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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Concerning family and business matters. Mentions: 'my lord the qāḍī'; various instructions about transactions and …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Note from Abū l-Faraj to Abū ʿAlī, urgently summoning him to the sender's home, it seems for a medical appointment ("to show me your eye"). …
1 نسخ
Verso: Upper part of a letter in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū Zikrī. Mentions Ibrāhīm al-Khandaqī(?): . . . . حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل ابو …
Fragment of a letter, in Arabic script. Mentions Saturday and "Mawlāya al-Shaykh". Damaged and faded to glean any content. Phrases: من يوم السبت . . …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower piece of a long vertical letter). Mentions a qāḍī twice; the government; …
Letter fragment, signed by the sender Muṣtafa Shāhīn. In Arabic script. Dated: 3 Ramaḍān 1166 AH, which is 1753 CE. Needs examination for content.
Letter fragment (part of the left of recto, part of the left of verso) of an appeal. The legible text on recto is solely blessings …
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Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Safed, to Mordekhay Ibn ʿAjla, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Greets numerous …
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. …
This small fragment includes an excipit, a date, and a signature; the name of the signature is ‘Saadya son of Joseph’. Without much argument or …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a business letter; mentions goods (al-baḍā'iʿ) and something being sent to Alexandria (irsāluhu ilā thaghr al-Skandariyya). Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era.
Letter to Yehoshua Maimonides (1310–55) reminding him of somebody who was excommunicated when his father Avraham II Maimonides (1245–1313) was Nagid. The letter is rather …
Business letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from Jerusalem (min al-quds, l. 2). Extremely faded. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions [...] b. Benaya. On verso the …
Letter from an unknown man to his niece (bint al-akh). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. He opens, "How long will you remain a widow?" …
כתאבי אלי בנת אלאך אלעזיזה ופקהא אללה תע
ולא ווחש מן טלעתהא ולא מן אכותהא ויא
בנת אכי אלי כם תקעדי ארמלה פמא בקא
יחלקני(?) . . נא . …
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter reporting the arrival of a letter containing orders (from a court?), and the fulfillment of those orders.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting (distinctive qofs) dealing with various financial matters. Refers to someone staying in a certain state for 5 months; …
Fragment of a letter, possibly, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Six lines are preserved, with wide line spacing. Explaining that …
Letter in Arabic script. Very faded.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is complaining about legal rivals and losing money. Mentions "sayyidnā," "the elders," and Yosef b. Bū l-[...].
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. The sender owes capitation tax (jizya) payments for himself and for his son. …
Letter from Avraham Maimuni informing the Nasi that a certain document was not found among papers brought forth by a third party and that the …
List of quantities of materia medica, including simples such as senna, purslane seeds, apricot, almond oil, saffron oil, and Chinese cinnamon. Judging by the continuation …
Recto: beginning of a letter (or report), followed by a poem in Arabic script, mentioning Baghdad, which may be part of the letter. Verso: rhymed …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to 'the father' Abū Sahl. The writer reports that a sick man is in dangerous condition (al-marīḍ ʿalā khaṭar (or conceivably …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Shimʿon Frances, probably in Cairo (למצ[ר), from Nissim Masos(?) or Mshish(?). Mentions Shelomo Barūkh, Yaʿaqov Portas, and Eliyyahu Ben-Ṣahal. Requires …
Letter in Arabic.
Letter of recommendation written by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq, 'av bet dinsellekol yisra'el', for Yehoshuaʿ b. Eli and David b. Shemuel.
2 نسخين
12369.7 and 8 are drafts of several Judaeo-Arabic letters and documents by Yisrael al-Gevili (אלגוילי) writing in Cairo it seems circa 1755/6 CE (the lower …
Recto: Letter fragment addressed to a notable, in Hebrew. Verso: Remnant of an official letter or document in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Neatly written note to Nahray requesting that he address the community for Shemuel he-Ḥazzan ha-Mevin, since he needs help for his family and travel after …
Letter from Yisra'el b. Daniel, in one of the towns of the Rīf, to Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. …
כתאבי יסידי ומולאי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך סלך צפר ען סלאמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין וכאן קד וצל אלחאיך אלי הונה וסט אלעיד וגאתני
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The handwriting looks like that of Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy. Mentions al-khalīj; Ibn ʿAntar; sūsī; גוש (=al-Jīsh?); …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yehuda to the Rosh Kalla ʿEli b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Reused on verso for poetic praises in a different hand. (Information in …
IB VII, 39. Business letter. Introduction in Hebrew, body in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of the Yemeni merchants (v3). Also mentions R. Shemuel Ismāʿīl b. …
Letter from a certain Efrayim to a dignitary ([...] ha-Yeshiva). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sammanūd.
The physician Menahem writes to his colleague, the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, about happenings when he traveled to the village Ṭanān (in the Qalyubiyya district near …
Business letter in Arabic script from Yushāʿ (Yehoshuaʿ) b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat discussing commercial information that had come to Nahray via …
Mercantile letter from Nissim b. Ismāʿīl, unknown location, to an unknown addressee, in Jerusalem. Fragment (upper right corner of recto) In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address …
Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter with wide line spacing, with praises for the addressee and good wishes for Purim. Verso: Likely a distinct document, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to a woman regarding the education of the writer's son, who either lives with or is merely the pupil …