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Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1045. The situation in Alexandria is very complicated. The writer mentions …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter sent from Alexandria in which a cheese-maker asks his son to send him the receipt for his capitation tax and writes that he hopes …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter to Mar Shabbetai Ravilon from his brother, Mar Yaqub, dealing with the trade of hides, including a shipment to Crete (l. 9) and business …
Two fragments of a very faded family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century or later. The hand is reminiscent of that of Maimonides but …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This small piece that survives includes a recommendation for the bearer (". . .the need, urgently urgently urgently. . .") and …
IB IV, 12 (ח25). Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: October 20, 1137 CE (Heshvan 3, 1449 Seleucid). Long …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Upper part of a letter to a dignitary ('al-sayyid al-fāḍil'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably originally a long rotulus. Resembles T-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + …
Letter from a brother (probably) to a sister. in Judaeo-Arabic. Meditating on suffering and isolation and distance and "the fear due to this matter is …
1 نسخ
Left side fragment: Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Elyaqim, in Jerusalem, to the judge Shemuel b. Sīd, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Early 17th …
Copy of a letter by Sherira Gaon and Hayye Gaon in the hand of a professional scribe. Originally written in ca. 1005. Sent to Fustat …
3 نسخ
Letter fragment.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Difficult handwriting, with downsloping lines. Mentions various numbers and sums of money. Reused for jotted accounts on …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti to Yosef b. Awkal and his sons Hillel and Binyamin (written 8.21.1008, received 11.1.1008), upper fragment only.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Business letter, perhaps a draft or a copy from a letterbook. Dated: 12 Tammuz 5559 AM, which is 15 July 1799 CE. Dealing mainly with …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely in the same hand as T-S 13J7.24. Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars …
Mercantile letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū Yiṣḥaq; the group of the qāḍī [...]; and Nahray. (There are three …
Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or ninteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions: "...from aṣḥābnā.... wheat... the muqṭaʿīn(?)... to Fustat...." On verso an inshāllah and, at 180 degrees, possibly …
Letter from Hassun b. Yiṣḥaq in Alexandria to Yahya b. Ismail in Fustat. The sender inquires about a shipment of tin sent to the addressee. …
Letter from a man to his 'brother'. In Judaeo-Arabic, rudimentary script and spelling. He informs him that he has "fallen" into the ḍamān (tax concession) …
בשמך רחמנא
כתאבי אליך //יאכי// וסיד[י] אטל אללה בקאך ואדם עזך
ען חאל סלאמה ו[עא]פיה ושוק אליך שדיד גמע
אללה ביננא עלא אסר חאל במנה וכרמה
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A long letter from the communities of Poland and Lithuania to Shlumiel b. Shmuel.
Letter written on behalf of a woman who complains that someone pawned an amount of one dinar. She asks her addressee to take from him …
1 مناقشة
Recto: Brief letter to a cantor concerning 4 dinars for the purchase of a Torah codex (muṣḥaf): אלחזן שצ יעלם אן לא . . . …
Petition from Yefet ha-Melammed the schoolmaster to Avraham Maimonides; the latter's answer is on verso, lines 18–26. Yefet writes that he is ill and losing …
Informal note from ʿAbd al-Karīm to R. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps Mamluk-era; Yemeni hand? The sender asks the addressee to urgently send his grandmother …
לא תכליהא תקעד וכתבה
עבד אלכרים
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyūb, addressed to his father, the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi) in Fustat. Moshe reports on the receipt of various …
Letter fragment (middle part) in which the writer describes how he was insulted in the synagogue by the scholar, Sheikh al-Najib, but expresses no resent …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Ibn Maymūn is mentioned in the first line. The sender thanks the addressee and conveys sympathy. Deals with business transactions; Abū l-Ḥajjāj; …
A letter to Yoashiyahu b. Yehuda
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th–14th century. Maybe a recommendation for the bearer. Mentions 250 dirh[ams]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter to Efrayim (b. Shemarya?) al-Ḥaver, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. Distinctive scribal hand. (Information in part from …
Small fragment of a letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Letter to the community of Jerusalem from Elhanan b. Shemarya, 1013 CE.
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār b. Madīnī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, ca. 1062. The sender explains why a load of a medicinal herb …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אט]אל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמאך
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תקדמת [ ]שכה מא בעתה ל[ ] אן אלי אל[ ]
חסן אלעאקבה [ ] רטילאת חכי…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter addressed to a dignitary, perhaps to Avraham Maimonides ("Avraham ha-Nagid ha-Gadol" seems faintly visible, line 4, and his son is named David, line 9). …
Letter concering the apperance of a prophet, and inauguration of the messianic age in 1226 with the appearance of Elijah, of the messiah in 1233, …
IB II, 35. Letter of apology for a complaint that Madmun had mismanaged a trust. Aden, ca. 1135. Verso is IB III, 59, containing a …
Verso may be a fragment of a letter in Arabic, possibly containing a word in Hebrew in the midst of the Arabic unless this is …
Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning al-Maḥalla; the workers of the Ḥusayniyya (? עמאל אלחסיניה); purchasing things and bringing them to Fustat; and dinars and qirrāṭ. …
Fragmentary letter to a friend mentioning repeatedly the writer's gratitude. The hand resembles that of the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, supported by his mention of his …
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu (muqaddam of Bilbays, active 1170s–1219). In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a complaint about illness. The purpose of writing seems …
Letter from Moshe Ḥakīm and "Senyora," in Fustat/Cairo, to Ḥayyim Rosano, in Manṣūra. In Judaeo-Arabic, elegant hand. Dating: Probably late 18th or early 19th century. …