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Letter from Kanz al-Dawla to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Introduces the bearer, "the qāʾid Ḥasan, son of the qāʾid Shujāʿ al-Dawla (Courage of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter to two high-ranking people attempting to force a business partner to pay an outstanding debt. Recto and verso are two versions of a similar …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Most likely a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The ink is mottled in many places, at times bearing the appearance that a scribe wrote over a …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side only). Dating: 12th or early 13th century. Mentions Waliyy al-Dawla, Fustat, and a shop.
Letter in the handwriting of Yefet b. David. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to "the Raʾīs." Dated: 13 Adar I (no year). He says that "we attended …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century. Mentions many greetings. Names include: Mūsā; Yehuda; Sulaymān al-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī; Abū Naṣr b. Sālim; Hārūn; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ …
Verso: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses at length a family in distress on account of poverty and the capitation tax; the specific details are not …
Fragment of a late Hebrew document, possibly a letter mentioning Salonika (שלנוקי) in the first line. Needs examination.
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter or official report in Arabic script: wa-yunhī baʿd [...] al-adʿiya al-ṣāliḥa wa-l-[...] lillāh taʿālā bi-[...].
Verso (original use): Letter fragment in Arabic script. Reports on the sale of wheat by Hilāl and good news ("abshirū!") concerning 'the thing which I/you …
1 مناقشة
Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Early August 1062. The writer complains about the accusations against …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
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Letter of appeal from an elderly, blind woman, mother of several sons and grandsons, to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. Dating: 1127–38, based on the tenure of …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Asks to be sent something and refers to "shughl al-ṣulṭān," government work.
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. "That which I inform Sayydinā...." None of the content is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter. With a long Hebrew introduction (quoting Psalms 19:6 and 92:3) and the body mostly in Judaeo-Arabic. The body of the letter begins with congratulations …
Small fragment from the lower right corner of a letter or petition.
Recto: note in Hebrew from a certain Evyatar, who says he followed the order to come to a certain place, and he came this morning …
1 نسخ
Address of a letter sent to Fustat to Eliyyahu the judge (beginning of 13th century). (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions meeting with a ghulām who was going to al-Mahdiyya (اجتمع بغلام يتوجه الى المهدية).
Letter from Yishaq b. Avraham al-Mishmar (ha-Kohen?) from Fustat, to his son in Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya). The writer instructs his son to pay his debts and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow paper. Fragment (bottom part only). The script is unique. The content is unclear. Mentions that Abū Naṣr knows about something. The …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Probably related to the legal document on recto, since some of the same names appear. At the top the names …
Letter from Moshe b. Yequtiʾel, Jerusalem, to someone from his circle in Fustat, approximately 1040.
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Letter, c. mid-16th century, from Avraham Sagish, in Jerusalem, to Yosef Qorqos, who is normally resident in Jerusalem but is currently visiting Egypt, regarding the …
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the text in the right margin, is preserved, containing expressions of condolence apparently on the death of …
Business letter from Sibāʿ, in Asyūṭ. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Fragment (upper right corner of verso).
Fragment (narrow sliver containing the beginnings of the lines) of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭā'if
Recto: letter addressing a Nagid (Negid ha-Gola) with many titles and flattering epithets. The opening is extensive and rhymed, and only the letter’s oratory remains. …
Letter from Barakāt b. Manṣūr, unknown location, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Arabic script, with the address on verso written once in Arabic …
2 نسخين
Letter in Hebrew. Fragment: right side only. Dating: Likely 16th century. Involves trade in barrels of wine (ḥaviyot and "barilas").
Letter from Toviyya to Eliyyahu the judge. Sent to Fustat, to the qāʿa of the faqīh Abū Manṣūr. Toviyya informs Eliyyahu that he found no …
I greet the dignity of the august patron, the great scholar, the honor and holiness of our master and teacher Elijah, the dear prince,
the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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 …
Short letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Busir. Dating: February 8, 1053 (Gil). Nahray asks Barhun, who is in Busir and …
1. ועזרת גלויתנו זה איש [הא]להים רב החכמים ראש
2. התמימים כל מבקש... ישמע על פיו...
3. כבוד ילך במוסריו מופת החכמה ומעין התבונה …
Letter from an unknown sender, in Fustat, to his sororal nephew (ibn ukht) Mūsā, in Qalyūb. Dating: Unknown, but perhaps dateable on the basis of …
Letter, probably. Content unclear. Three lines are preserved, and a few words in the margin.
Typewritten or printed letter addressed to Moshe Pardo, the head rabbi of Alexandria (served 1871–88). In Arabic script, with Hebrew insertions. In which the sender …
Letter from Hayya Gaʾon (d. 1038), in Baghdad, to the brothers Avraham and Tanḥum b. Yaʿqov of Fez, in Fustat (possibly to be forwarded to …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (vertical strip from the middle). Dating: Likely 11th century. The sender is in Jerusalem ([min al-musta]qarr bi-l-Quds ʿamarahu Allāh). Mentions …
Recto: Letter from the Qaraite Mahbub b. Nissim, Ramla, to Abu al-Faraj in Fustat, middle of the 11th century (12 Iyar). Mahbub has traveled from …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from ʿEli ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
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 …
Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Seems to be addressed to the shop (dukkān) of a Qāḍī, as discernible from the first fragmentary line. …
Recto: Letter to Elʿazar he-Ḥasid Tifʾeret he-Ḥasidim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. The handwriting has Andalusī alephs, some words almost like the handwriting of a …
Letter from a son, unidentified location, to his father, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is anxious for news of Abū l-Majd, and how he …