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Possibly a letter (FGP). Late fragment filled with Hebrew text on both sides, most of which consists of praises for somebody. Sherira Gaon is mentioned.
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A pair of business letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely 15th–18th century. Recto, with the address on verso: letter to Binyamin b. Qalyūsa (?) al-Ghazzāwī …
Fragment from a top of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'the diadem (nezer) of the [...].' Reporting that the order of the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender beseeches the addressee to send him the remaining 35 dirhams he is owed from the sale of an animal. He …
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Letter fragment (upper left corner). From Peraḥya b. Yosef al-A[...]. Only the Hebrew opening with biblical verses and poetical blessings is preserved. There are also …
IB I, 33. Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) containing a commercial account and a record of court proceedings. On …
... dirham
Purchased with this:
lac sent in four pieces {alt. tr.: units}, price: 1,000 dirhems;
a small bale of spikenard: 300 di…
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Letter from Shelomo (Abu l-Barakat) in Alexandria to to his brother, the physician Abu Zikri son of Abu l-Faraj (Eliyyahu the Judge), in Fustat. Only …
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Letter. It looks like this piece of paper had another piece glued to it on top. In any case, what remains is a lower part …
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps intended to be sent from Fustat/Cairo to Jerusalem. Dating: Unknown, catalogued as 18th century. The writer reports on the money …
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded. The address (on verso) includes the word al-Iskandarānī. Needs examination.
Letter of appeal for charity or assistance. Excerpts: ופקה אללה תעאלי ומן . . . . אלמופק רזקה . . . אנא פיה מן אל …
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda (aka Mūsā b. Yahūda al-Turjumān), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Only the very beginning …
Letter or letter draft. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Quite deferential. The sender refers to a ship and something he …
Draft or unfinished letter. (Information from CUDL)
Copy of an epistle from Saʿadya Gaon to the Jews of Fustat, on the occasion of his assumption of the Gaʾonate in 928. This copy …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (upper right corner). Addressed to someone titled Raʾs al-Kull (=Rosh Kalla). Mentions a woman who was connected to a certain kind …
Letter or legal document. Very faded. In Arabic script, moderately wide space between the lines. Roughly 10 lines are preserved. The word "al-mablagh" appears multiple …
Inquiry whether a meeting should be held in the Palestinian Synagogue (kanīsat al-shāmiyyīn) concerning "the affair of ʿAmram ha-Talmid Ibn al-Duājī". Dating: looks ca. 13th …
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Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Letter, copy, to Yehuda ha-Nasi (possibly the exilarch Yehuda b. David b. Yehuda), consisting solely of extensive praises. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter from Moshe b. ʿOvadya, in Aleppo, to a Nagid, in Cairo, who receives 20 lines of eloquent Hebrew praises but does not appear to …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. Seems to have been abandoned halfway through. There are a few words in Hebrew …
ازكى السلام التام والتحيات والاكرام تهدي(؟) ذاكر(؟) ويخص(؟) الى
حضرة الجناب المكرم السيد محمود عابدين اعزه الله
ودام بقاه امين
اما بعد نعرفكم…
Appeal to the Karaite Jewish community for the establishment of a special prayer for keeping away the spirit of the war from Egypt as requested …
Small fragment from the top of a late letter to Yosef Ya'betz יוסף יעבץ dated 17 of Nissan (no year preserved). In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The addressee is greeted as ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-raʾīs al-jalīl. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥusayn told …
Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides—[the son] of our Lord and Rabbi Moshe the Great Rabbi (ZL). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is written on a reused …
Letter from someone calling himself Raʾs al-Kull (a title of the yeshiva, in the address) to somebody in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in …
Complaint related to inheritance – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 145) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq …
Letter (possibly) from Moshe b. Yehuda, addressed to a certain Saʿīd. Dated: 23rd of the ʿOmer מטר, i.e., 5249 AM (probably), which is 1489 CE. …
Recto: fragment of a spaciously written Arabic document, and address of the letter on verso addressed to Abū l-Ḥusayn Nissīm b. Ṣedaqa. Verso: letter, mentioning …
Letter fragment addressed to a son. In Arabic script. Only formulaic content is preserved on recto. Reused for Hebrew literary text on verso.
Small fragment of a letter. The phrase كشف خبره appears - referring to investigating someone's news.
Recto: the endings of several lines from an Arabic letter. Verso: fragmentary Judaeo-Arabic phrases that seem very Islamic: "al-mujahidin... wa-li-Ṣafiyya ukhtuhu... rasul allah wa-ashhadu... shahdan …
Seems like a letter of appeal for assistance. The writer mentions that he was almost died in jail. He probably have a debt for some …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender waited all afternoon in the synagogue for the addressee; he assumed that the latter had gone up to Cairo. He …
Letter from Meir Messina to his employer or business partner in Gaza. Written in Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century or beginning of …
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh (l. 2). The sender reports that "these lands" are just as he heard in terms of …
Letter/petition to a certain Net[an'el]. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains; mentions household items (ḥawā'ij al-bayt) and the writer's shame.
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, mentioning a realease valid in both Muslim and Jewish courts. A third person is asked …
Letter fragment addressed to a Rayyis. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ashmūn. The scribe is named Ibn al-Miṣrī: הבאה בירושלים . . . ומולאי אלרייס אל . …
Letter to Abū ʿAlī al-[..]n b. Sahl. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dealing with business matters, probably. Mentions the Fayyūm (line 1 of verso).
Short note in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (active late 12th and early 13th century). Reporting that he has sent 7.5 of a certain item …
Bottom part of a letter written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. AA
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format (like a literary text). Mentions the government and dignitaries; Yehuda; the writer's mother and late father; coming …
Letter from Hilāl b. Yosef to ʿArūs b. Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to …
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Verso: Letter of condolence. In Arabic script, written in an elegant hand (and with diacritics). Upon the death of the addressee's brother Abū l-Ḥasan. Bewails …
Probably a petition addressed to al-Mansur ʿImād al-Dīn and various sums; several Hebrew and Aramaic words are written between the Arabic text, including jottings - …
Probably the beginning of a letter to a certain Shemuʾel. Dating: late, no earlier than 14th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from the opening of a letter to 'our master and teacher the Ḥaver.' Quotes Bereshit Rabba: דוד מלך ישראל מת אין מחללין עליו את …