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Letter from a certain Moshe to his son, the physician Avraham. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. What remains is largely taken up with expressions of the preoccupation …
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Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare …
עבדהא יחיי אלאסכנדראני
בן עמאר
Your slave Yaḥyā the Alexandrian
b. ʿAmmār
In (your) name O M[e]rc(iful)
“Happy is he who is thoughtful of the wretched; in bad times…
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Letter from a woman named Archondou, in Alexandria, to her son Fuḍayl, in Fustat. Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants …
[ ]ומו'ת'[ ]ת' [ ] ובות' משוכן
ער'בות אל'[ ]י יחידי' ידידי מ'
פודאיל' מ[ ] א'מ'ך' ארכודו ומבעלי'
מ' אליה קבל ר…
[Blessings etc. ?] from Him who dwells
in the heavenly expanse. To [my son?] my beloved only son Mar
Fudhail, from me, your mother Arc…
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Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. Maḥfūẓ, dictated to …
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Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the …
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions