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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions a qāḍī and אלמחשב.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. The sender is writing from Alexandria on the 5th of Sivan. Mentions a battle …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the holiday and patience
Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to ʿUzziel Fayrūz, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. The writer's son Avraham Levi b. Shemuel added his own signature …
Letter from a man in debt and unable to meet his commitments, petitioning for help collecting charity promised by the nagid but not received, specifically …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Letter from Ṭāhir b. Ibrāhīm (=Ṭahor b. Avraham) to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Arabic script with interspersed words and phrases in Hebrew. Needs examination.
1 مناقشة
Business letter from Rahamim b. 'Imran in Tinnis to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dated ca. 1055.
כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ו[אדאם תאידה…וכאן לה וליא וחאפטא]
פי גמיע אמרה מן תניס ליב כליו מן [
נעלמך יאמולאי אן וצלת אלי תניס יום…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) to be read in "the two synagogues," to help an old man named …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Informal note addressed to a certain Wuḥaysh (al-muʿallim Wuḥaysh ḥarasahū Allāh). In Arabic script. Possibly asking him to convey something to someone else. Additional jottings …
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Letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed ha-Bavli, in Bilbays, to Abū Isḥāq b. Bū l-Rabīʿ and a judge named Eliyya, in Fustat. (Goitein's index card says that …
Letter from Berakhot b. Shemuel to [...] b. Shemuel ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Politely reminding him to fulfill his promise about working to sell the siddur(? v5). …
1 نسخ
Small fragment of a letter. The upper left corner of recto is preserved, with blessings for the addressee's two sons. On verso there is a …
Letter from the chancellery of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. ca. 1310 – d. 1355) concerning a needy orphan. The first line is in Arabic …
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Letter addressed to the Jewish community of Tilimsān (Tlemcen). In Judaeo-Arabic. The upper part is in a very stylized (Spanish or North African) script, …
Begging letter to a cantor together with the refusal in reply, mentioning Abū l-Faḍāʾil. (Information from CUDL.) (This is not quite clear; it appears that …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yaḥyā al-Sofer(?) addressed to the Nagid David I (b. Avraham Maimonides, served ca. 1237–1300 with …
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 …
Probably draft of opening of letters- on recto for Moshe b. Mevorakh (?), and on verso for a person named Yeshu'a. Some Arabic script between …
Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. On a reused piece of parchment. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. The addressee's name is mostly scraped …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "When he arrived in al-Maḥalla, I inquired from him, and he said that he went to you many …
IB V, 16. Upper margin and address from a letter by Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Mentions a …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Hebrew addressed to Daniʾel ha-Nasi ha-Gadol, presumably Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya (כבוד גד קד מר ור . . . . מנהיג דורינו . …
Letter from the mother of Dā'ūd, in a provincial town, to her son Sulaymān al-Jamal, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She complains about a lack of …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Sheet folded so as to form a booklet of 4 pages. But only one page, headed by the superscription 'In your name' (which indicates the …
Letter from ʿAllūsh b. Yeshuʿa (Qayrawan) to Ismaʿīl b. Avraham al-Andalusī (Fustat), ca. 1010. A cargo of best quality flax was stolen from a ship. …
Letter, possibly a draft, from a certain Avraham to an addressee whose name is not preserved. The content is not clear, but the Pasha and …
Letter fragment conveying concern for "the girl" (al-ṣabiyya) and inviting her to spend a month in the writer's location. Mentions receiving a letter sent with …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script …
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū ʿUmar, in Aden, addressed to Sitt Ghazāl and Umm Munajjā, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The identification of the …
ENA 4011.19b (lower fragment): Mercantile letter addressed to Ḥananel b. Nissim ha-Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender details the garments and/or textiles which he has sent …
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic, prefaced with a Judaeo-Arabic basmala. Dating: Might be 11th century. Refers to the addressees' coming from al-Ramla. Otherwise …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Written in large characters in a chancery-esque hand. The sender is Jewish as he swears by the …
Three fragments from a letter, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary to glean any context, but it references the current year and perhaps the beginning of …
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Busir, to Abu al-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef, Fustat. The letter contains details about the purchase of flax …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה מן בוציר יום
אלאתנין מסתהל אלול ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגת[מאע]
בך על…
Barely legible, damaged fragment of a letter
Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sugmar, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1070. Nahray is called “Our Rabbi, the head of …
הדרת רבנו גדול הישיבה אבו יחיא נהוראי בי"ר נסים נ"ע; המודה לו, יהודה בן מוסא נ"ע בן סגמאר.
Recto: late letter prefaced by בס''ד and concluding with an elaborate (and illegible) signature. It politely addresses a friend, Yaʿaqov al-Tilimsānī, (from Tlamcen, Algeria), asking …
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Probably sent to one of his brothers. Damaged.
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "It is not hidden from your presence. . . Avraham . .. a dinar. . . since he said …
Letter from Hillel b. Abū l-MN[...], probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Faraj Hilāl al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The …
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl to his father Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. He opens with the verse Psalms 16:8 followed by three verses of Judaeo-Arabic poetry …