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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic of a man to his social superior mentioning that a Nasi asked the writer's father to travel with him to Alexandria. The …
1 نسخ
Petition from Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-ʿAnīnī to the Nagid. The addressee can be identified as Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (r. 1140–60) based on …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1062 CE (Gil). Topics: trade in oil, cumin, paper, books; the serious …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Zikri b. Hananel, from Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yosef, Fustat. Around 1080. The writer is about to travel to Mahdiya and Spain. He …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Conveying a report about something. Mentions the house of ʿAzīz al-Dawla and the house of al-Ṣāḥib. Reused on verso for …
Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, in Jerusalem, to ʿOvadya Kohen and his son Nissim Kohen, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. …
Letter from Egypt concerning agricultural business matters, mentions a pair of oxen purchased for ’15 large dinars’ and a pregnant young donkey for 4.5 dinars. …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Verso (original use): Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Very faded. Spanish/Maghribī hand. mentions Fez.
Letter of introduction, signed by Shemuel b. Avraham, in an unknown location, on behalf of Yosef b. Ḥelbo, addressed to a Jewish community (לכבודכם, although …
Letter from a community in an unknown location addressed to the community in Fustat. Fragment: bottom part only. In Hebrew. Written by a scribe. The …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Sedaqa in Tripoli, Libya, to the physician Shemuel in Cairo, thanking him for his ransom when the sender was captured by …
Bottom of a family letter in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: uncertain, potentially 11th century. Consisting mainly of greetings to and from family members. Specifically mentions …
Letter fragment(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Recto is a brief note containing good wishes to a congregation (יהני אלגמאעה אלמקדסה …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Jerusalem, to Shelomo ha-Kohen and ʿOvadya Kohen, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Thursday 24 Heshvan 5514 (עמדת), which is 1753 …
Letter written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver and Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. The upper part …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Report of the general association of the Ashkenazi Community in Cairo – 1943CE and concerning the accounts of income and expenses in 1942CE and the …
Letter in Ladino, sent from Salonica (שילאניקי) to Cairo (spelled erratically as מישרייאם). To be delivered to ("en mano de") Yiṣḥaq Qatin[?] (אין מאנו די …
Letter from a father in Cairo to his son, Abū Manṣūr al-Rashīd, in the Fayyum. The name Jamāl al-Dīn also appears in the address. In …
Small fragment of a letter to Yaakov ha-haver (member of the Sanhedrin) from Yusuf ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards) VMR
Verso: Letter fragment from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī(?) addressed to a certain Amir. Only the first few lines are preserved.
Letter from Marduk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Faraḥ. Dated 5 Elul, early or mid-August. …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter from Elazar b. Shem[uel?], unknown location, to his 'brother' Abū l-Faraj ʿImrān b. Ḥasan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deals mainly with matters of correspondence—who …
Recto (reuse): Letter from the fledgling cantor [...] b. Shelomo(?) al-Ḥalabī, in Malīj, to his mother, in Fustat (care of Hillel al-Fuqqāʿī in the druggists' …
1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the late Ḥārith; 'our master'; going into the synagogue; 'in the place of his father'; sadness about something; …
Beginning of an official epistle to a community headed by [Goitein left empty] b. Shela the judge (הדיין), the fifth judge in the group (Havura) …
Letter in Hebrew addressed to a certain Shemuel, who is a business partner of the sender. Two pieces comprising the bottom of the letter. The …
Letter fragment. in Hebrew. Dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century based on the paleography. Someone with the name Zerḥiya (זרחיה) is mentioned in line …
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 the Master of the Shipmasts to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. The letter reports on the activities of Merki, a man who was …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter sent from Acre shortly after it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104, in which a merchant describes to his parents the terrors of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter from Barhūn b. Isḥāq al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dating: June, 1047.
כתאבי יאכי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה ען סלא[מה
לה בקין מן אב מן אלמהדיה וקד תקדמת כתבי אליה עדה…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. 11th or 12th century. None of the substance remains. Mentions sending something.
Two fragments comprising the upper part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to "al-ḥaver al-jalīl" (misspelled אלחבר אלגיל). The writer also uses the letter sin …
A brief, informal letter in Arabic script, instructing the addressee to do something with the bearer and something about "the market tonight." Written on a …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
قد كنت سالتك يامولاي اطال الله بقاك في ان
يعتبر حال مقداد بن الحسن
موصلها وبه طرفا(؟) محنة ولي في ذلك عرض
فاخر ان ي…
End of a communal letter with signatures. The surviving signatures are [..]riya b. Ḥasan, [...] b. Ḥasan, Daniel b. Yishaq Shaʾul. [...] Kohen b. Bundar. …
IB V, 37, folio 14r. Lower part of a petition in Arabic script: "...to your slave my son Faḍāʾil, and please bestow favor on me …
2 نسخين
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded/damaged. Greetings to various people on the back (preserved as recto), including to ʿAdwān and Muḥammad.
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality, 1042.
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Copies of two letters by Ḥizqiyya the Exilarch and Gaʾon. One is in Judaeo-Arabic and dated Av 1351 Seleucid = July/August 1040 CE. The other …
Recto: Blessings for notables, perhaps to be read aloud in the synagogue. In Hebrew. For the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, his son Seʿadya, Netanel b. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
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