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Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to somebody in Jerusalem. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as values are given in ashrafīs– which were first minted …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1055. Mentions silk from Sicily and Spain. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #278) VMR
בסם אללה אלעצים שרח ביע אלשש אלמבארך אלואצל פי סנה תמ[ ]
מן דלך עלי חיי כט רטל ⟦תנקץ טו דרה⟧ מקשר סער כ קיר אלרטל בלא געל
אלתמן כד דינ...
1 نسخ
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to "my son." Dating: ca. early 13th century (Goitein's estimate, apparently based on identifying "majlis sayyidinā wa-majlis …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Menashshe to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1063. Menashshe warns Nahray that Uqban (b. Salman) who passed away has a daughter, and this …
ואתצל בי יאמולאי ו[פ]את עקבאן רחמה אללה
ואנסא פי אגלה ואן זוגתה אכדת מוכרהא ובאקי
שייה יאכדה אבן עמה ועקבאן רחמה אללה לה
יורש פי אלמה...
Business letter sent from Alexandria by Avraham b. Farah to Yaaqov b. Avraham
Letter from Yusha` b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim.
תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה [ואדאם עזה וס]עאדתה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה עדה ואכ'רהא עלי יד[י וכנת מ]נתטר
לוצול כת...
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Nahray b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim ca. 1055
על שמך
כתאבי יאכי וסידי וגלילי אדאם אללה סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכפאיתך מסתהל אלול ערפך אללה ברכתה וא[ס]עד[ך]
בתופיקה אנה אלמאן בדלך ואלקאדר על...
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Business letter in Ladino. Join by Idan Perez.
Recto: Business letter. In Ladino. Currency: muayyadi/medin. Verso: Table filled in with numbers, presumably for lots.
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 וכ...
3 نسخ
Lower fragment: Piece of a letter to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1045–96.
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat).
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם
עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה מן אל[א]סכנדריה ליב בקין מן טבת כתמה
אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה...
Letter from Ibrahim b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila to Abu Sa'd Nissim b. Nahray. Ca.1100. Written after the death of Nahray, hence the estimated dating, concerning …
2 نسخين
Multifragment. Fragment 1: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably medieval. Only one line, very faded, is preserved. Fragment 2: Business letter, fragment. In Ladino.
Fragment of draft of a court document relating to the affairs of Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1045-1096.
Report or legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 1010 AH = Novembe/December 1601 CE. In the upper part mentions various people al-Ḥājj Muḥammad …
Calligraphic letter by Mubarak b. Hillel to Abu Sa`id ibn al-`Afsi al-`Attar, dealing with business matters.
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. Information about shipments of goods. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Letter from Allush ('Lamb') b. Makhlūf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Yaʿaqov. Dating: 1130s or 1140s. Business letter concerning payments involving and owed to various merchants, …
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Busir, to Abu al-Ifrah Avraham (Arus) b. Yosef, Fustat. August 5, 1084. The letter contains details about the …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה מן בוציר יום
אלאתנין מסתהל אלול ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגת[מאע]
בך ...
Letter from Yosef b. Simha, Alexandria, to the Taharti brothers (Isma'il and Salih b. Barhun), Fustat. The writer is aboard a ship in Alexandria and …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is very cursive and very hard to read (and seems familiar from other 11th- or 12th-century mercantile documents). Refers …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī al-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1057. Regarding sending goods in leather sacks. Musa returned from …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלמעולה גדול הישיבה
ואדאם תאידה וסעאדתה מן אלאסכנדריה ליד בקין מן תמוז
ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליה קרב...
Letter from Hillel b. Ḥasan, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1065. Hillel opens his letter lamenting the death of an important person who …
בש
קד עלם אללה גלת קדרתה מא עלי קלבי מן
תאכיר כתאבי ען מולאי אלחבר נט רח וכנת
מרגוע אלנפס כתיר מן כל סבב ומא עלמת
לה כבר וקלת אלאוק...
Letter from Ibrahīm b. Farrāḥ al-Iskandrānī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Ca. 1055, apparently the beginning of the summer. Ibrahīm mentions ships arriving from …
Letter sent by Nahray b. Nissim (according to Gil) or by Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tahirti (according to Ben-Sasson) to Barhun b. Musa al-Tahirti in Fustat, …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Musa al-Tahirti. Around 1045. The situation in Alexandria is very complicated. The writer mentions …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Letter concerning an order for a cloak (mulāʾa) which the writer had sent but the addressee had not confirmed receiving. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deferential tone …
Letter from Fadl b. Amrūṣ to Nahray b. Nissim. On verso a note by the reciever, in Arabic script, documenting the arrival of the letter …
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq (Tripoli al-Gharb) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), August 1051. Written a short time after the sinking of the ship of …
Business letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Despite its physical state, the letter contains much information on commercial activities in the …
Note from the clerk of Daniel b. Azarya to Nahray b. Nissim regarding a collection for an indigent correligionist, ca. 1045-1060.
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī (Fustat), ca. 1065. In the hand of the sender’s son, Mūsā b. Mardūk. …
[כתאבי יא]ולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ונעמאך
[ ]נה אליך יום אלגמעה לד בקין מן סיון כתמה אללה [עלינא ועליך]
[באחסן כ]אתמה ...
Letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi from Gabes (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’akob b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer traveled to Qabes after visiting Barqa, Tripoli …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter fragment Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Dealing mainly with business matters. Mentions a silk merchant (qazzāz) and a fuller or bleacher …
Fragment of a letter to Nahray b. Nissim mentioning Yusuf and Abu al-Ḥasan. The city of Tarablus (Tripoli) is referred to twice. EMS On verso …
Letter from Nissim b. Isḥāq b. al-Sahl, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf, in al-Maḥalla. Dating: 11th century. For the sender, see also …
Letter from Hārūn b. Bunyām to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. (Same sender and addressee as T-S AS 153.193.) Little of the content remains. …
Letter from Mevasser b. David from Busir, to Yaaqov b. Avraham b. Alan, Fustat. Around 1052. The writer makes merchandise in Busir to ship to …
Letter from Ishaq b. Yusuf al-Andalusi to Nahray b. Nissim. Dated 1050.
Letter from Farah b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl, in Fustat. Dating: October 1056 CE. The letter has another fragment (T-S …
Letter sent from Alexandria by Ibrahim b. Farah to Yehuda b. Musa b. Sighmar in Fustat, dealing with merchandise sent to Sicily, describing the itineraries …
Letter from Musa b. Abu al-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer mentions robbery by pirates on two ships carrying merchandise …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי] אט[אל אללה בק]אך ואדאם סלאמתך [ועאפית]ך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
[ ]יה לי בקין מן סיואן ען חאל סלאמה ו...
Letter (lower fragment) by Nahray b. Nissim containing instructions about merchandise and payments. Dated ca. 1055. (Information from Gil)
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Ayyash b. Sadaqa in Busir. Probably ca. 1050.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Akhlābū Kohen b. Aharon, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. In the handwriting of Ibrāhīm b. Faraḥ. Regarding one dinar …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי יאסירי ומו...
Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ to Abū l-Ṭayyib Sa'id reporting on transactions and asking for news of the addressee. Also asking for shipment of some …
עלקת אליך יאסידי אטאל אללה בקאך הדה אלרקעה אעלמך קד
אנפדת אליך מע חאמלהא עשרין כישה בראני כמא סאלת אשתרית
לך בדינ ואן טלבת זאיד או חאגה...
Letter from Barhun b. Salah al-Tahirti, from Mahdiyya to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. Barhun is in the Maghreb and makes business with the …
[יא סיידי] ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
[ ] מן אלמהדיה לי כלון מן אלול ערפך אללה
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