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Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Apparently a letter in Ladino, per FGP.
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Letter addressed to Moshe Levi b. Zakkār. (Same addressee as in T-S NS 31.16.) In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Mentions Messina in recto, …
Letter from ʿOvadya, Avraham, and Yefet the sons of Shemarya to Avraham b. Natan 'the Seventh', titled Ḥemdat ha-Yeshivot. The letter opens with a paragraph …
Calligraphic letter by a community leader who found out that the son of a scholar had married four couples, writing their marriage contracts and performing …
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Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with several addressees, among them [ʿAbd] Allāh (?), Abū Saʿd, and Ṣedaqa b. [...] ha-Zaqen.
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Beginning of a letter to Daniel b. Azarya (ca. 1055). Sender unknown.
Letter from X b. Ya’qub from Qayrawan, to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat. Describes a dangerous situation in Fustat. Also informs about the passing …
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Letter, copy, from the Palestinian Yeshiva to the people of Babylonia regarding the Ben Meir controversy. Published Description from PGPID 33687: Epistle regarding the calendar …
שלום מעניף ע[ ] מרומים ומצליל עד יצוק הדומים
סובב ומקיף סב[ ]ים אפוד חן עטוף רחמים ממתיק
טעם כמו לרחו[ ] כסוחים כאיתן בא בימים כאהוב
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Letter fragments. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century, based on hand and orthography. Dealing with business matters. Mentions 25 qinṭārs of something …
Late letter in Hebrew. Needs further examination. Mentions the unbearable heat of the sun. The sender's signature is difficult, perhaps: Avraham Ben-Sor or Ben-Tor, אברהם …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "mawlāy al-Rayyis Yosef." It is unclear how much of the content is preserved. There might be someone named Abū …
Possibly just jottings in Arabic script. There may be the remains of a letter on verso.
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly an appeal for help of some kind, but it seems more complex than the usual flattery and litany of …
Letter from Avraham ha-Kohen to the community of Damsīs (לסאדתי ושיוכי אלקהל אלגליל קהל דמסיס). Mentioning the arrival of a letter with instructions from the …
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Petition from a woman to an unidentified addressee. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She is 'cut-off' (munqaṭiʿa) and her husband has kicked her out of the …
Original use: Letter from Eliyyahu b. Shelomo Gaʾon to David b. Yeḥizqiyya Rosh Ha-Gola. Dating: ca. 1046. In Hebrew. Published by Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). The handwriting is rudimentary and the orthography so idiosyncratic that it is difficult to understand. Probably a family letter; discussing all …
Verso: Draft of a letter apparently written in Edessa (al-Ruhā). In Judaeo-Arabic. In a different hand from the letter on recto (one of the Mosul …
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Poetic letter to Shemuʾel ha-Nagid, with jottings in Hebrew (repeated lines of Esther 1:1) and Arabic (see separate record). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Ṣedaqa to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Saʿadya, in Alexandria. Fragmentary (upper part of recto and address on verso). In Judaeo-Arabic. He has sent …
Letter from Shelomo Abū Shaʿra to a certain ʿOvadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–18th century. The sender's name is given in the body of …
Letter addressed to Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Musa. Verso contains a draft of greetings regarding the grandsons and great-grandsons of the recipient, written in a …
Part of a letter, mentioning Abū l-ʿIzz and the sum of 10 dirhams. A note, in a different hand and ink follows and refers to …
Business letter from Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen to Abū l-Banīn. In Arabic script. The sender apologizes for his delay. He has sent camphor candles (shamʿ kāfūrī, also …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half of the 12th century. Distinctive handwriting, especially the alefs. Mentions the well known trader Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. …
Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding the request that Nahray will deal with selling goods that the …
מולאי וסיידי ורייסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ותאידך מן אסכנדריא ליו כלון מן מרחשון ערפך אללה ברכתה ואלחאל סלאמה
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Letter to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. Abū l-Khayr al-ʿAkkāwī, Fustat, from his uncle (khāl) Ṣadoq b. Namir he-Ḥaver, Tiberias. "The imprisonment (and torture) of defaulting debtors …
Letter by Raḥamim b. Nissim to ʿArūs b. Yosef about dealing in purple and indigo.
Small fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a letter or petition which the addressee had written to the amīr Nāṣir al-Dawla (active ca. 1062–72). The sender reports …
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[Go]d the exalted [ ]
[the am]īr our colleagues [........ bes]t of prayers. [al-Shaykh Abū
al-Fa]raj, may God…
Letter/petition from Yehuda b. Ḥalfon to the Nagid (Abraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237), with a partial address, inverted, on verso. The sender is from Minyat [...]. …
Recto: fragment of a letter mentioning ‘the Nasi of the Exile’. The sender wants the addressee to speak to 'the captives' to take him with …
Verso: Informal note addressed to 'my lord and master al-rayyis.' Unclear what the content is. Ends "waffaqahu allāh taʿālā in shāʾ allāh." On recto there …
Letter from the grandfather of an orphaned girl who is about to marry, to her other grandfather, reminding him of his financial obligations (50 dinars) …
Letter to a distinguished person. In Hebrew. Formal, possibly a form letter or exemplar based on the layout.
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt to his son Abū Naṣr ʿAlī b. Abū ʿAli b. al-Quṣayr, in the alley of the candles, presumably in …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when …
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Fragment from a letter or account, mentioning 5 raṭl. (Information from CUDL.) In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212).
Beginning of a letter containing a request for a book to be made for the forthcoming holiday. Note on Goitein index card: Shelomo b. Eliyya. …
Clockwise from upper left: (a) Small fragment in Arabic script, with two words in Judaeo-Arabic at the bottom (stuck on from an unrelated document). Likely …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Baqā' (or perhaps Abū l-Baqā') to a certain teacher (melammed). The writer conveys his sympathies for some bad news and asks …
An epistle from the community of Alexandria to that of Mastuara (in Byzantium). The letter deals with the ransoming of Byzantine Jews taken captive, and …
בשמ רחמנא
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IB VI, 22b. Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Nissim M[...] to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated 11 Adar [5]568 AM (1808 CE).
Lower part of a letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. He describes his great distress (poverty, dependents, …
Letter fragment. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. The writer seems to be complaining about something. Mentions colocynth (al-ḥanẓal) and melon (al-faqqūs); the addressee's reward for …
Letter from Hilāl to his brother Abū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century, as these figures are known from …
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. One line only. No names preserved except "Abū l-"
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Not much of the content is preserved.
Letter from a certain Nissim to his sister. In Judaeo-Arabic. In an unusual format, with the lines downslanting rather than upslanting, and the left margin …