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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh. Written in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Contains a request to …
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Letter of recommendation, likely a draft, from Cairo. Dated: 5375 (מעֿשֿהֿ) AM = 1614/15 CE. The bearer, Avraham b. Shemuel Ashkenazi, fell into Ottoman captivity …
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Recto: Letter, copy, to Yehuda ha-Nasi (possibly the exilarch Yehuda b. David b. Yehuda), consisting solely of extensive praises. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter in Arabic script. Small fragment. Written on parchment. Mentions "40 dirhams... every dinar... he said, 'I cannot be patient....'" On verso mentions someone called …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī in Būṣīr to Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Andalūsī (c. 1061 CE).
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך מן בוצ[יר]
יא בקין מן אדר ראשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמ…
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Cryptic note in Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe the address of a letter (to Fustat/Cairo). Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. The scribe has large lameds. Mentions lamps (qanādīl), the phrase "wa-anta ʿalā ʿayn [mā tarā]" (cf. T-S 10J20.12), …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Q[...] al-[...]ān to Abū l-Faḍl [ʿAṭallāh?] b. Yaʿqūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary hand. The writer is in distress for some reason, …
Poetical letter of greetings in Aramaic addressed to Rabbi Shemuel and mentioning the 'Nasi and Gaon of Tiberias.' On verso a poem is written in …
Letter in which the writer sends greetings to R. Hananel, “al-dayyan al-jalil” (the illustrious judge) and to the judge Yehiel b. Eliakim (of Aleppo). The …
מכתב אל הדיין אליה מאת בן אחות אשתו ברכאת אבן אלעטאר.
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Badly damaged late document in Arabic script, probably Arabic language, probably a letter. Needs further examination.
Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Remnants of 7 lines on recto and verso. Seems entirely formulaic; might be from a formulary. The hand may be known.
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. One line only. No names preserved except "Abū l-"
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew written in a formal style and script, with wide space between the lines. Mentions the ḥaver Yeshuʿa b. Natan …
Letter copies, probably writing exercises. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century. There are two main letters copied here, dealing with shipments of chests and …
IB IV, 31 (ח39). Letter from Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Lukhtūsh, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, probably staying somewhere …
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Probably a letter. (Information from CUDL.) Only a few words are preserved.
Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare …
Your slave Yaḥyā the Alexandrian
b. ʿAmmār
In (your) name O M[e]rc(iful)
“Happy is he who is thoughtful of the wretched; in bad times …
Letter fragment from Daniel b. Azarya (in his handwriting). Expressing his gratitude for a gift he received. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 699-700, …
Recto: Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Asking the addressee (al-Maghribī Isḥāq?) to convey something to a certain scribe or secretary (kātib), perhaps …
IB VI, 41. Part of a cluster of letters (IB VI, 41-45) pertaining to Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid, whom Goitein describes as a "low-class India trader from …
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Letter in Arabic script. Nearly completely preserved. The address is faded, and the names are difficult to read. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, based …
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 sent from Alexandria by Hayyim b. Eli ha-Kohen to his father in Fustat, asking him to complete a number of errands, in particular in …
Letter of Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1065 CE). Includes reports from Sicily transmitted from Palermo and …
Recto: Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, mentioning Yosef. Verso: Letter by Moshe b. Peraḥya, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr, concerned with a legal …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Avraham Dayyan from Binyamin de Curiel and Avraham Crespin. These men are known from other fragments. Dating: probably 18th- …
Long letter/epistle in Judaeo-Arabic, either in rhymed prose or in poetry. There are many learned allusions and some citations of biblical verses, including Proverbs 27:19. …
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. [...] to Zakkay b. Shelomo. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century, based on the hand. …
Letter, upper left corner only, containing half of the first six lines of recto and verso. Distinctive handwriting. ASE.
Letter appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a header and some phrases in Hebrew.
IB IV, 79 (*83ח). Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat. Dating: mid-eleventh century. In which …
וכבר הבהרתי להדרתו את תכונותיו,
היינו של השיך אבו אלחסן, ולהיטותו לטפל בכל צורכיהם של אנשים (סוחרים) אחרים, ורק לאחר מכן במה ששייך …
Letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya, gaʾon of Jerusalem, as identified by the titles “our Nasi, our Gaon.” Dating: 1051–62 (Daniel's gaonate). In which the correspondents …
Letter from Eliyya 'the small' (b. Zekharya?) to 'the dear boy' Simḥa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment from the beginning.
Informal note in Arabic script. Has the glyph, signifying a basmala. The handwriting is relatively straightforward but the subject matter is difficult to figure out. …
IB V, 11. Business letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahim b. Bundār to Abū Zikrī Kohen (aka Yehuda b. Yosef Sijilmāsī). In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew, …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter to a notable in Judaeo-Arabic.
Late family/business letter in Hebrew signed by Yehuda Duran, mentioning goods sent from Fustat/Cairo to Venice, and discussing several female family members. The writer asks …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Shem[arya?], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving instructions about various business transactions, including yeast (khamīra) and perhaps basil …
Letter from Abū Saʿd Ibn Ṭībān, unknown location, to his son Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Ṭībān, in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic script, with one phrase in …
"This kurrāsa should be delivered to Moshe (ha-baḥur ha-ṭov) b. Ṭoviya (ha-zaqen ha-nikhbad)."
Letter from Elazar b. Shem[uel?], unknown location, to his 'brother' Abū l-Faraj ʿImrān b. Ḥasan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deals mainly with matters of correspondence—who …
Letter of condolences to Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) on the death of his wife (?), wishing him to find consolation in the marriage …
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. …
Letter from an unidentified Babylonian gaʾon. Fragment (top and bottom missing). On parchment. Containing a recommendation for the bearer Nuʿmān b. Moshe b. Shalmon, who …
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Letter from a Yehuda. Beginning only. The writer acknowledges receiving a letter from the majlis of 'our lord and crown of the heads' the 'Nagid' …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE. The writer seems to be beseeching the addressee for a loan of a certain sum of …
Letter of Efrayim b. Shemarya to the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051 CE), containing a question about butchering animals and also discussing the status …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, quite faded, in which Ibrāhīm tells his son Abū l-ʿAlā' how much he misses him and how difficult conditions are.