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Letter in Arabic script. Very faded.
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IB II, 58. Letter. Memorandum from Abu Zikri Kohen to Mahruz. Alexandria, ca. 1136-1149.
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Long late Hebrew letter. The writer is asking for more time to pay his debts?
Late business letter in Hebrew from Shemuel Bahlul in Manzala (near Damietta) to Shemuʾel ___[?} in Cairo (מצרים). Information from Avraham David's transcription and notes.
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 …
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Letter from Khalaf b. Mūsā (=Ḥalfon b. Moshe) al-Ḥaver al-Kohen on behalf of the whole congregation of "Ḥaṣer Adar" (חצר אדר). Saʿadya Gaʾon translates this …
Business letter in Arabic script from Mubārak b. Isḥāq to Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī (or al-Baṣīr), expressing longing for the addressee and sending …
Letter from a man in debt and unable to meet his commitments, petitioning for help collecting charity promised by the nagid but not received, specifically …
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Letter, small fragment. Preserves part of the opening blessings in Hebrew for multiple addressees.
Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Yiṣḥaq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from (or to?) Alexandria. Dating: Mentions the year "499" as a year recently past, …
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Recto: fundraising letter from the leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron to the leaders of the Jewish community in Egypt (16th-17th century). Verso: jottings …
Top of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi addressed to his daughter or at least to a younger woman in the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender beseeches the addressee to send him the remaining 35 dirhams he is owed from the sale of an animal. He …
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Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Susa. The letter deals with marketing goods, especially pepper, and contains …
וצל כתאבך יאכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך ווקפת
מנה עלי מא סררת בה מן סלאמתך ועאפיתך אדאמהא אללה לך ב…
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Recto: Hebrew blessing; probably the closing line of a letter. Finishes with: u-lehistofef be-beto amen sela, followed by a diamond pattern of four dots. Verso: …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl (possibly al-Makhmūrī). Mentions Avraham b. Nuṣayr; Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī; Abū Isḥāq; Abū ʿImrān al-Segullat and Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī. …
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefeẓ to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Elul (Raḥamim) 5569 AM, which is 1809 CE. Needs …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. (The letter is also intended for Peraḥya …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower piece). Mentions paying someone 10 dinars; [Abū] l-Ḥasan and Qalyūb; the sender being weary of something (קד קלת נהצתי …
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. …
Note addressed to Muʿallim Mordekhay. Probably Ottoman-era. It begins, "Why do you say that I went to the synagogue and didn't pray?" (ליש תקול אני …
Fragment of a letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1020 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1015–1025 CE, based on the years …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness (maraḍ) and aṣḥābunā.
Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the name Moshe. Instructing the (male) addressee not to neglect washing another man's clothes and fulfilling his …
Letter from Masliaḥ Gaʾon. Dating: ca. 1120 CE (unclear on what basis). Containing his genealogy at the beginning.
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Letter. One of the small handful of Judaeo-Arabic papyri. Labeled "papyrus I" in the classification of Blau and Hopkins. Dating: Probably 9th century or earlier. …
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Letter in Arabic script, well preserved, discussing business matters and sending greetings to and from family members. Mentions: 25 nuqra dirhams (r7 and r13 and …
Letter from Al-Mubārak b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Sabra to his "father" (paternal uncle?) Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra. He reports that Ibn Siman Ṭov …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Torn and damaged. Recto is difficult to read, while verso contains mostly greetings. Mentions people such …
Letter fragment, probably. In Arabic script.
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. …
Letter by Shelomo b. Meʾir Rosh ha-Seder, descendant of Meʾir Gaʾon, to Avraham Kahana b. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, late, in Judaeo-Arabic from Yosef Yaʿveṣ to Ya'aqov Yaʿveṣ (or Yuʿbaṣ?). Information from Wagner, Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic, 24. For a nineteenth-century letter that …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda and nine other Jerusalemites confirming the receipt of ten dinars from Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 …
Recto with address on verso (secondary use): Letter probably in the hand of of Abū Zikrī b. Eliyyahu. Opens with expressions of longing. Then conveys …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 18th or 19th century. Mentions Jerusalem. From a certain Mordekhay al-Baḥrī[?] to Merkada and Brahem Diyalo[?] (דייאלו). Possibly a North …
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …
למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין
יי' אורי וישעי וג' מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין
His son Solomon b. Elijah, (may) G(od) b(e) h(is helper).
It happened that on Monday, the twenty-fifth -
God is my light and…
A single (long) line from an Arabic document, likely a letter.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Ismail, Upper Egypt. The recipient is buying goods. Nahray writes with the news of …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown, but both are Qaraites. The letter describes the great solidarity of the Qaraites and how they protect each …
Recto: Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) to his 'brother' Abū Naṣr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a previous rebuke; the arrival …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he went to the house of Abū l-Manṣūr and read them the letter, to which they …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd al-Bazzāz, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Yefet, at the shop of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (better known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī), …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic beginning is preserved. Written on a reused page that already had a few words in Arabic script written …
Letter from Mawhūb b. Aharon the ḥazzan to Nahray b. Nissim. Containing mainly warm greetings and blessings, particularly for Nahray’s son. He notes that he …
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Letter from a son to his father. Only the opening expressions of longing are preserved. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century based on the …
Note in Arabic script from Bū Saʿd Ibn al-Dayyān(?) to a woman. The words כשני עדים כשרים נאמנת are written in Hebrew. Goitein's translation (Med …
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Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʾir, written on behalf of his community, to the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh in Fustat regarding two matters …
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A letter from Ishaq b. Shalom to Shmuel b. Shlomo
Letter, probably in the hand of Abraham Maimonides. (Information from CUDL)