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Note in a Spanish hand concerning payments and mentioning a substance zanjfur (vermilion) and Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
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Letter from Shelomo to Shemuʾel, c. 18th century. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a letter, with a partial address on recto. Probably from a sister to a brother (מן אכתוה). (Information in part from CUDL)
Informal note from a certain Yosef, asking for 'a piece of' something, maybe parchment (קטעה רק(?)). On verso there is a line in Arabic script.
Letter from a father to his daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. He describes how he is a poor man, but even so he has recently sent 2 …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic (dated, but confusingly) to Ḥayyim ha-Kohen and Ḥayyim Ṭaliṭ(?) or Shlīsh. The date makes use of 1000 symbol V to indicate …
Minute fragment. Only a few words are preserved. It can be a literary fragment, but also poetical Hebrew phrases from an opening of a letter …
Address of a letter to a certain Yaʿaqov — drafts. (Information from CUDL)
Letter sent to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay in Fustat by his assistant in Bilbays, describing his journey from Syria to Egypt and saying that …
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The middle fragment is the a small fragment of an Arabic letter, preserving the first line of the letter and the address: to Sammanūd, to …
Business letter from Zikrī b. Khiyār to ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century, since it mentions the currency ashrafī. Deals mainly with business matters. Mentions …
Short letter to 'the in-law' Yosef and 'the daughter Esther Yāqūta, also mentioning Khuḍayr,' in a crude hand and extremely colloquial language. Dating: ca. 15th-16th …
Minute fragment. Only few words
IB II, 13 + 14. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: three fragments of two copies. Aden, ca. 1130s. An additional copy …
Your hands shall prevail over your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.
To our esteemed master and lord Abraham—may G…
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Letter in Hebrew. Fragment (the beginnings of 14 lines are preserved from the middle of the document). Dating: potentially 11th century. Written in large letters; …
Recto: Letter(s) in Arabic script. These may be copies or model letters. Each seems to contain only the opening portion and consists mainly of formulaic …
Letter requesting charity in which the petitioner describes that he is unemployed, starving, from a distant land (al-Raḥba), and has ‘uncovered his face’ to the …
Letter from Natan b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sefaradi, in Jerusalem, to Shelomo b. David Ibn al-ʿArīshī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written both in Hebrew …
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Letter from a woman to a female family member. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Ibn al-Rayyis Abū l-B[arakāt] (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu); the addressee's sister; "he does not …
Petition or very deferential letter in Arabic script. Unclear if or how it is related to the Hebrew-script letter on the other side. Addressed to …
Letter from the Qaraite Jews of Ashqelon to the Qaraites and Rabbanites of Fustat. Dating: Summer 1100 CE. The letter deals with the ransoming of …
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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around the spring of 1080. Musa is traveling and asks the writer …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
וסעאדתה ונעמתה [ען] שוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגתמאע [בה] עלי אפצל
חאל בעד וצול כתאב…
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Letter in Hebrew from Moshe b. תיפא(?). The sender mentions Mordekhay Benyamin, business in Cairo/Egypt, the sale of a ṭallīt, and various other transactions. Dating: …
Letter to Menahem from the cantor of Malij concerning an inheritance. EMS Verso: Jottings in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter from Sa'dan b. Thabit al-Baghdadi from Tripoli to a colleague in Cairo asking him to take care of his son, whom he had sent …
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Letter from Eli ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, in Jerusalem, to Abu al-Surur Farah, Fustat, ca. 1060.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Dating: Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era. The language is very reminiscent of a petition (yujaddid ʿahd khidmatihī lil-majlis al-sāmī....) however the …
Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Concerning the Babylonian synagogue, also mentions the hafṭara (ifṭāra). The addressee may be a cantor or communal leader. …
Letter to Eli b. Amram from a junior colleague, as court scribe, specifying the fees received for writing documents (marriage contracts, divorce documents, a power …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?) mentioning a letter that contained information regarding a mysterious …
Address of a letter from [...] b. Meshullam the [...] to a certain [...] b. Elʿazar. The word after Meshullam might be al-ʿAṭṭar, or it …
Recto: opening of a letter with only a few lines of blessings preserved. Verso: two names (Abū [...] and ʿOvadya, sons of al-Ḥalāl), probably senders …
Letter written to "my brother," apparently from Qus, dealing primarily with family members' medical issues. There are many eccentric spellings. Recto 4-12: The writer has …
Fol. 2: Letter in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209) addressed to [...] b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen, a member of …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: Letter in Ladino from Masud Bonan to Judah Asio, Cairo 1764. AA
Letter from a certain Sulaymān, possibly in Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. He is reporting on the prices and the proceeds …
Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in …
Au nom de Dieu clément et miséricordieux.
Je fais savoir (au qâ'id Mu'izz), Dieu le protège et l'ait sous sa garde et en son amitié et ne
Letter, fragment, in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Faraj. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. Recommending the bearer for assistance. The bearer had a partnership in a commodity with Bū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥakīm known …
Might be a communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Mentions 'al-Shāmiyyīn' and various numbers and Sayyidnā Moshe. Could also be literary or prognostications. Needs …
Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. With conventional greetings (قرات عليه السلام وعلى جميع من تحوطه عنايته السلام). The two lines in Hebrew underneath …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions [...]ā b. Yisraʾel. (Information in part from CUDL)
Mostly effaced note specifying sums of money. Accounts on verso. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm addressed to 'ha-Rav ha-Gadol,' someone close to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dealing entirely …
Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded and damaged. Might also be literary. Mentions someone's death and something that "is not hidden from you" and …
Note addressed to Abū l-Faḍl. Reused for additional jottings.
Communal letter addressed to the community of Minyat Zifta (קהל מוניה זיפתא). Dealing with a legal case. Mentions the late Mūsā; a guarantee or tax …