Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Business letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. Nissim b. Ḥalfon left two money poaches in Tinnīs, …
כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יאסידי אן ערפתך אן תרכת לך אלסרתין ענד…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side). Addressed to 'my father' (yā wālidī, l. 7). Unclear if any of the substance is preserved.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: Fragment of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a son to a father. Verso: The page was trimmed and reused for what may be …
Letter from Tripoli or possibly Tyre to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: 1094–1111, based on Mevorakh's titles. The handwriting resembles that of ʿAmram b. …
1 نسخ
None
Faded and damaged letter written by Yefet b, Menashshe
Late business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Shemuel Būnyāl (l. 10, main body). In line 12 there's mention of "fearing what occurred[?] with the money …
Letter written and sent probably from Alexandria by Yaʿaqov b. Salman al-Hariri perhaps to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Ca. 1052 (Gil). Discusses business matters, …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1070. The writer answers Nahray’s request to check the option of …
2 نسخين
Letter from Salāma b. Abī l-Ḥayy to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. The writing place is unknown. Mentions several partners of b. Awkal and it …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter to the Judge Eliyyahu from a woman, probably his mother or his former mother-in-law. Containing many details about a house in Alexandria. (Information from …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Short letter of appeal for charity from a poor and sick man
Letter from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya(!) to his mother in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He apologizes for not visiting the house while he has …
Business letter fragment, sent from Alexandria to Fustat, based on FGP, but more lively Cairo given the dating. Dating: post-1415 CE, based on the reference …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In which a woman with a child asks her sister and mother to take more interest in her because of her …
Effaced letter in which a man informs his mother that the power of attorney she gave him proved to be invalid. He urges her to …
Letter from a Tāhartī in al-Mahdiyya to her brother Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Fustat, reporting about the family members in al-Mahdiyya and mentioning his …
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان
Note(s) from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Hibatallāh, concerning fatwās. Below there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter fragment, in Arabic script. Draft. The beginning is: "ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-shaykh". Only formulary. The draft is surrounded by a rectangular design frame. Above it, …
Fragment of a letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya, around 1030 CE. Writes about the recent events in Mount of Olives (communal dispute of Hoshaʿna Rabba …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Short note to Saʿadya ha-Dayyan in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides? Reporting that a certain affair was concluded successfully.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "We have been patient for that / have borne that... the lord, for he is steadfast and others are corrupt... the …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. There is Hebrew text on verso in a different hand, but seems too faded to read.
Three fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably from Mivḥar b. Yefet to the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The scribe is identified based on handwriting …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. Skilled hand, unclear if mercantile or official. Includes the phrase "لا …
Letter from Eli ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Abu al-Surur Farah, Fustat, ca. 1060.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …
Letter of a son, Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov, to his father, Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq, containing 20 lines of polite phrases in Hebrew, another 6 in Arabic, …
Letter mentioning a certain Yosef and commodities such as sugar. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Letter in Arabic script. Recurrent phrases like "allāh allāh" and "surʿa" and "mā taḥtāj waṣiyya"—all standard phrases urging prompt action in accordance with the sender's …
Letter sent from Fustat by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan to Sitt Rayhan, expressing concern about her health (r3–11, v20, address), dealing with a house of …
על פי קוצר השעה כתבתי אלו הטורים
לאחי הנכבד מרנו ורבנו ברכות
החכם והנבון הרופא סגולת הנשיאות
לרוב תאותי …
Your admirer Solomon son of R. Elijah the judge, (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd).
As time is short I am writing these lines
to my honorab…
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen the descendant of Yehosef ha-Kohen Bet Din. Mentions a suftaja; 30 dinars; possibly …
Letter from Shemuel b. Ḥofni to Shemarya b. Maṣliaḥ, probably the father of Efrayim b. Shemarya, the leader of the Palestinian Jewish community in Fustat …
IB II, 65. Letter from an unknown sender in Aden to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Hibat Allah (?) in Lawāmanda (?), possibly an island off the …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Phrases from the letter: ויגיתהא . . . אפעאלהא אלי . . . אלשריפה . . . תשועת עולמים …
Small fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably from a letter written on behalf of a poor man (hādha …
Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The letters are 3mm high, the space between the lines is 3.5cm, and the lines are upslanting …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat, ca. 1060
Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)