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Letter fragment. In Arabic script. To 'the dear brother,' reporting on a messy situation (rajj ʿaẓīm) involving various other people, and telling him to go …
1 نسخ
Letter from an unknown writer, in Safed, to Yosef Mataron (מאטארון), in Fustat/Cairo. In Ladino. Mentions the Ottoman coin para. The writer reports that the …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Maybe asking for charity or a loan of 5 dinars.
Verso (original use): Very faded document in Arabic script. Recto (secondary use): Small fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-F[araj?]
Letter fragment from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov to Sar Shalom b. Hiyya. Damaged. Contains mostly blessings.
Letter from Avraham b. Shemuel Ha-Shlishi (third), Ramla, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, approximately 1035.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1080. Natan asks Nahray to help the widow and orphans of b. …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל
ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת
אעדאה תקדמת כתבי אליה עדה ומא
אשך פי וצולהא אליה ואנא אסאל תפצלך
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter in Hebrew. Probably a draft. Dating: probably late, ca. 14th–16th century. Addressed to a notable named Binyamin, with regards for his sons Yaʿaqov and …
Communal letter or less likely legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. Wide space between the lines. Seems to be about a …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Fragment (upper right piece of recto). Most of what is preserved on recto consists of …
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 …
Declaration of a patronage relationship? After quoting Isaiah 50:7, several lines of eloquent prose in artfully arranged lines, starting with, "I am your slave, never …
Upper part of a letter in Hebrew possibly dated 534[.] = 1580s CE, but the phrase וזה שעה השמים is probably gematriya rather than a …
An appeal from the Karaite community of Qal'a to the community of Kafa/Kana
Official or communal note. In Hebrew. Damaged and faded. "We further inform our master that... a man from the congregation of... the man... Yiṣḥaq b. …
Letter in Arabic script to a certain Abū l-Fakhr. Dating: 11th–13th century. The sender's name appears at upper left but is difficult to read. Business …
Top four lines of an official-sounding letter in Arabic script. Might be a draft. Dating: Maybe 13th or 14th century. Begins: "Uṣdirat/aṣdartu hādhihi l-[...] ilā …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances, of Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated …
Letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi from Gabes (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’akob b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer traveled to Qabes after visiting Barqa, Tripoli …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Left side of a letter sent by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) to his brother in law, in which the sender writes that Eli …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This portion preserves the formulaic ending only. The addressee's in-laws send their regards.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (ca. 1112–26 CE). It is …
Letter from a husband, probably a merchant belonging to the elite, to his wife of a second marriage. In Judaeo-Arabic. He expresses his yearning and …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Janūn to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and his son Yosef. Concerns shipments of wax and honey, as well as textiles. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
IB III, 56. Letter whose author might be Perahya b. Yosef Ibn Yiju, probably in Fustat, to the author's wife, in the home of the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender (ממלוכך) reports that on Sunday he went to [...] and found that "they" had taken out the box (quffa) …
Letter, or possibly an outline of a legal document, containing instructions concerning a trousseau list. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, …
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. …
Business letter from Zikrī b. Khiyār to ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well …
1 مناقشة
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 from a Greek-speaking Jewish man to a woman in Fustat. "The beginning of the letter is missing, and it is impossible to reconstruct the …
] מיש'תין מצא אותנו עת רעה
]יה חמשה ואחר כך מלטנו האל
]..ות המ…
... found us at a bad time
... five and then God rescued us
… the east to S…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter in which a proselyte (from Christian Europe), probably named ʿOvadya, expresses in beautiful Hebrew his thanks to a distinguished woman, who …
Letter/petition. In Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew and Arabic on verso. Fragmentary (bottom part only). "I informed him that people only serve us on account of the …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. The text is damaged and fragmented and difficult to understand. Seems to involve receipt of a governmental …
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost no details preserved.
2 مناقشتان
Recto: Business letter in Arabic script. Mentioning various small transactions and giving instructions. Verso: Barely legible Hebrew text
Report from a man called only "al-nāʾib" (the deputy), in Malīj, to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (in office 1140–59), in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī) …
Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon and people from Fustat to Shelomo b. Yehuda
Letter in Ladino, very faded and damaged. Part of the address is visible on the verso with honorifics, "ליד כבוד[...] כ׳מ׳ה׳ר׳" but the key parts …