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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "What have you done with the fūṭa?... please try to send it to her..."
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Recto: Letter fragment to a distinguished person named Abū l-Barakāt b. [...], titled Sar Menuḥa and Sar Shalom. Contains profuse well-wishes for the addressee's recovery …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the kashrut of cheese it seems purchased by Abū Naṣr b. Hārūn. The distinguished addressee is asked to help, presumably …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Small fragment, with hardly any text left. It states that the husband of a woman related …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower piece of a long vertical letter). Mentions a qāḍī twice; the government; …
Letter from Binyām to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. (Same sender and addressee as …
Letter from Salmān b. [...] to Zayn b. Abū l-Faḍl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender was happy about the recent letter from the addressee, and is …
Letter to Mar Shabbetai Ravilon from his brother, Mar Yaqub, dealing with the trade of hides, including a shipment to Crete (l. 9) and business …
Recto: letter in Ladino. Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Letter/petition requesting a covering (? kiswa). In Arabic script. Recto: Undeciphered document in Arabic script. Both sides need further examination.
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "When he arrived in al-Maḥalla, I inquired from him, and he said that he went to you many …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Vocalized sparsely with Hebrew vowels. Dating: likely 11th century. The section preserves here opens with a reference to how no person …
Note with instructions to draw up a draft of a marriage contract leaving out the names of the bride and groom. (Information from Goitein's index …
Recto: Letter, or petition in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 12th or 13th century. Mentions "ruqʿa", the word for petition, "jawāb", and contains the rayy clause.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions a hotelier (al-funduqānī) (Information in part from CUDL)
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. The section preserved here opens with asking for a favor from the addressee involving conciliating someone else. Goes …
Paper numbered as (2) and it seems that it is from a letter for a question regarding family and children, and a discussion on fasting, …
Letter fragment. Mainly in Arabic script, with one word in Hebrew script. May mention Bilbays. Refers to "the knowledge of medicine" and perhaps a youth …
Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to urgently deliver the שתייה, perhaps the equivalent of sharāb or medicinal syrup. There are also two lines …
Recto: part of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, complaining about the lack of letters from the addressee and explaining that a letter had been sent to the …
Long Karaite business letter. The year is given as יה אלש, might be 5431 = 1671.
Letter addressed to Sulaymān the beadle. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding fundraising for captives, asking the addressee to take charge of it, and also "to collect something …
אל שמש אל ש' סלימאן אללה יכון עונה ויודע לה ולדה
יעלם באן אל שבויים חצ'רו אלי ענדנא כתיר ומא אמכננא
נרסלהם לכם ונק…
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Business letter in Arabic script with a few words in Hebrew (ללגויים, מן אול אדר שני, ושלום). From Maʿānī to his "brother" Mūsā. Mentions Muslim …
Recto: Fragment of a letter or letter draft in Arabic script. Might also be literary: اما بعد كان الذي . . . وما اعلمه ان …
Letter from a woman (possibly the wife of al-Ramlī named on verso) to Rabbenu [...] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen he-Hasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. She thanks him for …
Recto: widely-spaced letter (3.5cm between lines) with only a few words preserved. Begins with ליקירנו ואהובנו ובעל בריתנו. Verso: address in a different hand, stating …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to an notable; wide space between the lines. The handwriting is probably known. Describing a communal controversy, requesting that the …
Letter addressed to the physician, Rosh Kalla, and Nagid Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Saʿadya (in office from ca. 1065 to 1077 or 1079). On recto, …
Letter in Arabic script. The basmala and first two lines are preserved, along with a few words in Arabic script on verso. Reused for Hebrew …
Recto looks like a small letter fragment: חכים(?) מעה אלי גזה . . . אלי כדמתך ונחן באק . . . ובינך פלא תכון אננא …
Letter in Hebrew. Might be in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid. Dating: Likely 14th century. The sender issues instructions about communal and/or legal cases. There …
Letter to Abu al-Ḥasan 'Ali b. Hillel, the cantor, in which the writer describes departing to the house of Abu al-Faraj and an exchange with …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). …
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Two fragments from a late private letter. In (Maghribī?) Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions a woman who is in great distress. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Fragment of a letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... Sunday the day of my departure from Granada (אגרנאטה) . . …
Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿaadya. Small fragment containing the opening and part of the address. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting …
Fragment of a business letter to ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn announcing the arrival of a large ship from Spain and two other ships from Mahdiyya and …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Perhaps to Peraḥya, since Abū Saʿīd (probably Ḥalfon) is greeted at the bottom. Fragment …
IB II, 25 + 26. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: two fragments. Aden, 1134. See also T-S AS 173.380 (PGPID 38566).
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Letter from Yefet Fayrūz, in Damascus, to Eliyyahu Fayrūz, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Catalogued as 18th century. Needs further examination.
Business letter from ʿUmar b. ʿIwaḍ, in Qalyūb, to the notary and qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn, at the Dār al-Wakāla in Fustat. Discussing a shipment of …
God is the best of helpers.
Your servant Omar b. ʿIwaḍ serves the high seat of our master
and lord, my master Ṣadr al-Dīn, may God let hi…
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212 CE). On recto there is Leviticus 4:12, 14 (Hebrew). These …
Letter in Arabic script. From Mawhūb (who calls himself muṣābibuh(?) = "the one who adores him") to Isḥāq al-Ḥazzān(?), in al-Ramla, Sūq al-Yahūd. Mentions someone …
Letter in which Elazar ha-Kohen b. Yehuda sends good wishes for the holidays to Mevorakh b. Saadya in his own name and in the name …
Possibly a fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. Mentions something done "by the captain of a ship" (ʿalā yad rayyis markab).
Letter from Yusha` b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim.
תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה [ואדאם עזה וס]עאדתה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה עדה ואכ'רהא עלי יד[י וכנת מ]נתטר
לוצול כתאב…
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Official letter from either the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310– d. 1355) or his father Avraham II Maimonides (served 1300 to ca. 1316). (Goitein …
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Draft of the beginning of a letter addressed to two people ('al-mawlā al-hadrat' and 'al-mawlā al-tifʾeret'). Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Verso (probably original use): fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small vertical strip from the left side. Mentions [Avraha]m b. Yiṣḥaq and a niṣāfī (a …