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Letter addressed to R. Hananel he-Hasid, written in the time of David I Maimonides (l. 11r). (Information from Paul Fenton, Tarbiz 55 [1956], p. 78) …
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Letter, or possibly an outline of a legal document, containing instructions concerning a trousseau list. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, …
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Letter fragment Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Dealing mainly with business matters. Mentions a silk merchant (qazzāz) and a fuller or bleacher …
Letter from Avraham Maimuni informing the Nasi that a certain document was not found among papers brought forth by a third party and that the …
Family letter from a son to his father, Abu al-Muna al-Muwaffaq. Two main family matters are discussed. First, the son states that his brother-in-law, a …
Letter from Yosef b. Araḥ to Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. ʿAmram In Judaeo-Arabic. See also T-S 13J20.8, a letter from Yosef to ("the Talmid") Netanel b. …
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Recto: liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. The word واستقبل is legible and very little else. (Information in part …
Letter in Arabic script. Large script, moderately wide space between the lines. Recommending the bearer of the letter, a poor man named Salam(?), for charity …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency ashrafī. The letter deals in great depth with a …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: that Peraḥya's letter arrived with ʿAyyāsh; 17 dirhams; a …
Recto: Letter from communal leaders, in Alexandria, to the judge Shemuel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unclear; likely early 13th century, based on handwriting and …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions exchange rates several times; mastic; having purchased cinnabar in partnership with Hārūn b. Nissim; and other names …
Letter from the muqaddam of Malij, congratulating R. Aharon ha-Qarawi (or: "who is called") Abu l-Ḥasan on God's miracles and Aharon's deliverance from wicked people. …
Recto is a piece of a letter or petition describing legal negotiations, in which a woman makes a declaration, someone is granted permission to meet …
Recto: Upper right corner of a letter with a Hebrew header and then beginning אצדרת הדה אלמכאתבה אלי מ . . . . Reused on …
Most of an eloquent letter of appeal in rhymed Hebrew addressed to Abu l-Faraj Amram b. Levi. The body of the letter begins about 2/3 …
Letter from Abū l-Faraj b. Sāl[im] to Abū l-Fuḍayl Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Not a great deal of the content remains. It seems that the …
IB II, 66. Aden, August 1199. Sender and recipient are unknown, as only the lower part of this letter has been identified. The letter makes …
[...to] Aden. Immediately after his arrival [he was brought before the caliph?],
who said to him: “Become a Muslim, or you will cause the d…
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Long strip, only one word preserved from each line, in wide spacing. Probably a poetic Hebrew letter. AA
Letter written by the assistant of the Nagid Ishaq Sholal to Alexandria. Dating: early 16th century. Written during a period when the Nagid was "in …
Letter by a teacher complaining about teaching a difficult child. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Reused on verso for Hebrew literary jottings.
Draft of the beginning of a petition-like letter to a woman. Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
Letter draft(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. From someone in Sammanud who is in need and usually earns enough not to have to ask ('uncover his face'). Dating: …
Possibly a letter or a sermon. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Efrayim b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1070 CE. The writer owns several apartments in Alexandria and …
וצל כתאב מולאי אלחבר אלגליל גדול הישיבה נטרוהי מן שמיא וגברוהי למזלי ווקפת עליה ושכרת אללה
גל אסמה עלי מא תצמנה מן עלם סלאמתה וסאלתה אדאמתה…
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Letter from Mordekhay Ashkenazi to a family member. In Hebrew. Dating: Late. Needs examination.
Small fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be asking for a remedy to administer to a sick person (בשי אן אמן …
Recto: Note from ʿOvadyahu to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Asking the addressee to pay a sum of money to …
IB IV, 22 (ח30). Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn Barukh, in Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dated: Sunday, 29 Tammuz 4898 AM = 10 July …
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Probably part of a letter, with unorthodox orthography. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. This is the last leaf of a longer letter, as it is headed "tamām …
Note from Ṣadoq b. Moshe Yerushalmi addressed to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Reporting on the contents of a consignment of textiles. The …
Business letter in Hebrew. Late. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. Mentions currencies such as coronas and peraḥim. Most …
Letter from Mubarak ha-Levi b. Yosef to Alexandria concerning business matters. The writer calculates how much he has paid the addressee and how much of …
Letter (ending only) addressed to David Ben-Naʿim and Moshe Ben-Naʿim in Alexandria ( נא אמון) presumably from their father, Meʾīr, who only signs with his …
Extremely polite business letter dealing with a consignment caraway dispatched from Fustat. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 340, and from Goitein's index cards)
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Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Long, well-preserved, and unstudied. Dating: Perhaps 14th–15th century, but this is a guess. The addressee may be named Bū Saʿd. The …
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faraj. Mainly in Arabic script, with several words in Hebrew (in Hebrew script). The sender is making a request concerning …
Letter fragment (lower part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning administration of a legal affair. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ayyūb, who owned property on …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. The hand is distinctive (descenders that sweep to the left) and may be known. Mentions the sister of al-Māwardī ('the …
Verso: Letter draft (beginning only) in Arabic script. From a certain Abū l-Ḥasan to "the brothers, the physicians."
Letter in Ladino. Quite faded. Mentions Egypt or Fustat/Cairo (מצרים). Currency mentioned: probably grossi (גורוש, pl. גורושוש). The writer says "for the love of God" …
Letter to Menahem from the cantor of Malij concerning an inheritance. EMS Verso: Jottings in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from one community addressed to another. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Opening and closing with blessings for the addressees. Reporting on the arrival of Saʿīd …
Letter from a man to his father-in-law. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. He offers an update on mercantile transactions, mainly in garments, each transaction on the order …
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Blessings in Hebrew, likely from the top of a letter of appeal for assistance.
Letter from a father to his son Abū l-Riḍā the physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with various financial and family matters. The father is in distress …
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 Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī in Susa to Abu Zakariyya Hayyim b. `Ammar, who writes about a disaster at sea that overcame the boats, …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך
ונעמתך ען חאל סלאמה פי אלגסם ושגל פי אלסר מן מא קדר אללה תעאלי
וחכם אלדי …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. "Forgive me. . . . R. Eliyya. . . . Maʿariv. . . . …