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Letter from the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-yahūdī) Mūsā b. Nāṣir the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār), unknown location, to an unkown addressee, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market …
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Recto: Letter of condolence from [...] b. [...] ha-Dayyan (ZL) to Shemuel the physician (peʾer ha-rofʾim). In Hebrew. Dating: Early 13th century, per Cohen. (Information …
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Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Maṣliaḥ Gaon, in Fustat. Dating: 1127–38 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The purpose of the letter is …
Upper half of a long letter in Hebrew from the congregation of Jerusalem to Elḥanan b. Shemarya (d. ca.1025)
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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Around 1061. The writer writes about purchasing wheat before Passover. (Information from …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה וסעאדתה
ונעמאה מן רשיד יום אלאחד בעד משקה אן עצימה אן ללה
אלחמד אלדי כאנת אלעאקבה ללכ…
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Letter in Hebrew. Very faded. Scattered phrases: גבולו ולהרבול שלום . . . מצרים . . . בבנינו . . . היום קרוב לשנתים ואפילו …
Letter from Qayrawan to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fustat. 23 July 1035 AM (15 Av 1346 Sel.).
Letter in Hebrew. Late and non-Geniza. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. The sender is evidently a circuit judge, based on …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved.
Letter; on verso, probably continuation of of the letter, with quotations from 1 Shemuʾel 25:6; 1 Chronicles 12:19. (Information from CUDL)
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 from a teacher and copyist in a small town, which has a dayyan, who did not let him teach. He writes about hunger in …
Verso: Letter addressed to the parnas ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen ha-Shofeṭ. Fragment (right side only). The sender may be asking for help of some kind. …
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Letter from a merchant from Sunbat demonstrating his dedication to the community by relating how he had once traveled at a time of cold and …
Blessings in Hebrew, likely from the top of a letter of appeal for assistance.
Very blurred letter to the Nasi and the Head of the Diaspora (David b. Daniel?) asking for assistance for hungry people. The needy person is …
Fragment of a Hebrew letter, mentioning copying a Torah scroll and selling it or other books.
Letter from the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm to Abū l-Ṭāhir. Uruwī addresses Abū l-Ṭāhir as "my son," here a term of endearment to a …
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Letter addressed to Netanʾel b. Aharon and his son Shelomo. The letter consists entirely of blessings for the holidays. Mainly in Hebrew. The passages in …
Letter from Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Perhaps a responsum. The text seems to be entirely a discussion of talmudic matters, including condolences.
Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community. (Information from Mediterranean …
Letter of congratulations to Sar Shalom ha-Zaqen (perhaps Sar Shalom ha-Levi, r. 1173–95) and to the groom and the bride and the whole congregation. In …
Letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov (Ibn ʿAwkal) and his two sons Hilāl/Hillel and Binyamin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Rabīʿ I 407 AH, which …
Hebrew letter sent to Trakai (today in Lithuania). Mentioning a declaration given to the Karaite community in the region of Vilna and Luzka (today in …
Addendum/postscript of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that there is demand in …
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Letter fragment in Hebrew, written in a high register, mourning the illness (keʾev) and/or other sufferings (yissurim) that have afflicted the 'foundation of the generaiton, …
Letter to a woman in which the writer mentions his mother and aunt, and gives news about a marriage that has taken place. The addressee …
Letter from the Master of the Shipmasts to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. The letter reports on the activities of Merki, a man who was …
Letter sent to Abū l-Barakāt Ibn Shalīda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer calls the addressee 'my uncle' (ʿammī). The purpose of this letter is …
Small fragment with Judaeo-Arabic text, likely from a letter. Late? Mentions the synagogue or synagogues (?אלכניסיין).
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, likely by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, to a judge, perhaps his father ([al-Shaykh] al-ajall al-amīn al-makīn. . . al-dayyan al-aṣīl).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly asking for letters from the addressee. 8 lines of the main text are preserved and 4 perpendicular lines in the …
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 CE, based on Gil's assessment. The handwriting is that …
תוכלת עלי אללה
כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך
וסלאמתך מן אלסכנדריה לי' כלון מן כסלו ערפך אללה ברכתה
אעלמך…
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Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, on his way to Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer apologizes for the delay …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved. Recommends the bearer for charity and probably asks the addressee to intervene on his behalf …
Letter from David b. Moshe Bonfat (בונפט) ha-Sefaradi to Avraham ha-Sefaradi. In Hebrew. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century. The sender reports that he …
A letter to Yosef Shlomo b. Moshe from Yosef Avraham b. Shmuel
Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Aharon the cantor is mentioned. Might be a letter of condolence since the word תנחומות …
Letter from Yosef "the poor foreigner" (al-miskīn al-gharīb) to the Nagid David Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender sold his garment which he had bought for …
Recto: letter in Ladino. Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
IB III, 9. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham in Aden to Avraham b. Yiju. Goitein thought that the letter was sent to Zabīd, a coastal …
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Letter in Arabic from Ṣāʿid, probably a Jewish merchant, in ʿAydhāb, to his mother and brother in Fusṭāṭ. He reports that his party left Qūṣ …
Copy of Maimonides' letter to Yosef b. Yehuda which comprises the introduction to the Guide for the Perplexed. In the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel …
Letter to Yosef b. Ṣāliḥ from his son Ṣāliḥ, containing many orders, such as for Iraqian purple; brazilwood for a quarter of a dinar; combs; …
A letter to Biמyamin Yerushalmi from the Karaites of Qal'a
Letter, only a few words remain.
Recto: letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. CUDL dates it to 14th–15th century probably based on the use of the verb "ארסל" for "send," but in fact …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: someone called Rabbenu; a request to thank al-Shaykh al-Thiqa on the sender's behalf; telling the addressee to be …
Opening of a letter to the Head of the Congregation. Contains only blessings. AA
Strip from the right part of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) dealing with …