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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved. Mentions dirhams, a place, Umm Ibrāhīm, the term "taʿzīl" (a retreat as in T-S …
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Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter. Very little preserved. On recto there is liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Letter-writing formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium, containing many letter samples. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
Letter from Yefet b. Shemuel to Moshe ha-Sar b. Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding the affairs of scholars and inquiring about the needs of a little …
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IB VI, 34. Business letter (fragment) from Iṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī (Fustat) to Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef (Alexandria), ca. 1080. Iṣḥaq b. Aharon reports about …
סידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך
ותאידך ונעמאך ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך נעלמך
סלמך אללה אן וזנת ענך פי אלדיואן ד דנ> וח קראריט
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Letter addressed to a dignitary with a long introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic (what remains of this is in the margin). Hand …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with a single word in Hebrew (ירושלים). The sender is urging the addressee ('my brother') to come immediately, as soon …
Huge model of a begging letter. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From one who boasts to have belonged to ‘the owners of money’ (aṣḥāb al-amwāl) and …
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Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ b. Yosef to Yehuda b. Sighmar. The letter reflects the economic difficulties of the Jewish community of Alexandria due …
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Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and written in a rudimentary hand. Mentions something distressing (al-shida). Hard to read much more apart from the concluding greetings. …
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Refers to the qāḍī Zayn al-Dīn; a plan to go out on Tuesday the 3rd of Ṣafar; that the …
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Letter to El'azar ha-talmid, beautiful and full of blessings (among which that his brother Yeshu'a will return home safely). The hand looks like Berakhot b. …
Letter from the community of Jerusalem to the gabbay and treasurer of כארכוך (=Kirkuk?). In Hebrew. Dated: Adar 5603 AM, which is 1843 CE. This …
Panegyric or letter to a notable, referring on the last page to "your son our Gaʾon Shelomo." Needs examination.
Letter in calligraphic style from a community written by Sahlān b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters and a boat. (Information in part from CUDL)
Copies of formularies for letters, by the head of the Babylonian academy (probably Saʿadya Gaʾon), who is residing in Baghdad. Contents include letters of greetings …
[ . . . ] In the book of Kings, it is explained that one who prays in the diaspora should face the direction of the la…
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Letter addressed to a qāḍī. In Arabic script. The top ~10 lines are preserved. The first four lines are mostly blessings and standard formulae. The …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[كتا]بي اطال الله بقا القاضي وادام عزه وتاييده وسعادته وكفايته وحراسته وتقربه يوم الثلثا لخمس [بقين/خلون
من رجب …
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 …
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Letter from [... b.] Avraham to [...] b. Sulaymān. In Judaeo-Arabic. The portion preserved mostly consists of greetings. Mentions Sulaymān, a woman and her daughter, …
Half of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Meir Ben-Naʿim to David Ben-Naʿim, appears to be dated August 1823 (Elul 5583).
Letter from Yeḥiel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to an unnamed addressee (probably the judge Menaḥem b. Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson), probably in Cairo. In Hebrew. …
Recto: Formulary for Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew praises to an important person (peloni ben peloni) to be placed at the beginning of a letter. Verso: A …
Letter from a widow in Safed regarding her property in Egypt, to a communal leader. In Hebrew, late and beautifully written. The writer seems to …
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen to Moshe ha-Kohen Neʾeman ha-Soḥerim ʿayn ha-ʿeda. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer was the muqaddam of Bilbays 1180s–1220. Damaged; little …
Letter by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an elder relative (wālid, but not his father, as he writes that both he and his father serve the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Fragment (right side only). Very tantalizing subject matter, possibly written on the occasion of a change of government (tabdīl al-dawla). …
Letter from Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan, in Alexandria, to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The letter informs Shelomo …
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IB V, 14. Business letter addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Lebdī; Hārūn b. Rajā; Efrayim b. …
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Verso: Letter, apparently to the holy congregation in Shafrir Misrayim (Fustat), similar to 10J24f. 9 recto. In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, …
Late business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Shemuel Būnyāl (l. 10, main body). In line 12 there's mention of "fearing what occurred[?] with the money …
Letter in the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef (the nephew of Avraham Ibn Yijū), to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the address …
A letter, almost complete, from Shelomo b. Shem Tov, who served as a proxy of the Jerusalemite community in Egypt. The writer admonishes the addressee …
Letter addressing a communal leader, a certain ʿOvadya. Other names mentioned are Yaʿaqov b. Aba Mari Moshe, and [...] b. David the judge. There is …
Letter of recommendation. In Arabic script. Sent from Damascus to two high-placed addressees (al-majlisayn al-sāmīyayn) presumably in Cairo, al-Majlis al-[...] and al-Majlis al-Nūrī. Dating: Perhaps …
Letter from Moshe ha-Levi to a group of unknown individuals. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 8 Elul 1743 (אתרקמג) Seleucid = 6 August 1432 CE. The …
Rhymed invitation to a festive event on the 29th of the month at 3:00 at the home of Nissim Lumbroso (נסים לומברוזו). Dating: 19th century. …
Short note instructing the addressee to investigate the inheritance left by Abu Nasr b. Banin, who died in Minya. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides.
Beginning of a calligraphic letter in Hebrew rhymed prose by Shemuel ha-Levi b. Eli, the gaʾon ("head of the academy of the diaspora") in Baghdad …
Recto: Note ordering the release to someone (name difficult to read) of two bales (ʿidlayn). Verso: a word or two in Arabic script.
Formulas of letters to VIPs.
Letter to Aharon Rofe and Avraham Rofe. The address reads "to the teacher ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī al-Ṭabīb in the Wikāla of K[...]." Unknown writer, unknown …
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 …
Letter from a community to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. They think the addressee for whatever it is that he sent a Parnas to tell them.
Letter in the handwriting of Yefet b. David. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to "the Raʾīs." Dated: 13 Adar I (no year). He says that "we attended …
Very dark. Poetical Hebrew, might be from an opening of a letter. Reference to רבנו ע"ה. AA
Letter from a merchant from Sunbat demonstrating his dedication to the community by relating how he had once traveled at a time of cold and …
Letter in Arabic script. Mercantile. Addressed to multiple people (mawālayya l-awlād). Mentions large sums of money (in the hundreds of dinars). The main crux of …
Fragment of two letters in Judaeo-Arabic, one each on recto and verso. The one on verso mentions good news for the addressee, fear of the …
IB V, 13. Letter from Avraham b. Ḥabīb, in Alexandria, to Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's attached notes include discussions of how …
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