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Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Evyatar (b. Eliyyahu) dating to before 1083 CE when he became the Gaʾon (as he is still addressed …
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Late, formal, communal letter, likely from the community of Jerusalem, mentioning their shaliaḥ R. Ḥananya b. Barhūn (l.6), to a group of people including R. …
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Bottom of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Conveys a message for Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj al-Sharābī.
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Melammed Tamīm(?). Telling him to ask (yataqaḍḍā ilā) Maḥāsin al-Ṭabīb to attend the court …
Letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355). Begins in Hebrew, then switches to Judaeo-Arabic. The sender had to mortgage part of …
Small fragment of a formal Arabic letter or a state document mentioning "the diwan" (wa-ʿalayhi al-dīwān al-maʿ[mūr] and wa-suʾāl al-maml[ū]k).
Letter of a woman who was seriously ill asking her sister to provide her younger daughter with a proper education. Concerning the illness, she writes: …
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Small fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably from a letter written on behalf of a poor man (hādha …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably in Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Around 1046. The writer is about to travel to Palestine. Mentions …
[כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מו]לאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ו[ מ]ן סיואן ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד
ללה וק[ד כנת אנפדת א]לי מולאי כתב לם אחציהא…
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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 Yosef b. ʿEli ha- Kohen al-Fāsī, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. In the handwriting of Salmān b. Hārūn. Yūsuf b. …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה
מן אלמסתקר ערבה אלסכות אדרכך אללה אמתאלה אעיאד כתירה שמיח וטוב ל…
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a qāḍī and camel drivers. The sender is preparing for the winter. They ask ʿAbd …
Informal note probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan, asking him to furnish a slip (wurayqa) detailing what the addressee owes Shelomo. …
Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Ḥananel, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Around 1060. The letter is in the hand of Benāya b. Mūsā …
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Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. Seems to have been abandoned halfway through. There are a few words in Hebrew …
ازكى السلام التام والتحيات والاكرام تهدي(؟) ذاكر(؟) ويخص(؟) الى
حضرة الجناب المكرم السيد محمود عابدين اعزه الله
ودام بقاه امين
اما بعد نعرفكم…
Short business letter in Ladino that appears to be dated 25 Shevat 5582 AM (16 February 1822 CE), but this was a Shabbat, so perhaps …
Letter sent by Perahya the second b. Yosef the second to Shelomo ha-Nasi, dealing with various matters, including an ordinance (taqqana). Mentions the Nagid R. …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Written in a beautiful hand, in a somewhat elevated register. Unusual format, with overflow text in both the left and …
Letter in Judaeo Arabic, fragment. "I received 90 dirhams, the price of the two ublūjas (cones)... Yosef the son of the physician (ibn al-ḥakīm) did …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe(?) Goren to Barakha Goren. Dated 20 Nissan 5571 AM (April 1811 CE). The letter sender and recipient were likely brothers …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Deals with trade, including in pepper and flour. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Ibn Sibāʿ.
Letter from the judge Menashshe to the Cairene judge Avraham b. Natan regarding a personal and communal affair in the small town of Sumbutya (Sunbāṭ), …
Letter mentioning Netanʾel the Seventh (השביעי בחבורת ארץ צבי). (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. There is mention of the Qaraites and Ben Me'ir, suggesting that it might have to do with the calendar controversy. There is …
Small fragment of a letter, likely in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Urges the (male) addressee to do something with all …
Letter from an unknown man to Umm ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, filled with business matters and greetings. Needs further examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Refers to a period of a year and a half and a trust/security (amāna).
Recto (secondary use): Letter from Abū Zikrī (b. Eliyyahu) to someone he addresses as "father." In rhymed, Judaeo-Arabic prose. Abū Zikrī is sick and hopes …
Letter from Menashshe b. Pinḥas to Yoshiyyahu ha-Sar, in New Cairo. The addressee's father's name appears in the main text, but is very faded. Consists …
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Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Būṣīr, to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī and his cousin Barhun b. Mūsā, in Fustat. Dated Friday 1 …
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Fragment from the top of a letter addressed to a dignitary. In Hebrew. The addressee is asked to intercede with Rabbenu Aharon he-Ḥaver, possibly to …
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 27 Tishrei 5585 AM, which is 1824 CE. Discusses various business …
Small fragment with Ladino. Letter?
Letter from an unknown writer in Jerusalem to Yeshuʿa Rofe, Fustat (Ẓoʿan), possibly his place of residence given the specificity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a complete and well-preserved letter, which is rare …
Verso: Probably a letter in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter fragment addressed "to the esteemed members of the holy community who live in [...]." The paper is almost entirely preserved, but the text is …
Informal note addressed to a judge. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman came to Hillel with a bill …
Letter from a woman named Harja (הרגה), somewhere in Syria, to her mother, the wife of Mūsā Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a 13th-century or later hand with Spanish features (some characters are reminiscent of Maimonides'). Mentions a loggia (maqʿad). There is …
Family letter. Likely the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan (Yedutun) and Mūsā/Moshe, who departed when he was sick. (Information in …
Fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Letter fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Shelomo b. Yehuda?
Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Regarding a very poor man. Mentions the word me'uḥar three lines from the bottom, which …
Address of a letter sent to Fustat to Eliyyahu the judge (beginning of 13th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid regarding taxation, including the fee for the police (tarsīm). Mentioned in Goitein, "The Twilight …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Elegantly written. Conveying holiday wishes. Written by someone who apparently is a doctor, a muqaddam and a Jerusalemite (he writes, "As I …
Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …