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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With substandard orthography (CUDL), "in a known script with known atrocious spelling" (Goitein), mentioning people including Avraham and Abū l-Ḥusayn. Mentions arriving …
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Abū l-Ḥusayn and something to be sent with Abū Saʿīd.
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Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Wide space between the lines.
Copy of an opening of a letter from Sharira Gaon and his son Hai, to Ya’aqov b. Yosef b. Awkal. Mentions letters and answers that …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged and fragmentary. Dating: probably late, no earlier than 14th century, based on format and formulae. Mostly sending regards to various people. …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentioning Abū Sulaymān and Ibn al-Qafaṣ (?). (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription.
Letter from Yaʿaqov to his son Shemuel and wife Umm Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written over four columns and folded like a bifolium. The writer castigates …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Reuven [Najjar y Feliz?] to Moshe Najjar y Feliz, probably his brother, dated 4 Settembre '56. It deals …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to an unknown person. Around 1060. The addressee is not Nahray, as Nahray’s name is mentioned in …
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Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like a Spanish or Maghribī hand and layout (the address (...al-jalīl al-ḥakīm al-fāḍil) at the top of recto).
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda.
Letter, probably. In poetic Hebrew.
On recto, possibly a draft of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ the brother(?) of Saniyy al-Dawla. In the margins of recto, the …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Refers to al-Wazzān, money that is owed, Abū Naṣr, and wine or a medicinal syrup (sharāb).
Recto: Upper right piece of a letter to a 'brother' in Arabic script. Conveys various pieces of news, including about the sale of a shop. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With some unusual and careless spellings. Requesting that the addressee purchase various commodities, including two pounds of myrtle and different kinds of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to something al-Majīdī, which might place this during the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (1132–49). Then refers to "the life of" (could …
Letter to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee had left when she was ill (marīḍa). The writer mentions Sulaymān, whom they had not seen for …
Letter fragment (right side of recto, part of the address on verso). Someone named [...] b. Dawud al-[...] is named on verso. ASE.
This is the beginning of a very fragmentary letter which mentions a certain al-Dar'i (Dar'a is a town in Morocco). It is possible that the …
Personal letter sent from Aden – 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 195) – in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Recto: Possibly an account Verso: Possibly a letter- needs examination.
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to an unidentified community (al-jamāʿa). Mentions the intention to build or rebuild "al-qodesh" but 100 dirhams are still …
Recto: fragment of a letter in verse to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, in a different hand than verso. Referring to a period of distress (killing, hiding). …
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Late letter addressed to Merkado Karo and Shim'on Frances. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 26 Shevat 5567 AM (1807 CE). Information from Wagner, Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic, …
Invitation from the union of Jewish religious institutions of Egypt to the president of the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva for participating in the collective and it …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Reminding the addressees to give the money to a certain poor man that they had promised to give.
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt to his son Abū Naṣr ʿAlī b. Abū ʿAli b. al-Quṣayr, in the alley of the candles, presumably in …
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother' Hārūn Fayrūz in Cairo. This letter contains an update on her stomach illness …
Possibly a letter fragment but too faded/damaged to read. ותנהג כמנהגותיה would fit with a letter of appeal for assistance.
Minute fragment containing a few words of blessings in Hebrew. Might be from a letter, but too little remains.
Letter in elegant Arabic script. Fragment (right side of recto). Sent from Ramla (l. 2). The content is unclear, but the tone is deferential and …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen B. Hayyim, Fustat, approximately 1060.
Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt al-Isrāʾīlī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Sahl, in the perfumers' market in Fustat. On recto only the upper left …
Formulary in elevated Hebrew for a letter to a dignitary: לצפירת תפארת נטע מפואר מושל בן מושל ארי בן ארי בן אבהן(?) ר פל בן …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged.
Letter from a certain Yisrael, in Jerusalem, to Avraham Castro (d. 1560), in Cairo. In Hebrew. Asking for charity and for his family of 8 …
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Letter from Hilāl b. Yosef to ʿArūs b. Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to …
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Letter from a father to a son. On vellum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This fragment opens with updates on the health of various …
Petition from Abū ʿImrān, probably in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. The document concerns Abū l-ʿIzz al-Qazzāz and Hibatallāh and a convoluted case …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances, of Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated: 13 …
Letter or monumental sign with a greeting text (ברוך אתה בבואך ברוך אתה בצאתך) with the name Shemuel Ashkenazi is listed in the first-person in …
Fragment from the top of a letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. The reports his happiness when he learned of the health of various people (al-mawālī …
Fragment of a letter from al-Kabira, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1055. Al-Kabira informs Nahray that she sent him silk by the …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאיידה
ונעמאה [ו]כבת אעדאה ען סלאמה ושוק אליך
קרב אל[לה] אל[א]גתמאע בכם עלי חאל אלמו[ראד]
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Top four lines of an official-sounding letter in Arabic script. Might be a draft. Dating: Maybe 13th or 14th century. Begins: "Uṣdirat/aṣdartu hādhihi l-[...] ilā …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions Bunyām al-Parnas.
Recto (secondary use): Note addressed to Abū l-Majd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early 13th century. The sender has carried out Abū l-Majd's instruction and sent …
Letter concering the apperance of a prophet, and inauguration of the messianic age in 1226 with the appearance of Elijah, of the messiah in 1233, …
Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely 11th century.