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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 11th or 12th century. Wide line spacing. Seems to be a communal letter from an official rebuking a community: …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Apparently a letter in Ladino, per FGP.
An 18th-19th century commercial letter dated Friday 28th Adar I, mentioning Muhammed b. ʿUmar who went on Hajj to Mecca, Rafaʾel the Dragoman, Yosef פוגי, …
Fragment (bottom half) of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is urged to sell something quickly. The cotton(?) and the garment arrived. The sender …
1 نسخ
Recto: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary spellings. Dating: mid-12th century or later, per CUDL. Difficult to decipher any of the content.
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1. ועזרת גלויתנו זה איש [הא]להים רב החכמים ראש
2. התמימים כל מבקש... ישמע על פיו...
3. כבוד ילך במוסריו מופת החכמה ומעין התבונה …
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
Letter of appeal for financial assistance by the elders of the community of Corfu (קורפו). In Hebrew. The date does not appear to be preserved, …
Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly asking for letters from the addressee. 8 lines of the main text are preserved and 4 perpendicular lines in the …
Letter, apparently by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel to the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Dating: approximately 1160–66 CE, based on the years when Netanʾel …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost none of the substance is preserved. The addressee is called 'my brother.' (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Avraham to his brother, Mordekhay Kohen. Dated: 17 Sivan [5]646 AM = 20 June 1886 CE. Either to or from Alexandria (סקנדרייה יעא). …
Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, …
Letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, draft. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from a certain Efrayim concerning consignments of wheat and sums of money, written in a very polite form with many Hebrew phrases, among them …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter written by Nissim b. Ḥalfon on behalf of Mardūkh b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī (Gil) and sent from Alexandria to Abu Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter sent from Rashīd addressed to Shelomo Ḥalafta Yerushalmi, in Bulaq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same sender as ENA 2855.21. Dating: late 15th or early …
1 مناقشة
Letter/petition addressed to the Avraham (Maimonides), with the title "Nagid," thus post-1213 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender states that he has studied and memorized something …
Letter addressed to Avraham b. Natan Av Beit Din. In Hebrew. The first 28 lines of the introduction are preserved. Written in an elegant style. …
Verso: Maimonides’ reply is gracious but firm: he is exhausted, frail, and ill, and has no time or energy to meet with the writer. He …
Letter mentioning Abū l-Barakāt. Only the closing greetings are preserved. Possibly sent to Cairo (if עיר ה]מלוכה on verso is part of the address). (Information …
A letter from Yosef b. Eliyyahu Qaraj to Yosef b. Ishaq
Part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only flattery and blessings for the addressee are preserved. (Information from CUDL)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Business letter addressed to a certain Abu Saʿd. The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be …
Letter from Elijah (probably in Salonika) to his brother, a scholar (probably in Fusṭāṭ), written in the 11th-century. The letter mentions Elijah’s compatriot, Abū ʿAlī, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 16th century, based on the mention of Avraham Shānjī. Concerning business matters, mentioning the writer’s brother Shemuel, Alexandria and a …
Recto: beginning of a letter. Mentions Rabbenu Ḥananʾel, blessings for a recovery from an illness, and "there are only a few left." Verso: unidentified. (Information …
Blessings in large, thick, square letters, with the name "David b. Shekhanya" at the end (יברכהו בקהל עם ד[וי]ד בר שכניה). Dating: probably early 11th …
Fragment in poetic Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Might also be a literary text. Refers to the arrival of a letter or letters, "signs and …
Fragment of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Dealing with goods such as red antimony (rāsakht), perfumed cherry bark …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a reused scrap of Arabic-script accounts. Mentions that "we demanded the oath from Abū Saʿd... he said that he …
Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Alexandria twice, but the context is unclear. "I went to the R[īf?]." Mentions 'maqāṭiʿ.'
Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. There is an 'emet' header and the letter addresses itself to "the community" (al-jamāʿa). …
Verso: Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE, mentioning Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Joins by Mordechai Akiva …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic on business matters. Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Letter in Arabic script. Maybe a letter of appeal for charity. Refers to a group of people (dependents?) who are weak and sick and the …
Small, damaged fragment probably from an 11th-century mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as a qāḍī, the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Qābisī, and [Yaʿqū]b b. …
Letter. In Hebrew. Ṣedaqa Nes or Nīs (ניס), in Syracuse (שראקוסה), writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century, …
Bitter letter by a public officer complaining about his lot. The sender's name is not preserved. Refers to Rabbenu; acknowledges receipt of a letter from …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat.
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Fragment from a letter with a lengthy Hebrew introduction. Little of the original substance of the message is preserved. Mentions a 'khidma' (service) and מלאכת …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to 40 parchments; a group of merchants from Barqa (qawm Barqiyyīn); the arrival from the addressee's location of "the dogs" …
Fol. 2: Private letter in Arabic script, chancery-esque script. Dating: Probably late Ayyubid or Mamlūk based on paleographical grounds. Contains the glyph "لى" in place …