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Letter from Nissim b. Avraham to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Dating: ca. 1050s. About a consignment of silk that was about to reach Fustat, owned …
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Letter addressed to Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver; Judaeo-Arabic in the margin; writing exercises in Arabic and Hebrew on verso. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter from an unknown writer, in Jerusalem, to his in-law (גיס) Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: Thursday 28th Maṭmonim (=the Omer), which is …
Beginning of a letter containing a request for a book to be made for the forthcoming holiday. Note on Goitein index card: Shelomo b. Eliyya. …
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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes …
Letter of recommendation, sent to the community of al-Jazīra (it seems Algeciras, the Spanish port on the strait of Gibraltar). In the margin on verso …
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Letter of appeal for charity from [...]n b. Eliyya ha-Kohen to Yehuda b. Menashshe. Large.
Letter from Abū Isḥāq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th–15th century. The writer is in difficult straits due to a business matter and dealings with the dīwān. …
On recto, possibly a draft of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ the brother(?) of Saniyy al-Dawla. In the margins of recto, the …
Letter. Quite faded. In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Addressed to a dignitary. The sender complains about his poverty and illness. Mentions people who have helped …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment from the right side of recto. The scribe has a distinctive notched ב. Mentions Muslims; many worries; and greetings …
Letter sent from Saʿd, in Egypt, to his son-in-law Aharon, in Seleucia in Byzantine Asia Minor. Saʿd had believed his son-in-law to be dead, killed …
שלום רב לאהבי תורתיך ואין למו מכשול
שלום טב מריבונא טבא דמיטוביה מטיב לעלמיה ושלומות
כנהרים כלם יחולו על ראש כב' ג' קדש׳ מר׳ ור…
‘Great peace have those that love your Law; nothing can make them stumble’ (Pss 119:165).
Good greetings from…
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Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti to Yosef b. Awkal and his sons Hillel and Binyamin (written 8.21.1008, received 11.1.1008), upper fragment only.
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Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in …
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Der'i to Mevorakh b. Saadya. A new governor arrives at the city and is received by the leaders of the …
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Narrow vertical strip of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a business letter (ביע . . . כאן לא . . . תמן להא . . …
Letter in Hebrew, calligraphic. Not much remains beyond the poetic praises ("our master, you have distanced your glory from us. . . .") except "you …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār al-Madinī, from Palermo, probably to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī (according to Gil, but the name of the recipient is lost). …
[ אסל אללה] יגעל עאקבתך חסנה ואן לא יכלאך
[ אהתמא]מך בחואיגי ובגמיע מע יכצני
[ ] גמיע אלוגוה פלא אכלאני אללה מן
[ ] גמיע מן יחתאגך תם ו…
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Letter from Nissim, in Qaṭya, Sinai, to Shelomo Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. …
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. (Information in part from CUDL)
Opening of a letter to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). The portion preserved consists mainly of poetical praises.
Fragment of a Hebrew letter, mentioning copying a Torah scroll and selling it or other books.
Portion of an Arabic letter from Alexandria to Fusṭāṭ, probably to a family member. Most of what remains consists of greetings to people in the …
Letter from Natan b. Avraham, Ramla, to Netanel b. Rawḥ, Fustat, July 1039.
Goitein's index card refers to a fragment containing a draft of a letter of appeal for charity to the Nagid, who has two sons. This …
Eclectic set of documents sharing a single folio. Dating: Early 15th century, probably. Recto: Letter copies. In Hebrew. The first letter mentions the Mourners of …
Letter, small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely a mercantile letter of the 11th century. Mentions the ship (markab) of al-Jazzār; mentions 9 people and a rent/hire …
Formulary for a letter to an important person: רסאלה לעאלם כביר לרגל פאצל
Letter from a prominent member of the Yeshiva in Palestine writing to a communal leader in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Ends with the …
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Letter fragment (upper left corner of recto and remnants of the address on verso) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mentions the latter's son Abū Zikrī …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a serious illness (marḍa shadīda). Might be two different letters in two different hands.
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
Letter from a woman in the countryside to her husband in Fustat. She refuses to join him there in the capital. The letter is to …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū ʿAlī. The sender says that "all the doc[tors] prescribed [...] for me... and after that they prescribed me …
Letter from Yosef to his father Abū l-Bishr b. Makārim al-Iskandarī to be delivered via Eliyyahu the judge. Dating: first part of the 13th century. …
Beginning and end of an important business letter written probably after the arrival of the sender from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices …
Verso (original use): Upper left corner of a brief letter or petition in Arabic. The text is fragmentary and the context is missing but the …
Letter from Elazar b. Shem[uel?], unknown location, to his 'brother' Abū l-Faraj ʿImrān b. Ḥasan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deals mainly with matters of correspondence—who …
Letter from Shemuel b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he sent all the money that Sālim b. Khaṣīb(?) owed to Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn, namely …
Opening of a letter addressed to the heads of the community (שלום ממובא עד הלום . . . אל הקהל הקדוש קה[. . .] וראש …
Small fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic addressed to al-Muʿallam ___ Ghālī. Dated [12]53 AH which is 1837/38 CE. Needs further examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham. Dating: 1048 (per Gil) and ca. 1034–1049 CE based on the years when Sahlan b. Avraham …
Small fragment of a letter. The phrase كشف خبره appears - referring to investigating someone's news.
Letter in which the writer reports that he stayed for the Sabbath in Qalyub and continued his travel on Sunday. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …
IB IV, 42 (ח45). Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician, possibly in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Almeria. Dating: 1138–39 CE. Same sender as T-S …
Middle part of a letter, reporting about the burial of an old man who has no heirs. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 156, 548)
Letter addressed to a dignitary (Rosh ha-Qahal) in rhymed Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Very elegantly written; wide space between the lines; many vowels and diacritics. Most …
Complete letter by Mubarak b. Yiṣḥaq b. Sabri to Abu al-Faraj Nissim complaining about a business issue and urging a prompt response to his letter.
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee about a cryptic matter that he and his in-law (silf) agreed upon, and telling him not to …