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Fragment of a communal letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The middles of four lines are preserved, wide spacing between …
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Letter addressed to a Nagid. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter in Arabic script, ending with two words in Hebrew ([...] shalom). Refers to an illness (fī l-maraḍ) and an agent (al-wakīl). Needs further examination.
Letter from Yisrael ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel. April 1019, in the handwriting of Israel ha-Kohen b. Shemuel b. Hofni. The letter is addressed to one …
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Letter in Arabic script. Only a few lines from near the beginning are preserved. Mentions "the son of my paternal uncle Jibrīl," who may have …
Recto: fragment of a recommendation letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli ha-Ḥaver b. Amram, Fustat. The name of the person who is recommended is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an 11th-century Maghribī commercial letter. The document is fully preserved including the address on verso, from [...]mūn b. [...] to Abū …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter mentioning Gaza and appealing for money for the redemption of captives, citing various biblical and rabbinic dicta, and how virtuous …
IB III, 4 + 5 + 6 + 6a. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham b. Yiju, reconstructed from four fragments (the last, discovered …
this year in the ship of ⟦Nbrdwy {or read: Nbyrwy}⟧ Fidyār. I sent with him {alt. tr.: wrote and sent with him} a letter of proxy,
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Recto: letter with another fragment of a document stuck to it; letter mentions [...] ha-Kohen ‘the wise judge’. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter. In Arabic script. The addressee seems to be a scholar and physician in the entourage of the Mamluk sultan Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī …
Letter from Ishaq b. Yusuf al-Andalusi to Nahray b. Nissim. Dated 1050.
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Letter fragment. Late. Only the address is preserved. Addressed to Yaʿaqov Sofer. There may be one or two words in Ladino, but this needs further …
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic signed by Yoḥanan Gān(?) (גאן). Late, perhaps 15th–18th century. On verso there are some accounts. Needs examination.
Recto: Letter sent to al-Mahalla concerning various business matters and dealing with the sale of sugar, chewing gum (mastaka) and rice. Dated 1165. Mentions a …
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Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary and faded. Some food commodities are mentioned, such as oil, ṭaḥīna, and molasses (quṭāra). There is a …
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, the Karaite, Jerusalem, to one of the Karaite notables in Fustat, around 1040. He reports having received one dinar that …
Recto: letter to the Nagid (Mevorakh? titled "Sar ha-Sarim") with blessings for his three sons. Verso: rhymed poetry. (Information from CUDL)
Left fragment: Letter in Arabic script. Not a chancery hand, but it sounds like a petition or official letter in some ways. Conveys praises and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender complains that no one except the addressee helps them. The addressee should help ʿAmmār Ibn Shamshūrī …
Letter in which members of the Sholal family are mentioned
Letter from Yehosef b. Shemuel Bavli to the judge Anatoli b. Yosef. In Hebrew. He states that he will not hand over a security to …
Verso: various jottings, including the draft of the opening of a letter to Abū Saʿd b. Moshe in Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing the writer’s desire to see …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. The name Ṣāʿid appears in what looks like the address on verso.
Letter addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. The writer's name may be preserved as well, but the conservators have …
Recto: probably a begging letter, but the text is very damaged. On verso Hebrew piyyut and possibly an Arabic account - needs further examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032), noting that in a previous epistle he thanked Abraham for the donation the …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Summer 1030. The writer arranges shipments from and to …
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender says that the addressee sent the wrong copy (nuskha) of a liturgical text, but it's for the better, …
Letter from the daughter of Manṣūr al-Zayyāt [...] al-Sofer. Only the introduction and a few partial lines in the left margin are preserved. Mentions a …
Letter concerning various business issues and the new agent Abū […]. Mentions a qāḍī, a widow, and a girl. Also mentions the Sar ha-Sarim and …
Fragment of a 'magnificent' letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Refers to the bearer's release from prison, and how he is appropriately abashed. (Information from Goitein's …
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Letter mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. From a certain ʿAllāl. Possibly addressed to R. Yiṣḥāq among others. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century. Also mentions R. Shemuel al-[...]. Needs …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of …
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Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Only the address is preserved.
Detailed postscript to a letter sent one month before this one with someone who had gotten stranded while traveling on the sultan's ship. This second …
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Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Refers to the arrival of a ship from Bīsh (מרכב ביש), i.e., Pisa, usually …
Letter addressed to two people. In Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. The names should be legible, …
Letter from an unknown writer, perhaps a provincial muqaddam, to an unknown distinguished person, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with interspersed biblical verses. The writer …
Letter fragment (lower part of recto). The recipient's brother-in-law is to pay something to Ḥayyim b. H[...]. The writer urges the recipient to help him, …
Letter in calligraphic Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in. Writer and addressee are unknown. The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Fustat, [Dar?]b al-Ḥadīd, to be delivered to Yosef al-Ḥazzan al-[...]bī. Apart from the address, only formulaic content from the …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Damascus, to Abū l-Ḥasan, in Aleppo. In Arabic script. The writer reports that his brother Ismāʿīl arrived in Acre, …
Verso: Autograph note from Moshe Maimonides to al-Shaykh al-Wathīq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the synagogue and the noble congregation: ... עד ביאת הגואל ... אלי אלכניס ... אלגמאעה אלכרימה …
Beginning of a letter to Avraham Maimonides, with the title of "Nagid" therefore post-1213 CE.
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Kohen. Contains initial greetings, a request for assistance, a congratulations on recovering from an illness, and wishes for the forthcoming high …
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 Fāris b. Ibrāhīm, probably in Jerusalem, to Elishaʿ Fayrūz and Yūsuf Sanbūlī (=Sṭanbūlī?, of Istanbul), probably in Fustat/Cairo. In (rudimentary) Hebrew. Dated: 11 …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter probably from a woman to a male family member. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. She requests …