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Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender received Frankish kohl (kuḥl ifrānjī) from the addressee but does not know its price. There are also standard expressions …
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Probably part of a letter. The name Ṣedaqa is mentioned. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Asks Nahray to …
Letter of appeal probably from Berakhot b. Shemuel, addressed to Abu l-Ḥasan the father of Abu l-Mufaddal. He says he has been a stranger in …
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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Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter mentioning Mūsā b. Burhān, Faraḥ the writer's brother-in-law, Abū l-Faḍl, and someone titled Sayyidnā.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. No full sentences are preserved. There are wishes for someone to be recompensed in heaven, and possibly a report on business …
Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham ben Yiju. This fragment contains the Judaeo-Arabic opening on recto (with an internal address) and an Arabic-script external …
Possibly a fragment from a circular letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, with the genealogy at the top of recto and part of the address (משער הישיבה) …
Informal note from an unknown sender to ʿĀmir b. Isḥāq (per recto) and/or to Abū Kathīr Efrayim (per verso). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender wants the …
Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ to Abū l-Ṭayyib Sa'id reporting on transactions and asking for news of the addressee. Also asking for shipment of some …
עלקת אליך יאסידי אטאל אללה בקאך הדה אלרקעה אעלמך קד
אנפדת אליך מע חאמלהא עשרין כישה בראני כמא סאלת אשתרית
לך בדינ ואן טלבת זאיד או חאגה א…
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Very faded. Mentions a certain Shemuel, an Arabic letter, and the jamāʿa.
Letter from Abū l-Majd to two distinguished addressees. 17 lines of Hebrew blessings are preserved. The lower part, containing the body of the letter, is …
Business letter in Arabic script from Nissim b. Efrayim to his son Efrayim in Fustat, mentioning his pain at not having received letters from his …
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Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to his nephew Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: September 6, …
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Letter of recommendation, sent to the community of al-Jazīra (it seems Algeciras, the Spanish port on the strait of Gibraltar). In the margin on verso …
Letter from Avraham b. Ḥabīb to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Surūr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. Concerning business matters. The sender reports that Faraḥ, the …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sālim al-Ḥaver, the female slave of R. Nissim, Sulaymān, the old woman, and Abū l-Faraj the ghulam of [...]. Also …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only a few phrases preserved.
Letter from Abū l-Faraj b. Sāl[im] to Abū l-Fuḍayl Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Not a great deal of the content remains. It seems that the …
Letter from Shelomo to his brothers Abū l-Tahir and Mukhliṣ. Each line is copied twice, presumably later as an exercise. Verso: pen trials, including copies …
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community for a celebration at the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis – on the occasion of celebrating in the Jewish …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic - from the end of the 12th or first half of 13th century. Mentions "Sayyidnā may he live forever," which may be …
Fragment of a letter with introduction in Hebrew mentioning Rabbenu Netanʾel (presumably either the addressee or his father). Mentions commodities such as pepper; prior to …
Recto: fragment of a letter in a crude hand, mentioning a woman’s death, מתה וערסה על השלחן. Verso: letter of consolation in a different hand, …
IB, V, 24. Letter from Shelomo Kohen b. Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Sijilmasi, in Fustat, to his father, most likely in Aden while on …
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Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~8 lines are preserved. Jottings in the margins. Using the language of a petition, possibly a letter …
Letter concerning business affairs in which the writer describes ships that are about to leave port and references ‘al-ṭārma,’ a small cabin on Nile boats, …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Five lines, well preserved. Written in an elevated register. May begin with a reference to the Torah …
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Verso is the first page. Mentions 100,000(!) mithqāls; Bū l-Faraj; a ship; the sender has enclosed a second letter for …
Correspondence of Moshe Gaster. There is a set of learned queries from Israel Isbitsky, 23 Lucas St, Commercial Rd, dated 1908 CE. There is a …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: probably 1039 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Calligraphic letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with wide space between the lines, probably a letter of recommendation for a certain [...]n b. Ṣedaqa who comes from an …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions exchange rates several times; mastic; having purchased cinnabar in partnership with Hārūn b. Nissim; and other names …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that …