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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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Formal letter in Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era, but this is a guess. Wide space between the lines. Difficult to understand the content. There is …
No Scholarship Records
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (the left side of recto is missing). The marginal text is written (somewhat unusually) at 90 degrees to the main text. …
IB IV, 53b (*ח53). Letter from an unknown correspondent to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: ca. 1128 CE. In which the writer asks Ḥalfon to inform …
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Small fragment with Ladino. Letter?
Family letter. In Arabic script. To 'my father.' Asking for clothing for the children and maintenance expenses, and telling the addressee to return. Dating: Probably …
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Asking for help and reminding the addressee of a promise. Mentions a group of people who should "put an …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script (with the words שער הנשיאות in Hebrew) to a Nasi, by ʿImrān b. Muhājir. According to Goitein's note card, it …
المملوك الاصغر
عمران بن مهاجر
يقبل الارض بالمقر الشريف المولوي النبوي اعاد الله علينا
وعلى اولادنا بركاته واعتقادنا في شرفه وفي اعراقه
الز…
Informal note from an unknown sender to ʿĀmir b. Isḥāq (per recto) and/or to Abū Kathīr Efrayim (per verso). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender wants the …
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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 …
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Letter from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl (not necessarily the same as the 11th-century merchant) to Ḥanokh (?) b. Avraham. Contains very detailed orders for materia medica …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Wafāʾ Tamīm al-Kohen. Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century, based on …
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IB ח98. Verso, with the address on recto: Business letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Arabic script. Dating: Before the beginning of 1136 …
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Recto: Bottom of a letter from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. Dated: 15th day of the ʿOmer 1529 Seleucid, which is …
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 …
IB IV, 42 (ח45). Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician, possibly in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Almeria. Dating: 1138–39 CE. Same sender as T-S …
IB V, 7. Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Aden, probably to Ibn Yijū, in India. Fragment, preserving the margins only. Mentions the customs tax …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Too faded to easily discern much of the content. Mentions the late Rayyis.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Small but rich with tantalizing details. The handwriting is reminiscent of some of the India Book letters. …
Family letter addressed to Sulaymān Abū l-Faḍl. in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 14th century or later. Most of what is preserved consists of greetings.
Small fragment of a letter written mainly in Arabic script with Hebrew interspersed. Probably a letter of appeal for charity (وينعم كجاري عادته بثمن(؟) يحضر(؟) …
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria, to Abū Bishr Azhar b. Manṣūr (aka Avraham), in Fustat, ca. 1075. Mentions a shipment of …
תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עלאה וכב[ת]
עדוה עדה גואבא ען כתבה אלואצלה אגבתה ען כל פצל פיה[א ואמא]
מא דכרה מן קבצ…
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Letter in Arabic script. The basmala and first two lines are preserved, along with a few words in Arabic script on verso. Reused for Hebrew …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Rashīd, to the sage R. Badosa, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The writer …
IB VI, 10. Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. …
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Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Ḥananel to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Arajawānī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. Concerning business matters, …
Letter from Naṣr b. Kanz al-Dawla to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm, appearing to establish a new relationship between Naṣr (son of Kanz al-Dawla) …
IB I, 25. Small fragment of a letter sent by a merchant in Egypt to the Maghrib. The sender asks the recipient to buy for …
…Your family
is well and safe, as you wish and desire. Of late,
all the population of the land of Egypt is enjoying justice and saf…
Brief letter about payment owed to Ṭoviyya, also giving instructions about making a purchase. In Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. On verso there …
Opening of a letter written by Daniel b. Azarya, Jerusalem, to Aviram ha-Kohen b. Yitzhak b. Furat. Daniel b. Azarya writes that he is sorry …
Letter addressed to the Nagid Abū l-Faḍl Shemuel (= Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Evidently a letter …
Poem in honor of a courtier called Moshe (probably Moshe b. Mevorakh, Nagid 1112–26 CE). (Information from CUDL.) Same hand as T-S AS 149.115 (PGPID …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mostly asking for news including of R. Avraham, and wishing the recipient well.
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking Manṣūr to slaughter for Bū l-Faraj on the 14th of Shevaṭ (i.e. serve as substitute slaughterer?).
Minute fragment from an opening of a letter
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century, since it mentions the currency ashrafī. Deals mainly with business matters. Mentions …
Small fragment, possibly from a letter. Legible phrases: אלחכים שצ . . . [.]אלע פיהא פי כל וקת . . . .
Petition from Hibatallāh b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1180 CE or generally 1168–1204, based on the years Maimonides was active …
looses the bands, removes sadness, dismisses the ghosts . . .
(2-3) to confirm the rules of the Mishnā, to abolish any pretext, to pull dow…
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Short letter from Bū l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), Fustat, to Bū l-Futūḥ (Yehuda b. al-ʿAmmānī), Alexandria. Meir reports that he received the letter containing the …
Horizontal strip from a letter in Arabic script. 3 lines preserved on recto. Likely a family letter dealing with small business matters. Mentions (Abū) Sahl.
Non-Geniza. Letter from Crimea to Jerusalem. Dating: Catalogued as 1783-1796 CE. Names קלעא = Chufut-Kale, כפא = Kefe = Feodosia, and גזולויא = Gözleve = …
Verso: Three fragments of a letter from from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he fulfilled the …
Fragment of a letter from Menashshe, maybe to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1063. Only the writer’s first name in known. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. …
אטאל אללה בקא]ך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך
ברכ]תה ואסעה במא יליה מ[ן אלשהור ]
]פיבלגני מא י[ס]רני [ ]
סי]די אבו אלפצ[ל
] כתבי [ ו]הב…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-Ḥasan in which the writer reminds him to come and bring him the book know as Razim. Verso was not …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Suhayl, in an unknown location, to his wife Umm Wuhayb and to his son, in Fustat. He asks in the most urgent terms …
Letters (or letterbook?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter on verso is dated Heshvan 5548 AM and the letter on recto is dated 1 Tevet 5548 AM, …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Excerpts: קד תקדם אלקול . . . . פי . . . . פי אן . . . . אדאם …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. Seems to have been abandoned halfway through. There are a few words in Hebrew …
ازكى السلام التام والتحيات والاكرام تهدي(؟) ذاكر(؟) ويخص(؟) الى
حضرة الجناب المكرم السيد محمود عابدين اعزه الله
ودام بقاه امين
اما بعد نعرفكم…
Damaged and faded fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).