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Letter to Eliyyahu the judge, with jottings in the margin. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 8 lines from near the top are preserved. Written in a chancery-esque hand and in an elevated register. The sender …
Letter fragment addressed to ʿAbd al-[Karī?]m (or al-Raḥīm?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; uses the currencies medin and ashrafī. The bullk of …
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1051. Mentions a legal matter and several goods as pearls and …
[כתאבי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סל]אמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה [ ]
[ ען חאל] סלאמה ללה…
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Letter or official report in Arabic script. The upper ~8 lines are preserved. Refers multiple times to a district (nāḥiya) called ىىىان (Baysān?) and refers …
Letter in Ladino. Fragment from the end of the letter. Mentions Damietta, and includes well wishes for numerous contacts and family members.
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions: "...from aṣḥābnā.... wheat... the muqṭaʿīn(?)... to Fustat...." On verso an inshāllah and, at 180 degrees, possibly …
Letter from Yoel to Efrayim. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender is likely identical with Yoel ha-Melammed (see e.g. T-S 20.148), since it is a …
Letter addressed to Makārim b. Ṭayyib in 'the land of Egypt' (diyār Miṣr), indicating that it was sent from outside of Egypt. In Hebrew (for …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. Small fragment (upper left corner).
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Both need examination.
India Book (IB) IV,74 (ח77). Page from a letter sent by Abū Naṣr b. Avraham from Alexandria to Ḥalfon b. Netanel in Cairo on the …
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Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, small fragment. Refers to a 'big man' (shakhṣ kabīr) and a great favor (עטימה ותפצל עלי). On verso there are jottings in …
Large vertical strip from the right side of a business letter, account, or legal document. On parchment. Dating: Maybe 11th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a …
Letter from Al-Mubārak b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Sabra to his "father" (paternal uncle?) Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra. He reports that Ibn Siman Ṭov …
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Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The sender is awaiting an order or rescript to a petition (wa-anā muntaẓir al-tawqīʿ bi-[...]). …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-Tājir in l. 3. Mentions a variant of the raʾy clause: "al-ʾārā al-ʿāliyya". Could be a …
Letter or petition, probably. In Arabic script. Three lines are mostly preserved. Seems to be talking about assisting a group of people.
A letter contains mostly discussion on the calendar from Ishaq b. Shlomo
Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, to Yehuda Per[...]. In Ladino with Hebrew introductory formulae.
Unidentified document (letter?) in Arabic script. Mentions going to Damietta (يوجه الى دمياط).
A pair of business letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely 15th–18th century. Recto, with the address on verso: letter to Binyamin b. Qalyūsa (?) al-Ghazzāwī …
Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Maʿālī al-Dimashqī. Almost nothing is preserved apart from the opening and the address. (Information from CUDL)
IB II, 30. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: mutual assistance. Aden, ca. 1136.
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Letter(s), mainly. In Judaeo-Arabic. On one side there is a horizontal strip from the beginning of a letter. Reporting that a woman (ṣāḥibat al-bayt) borrowed …
Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Qayrawān. In Hebrew. The content of the letter is lacking, with only the sender's title and …
Announcement by the anonymous charity society for approaching the "five millieme" project in supporting poor women in marital costs – undated – Museum of Islamic …
Invitation from the union of Jewish religious institutions to the general public for the foundation of a cooperative enterprise for kosher meats – 25 April …
Two fragments of a letter of appeal for charity, in Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Quotes biblical verses and includes a prayer …
Fragment written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Likely the bottom of a letter, but the content is not clear. At the bottom, mentions "her …
End of a letter from 'your brother Avraham Perdonel.' Late. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṣafar 613 AH = Sivan 1528 Seleucid = May/June 1217 CE. Most of the remaining content is formulaic.
Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen and Yeshuʿa b. Yefet, in Ashqelon, to Eliyyahu b. Evyatar ha-Kohen. Dated: 13 Ḥeshvan 1424 Seleucid, which is 1112 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dīn and a Jewish physician.
Group letter occasionally explaining commercial conditions – 1923CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 131) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Verso: fragment of a letter, probably. This portion consists entirely of blessings for a certain Yehuda (titled Sar ha-Teʿuda among other titles), probably the addressee.
A letter from Eliyyahu al-Qustantini b. Shelomo, writing to Efrayim he-Haver b. Shemarya, head of the Ben Ezra congregation (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Eliyyahu was held …
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Letter in which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks his teacher, the judge R. Hananel, to inform his father Eliyyahu that he is very ill, suffering from …
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IB II, 45. Letter from the scribe of the yeshiva to Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundar. Cairo, ca. 1128-39.
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Form letter from the community of Hebron. In Hebrew. Dated: 5539 AM, which is 1778/79 CE. The name Refa'el Ḥannuka is filled in in big …
IB II, 68. Letter (or draft of letter) from a certain Ḥ[alfon] (?) to Shemaryāhū b. David (i.e. the Hebrew name of Maḍmūn b. David) …
אלעבד חל[פון ...]
י''ק צפ' תפ' הוד ועטרת וצניף כותרת מ[רנא ורבנא]
שמריהו הנגיד הגדול נגיד הנגידים וראש
החסדים וינהי אנה מן בעץ צנאיעך דאעי…
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same handwriting as ENA NS 48.13 (per the note photographed with the image), which Frenkel has been identified as …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
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Letter of condolence from Saʿadya b. Ṣadaqa ha-Ḥazzan, probably in Minyat Zifta. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to somebody known as Ibn al-Ḥ[...], probably in …
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script.
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mainly about business transactions with sugar (sukkar, qand). Mentions Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Thanāʾ, al-Muhadhdhab, and the sender's …
Letter fragment on behalf of the lepers of Tiberias to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years Efrayim b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: "half of the jizya" and the desired arrival of [...] b. Natan;. (Information in part from CUDL)
Petition from Cairo to Gaon Sar Shalom (ca. 1177-1195) in which the wife of Abu al-Ḥasan, the miller, requests that the latter not be permitted …