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Letter of business in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf and Tyre and the value of the Tyrian dinar. The address is on verso …
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Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively long vertical strip. Mentions a dyer (al-ṣabbāgh).
Letter from Natan b. Nahray to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. Among other matters, Natan mentions that he has given 1 dinar each to …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת
אעדאה מן אלמסתקר לז בקי מן אדר ראשון כתבה אללה עלינ[א ו]עליך באחסן
כאתמה …
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Verso: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter in a different hand, possibly the response to recto.
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Letter from ʿEli b. Hillel to his brother-in-law Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer opens with expressions of mourning for the …
Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Cairo, to Shelomo b. Yishai the Mosul Nasi, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1240 CE. The writer had sent …
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Family letter from Sālim to Bū Manṣūr b. Sukkarī (or Zikrī?) in Alexandria reporting that the Rūmī cheese had arrived and that the writer had …
Declaration of support for a Gaʾon, written by at least three different scribes, and containing the signatures and names of approximately a dozen communal notables …
Recto: late letter prefaced by בס''ד and concluding with an elaborate (and illegible) signature. It politely addresses a friend, Yaʿaqov al-Tilimsānī, (from Tlamcen, Algeria), asking …
Beginning of a letter addressed Saʿadya Peʾer ha-Soḥrim and the father of the addressee. Jottings on verso include Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام
تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها
وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated Adar 5568 AM (1808 CE).
Verso: Three fragments of a letter from from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he fulfilled the …
Recto: business letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī and Abū l-Manṣūr. Verso: letter in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand. (Information …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a wife; the writer's suffering; gold; regards to the addressee's wife and children; mentions Sitt Faḍāʾil.
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cut diagonally across the text to make a rectangle. Mentions a dinar and a sixth, the price …
IB V, 37, folio 5r. Letter fragment related to the India trade. Mentions the Kārim convoy, worrying news, and someone named Abū l-Saddād.
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Letter of request for help, probably sent to Abu al-Wahsh. The letter begins with words of praise.
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks for news of the silver. "And how are you doing after the …
Mercantile letter, complete, in Arabic script from Bundar b. Eliya al-ʿAṭṭār to Abū ʿAlī Ismaʿīl b Ḥananya al-Baṣrī (in Fusṭāṭ). Sent with ʿAlī b. Ṭalḥa …
وصل كتابك يا سيدي ومولاي وكبيري اطال الله بقاك وادلم عزك وتائيدك وسعادتك ونعمتك وعدتك
لاربع عشر ليلة خلت من ربيع ا…
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Fragment of a letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew, in a calligraphic, square book hand. The petitioner is unable to pay his (or her) …
Business letter (small fragment) in a mix of languages and scripts. Probably addressed to ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Urjuwānī, in Darb al-Ṣafīn in Fustat. Part of …
Letter from Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in Cairo, to his mother, in Damietta. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Adar I 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. He is …
Recto (secondary use): Informal note from Sitt Abū l-Ḥasan to Ṣadaqa, asking him to [...] for the old woman by coming up to Cairo tomorrow.
A letter sent to the head of the community R. Yehuda, in the second half of the 16th century. The writer is complaining about Yehuda …
Letter from an unknown sender, in Fustat, to his sororal nephew (ibn ukht) Mūsā, in Qalyūb. Dating: Unknown, but perhaps dateable on the basis of …
Letter(s) of appeal for charity. Likely drafts. In Arabic script. The one on recto is addressed to Abū Manṣūr and the one on verso is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. A relatively large piece is preserved. The sender and his children are apparently in distress. The addressee is asked to meet with …
Recto: Letter in which a teacher complains about an unruly pupil. "Whenever I beat him, I do so excessively; but as soon as I begin, …
What I have to inform my lord is that I have been defeated in educating this young man, Abū Manṣū…
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a return from somewhere; Purim; the capitation tax (al-jāliya); a severe illness (marḍa shadīda); entering Fustat; Sammanūd; "my hand and …
Opening few words of a letter and part of the address: to mawlāy al-ḥazzan (my master the cantor) al-[...] from ואדה ושאכרה (the one who …
Possibly a letter (needs examination)
Letter in which a Kohen, who is in financial difficulties and is the father of girls, asks the Nagid Mevorakh to allow him to beg …
Letter fragment (upper right corner). In Hebrew. Addressed to some dignitary: ha-Sar ha-Gadol Rabbenu [...]. The sender explains that he has come from a far-away …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains. The writer mentions the addressee's forgiving nature; his own good intentions; a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla). …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a very long vertical strip from the middle of the letter. It was partially cut up, and the beginning of …
Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim to an unidentified addressee mentioning accounts and the amount of linen that the addressee has to provide. …
] עלי אנה ב'ע'ה' אכד מנא סער פ'
לספאקץ [
טרי עליי בדלך
קבץ' [
Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Yiṣḥaq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from (or to?) Alexandria. Dating: Mentions the year "499" as a year recently past, …
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Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as a wrap (izār), two pairs of clogs (zawjayn qabāqīb), possibly henna, and soap. In …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov of Hebron to Shela the cantor, urgently inquiring about the fate of the body of his brother David, who had …
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…
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Probably a letter. (Information from CUDL.) Only a few words are preserved.
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. …
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Phrases from a letter addressed to a Jewish notable: מרדכ]י הזמן ראש מערכות ישראל . . . ירום הודו וירבה כבודו . . . ממשלתו …
Letter. Faded. Addressed to Abū l-Majd. It may be from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. …
Fragment from a letter, contains mostly blessings, including for the addressee to see Jerusalem. Only formulaic content is preserved.
IB I, 17. Letter from Yehuda Ibn Sighmar, at Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, at Fustat, from the year 1097. The letter contains three parts: …
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Letter from the judge R. Hanan'el b. Shemuel to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ibn Yijū in Alexandria. AA
עבדו חננאל
סיבת משלוח הטורים האלה לכבוד וכו' היא בראש ובראשונה ברכה על הנצר האציל שלו, התלמיד המפואר ר' יוסף, שמרו צורו. המקום ברוך הוא יזכה…
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Letter by Shelomo b. Meʾir Rosh ha-Seder, descendant of Meʾir Gaʾon, to Avraham Kahana b. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from CUDL)