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Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Summer 1030. The writer arranges shipments from and to …
1 نسخ
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Yosef b. Yeshua from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer describes the situation in Alexandria before the shipping season …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1060. The letter deals with shipments of goods that arrived …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך לו כלון מן תמוז
ואלחאל סלאמה תקדמת כתבי אליך עדה קבל וצול כתאבך ובאלאמס ביד אל
פיג…
Business letter in which the sender writes that he is concerned after meeting in Qus a business relation to whom he was able to sell …
Letter from Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, in Qaṭyā, to David Medina, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: first half of the 16th century. Concerning trade in silk imported …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy from Alexandria to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Inferred dating: around 1055 (Gil). The writer is available to work …
Letter to Nahray b. Nissim in which the writer mentions a letter received from Nahray from his brother, and that Nahray had visited Caesarea. He …
וסעאדתה
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter concerning business affairs (cloth trade) in which the writer mentions people including al-Dimyāṭī, Thābit, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Mentions a sum of 50 dinars corresponding …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, to Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Būṣīr. Providing instructions about purchases to be made in …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his …
Short letter written and sent from Alexandria by Musa b. Abu al-Hayy to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, dealing with a shipment of robes and …
תדכרה למחבה מוסי בן אבי אלחי
תרכת ענד רבנו אחיאה
אללה וטא פיה [ ]ה
תיאבי ושדה חריר הי ענדי
ודיעה תפעל פיה מא יצל
בה כתאבי או…
Letter concerning business affairs in which the writer describes ships that are about to leave port and references ‘al-ṭārma,’ a small cabin on Nile boats, …
Letter by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī from Alexandria containing details about shipments of flax including. List of expenditures. (Information from M. Gil, Kingdom, Vol. III, …
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ואתם נעמתה עליך מן אלאסכנדריה נצף מן איר ען סלאמה ונעמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמ…
Business letter from Rahamim b. 'Imran in Tinnis to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dated ca. 1055.
כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ו[אדאם תאידה…וכאן לה וליא וחאפטא]
פי גמיע אמרה מן תניס ליב כליו מן [
נעלמך יאמולאי אן וצלת אלי תניס יום…
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 …
Fragment of a letter from Yusuf b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions dinars that should be exchanged, and that several …
סיידי ומולאי [אטאל א]ללה [בקאך] ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלאסכנדריה לט בקין מן תמוז ואל<חאל>
סלאמה ואלחמד ללה רב [אלעאלמין] ת…
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 …
Mercantile letter. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender's hand may be known. His relationship with the addressee is very strained. He complains of his bad …
Letter of business in which the writer requests the recipient purchase for him a measure of oil, two ‘futa’ (sari-like cloth), and two dinars of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic in which the sender (probably Masʿūd) asks his uncle to send a certain document. Refers to different business activities including trade in …
Verso (original use): Left half of an Arabic-script letter with wide line-spacing. Refers to the wages owed for transport of wheat. Reused for a letter …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Business letter from Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy in Alexandria to Abū l-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef in Fustat. The letter contains an accounting for a …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ו[ ]
לד בקין מן תמוז כתמה אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ען ח[אל סלאמה] ונעמה
ושוק אליה קרב אלל…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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 ונע…
Calligraphic letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq in Fustat to Yeshua b. Ismail asking whether Nahray b. Nissim had gone to the Egyptian country-side and sold …
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 Fustat by 'Ayyash b. Sadaqa to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, dealing with money matters and the selling of merchandise, and mentioning goods …
[כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי ומול]אי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך
[ברחמתה] מן אלמסתקר לט בקין מן אדר שני כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך…
Letter sent from Alexandria by Ismail b. Farah to a member of the Tāhartī Family in Fustat, containing details about goods and ships. Dated ca. …
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim and ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, Fustat. Mentions details about shipments of flax, several …
על שמ רח
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך יום אלגמעה [ערובת אל]
עיד ען סלאמה ללה אלחמד ומא תחב עלמה אנא אוסקנא …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Mercantile letter addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. ʿArūs had bought brazilwood and pepper for …
Letter sent by Nahray b. Nissim (according to Gil) or by Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī (according to Ben-Sasson) to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī in Fustat, …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter sent by ʿAṭā' b. Zikri from Alexandria to Mevorakh b. Israel Januni in Fustat, containing a legal question to Nahray b. Nissim about the …
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 David b. ʿAmmar al-Madinī. Around 1040. The addressee and place are missing. The writer expect deliveries from the addressee and suggests he would …
[ ]אה אלדי תריד עלמה סלמך אללה אן וצל כתאבך
יאמולאי ואנת תדכר פיה אן אשתרית גמיע חואיגנא
ולם יבק מנהם שי וקד אשכית אן מא כאן יקבצוהם
Letter from Avraham b. Farah, Alexandria, to Abu Ishaq Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Fustat, dealing with shipments of goods, ca. 1053 (Gil). Mentions the qarib …
Letter from Hillel to Yaʿaqov, delivered by Mansur b. Furayj, concerning the buying of silk and a turban. VMR
אלממלוך
Letter from Moshe b. Ya'qub, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. September 8, 1060 (per Gil). Several financial issues between Yisrael and Nahray. Also …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat ,
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Egypt, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Isma'il.
Letter probably sent from Malīj to Nahray b. Nissim.
Letter sent from Qayrawān by Yosef b. Labraṭ al-Fāsī to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. ʿAwkal in Fustat, inquiring about merchandise sent to the Maghrib and …
Letter sent from al-Ahwaz by Efrāyim b. Saʿīd to the three senior Tustarī brothers, Abū Naṣr Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef and Abū Sahl, in Fustat. …
בסם אללה אלרחמן אלרחים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא סאדאתי אלמשאיך אלפצלא ואדאם תאיידהם וסעאדתהם [ו]חראסתהְסְ
מן אלאהואז יום אלגמעה אלתאני עשר מן…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Jottings including quantities of dinars in Arabic with Coptic alphanumerals. Written on the verso of a letter from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya regarding trade, merchandise and …