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Letter addressed to Rabbenu Ḥayyim (מרנו ורבנו חיים הרב הגדול בישראל). Letter of recommendation for the bearer, the nephew of the Kohen Abū l-ʿIzz(?). Small …
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Letter from a woman to Sitt [Qa]ḍīb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions items like the robes (shuqāq?) and the blankets (al-mulayḥifāt). Regards to Sutayt, the elder Abū …
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Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment ın Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. Dealing with communal affairs including something about people who could not or refused to pray in the synagogue. …
Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew. The beginnings of 21 lines are preserved. Good candidate for a join.
Petition from Yusuf requesting help from the addressee, Natan, for a woman who has weak vision and a blind daughter. The sender also enquires after …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Recto: Letter of appeal from a woman who "is among the captives from Palestine." Dating: both Goitein and Gil date this document to the early …
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and deeds of charity, for my salvation is near to come and my charity to be revealed (Isaiah 56:1).
Blessed are thos…
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Letter fragment, or note in Judaeo-Arabic. "akhadha mawlāya". Few jottings in Arabic on verso. Needs examination.
Letter sent to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay in Fustat by his assistant in Bilbays, describing his journey from Syria to Egypt and saying that …
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Letter in which a Kohen, who is in financial difficulties and is the father of girls, asks the Nagid Mevorakh to allow him to beg …
Letter on behalf of a Byzantine convert named Raḥel, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. The main part of the letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) …
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Letter sent from an unknown person, in Alexandria, to a family member named Yosef, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably no earlier than 15th century. …
Letter of ʿEli ha-Mumḥe (‘the Adept’) b. Abraham in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fusṭāṭ, with the continuation and, inverted, the address on verso. …
IB VII, 37. Letter addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Concerning the India trade. Giving details about 15 …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu’s hand? Mentions an old woman, then somebody's (probably the writer's) intention to bring a matter before the state …
Letter from Bū l-Khayr to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. About the sending of garments and an artisan and other matters. (Information in part from …
Letter from Avraham ha-Reviʿi b. Shemuel ha-Shelishi, probably in Ramla, to Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 1040 CE. The letter is …
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Small fragment of an (official?) letter in calligraphic Arabic script, wide space between the lines: [ادام الله] سلامته ونعمته ان يكون في . . . …
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya (in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1051 CE. He is worried for his status and thinks that people will prefer Yosef …
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Small piece from the beginning of what must have been a large letter or other document. The basmala and part of the first line are …
Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to ‘the dear brother’ Khalfa, concerning various transactions. (Information in part from CUDL)
Communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. Opens with blessings for the addressee, then reports that a letter arrived from the Jews …
Commercial letter from the owners of a commercial company in lumber to the Bar Būḥay Institute in the Jewish quarter – November 30 1945CE – …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: right side only. Dating: Possibly first half of the 12th century, based on the reference to the merchant Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī (see …
Letter from Nissim b. Isḥāq b. al-Sahl, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf, in al-Maḥalla. Dating: 11th century. For the sender, see also …
Most of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Minyat Ghamr (last line of recto) to Fustat (verso). The addressee is named Baqāʾ. Concerning …
Recto: text in Hebrew, probably piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of …
Recto: two alchemical recipes. The first recipe (ll. 1-8) is aimed at producing ‘the work’ (אלצנעה), a word commonly used for indicating the production of …
Letters in Ladino and Spanish reused for an index to the Teshuvot of the Rosh. ASE. Letter in Ladino on III.D.31 (3) of scan is …
Verso: The letter was subsequently torn in half, and Moshe's father Abū Sahl Levi wrote his response on one of the remaining halves. Abu Sahl …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Ibn ʿAlī b. Raḥmūn al-Bazzāz, Abū Yiṣḥaq b. Sughmār, the brokers (dallālīn), and many other matters. Needs further …
Later document: Petition/letter of recommendation from an unidentified sender, apparently in Fustat, to Yoshiyyahu Gaon. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 1020 CE. This is a letter …
Small fragment from a letter. Besides the usual blessings, the writer inform that he arrived to Cairo
Letter opening, fragmentary, from Natan b. Avraham to Shelomo b. Natan (Natanel ?), Fustat, approximately 1040. The main body was probably in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: only …
Letter from a man to his 'brother' Abū l-Khayr and to his brother Manṣūr al-Dhabbāḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter consisting of a long list of Ḥanukka greetings and well-wishes to dozens of people, including Abū l-Riḍā and his siblings, the recipient’s mother, the …
Opening of a rhymed Hebrew letter. On verso a drawing. AA
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" …
Official letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from the office of one of the 13th or 14th century Maimonidean Nagids, based on the motto and the hand. …
Letter (tadhkira) from ּḤassūn b. Yiṣḥaq, probably to Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, probably from Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 (Gil). The writer lists merchandises and products, …
Letter in Hebrew addressed to a notable named Yaḥyā b. Menashshe (יחיה בן מנשה). Likely a letter of appeal for charity. Written in beautiful square …
Small fragment from the end of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, sending regards to the boy al-Shaykh al-Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-Faraj b. Wafā' and Abū ʿImrān. Dating: …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, based on layout and handwriting. Same sender and addressee as T-S 8J24.4 and CUL Or.1080 …
Letter in Arabic script. There are wishes for somebody's health (ارجو ان قد وهب عافيته). Mentions the arrival of Abū l-Faraj. Mentions that 'I have …
Letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi from Gabes (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’akob b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer traveled to Qabes after visiting Barqa, Tripoli …
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Letter to the son/boy R. Elazar, from Yusuf the brother of Mansur. About three-fourths of recto is taken up with self-pitying expressions of how sad …
Letter from an unknown man to Rachel Zussman. In Yiddish. "The letter is short and touches upon a relative’s illness and minor business matters. Verso …
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