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Letter to the Nagid (or at least to a dignitary titled [...] ha-Yeshiva, probably the same Yaḥyā ha-Sar named in line 7). The sender asks …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, in a book hand. Opens with two verses of poetry, then probably a taqbīl ([... al-a]rḍ), then greetings for the …
Fragment of a letter/petition addressed to "Rabbenu ha-Rav ha-Gadol." In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning "the disaster which occurred on the day of [...]," when Abū Yaʿqūb known …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Mentioning flax. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions the Rayyis, a tax (?mas), and Yosef ha-Kohen al-Segula (in the address (or reuse?)).
Letter in Arabic script. Dated: Ramaḍān 1148 AH = January/February 1737 CE. Mentions ʿAbdallāh al-Ajhūrī and a power of attorney. There is a seal on …
Informal note in Arabic script. Has the glyph, signifying a basmala. The handwriting is relatively straightforward but the subject matter is difficult to figure out. …
Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon (autograph) to a communal leader or judge Avraham, in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Dated: Shevaṭ 1442 Seleucid, …
1 مناقشة
A few lines from a Hebrew letter in a large, square script. Mentions a certain Ṣemaḥ and the speaker's love for him (בלשון ידיות . …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the teacher Shemuʾel and "your sister Sara." Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya (=Abū Kathīr Efrāyim b. Maḥfūẓ), Fustat. Dating: 1040 CE (after Kislev) per Gil and ca. …
1 نسخ
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Addressed to al-Kohen al-Peqid(?). Giving instructions concerning a visit(?) of Eliyyahu the Judge. Needs further examination.
Letter mentioning Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn and Abū Ibrā[hīm]. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment. Looks like the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Concerning Barhūn b. [...] al-Tāhartī; the estate of Moshe b. ʿAllūsh al-Gharbī in Egypt or …
Opening of a letter from 'the community of Jews on the jazīra(?)' (verso) to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Shemarya (1007–55 CE), with extensive rhymed phrases. …
Recto: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender wishes to borrow the addressee’s riding animal (dābba) for transporting "some of my stuff" (baʿḍ qumāshī). He should send …
Recto (original use): Letter in Ladino. Jerusalem is mentioned in l. 25. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL).
Letter of appeal from Yefet, a foreigner, to R. Shela. In Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century.
IB II, 28 + 29. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: safe conduct and assistance for brother. Aden, ca. 1145. Join: M. …
עבדה
3 نسخ ترجمات 3
Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya from Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #147) …
Letter to two high-ranking people attempting to force a business partner to pay an outstanding debt. Recto and verso are two versions of a similar …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the Judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen regarding alleged arrears in a compound of the Qodesh, ca. …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
The purpose of these lines is to inform Your Honor,
our Master may he Live for ever, that I received a letter…
Letter addressed to Makārim b. Ṭayyib in 'the land of Egypt' (diyār Miṣr), indicating that it was sent from outside of Egypt. In Hebrew (for …
Letter from a woman, in Jerusalem, to her brother, in Egypt. In Hebrew, with several Judaeo-Arabic terms mixed in. Dating: Probably late 15th or early …
Letter fragment, maybe a draft as many phrases are crossed out. Seems to consist mainly of settling accounts -- either commercial or related to an …
Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his brothers Yūsuf and Ibrāhīm, unknown location. He blames his delay on the ״כר״ that belongs to Baqā', …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on Wednesday, 19 Ḥeshvan. The sender complains that he has been toiling and staying up all night for the last …
Letter from Sedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning small business transactions. Mentions people including Abū Saʿīd Khalīfa; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Letter from Yehizkiyahu b. David, the Head of the Exile, to an unknown person. Dated: Tammuz 1347 Seleucid = June/July 1036 CE. The sender asks …
Fragment of a petition addressed to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1544 Seleucid, which is 1232/33 CE. The names of four senders appear …
Small fragment of a business letter in Arabic script.
Letter from the leader of the Jewish community in a small town to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (1094–1111) complaining about trouble he has had …
Informal note addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: Ca. 1210 CE (per Goitein). The hand may be known. (1) Abū l-Riḍā al-Wathīq has a power …
Letter from Abū l-Bahāʾ, in Ashmūm, to his father al-Mashmiaʿ al-Melamed (the crier/herald, the teacher), in Minyat Zifta. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that his …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions that all slaughtering in Damsīs has been put on hold; asks the addressee to obtain a fatwā in …
Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The first four lines of recto seem to be praises for the power and honor of the …
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 …
Small piece from the beginning of what must have been a large letter or other document. The basmala and part of the first line are …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (ca. 1112–26 CE). It is …
Letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov (Ibn ʿAwkal) and his two sons Hilāl/Hillel and Binyamin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Rabīʿ I 407 AH, which …
Letter, fragmentary, in formal Arabic script, including the line, "I am to you like a son and you are to me like a father." Needs …