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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1045-1096. Contains details regarding flax shipments that were arranged in partnership with Nahray. The …

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• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fainting
• illness: hammam
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Document date

5579 Anno Mundi (1 October 1818–19 September 1819 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps dated 1818/1819 CE ([5]579 AM). The letter recipients are Menaḥem Barakha and Barakha Goren, sender: Shelomo Sonino. Requires further examination for …

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• 19th c
• late ja

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Hebrew

Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Possbly addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The sender is from a distant land. He set out …

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• appeal

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Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Concerning 'the going up' of an enslaved singing woman (ṭulūʿ al-mughanniya). "I sent Luʾluʾ... with her another person from her place …

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• slaves

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: part of a letter from the daughter of Hillel b. ʿEli (and wife of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe) to her brother ʿEli b. Hillel the …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter ending written from Fustat to Alexandria about a dispute between Yehuda (al-'Ammani?) and Yusuf al-Ifranji in the days of Avraham Maimonides. Apparently Hananel did …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an unidentified benefactor. Shelomo asks him to help him out with the payment of the capitation tax, as he …

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• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: treatment
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing various garments and textiles.

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• textiles

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355) (in Cairo) to the community of Fustat about a conflict between two butchers who had caused …

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• 14th c
• communal
• yehoshua maimonides

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Referring either to the addressee's intimate relations with the Tustari brothers in Fustat or that he now equals them …

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• al-tustari
• aleppo
• enemies
• garments
• illness
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Hebrew

Letter from Hillel Ha-Ḥaver b. Yeshuʿa Ha-Hazzan, Tiberias, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1050.

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• 11th c
• efrayim b. shemarya
• tiberias

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio containing a copy of a formal communal letter. There is a folio number "12" on the lefthand side of recto. It is not clear …

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Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. Information about shipments of goods. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. …

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Efrayim he-Ḥaver (Efrayim b. Shemarya), with marginalia in Judaeo-Arabic; address on verso. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. …

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Draft of a letter from Wāfī b. Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī, 16 July 1059, written at the back of an earlier letter from his father …

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• flax
• myrtle
• sandalwood
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Hebrew

Letter from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to the trustee of a Yeshiva in an unidentified place, approximately 1055.

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• 11th c
• communal
• eliyyahu b. shelomo
• yeshiva

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Yosef; Ibn Bayān; al-Muhadhdhab; and Abū l-Ḥaẓẓ. May also mention the al-Buḥayra region of the Nile Delta and its administrator …

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1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, requesting donation for the ransom of prisoners of the Byzantines, 11th century. On verso are Hebrew rhymed …

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• byzantines
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Judaeo-Arabic

IB IV, 24 (ח34). Letter from Ibn Barukh, in Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: Probably end of summer 1138 CE.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Arabic

List of quantities of materia medica, including simples such as senna, purslane seeds, apricot, almond oil, saffron oil, and Chinese cinnamon. Judging by the continuation …

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: short message or formula from a letter, mentioning the name Shelomo. Verso: jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

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Hebrew

Recto: Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in which he urges his supporters to be in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles, lest their party be …

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• 11th c
• natan b. avraham

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Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only a few phrases are preserved: אלסלאמה בעד משקה... פעל מעי אלדי הו בזכותי... כנת יאכי ואנא פי.... …

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Arabic, Hebrew

Letter to Abū l-Faraj [...] Yaʿaqov b. David, Fusṭāṭ. In a calligraphic Hebrew opening with a poem. Fragment of the beginning. The address on verso …

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• arabic address

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter. Fragment refers to someone designated as 'the elevated presence.' Verso of the letter mentions the murder of Fakhr al-ʾUmara near Alexandria and also mentioning …

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• amir al-juyush
• badr al-jamali
• berber
• lawata

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Letter fragment from Menaḥem to Eliyyahu. Onlly the first few lines are preserved. Verso contains the name Abū l-Faraj in giant faded letters.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning the al-Shaykh al-Rashīd. Dating: late 12th or 13th century. Probably a copy as it is in an unusual format (written on two pages …

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Hebrew

Faded late letter in Hebrew

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• late heb

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter with a special request from the addressee to report about his illness. [An assumption that he was ill after not having heard from him …

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in a very cursive, difficult script. Mentions the names Avraham and [...] b. Ḥalfon.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: likely 12th century. Mentions commodities such as bamboo chalk and aloe. Mentions people such as Ibn …

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• trade

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Document date

8 Shevat 5572 Anno Mundi (22 January 1812 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company, in Alexandria, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 8 Shevat 5572 AM, which is …

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• karo y frances

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Amr b. Ibrahim to Cairo dealing with commercial matters. The sender mentions that he delivered some of the addressee's letters …

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• trade

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter draft probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Dā'ūd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Congratulating her on the successful delivery of her daughter …

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Spanish

Letter, possibly. In Spanish. (Information from CUDL.) Needs examination.

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Arabic

Letter fragment. In Arabic script.

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• arabic script

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on vellum spanning two leaves (and three pages) that already contained literary text in Hebrew. The first page of the letter …

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• fingerprints
• loopy lamed

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Judaeo-Arabic

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 …

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Judaeo-Arabic

IB III, 38. Letter from Yeshua b. Yaʿaqov to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the death of Madmun b. Yefet, Dhu Jibla, 1151.

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• 12th c
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book

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Judaeo-Arabic

Very short note from Elʿazar to R. Yosef: "I need the silver very much, please send it with the bearer." Verso has a few letters …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since …

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• damin
• tax

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Hebrew

Letter from Yeshuʿa [...]. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 16th–18th century. Mentions the currency גורושוש; Yiṣḥaq ben Ḥabīb; regards to Yeshuʿa Azulay in the margin. …

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Arabic

Small fragment from the beginning of a letter or official report in Arabic script: wa-yunhī baʿd [...] al-adʿiya al-ṣāliḥa wa-l-[...] lillāh taʿālā bi-[...].

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. May be a second copy of ENA …

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• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited

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Hebrew

Family letter in Hebrew. May be in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. The writer sends wishes for the recovery of a woman in …

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: heartsickness
• illness: women's
• moshe b. levi

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