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Letter or petition. Fragmentary. In Arabic script. Heavily reused for writing exercises on recto and possibly also between the lines of the original document. From …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter (possibly) from Moshe b. Yehuda, addressed to a certain Saʿīd. Dated: 23rd of the ʿOmer מטר, i.e., 5249 AM (probably), which is 1489 CE. …
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Verso (original use): Letter fragment, with very little context. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The last line indicates the announcement of something, "in …
1 نسخ
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions Aḥmad b. [...] al-Khawlī(?) . . . . wa-l-nawwātiyya (something to do with the sailors?). This is then …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic 5565 AM (1804/05 CE) to Merkado Karo [of Karo y Frances & Company], from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez. Information from …
Letter(s) in Arabic script, probably mercantile. Dating: 11th or 12th century. It seems there is one letter on recto and another letter on verso (with …
Note addressed to the elder Abū l-Bishr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 12th or 13th century. Very deferential. Asking for a favor probably involving the …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with pepper, clove, and lac. Instructing the addressee to sell goods in Fustat. Possibly in the handwriting of Avraham …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew addressed to a scholar: פלפוליו בתלמוד סברים צהלו נא ורנו תל[מידיו?] קדמו פניו בתורה ושמרים רוציו אלי . …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto, part of the address on verso). Addressed to [...] b. al-Mubārak b. Dāʾūd, in Jerusalem. …
Letter addressed to Abu al-Faraj, son of Daniel the teacher, in the “habs Bunan” neighborhood. The writer describes that the wife of his son is …
Beginning of a note or letter, possibly a draft. (Information from CUDL)
Pledges for ransom of captives. A pledge-drive (pesiqa) for the man from Antioch for the ransom of his children. In four columns divided further into …
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2 نسخين
Fol. 1v: Letter in Arabic script, in a chancery-esque hand. Likely business-related. There are some deferential phrases (versions of the raʾy formula). Needs further examination.
Recto: fragments of letters in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The latter mentions Fuḍayl al-Naṣrānī, Ibn al-Jamal, sums of dinars, and ṣāḥib al-dār. The text in Arabic …
Letter from Maimonides to his brother (presumably David, who died at sea not long after the brothers' 1167 arrival in Egypt). Not in the handwriting …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Small and very damaged fragment, barely legible, probably from a letter
Recto: Hebrew letter, quoting Psalms 77:11, with the sender's name in the right margin. Dating: ca. 13th–15th century, based on hand and layout. Verso: Hebrew …
Bifolio containing a copy of a letter explaining various talmudic sources and referring to a collection of responsa(?) which the recipient had sent to אדוננו …
Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlī al-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and …
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking to be sent an explanation of a Talmudic passage (אֶלָּא אָמַר רָבָא כִּי הֲוֵינַן בֵּי רַב נַחְמָן הֲוָה מְטַלְטְלִינַן כָּנוּנָא, …
Letter from Moshe b. Binyamin Ashkenazi, probably in Fustat/Cairo, to Avraham Castro, probably in Alexandria or Jerusalem. Dating: 16th century. The sender describes how "from …
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 …
IB III, 55. Letter from Perahya Yiju to his brother Shemuel. Written probably in al-Mahalla around the seventies or eighties of the twelfth century. Perhaya …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). There is also an incomplete address to their other brother Abū …
Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1822 CE (the 36th day of Matmonim = the counting of the Omer, Iyyar 5582) from Moshe ben Naʿim to …
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…
Small fragment from the margin of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the Rīf, Sambūṭya (=Sunbāṭ) and an old woman named Umm [...]. (Information in part …
Small fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe? Very little of the substance is preserved.
Letter by Perahya b. Yosef asking the addressee to go over his comments on a section of the Talmud with his Rav, and then to …
תוכלת עלי אללה
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עיך ותאיידך וסעאדתך ונעמך
[מן] אלמסתקר מסתהל שהר אלול ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנ…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
A letter to Moshe b. Yosef in Luzk from Mordechai b. Shemuel b. Yeshu'a in Helitz
Business letter, first half of the 16th century. The subject matter is a dispute between merchants who dealth in skins, pepper, and tin. An Avraham …
Perhaps three letters of recommendation for Yaʿaqov b. Yehuda. The first was written in Istanbul and signed by Nissim Yaʿaqov [...]. The second is difficult …
Letter in the hand of Moses Maimonides containing instructions for a local judge on how to retrieve the assets of a murdered merchant who left …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently describing a certain man's marital issue, but this is opaque. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Needs examination.
IB VII, 64. Enthusiastic letter by Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿyahu ha-Kohen, a leader of the Jews of Yemen, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, congratulating him on his …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to shipments of sums of money (including 70 dinars?), the arrival of a fatwā without a witness, …
Small fragment of an Arabic letter or official report mentioning mawlāy al-amir. The ends of ~3 lines are preserved. On verso there are jottings (possibly …