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Calligraphic invitation to the elder Suwayd and his son from Aharon ha-Kohen av bet din to come to a lecture on Saturday. (Information from Mediterranean …
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Letter, calligraphic, to the two sons of Yeshua (one is named Abū Naṣr), probably asking for help. It looks like the sender may have used …
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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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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions lāsīn silk and Fustat and someone who has spent 2 years somewhere. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
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Letter from the community of Rabbanite Jews, in Ramla, to the community of Rabbanite Jews in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. In a mixture of …
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Most of a long letter in which the writer uses colorful language to narrate his woes of the last 10 years. The addressee's father is …
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Letter addressed to Aharon ha-Memunne b. Efrayim Ibn Ṭarsūn. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The first five lines of the letter are in a different hand …
Recto: Letter from Naṣrallāh. In Arabic script. Top part only. Dating: Probably ca. Mamluk-era based on format and formulae.
Recto: Upper part of a letter in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi to a notable named [...] b. Yeshaʿyahu. Opens with a Hebrew panegyric and …
Letter in a Romance language, perhaps Spanish, signed in Hebrew: Yehuda Maḥriẓ (? יהודה מחריץ). An alternate reading for the surname is "Madin / מאדין".
Letter. None of the content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Official letter. Small fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic (partially vocalized). Wide space between the lines. Refers to a man who was appointed as judge and …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentioning Fusṭāṭ; the arrival of a ship from Tripoli, Libya; Muslims; and sums …
Informal notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto: Possibly from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. The writer asks the addressee to write a note to R. Ḥananel regarding the writer's …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated Heshvan 5568 AM (1807 CE).
Petition from a woman to a group of men, presumably communal leaders: [...] wa-sādatī wa-l-ʿazīzīn ʿalayya wa-ʿindī. She says "I am perplexed (wa-anā ḥāʾira) and …
Recto looks like a letter fragment in Arabic script, while verso looks like a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. Needs further examination.
Probably a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
The beginning of a letter from Moshe b. Yehuda, the cantor, to the Nagid, Shemuel b. Hananya (1141-1159). Moshe b. Yehuda is probably Moshe b. …
Letter from Yosef b. Maḥfūẓ to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Reporting on Abū Saʿīd Ibn Fistiqa. The sender had obtained a rescript (tawqīʿ) exempting …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as Makīn and al-Shaykh Najīb. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script. Dating: looks ca. …
IB VI, 1. Letter from a novice India trader in a Red Sea port to his brother, Libya. Dated: 24 Ḥeshvan (4)864 (28 October 1103). …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes). The letter is written in …
A letter to the Karaite community in Luzk.
Family letter, from son to father. In Arabic script. Probably 11th/12th C based on paleographic grounds. Damaged/faded. Needs examination for content.
Letter fragment, possibly sent to or on behalf of an entire community. In Hebrew. The paleography supports a dating estimate of nineteenth-century. A placename is …
Note addressed to al-Talmid al-Jalīl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that exactly what a certain ḥaḍra knew would happen with Abū Saʿd and his divorcee …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.Refers to Rabbenu Simḥa he-Ḥakham; Cairo; [...] b. Abū Sahl; that …
Possibly a letter in a flowery language or a blessing, mentioning the majesty of king Solomon: היבה סולימאן אבן דאוד עלי . . . אלמא …
Letter from Yosef b. Yishaq Yerushalmi to Ya'aqov ha-Talmid b. Binyamin. He asks him to receive a bashful needy man well and take care of …
Recto: (draft of a?) letter with jottings. The sender mentions "his headache" and the sender's intention to travel east (אלממלוך קד עזם קולא ואחדא עלי …
Letter of appeal for charity, in a mixture of Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Hebrew. The addressee may be asked to write to 'al-ḥaḍra al-nafīsa' on …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). There …
IB II, 15. Letter from Maḍmūn ibn Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yijū, in Mangalore on the Malabar coast of India. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
you with him also two dasts of paper,
fine, large, government paper that cannot
be obtained a…
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Letter in Hebrew. Preserving copious praises for the addressee.
Right side of an informal note probably addressed to R. Aharon, informing him to do something to do with 'our colleagues' without delay.
Letter from the wife of Baṣīr (or rather Nuṣayr) the bell-maker (al-jalājilī) to the Nagid David II Maimonides, asking him to help return her husband, …
In your name, You Merciful.
To the high Seat of our Lord the Nagid, may his splendor be exalted and his honor great.
The maidservant
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Letter from Avraham b. Menaḥem to (his brother?) Yosef Menaḥem. In Hebrew. Late. Also greeting Shemuel, Yosef, Binyamin, and others. The sender reports on his …
Letters to Yosef b. Moshe the Cantor.
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. "I searched for marble (rukhām) in the city/country, and I couldn't find it... [...] is demanding it, …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ḥayyim, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Faḍl Maṣliaḥ b. Yosef, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. first half of the 12th century (the same …
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer expresses his regret at the addressee's departure, and his distress at what the addressee will soon learn from ʿAfīf …
IB VI, 36. Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahīm to Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Long …
Note from Ḥananel. "If the master is able and free, [could he] trouble himself to meet with the slave in the shop of Abū l-Munā …
End of a petition from someone identifying himself as a certified hazzan to two people in Cairo requesting their assistance. The writer refers to someone, …
Letter that purports to be from the followers of the King Joseph b. Solomon, near Ancona (Italy), addressed to a certain Avraham. King Joseph has …
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 fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender opens with sympathy for the addressee's plight. Dated: 25 Av [4800 +] 175 AM, which is 4975 AM, which …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār Madīnī of Palermo, Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe al-Ṣayrafī (Fustat). Ca. 1060. The sender, who is writing from …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאיי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
לט כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה וללה אלחמד דאימא
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Letter addressed to a certain Ishāq. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a postscript in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Concerning the delivery of a consignment of peas …