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Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1053 (Gil). The writer returned from Dandir where he bought flax. …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומ]ולאי א[טאל אל]לה בקאך [ואד]אם תאירך וס[לאמתך וסעאדת]ך ונעמנתך מן אבוציר טאעה
[וצולי מ]ן דנדיל ליא [ב]קין מן כסליו ואלחאל …
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Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060. Detailed lists about buying flax in several villages, shipping them to the Nile, preserving them, and …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1045-1096. Contains details regarding flax shipments that were arranged in partnership with Nahray. The …
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Letter from Yeshu'a b. Isma'il to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1065 per Gil, and ca. 1045-1096 per Udovitch.
אתם אלסלם ולו חלפת לה באגל ימין אן שק עלי פרקתהם פי מתל הדא אלשהר אכתר []
ור אברהם ואולאדה וכל מן סאל עני ואגתמם לי [אתם] אלסלם וגמיע מן תש…
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Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to an unknown person. Around 1060. The addressee is not Nahray, as Nahray’s name is mentioned in …
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Letter from Yusuf b. Ḥalfon in Damsis to Abu Nasr Da'ud b. Nahum in Fustat, mentioning business with the prominent merchant Abu Zikri. Dated to …
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Letter from Yishaq b. Avraham al-Mishmar (ha-Kohen?) from Fustat, to his son in Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya). The writer instructs his son to pay his debts and …
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Letter from Musa b. Yiṣḥaq b. Hisdai, Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer describes his difficulties with shipping flax. He is …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1055. Mentions silk from Sicily and Spain. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #278) VMR
בסם אללה אלעצים שרח ביע אלשש אלמבארך אלואצל פי סנה תמ[ ]
מן דלך עלי חיי כט רטל ⟦תנקץ טו דרה⟧ מקשר סער כ קיר אלרטל בלא געל
אלתמן כד דינ ⟦…
What purports to be a copy of an excerpt from a letter of appointment to the attendant of the synagogue at Ezra's tomb north of …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismaʿīl al-Jawharī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Provides information about goods, mainly textiles, that came from the Maghrib …
Letter from Neḥemya ha-Kohen, Gaʾon of Pumbedita, probably to the Babylonian community in Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1274 Sel. = November 962 CE. Asks for financial …
Copy of an epistle from Saʿadya Gaon to the Jews of Fustat, on the occasion of his assumption of the Gaʾonate in 928. This copy …
Letter from Nissim b. Ya’aqov from Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat, May 19, 1027. The writer asks Ibn Awkal to hurry …
Copy of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to the community in Fez. The beginning of the 11th century, handwriting of Sahlan b. Avraham. …
Letter from Shemuʾel b. ʿEli gaʾon, in Baghdad, in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli Rosh ha-Seder of Irbīl, second half of the …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim and one of his partners. Around 1059. Account for shipping wood from Egypt to the Maghreb via Mayadiya. …
Letter (opening only) from Shemuel b. Eli gaʾon in the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. Mentions one of houses of the …
DK 184a: Copy of a letter from Sharira b. Hananya, while he was a judge (Av Beit Din) in the yeshiva of Pumbedita, to the …
Letter from Faraj, the “freed” of Barhun (ha-Tāhartī?) from the Maghreb, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal and his sons, Fustat; ca. 1015. Regards a …
Fragment of an opening to a letter to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal. The letter was written in Jerusalem. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …
Verso: Opening of a letter from Sherira Gaon sent to Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 970 CE. This is a continuation from the first part of the …
Letter from a woman to an unknown addressee. Around 1060. Mentions details about Nahray b. Nissim’s family. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #293) VMR
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, Alexandria, to Binyamin b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal. Around 1025. The writer has returned from travels in Sicily, where he …
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כתאבי יאסיד[י ו]שיכי וריצי(!) ואלעזיז עלי א[טאל] אללה בקאך
ואדאם איאם סלאמתך ו[ר]עאיתך וציאנתך [וכאן] לך ומעך
Letter from Isma’il b. Yusuf b. Abi Uqba from Alexandria, to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1030. The writer describes an attack by …
Letter, probably 11th century Babylonia. The content is unclear, It's probably dealing with a death of a Rabbi. The line spacing and the script is …
Letter from Yisrael ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel. April 1019, in the handwriting of Israel ha-Kohen b. Shemuel b. Hofni. The letter is addressed to one …
Letter from an unidentified person connected to Ibn ʿAwkal, ca. 1030. The letter is illegible in many places. Discusses the will of one of the …
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Taharti to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055), Fustat. After a disagreement over selling indigo (it is not clear what the …
Draft of a genealogy of Qariate exilarchs. Probably mid-11th century. The genealogical list of Yehezkiyahu b. Shlomo, one of the Karaites’ leaders in the 11th …
Bottom part of a letter to ... b. Iṣḥaq, possibly from Hayye Gaon, congratulating the recipient on his being appointed rosh kalla. The recipient is …
Copy of an opening of a letter from Sharira Gaon and his son Hai, to Ya’aqov b. Yosef b. Awkal. Mentions letters and answers that …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Summer 1030. The writer arranges shipments from and to …
Beginning of a letter of Neḥemya ha-Kohen b. Kohen Ṣedeq, a self-proclaimed gaon of Pumbedita, written before August 960. The letter is a polemic against …
Letter from ʿAllūsh b. Yeshuʿa (Qayrawan) to Ismaʿīl b. Avraham al-Andalusī (Fustat), ca. 1010. A cargo of best quality flax was stolen from a ship. …
Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …
The address on a letter from Zekharya b. Berakhel to Shemuel b. Eli gaʾon. Seems like this fragment held several letters. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, …
Letter from Moshe b. Shemuel Ibn Jamia from Gabes/Qabis (Ifriqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1030. The letter deals with shipments of …
Fragment of an answer by the Sura Gaon, likely a general question from the Babylonian Talmud rather than an answer to a specific question from …
Letter from an unknown merchant from the Maghreb, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat, regarding a shipment of oil. Around 1015. Also mentions …
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī to a relative (probably his sister’s son, his nephew). The writer protects and supports one of his brothers. Asks …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaʾon, to one of the heads of the Babylonian community in Fustat. Dating: …
Copy of a Gaon’s responsum (might be Rav Hayya Gaon) that includes details about the house of Bustenai and an answer regarding the status of …
Recto: copy of a letter from Sharira Gaon to Fustat, around 970. The writer asks to renew the community’s support for the Yeshiva. The letter …
Fragment of a letter from Sherira Gaʾon to two brothers, probably al-Ḥasan and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. Yūsuf. Dated: Elul 1282 Sel. = September 971. …
Fragment of a short letter to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. It could be that a person from a Yeshiva in Iraq wrote the …
Fragment from the history of Netira and his sons, as was told by Natan b. Yishak ha-Bavli, from “Akbar Baghdad”. (Information from Gil, Kingdom. Vol. …
Letter from an unknown merchant from Alexandria, early 11th century. The writer might be from the Taharti family, maybe Yishaq b. Barhun. Describes his deep …
Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (identified on the basis of the handwriting), probably writing from Qayrawān, to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. Refers to …
Letter from Maymūn b. Efrayim (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Contains information about the movement of wares via Alexandria and about financial …