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Letter fragment in Arabic script. Reused on recto for a list of parshiyot: ḥayye Sarah (Genesis 23:1), va-yeḥi (Genesis 47:28) and ki tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1) …
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Letter in Hebrew dated 1781/82 CE (542 = מבשר) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial aid. …
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. Note that this shelfmark no longer exists, and Goitein's description does not correspond to Moss. II,118 …
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Fragment of a letter to 'my brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly urgings to write back and expressions of longing. Apparently sent from Qūṣ. The response should …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Barakāt. The addressee is likely Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī to whom Shelomo also wrote CUL Or.1080 …
You, O Lord, do not withhold Your mercy from me [...]
The insignificant servant Sh-L-M[...]
by which I make known to the master, the nobl…
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Letter from Moshe ha-Loʿez (or ha-Loʿaz[i]?) to his 'brother' David. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century. Asking for help on behalf of a man who …
Letter copies, probably writing exercises. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century. There are two main letters copied here, dealing with shipments of chests and …
Informal notes in Judaeo-Arabic, one on each side. Neither note seems complete. Recto: inviting al-Shaykh al-Nafīs to "come out (perhaps from Fustat to the Rif) …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to a captive virgin woman (בתולה שבויי[ה]) and includes the phrase "whether a Jew or [...]."
Letter(s) in Arabic script. Recto appears to be a letter of recommendation on behalf of Faḍāʾīl; the addressee is asked to look after him. Greetings …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣabbāgh, in Palermo, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1050 CE. The sender came to Palermo …
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Recto: Note in Judaeo-Arabic in which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu requests from an unidentified philanthropist a sum of money to cover Sabbath expenditures. (Information from CUDL)
אלכאדם שלמה ברבי אליה סט'
יא מן אנא כאדמה קצדי מן פצ'ל אללה
ופצ'לך אן תדברני פי שי אנפקה פי אלסבת
לאנני פי צאיקה והוא יודע לו כנת פי שי
The servant Solomon son of R . Elijah, (may he come to a) g{ood) e(nd).
Oh you whose servant I am. I would hope from the grace of God
and…
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Letter draft in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū l-Murajjā (ابلمرجا). Only a few words of the substance of the letter are preserved after the standard …
Probably the end of a letter, quoting Daniel 6:29, 4; Proverbs 3:4, 26, 2; 1 Shemuʾel 25:6. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (active 1190s–1212 CE), in Qalyūb, to a family member in Fustat. Moshe requests a silver mirwad (stick for applying …
Recto: Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Too rubbed to be read clearly.
Draft of the beginning of a letter to a notable. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.
Letter from a teacher to a certain Moshe informing him that his son, Abū Saʿīd, read his Torah portion with a translation (tafsīr; likely refers …
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to his father Isma’il, Fustat. October 22, 1050. Short letter about the money that Farah sent to his …
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאואלדי אטאל אללה בקאך וכאן לך ומעך עדה ולם ארא(!)
ארגו שגל כיר אעלמך בוצול מרכב אבי עלי אלשאמי ווצל פיה
רזמה לבן אלתיהרת…
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Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Mahdiyya to his brother, Abū l-Surur Isḥaq b. Barhūn, reporting what Ṭahir and his partner, who were the …
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Letter from Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Ṭabīb in which he acknowledges receipt of letters from the addressee and Abū l-Maʿālī and asks for charity, citing Genesis …
Recto: Letter or letter draft. There is a poetic introduction in Hebrew, with wide space between the lines. The marginal text is Judaeo-Arabic, filled with …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Very faded. Mentions a certain Shemuel, an Arabic letter, and the jamāʿa.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 14th–16th century, based on handwriting and linguistic features. Nearly the whole page is preserved, but the text is extremely …
Letter from Sulaymān al-Skandarī, in Damascus, to his brother-in-law Faraj Allāh Ibn Fāḍil and his wife (the writer's sister), in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Fragment of a letter from Amr b. Ibrahim to Cairo dealing with commercial matters. The sender mentions that he delivered some of the addressee's letters …
Letter from a woman to an unknown addressee. Around 1060. Mentions details about Nahray b. Nissim’s family. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #293) VMR
Letter from Saʿadya b. Berakhot ha-Melammed to Berakhot ha-Nadiv. Opens with a long Hebrew poem (24 lines of excuses) and continues with 8 lines of …
Bottom of a very faded letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew. Probably a mercantile letter of the 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Faraj, maybe a qāḍī, …
Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy and concerning business …
Letter (draft?), or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and mentions "al-mamlūk" twice. The text on verso reads as "min ahl hādihi …
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Phrases from the letter: ויגיתהא . . . אפעאלהא אלי . . . אלשריפה . . . תשועת עולמים …
recto: possibly from a preface of a letter; most of the space is devoted to a section in elevated Hebrew prose; verso: accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Late letter in Hebrew from a certain Yahuda b. Shimʿon addressed to Yaḥya and "the people of his house." Needs examination.
Letter fragment from Saʿadya b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan to Shemuel ha-Sar. What remains is in Hebrew. Only the opening and address are preserved. The same sender …
India Book (IB) IV,60 (ח70). Letter from Yeḥezqel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon in Alexandria. Dated/dating: Iyar 1140. Yeḥezqel complains rather winningly and …
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Letter perhaps from the community of Tinnīs (mentions the synagogue of Tinnīs in the first preserved line), to a Jewish dignitary, likely the Head of …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Abū l-Faraj b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramlī, announcing to him that five boats had arrived from Suwaydiyya, the port …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār al-Madinī, from Palermo, probably to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī (according to Gil, but the name of the recipient is lost). …
[ אסל אללה] יגעל עאקבתך חסנה ואן לא יכלאך
[ אהתמא]מך בחואיגי ובגמיע מע יכצני
[ ] גמיע אלוגוה פלא אכלאני אללה מן
[ ] גמיע מן יחתאגך תם ו…
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Letter from Shelomo b. Moshe al-Safāquṣī, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim.
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb, to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
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Letter of condolence to Avraham b. Berakaha. In Hebrew. Dating: Catalogued as 18th century. Several other people are named in the letter.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Formulary for Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew praises to an important person (peloni ben peloni) to be placed at the beginning of a letter. Verso: A …
Fragment of a medieval letter in Judaeo-Arabic giving a detailed account of a legal case involving a husband, a wife, her ketubba, sums of 12 …
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
Informal note from Abū l-Majd and Abū l-Faraj to 'the kind brother' (al-akh al-shafīq) Abū ʿAlī and to Abū Manṣūr. In rudimentary hand and spelling. …
Letter of recommendation for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to arrange a collection (jibāya) to raise funds for the letter-bearer, the cantor …
Announcement of the commemoration of the death of Rabbi Yaʿacov Abu Haṣīra in Damanhur, urging the visitors to maintain order – 3 December 1961 – …
Legal document in Arabic script. Might be about a marital dispute. Large and relatively well-preserved. Needs examination. On verso there is piyyut.