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Letter from a father to his son. In Arabic script. The father's name appears in the right margin: looks something like كىى بن للسول. He …
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Letter from the community of Jerusalem to the gabbay and treasurer of כארכוך (=Kirkuk?). In Hebrew. Dated: Adar 5603 AM, which is 1843 CE. This …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Needs examination.
Letter from the judge R. Hanan'el b. Shemuel to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ibn Yijū in Alexandria. AA
עבדו חננאל
סיבת משלוח הטורים האלה לכבוד וכו' היא בראש ובראשונה ברכה על הנצר האציל שלו, התלמיד המפואר ר' יוסף, שמרו צורו. המקום ברוך הוא יזכה…
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Verso: Note addressed to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan in Arabic script. Most of the words are legible but the instruction/request is not entirely clear: ينعم …
Business letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Not mentioned in the literature. Avraham b. Yamān is mentioned. The sickness of …
Letter from Bū l-Faraj to Umm Yūsuf the mother-in-law of Bayān al-Bukhtaj ('the cooked,' from Middle Persian pokhtag), sent via Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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Letter to a woman (possibly from her son in law, as it mentions her daughter), and the instruction to come quickly if she wants to …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a very long vertical strip from the middle of the letter. It was partially cut up, and the beginning of …
Letter from Ismā'īl al-Tāhartī, Ifrīqiya, to Abū l-Bishr Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, Egypt. Mentions "the remnants of an illness" (athar al-ʿilla, l. 4.
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IB III, 39. Unfinished draft of a letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Aydhab, to a member of Khalaf b. Bundār's family in Aden, probably …
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Copy of a letter from Judah Halevi to Shemuel Hanagid b. Hannanya. AA
Letter sent from Barūkh Rafūl Serūr to his father updating him on the circumstances of the family – 17 Tishrīn al-ʾAwwal 1929CE – (number 21) …
Business letter from David to Shemuel in Alexandria discussing among other matters the delay in delivery of a deposit sent forth by the addressee. Written …
Verso (original use): Letter from a certain Majd to his 'brother.' In Arabic script. Dating: Maybe ~13th century, but this is a guess. Fragment (right …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late. Currencies: ashrafī. Mentioning various business matters and people including Judah and David Naḥmias and Ibn Hānī. (Information in part from …
Letter from an unknown writer to his 'brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Consisting mostly of eloquent blessings.
Small fragment from a letter, sending greetings to Hibatallah and Abū l-Munajjā. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from [...] b. Labrat, to Ezra (?) b. Isḥāq, al-Mahdiyya. Around 1040. The writer and the addressee are dealing with importing flax and exporting …
בש כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מן מצר יום אלגמעה
לכמס כלון מן כסליו ען סלאמה וקד [ ] אלפרג תקדם
כתאבי אליך [מע] אלמוסם אל…
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Note accompanying an epistle (risāla) (or possibly a gift?) sent by Avraham b. Abū Yūsuf to Manṣūr b. Yefet Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi. Recto and verso …
Very small note, faded and difficult to read. Might be related to illness judging by the words مريض and سرعة. Verso blank.
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 …
Letter of introduction, signed by Shemuel b. Avraham, in an unknown location, on behalf of Yosef b. Ḥelbo, addressed to a Jewish community (לכבודכם, although …
On recto probably a rhymed opening of a letter. Verso in Arabic script. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Letter in Arabic from Ṣāʿid, probably a Jewish merchant, in ʿAydhāb, to his mother and brother in Fusṭāṭ. He reports that his party left Qūṣ …
Letter to a qāḍī (addressed "al-jināb al-ʿālī"). In Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era. The letter concerns a horse that was purchased for 17 dinars; also …
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Letter from a woman who was the wife of Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī and the mother of Dosa b. Yehoshuaʿ, in al-Raqqa, to her son Dosa b. …
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Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060 CE. A complaint about Avraham b. Ya’aqov who …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה ונעמאה מן אלאסכ<נ>דריה אעלמ[ה] מה גרם החטא ודלד אן
אלשיך רב אברהם בי…
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Half of a letter (left side of recto, right side of verso) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He …
Letter by Faraj b. Mansur, informing his brother of the death of his own boy and admonishing him not to open the writer's store. (Information …
Letter from X b. Ya’qub from Qayrawan, to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat. Describes a dangerous situation in Fustat. Also informs about the passing …
Draft of letter(s) in Hebrew (recto) and Judaeo-Arabic (verso), addressing a noble (‘throne of the Negidut’). It refers to the community of Alexandria (‘No Amon’). …
Large letter from "the two congregations" of Alexandria to the Palestinian community of Fustat, and particularly to Efrayim b. Shemarya, regarding fundraising for the ransom …
Recto: Letter fragment from Khalaf b. Mubārak al-Ḥazzān or al-Jazzār. In Arabic script. Only the basmala, tarjama, and part of the first line are preserved. …
Recto: The last few lines of an Arabic letter. Needs further examination. Verso: The lower part of a letter of appeal signed by the cantor …
Official letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids addressed to "the community." Headed by an "emet" with a long …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: A letter to al-Sheikh al-Jalil Abu al-Majd. AA
Damaged fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Discussing whether the sender will go to the adressee's location. Requests news of the tax (? כבר אלמאס). …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively large and complete, but faded, and there is no address on verso. The sender has sent 8 dinars and 15 …
Letter from Mevasser b. David, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 22 Elul (25 August [1068 — Gil's inference]), with …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
וכלאיתך ורעאיתך מן תניס יום אלב לז בקין מן אלול ערפה אללה ברכה
כאתמתה ואסעדה במא …
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End of a communal letter with signatures. The surviving signatures are [..]riya b. Ḥasan, [...] b. Ḥasan, Daniel b. Yishaq Shaʾul. [...] Kohen b. Bundar. …
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu probably addressed to Moshe Maimonides (active ca. 1168–1204 CE), based on the importance of the addressee and …
Much damaged and faded small fragment from a letter
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer explains that the family has no money for the coming holiday and no wood or oil; …
Letter in Ladino dated 19 April 1785 (9 Iyyar 5545), from Rubi[?] Mores to Avraham Crespin in Cairo/Fustat "Miẓrayim". Two other individuals are mentioned within …
Recto: Petition or letter from Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ the Rabbanite Jew (al-Isrāʾīlī al-Rabbānī). Only the upper left corner has survived, with later jottings in Arabic …
Letter in the hand of the judge Shela b. Mevasser on behalf of the community of Alexandria addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in …
Informal note from Munajjā to Abū l-Riḍā. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Written on verso of a page of accounts in Arabic script …
Letters. Copies. The first letter is in Judaeo-Arabic, from the Shāmiyyīn to the Miṣriyyīn. The second letter is in Hebrew, from the Miṣriyyīn to the …
Business letter in Arabic script from Avraham b. Isḥaq, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.