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Letter from Misgavya b. Moshe to the ḥaver Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Av Bet Din, in Aleppo. Asking him to send certain liturgical poems and to …
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A booklet containing copies of eight letters by Rav Sherira Gaon and one letter by Rav Hayye Gaon. End of the 10th century. The letter …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. In the margin mentions sending tefillin and the son of the judge Mufaḍḍal.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from a certain Bū ʿUmar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Asking the addressee to ask al-Qāḍī al-Murtaḍā for 1,294 1/4 …
Note in Arabic script. Mentions a maqṭaʿ cloth, but maybe also materia medica such as tamarind. Needs further examination. Information in part from Goitein's note …
Fragment of a Hebrew letter. Late.
Possibly a letter or draft of one. In Judaeo-Arabic. Complaining about a heavy burden of fines on a community.
Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Head of the Jews (entitled Gaon) concerning the difficulties she is having with her …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ (like AIU VII.F.68). Dated D[hū] l-Ḥijja 1240 AH (1825 CE).
Letter from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1050. Information about shipments of goods and about the account of …
כתאב[י יאכי ו]אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
לט (?) כלת מן מרחשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
A letter from the community of Luzki to Ishaq b. Shlomo
Letter to Eli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas dealing with money owed.
Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr M[...] b. Saʿīd. In Arabic script. Mentions children being healthy. Quite faded. Needs examination.
Business letter from Yisrael b. Yūsuf, in Qayrawan, to Abū Sahl Menashshe b. David, in Fustat. The writer describes how the Rav (the highest authority …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter of recommendation sent by seven elders of the Jewish community in Minyat Zifta to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, recommending Moshe, the son of a …
Letter fragment, In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the substance remains, mainly allusions to distress, good wishes for the future, and greetings to a number of family …
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender says that the addressee sent the wrong copy (nuskha) of a liturgical text, but it's for the better, …
Letter (lower fragment) by Nahray b. Nissim containing instructions about merchandise and payments. Dated ca. 1055. (Information from Gil)
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1187 CE, based on the mention of the Nāṣirī dirham. Addressed to a community …
Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Fragment. The letter is prefaced with three short decorated lines of biblical quotations. …
Upper fragment: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, to a family member, in Fustat. He reports that their letter and the chebulic myrobalan …
Letter in Hebrew, with an extensive Judaeo-Arabic note, in a different hand, in the top margin. Mentions a pinqas. Written on Thursday, 8 Tishrei (unclear …
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Ghālib ha-Kohen. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Discusses the education of 'the children of the community' (awlād al-ṣibbur). Only …
Letter from the copyist Shemuel to the notable Yeshuʿa. In Hebrew. Asking for a gift. During the six months in which Shemuel has stayed “here,” …
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1056. Regarding shipments of money, and a deal with one of the Emirs, …
תקדמת כתבי למולאנא אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ונעמתה וכבת אעדאה עדה במא ארגו וצולהא אליה ווקופה עליהא
אעלמתה מא אנפדתה צחבה אלקסטלאני וסאל…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
IB III, 41. Letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Fustat, to his brother, Yosef, in Mazara, Sicily. Dating: September 1153 (Goitein) or 1152 (Friedman). It …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer urges the addressee to help him again with money for rent for the qāʿa where he lives, because his …
Petition in Ottoman Turkish from Salmūn [al-Iskandarānī] to "a high official, possibly the governor of Egypt" per Hathaway. Dating: late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. …
My petition to the noble dust under the feet of his excellency is as follows:
There are places that produce income for al-Khaḍra…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with a remnant of the address (mentioning Fustat) and other notations in Arabic script on verso ("the messenger shall be paid 3 …
Verso: two different letters, glued together to create a rotulus for the calendar on recto. Both are mercantile letters from the mid-11th century. (II) The …
Legal document or account in Arabic script, referring to "every month in the name ʿAbd al-Raḥīm" and payments. On verso there is piyyut. (Information in …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto). (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto, part of the address on verso). Addressed to [...] b. al-Mubārak b. Dāʾūd, in Jerusalem. …
Letter from Avraham b. Shabbetay, the judge of Minyat Zifta, to the goldsmith Abū Isḥāq b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen discussing a guest who disgraced him by …
Letter relating the affairs of a teacher and scribe who had been offered a contract by the community to teach for 20 dirhams a week …
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official-looking. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Reused in the margins and on recto for writing exercises.
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, likely mercantile.
Small fragment from a letter to 'Moshe Hakohen the great Sar splendor of the kohanim ...' AA
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender insistently urges the addressee to act according to his request, "because the muqaddam thinks he is like an angel …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably an appeal for charity. בעץ מן תצדק... ואנא ואללה האלך צאיע... לי מא יקום בי למא... וקלה חילה...
Recto: letter, mentioning the community and the synagogue. The sender seems to be conveying a legal query from the original queriers (ahl al-suʾāl) to a …