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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Might be from a family member of Sitt Ghazāl to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (cf. Bodl. MS heb. …
1 نسخ
Letter written in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic script. Various blessings and Bible citations are rendered in Hebrew script, whereas the main part is …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Sahlān b. Avraham perhaps to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Written in a calligraphic hand and beautiful biblical style. Only the …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: 11th-century business letter, probably in the hand of Nissim b. Ḥalfon, mentioning the arrival of a certain Ṣedaqa and of a nephew of the …
Petition/letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to someone titled Ḥemdat ha-Nesiʾut, possibly the same person as Sayyidnā in l. 8. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The …
A formula of a letter to a notable
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Recto: fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Verso: fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender gave or paid something to the son of …
Recto: Letter fragment concerning oaths to be given in a complicated case involving a divorce. The husband, a merchant who travels, complains “I have no …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or possibly 12th century. Dealing with business matters; mentions quantities of goods and prices. Mentions Ibn ʿAzrūn.
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 from Hillel Ha-Ḥaver b. Yeshuʿa Ha-Hazzan, Tiberias, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1050.
Letter from Mūsā b. Hibatallāh al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib ("the Jewish doctor") to an unidentified dignitary. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to one of the personalities in Fustat, concerning the fate of Rabbanite prisoners and the future of the Rabbanite community …
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Letter sent in response to a message from the addressee, with well-wishes related to the addressee's illness or frailty (iltiyāth). Elevated register. Dating: 11th or …
Letter from Mawhūb b. Aharon the ḥazzan to Nahray b. Nissim. Containing mainly warm greetings and blessings, particularly for Nahray’s son. He notes that he …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter or petition in Arabic script. Repeated references to the benefaction (iḥsān) of the addressee. Concerning a "portion" (ḥiṣṣa) belonging to the righter. Might mention …
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', …
Fragment of a letter or official correspondence, Arabic script. Mentions "من يلوذ به", a fragmentary date "[جمادى؟] الاخرة", beginning of a year "سنة خمسـ"and a …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032). Dating: approximately 1026 (per Gil) but it is worth noting that Shelomo …
Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script addressed to "al-Shaykh al-Rayyis al-Muwaffaq." There is a version of a raʾy clause (والراي ما يراه المولى). The sender …
Letter fragment in Arabic script: . . . . وسيدي . . . اطال الله . . . . الاجتماع به . . . . …
Letter from David (=David I Maimonides?) to a Nasi. Only the first few lines are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from a woman, in Rashīd, to Yom Ṭov al-Buḥayrī (it seems her son-in-law) and his wife Esther (it seems her daughter), in Fustat/Cairo. In …
Letter of condolence from Daniel b. Azarya on the death of Yosef ha-Kohen Av Beit Din b. Shelomo Gaʾon, early 1054. (Moshe Gil)
Letter from the merchant Abū l-Riḍā ha-Kohen in Tiberias to his brother Seʿadya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address mainly in Arabic script on …
Letter from Maḥāsin b. Abū ʿAlī, probably in Alexandria, to his mother Sitt Ghazāl bt. Abū ʿUmar, in Fustat. (The letter is to be delivered …
Lower lines of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a letter fragment. The diagonal line may mention "[Yo]sef and his brother." Requires further examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda very early in his public career, when he was Av Bet Din, to a notable in Fustat, ca. 1025. He …
Recto: note written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū Saʿīd, asking to be sent sums of money paid by Abū l-Ḥasan. Verso: a …
Fol. 1: Letter in Arabic script. The addressee is called "al-ṣabiyy(?) al-akram... al-jamālī jamāl al-dunyā wa-l-dīn..." The text is quite faded and difficult to read. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The paper is well-preserved, but almost all of the text is extremely faded; might be legible …
Recto: Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The context is difficult to make out, but the sender refers to a ḥadith, "al-jār bi …
Question submitted to "sayyidnā," it seems the Head of the Karaite community, about a case that had come before the governor/chief of police (wālī) of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Much of it seems to be an apology. Mentions coming to Cairo and a qāḍī. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Shemuel b. Sahl al-Hawwārī, in Aleppo, to [...], in Fustat. (The names are written in Arabic, so the writer's is tentative and the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: upper right corner only. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Addressed to a cousin (ibn ʿamm). Deals with a legal case, a …
Letter from the maternal uncle of Abū l-Ṭayyib Ṭov b. David to the Tustarī brothers, Abū l-Faḍl Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Abū Sahl Saʿīd …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning al-Maḥalla; the workers of the Ḥusayniyya (? עמאל אלחסיניה); purchasing things and bringing them to Fustat; and dinars and qirrāṭ. …
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a copy of a book requested by the addressee. Dating: Likely no earlier than 13th century, based on …
Recto: fundraising letter in Hebrew carried by emissaries from Hebron to Egypt. Dating: 15th or 16th century. There are 12 signatures, including Shelomo Ḥalafta who …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Only the opening pleasantries are preserved.