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Letter sent from Rashīd addressed to Shelomo Ḥalafta Yerushalmi, in Bulaq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same sender as ENA 2855.21. Dating: late 15th or early …
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Letter from a certain Moshe to a certain Shemuʾel. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1548 Seleucid = 1236/37 CE. In which the writer expresses his longings …
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Letter of appeal for charity. There are 10 lines of flowery Hebrew praises for the recipient followed by a space and then six lines of …
No Scholarship Records
Recto Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with very large letters mentioning prior correspondence. The sender appears to be asking the addressee to graciously send him …
Address of a letter sent from Baghdad to Sandūr. Late and non-Geniza.
Letter conveying instructions from the Nagid on behalf of a female orphan, evidently the response to a petition. She has lost most of her father's …
Address of a letter to a certain Yosef, in New Cairo. (Information in part from CUDL)
Addendum/postscript of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that there is demand in …
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Letter from the cantor Musāfir b. Yosef ha-Bavli, in Alexandria, to his relative Yehuda the schoolteacher in the Iraqi synagogue of Fustat. Musāfir writes he …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting resembles that of Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ (cf. T-S 13J16.19 (PGPID 5888)). Mentions that …
Letter. In Arabic script. Address only. Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to a woman regarding the education of the writer's son, who either lives with or is merely the pupil …
Letter from Ṭahor b. Avraham to Ḥananel b. Shemuel the judge (and father-in-law of Avraham Maimonides). In Judaeo-Arabic. See his other letters T-S 8J26.8 and …
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1052. To be sent to the house of Ibn Isḥāq Ibrahim …
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Letter from Abū l-Faraj b. Ma[ṣliaḥ?]. Addressed to Fustat (אלא מצר חמאה תע). None of the content is preserved.
Recto: Leviticus 13:32 (Hebrew) and two lines of formulae from an Arabic letter. Verso: formulae from an Arabic letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya. The letter was later covered in large writing excercises in Arabic script.
Letter, official-looking, in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. Central part of …
المملوك المظفري
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يقبل الارض وينهي بعد استمرارة على الادعية الصالحة
فلـ[..]عىه [ ]
تقبله…
Business letter from Yehuda Castro to Binyamin Castro. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. The sender reports on business developments in crops, fruits, and vegetables, and …
Letter from Mūsa b. Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd b. Shaʿya (aka Yosef b. David), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
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On recto, the bottom of a letter (official letter? formulary?) in Arabic script. The writer thanks the addressee in the concluding lines quoting two verses …
Letter from Abū Zikrī to Abū Saʿīd Halfon b. Moshe, Trustee of the Yeshiva. This person is unknown and is not listed in Goitein's index …
Letter from Josiah (Yoshiyyahu) Gaon, apparently to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1015 CE (per Gil) or ca. 1015–1025 CE, based on the years when …
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A long letter of recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte, by Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq of Aleppo, written in elegant and vocalized Hebrew. For more …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The 'brother's' ship is still by the lighthouse (manāra) and has not yet sailed because the wind is blowing westward. Mentions a …
Informal note to Umm Tamīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Has to do with sending a template (namūdhaj), perhaps for a legal document. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, in which the sender gives an excuse for something.
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Vague and somewhat long-winded. Refers to: "al-nawba al-mubāraka"; sending various things; preoccupation on account of others; something which arrived, …
Letter in Arabic script. The first five lines are formulaic. The substance may begin after وبعد in l.5. It is quite faded and damaged; unclear …
Letter addressed to Shelomo ha-Zaqen. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded; not much is legible without special imaging. Mentions something 'they are saying'; something 'ugly'; …
Letter of condolence from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo ha-Maskil to the brothers Binyamin and Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 14 Heshvan 5571 AM, which …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hagay, Fustat.
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Letter from a father to a son. In Hebrew. Sent from an unknown location to Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. People …
Letter from Moshe Yehoshuaʿ Ashkenazi, in Alexandria, to Alpalas y Sahlon, in Cairo (spelled Cairro). Dated: Sunday, 21 Adar II 5480 AM, which is 1720 …
Verso (original use): Official-looking letter/report in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved: يعلم ان ال . . . يخلصهم من جميع ذلك …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic-script address. Very faded. The name Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī appears at the end, but it is not immediately …
Minute fragment, probably from a letter.
Document in Arabic, probably a letter. Medieval-era. Three partial lines are visible from the body of the text and two marginal lines are well-preserved. The …
Verso and upper margin of recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic. Verso: only a few Tiberian vowel signs are legible. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Ḥiṣn al-Dawla ibn al-ʿAsqalānī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī begins by acknowledging having received the eparch's letter and responds …
وَصل كتاب مولاي الاكشيل صاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه
وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه ووقفت عليه وقوف مسرور بوروده
مبت…
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The letter of my master the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses— may God prolong his life
an…
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Letter from ʿOvadya מוגאן to one of the communal leaders in Egypt. In Hebrew. Late. (FGP)
Letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Location: Tunis. Dated: 5610 AM, which is 1849/50 CE. On behalf of Yiṣḥaq Yosef b. Shemarya. The Portuguese Congregation of …
Letter regarding the construction of the tomb of Rabbi Yaʿacov Abu Haṣīra [in Damanhur] – 1935CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 36) – …
Letter addressed to "ha-Rav ha-Gadol." In Hebrew. It seems that the sender heard from "one of the poor" (אחד מן הענ[יים]) who was told to …
Recto, with address on verso: Letter of appeal. In Judaeo-Arabic. From a certain Yiṣḥaq, in Malīj, to a certain Nissim, probably in Fustat. Goitein identifies …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand (e.g. using the alef-lamed ligature to represent just alef). Discussing the purchase of skins (julūd). Mentions Abū Naṣr. Needs further …
Letter from David b. Moshe Bonfat (בונפט) ha-Sefaradi to Avraham ha-Sefaradi. In Hebrew. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century. The sender reports that he …
Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Petition of a cantor, son of a judge, who is sick and poor, asking God and a Nasi for help (the Nagid Mevorakh per Goitein's …