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Fragment of or postscript to a letter requesting a visit or a letter from the recipient. (Information from Goitein's typed texts)
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Very blurred letter to the Nasi and the Head of the Diaspora (David b. Daniel?) asking for assistance for hungry people. The needy person is …
Letter from someone in ʿAsqalān/Ashqelon to Abū l-Faḍl [...] al-ʿAsqalānī, in Cairo. In Hebrew and/or Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Only a few …
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Letter fragment from the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe known as Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, in the Rīf, to the elder and cantor Yakhin b. …
Fragment of letter granting the privilege of slaughtering birds, written in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (or rather Efrayim b. Shemarya?). (Information …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century. Mentions many greetings. Names include: Mūsā; Yehuda; Sulaymān al-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī; Abū Naṣr b. Sālim; Hārūn; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "I wrote to him a letter of condolence.... please apologize to him for me for the shortcoming... his death, but...
Letter from a Jewish woman, in or near Tripoli (Lebanon), to her brother-in-law, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She is a refugee from Jerusalem who has …
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Brief letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to [...] Saʿīd. Mentions "what you said to me regarding the drugs (? אלסמים)" and requests to be sent a …
Recto: List of the opening lines of twenty dirges, followed by a note to Bū l-Majd: "O my master the elder Bū l-Majd (=Meʾir b. …
Minute fragment in Arabic, perhaps documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Probably a letter (ʿalā abūk afḍal al-salām. . .).
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon (ca. 1100–38). Very damaged and faded.
Copies of various letter by Ishaq Laniado. Late.
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen B. Hayyim, Fustat, approximately 1060.
A defense of the pietists in Egypt, written by the Nagid in the form of a circular to the judges under his jurisdiction. At the …
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking to be sent an explanation of a Talmudic passage (אֶלָּא אָמַר רָבָא כִּי הֲוֵינַן בֵּי רַב נַחְמָן הֲוָה מְטַלְטְלִינַן כָּנוּנָא, …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only phrases from the opening and part of the address are preserved. The Arabic on verso is likely …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Khayr; Faraj; ʿIwāḍ; some quarter-dinars (? rubāʿiyya); and perhaps a Tāhartī (last legible word of right margin). If the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions various business matters.
Verso: Three fragments of a letter from from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he fulfilled the …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: May be 11th century based on handwriting and formulae. Greetings to Abū l-Riḍā al-Naḥḥās(?) and Abū …
Invitation for attending a public and routine meeting of the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva Sunday 28 March 1948CE – 1 March 1948CE – Museum of Islamic …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a certain Farajallāh. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century, based on handwriting and reference to the currency "bunduqīs"/Venetian (ducats). Needs examination.
Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237 CE) on verso. Needs examination.
Business letter from a father, probably in Alexandria, to a son, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: Looks 12th century, but this is a …
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Informal note in Arabic. Addressing Bū Saʿd (الشيخ بو سعد ابقاه الله . . . ) and apparently conveying urgent instructions for him regarding delivering …
Letter from Moshe b. Abū Zikrī to his relative, Araḥ b. Natan, on matters of commerce. Moshe expresses his concern about the fact that Araḥ …
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Fragment of a letter addressed to al-Kohen [...] Abū l-Bayān. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. Refers to legal queries and/or responsa (fatāwa) …
Verso, with address on recto (original use): Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel. NB: The joins were made by Moshe Yagur. Several additional fragments were …
Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic. T-S NS 322.101–17 all belong to the …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, in which the sender gives an excuse for something.
Letter from Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī. Around 1057. The letter was probably from Susa to Fustat and it contains the account of Musa b. Barhun …
אכר חסאב אן דפעה אלמרחום ממא אנפדת אליה נסכתה בקא עלי אלכלטה לה
סלף כמסין דינ ותלתין מנהא לו דינ תסקט מן אללו דינ אלדי וצלת לידה אולא מן
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Draft of a letter/petition from an official to the Nagid Mevorakh. In Judaeo-Arabic. Same sender, same addressee, and same subject as T-S 18J4.12 (PGPID 3534). …
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Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "O you whose slave I am: the servant came to the house in the end, seeking you on account of …
Letter from Yosef b. Farah, Fustat, to his brother Farah b. Ismail in Busir, December 1055 (Gil), or to his nephew Ibn al-Surur Farah b. …
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Letter from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), probably in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. …
Recto: liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter, but almost nothing preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Verso and upper margin of recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be'). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
Upper fragment: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, to a family member, in Fustat. He reports that their letter and the chebulic myrobalan …
Letter from a man entitled “segan ha-yeshiva” to Aharon the Cantor. Dating: Possibly ca. 1035 CE, based on Goitein identification of the addressee with Aharon …
Recto: Letter fragment (upper part only) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (identification based on handwriting). In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a group of people, it seems. …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Letter from David to the Nasi Shelomo (probably the 13th-century Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay), informing him of an oath a certain Makīn had to take …
Letter from an unknown writer to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer rebukes the addressee for failing to write with his news. Everyone has …
India Book, II, 21 + 21c. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. Fragments of four or …
The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,
with regard to what you owed h…
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Recto: Letter from an unidentified distinguished man to a judge or communal leader. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand might be known (resembles T-S Misc.28.88, another …
ישועה בן אברהם נע [סל?]מאן בן אלעזר
וקפנא אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלריס אלגליל אדאם תמכינה וקדאסתה ו…
Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to [Mevorakh] b. Seʿadya. Essentially nothing is preserved apart from these names. (Information from Cohen, Self-Government, p. 243n110, where similar …
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. After many nice phrases, the body …
Letter addressed to a father. In Arabic script. Dating: late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. The sender asks if someone has sent money, because if not, he …