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IB III, 47. Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr b. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
The middle fragment is the a small fragment of an Arabic letter, preserving the first line of the letter and the address: to Sammanūd, to …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Small fragment from a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Family letter. In Arabic script. Addressed to the mother of Abū l-ʿIzz (Sitt Abū l-ʿIzz), in Fustat. Reports on something to do with ʿAbd al-Salām; …
1 نسخ
Letter addressed to R. Hananel he-Hasid, written in the time of David I Maimonides (l. 11r). (Information from Paul Fenton, Tarbiz 55 [1956], p. 78) …
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Small fragment from a letter, probably. The hand looks like that of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions the purchase of a censer with …
Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …
IB III, 57. Letter from Yosef b. Peraḥya Yijū, in Mazara, writing to an important merchant, also in Sicily., ca. 1154. Yosef states that his …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter mentioning sums of money, the qāḍī, the qayyim, and Sulayman the khādim. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used. The handwriting …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Communal letter(s) written in a literary format probably in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Fragmentary (missing the ends of the lines on recto …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much content is preserved. Mentions 7 months. Regards to Riḍwān (unless this word is just a blessing) …
Business letter to Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the margins of verso (the first page), there is a price list for commodities …
Letter from ʿAwaḍ b. Hanan'el in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, in which the writer complains of hardships he has endured, and asks …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Shemuel b. Eli Gaʾon in Baghdad to an unknown person. In the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder of Irbīl. …
Hebrew letter by Efrayim b. Shemarya, ca. 1007–1055 CE.
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. Similar to the letter that Barhun’s brother, Yosef, wrote. …
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, and …
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 from a man to his prospective father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya requesting he intervene with the Nagid on behalf of the bearer of the letter, who had spent six …
Minute fragment of a letter, probably. Mentions ויהודה הזקן ומנשה in the margin. On verso there appear to be jottings in Arabic script.
Letter from Yisrael B. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray B. Nissim, Fustat. Israel suggests Nahray to get out of a deal he made and asks for …
Letter (likely a draft) dictated by the wife and written by the son (Zayn al-Dār) of the India trader ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, beseeching him to …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. From Waliyy(?) to his 'father' ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (named on recto). The address is made out to Makīn(?) b. Waliyy al-[...] …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, in Jerusalem, to an unknown addressee, probably in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: No earlier than 1525 CE. Concerning a debt and …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1802 CE (the 17th of matmonim i.e. the Omer = 2 Iyyar 5562 AM) from Yiṣḥaq Ben-Naʿim, in Safed, to …
Letter in Hebrew. Mentions the names ṣefanya and Sar Shalom. Refers to somebody in trouble, whom other people are libeling and "handing over into the …
Letter from Shelomo ha-Melammed (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to the teacher Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning money owed. Mentions Abū l-Munā and Ibn al-Dihqān. (Information in …
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fol. 1: Letter fragment, possibly. Mentions 3 dirhams. Accounts on verso. Needs examination.
Recto: Letter from the yeshiva in Jerusalem to Mevorakh (b. Seʿadya?), in Fustat. In Hebrew. Fragmentary. Dating: After 1094 CE. This is a letter of …
Recto: Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning Abū Sahl and books, including Kitāb al-Madkhal (of Shemuel b. Hofni) and Halakhot Gedolot. Very faded. Information from FGP. Needs further …
Letter from Moshe b. Abū Zikrī to his relative, Araḥ b. Natan, on matters of commerce. Moshe expresses his concern about the fact that Araḥ …
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Barakāt b. Ziz al-Tujjār and Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe ha-Kohen addressed to R. Avraham (possibly Avraham Maimonides). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …
Possibly the beginning of a letter to a notable (שרנו ונרנו...)
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the names Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Riḍā and the children of אלמחשב(?).
Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment. Asks for a letter with news. Mentions "across the sea." Greets people by name, but their names are torn away. …
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Ahuv to [...] al-Levi. Appealing for charity or other assistance. (Information in part from CUDL)
Calligraphic letter from (thecantor Thabit Ibn al-Munajjim to Maṣliaḥ Gaon begging for charity, complaining about poverty and his dependents. (Information from Goitein's note card.) Same …
A letter to Shmuel b. Yosef
Small fragment, possibly from a letter. Contains poetic Hebrew lines about the ingathering of exiles, then a blessings for Abū ʿAlī (last line).
Letter of Benayahu b. Musa, an Alexandrian from Maghribi origin, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The letter contains severe complaints on the local Alexandrian …
בשמך רחמ
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם סלאמתה
וסעאדתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר כאן קד בלגנא אן מולאי אלשיך לחקה וגע
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Complete calligraphic letter from Yosef b. Mordekhay, in Fustat, to the sons of Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (same family as Ibn al-Amshātī?), probably also in …