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Letter by Faraj b. Mansur, informing his brother of the death of his own boy and admonishing him not to open the writer's store. (Information …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: Fragment of a letter in elegant Arabic script. The ends of four lines are preserved: وحرس . . . . . مهجته . . …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. Mentions: Yehuda; a boat; Abū Mūsā. Written at the beginning of Sivan. Holiday blessings …
Petition in Ottoman Turkish from a merchant named Mūsa to "an unnamed Ottoman official, quite possibly the governor of Egypt." Dating: mid-sixteenth century (per Hathaway). …
Sulṭānım ḥażretlerinin ḫāk-ı pāy-ı şerīflerine ʿarż-ı bende-i bī-miḳdār ve zerre-i ḫāksār budur ki ben ḥaḳīr…
This is the petition of the worthless slave, who is but a speck of dust, to the noble dust under t…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Faraj, the “freed” of Barhun (ha-Tāhartī?) from the Maghreb, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal and his sons, Fustat; ca. 1015. Regards a …
1 نسخ
Letter mentioning a number of names (although most are broken off after Abū) such as al-Najīb, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Isḥāq, Maʿānī b. Nuʿmān (מעאני בן …
Calligraphic letter requesting help for a man who is out of work and has a large family which would be satisfied with getting a mere …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon. Dating: probably 1024 CE. Describing the imposition by the Muslim authorities of a special, heavy tax on the Jews of Jerusalem. …
Beginning and end of an important business letter written probably after the arrival of the sender from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices …
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Damascus, to Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dated: 19 January 1055 CE. Concerning financial transactions. Moshe …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Business letter in which the sender writes that he is concerned after meeting in Qus a business relation to whom he was able to sell …
Letter from Yosef b. Faraḥ in Būṣīr to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, c. 1055 CE (Gil).
[לא ] ען סידי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמאה אלא אתר אלתכפיף ען קלבה לכתרה אשגאלה פלמא
כל[ ] בקי אלאסטור [ ] אבי עמראן ומא כפי ענך …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ, dated 3 June 1825 CE (17 Sivan 5585 AM), with additional writing on verso. Sender: Sezano Konpanyia (Compania).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yosef b. Khalfa (ca. 1050s–60s), sent from or to Fustat. Quite faded but could likely be read with effort (and multispectral …
Fragment of a letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. (Identifications by Gil; Goitein understands this to …
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-12th century. Probably from an India trader. Mentions numerous business transactions, Maḥrūz, and Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Baghdādī (who also appears …
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…
Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Concerning the Babylonian synagogue, also mentions the hafṭara (ifṭāra). The addressee may be a cantor or communal leader. …
Letter/petition from Yehuda(?), probably in Cairo, to an important person called Sayyidnā, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary orthography. Dating: Probably late 12th or early …
Letter from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Ṭāhir al-Kohen, in Alexandria, to Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr b. Yiṣḥaq al-Dimashqī, in Fustat. Dating: 1170s CE. The addressee was just …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to "the one I am angry at," viz., his father-in-law Abu l-Faraj in Alexandria. Shelomo is upset at the lack …
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded/damaged. Greetings to various people on the back (preserved as recto), including to ʿAdwān and Muḥammad.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his 'father.' In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he arrived in Qalyūb. He suffered a setback (izʿāj... qāsaytu shidda...) en …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …
Business letter from Avraham b. Farah in Alexandria to Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhun al-Tāhartī in Fustat. The letter mentions a shipment of cosmetic oils, …
Bifolio containing piyyuṭ and scribal practice. One of the pages contains a brief petition-like note addressed to a woman (al-sitt al-jalīla) with a taqbīl and …
Letter about the Mongol invasion. Mosul, December 1236.
In Your Name, Oh Merciful!.
Do not ask--my lord and master, the illustrious, noble benefactor
the doyen of the House of David and the S…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 11th century. Mentions something which Rabbi Yosef brought with him; 100 dinars; 22 dinars for Isḥāq; …
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Alexandria, to his son Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl, in Būṣīr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Gil suggests 23 September 1056 CE. This …
ולדי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר אלאסכנדריה
ליב כלאת מן תשרי געלך אללה מן אלפאייזין ומן אלמקבולין ותקב…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter of appeal for charity from Yeḥezqel b. Ibrāhīm (the writer) and the former judge Moshe b. Shemarya to Abū ʿImran Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, …
Letter drafts from a certain Shelomo. Rudimentary handwriting. On recto he states that he is unable to come because his father is sick. The draft …
1 مناقشة
Letter or official report in Arabic script. The upper ~8 lines are preserved. Refers multiple times to a district (nāḥiya) called ىىىان (Baysān?) and refers …
Possibly a letter in a flowery language or a blessing, mentioning the majesty of king Solomon: היבה סולימאן אבן דאוד עלי . . . אלמא …
Informal note from Sulaymān to Abū l-Bayān. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to kindly bestow the favor that he previously bestowed, by coming …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Ṣāʿid b. Saʿīd, in Mirbāṭ (in present-day Oman), to Abū l-Surur Faraḥ b. ʿAbbās al-ʿAsqalānī. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer reports that a Jew coming on a boat from Tyre …
עלקת אליך הדה אלרקעה יאסידי ומול[אי] ען סרעה אע[ל]מך פיהא אן וצל אלינא מן
צור מרכב ופיה אנסאן יהודי ערפנא אן רב נעים בן עמראן כרג לתניס והו
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile. Mentions something coming from Gaza and possibly the commodity tartar (or Mongols? al-tatar). "As for the woman who came, …
Letter to a distinguished person. In Hebrew. Formal, possibly a form letter or exemplar based on the layout.
Hebrew letter by Efrayim b. Shemarya, ca. 1007–1055 CE.
Beginning and address of a letter from Tahor b. Avraham to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter of condolence in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, on the death of 'the father.' Beautiful prose and calligraphic script. Likely a formulary.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to somebody in Jerusalem. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as values are given in ashrafīs– which were first minted …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Too damaged to extract much of the content.
Later to Dov Ber Hakohen