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Introduction page for a book of praise ‘originally sung from the Temple’, translated into Judaeo-Arabic (possibly a translation of Psalms). On both sides are jottings …
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Beginning of a letter sent to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. S[alāma]. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic. Dated 5 Shawwal 1214 AH (March 1800 CE). Verso is blank apart from a jotting which may be an acknowledgement of receipt. …
Letter from the chancellery of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. ca. 1310 – d. 1355) concerning a needy orphan. The first line is in Arabic …
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Most of a long letter in which the writer uses colorful language to narrate his woes of the last 10 years. The addressee's father is …
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Letter in which the sender addresses a cantor, who has been sick, and whom the writer has not recently seen, and from whom he now …
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Fragment of a letter in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh concerning the disagreement about the Jewish community's leadership in Ashkelon. Describes how a …
Official letter. Resembles T-S NS J602 and T-S NS J605, but it is not clear which of these (if any) come from the same original …
Letter from Ṣadaqa b. Salāma Ibn Nufayʿ, Tyre, to his father Shelomo b. Saʿadya (aka Abū Naṣr Salāma b. Saʿīd Ibn Nufayʿ), Fustat. Dated: 1 …
Letter from Yosef b. Gershon (a French scholar appointed by the Nagid Avraham Maimonides to be one of the three judges of the Jewish community …
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Letter formulary in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era, probably. These are similar to the formulae used in the preponderance of Judaeo-Arabic letters in the Yevr.-Arab. II folder.
Letter likely from Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen Sarārifī(?), in al-Maḥalla, to [...] b. Mordekhay ha-Kohen, in Fustat. Fragment (long vertical section). In Judaeo-Arabic. Due to the …
Pastoral letter presumably addressed to the Fustat community from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (Yehoshuaʿ?). In addition to general admonitions, the …
Letter fragment, dated 4th Iyyar 1553 of the Seleucid Era (= 6 April 1242 CE). Mentions greetings to various people including Sayyid al-Ahl. (Information in …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Se[nyores] Karo y Frances from Nissim Mshīsh. Dated Kislev [55]69 AM (בסט= in the [year] 69) which is 1808 CE. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is probably Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, an India trader and shipowner (nākhudā) known from documents dating from 1131/32 to c.1150 CE. …
וארגע . . . . . []
לאן אלממלוך יעאזי חואיג . . []
כנת מסתריח אלסר בעץ שי []
אלעטר יחתאג אלמכנה אן אלדורה ונרגו מן אל[לה]
חמיד …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last leaf only. The writer is begging for an urgent loan or gift of 5 dinars, on Sunday. A sum of 20 …
Secondary use: Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96. Dealing with numerous business matters. He reports that Shemuel dropped a vessel …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. All four fragments likely belong to the same letter. T-S AS 207.180 + T-S AS 207.198 is almost a direct join, and …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the town of Sumbāṭ and unemployment (baṭāla), then concludes with greetings.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. Among other matters, Natan mentions that he has given 1 dinar each to …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת
אעדאה מן אלמסתקר לז בקי מן אדר ראשון כתבה אללה עלינ[א ו]עליך באחסן
כאתמה …
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Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yūsuf b. Manṣūr Ibn al-Shofeṭ, sent either to or from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …
Minute fragment. On verso opening lined of a letter to Nahary (spelled נהריי). AA
Letter/petition to a notable in Judaeo-Arabic. Begins with a taqbīl clause in the name of a woman (al-mamlūka tuqabbil al-arḍ) but the inhāʾ is masculine …
Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter. Very little preserved. On recto there is liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from a certain Hibatallāh in polished (rhymed) Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. Asking for a loan of 60 dirhams, which he promises to repay …
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Letter containing a dirge on the death of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya the Nagid. Unpublished.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
A 'thank you' letter to Ezra the Karaite
Either a short note or the beginning of a letter from the Cordoban (al-Qurṭubī) Mūsā al-Kohen to Binyamin. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a dreadful hand. On …
Letter addressed to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions the shop of the bāshā and פלוס דיואן אלקטר. Needs …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew from the second half of the 16th century, mentioning attempts to prevent a certain edict, in which R. Yosef …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ha-haver containing congratulations to Passover for Shelomo ha-Rofe and "the sons of the generous Yeshua" (Hebrew: "Benei Yeshua Ha-Nadiv"). Verso: …
מבורך בן נתן בן שמואל החבר
Letter to Shmuel b. Yosef
Small fragment from a letter, probably in the hand of Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov ha-Ṣarfati (the French). AA
Letter from Hassun b. Yiṣḥaq to a partner. Business letter discussing payments and shipments, apparently of flax and textiles. Dated ca. 1050. (Information from Gil, …
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Letter from a young man named Sibāʿ, in Alexandria, to his mother, in Fustat, but addressed to his brother Abū l-Najm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly …
Communal letter addressed to the congregation of Alexandria. Probably from the office of the Nagid. Dating: Probably last quarter of the 15th century. Only a …
Letter from a father to a son, containing detailed instructions concerning items that the sender sent and that the addressee should purchase. Gives specific quantities …
Probably the beginning of a letter to a certain Shemuʾel. Dating: late, no earlier than 14th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter. Strongly-worded admonition to a Muqaddam to deal with the estate of a widow and her daughter, in accordance with instructions by the Nagid. (Information …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen the descendant of Yehosef ha-Kohen Bet Din. Mentions a suftaja; 30 dinars; possibly …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. The section preserved here opens with asking for a favor from the addressee involving conciliating someone else. Goes …
Segment of a letter from Jerusalem to Ascalon, approximately 1070 (?).
Complete note written in both Arabic script and in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand. Quite faded. Mentions honey. Needs examination for content.
Letter to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm from Abū al-Futūḥ b. Kanz al-Dawla, with which he sends the eparch two silk garments, four textiles …
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Letter segment concerning some legal issues with the signature of Shemarya. The first concerns Nissim al-Iskandarani who has entered into a business partnership with an …
Note in which the cantor (hazzan) asks for "Hoshanot" (הושענות) to the seventh day (of the holiday of Sukkot). Verso: Piyyut. Example for Hoshanot. (Information …
Letter of appeal for charity in Arabic. Few details are preserved. Refers to someone who "paid it" or "pushed someone out" (wa-dafaʿahū) "from the army …
Letter from the cantor [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to his maternal uncle Bū Ibrāhīm(?), in Shubrā Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …