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Letter from Yedutun ha-Levi, likely to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Little of the content remains apart from blessings and formulae. He reports that …
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Late letter from Yehuda Levi, mentioning people including Yosef, several women including Rika and Qamr, and Raḥamim Buḥayrī. (Information in part from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably late. Possibly a join: ENA NS 39.21 + ENA NS 42.28.
Draft of the opening of of a letter, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century. Prefaced with ~10 biblical quotations (all missing …
Letter fragment (lower left part). In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting seems familiar. ". . . betroth her and take her, and let him not be absent …
A fragment from what seems to be a letter of appeal(?) in very nice, square Hebrew characters addressed to the dear elder (הזקן היקר). The …
IB II, 10. Memorandum to a traveler carrying Indian goods to Yiṣḥaq b. Bundar. India, ca. 1110.
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Minute fragment of a letter. On recto a few words from the beginning (prefaced כי רם ייי) and in the margin. On verso part of …
Verso: fragment of a letter addressed to Moshe ha-Levi, head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov. He was appointed as Gaʾon already around 1140, when Yehuda ha-Levi …
Letter from [...] al-Urjuwānī, in Darūṭ Sarabām (or Sarayām, aka Dayrūṭ al-Sharīf), addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ (here called Abū l-Farḥa) ʿArūs b. Yūsuf al-Isrāʾīlī al-Urjuwānī. …
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Letter to a dignitary. Concerning travel and business transactions, including in military gear and enslaved people. Alternate readings (ASE): - instead of الحتة in r10 …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded and hard to discern any of the content. Mentions time/fate several times, cites Berakhot 3b, “A pit cannot [be filled …
Letter from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ to Confrada Khumsa Kharja(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century.
Letter fragment. One of the addressees is Yosef on the verso. In Judaeo-Arabic, with part of the address or a postscript in Arabic script.(it looks …
Letter from Mawhūb b. Aharon the ḥazzan to Nahray b. Nissim. Containing mainly warm greetings and blessings, particularly for Nahray’s son. He notes that he …
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Letter
Letter in Arabic script. The writer is in Aden. He reports that something of the addressee's is safe in his keeping. "If his (or your?) …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …
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A letter from Yosef b. Eliyyahu Qaraj to Yosef b. Ishaq
Letter sent in response to a message from the addressee, with well-wishes related to the addressee's illness or frailty (iltiyāth). Elevated register. Dating: 11th or …
Letter from a man of communal standing, perhaps Daniel b. Azarya (1051-1062) bestowing the title 'Hod Ha-Zeqenim' upon the worthy elder and physician Avraham Ha-Kohen, …
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Letter referring to a courtier, ‘the honoured Sar’. Neatly and closely written. Mentions Abū Khayr Efrayim b. Yeshaʿyahu. The letter is written both in the …
Incomplete letter to a physician asking him to intervene with the Nagid concerning a complaint about a teacher from Tiberias who is accused of influencing …
Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo (1755–1826) to Yosef Shelomo b. Moshe Lutzki, in Yevpatoria. Dated: 1820 CE. Information from NLI.
Recto: Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: probably poetry in a crude hand. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter from a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic, headed by Hebrew verses. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Only the beginning of …
Fragment of a circuit judge's report about actions with estate of Abū l-Fakhr in Damīra, written December 1258 CE (late Tevet 1570 Seleucid). Abū l-Fakhr …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. ואנא עלי עין מא ארא . . . ען אלבלד . . . ימצי . . . האלהים יברכיהו . . …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with one phrase in Arabic script (a formulaic blessing/prayer). Little of the substance of the letter is preserved. The sender expresses longing …
Poetic epistle addressed to the poet and man of letters Yehuda ha-Levi, who was also a well-to-do physician and devoted time to public welfare and …
Letter or letters. Dating: Probably 19th century. The first page is entirely in Hebrew. Mentions Alexandria, a certain Pinkerli, and includes the line, "If you …
Letter from Menashshe to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1063. Menashshe warns Nahray that Uqban (b. Salman) who passed away has a daughter, and this …
ואתצל בי יאמולאי ו[פ]את עקבאן רחמה אללה
ואנסא פי אגלה ואן זוגתה אכדת מוכרהא ובאקי
שייה יאכדה אבן עמה ועקבאן רחמה אללה לה
יורש פי אלמהדי…
Small strip consisting of three separate sheets, at least one of them a letter, stuck or glued together. (Information from CUDL)
On recto a letter in Hebrew. On verso another text probably in Judeo Turkish
Letter from the wife of Maʿānī. Desperate letter of appeal to the 'courts' (judges) from a blind woman whose husband had fled to Alexandria and …
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Letter from Ya’aqov b. Salman al-Hariri, from Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer describes what he has been through while he …
[כתאבי] יאסידי [ומולאי] אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה וצרף אלאסוא ענה מן
[אל]רשיד לי בקין מן טבת ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל אן פי אלס…
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Fragment of a family/business letter in Arabic script. Mentioning head scarves and other garments and that "the children are screaming... (may God send) you deliverance …
Letter from a woman to her husband. Written in excellent script and style. The writer is angry that her husband had to live in her …
See T-S AS 219.131.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently a response to an inquiry about copies of the Torah. Not entirely clear.
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (a piece from the right side of recto). Extremely smudged and faded. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Too faded to read.
Letter in Ladino. Dated 21 Sivan 5486 AM which is 1726 CE. Mentions Yaʿaqov Lanyado (l. 3) and Ḥusayn Effendi (l. 7).
Recto and beginning of verso: Letter from a sick man to a physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has collected the prescription that the …
אלבית תרא חצרתה
פי מא ינפעל לי לא עדמת
איאדיהא ולא כלות מנהא אבדא
ושלום הדרתו יגדל ואל ידל לעד
נצח סלה
יא מולאי אמא תאתיר אלדוא פ…
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (a piece from the right side of recto). Confirms the receipt of various good: …
Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yijū to Saadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Fragment. Dating: ca. 1160s. Same writer and addressee: Moss. VII,152.1, ENA 4020.1, ENA …
Letter addressed to Eliyya b. Mishaʾel ha-Levi. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "the mighty prince" (ha-Sar ha-Adir) and his father is called …
Letter of recommendation for a poor woman.
Fragment (narrow sliver containing the beginnings of the lines) of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭā'if
Letter from Efrayim b. Nissim, apparently in the Rīf, to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat, ca. 1040. (Gil)
[אטאל אל]לה יאכי וסידי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך פי גמיע
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