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Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi (Nīsābūrī), in Alexandria, to Ṣadaqa b. Yaḥyā al-Nāʾib ('the deputy'), in Fustat. He writes about a partnership in a …
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Bottom part of a letter from Perahya b. Yosef, who asks the addressee to return books which he had lent to Rabbi David and which, …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, Fustat, ca. 1046.
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Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Malīj. He has received the petition (ruqʿa) of the Alexandrian woman whose divorced husband is not …
Recto: letter fragment in Arabic script. Verso: letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the 'rayyis' and kissing his hand (יבוסו אידה).
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Recto: accounts with sums in dinars, mentioning the colours white, black and blue. Verso: note stating that when Abū l-Fakr reads it he should come …
Notice from the president of the board of directors of the Jewish hospital to supervisor Mr. Eliyyahu Ḥayyim of the social center in Cairo to …
Petition to David al-haver al-kohen son of the judge in Judaeo-Arabic. no content has been preserved.
Two rhymed letters between the brothers Shemuʾel and Shelomo, on the subject of wine. See also Goitein's index card, and cf. T-S 8J15.15 (same brothers).
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Letter addressed to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Fragment (left side of recto). In Arabic script, in an eloquent style. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. …
Letter to Shemuʾel, mentioning Yaʿaqov Sonso (שנשו) (c. 15th-16th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Shemuel b. Yehuda ha-Bavli, in Alexandria, to a notable, in Fustat. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1130s CE. Concerning the withholding of money …
IB IV, 53a (ח53). Letter from al-Andalus, sender and recipient not preserved. Apart from a request to know the recipient's travel plans, the letter contains …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the sender's unfortunate dealings with a government bureau (דיואן). Apparently Ibn al-Farārījī tried to shake him down for money, claiming …
Small fragment of a business letter, probably. In Hebrew.
Business letter from Abū l-Surūr b. David to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Fragment. Mentions the late Abū Saʿīd and the Muslims who claimed they …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions מגאלסהם. (Information from CUDL)
Family letter from Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq to his son. The letter reflects the personal and economic distress of the writer, who was far …
Recto: Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic, reassuring the recipient that everyone is well and that conditions in the region are the same as they have been. …
Letter probably from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. No address. Quite faded. Mentions 'the matter of the house'; [Abū] l-Riḍā; Abū Naṣr. Regards to Abū l-Faraj Natan ha-Kohen b. Efrayim …
Recto: letter in Arabic script. May refer to black silk (al-ḥarīr al-aswad). Reused on verso for probably a liturgical text with Judaeo-Arabic instruction יקול. (Information …
A long letter with a query regarding the laws of marriage, sent to Simha b. Shlomo. On the back of the page account in Arabic …
Letter from ʿAzarya b. [...] to a Kohen (both the individual and his father’s name were in the piece now missing from the right side …
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
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Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions an estate (ḍayʿa); a sum of 300-something; a complaint about lack of letters (لا سيرت لا كتاب ولا جواب); …
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli, probably in a provincial town, to his cousin Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: 1122–50, based on the …
Letter in Hebrew. Probably written in Corfu, probably addressed to al-Shaykh Yūnus. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. Discussing competition between Venetians and other …
Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim He-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: approximately 1045 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE based on …
Letter from Hayyim b. 'Ammar (Gil) or Zakkar b. 'Ammar (Ben-Sasson), Palermo, to Yūsuf b. Mūsā Tāhartī in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1069 (Gil).The writer writes …
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Business letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Despite its physical state, the letter contains much information on commercial activities in the …
Fol. 7: Text in Hebrew listing the names of various Nasis, e.g., Ḥizqiyya ha-Nasi and Shelomo ha-Nasi b. David ha-Nasi Rosh ha-Gola. Containing phrases typical …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. He is agitated about something ("the knife has reached the bone"), mentions a qāḍī and appeals to ʿaṣabiyya to …
Pen trials and drafts of various documents, including a petition. (According to Khan, the petition is written to a judge.)
Fragment of a letter, comprising the upper left corner. Medieval-era. The recipient is addressed in line 1 as "mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl." Requires further examination. MCD.
Letter to a son. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spelling. At one point the number nine is written both as a word (תשע = تسع) …
Megillat Evyatar, probably composed by Evyatar Gaon and was read in synagoges. Probably was composed in 1094. (The scribe might be Shmuel b. Ya'aqov- a …
Letter fragment from Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. Preserving only the last two lines, including his signature (wreathed in tiny letters).
Letter of friendship (and appeal for financial support) sent by Yiṣḥaq Villareal. Dating: 16th century. The addressee is asked to speak with the sender's brother …
Fragment of a business letter from an unknown sender to his brother Abū l-Durr (אבו אלדר), in Fusṭāṭ, in murabbaʿat al-ʿaṭṭārīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning commodities …
Letter from Eliyyahu Ha-kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, to Ḥalfon b. Shelomo. Note that verso has been reused for a (literary?) Hebrew tex
End of a letter - needs examination.
Letter of complaint to Maimonides regarding funds for the Qodesh. Written in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. Dating ca. 1168–1204 CE, …
. . . (R. Isaiah ha-Levi was appointed to be in charge of the qōdesh since he excelled in)
piety and trustworthiness in his administration o…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee are unknown. The letter is an appeal for private charity. The writer is under duress from difficult times (awqāt …
Letter from the Mosul Nasi whom Gil refers to as Jalāl al-Dawla. Dated: Ḥannuka 1548 Seleucid = 1237 CE. Concerns in part a negotiation between …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is conveying a first-person narrative about leading prayer services on Rosh Hashana. On verso there is Hebrew alphabet practice.
Letter, top and bottom missing, referring to a dispute between Jews and Muslims, the synagogue, a certain Binyamin, and two physicians, one of them called …
Tiny fragment in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Probably a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The phrase מגאלס לאנה is preserved, but the rest is very faded. The hand is reminiscent of some of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Tammuz 1232 CE, and almost definitely 1232–37 CE. See below for explanation. Writer and addressee are unidentified. The writer dictated …