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Letter from [...] b. Labrat, to Ezra (?) b. Isḥāq, al-Mahdiyya. Around 1040. The writer and the addressee are dealing with importing flax and exporting …
בש כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מן מצר יום אלגמעה
לכמס כלון מן כסליו ען סלאמה וקד [ ] אלפרג תקדם
כתאבי אליך [מע] אלמוסם אל…
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Either a letter or a legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Parts of approximately 8 lines are preserved. Refers to an excommunication; "our friends the traders"; "they …
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Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda in a time of distress, approximately 1030.
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the opening in Hebrew and the address in Arabic script ("to Fustat"). Dating: Maybe 12th century. Of the substance of the …
Letter in Arabic script. Dated: Ramaḍān 1148 AH = January/February 1737 CE. Mentions ʿAbdallāh al-Ajhūrī and a power of attorney. There is a seal on …
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Pertaining to the India trade of the first half of the 12th century. The sender mentions Isḥāq al-Nafūsī and al-Shaykh …
Fragment from the opening of a letter.
Bottom of a letter in Arabic, possibly official. Reused on recto for Zephaniah 3:8. Verso: (Information from CUDL)
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 Yosef b. Yaʿaqov of Hebron to Shela the cantor, urgently inquiring about the fate of the body of his brother David, who had …
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Recto: letter to the Nagid (Mevorakh? titled "Sar ha-Sarim") with blessings for his three sons. Verso: rhymed poetry. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Rawḥ Ha-Kohen he-ḥazzan (the cantor) al-Baghdādī b. Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 …
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Letter formularies, including a template for a son in Jerusalem writing to his mother. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter perhaps addressed to a Nagid. Poetical. Praising the Levites. Contains decorative elements at the end of the widely spaced lines. (Information from Goitein's index …
Verso: Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Alexandria and Abū Isḥāq and items lost at sea or in the Nile (fī l-baḥr). …
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to a family member, in Fustat. Fragment: left side of recto, right side of verso, tapering …
Lower fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with a poem in Hebrew mourning separation and praising the addressee (אהה עלי אחים אשר היו אגודה והפרידם זמן …
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe referring to the addressee's fame and stature, expressing a wish to see him, and promising to pronounce the prayer for …
Fragment of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, including the sad phrase "your brothers died."
On recto there is a long list of items in Arabic script, mostly or entirely materia medica. On verso there are Greek/Coptic numerals at the …
Copies of letters by Rav Sherira Gaon, dealing with money matters.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions afḍāluka and al-muruwwa, so likely flattering the addressee or appealing for a …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Portions of ~14 lines are preserved, but too damaged to understand much of the content.
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cut diagonally across the text to make a rectangle. Mentions a dinar and a sixth, the price …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār Madīnī of Palermo, Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe al-Ṣayrafī (Fustat). Ca. 1060. The sender, who is writing from …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאיי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
לט כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה וללה אלחמד דאימא
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat.
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Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to somebody in Jerusalem. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as values are given in ashrafīs– which were first minted …
Lower fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably in the handwriting of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuel (the father-in-law of Avraham Maimonides). However the sender of the letter is …
Letter concerning business affairs in which the writer describes ships that are about to leave port and references ‘al-ṭārma,’ a small cabin on Nile boats, …
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th–14th century. Maybe a recommendation for the bearer. Mentions 250 dirh[ams]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Persian.
Very small note, faded and difficult to read. Might be related to illness judging by the words مريض and سرعة. Verso blank.
Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with a motto (ʿalāma) at the top. The cantor Faraj is instructed to …
Letter from Mūsā, in Damīra, to Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, an absent husband, reprimands his wifeʼs family for accusing him publicly of …
Verso: Another letter in a different hand, from a husband to his wife. He encourages her to send their two sons to school in the …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Might be about provincial administration: "wa-yudabbir amūr al-nāḥiya. . . wa-anna katabū kitāb ilā l-qāḍī. . ." …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphically written. Addressed to a person with many titles but whose name does not seem to appear: al-Rayyi al-Jalīl al-Fakhr(?) al-Fāḍil …
Letter from Salman b. Harun, maybe from Mazar, to Aaish b. Sedaka, Alexandria. Around 1045. The writer asks Aaish to take care of two shipments …
Letter probably from a judge, in New Cairo, to another judge, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's handwriting may be known. He reports that …
Recto: Right half of a letter in Arabic addressed to a brother and/or son (perhaps a younger brother?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reminding the addressee to meet with somebody and ask him a question (or legal query?) and convey the response, whether it was …
Beginning of a letter to an important person, "mordekhai ha-zeman," etc. Not much content remains. The writer mentions a ṣabbāgh and a ḍāmin. Probably late …
Letter from Ṣedaqa Nes, probably to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: last quarter of the 15th century. Needs examination for content.
Fragment (lower left of recto and of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter involving money owed between various parties. People named are: Makīn; al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rashīd …
Letter sent to a woman. In Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right piece of recto, some of the address preserved on verso). Dating: 11th or …
Letter to Maimonides with autograph response on verso. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. "T-S Arabic Box …
Fragment of a letter in Ladino. From a certain Yehoshuaʿ. Needs examination.
IB VI, 25. Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. Contains several evocative phrases, but difficult to understand without a join. Mentions someone's …
Nearly complete letter from Muḥammad al-Jamāʿī(?) to Muḥammad ʿĀbidīn. Late. Needs examination.