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Business letter from Hārūn b. Bunyām to Abū Zikrī Kohen (aka Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen). In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper margin on recto …
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Fragment of a 16th-century business letter. Faded and damaged, so the contents are difficult to determine. Appears to be a letter from an agent to …
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Inquiry in Hebrew about the method of prostration practiced by three pious men in ʿAkkā (Acre): R. Yosef b. Matitya, R. Yehuda, and R. Shemuel. …
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Informal note to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. The writer was forced to go up to Cairo, so he informs the addressee that he is sending …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Involves pepper. Late. See T-S AS 151.191 + T-S 6J7.16 (PGPID 17147).
Letter from a man troubled with private and public disasters, including business concerns and his wife’s illness, leading him to write that "Could I find …
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Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
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Fragment of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the first two line the writer addresses the letter to their father Ḥananel "אלואלד אלעזיז כה׳׳ר חננאל …
Letter from Moshe b. Nissim to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks the addressee to sell on his behalf four copies of th She'eltot …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic by someone who calls himself "ha-ẓaʿir" and addresses al-Shaykh al-Rayyis. Perhaps by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq to Avraham Krispin. In Ladino. Mentions Yiṣḥaq de Curiel. Needs examination
One phrase from the beginning of a letter addressed to Ḥananel ha-Dayyan. Dating: likely 13th century. This is fragment that mainly contains a literary text …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Aṭfīḥ. The handwriting seems consistent with Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, who …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer wants the addressee to meet with somebody. The writer may be a teacher. He describes what a certain mother …
Letter in both Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). Dating: Likely 11th century. Approximately 6 lines are preserved. (There are also additional jottings in both …
Letter in Ladino. Dating: possibly 16th century. The letter seems to have been dictated by a blind man. He says: ,Rabi Jacob dijo ke afilu …
Small fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be asking for a remedy to administer to a sick person (בשי אן אמן …
Recto: Letter from Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. In Arabic script. Dated: 538 AH = 1143/44 CE. Mentions the bearer of the letter, Karīm b. Zak[kūr? b.] …
Recto: Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a letter of recommendation for the bearer, a Persian man (ʿajamī), who is suffering …
Letter probably from a certain Abū l-ʿIzz to his brother. In Arabic script. Written on a bifolio. One of the four pages has Hebrew piyyuṭ; …
Letter from Samḥūn b. Dāwūd ibn al-Siqillī (Qayrawān) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). The letter deals with a conflict between the sender and …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. This is the last leaf of a longer letter, as it is headed "tamām …
Letter. Possibly from Naṣr or Nuṣayr (v19) to some dignitary (sayyidnā, Mordekhai ha-Zeman). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: Late 12th century, based on the mention of …
Letter of appeal for assistance. In Hebrew. The addressee might be R. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan. There is a lot of flattery and blessings. The sender used …
Letter to Abu […], the teacher (melammed), from Yaʿaqov b. [...] Nafusi. Mentions Yaʿaqov al-Andalusi, the recipient's brother Avraham, and Abu Mansur and his father. …
Business letter from Abū l-Khayr(?) Yeshuʿa b. [...] to Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa. Dating: 11th century. Mentions various ships including אלמכרב אללובי (the Libyan …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: 7 December 1060. Among many other matters, Nissim reveals …
מן תניס ל'ב'י' כלת מן טבת ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך כתב אן
גיר ה[דא] א…
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Fragment of a letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310– d. 1355 CE), possibly a recommendation for Yosef al-Ṣabbān (the soap boiler).
Letter from Yeshuʿa the bookseller to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century, but this is a guess. The writer has been endeavoring …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on linguistic features. Deals with various logistics of comings and goings of letters and people. Mentions Rashīd/Rosetta.
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a certain Rosh ha-Qehillot. It is written entirely as a Hebrew poem. There are lengthy descriptions of the …
Letter. A Hebrew address is all that survives from a letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, the judge, to the school of higher studies (Heb. …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to a woman regarding the education of the writer's son, who either lives with or is merely the pupil …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around 1080. Regarding several shipments of goods. Details about payments and supplies …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר לי בקי מן אלול כתמה
אללה עלי מ[ולאי באחסן כאתמה ויתקבל] …
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Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to ʿUzziel Fayrūz, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. The writer's son Avraham Levi b. Shemuel added his own signature …
Letter fragment to a brother conveying good wishes. The addressee is apparently an accomplished cantor and had studied with a notable and "his brother the …
Letter mentioning [Abū] Zikrī and illnesses. Small fragment. (Information in part from CUDL)
Non-Geniza probably. Letter addressed to Simḥa ha-Ḥakham ha-Ḥazzan, in Istanbul. Mentions a previous letter sent to Yevpatoria (גוזלווא). Dated: 1809 CE.
Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and to his sons Hillel and Benyamin.
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Recto: Letter fragment possibly in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains. Verso: Document in Arabic script; only …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions the phrase/title/name "Sar Shalom." Little else …
Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew. It seems to spell יקרת as יקראת.
Letter from Nahray b. Natan b. Nahray to Abū l-Faḍl b. Yosef b. David (or rather: Qarawī?). In Judaeo-Arabic. He acknowledges receipt of a letter …
Letter addressed to the shop of Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi, in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, in Fustat. The writer inquires about news of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Might be from a family member of Sitt Ghazāl to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (cf. Bodl. MS heb. …
Letter. In Arabic script. Mentions the sender's brother ʿAbd al-Kāfī who is with him in the house. Also refers to someone as 'sayyidnā' in the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps dated 1818/1819 CE ([5]579 AM). The letter recipients are Menaḥem Barakha and Barakha Goren, sender: Shelomo Sonino. Requires further examination for …
Letter, possibly from the physician Abu Zikri (identification based on handwriting and style), to unidentified addressees "who are to me like my parents." Fragment. The …
פלו כאן לי קדרה אלחק מטלוב מא קעדת
פאיש ל[. . .] אדיתהא מן אלגרץ אנא סאלתהא
[. . . . . . . .] אלי א…
Fragmentary letter of request probably from Jerusalem. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from [...] ben Naʿim to Me'ir ben Naʿim, dated Nisan 1821 CE (5581). There are some sums on Page 3 along …