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Letter to a certain Abū Saʿd ('the dear boy') likely from his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century (paleographic dating). Contains inter alia a …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Commercial letter from Pinto & Suarez to Eliyya Saʿd and Yaʿaqov Shalom, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an "IS" logo in Latin script next to …
אין רשומות קשורות
Recto: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Nahray b. Nissim? Dating: 11th century. Mentions names such as Yosef, ʿAyyāsh, Barhūn, and Ghālib. The term barqalū …
Petition in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to a judge, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Makhlūf was active ca. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Recto: legend of Eldad the Danite. Verso: letter in Hebrew, possibly of the geonic period. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved, with space in …
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Letter from the Karaite David b. Ḥayyūn, in Jerusalem, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, in Tripoli (Libya). Dating: Probably middle of the 11th century. The sender …
Verso: Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with poor orthography: אלדי אעלם בה אלואלד ואלעזי . . אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה …
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1025 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the …
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Small fragment of a letter, with address on verso. It seems like none of the substance is preserved.
Autograph letter from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to his "dear son" (i.e., congenial pupil) Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Avraham excuses his absence from a student's …
Possibly the bottom of a poetic Hebrew letter.
Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the latter's …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: beginning of a letter. Mentions Rabbenu Ḥananʾel, blessings for a recovery from an illness, and "there are only a few left." Verso: unidentified. (Information …
Recto: Letter from Yehuda to an unknown addressee. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Distinctive (Levantine or Iraqi?) handwriting. Deals with business matters, mainly produce (plums/prunes, dates, ḥashīsha, …
Small fragment of a letter. Likely 11th century. Requesting that the addressee send a poem (qawl).
Letter fragment. The flowery Hebrew introduction for an important addressee is preserved.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, and written in an elegant script. The addressee may be ʿArūs b. Yosef, as he reused the verso for accounts. …
Small fragment of a letter. In Arabic script. Refers to someone in distress and to a nākhūdha (ship-owner) named Hilāl al-Iskandarā[nī]
Draft of a formal letter or petition in Arabic to 'al-rayyis al-jalīl.' This side was reused for a document or composition that appears to be …
Letter addressed to Elʿazar he-Ḥasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. The substance of the letter begins in l. 15 (wa-siwā dhālika...) after a long …
Lower left corner of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Tells he addressee not to worry about something; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan and two volumes; a request to …
Letter mentioning commodities such as silk, and names such as Yūsuf Abū Ya’qūb and Abū Ibrahim. (Information from CUDL)
Part of a document in Arabic script, possibly a letter. There are three lines, and their beginnings are missing. Reused on recto for Leviticus 1:1-2; …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender describes how someone came to him after a financial loss. Needs further examination.
Letter written on behalf of and signed by the Gaʾon Sar Shalom b. Moshe ha-Levi ("Head of the Yeshiva of Ereṣ ha-Ṣevi"). In Hebrew. Dating: …
דיון אחד
Letter. A second copy of the same letter as in T-S 10J14.20 (PGPID 5810).
2 דיונים
Letter in Arabic script. Only a few lines from near the beginning are preserved. Mentions "the son of my paternal uncle Jibrīl," who may have …
Recto: liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter, but almost nothing preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Abū Ṭāhir containing interesting technical details of the capitation tax administration. The writer heard from Manṣūr al-Dimashqī "may God …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Refers to al-Wazzān, money that is owed, Abū Naṣr, and wine or a medicinal syrup (sharāb).
Letter to Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the mother of someone... something to be purchased for the writer... three capitation tax payments... taking the receipts... someone …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Too damaged to extract much of the content.
IB II, 53. Letter of thanks from Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq. Fustat. Dating: ca. 1120s or, more broadly, ca. 1100-1138 CE …
בשמ' רחמ'
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Beginning of a letter by the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya (in office 1140-1159) to the community of al-Mahalla, written in the hand of Natan b. …
Letter from Yosef Pidonil (? פידוניל) to his father. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th century or later. In Judaeo-Arabic. Note that many of the emphatic and …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script.
ח97 מכתב מסחרי באותיות ערביות אל חלפון כנראה מצרים, לפני ראשית שנת 1136 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 14 x 20.3 ס"מ. זהו מכתב מסחרי שלם …
2 תעתוקים
Mercantile letter from an unknown sender, possibly in Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Elḥanan b. Ismāʿīl (al-Andalusī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (vertical piece from the middle). Dating: …
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ושוק] שריד לטאלעתך אלמבארכה קרב אללה אלאגתמא[ע
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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: letter by a certain Shelomo to his father Yeshuʿa, also mentioning ‘the brother’ Yaʿaqov ha-Talmid and the arrival of the addressee’s brother in law …
Recto: Letter/petition in Arabic script. The sender is reminding the addressee to do a favor that was previously agreed upon. Mentions something concerning lands (ʾarḍīn). …
Letter in Ladino from Sidon from Joseph b. Joyya and Masʿūd Bunan to Abraham Monson and Judah Aseo in Cairo concerning community financial matters. Dated …
Recto: liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. The word واستقبل is legible and very little else. (Information in part …
Letter to Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Spain and dating to the 12th century (based on layout, handwriting, style, and names—an Ibn …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances dated 27 Heshvan 5568 AM (1807 CE). Verso contains …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions exchange rates several times; mastic; having purchased cinnabar in partnership with Hārūn b. Nissim; and other names …