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IB I, 32. Letter from Nahray b. Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to a certain Abū Saʿīd. Fragment (upper part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late …
[Introductory phrases.]
…I have received a letter from Sheikh
Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd Ibn al-Lebdi, who has also sent a memorandum.
I have n…
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called ha-Nasi ha-Gaon. A certain R. Yehuda is mentioned. The remaining content is almost entirely formulaic.
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Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious …
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Letter fragment (right side of recto), very faded. What is left is mainly just the formulaic introduction. In the margin "al-Shaykh Abu l-Fadl" is named. …
No Scholarship Records
Invitation to the Jews of Egypt to donate and assist 1200 Torah students in the cities of Palestine in their poverty or because they are …
Petition of a pregnant woman describing herself as a 'lonely foreigner' (gharība qatīʿa). Ibrāhīm, the scribe, emphasizes the great reward and place in heaven the …
Letter fragment from Moshe to 'my brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks him to bear the hardship (yatajashsham al-ʿanā) and spend the night . . . …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Asks to be sent something and refers to "shughl al-ṣulṭān," government work.
Probably a draft of a petition. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: likely no earlier than 13th century based on handwriting. The text is written …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "We stayed for 11 days...." Addressed to al-ḥakham al-ajall al-sanad(?) [...] b. [morenu] ve-rabbenu Asaf ha-Kohen (ZL).
Recto: Letter from Hayya Gaʾon to Neḥemya b. Avraham, in Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1348 Seleucid, which is March/April 1037 CE. Neḥemya had had a fight …
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Letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Location: Tunis. Dated: 5610 AM, which is 1849/50 CE. On behalf of Yiṣḥaq Yosef b. Shemarya. The Portuguese Congregation of …
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 …
Recto: A few lines of an abandoned letter in Arabic. Verso: A page completely filled with Judaeo-Arabic writing practice (?) of standard phrases from letters, …
Letter or note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 14th or 15th century based on handwriting. Regarding dealings with 200 dirhams and various quantities of commodities; Arabic …
Verso with the address on recto: Letter from Mubārak to his 'father' Sason Ibn Sabra. The sender may be Mubārak b. Yisḥāq and the addressee …
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Small fragment of a letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very damaged.
IB VI, 28. Business letter in the hand of Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār, in Aden, to ʿAydhāb, mentioning Yīṣḥaq al-Nafūsī and Hiba Ibn al-Dabbāgh …
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Letter fragment, mercantile (lower right of recto, upper right of verso; about 50% of the document is here). Several names are mentioned including an Abu …
A short incomplete note, probably written by Shelomo b. Elya, asking to give half a cup (קדח) to the bearer of the note and also …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Thābit b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh. Dating: ca. 1062. The writer mentions a shipment of goods and he …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסעאדתך
מן אלאסכנדריה לה מצת מן מרחשון כתמה אללה עליה באחסן
כאתמה ען חאל סלאמה ונ…
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Petition from a woman named Umm Hilāl bt. Ibn al-Muhandiz the ḥaver, who is living in the synagogue of the Palestinians. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
On recto beginning of a letter to Avraham Maimuni from Abu Sa'id (identification according to BL 5542.14. He also wrote T-S 8 j 21.12). On …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5499 AM, which is 1739 CE. This shelfmark was previously listed with the date 1 Tammuz 5439, but the …
Recto: Either the beginning of a letter or the address of a letter for Shelomo Gabbay in Safed. There is also a list of names. …
Personal letter to Kẖawaja David al-Jalālī from a person named Elli Ġozlān in it asking for him to fetch some of books and discussing commercial …
Letter fragment. Late. From Avraham b. Bunyām(?) or Benbassa(?).
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. Full of expressions of urgency (wallāh allāh al-surʿa. . . min kull …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions R. Shelomo. And "[if you h]ear that the city is good, come, and if you hear that the …
Letter from the Babylonian community in Fustat to Hayya Gaon, acknowledging a letter he had previously sent to Avraham (Avraham b. Sahlan). The community refer …
Tiny fragment. Only a few words are preserved. Wide space between the lines. Probably a letter recommending someone for charity.
Letter fragment from the cantor Khalfa Ibn al-Qafṣī (i.e., from Qafṣa/Gafsa, in Tunisia; Abramson and Golb incorrectly read "al-Qifṭī," from Qifṭ in Upper Egypt). The …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū Isḥāq, who is addressed as "the esteemed and precious brother." In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (top part only). …
Official letter addressed to the congregation of Minyat Zifta.
Letter sent from Alexandria by a father (Manṣūr b. Sālim) to his son, who had run away to the army, trying to bring him back. …
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Scribal exercises and copious jottings in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. In the margin of verso there is the draft of an informal note in …
Family letter from Natan b. Yehuda (Alexandria, ca. 1160) to Moshe b. Ṣemaḥ and his brother (Fustat), the writer’s cousins-in-law. Natan b. Yehuda reports that …
Recto and verso: Letter to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Politely disputing a quotation used in his sermon on the preceding Saturday, the topic of which …
Small fragment in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Letter fragment from Mubārak b. Isḥāq (=Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The hand does not appear to be the …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso). Refers to a woman's separation from the addressees; "your accompanying …
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like a Spanish or Maghribī hand and layout (the address (...al-jalīl al-ḥakīm al-fāḍil) at the top of recto).
A letter to Shlomo b. Nahmo Yerushalmi (his name is written in acrostic on the write column) asking for financial support. The writer residing in …
Letter, in Arabic script. Very neat hand. Approximately 5 lines are preserved, consisting mostly of conventional and deferential greetings. On verso, there is a draft …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The names are missing, except part of the sender's name at upper right. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. …
Letter fragment in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Long vertical strip from the left side of the letter. Mentions the arrival of Makārim.
Diwan of Anatoly b. Yosef and epistles of Shemuel b. ʿEli. See S. M. Stern, "A Twelfth-century circle of Hebrew poets in Sicily: Anatoli ben …
Letter of extremely elaborate flattery and good wishes for Purim addressed to a Jewish dignitary (rayyis al-ru'asā). There are a few lines of Hebrew, then …
Appeal for charity for captives, with several signatures. Dated: 5382 AM = 1621/22 CE. Mentioning an appeal by several poor men who are imprisoned in …