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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter in the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, likely sent to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1216/17 CE (1528 Seleucid). …
Letter from the wife of Baṣīr (or rather Nuṣayr) the bell-maker (al-jalājilī) to the Nagid David II Maimonides, asking him to help return her husband, …
In your name, You Merciful.
To the high Seat of our Lord the Nagid, may his splendor be exalted and his honor great.
The maidservant
th…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from a woman to her brother in Fustat expressing her loneliness. She gives advice regarding the recipient's relationship with their other brother. "You know …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Referring either to the addressee's intimate relations with the Tustari brothers in Fustat or that he now equals them …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis), in Fustat. Manṣūr asks Eliyyahu to help find his son, …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
IB VI,24. Letter from Makhlūf b. Musa, Alexandria, to Abu Yiṣḥaq Avraham b. Yahya Fasi, Fustat. The main part of the letter is an apology …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from the sister of Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Tripoli, Libya, to her brother Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. In the handwriting of ʿAllūsh the …
אטאל אללה יאכי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ומן תופיקה לא
אכלאך כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי נצ אלול ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק
אלי…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, probably in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the …
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: 31 March 1059 CE (ʿerev Pesaḥ), according to Gil. Deals with various business …
2 نسخين
Letter from Avraham Ibn Miṣbāḥ, in Alexandria to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Written in the hand of Avraham ha-Melammed b. Yefet. "I arrived in …
2 مناقشتان
Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov, Jerusalem, to his wife's brother Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: June 1053 CE. The letter is mainly about arrangements for …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Petition to David b. Daniel from a destitute woman with no family and afflicted with a serious illness (leprosy, it seems). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Avraham b. Seʿadya the Hebronite, in Bilbays, to Moshe ha-Kohen b. Ghulayb, in Fustat. Dating: beginning of the twelfth century. Recto 1-15: Flowery …
Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare …
עבדהא יחיי אלאסכנדראני
בן עמאר
Your slave Yaḥyā the Alexandrian
b. ʿAmmār
In (your) name O M[e]rc(iful)
“Happy is he who is thoughtful of the wretched; in bad times…
Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's wife, in Fustat, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel, probably in Bahnasa (based on T-S 13J21.18). In the …
In your name, O merciful one
If I were to begin to elaborate for you, my brother, my lord and favored one, and he who [...] those longings …
Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Jerusalem, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Abū Zikrī reports that his masters, the princes al-Malik …
India Book (IB) II, 11a: Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138) to Avraham b. Bundār. Location: Fustat. Dating: Early 12th century. Ornate thank you …
Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin ("the Glory of the Cantors and their strength"), in Fustat. …
Letter from a certain Yosef, in Alexandria, to his brother, an India trader. Mentions Aden (verso, right margin, l. 15) and people including Avraham al-Miṣrī, …
Letter from Abū l-Faraj and his son Abū l-Majd in Bilbays to Eliyyahu the Judge (who is the cousin, ibn khāl, of Abū l-Faraj). They …
מן ענד ממלוכה אבו אלמגד וואלדה אבו אלפרג
Letter from a husband, probably a merchant belonging to the elite, to his wife of a second marriage. In Judaeo-Arabic. He expresses his yearning and …
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (Alexandria) to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge (Fustat), explaining a recent incident involving two cloaks worth 109 dirhams and a brush …
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب
ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت
وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب
المذكور …
Nāṣir ibn Jibrīl came to Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the Jewish physician,
together with his natural daughter called Sutayt,
in whose left ey…
Letter from a sick man to a physician. In Arabic script. The verso is written at 90 degrees to the recto, which is unusual, but …
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
At most times it is d…
Letter from a blind man in Salonica to his son Ismāʿīl in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment in a scholarly hand. The first page …
Letter of Abū l-Maḥāsin b. ʿAlī the trader, introduced by citations from Proverbs 3:4, Psalms 37:11 and 119:165. Mentions consingments of medical commodities such as …
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the dated …
Letter probably from Yedutun ha-Levi, in Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb. (Identification is tentative, based on handwriting and typical phrases …
Letter from a woman named Archondou, in Alexandria, to her son Fuḍayl, in Fustat. Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants …
[ ]ומו'ת'[ ]ת' [ ] ובות' משוכן
ער'בות אל'[ ]י יחידי' ידידי מ'
פודאיל' מ[ ] א'מ'ך' ארכודו ומבעלי'
מ' אליה קבל ר…
[Blessings etc. ?] from Him who dwells
in the heavenly expanse. To [my son?] my beloved only son Mar
Fudhail, from me, your mother Arc…
India Book (IB) II, 6: Letter from ʿAmram b. Yosef to Netanʾel b. Yefet regarding goods sent by Ḥasan b. Bundār. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 …
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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 Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Barakāt, the uncle of Sitt Ghazāl. He writes of the terrible sickness that has not relented ever since …
You, O Lord, do not withhold Your mercy from me [...]
The insignificant servant Sh-L-M[...]
by which I make known to the master, the nobl…
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Thiqat al-Mulk. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevorakh describes his financial difficulties and asks for help obtaining wheat. He complains that al-Shaykh …
Letter of a woman, who was seriously ill, requesting her sister to provide her younger daughter with a proper education. Concerning the illness: "This is …
Letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, ca. 1050. Mentions the sale of a house that may have …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וצאנך ווקאך ומן תופיקה
[לא אכלאך ] יום אלא מסתהל מרחשון ערפך אללה ברכתה
[ כת]בת עדה כתב …
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, in Alexandria, to his mother and father, in Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The address bears the name of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
כתאבי יאואלדתי אלעזיזה עלי אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם סלאמתהא וסעאדתהא
מן אלסכנדריה סלך איאר ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק א…
Letter fragment in the hand of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi Nisaburi about his cost in an affair concerning Abu Sa‘id Makhlūf al-Nafusi. (Information from Goitein's index cards; …