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Damaged fragment, probably of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The content is unclear. Mentions the prayers of Yom Kippur and the 9th of Av. Phrases: אליהודי …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter(s) in Arabic script. Recto appears to be a letter of recommendation on behalf of Faḍāʾīl; the addressee is asked to look after him. Greetings …
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1045-1096. Contains details regarding flax shipments that were arranged in partnership with Nahray. The …
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. "Forgive me. . . . R. Eliyya. . . . Maʿariv. . . . …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, ca. 15th–17th century. On verso some Arabic and Hebrew as well.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to the judge Yiṣḥaq Aripol, in Fustat/Cairo. The writer's name and signature appear, but are very faded. Written …
Fragment (narrow sliver containing the beginnings of the lines) of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭā'if
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl (possibly al-Makhmūrī). Mentions Avraham b. Nuṣayr; Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī; Abū Isḥāq; Abū ʿImrān al-Segullat and Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī. …
1 مناقشة
Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Qābila ("Son of …
Letter from Yosef b. Farah, Fustat, to his brother Farah b. Ismail in Busir, December 1055 (Gil), or to his nephew Ibn al-Surur Farah b. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, complete. Dated in the month of Tammuz in the final lines of the verso, but without a year. The letter was …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand and spellings. Written on parchment. Contains praises for somebody's piety.
Letter from a certain Nissim to Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. mentioning the recipient's deliverance from some disaster.
1 نسخ
Letter of request sent by the head of the yeshiva in Damascus, which was burdened with debts, to a notable in Fustat, who had pledged …
Two fragments from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic accounts on the back (recto). Join: Alan Elbaum.
A letter contains mostly discussion on the calendar from Ishaq b. Shlomo
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. From a woman. Mentions expenses; "crazy" people (min nisāʾ wa-rijāl majānīn); the treasury (? bayt māl); being prostrated (inṭaraḥt) and "cut-off …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in an unusual hand; Goitein calls it "papyri script," probably referring to the early documents edited by Blau and Hopkins in …
Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: אעלם . . . . חבס אלקאצי פי חאגה . . . רחמתה . . . לם …
Letter fragment, seems to be in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Letter from חזהו(?) b. Avṭalyon, in Amadiya, to Yona, in Mosul. Mainly in Hebrew with some words in another language (neo-Aramaic?). There are also a …
Recto: Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic, reassuring the recipient that everyone is well and that conditions in the region are the same as they have been. …
Letter from Salmān b. Dawud al-Barqi, probably from Tripoli, Libya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions beads and ships, but most of the letter is …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Abu al-Hayy b. Barhun Khalila, in al-Mahdiyya, to Barhun b. Musa Tāhartī, reporting several losses of ships and merchandise. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא
ואגתת אעדאך מן אלמהדיה יום אלכמיס לי בקין מן מרחש…
Recto: End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to a gathering that took place at the home of "Sayyidnā" on Shabbat, where the addressee's name …
Letter from Barhun b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī seemingly from Ascalon apparently to his father in Fustat. The writer mentions that he searched for messages from the …
[ ] כארגין אלי אלקדס אלמ[בארך
ונגד עדה כתב מן קבלך פסאלת גמיע אלכתביין פלם [
אלי מא אשגלך יום כרוגנא מן מצר אלדי מרנא…
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 …
Letter from Yosef b. Shemarya ha-Dayyan al-Barqī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Yosef was worried because he had not received a response from Nahray, …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה וכפאיתה ורעאיתה וכאן לה וליא ונאצרא וזאדה
מן כל כיר ופוץ אליה מן כל נעים וכפא…
Small fragment from the end of a letter. Greetings to Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāʾigh (the goldsmith) and others.
Letter from a poor man to a patron, probably a request for charity. In Arabic script. The bottom few lines are faded and damaged. Needs …
Fragment from the end of a family letter (at least in part) in Judaeo-Arabic. Neḥemya greets the paternal uncle Elʿazar and Efrayim. Also mentions various …
Letter to Aharon Rofe in Damascus. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The writer may be writing from Ṣanʿā (penultimate line of recto) where he has traveled …
Detailed commercial account connected to the flax trade network of Yosef ibn ʿAwkal. Dated: Shaʿbān 429H (May–June 1038). Ibn ʿAwkal has distributed bales of flax …
וארבע מאיה עלי יז עדלא סקט פקד קבץ מני גמיע מא
כאן עלי דלך מן אלחמולה וכדלך אלמכזנין אלדי בידה וזנת
לה ענהא אגרה מא תקדם מן אלסכנה אלי נצ…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a certain Yiṣḥaq, who is asked to convey the note (ruqʿa) to the judge, "for the shaykh has killed …
Very damaged and faded letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon f. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is better preserved than …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hagay, Fustat.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Būṣīr and Alexandria. Dating: likely 11th century. Four full lines are preserved on both sides. Mentions goods such as lāsīn …
Letter from Umm Khalaf, in Sunbāṭ, to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat. About small debts owed to her by her cousin. She has not …
בשמ' רחמ
כתאבי [אלי] אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלדשיך אלגליל ואדאם
עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ועאפיתה
ען שוק אליה שדיד גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר…
Letter from a merchant from Sunbat demonstrating his dedication to the community by relating how he had once traveled at a time of cold and …
Possibly a brief letter with its response on verso, both in a high/poetic register of Hebrew.
Letter of condolence/grief upon the death of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1195 CE (the precise date of death is not known). In …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sivan [55]75 AM, which is 1815 CE. There are various designs with circles on verso below a long passage by the …