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Letter from Abū Niʿma to Eliyyahu the Judge. Concerning a complaint filed by the daughter of the late Abū l-Maḥāsin. Mentions Bilbays and Muslims. There …
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Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef b. Simha, Alexandria, to the Taharti brothers (Ismāʿīl and Ṣāliḥ b. Barhun), Fustat. The writer is aboard a ship in …
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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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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter including the phrases: "I have not done [...] for three months. . . Rabbenu Peraḥya ha-Dayyan arrived. . . al-Shaykh …
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Letter from 'Ayyash b. Sadaqa in Fustat to Barhun b. Moshe Tāhartī of Qayrawan in Alexandria. Dating: 11th century.
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וגלילי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן מצר מסתהל מרחשון כתמה אללה עלינא ועלי…
Non-Geniza. Letter from Shemuel to Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, in Ponevezh (Panevėžys). Dating: Catalogued as 1739 CE.
Probably a fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Shem[arya?], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving instructions about various business transactions, including yeast (khamīra) and perhaps basil …
IB VII, 21. Letter with a legal purpose. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. From an unidentified sender to a certain parnas, trustee of …
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Letter from an unidentified man, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 15th century. The sender reports that he …
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Recto: Lower part of an incomplete letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq and then describes a quiet apartment which has been obtained for the addressee: …
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Letter mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī, Josiah and Sittī al-kabīra). (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a letter to Yaakov ha-haver (member of the Sanhedrin) from Yusuf ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards) VMR
Recto (secondary use): Letter draft mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer expresses grief over the death of his brother, Abū l-Faraj b. Yosef, who was perhaps …
The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. …
Letter from Shemuel Erusi (? ארוסי) to Shemuel Ibn Sīd. In Hebrew. Dated: 12 Av [5]374 AM = 18 July 1614 CE. The writer denies …
Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Probably late. Phrases: זה המכתב כבר חקקנו . . . שארע לנו מן אלו האנשים . . . …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Letter addressed to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf al-Urjuwānī. Goitein infers that he is the recipient because it refers to 'Allān, his sister's son, and to his …
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Letter copy in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya addressed to Shemuel Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. …
Letter from Asad b. Hilāl to a maker of scales (al-Mawāzīnī) to whom the writer had given a scale on which to affix a hanger, …
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis). In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several letters by this writer: see tag. This letter …
Mercantile letter. The sender is in Asyūṭ or near there and mentions goods which are in demand there. Mentions waiting for a caravan. Needs further …
Letter from a woman, unknown location, to her son Makhlūf b. ʿAqbān the in-law of the physician (ṣihr al-ḥakīm), in al-Ushmūnayn. To be delivered to …
IB VII, 67. Letter from an India trader in Quṣ. Dating: late 11th–early 12th century (Goitein). The writer departed sick (wajiʿ) and arrived healthy in …
Statute (‘taqqana’) about the conduct of two slaughterhouses, one at the Great Bazaar and one at the Bath of the Mice, issued by a committee …
. . . and those who gathered with them in the Palestinian synagogue in Fustāt, recognized as its parnasim and the representa…
Letter from Moshe b. Yefet/Ḥasan to the ḥaver ʿEli b. ʿAmram. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that Mufarrij b. Ḥusayn b. Shuʿayb (cf. Bodl. MS …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. The writer mentions his difficulties with a person named Abu Zikri …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר ליז כלון מן מרחשון כתמה
אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה תקדמת כתבי אליך…
Letter draft from Faraj Allāh to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late. Surrounded by numerous other jottings and signatures.
Letter from the year 1103 (established according to Shela's biography, see Frenkel, Compassionate, p. 76). The letter is written in the hand of Shela b. …
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Letter draft. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Addressed to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen. Consists solely of poetry and poetic praises.
Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of an official letter from Fustat addressed to a certain town in the Rīf (or perhaps a circular), exhorting them to be generous and …
Upper fragment: Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to his uncle Abū l-Khayr Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Fustat. Dating: Friday, [probably 25] Nisan …
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Letter to Meshullam b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. It seems to consist solely of flattering greetings.
IB VII, 66. Letter from South Arabia to Egypt giving order on a large gift to Maimonides (l. 14r). On verso an Arabic account of …
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Recto: Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to buying good quality musk (אלמ]סך אלטיב) for 'whatever price.' Refers to a qinṭār of something; …
Four letter fragments in Judaeo-Arabic. At least two of them (fols. 1 and 4) are probably from the same letter, but the other two fragments …
Letter opening, preserving only the shawqiyya, from Seʿayda b. Isḥāq to a certain respected Elʿazar.
Taqbīl clause, presumably scribal practice for a private petition: المملوك يقبل الارض بين يدي المولى الاجل المتفضل. Headed by the glyph (in this case, an …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1726/27 CE (487 = לך לאות), begging for charity from the Jewish community of Pisa. The writers, in Istanbul, call themselves …
Letter and bills from Sicily, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Some of the bills are directed to b. Awkal for washing fabrics, …
במאזר ודכר ללגיבה [ ] יקבצ'ה אסמעיל
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Calligraphic letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq in Fustat to Yeshua b. Ismail asking whether Nahray b. Nissim had gone to the Egyptian country-side and sold …
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Letter fragment (upper part) from Avraham probably to his elder brother (called 'father' but, later, 'from your brother'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably 15th–17th century. …
Text in Hebrew, possibly a letter or else literary. Quotes Deuteronomy 26:6 (וַיָּרֵעוּ אֹתָנוּ הַמִּצְרִים). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions "...and the people honor him..." Needs examination.
Letter from Avraham Castro (the grandson of the well-known minter) to a certain Shelomo. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Deals with …
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yūsuf to his 'brother.' Some colloquial spellings (e.g. יתפע instead of ידפע). The writer reports that he obtained …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century; the hand may be known. Containing tantalizing details: "his letter (arrived) with al-Nafūsī... and he mentions that …
Letter, copy. Written in poetic Hebrew. Possibly a letter of appeal for help, since the author describes his woes. Join by Dr. Ezra Chwat. See …