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Fragment of a beginning of a letter. Addressed to Abū l-Wafāʾ, in al-Maḥalla.
No Scholarship Records
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf. CUL …
Letter in a different hand from recto, mentioning (Mishna) Seder Qodashim. See separate entry for recto. (Information from CUDL)
IB IV, 64 (ח88). Letter from Saʿdān b. Thābit al-Baghdādī ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1135 …
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Verso: Letter or possibly a prayer in Arabic script. Very faded. See separate record for recto.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). Yefet refers to a …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. Discusses the matter of the 18 dinars owed to the poor of …
אל]אגתמאע
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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. …
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Late letter in Hebrew to the Judge Yeshuʿah Landes (?).
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to 'mawlāy al-dayyān Abū [...].' Mentions Fustat and selling something.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated 1796/7 CE (5557).
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is rebuking the addressee for something (אלנאס . . . גהל . . . …
Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Ibrāhīm. Written once in Judaeo-Arabic and repeated in Arabic script. He asks Ibrāhīm to meet him …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, Fustat, ca. 1046.
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Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tahartī (CUDL), Yosef b. Berekhya or Moshe b. Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawān (PGP), to (Efrayim b.) Shemarya, Fustat. Discusses responsa of …
Letter from Efrayim b. Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee …
כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל
סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל אל…
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Letter from Muslim/Musallam, reporting the arrival of a letter from Saʿadya the cantor and mentioning business matters and a certain Barukh, who is coming to …
Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Cairo, to Shelomo b. Yishai the Mosul Nasi, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1240 CE. The writer had sent …
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt al-Isrāʾīlī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Sahl, in the perfumers' market in Fustat. On recto only the upper left …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, probably mercantile. Little of the content is preserved. There is an unrelated fragment sharing this shelfmark, which …
Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: before 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's …
Letter from Shelomo ben Halafta, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: 1481/82 CE. - Mentioning events as far away …
Business letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq Sholal ha-Kohen. Dating: Before 1502 CE, because Yiṣḥaq Sholal was not yet the Nagid at the time this letter was …
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic address. The writer requests that the addressee give the five dirhams nuqra that al-Rayyis Abū …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Dating: 15th–17th century. Addresses Aharon and Mordekhay, one or both of whom may be the sender's maternal uncle (khālī). …
Tiny fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Fragment. The letter is prefaced with three short decorated lines of biblical quotations. …
Brief letter about payment owed to Ṭoviyya, also giving instructions about making a purchase. In Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. On verso there …
P16: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The addressee is likely Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (rather …
Document about the shipment of a purse containing 113 dinars to Nahray b. Nissim and Yaʿaqov b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. …
רב סלם ברחמ[ת]ך ובלג
בקדרתך אלי אבי יחיי
נהרא<י> בן נסים ויעקב בן
אסמעיל סורה צחבת
יעקב בן עמנואל אלוזן
ק דינ> ודינארין גיר סודס
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Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dated 27 Iyyar, which Gil renders 1 May 1052. Contains details about the sailing …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה
יום אלגמעה אכר אלנהאר ללילתין בקית …
Recto: Fragment of an official Arabic-script document. Includes a blessing: (...wa-stafliḥ...). Verso: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only formulaic phrases are preserved.
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much of the content is preserved. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe? (Information in part from …
Letter from Dūnash b. Yiṣḥaq from Tripoli (Libya) to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. Describes imagery or exaggerated event, of an attack against …
A late letter from Yosef, asking to addressee to write a bill of permission to give a loan (שטר עסקא). In Hebrew. On recto pen …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom only). Dated: 23 Ḥeshvan 1539 Seleucid, which is 1227 CE. Sending greetings from Abū l-Faḍl and asking the addressee to …
Letter by Yisrael [b. Shemuel b. Hofni?]. See Mann, Texts and Studies, I, 165–66. Date is given, possibly Elul [1]315 = 1004 CE. Information from …
Letter fragment in Arabic script: ...al-ṣāliḥ dhakarū anna...; on verso there is also some Hebrew text.
Minute fragment from an opening of a letter to a notable. AA
Letter from Yosef קוכו and Shelomo Amarilio, in Salonica, to the judge Yiṣḥaq b. Ẓahal, presumably in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dated: 5480 AM (שנת אקים …
Letter from Shemuel b. ʿEli gaʾaon, Baghdad, with opening praises, copied in the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. (Information in part …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Eli Alfasi, Tyre. Around 1067. Abu Yaakov Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen is on a ship on …
My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your well-being and happin…
Letter from Yosef ha-Levi, unknown location, to Binyamin de Curiel, in Cairo. In Ladino. Dated: Adar 5552(?) AM = February/March 1792 CE. Complete. Needs examination.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic, likely the end of a letter (refers to וחסן עאקבתה).
Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Avraham b. Yosef b. Avraham to a dignitary called Avraham b. Abū l-Faḍl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The overall appearance and …
Late letter in Hebrew signed by ha-ṣāʿir Meʾir [...]. Written in an elevated register with many expressions of self abasement and flattery. Needs further examination.
Small fragment from the top of a letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) to a community, written in the hand of his clerk.
Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Personal letter expressing desire for a friend to meet with an American Sulaymān Basha, and other personal news – Ismaʿilīya (Cairo) June 18 1948CE – …