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Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ḍamān, "al-taqqaṣī wa-l-ijtihād" (finding something out diligently), a turban, and Abū Naṣr. On verso mentions half a dinar minus …
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Letter fragment, from Hārūn to his 'brother' Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions having lost his blanket with the masters of the bo[a]t and being pinched and …
Two eloquent drafts of complaint addressed to the Nagid Avraham and two of the chief justices in Fustat, against against Zikrī b. Musallam Ibn al-Naʿja …
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Letter from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim to Saʿadya ha-Rofe. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. It is hard to discern the content. Yeḥiel instructs Saʿadya "not to fast …
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (with motto) to the cantor Faraj Allah urging him to collect the jibāya for Yom Kippur. Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides' …
Letter from Efrayim b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1070 CE. The writer owns several apartments in Alexandria and …
וצל כתאב מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה נטרוהי מן שמיא וגברוהי למזלי ווקפת עליה ושכרת אללה
גל אסמה עלי מא תצמנה מן עלם סלאמתה וסאלתה אדאמתה…
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A letter of appeal asking for donation. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Fragment (lower right corner) of a letter written on parchment, which sends greetings, for example to the father of the addressee. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Letter from Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ibn al-Ammani written from Alexandria to Abu Sa'id al-'Attar (the perfumer) in Fustat. (Information from Frenkel; Goitein adds that the …
Letter from Shemuel b. Shānjī. Fragment (left side only). In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century (per Avraham David). The sender asks the addressee to buy him …
Partially preserved 11th century copy of second of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. …
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Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo (1755–1826) to the ḥakhams Shemuel Kohen and Yosef Shelomo, in Yevpatoria (גוזלווא). Dated: 1820 CE. Contains an intricate legal …
Letter probably sent from a man in Alexandria to his brother in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely second half of the 12th century. Rudimentary handwriting …
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions the arrival of people by boat. The scribe uses final ה for א, eg יומנה הדא.
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to a high dignitary. Sent from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo. The sender reports that he arrived safely in Alexandria on Thursday …
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Verso (original use) Letter of appeal for charity. The writer lost his wealth "in an instant" and had to wander in search of help. He …
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Fragment from the top of an informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains about being told "only froth and no substance" and asks to be …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bibas to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated Adar 5568 AM (1808 CE).
Hebrew letter to a judge in Jerusalem from his servant Shemuel. Probably of late date. (Information from Goitein index cards)
Letter from Toviyya to Eliyyahu the judge. Sent to Fustat, to the qāʿa of the faqīh Abū Manṣūr. Toviyya informs Eliyyahu that he found no …
I greet the dignity of the august patron, the great scholar, the honor and holiness of our master and teacher Elijah, the dear prince,
the …
End of a letter or document - needs examination.
Fragment of a letter. Mentions Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the judge (the writer?), who was a teacher and scribe in Fustat during the first half of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a return from somewhere; Purim; the capitation tax (al-jāliya); a severe illness (marḍa shadīda); entering Fustat; Sammanūd; "my hand and …
Letter from Avraham ha-Parnas b. Menaḥem to the brothers Yiṣḥaq and Yehoshuaʿ b. Khalfa(?). On vellum. Extremely ornate, calligraphic, scribal hand, vocalized Hebrew. It is …
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic.The lower half of recto and the upper half of verso are preserved. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions goods such …
Condolence and business letter to the brothers Eliyyahu and Leon.
Letter from Moshe b. Shemuel Ibn Jamia from Gabes/Qabis (Ifriqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1030. The letter deals with shipments of …
Letter from Hillel b. Abū l-MN[...], probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Faraj Hilāl al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The …
Letter from Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Algiers (ארגיל), to Daniel Cafsuto (דניאל קאפסוטו) and perhaps his son (? the word looks like ומשרתו) Shemuel Cafsuto. In …
Letter fragment, in Arabic script. Dating: late, maybe 17th–19th century. Needs examination.
Part of a letter, probably from the first half of the 11th century, possibly written by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen, on behalf of the Jerusalemite …
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Recto: Fragment of a faded Judaeo-Arabic letter with greetings from Menaḥem at the bottom and sent to Tiberias. Mentions that someone had lived in Jerusalem; …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to 40 parchments; a group of merchants from Barqa (qawm Barqiyyīn); the arrival from the addressee's location of "the dogs" …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. [...] to Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is an 11th-century, Maghribī business letter. Uncited in the literature.
Memorandum by Khalfa b. Ishaq b. Menahem from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. Regarding a large deal of beads. The writer addresses …
תדכרה מחבך וואדך כלפה בן יצחק בן מנחם ננ
יאכי וסידי יאבא יחיי נהראי סלמך אללה ואבקאך בעת
אליך עלי ידי סידי אלשיך [א]בי סחק ברהון בן אסחק …
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Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (ca. 1112–26 CE). It is …
Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaʾon according to Gil), in Ṣahrajt, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE …
Letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter perhaps from [...] b. Yosef to Shemuʾel b. Shelomo he-Ḥaver. In Hebrew, in an elevated register. Long and poorly preserved. The sender praises a …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Family and/or mercantile. On verso there are few lines in very faded Hebrew script.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to [...] Abū ʿImrān. Mentions the intercalation of the calendar and something the sender intended to do before he fell …
Two drafts of the same letter to the "holy congregation" about Yosef Saftawi (trader in "safta," it seems an Indian spice) who had been given …
Letter sent from Barūkh Rafūl Serūr to his father updating him on the circumstances of the family – 17 Tishrīn al-ʾAwwal 1929CE – (number 21) …
Letter. Small fragment. Mentions "jāh." (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Ḥalfon and Yosef, probably from Ascalon, to Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen the fourth (Ha-Revi'i) b. Evyatar, Tyre, approximately 1094.
אלביש
לב וג
Letter from Khalaf b. Muḥammad(?) al-Ṭarābulsī (the Tripolitan), unknown location, to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market (sūq al-ʿaṭṭārīn). In Arabic …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Refers to a decision of "the elders of the Jews." Legible phrases: لهما من . . . …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right piece). Very faded. Mentions a shop and Abū l-Faḍl.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century, since it mentions the currency ashrafī. Deals mainly with business matters. Mentions …