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Letter possibly sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Arabic script. Fragment (right side of recto). Written on parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. The address is …
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Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic beginning is preserved. Written on a reused page that already had a few words in Arabic script written …
Letter probably from Abū l-Surūr al-Shāmī to Umm Abū l-Faraj, in Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions …
Letter from a Mevorakh b. Avraham from Sham (Syria). The addressee's is name not given. The writer asks for a shirt (qamis) because he is …
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Five unrelated fragments. F1: List of names: [...] b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen; Tāj al-Dawla; Elʿazar ha-Kohen. Written in both Hebrew and Arabic script. F2: Letter fragment …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (right side of recto and verso) from [Ya'qu?]b b. Bū l-Faraj, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-M[unā?] al-[ʿAṭṭār?], probably in Fustat. The …
Multifragment. There are two different letters in Judaeo-Arabic stuck together. The larger one mentions Qayrawān; various business matters; and the health of the body. The …
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Mentions al-muʿallim Yaʿaqov several times; an epidemic (המגפה); and money.
Commercial letter. In Arabic script. Dated: 123[6?] (which would be 1820 CE). The letter is torn at the top and the right margins. Alexandria and …
Recto (secondary use): Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This portion preserves the formulaic ending only. The addressee's in-laws send their regards.
Interesting letter from a sick man to Mevorakh, probably his brother. The language is Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew vowels (!). The writer revised the letter, probably …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentioning people including Abū Zikrī, Peraḥya, the wife of Menashshe b. David, and Ibn Yehuda. Mentions Byzantium (bilād …
Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side only). Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Mentions children, but little of the content is preserved. Reused for what …
IB II, 63. Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose from Ḥalfon b. Madmun to Saadya b. Avraham, an Egyptian teacher. Aden, 1154.
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Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The top line is a date written in Arabic script (15 Dhū l-Ḥijja). The next line may contain a variant …
Letter from Yeshuʿa to his father Saʿīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century or later, based on handwriting and abbreviations used. This letter was written …
Note from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hagay, probably 1050.
Letter of Avraham b. Simhon, Ifrīqiya, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. (A large hole from line 11 to line 22 has obliterated much of the letter.)
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Letter from a woman named Harja (הרגה), somewhere in Syria, to her mother, the wife of Mūsā Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, …
Letter/petition addressed to Abū Isḥāq. Asking for charity. In Arabic script. The sender's name appears in the tarjama at upper left but is difficult to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. In the hand of Saʿid b. Marḥab. Refers to the addressee as "adonenu" and mentions bibles (maṣāḥif). Dated: Ṭevet [1]498 Seleucid …
IB IV, 63 (ח67). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria, to his brother Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, probably in Qalyūb. Dating: Prior to 21 February …
Recto: Business/family letter in Hebrew. Dating: Perhaps 16th century or later. The sender mentions someone named Meʾir סאול . . ., and greets his mother. …
Letter fragment addressed to a Nagid. ʿAmram? [...] b. ʿAmram? Only a small sliip from the introduction is preserved.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sālim al-Ḥaver, the female slave of R. Nissim, Sulaymān, the old woman, and Abū l-Faraj the ghulam of [...]. Also …
Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. Sender might be writing on behalf of a group of Muslim merchants as they refer to themselves in …
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Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim He-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: approximately 1045 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE based on …
Letter to Elḥanan "Rosh ha-Seder of all Israel." In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Most of what remains is formulaic. Mentions …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Written (unusually) on a bifolio. Mentions in the beginning that 'the owner of the myrobalan' (ṣāḥib al-halīlaj) came …
Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, to Yehuda Per[...]. In Ladino with Hebrew introductory formulae.
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the names Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in …
Letter of appeal signed by al-Naharwani the cantor. The remnants of 7 lines, mostly blessings for the recipient, but also mentioning "terrible illnesses" (pega'im ra'im) …
Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Opens with discussing various transactions and orders, including for a kind of sugar (sukkar murammal), myrtle (marsīn), …
Letter mentioning a number of names (although most are broken off after Abū) such as al-Najīb, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Isḥāq, Maʿānī b. Nuʿmān (מעאני בן …
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ramla. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Refers to a period of a year and a half and a trust/security (amāna).
Official Hebrew letter, perhaps a circular (עתה אחינו...). Wide space between the lines. Only a small piece of the original is preserved here, with no …
Letter mainly in Arabic with several words in Hebrew script. The bearer of the letter (wa-mūṣil kitābī hādhā ilā ḥaḍratihi al-jalīla) is Ṣedeq b. Hilay …
Note asking for mercy/forgiveness from Sayyidnā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. סידנא ינצר אלינא בעין אלרחמה... עז עלי... סידנא... אלכדמה...
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Instructing the addressee to buy spices (saqaṭ) on the trip to al-Mahd[iyya].
Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Fustat, to Shelomo ha-Nasi b. Yishay, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1240 CE. The writer describes the difficult economic …
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Letter of recommendation on behalf of a proselyte. The conversion took place by the time of R. Menahem (b. Sasson?) and the proslyte was imersed. …
Two letters (or drafts) in Arabic script. Same handwriting on each side. Recto: Addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ, asking him to send 100 nuqra dirhams with …
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 27 Tishrei 5585 AM, which is 1824 CE. Discusses various business …
Probably a small fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
On recto probably a rhymed opening of a letter. Verso in Arabic script. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Fragment of a letter by Natan b. Avraham. 1354/1042.
Letter to Abū ʿAlī. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Only the beginning is preserved.