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Fragment of a family letter in Arabic script. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, possibly from the circle of Eliyyahu the Judge (based on the …
No Scholarship Records
Letter from "the sons of Palṭiel" to Yosef the Turgeman/Turjumān. In Hebrew with a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century. The …
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Copy of a long letter sent by Ḥananya b. Yosef ha-Kohen, Av Bet Din. Dating: ca. 1020 CE, according to Gil. Probably addressed to the …
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Recto: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 'ha-Rav Rabbenu Yeḥiel.' Dating: probably 13th century. Alludes to a dispute (waqaʿa fī hādhā kalām). Verso: …
Subsequent use: Letter from Ḥassūn b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā, to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. [...]. Mentions people such as Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa. …
Beginning of a letter to Shelomo ha-Sar ('ha-Sofer ha-Mahir'). The sender complains about difficult circumstances. Dating: 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. On verso a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the Ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)
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Probably a letter. Most of the script very faint and illegible. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from a letter, mentioning Sitt Mubārak. (Information from CUDL.) Looks like the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef (cf. T-S 8J27.8 (PGPID 3757)).
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Probably to one of his brothers. Mentions the capitation tax; a wife; someone who is perishing …
Exemplars of epistolary style, headed א and ב (probably 16th or 17th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Shelomo b. David Solal (Salmūn b. Dāʾūd) addressed to a certain Avraham. In Hebrew, in a late hand (ca. 17th century?). The sender …
Letter from the lawyer Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Nūbī to Kẖawaja Sālamūn Melūl requesting payment that was the amount of the court and its total is 240 …
Letter in which the writer asks the addressee to intervene with Sar ha-Sarim, probably Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, to retrieve his nephew's estate. Few names or …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May be in the hand of Abū l-Rabiʿ Sulaymān the son of Abū Zikrī Kohen (cf. ENA NS …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand? Very damaged and faded. Dating: 12th century. Some of the names mentioned are related to India Book II, such as …
Letter, official-looking, in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. Central part of …
المملوك المظفري
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يقبل الارض وينهي بعد استمرارة على الادعية الصالحة
فلـ[..]عىه [ ]
تقبله…
Letter fragment. In Arabic script.
Late business letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Yaʿaqov ben Ḥabīb.
Letter in which members of the Sholal family are mentioned
Late letter in Hebrew from a certain Yahuda b. Shimʿon addressed to Yaḥya and "the people of his house." Needs examination.
IB V, 5. Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fustat, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān b. al-Shāmī, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṭevet 1452 …
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Report to a Jewish official, perhaps the Nagid. The sender had been ordered to intervene with Abū l-Makārim, who had been delinquent paying the 20 …
A letter. On recto about the appointment of a teacher in the Bet Midrash signed by Shemuel b. Avraham. On verso discussion on some Karaite …
Minute fragment of a letter addressed to [Aharo]n b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe (active 1109–1143 CE). Requires further examination. MCD.
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably from Alexandria, to Yeshua b. Isma’il, Fustat. Around 1050. Some mentions of trading oil and crocus. …
] כלון מן טבת ערפך אללה ברכתה [
וצל כתאב מול]אי ידכר חאל אלצרר וקד כאן את[
] קבלך ואגתה[ד ] פי חמל אל[
] לי אכי אבי אלסרור אכדהא לם יפע…
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A letter in a poetical Hebrew addressed to the community of Alexandria, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Bottom of a letter in Ladino, from Avraham b. [...]. Mentions R. Shemuel and "the children" (לוש נינייוש). Otherwise quite damaged and in need of …
Recto: unidentified text in Hebrew. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Strip from the right side of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe halevi
Note from Sahlan b. Avraham, leader of the Babylonians in Fustat, to Aharon the Cantor (b. Efrayim), in which he informs him that a certain …
Letter fragment in Arabic script, probably commercial. It is difficult to decipher the content. The term "al-mamlūk" (referring to the sender) appears multiple times. The …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, no earlier than ca. 14th century. Mentions the name Yaʿaqov. On verso reused for accounts. Also reused for various …
Three drafts of a communal letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe in his early career (dates: 1100–38 CE), addressed to an unidentified community. …
Recto: Letter fragment from Manṣūr Kohen to Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Same writer as several other letters (see tag) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge, giving …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter. Small fragment only. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded/damaged. Greetings to various people on the back (preserved as recto), including to ʿAdwān and Muḥammad.
Letter from a supporter in Alexandria to the nasi Shelomo b. Yishay, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1240. The writer arrived in Alexandria on commercial business to …
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic ca.1800 CE from Nissim Masīs (?) to Karo y Frances & Co.
Letter from Menashshe b. Shemuel, possibly in Damietta, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Ṣadaqa, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1153–56 CE, since T-S 10K20.1 is …
Letter addressed to a dignitary with a long introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic (what remains of this is in the margin). Hand …
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 7 Nisan 5568 AM, which is 4 April …
Letter from a Qaraite, in Jerusalem, to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn Ibn Saghīr, in Cairo. To be read to the whole Qaraite community. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Letter from Josiah (Yoshiyyahu) Gaon, apparently to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1015 CE (per Gil) or ca. 1015–1025 CE, based on the years when …
Recto: Note in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Refers to upstanding Jews and conveys greetings to people including the sender's mother. Verso: letter addressed to …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting. Reporting that something was eaten by the worms. In …
Draft of a letter in Hebrew, ca. 1043, from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, the Gaon of Jerusalem (r. 1025–1051 CE). Efrayim requests …
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Fragment of an 11th-century mercantile letter. Mentions a drowned person (al-gharīq) and a quantity of manns of cinnabar (zunjufr).
Recto: Letter from somebody, in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1230s. The purpose of the …