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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on handwriting, spelling, and vocabulary. Needs examination for content. Quite faded. Might mention a commodity called qiṭmīr. (Information …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ b. Yosef to Yehuda b. Sighmar. The letter reflects the economic difficulties of the Jewish community of Alexandria due …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto (secondary use): End of a letter or note in Judaeo-Arabic. Includes greetings and mentions Sitt Rayḥān.
A long letter from a Yequtiel b. Siman Tov to his mother. He intended to go from Alexandria to Constantinople, but was tempted by his …
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Letter in Arabic script. From Mawhūb (who calls himself muṣābibuh(?) = "the one who adores him") to Isḥāq al-Ḥazzān(?), in al-Ramla, Sūq al-Yahūd. Mentions someone …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe? Mentions the price of the bees; and Abū l-Riḍā.
Letter sent to Alexandria, mentioning Abū Manṣūr al-Mashmiaʿ (אלמשמיע), Abū l-Munā (vocalised אלמֻנֵי), and Yaʿqūb/Yaʿaqov b. Banīn. Mentions the payment of the capitation tax. Addressed …
1 مناقشة
Letter in Hebrew from Meʾīr b. Shalōm Ben-Naʿīm to Rabbi Yaʿaqov Molkho (perhaps from Cairo to Dimyāṭ). Dated 5580 AM which is 1819/20 CE. The …
1 نسخ
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Faraj Ḥayyim (b. Shelomo, the ḥaver) and Abū l-Faraj Hiba (b. Ṣemaḥ), in al-Ramla. The …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter in Ladino regarding payment issues. Copious doodles in the white space. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter (tadhkira, memorandum) on two sheets of paper, written and signed by Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī, probably in Fustat, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, perhaps …
Recto and first line of verso: Hebrew letter to Gabriel Conforte. The author of the letter mentions a number of books he has received, among …
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. The name of the addressee maybe Muḥammad. Needs examination. Joins: Alan Elbaum.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning 12 dirhams and kohl.
Informal note written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to 'al-Kohen.' The addressee must not hand over the garment that 'the Jew' bought from …
Letter (possibly a copy, as it is blank on verso and is set out more like a page of text than a letter) sending greetings …
Taqbīl clause, presumably scribal practice for a private petition: المملوك يقبل الارض بين يدي المولى الاجل المتفضل. Headed by the glyph (in this case, an …
Probably part of a letter; some of the lines are crossed out. (Information from CUDL)
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 …
Verso: Fragment from the beginning of a rhymed letter in Hebrew addressed to a notable. Possibly a draft as several words are crossed out. The …
Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Letter in Arabic script. Concerning 'the going up' of an enslaved singing woman (ṭulūʿ al-mughanniya). "I sent Luʾluʾ... with her another person from her place …
Letter/petition to a certain David ha-Sar in which the writer asks him to intercede on his behalf with al-Sadīd. Dating: late 12th or early 13th …
Letter from an India trader, possibly in Aden, to an associate, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. mid-12th-century. Two fragments of the letter are …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Hārūn b. Yosef Ibn al-Ghazzāl, in Qayrawan, to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Small fragment of a letter, mentioning Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyan, 'al-ḥasid al-muʿallim,' and Abū Zikrī. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
IB IV, 36 (ח35). Letter from Yehuda ha-Levi in Toledo to Ḥalfon b. Netanel concerning the ransom of a captive woman in al-Andalus. The amount …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter from Ṣadoq, a prominent public figure in Alexandria, to ݂the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, in Fustat. Dated: ḥol ha-moʿed of Sukkot 4800 …
Original use: Petition for charity from a woman, with reference to her poverty and hunger, her brother, the Levant (al-diyār al-Shām[iyya]), and 11 dinars. Also …
One side: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter to "my brother," mentioning [al-]Mahdiyya. Other side: Probably the original letter or the response in a different …
Letter in Arabic script. Opens with greetings to "sayyidī" (my master) followed by greetings to "sittī" (my lady). Most of the remaining text is in …
Letter from Ḥiṣn al-Dawla ibn al-ʿAsqalānī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī begins by acknowledging having received the eparch's letter and responds …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وَصل كتاب مولاي الاكشيل صاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه
وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه ووقفت عليه وقوف مسرور بوروده
مبت…
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The letter of my master the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses— may God prolong his life
an…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter of business written in the 11th century, mentioning the rīf (‘the (Egyptian) province’). (Information from CUDL.) Looks like the same handwriting as T-S 10J15.24 …
Business letter from Yisrael b. Yūsuf, in Qayrawan, to Abū Sahl Menashshe b. David, in Fustat. The writer describes how the Rav (the highest authority …
Draft of the beginning of a petition-like letter to a woman. Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
Recto: beginning of an Arabic letter. Verso: unidentified Hebrew script (possibly the address, the sender may be [...] b. Elishaʿ). (Information from CUDL)
Excerpt of letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to the Ḥaver in Fustat, probably Eli b. Amram, ca. 1060.
Letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva, probably Fusṭāṭ, to the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Damsīs. Much of the letter has to do with Avraham …
IB IV, 20 (ח61). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria to Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh in Almeria. Ḥalfon requests Yiṣḥaq's help with a shipment that …
Secondary use: Letter fragment or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion on recto has an agitated tone, mentions a sum of money, Munajjā, swearing by God …
Possibly a letter or draft of one. In Judaeo-Arabic. Complaining about a heavy burden of fines on a community.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Distinctive hand, with tall letters and a thin nib. Possibly a letter or official account. Portions of 6 lines are …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1802 CE (the 17th of matmonim i.e. the Omer = 2 Iyyar 5562 AM) from Yiṣḥaq Ben-Naʿim, in Safed, to …