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Astrological table, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter. On verso, another leaf is stuck to the page; on it a …
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Letter fragment in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Mentions: papers (awrāq), riqāʿ, the judge Menaḥem and the son of the judge (Ibn al-Dayyan); dodder …
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Letter probably in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel (active early 13th century); not immediately clear if he is writing for himself or as a …
Letter written by the assistant of the Nagid Ishaq Sholal to Alexandria. Dating: early 16th century. Written during a period when the Nagid was "in …
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The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. …
Letter in which the sender relates about some letters that reached him, discussing financial matters, among others some account books of different people and a …
אכרגת מן אלדאר ודלך עלא ופאה סלאמה(?) [ ] פיה [ ]
מותה ואעצם מא עלי רחל אלנאס ואמא [ ]
[ ] אלאעדאל אלדי תקדמת כתב אליה [ ]ל לל…
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Letter from Bū l-Faraj b. Aharon Levi to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. None of the substance is preserved, …
Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Khuḍayr to his brother-in-law in the Fayyūm. Possibly the same handwriting as ENA NS 35.2. The writer has been …
Letter from a father who had undertaken to pay the capitation tax for his son but was robbed. Asks the recipient to pay the tax …
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Small fragment. The name Avraham ha-Rav ha-Gadol b. Yisrael ha-Ḥasid appears in the address. There is faded text underneath the address, …
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, probably in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the …
Informal note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Sadīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reminds him that he owes the sender 40 dirhams and should repay the money before …
Recto: Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in unusual blocky characters. Mentions names such as [...]n b. Ṭayyib; Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā(?); and Abū Yaʿqūb b. al-BL[...]. …
Letter from Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī (Qayrawan) to his master Shemuel b. Ḥofni gaon; 7 August 999. The sender, whose family is in Iraq, has …
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Fragment of a letter from a child to a father ("yā wālidī"). May mention a meeting with a cantor (la-qad ijtamaʿa al-ḥazzān....) and mentions pounds …
Fragment from a letter, small, very damaged
Letter from Moshe b. Ya'qub, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat
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Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half). Dating: early to mid-12th century. Mentions ṭabarī cushions, Abū Kathīr, something 'narjisiyya,' and a silver zabdiyya (a kind …
Letter of condolence in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, on the death of 'the father.' Beautiful prose and calligraphic script. Likely a formulary.
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew addressed to a notable, referring to bread. Verso: Leviticus 1:5, in large letters, vocalised. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Hebrew. Very faded. Scattered phrases: גבולו ולהרבול שלום . . . מצרים . . . בבנינו . . . היום קרוב לשנתים ואפילו …
Letter from Abu al-Hayy b. Barhun Khalila, in al-Mahdiyya, to Barhun b. Musa Tāhartī, reporting several losses of ships and merchandise. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא
ואגתת אעדאך מן אלמהדיה יום אלכמיס לי בקין מן מרחש…
The main block of Judaeo-Arabic text is a portion of a letter. The writer reports that he arrived safely in Fustat and yearns for a …
Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Malīj. He has received the petition (ruqʿa) of the Alexandrian woman whose divorced husband is not …
Part of letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Ashkelon, probably to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat.
Letter fragment from Daniel b. Yaʿīsh to Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the top of recto and the address on verso are …
Highly fulsome letter of praise, consisting of 12 lines of praise in Hebrew, followed by 5 lines of Arabic script containing the actual content of …
Letter fragment: bottom right corner only. Mentions health, items to be sent, and regards to various people including Najīb al-Dīn (?). There is a note …
Petition. Calligraphic letter with wide line-spacing in which the writer asks the recipient, whom he addresses as 'my father,' for support, emphasizing that his poor …
Notes recording debts in Judaeo-Arabic, involving wine and a couple women (Umm ʿAbūr(?) and Umm Bashir). (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)
Cryptic document in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a letter or fragments of two letters. Discusses liturgy and the reading of the Torah. Mentions asking R. Seʿadya b. …
Fragment of a petition/letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Written on behalf of a woman (al-mamlūka, l. 5). Addressed to a notable …
Letter from the head of the court of Palermo (perhaps Maṣliaḥ b. Eliyya) to his counterpart in Qayrawan, ca. 1050 CE. The letter details a …
Letter from Yosef b. Eliyyahu to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. The writer …
Letter to an amir titled Ṣamṣām al-Dawla (wa-shujāʿuhā)—the same who is mentioned in BL OR 5557B.19? In Arabic script. Seems to mention the army (ʿaskar) …
Minute fragment, possibly from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is the remnant of an Arabic character.
Verso: note from an invalid begging for oil for the synagogue lamp (al-tamid) for the sabbath to be sent with the carrier of the note. …
Letter sent by a certain Shelomo, mentioning the Nagid [...] b. David, Moses, Egypt and Cairo. (Information from CUDL.) Same sender: T-S 8J24.16 (PGPID 3702).
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Non-Geniza. Letter from Simḥa b. Shelomo ha-Qusdini, in Istanbul, to Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo, in Chufut-Kale (קירקייר), Crimea (קירים האי). Dated: 1789 CE.
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Letter from Avraham Maimonides (autograph) addressed to three people, including al-Mevin and Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dealing with hospitality (ḍiyāfa) for needy people. The …
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Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Likely medieval. From a man probably to family members. There are many self-pitying phrases. Some lines are crossed out; may …
Letter from a merchant. Around 1060. Regarding a disagreement, and both sides ask Labrāṭ b. Moshe Ibn Ṣughmār from al-Mahdiyya to decide between the parties. …
(3-1) נתן הרשאה, וכבר גבה אותם, וההכנסה .... אל תוציא מידך את כתב ההרשאה אלא .... אל תתרשל בזאת כי הצורך בקנייה ....
(6-4) ביני ובין אדם .... …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unknown sender and addressee; likely one judge or communal official writing to another. The lower left corner is missing. Abū l-Faraj met …
Top of a letter in Arabic script addressed to Sittī al-Wasṭāniyya (cf. T-S 10J11.11 for this as a woman's name). Only the first four lines …
IB IV, 35 (ח44). Letter from the physician Yaʿaqov, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Yiṣḥaq Ha-Kohen (?) b. Avraham, Fustat, approximately 1015.
1. [ ]ת ומפרצי הברכות ומרבצי ה[
2. [ מ]ליצי הזכיות וחפצי הלבבות ע[ם
3. שומע תפלות תהיינה לאח ביראה ורע בנפש כגק [יצחק
4. העלוב וסובל וייסור באה…