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Letter from Yeshuʿa to two notables, one of whom is ha-Sar Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. The first 15 lines are formalities. In the bottom 8 lines …
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Late letter in Hebrew from Yosef b. Emmanuel Ergas in Livorno to Abram Segre. Dated 3 Adar 5489 AM which is 1729 CE. The address …
Verso: Letter fragment from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen to Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE.
IB II, 35. Letter of apology for a complaint that Madmun had mismanaged a trust. Aden, ca. 1135. Verso is IB III, 59, containing a …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (upper margin only on recto, address only on verso), from Ḥasan b. ʿAmram to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. …
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī to a relative (probably his sister’s son, his nephew). The writer protects and supports one of his brothers. Asks …
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Fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
A letter to Yosef b. Shmuel
Copy of a letter or responsum on the havdala (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Some phrases: "together with the Rayyis ʿAllūn(?)... if it arrives safely... together with Sayyid al-Ahl b. al-[...]." On verso there …
Possibly a letter of praise for a notable named Yoshiyyahu, mentioning Yoʾav ben Ṣeruya, the temple, and the Sanhedrin. In Hebrew. Reused on verso for …
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. After many nice phrases, the body …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow paper. Fragment (bottom part only). The script is unique. The content is unclear. Mentions that Abū Naṣr knows about something. The …
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, a certain Yefet, an inhabitant of Fustat, who is said to be a respectable man who fell on hard …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions a dukkān and [Abū] l-Surūr.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Refers to a period of a year and a half and a trust/security (amāna).
Letter from a certain Bū l-Fatḥ "al-Malikī al-Kāmilī" to a distinguished physician. No details are preserved beyond the grand titles of the addressee. The sender …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of recto). Mentions "the people of Fustat/Egypt... the day I departed... my livelihood...." On verso, the continuation of the …
Letter from Moshe Binyamin to Isaac Luria (CUDL). "A certain Moshe Binyamin sent two letters from Rashid to Luria in Egypt, probably either in 1555 …
Letter from Shela b. Mevasser b. Naḥum, a judge of Alexandria, to Abū al-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim in Fustat, dealing with family and public matters. …
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Letter from an unidentified merchant to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports on a shipment that he has sent with Jaʿfar: 62 wax …
Fragment of a letter in Ladino. The name of the addressee is preserved, something like: דוד וילייז לובושון.
Verso: draft of the beginning of a letter with blessings and wishes for good luck and prosperity. Recto: list of the first lines of piyyuṭim. …
Letter addressed to Salmūn. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Seal imprint on verso. Needs examination for content.
Complete letter in the same unmistakeable hand as several others (see the tag). In other letters, he writes to his father in Minyat Qa'id and …
Small fragment from a letter to 'Moshe Hakohen the great Sar splendor of the kohanim ...' AA
Begging letter in Hebrew addressed to the 'community of foreigners (loʿazim) from a widow with five children. Already a recipient of communal charity, the writer …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). Dealing with the silk trade.
Informal note from Manṣūr b. [...] the Jew to Jamāl al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the currency kāmilī …
Fragment (left side of recto, left side of verso) of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Not enough remains to make …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a certain Avraham, c/o the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣā'igh, in Fustat. The sender asks the addressee to send …
Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Hamon of Istanbul to Yehuda al-Ashqar in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. For information on …
Letter fragments. Six small pieces of a letter from [...] ha-Yerushalmi b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥazzan, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Goitein's note card.
A letter to Moshe b. Yosef the cantor from Ishaq b. Ishaq, blessing him to see his daughters(?) marry.
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions Abū Isḥāq.
Possibly a letter. Faded script underneath the top one - needs examination.
Letter from an army doctor, in Ashmūm Ṭannāḥ (present-day Ashmūn al-Rummān), to his son, in an unknown location. The purpose of the letter is to …
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Business letter to the Parnas Mordechai ביאלובוס (Bialobos/Vialobos) in Cairo from הצעיר יאודה יוסף נסים מניני and הצעיר יששכר כניסי, including accounts with Arabic numerals. …
Small fragment from the end of a letter, containing only greetings, but with almost all details missing. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. …
Calendrical calculations, mentioning dates of the creation of the world, and of the creation of Adam. The beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic is found …
Letter from a father to a son. In Hebrew. Sent from an unknown location to Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. People …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic accompanying a dispatch of five dinars and instructions to the addressee on how to spend it. The sender complains that someone stole …
Business letter dealing with spices. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is likely that of Yedutun ha-Levi. (Goitein, too, flagged the script as familiar.) The letter is …
Letter fragment (right side of recto, right side of verso), probably from Alexandria to Fustat. Extremely faded. Legible phrases include: "Send to Alexand[ria]" and "he …
Letter from Netanel b. Ḥalfon to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Nisan 1485 Seleucid, which is 1174 CE. Describing the plight of the bearer …
Letter from Dūnash b. Yiṣḥaq from Tripoli (Libya) to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. Describes imagery or exaggerated event, of an attack against …
Letter addressed to a cantor (סידי אלחזאן היקר) consisting entirely of instructions about calendrical reckoning related to the current year 4838 AM = 1077/78 CE. …
Petition addressed to the Italian consul in Cairo. Dated 10 August 1865 CE. Information from FOTM: "Although the majority of the material preserved in the …
(folio 1, ln. 19-26)
essere entrati con forza nella casa di campagna del sottoscritto e preso dalla stalla le due…
...the fact that the aforementioned administrators [of Ibrahim Bey] entered by force the cou…
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān to al-Raṣuy, asking for a loan of thirty dirhams using a turban as collateral. Goitein …
Letter from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1050. Information about shipments of goods and about the account of …
כתאב[י יאכי ו]אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
לט (?) כלת מן מרחשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה …
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