sulaymān, possibly in Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. He is reporting on the prices and the proceeds …
Letter in Arabic script. Beginning only. Might be a draft. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Likely from the top of a letter in Arabic. Only the basmala and the top of a word in the next line are preserved.
Recto (secondary use): Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone called "al-ʿozer" (cf. T-S 12.215 (PGPID 3104)); someone's son; notebooks (dafātir); Yaʿqūb; …
Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham, in Ḥevron, to Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin (aka Yeshuʿa b. Thābit), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE (Gil) or 1075 CE …
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Letter from Mivḥar b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1125–50 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he arrived safely. His maternal aunt …
Scribal exercises and copious jottings in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. In the margin of verso there is the draft of an informal note in …
Letter from an unidentified sender, probably somewhere in the Rīf, to Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning people such as the tax farmer Abū …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'my brother.' The content is not clear; mentions someone fearing death and mentions the capitation tax (jizya).
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic comprising the lower right corner of recto. The handwriting is elegant and distinctive. Dating: likely 12th century. Various …
Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Mufaḍḍal, probably in Fustat, to Abū l-Majd al-Melammed, in Qūṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Uncertain, but perhaps ca. 1230s CE, since T-S 13J26.6 (1234 …
Recto: probably a Hebrew letter consisting of blessings for a group of people, 'at their head' Moshe and his brother ʿOvadyahu. Verso: qiddush for Passover. …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era based on the hand. The sender refers to witnesses in the village or estate (fī …
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Maʿālī. Beginning with good wishes for Rosh ha-Shana and recommending a stranger, a certain "Raʾīs" …
Letter fragment addressed to "the mother" Sitt Rayḥān (potentially the wife of Eliyyahu the Judge). Dating probably early 13th century. The sender is "perplexed" at …
Letter from Tripoli or possibly Tyre to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: 1094–1111, based on Mevorakh's titles. The handwriting resembles that of ʿAmram b. …