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Letter in Hebrew (left side only) in a beautiful scribal handwriting from a man who was among the great men of Constantinople until the wheel …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter by the son of the judge (dayyan) of Minyat Zifta to a certain Peraḥya, requesting his intercession with a certain sayyidnā David. Dating: If …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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 …
Letter, small fragment from the opening, mostly formulaic. Probably a letter of appeal for charity, as it mentions unemployment (al-ʿuṭla) followed by blessings for the …
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Recto (secondary use): Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th …
1 نسخ
Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Opens with discussing various transactions and orders, including for a kind of sugar (sukkar murammal), myrtle (marsīn), …
Verso (original use): Fragment of an Arabic-script business letter. Someone is bringing a bit of yarn and someone should use it, and the proceeds should …
Autograph letter by Isaac Luria, sent either from Egypt or Safed (probably the latter), concerning various matters, but principally the payment of monies. Dated only …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefeẓ to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Elul (Raḥamim) 5569 AM, which is 1809 CE. Needs …
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Phrases from the letter: ויגיתהא . . . אפעאלהא אלי . . . אלשריפה . . . תשועת עולמים …
Letter/note from Ismāʿīl(?) al-ʿAṭṭār to Maḥfūẓ. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. After the tarjama and basmala, it opens abruptly, "Yā shaykh …
Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef of Qayrawān (active 990s–1030s), apparently sojourning in Alexandria, to the three senior Tustari brothers (Sahl, Yosef, and Saʿīd the sons …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Mercantile letter. Dating: 11th century. Addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov [Ibn ʿAwkal?]. Mentions people including Mūsā b. Barhūn, Ibn Jashmard (a Persian? בן גשמרד), and …
Letter (possibly a halakhic question) by Shelomo b. Elijah, with jottings on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from a mother to her daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The mother expresses her longing and the fire in her heart, sends regards to Umm Khalaf …
Very damaged and faded letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon f. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is better preserved than …
Family letter in Arabic script. In a rudimentary hand. Addressed to a woman, Umm [...], in Fustat.
Letter addressed to the judge R. Yeshuʿa in Fustat. The sender's name may be legible: [...] al-[Iskan?]darānī b. Ibrāhīm. The sender asks the addressee "to …
Two unrelated fragments stuck together. (1) Right: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly torn and partially faded. Might be in the same hand as Moss. VII,92.1 (which …
Letter from Yeḥezqel Ḥayyim Avraham ha-Kohen, in Diyarbakır (דייר בכיר), to his paternal uncle Mordekhay Kohen, in Palu (פאלו). Late and non-Geniza. Needs examination.
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, recommending a man who is “poor but from a good family.” The community of Fustat is asked …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances dated 35 from the counting of the Omer, ~Iyyar …
Letter from Ascalon to the Nagid in Egypt concerning a dispute in the community over synagogue expenditures, 1st half of the 12th century.
. . . not for renovations, but to buy mats for the synagogue on which the congregation can sit. The answer of the congregatio…
Letter; with citation from Isaiah 26:19. Might be a letter formulary, as it is headed "mukātaba" and contains no identifying details (at least in the …
Letter fragment addressed to the great prince (ha-Sar ha-Adir, Sar ha-ʿEda), in Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written on the 21st of Ḥeshvan.
Brief letter from Abū l-Surūr to a faqīh. Dating: ca. 12th century. Letter of appeal for charity. The sender is in hiding from the capitation …
Possibly part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, or a philosophical or linguistic composition (discussing metaphor). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but this is a guess. Record of a dispute between the proprietor and manager of a …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 18th or 19th century. Mentions Jerusalem. From a certain Mordekhay al-Baḥrī[?] to Merkada and Brahem Diyalo[?] (דייאלו). Possibly a North …
Letter fragment from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060, the 17th of Tamuz. Mentions Ramla. (Information from Ed. Gil, …
2 نسخين
Recto, with the address on verso: Letter from [...] b. [...] al-Ṣayrafī to Abū l-Ḥusayn [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely …
Leter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Names of writer and addressee are missing. Mentions numerous people: Simḥa, Yūsuf, Ibn al-Sharābī, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. …
Possibly a letter (needs examination)
IB II, 67. Letter from Madmun b. David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202. …
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Official letter headed by the ʿalāma (motto) of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) and written in the typical hand of his clerk (compare …
Small fragment of the beginning of a letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (r. 1078–1111) written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 …
Letter in Arabic script. The letter is written in colloquial Arabic in full obeisance and flattery. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a letter or legal document. Mentioning "our master Shemuel," i.e., Shemuel b. Ḥananya (נגיד] עם ייי צבאות). Mentions ten daftars. (Information in …
Business and/or administrative letter(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than the reign of al-Afḍal (based on the titulature of the petition in T-S Ar.40.38) …
Small fragment of a poetic letter or panegyric addressed to a notable who is also a kohen.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious …
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