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Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Seems to refer to a shipwreck (cf. …
Recommendation letter for an Iraqi merchant who lost everything in a shipwreck. He is advised to write to Abū l-Bishr and his cousin. (Information from …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yosef b. Shemuel al-Dani in Palermo to Isma’il b. Avraham in Damsis. The first part of the letter deals with the tragedy that …
My elder and master, may God prolong your life and make your welfare and happiness permanent. May he augment his bounty and spiritual gifts gra…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
India Book (IB), II, 70. Fustat, 1146. The draft of a letter from the rabbinical court of Fustat to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan regarding the estate …
אנו בית דין חתומי מטה נועדנו במושב אדננו נגיד אל־ים בתוכנו נגידנו שמואל הנגיד,
יכון שמו לנצח, להשתדל ולשקוד על עסק עזבון מר' ורב' חלפון בר שמריה…
We, members of the court, assembled in the presence of our lord, the prince of God in our midst, our Nagid, Samuel the Nagid—
may his name be est…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
India Book III, 15: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yijū in Jurbattan (Srikandapuram), dated Elul 1458 Sel. (August 1147). Written …
In Your name, O Merciful.
You will walk, without breaking stride; when you run, you will not stumble.
And Shaddai be your treasure, and p…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the …
[...]ב אמארה כל
[...]לה וגרם אלף וכמס מאיה
דרהם ומן גהה אלעבד מבארך פשעיה פי אסכנדריא
ואכדה אלמחתסב בלאש מא סלם פיה שי וגרם…
1 نسخ
India Book III,10: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Dahbattan on the Malabar coast. Goitein dated the letter to …
The letter of your excellency the illustrious Sheikh, has arrived—[may God prolong your life/]
and make perman…
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Offers details of ill-fated ships that were destroyed in a storm or met with …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
מן אלאסכנדריה לנצף מן תמוז כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך בא…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
India Book (IB), II, 71. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid …
[lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]
Your distinguished letter, my lord, arriv…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Detailed letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Naysābūrī, Alexandria, to Abū l-ʿAlā Sā'id (i.e. ʿŪllā) b. Yosef ha-Levi the Trustee of the rabbinical court of Fustat …
[ ע]ל שמך רח
[ חצ]רה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
[ ] ונעמאה ותאידה ותמכינה
[ ] אלכתב אלואצלה מן חצרתה
[ ] כתאבנא מציבה עלי אל…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter apparently from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fusṭāṭ, to an unidentified addressee, apparently in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing news about Aden. Commodities include: pearl (luʾlūʾ), …
2 نسخين
Interesting, late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "the land of the Christians" to al-Muʿallim Yūsuf, the shammas of the synagogue, Cairo. The writer narrates in brief …
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy in Alexandria to Abu Yahya Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1057 (Gil). This is one of two …
אעלמך יאמולאי אן תקדם כתאבי אליך מע אלפיג תם כתבת כתאב אכר מן קבל אלמועד ולם ימצי אלפיג
ובקי מעי למא כאן אכתב רקעתי הדה דפעתה ללפיג וכאן על…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in Palermo, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt known as Ṭāriq, in Fustat. Abū Saʿīd reports that he had fled the unrest …