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Letter mentioning Abū l-Barakāt. Only the closing greetings are preserved. Possibly sent to Cairo (if עיר ה]מלוכה on verso is part of the address). (Information …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: business letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī and Abū l-Manṣūr. Verso: letter in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand. (Information …
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Letter. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era; repeatedly refers to the "shāwish" (=çavuş). Dated to the month of Dhū al-Ḥijja, probably 10th of the month, but …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, probably to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī in Būsīr, ca. 1053. Nahray sends details of various sales in Fustat …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter sent from Damascus to ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh al-Firnās al-Hārūnī (aka the parnas ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen), in Fustat. Reporting among many other matters that …
Small fragment from an unidentified narrative text, mentioning Syria and "she said to him... get away from me...." (Information in part from CUDL)
IB IV, 3 (ח13). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel (here called Abū Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh al-Dimyāṭī), which opens / …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter of congratulations on a marriage. The upper part is a Hebrew poem, and the lower part is a note in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information in part …
Fragment from the top of a letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. The reports his happiness when he learned of the health of various people (al-mawālī …
Recto with address on verso (secondary use): Letter probably in the hand of of Abū Zikrī b. Eliyyahu. Opens with expressions of longing. Then conveys …
Recto: Brief letter to Abū Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning small sums of money and transactions in materia medica. Verso: A few lines in Arabic script, …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment …
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
Letter/petition/recommendation to a Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks him to help the bearer, Ibrāhīm b. Abū Dāwūd al-Ashqar al-Bilbaysī, who betrothed (amlaka) a woman …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (narrow vertical strip). Mentions the name Khalaf b. [...] on verso.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Abu al-Faraj Daniel b. Allan ha-Kohen in Alexandria, discussing the problem of the ransom of captives and …
[כתאבי] יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך]
[ונעמ]תך מן מצר לי'ב' כלון מן אב ערפך אללה ואי/א/נא ברכתה [ ]
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3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter of appeal for charity, from Jerusalem, complaining about the heavy taxation. Large and beautifully written; there are probably several joins to …
Copy of Maimonides' letter to Yosef b. Yehuda which comprises the introduction to the Guide for the Perplexed. In the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel …
The beginning of a letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), for a man named Eliyyahu "who has no …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged & faded. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender is writing from Damsīs. Mentions trade in indigo and business in the …
Letter from Yehosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din b. Shelomo Gaon. In Hebrew. Dated: Shevat 1359 Seleucid, which is Jan/Feb 1048 CE. May be a fragment …
1 نسخ
Part of a letter in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL) Reused on recto for piyyuṭ in Hebrew in the hand of a familiar scribe (see …
List in Hebrew. Perhaps items pertaining to a shop or a house. On verso there is a date in Arabic script: 4 Dhū l-Qaʿda 505 …
Fragmentary letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to a certain Avraham, concerning the affairs of a man, his wife, and a young boy, and …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yeḥiel. Dated: Friday, 23 Ḥeshvan 5310 AM, which is 1549 CE. In Hebrew, with phrases in Yiddish and many words in …
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic; mostly formulaic. Wide line spacing. Dating: likely 11th century. The hand may be known. Ends with the relatively unusual …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a father to a son. The father's name includes Faraḥ in it. Only a few formulaic phrases …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Late. Refers to the Nagid. Mentions Avraham and kohl. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
1 مناقشة
Letter from Shemuel b. Hofni, June 977 (Tammuz [1]288 Seleucid).
2 نسخين
Strip from the right part of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) dealing with …
Letter from [...] b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning various business matters and mentioning Damietta. The writer's name appears to be …
Two fragments of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Quite faded. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged. The sender asks the addressee to purchase some purslane seed (bizr rijla). Might join with ENA NS 85.1339 …
Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʾir to the Nagid (Moshe b. Mevorakh, based on T-S 24.55 (PGPID 1806)). Fragment. Mentions conflict over the …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from a certain Yisrael, in Jerusalem, to Avraham Castro (d. 1560), in Cairo. In Hebrew. Asking for charity and for his family of 8 …
Personal letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The sender's name may appear at lower left (al-mam[lūk] [...]). Discusses sending various things and conveys blessings for …
Beginning of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (or at least one of the later Maimonidean Nagids) directing the beadle Sulaymān to summon …
Fragment of letter granting the privilege of slaughtering birds, written in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (or rather Efrayim b. Shemarya?). (Information …
Verso: Draft of a letter (or letters) in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli that mentions Shelomo ha-Kohen Segan ha-Kohanim. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean …
Petition/letter of appeal for help. Mostly preserved, but damaged. Needs examination.
Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Head of the Jews (entitled Gaon) concerning the difficulties she is having with her …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Verso (earlier side): Letter from Yaḥyā to a qāḍī. In Arabic script. Opens "aṣghar al-mamālīk [...] Yaḥyā yujaddidu khidmata sayyidinā l-qāḍī al-ajall al-awḥad al-qāʾim al-mutafakkir(?)...." …
Letter from Zikri b. Hananel, from Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yosef, Fustat. Around 1080. The writer is about to travel to Mahdiya and Spain. He …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with an elaborate introduction and quotations such as Isaiah 40:31 and Psalms 103:17. Dating: Likely 13th century. Handwriting of Berakhot …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Late, 17th-century or later based on the paleography. Line 11 mentions Jerusalem, possibly in the context of sending charitable funds. The …