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Letter to Abu Yaʿaqov Yosef the Dyer, from Perahya b. Yosef informing him that he arrived in Alexandria and found Yosef’s wife and children to …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Ordering items such as silk, pine resin (ʿilk ṣanawbar), and olive oil. Verso: List of goods in Judaeo-Arabic. Also …
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Autograph note from Avraham Maimonides to al-Shaykh al-Talmid al-Ajall al-Raṣuy(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to mention somebody in need (...wa-ḍururātuh...) and Rabbi Menaḥem. The third line …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, possibly in Bet Guvrin (verso, l. 16), to a certain Shemuel, in Jerusalem. The letter is in Hebrew for the …
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Letter to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee had left when she was ill (marīḍa). The writer mentions Sulaymān, whom they had not seen for …
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Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Qābila ("Son of …
Two copies of a late Hebrew letter (?).
Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary (... sar ha-ʿeda ha-nadiv ve-ha-shavaʿ...)
Letter from a woman named Qamr, in Jerusalem, to her brother Moshe Farikh (פריך), in Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Likely early 17th century, based on A. David's …
IB I, 14. Letter from Yosef Lebdi to Ḥasan b. Bundar, 'the representative of the merchants' in Aden, written in the hand of Hillel b. …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Surūr and [M]anṣūr. Conveys condolences on the death of their mother. On verso are a few words in …
Verso: Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE, mentioning Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Joins by Mordechai Akiva …
A letter to Yosef b. Shmuel
Recto: Letter from communal leaders, in Alexandria, to the judge Shemuel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unclear; likely early 13th century, based on handwriting and …
Complaint from an Egyptian Jew to the head of an iron foundry – January 31 1947CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 268) – …
Letter from the Qaraite community of Damascus to the Qaraite community of Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Tammuz 5512 AM (ואתה על), which is 1752 CE. …
Small fragment from the beginning of a commercial letter. 11th-century Maghribī hand. Might mention Ibn al-Yamānī. A few words from the address in Judaeo-Arabic and …
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 …
Minute fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably. The word mutafaḍḍil is preserved.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions the currency ghurūsh.
Fragment of a letter from Amr b. Ibrahim to Cairo dealing with commercial matters. The sender mentions that he delivered some of the addressee's letters …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer conveys longing for the addressee (reports about people who are so overcome by weeping that they cannot be recognized) …
ENA 4050: Fragments of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to one of the community leaders in Qayrawan. Around 1008. Maybe was addressed to …
A letter to Mordechai b. Shmuel
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, 25 August 1056 (Gil). Mentions that Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ (here called Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣāʾigh) …
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A torn fragment probably from a letter in Hebrew. Large square script. Only a few words remaining on each line. Containing blessings for the addressee …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 5 July 1836 (20 Tammuz 5596), from Rashid, addressed to Moshe Bunān, Fusṭāṭ. The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and …
Beginning of a letter addressing the Rayyis Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237), referenced in l. 12 as "al-Nagid"– a title he bore after 1213 CE, specifically.
Fragment of a letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Mentions business with pearls and the coming travel of two people to Ladikya. (Information from Gil, …
] אללה יכתב סלאמה אלגמיע [ ] ברקלואת יאכי לו כאנת קד
] אלסוק פי אול וסקה ואמא אלסעה מא טלב פי ברקלו ול אלי ח[ל]
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Informal note. Mercantile. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Asking the addressee to arrange for one of the writer's representatives or colleagues in Alexandria or …
Letter fragment addressed to Ḥusayn al-Ṣabbagh al-Ḍāmin in formal style and in curious script of large characters, asking the recipient to pay 1/6 dinars for …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a reused scrap of Arabic-script accounts. Mentions that "we demanded the oath from Abū Saʿd... he said that he …
Letter describing a sea voyage from Tripoli to Sicily (CUDL). “Of another Jew we read in a Hebrew letter that in a large ship, in …
Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti to Yosef b. Awkal and his sons Hillel and Binyamin (written 8.21.1008, received 11.1.1008), upper fragment only.
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Long business letter mainly in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era. At the top of recto there is a summary of accounts with R. Avraham during …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Chastising the addressee for something (it is not entirely clear what). "That which you did, an enemy wouldn't even do it …
Letter, fragmentary, in which the writer complains that a woman's outfit was incomplete and asks for money to buy flour. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Letter from Berakhot b. Shemuel to [...] b. Shemuel ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Politely reminding him to fulfill his promise about working to sell the siddur(? v5). …
Letter from the office of the Nagid David II b. Yehoshuaʿ II Maimonides (in office ca. 1355–1410) addressed to the congregation of Fustat. The Nagid's …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with small business transactions. Regards to [Sitt] Naʿīm and her husband Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan.
Letter from Aharon ha-Kohen b. Namir to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Moshe. The writer informs the addressee that the item he expects is now on its …
Complete letter of the 15th or later centuries, with a ב״ה in the top margin. It mentions Shemuʾel Jerbi (the sender?), and two others, David …
Letter from the head of the Spanish community in Egypt to the Rosh ha-Ḥakhamim, discussing schisms between the Tripolitan (אלטראבלסיין), Tunisian (התונסיין) and Maghrebi (מערביים) …
Letter/petition in Arabic script from Isḥāq al-Qāriʾ. In Arabic script. Reporting that he is engaged in Hebrew studies and asking for material support. (Information in …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic probably from Ibrahim to Hayya ha-Kohen the teacher in Palermo (i.e. same writer and addressee as T-S 8J16.25). Nothing of substance …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: someone called Rabbenu; a request to thank al-Shaykh al-Thiqa on the sender's behalf; telling the addressee to be …
Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. The text preserved is either from the right margin or the …
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost no details preserved.
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions Rabbenu [...], a request for news, an excuse for not coming in person, something …