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LetterCUL Or.1080 J14
Letter from one of the Sughmār family to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1080. The main part of the letter is a recommendation for a person …
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קד צדרת כתבי לחצרה רב הרב גדול הישיבה אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא
ותאיידהא וכבת עדוהא ביד אבי כתיר בן עמראן וגירה ארגו וצולהא אליה ווקופהא …
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LetterENA NS 41.12
Small fragment of a letter of recommendation for a poor teacher who has lost his living and now needs charity.
- ] . . . ה עצם מא האולי אלאטפאל
- ] פי הדא אלרכץ לא סביל לה . .
- ]באן אלמעלם פי מעישה
- ]קד אנקטע מעאשה והם
- ]לם אן מא מן יהודי פי מצר
- ]ק כדמה וקד ואפא
- ]ת…
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LetterENA 3616.6
Letter from [ʿAll?]ūsh b. Yūsuf to Efrayim b. Yefet. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer for charity.
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LetterT-S 16.350
Recto: letter of recommendation from Jerusalem to all cities on behalf of Shabbetay Karira b. Raphael (שבתי כרירא בן רפאל). Dated Adar 5596 AM = …
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LetterT-S 20.68
Calligraphic letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with wide space between the lines, probably a letter of recommendation for a certain [...]n b. Ṣedaqa who comes from an …
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LetterT-S AS 133.296 + T-S AS 133.274 + T-S AS 133.267 + T-S AS 133.275 + T-S AS 133.273
Letter requesting financial support for a poor member of the community. (Information from CUDL)
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J57
Letter of recommendation for a cantor, preacher, and scholar Shemuel b. Yehosef, who had sojourned many years in Palestine, Syria, Baghdad, and Iraq and had …
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LetterBL OR 5561B.19
Recto: Form letter of recommendation for charity. In Hebrew. Yemeni hand? Filled in with the name of Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. …
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LetterJRL SERIES A 482
Letter from Avraham Karyo, Hayyim Moshe Pianti, Rahamim Shelomo ha-Levi, and a second Pianti, in Hebrew, recommending a certain poor man for charity. There is …
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LetterT-S 8.220
Recto: Letter of recommendation written by Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaon on a Friday, late in the afternoon, 4 Sivan, probably 1048. Verso: His son Avraham …
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- וצל סתרו ובשיבה טובה [י]עט[רו
- ישא החבר רוב שלום מאדון [השלום
- משגבינו אנו שלום ומודים אנו [
- שצ להודיע כי התהלך אל צוען כ[
- מתוך קוצר יד וכובד עול…
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LetterT-S 12.342
Letter of recommendation (?). "This note was cut out (?) from the book belonging to the Persian (al-ʿAjamī) staying with the Jew who speaks on …
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LetterT-S AS 147.128
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, mainly missing just the upper right corner. The bearer is a resident of Jerusalem who is traveling to Fustat. …
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LetterT-S AS 204.111
Letter from Avraham Maimonides, autograph. In Judaeo-Arabic. Begins with the motto הנה אל ישועתי. Addressed to the ḥaver, morenu ve-rabbenu, Yosef. This is a letter …
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LetterT-S AS 209.171
Late Hebrew letter of recommendation for a poor man.
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LetterT-S 10J12.27
Recto (secondary use): A second letter, possibly a copy or draft, possibly related to verso. This letter appears to be in the hand of Berakhot …
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- אלי ע[טרת ראשינו]
- ראש יש[יבת . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- וכאל יעז עלי אלממלוך עדאבהא
- ותקלת אלכאדם עלי תפצלהא פי כל
- וקת לא עדמת אחסאנהא
- אבדא …
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LetterCUL Or.1081 2.27
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The main part deals with business transactions, including shipments of Marāzībī tutty and nutmeg. Abū l-Faḍl b. Maʿlā is …
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LetterMoss. II,177
A letter of recommendation from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides, for a poor man Shelomo to be read in the synagogue in Fustat. …
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LetterENA NS 47.13
Letter of recommendation, likely a draft, from Fustat. Dated: 5375 (מעֿשֿהֿ) AM = 1614/15 CE. The bearer, Avraham b. Shemuel Ashkenazi, fell into Ottoman captivity …
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LetterYevr. II A 1896
Letter draft from one Jewish community (A) to another Jewish community (B) in a different land. In Hebrew. Locations unknown. Dating: Late. Catalogued as 18th …
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LetterT-S AS 147.49
Letter from a community of Jews (ʿabīduhā jamāʿat yahūd [...]) to the dignitary Yakhin b. Netanʾel (a.k.a. Abū l-Faḍl Thābit b. Hibatallāh) Rosh ha-Qehillot (روش …
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LetterMoss. Ia,6
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very deferent. The writer has been slandered by somebody and wishes the addressee to write to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Meshullam (dated …
- ] התקועה
- ] . הגדול ישמריהו צורינו וישימהו
- לשם ולתהלה בכל הארץ וצלת אל
- מכאתבה ואמתתל אלממלוך אלמרסום
- לה מן אלמולא ושכר אללה תעלי אלוצולה
- מ . . . בת א…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/27
Letter from Ṣedaqa b. Aharon (?) the druggist to Abū Saʿīd the druggist, ordering materia medica, including, fine Iraqi saffron; aloe wood (ʿūd); aged camphor …
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- בש רח
- כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל
- אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ואחיאה ומן חסן
- תופיקה לא אכלאה אסל מולאי חפצה
- אללה ישד לי האדה אלחואיג והי זעפראן
- ע…
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LetterT-S NS J258
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides for the bearer who is named Moshe. See Moss. II,177 for another version of the letter, …
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LetterAIU VII.E.165
Letter fragment to a certain ḥaver ("... ba-sanhedrin gedolah...") describing the writer's financial distress. He also provides a recommendation for the bearer of the letter, …
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- ] תורה בר הדרת יקרת
- החבר] בסנהדרין גדולה החכם והנבון
- ] זלהה אנה לה אליום פי אלבלאד
- ] פסיקה ולא פי רסם מן אלציבור
- ] . ה אלפנא ואלגלא כאן ודין י…
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LetterMoss. II,110.2
Autograph letter by Avraham Maimonides to Moshe b. Peraḥya. It is a recommendation for the bearer, the French rabbi R. Yeḥiel [b. Yiṣḥaq Ẓarfatī], to …
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LetterT-S 10J12.27
Verso (original use): Letter. Request to Avraham Maimonides to write a recommendation to the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (which at that time had its …
- להדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת כגק מרינו ורבינו אדונינו
- הודינו והדרינו עטרת ראשינו אברהם השר האדיר
- המבהק החזק [הרב] הגדול בישראל בר כגק מר ורב
- אדונינו משה ה…
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LetterT-S NS J308
Letter from Menaḥem to the judge Yehosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. A letter of recommendation poor man who has debts and must pay the capitation tax. Menaḥem …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/1
A long letter of recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte, by Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq of Aleppo, written in elegant and vocalized Hebrew. For more …
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LetterT-S Misc.11.140
Letters of recommendation for an unnamed man, drawn up by the Sephardic community of Vienna in 1861. This man was from Mosul (Nineveh) and brought …
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LetterAIU VII.E.243
Letter of recommendation in German for Rabbi Barukh Löb Alpern, mid-19th-century. The place name appears to be Agram, which turns out to be the German …
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LetterF 1908.44Y + F 1908.44W
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1187 CE, based on the mention of the Nāṣirī dirham. Addressed to a community …
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LetterAIU VII.E.239
Two letters of recommendation in Italian for a certain rabbi Barukh Löb Heilpern, apparently the former head of the old Universita Israelitica in Livorno, the …
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LetterT-S 12.348
Letter to a Gaon, according to Goitein, perhaps from the time of Nethanel Gaon (1160), congratulating him on his son's recovery from illness, and complaining …
- אכבארהא יגארי זואלהא אללה יגריהא
- על גמיל עואידה ואיאדיה אלגמילה
- תם אני מהני בכלאץ אדונ גאון שצ
- אם העבים סתרו אור השמש הצפוי
- והקווי להתגלות ולצאת בגב…
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LetterT-S 12.289
Letter of recommendation from Yehuda to Avraham ha-Zaqen about a righteous silk weaver named Tahor al-Talmid from the pupils of Avraham Maimonides (min jumlat aṣḥāb …
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- עבדו ומודה חסדו
- יהודה
- וכהניה אלביש ישע וג
- תקדמת כתבי אלי חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלחבר כגק' מר ור
- אברהם הזקן היקר השר הנכבד החכם והנבון תפארת ה…
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LetterT-S K25.92
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, to be read in the synagogue, on behalf of a pregnant woman who has no money …
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LetterMoss. Ia,22.2
Interesting, late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "the land of the Christians" to al-Muʿallim Yūsuf, the shammas of the synagogue, Cairo. The writer narrates in brief …
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LetterT-S 10J5.6 + T-S 20.113
Letter from the Qaraite Jews of Ashqelon to the Qaraites and Rabbanites of Fustat. Dating: Summer 1100 CE. The letter deals with the ransoming of …
(recto) (A) T-S 10J5.6, recto:
- ויפדם שומר יצחק ויעזרם צור יעקב ויהי למו משגב [. . . . . וימלא]
- משאלותיהם ויחון עליהם וברכותיו יפיק להם ויעדיף חסדו א…
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