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Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The letters are 3mm high, the space between the lines is 3.5cm, and the lines are upslanting …
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Fragment of a letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Mentions business with pearls and the coming travel of two people to Ladikya. (Information from Gil, …
] אללה יכתב סלאמה אלגמיע [ ] ברקלואת יאכי לו כאנת קד
] אלסוק פי אול וסקה ואמא אלסעה מא טלב פי ברקלו ול אלי ח[ל]
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Business letter from Daniel b. Azarya, in his handwriting, sent from Tyre to Fustat. The letter contains details about the commercial activities of Daniel b. …
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Letter from Salāma b. Ismaʿīl to Ismaʿīl b. [...] concerning business affairs. Dating: 11th century. (Information from CUDL.)
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Fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script.
No Scholarship Records
Letter in Arabic script. The letter is written in colloquial Arabic in full obeisance and flattery. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks Yemeni. ENA 3504.2, ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Surūr b. Abū l-Munā (a Jewish man, which we learn in v5) to Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Munā …
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Letter to Ḥana the wife of Yosef al-Boṭinī, in Cairo (מצרי׳), from one of her siblings asking her to convince their brother to pay what …
Petition from Ḍiyāʾ bt. Yūsuf al-Qamrī (or possibly "bayt Yūsuf al-Qamrī" = his wife) to her relative Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn al-Firnās (=ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen). …
Letter from Yeshayahu b. Ishaq to Abu Avraham Ismail b. Avraham with an urgent request to hand over six loads of textiles to the Dar …
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Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majānī. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. Barhun deals with buying and selling goods in …
כתאבי יאסידי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנרריה לי בקין מן אייר ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכה
מא ילי…
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Petition from Yaʿaqov b. Aharon, a man of some learning. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. The sender petitions the addressee for financial help and for an …
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Letter to the Nagid. Only the opening praises/blessings are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto (secondary use): Fragment from the end of a letter regarding the postponement of a meeting. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
IB IV, 62 (ח65). Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusī ha-Levi, probably in Fustat, to his uncle Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. February …
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 …
Letter in Arabic script. Begins with a basmala and taqbīl. Addressed to a certain Muḥammad called Samiyy al-Dawla Jamāl al-[...] (an amīr titled Samiyy al-Dawla …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The writer may mention being imprisoned (ḥabsī fī hādhihi l-muda), but this is uncertain without all the surrounding context.
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrating a series of distressing events (qalaq ʿaẓīm) involving Abū l-Barakāt and Abū l-ʿAlā', a khaṭṭ (signature?) and a sum of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely Mamluk or early Ottoman era. The part on recto is discussing a house and maybe the monthly rent. Mentions …
Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)
IB II, 21a + 21b. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. Fragments of four or five …
Report from a man called only "al-nāʾib" (the deputy), in Malīj, to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (in office 1140–59), in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning …
Letter by Akhlabu b. Aharon ha-Kohen from Alexandria to Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen Fasi. The writer apologizes for not having accompanied the recipient on his …
Two letters in Judaeo-Arabic; recto and verso are in different hands. Dating: likely second half of the 11th century. Recto: Lower part of a letter …
Communal letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Mentions Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn. Edited by Elinoar Bareket. Awaiting fuller description.
Verso: Fragment from the beginning of a letter/petition addressed to the Nagid. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century. None of the substance is preserved. Reused …
Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant). In Judaeo-Arabic.The writer congratulates the recipient on his recent marriage and mentions …
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi b. Moshe (active 1171–95 CE) and his deputy Shelomo. In Hebrew. The sender is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sender and addressee are unidentified. Full of expressions of deference. The sender was distressed at 'the calamity' (al-nūba) that befell the addressee …
Letter from a man, in Minyat Zifta, to his cousin (walad al-ʿamm), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has sent 40 wariq dirhams and he …
Recto: letter, in which the writer acknowledges the arrival of 80 dirhams from the addressee. Mentions a previous letter concerning the capitation tax of the …
Recto: commercial letter with Arabic marginalia: אל]לה ידים סלאמתך ולא [יעדמנא] נצרך וקד וגהת לך . . . כש בסתה . . . ופי אלסוק …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Much of it seems to be an apology. Mentions coming to Cairo and a qāḍī. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of a letter and the sender's stress (ולולא אני אנצגטת...). Essentially nothing else is preserved.
Letter from Yitzhak ben Avraham (data from FGP by Abraham David)
Letter in which a physician traveling from Cairo to Damascus describes how he was honored by the Jewish judge of Bilbays. The addressee is Shemuel …
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic. Verso: unidentified text, possibly in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter in Ladino.
Letter to Ḥalfon b. Berakhot (?). In a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very long, but the substance seems quite short, occupying …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Iṭrābulusī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Gives information about ships arriving in Egypt, their consignments and passengers. …
אטאל אללה יאשיכי וריסי וגלילי בקאך ואדאם נעמאך
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאשיכי עדה ארגו וצלת אליך
וגהת אליך אלכתב מע אלצרה מע בוצחק בן נסים אלקרוי
Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Seems to be addressed to the shop (dukkān) of a Qāḍī, as discernible from the first fragmentary line. …
Probably part of a letter; some of the lines are crossed out. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Letter drafts or copies. In Judaeo-Arabic. One of them is signed by Shimʿon Frances. Needs further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Addressed to Natan b. Avraham ha-Kohen Sholal (?). The writer expresses his longing for the addressee (r1–4). He gives news of …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "What have you done with the fūṭa?... please try to send it to her..."
Letter of recommendation on behalf of a proselyte. The conversion took place by the time of R. Menahem (b. Sasson?) and the proslyte was imersed. …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī ha-Levi to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. Hillel al-Ḥalabī. The sender reports that he arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday after …
Late letter of David Benjamin