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Recto and verso: Letter to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Politely disputing a quotation used in his sermon on the preceding Saturday, the topic of which …
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Calligraphic letter sent by Eliyyahu b. Khalaf to a man, evidently the head of the Jews in Fustat or Cairo, emphasizing that the community in …
Letter in Arabic script. Opens with expressions of longing and regret for how the sender did not stay with the addressee. The sender reports that …
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Letter from 1908. No image
No Scholarship Records
In conservation. Letter to Abu Thabit the cantor to Cairo (data from Mosseri Catalogue). AA
Letter from a Tāhartī in al-Mahdiyya to her brother Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Fustat, reporting about the family members in al-Mahdiyya and mentioning his …
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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, …
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Letter of complaint. In Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphically written, with wide line-spacing. Against an adversary who denounced the sender to the government, gave false witness against him …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Opening only. The writer is pained because someone is sick (perhaps al-Rashīd?).
Letter from an unknown writer in Jerusalem addressed to R. Maʿūẓa and his sons Sālim and Yaḥyā. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 19th century, as …
Statement to the youth of the Jewish community in Cairo explaining the vices of its members, their selfishness, and that the interests of the community …
Letter in the hand of Daniel b. Azarya (Gil) to ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Daniel b. Azarya refers to notebooks of responsa (including some by Samuel …
Letter from the ḥaver Yehoshuaʿ b. ʿEli al-Lādhiqī(?), in Jerusalem, to Abū l-ʿIzz(?) b. ʿEli Abū Manṣūr, in New Cairo. The letter consists of a …
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning the arrival of a letter from the addressee. Probably a draft. Starting to complain about ill treatment by …
Letter of Yoshiyahu ha-Nasi to Elʿazar ha-Sar. Generous spacing between the lines. The hand is known from other documents and dates to the 13th century. …
Invitation for attending a gathering at Abu al-Sabāʿ Street in Cairo, and on the page there is a letter between friends in Hebrew – July …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The addressee is greeted as ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-raʾīs al-jalīl. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥusayn told …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking Manṣūr to slaughter for Bū l-Faraj on the 14th of Shevaṭ (i.e. serve as substitute slaughterer?).
Verso (original use): Three distinct document in Arabic script, which have been cut and glued together for the sake of reuse on recto. (1) T-S …
Letter fragment from Yosef. In Ladino and Hebrew. Mentions R. Moshe שלושור(?).
Letter from Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib (same as in ENA NS 77.397 (PGPID 13697)?) to Abū [...]. Interestingly begins with the verse/motto הנה אל ישועתי. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Addressed to a notable (אלחכם אלנבון אלרייס אלאגל....). Mentions renting something, the word or name qaḍīb, and offers to fulfill …
Letter fragment from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov to Sar Shalom b. Hiyya. Damaged. Contains mostly blessings.
Letter probably in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel (active early 13th century); not immediately clear if he is writing for himself or as a …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment: left side only. Reporting that the writer has sent 3 dinars and urging the rapid sending of something (a horse? …
Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left lower piece). Mentions Abū l-Najm. Goitein's index card says "perhaps to Nahray (b. Nissim)" but it's unclear on what basis. …
IB VII, 36. Letter from Alexandria to a merchant in Fustat (Gil) or from Fusṭāṭ to Aden (Goitein). Dating: 1065 (Gil) or c. 1100 (Goitein). …
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Verso: The end of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother," and he may be an actual brother since the sender …
Letter from Yaʿaqov to his son Shemuel and wife Umm Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written over four columns and folded like a bifolium. The writer castigates …
Draft of a begging letter regarding some commercial and apparently personal relationship. A certain Abū l-Maʿānī is mentioned (the sender wants his payments for his …
Recto: Business letter in Arabic script. Mentioning various small transactions and giving instructions. Verso: Barely legible Hebrew text
Letter from Shelomo b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. Shelomo had been asked to …
על שמך
לם יכן תאכיר כתבי ען מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה
ואדאם עזה אלא אתר לתכפיף ען חצרתה ואלא אציף אליה
שגל סר מן גהתי לאנני אער…
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Letter sent by a ḥaver to "al-Ḥemdat" Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi, complaining that he has been snubbed and persecuted by the latter's son-in-law. …
Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq Sholal ha-Kohen to an unnamed benefactor. Dating: 16th century. (Information from CUDL; see also A. David's edition and description on …
IB II, 11a. Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138) to Avraham b. Bundār. Location: Fustat. Dating: Early 12th century. Ornate thank you letter and …
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Letter from Ya’aqov b. Yosef al-Tunisi, Fustat, to Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti, Ramla. The writer sends goods to Ramla, to the merchant’s officer Ahmad b. …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …
Letter appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a header and some phrases in Hebrew.
Business letter addressed to a certain Abu Saʿd. The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be …
Letter to Abī Sālim (?) b. Efrayim and Yaḥyā b. Efrayim, replying to previous correspondence, explaining the writer’s bad situation and asking for support. In …
Letter fragment from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi probably to one of his brothers. Recto is too faded to read. Part of the address is preserved …
Fragment of a letter to a Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. Mentioning something that arrived from Damascus; something the writer sent with Yaʿqūb; Rabbenu …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Closing greetings only.
Letter mentioning [Abū] Zikrī and illnesses. Small fragment. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter sent to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century, or possibly 12th. Reporting that some merchants perished when their ships were …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is complaining about legal rivals and losing money. Mentions "sayyidnā," "the elders," and Yosef b. Bū l-[...].
IB VII, 49. Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning persons connected with the India trade, including Maḍmūn [b. Ḥasan]. Opens with a report and condolences about …
Fragment of an opening to a letter to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal. The letter was written in Jerusalem. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …
Letter, two fragments of a single letter, in Arabic script.