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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Mentions Mūsā al-Ṣay[rafī?], Sayyidnā, "not sleeping at night," and Cairo. (Information in part from …
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On verso beginning of a draft of a poetical letter of appeal for charity addressed to a certain ʿAmram. In Hebrew with a few words …
Personal letter from individuals named Rafael, Yosef, and Shemuʾel asking for the issuance of citizenship papers for their father because the Egyptian government acknowledged it …
Letter from the son or descendant of Yeshuʿa he-Ḥaver b. Ṣabgha (צבגה), who moved from Jerusalem to Fustat with his family, asking for help from …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. 10 damaged lines are preserved but hard to discern much of the content. On verso there are writing exercises of the …
Partial interior section of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. Line 5 includes the phrase: "ביד אלממאליך". Requires further examination.
Letter from Muḥammad and Jamīl. In Arabic script, formatted like an official document. In which they report that they have met with Abū Makhlūf according …
Petition from Muḥammad b. [...]. Small fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on the hand. Striking calligraphy.
Calligraphic letter requesting help for a man who is out of work and has a large family which would be satisfied with getting a mere …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side only). Dating: 12th or early 13th century. Mentions Waliyy al-Dawla, Fustat, and a shop.
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yehuda b. Shelomo, the cantor of Damsīs, to an unidentified addressee, who is asked to …
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Letter from a woman, probably in Alexandria, to her paternal uncle. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The writer's family, a family of merchants that …
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Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Regarding shipment of clothes and scarves. The writer asks for the prices of …
ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יאסידי אן כתבת אליך כתב אן עדה ולם נרא לואחד
מנהא גואב …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The first word(s) of about 15 lines are preserved along with the right margin, containing an offer to fulfill any errands …
Lower fragment: Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥaggay to a woman named Raḥel (but to be delivered to Moshe b. Suhayl). In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably …
Letter of appeal. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is under house arrest (tarsīm). He asks the addressee to take care of a wicked man. Excerpts: פלמא …
Letter from Yosef b. Sahl al-Baradānī in Tripoli, Lebanon, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1060.
טראבלס ליד
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Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Ayyash b. Sadaqa in Busir. Probably ca. 1050.
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Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …
Letter in Hebrew script. Judaeo-Persian?
Two letters (or drafts) in Arabic script. Same handwriting on each side. Recto: Addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ, asking him to send 100 nuqra dirhams with …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic. Refers to a female teacher (li-l-muʿallima) and a man's mother (wa-wālidatuhū)
Letter in Arabic addressed to Muhammad Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār in Cairo, from a certain Hajj Muhammad ʿAshrī al-ʿAṭṭār. Dated 16 April 1808 CE (19 Safar 1223 …
A good supplement.
The peace of God the exalted and his mercy and blessings, and his most abundant greetings—with these we greet
his nobl…
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Original use: Unidentified text in Arabic, likely a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Recto with the address on verso: Letter from an unknown sender, in Ṣahrajt, probably sent to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: First half of the 11th …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late medieval (sefaradi-influenced hand), possibly 14th-15th century. Mostly consists of particularly flowery introductory praises.
Either one letter with both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic components or two different letters. In the main, Judaeo-Arabic text, the writer greets al-Ḥakīm and Shaykh al-Makīn …
Recto: possibly the rhymed opening of a letter, mostly consisting of praises directed towards ‘ha-Rav’. Verso: small amount of partly illegible Arabic text. (Information from …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th-century mercantile. Addressed to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn (?) and Abū Saʿīd Yūsuf. Possibly from a Mūsā.
Minute fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions arriving in Alexandria and meeting with somebody, and possibly a boat.
Fragmentary business letter concerning the author's opponents. The writing appears to be in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Address of a letter to Meʾir Ben-Naʿim (fl. 1785-1825 CE) in Cairo, from someone in Damietta (קפוטקיא). One line is also preserved on verso.
The text is almost completely vocalised and rhymes in -akh. It seems to be more of a poem than a letter; it breaks off mid-sentence, …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd al-Bazzāz, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Yefet, at the shop of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (better known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī), …
Late letter in Hebrew to Yishmaʿel ha-Kohen dated November 1829 (Heshvan 5590).
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Sedaqa in Tripoli, Libya, to the physician Shemuel in Cairo, thanking him for his ransom when the sender was captured by …
Letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Ashkelon, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat.
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto opens in the middle of an interesting story: "Six Venetian ships arrived, bearing great bounties (niʿam ʿaẓīma), and all of …
Recto: Letter from a man of Qayrawān, perhaps in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is an eloquent letter of appeal for charity. He says he has …
Letter from Ḥasan b. Yiṣḥaq al-Khawlānī(?), probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1015. The writer informs Ibn ʿAwkal about …
IB VI, 38a. Letter from Makārim b. Mūsā Ibn Nufayʿ, in ʿAydhāb, to (his son-in-law?) the ḥaver Yeshuʿa b. Yoshiyya the descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon, …
Letter addressed to Umm ʿAbdallāh. In Arabic script. Rebuking her for not keeping the sender updated with her news. On verso there is a list …
Letter of blessing to a notable, maybe on a happy occasion, such as a birth of a child. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Probably …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand appears to be that of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Possibly a draft, …
Letter in Hebrew, in a Byzantine hand, reporting on a highly secretive transaction involving gold dust. According to Avraham David, this is a 16th century …
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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 Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dated: 4 Tammuz = 18 June 1059 CE, according to Gil. The …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dated 29 January 1807 (20 Shevat 5567), from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and his partner Avraham ha-Levi.
Lower fragment: Letter from an unidentified man, in Damascus, to a female family member, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. On recto, there are elaborate instructions for …
Non-Geniza. Letter to Avraham b. Aharon of Troki. 1680 CE. (Information from NLI.)