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Letter fragment.
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Letter in Hebrew. Late. Mentions a woman named Simḥa; Sutayta; the addressee;s mother; and the addressee's brother-in-law Menaḥem.
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Family letter in Hebrew. Late. Opens with blessings against "all the evil diseases of Egypt" (Deut. 7:15); then greetings from various women in the family. …
Small fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script, probably a letter. May mention the kharāj and a qāḍī.
Small fragment from a letter, with a line of text deleted, and extensive marginalia on one side. Dated: 1431 Seleucid = 1119/20 CE. (Information in …
Fragment of a letter from Farah b. Isma’il to Nahray b. Nissim. Regarding money exchange and shipments of linen. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, …
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בנתכם ושק עלי דלך [
הדא אלוגה פלם אתדכר [
יגפל ען שיי יתעלק ב[
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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Small fragment from the top of a mysterious document in Arabic script. At the top there is the glyph and a basmala. Then, "al-mamlūka ukhtuhā... …
Letter from Ṣadaqa to the Abū l-Najm the Parnas, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender announces his intention to travel to Sicily (in "Bilād al-Rūm") …
דיון אחד
Business letter, first half of the 16th century. The subject matter is a dispute between merchants who dealth in skins, pepper, and tin. An Avraham …
תעתוק אחד
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Family letter in Arabic script. In a rudimentary hand. Addressed to a woman, Umm [...], in Fustat.
Brief letter fragment on recto, two interior lines and part of the margin are preserved: بمكاتبة الحضرة الاجلية حرسها [الله] . . . بها على …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions: brazilwood (baqqam); other business deals; regards …
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
A letter of appeal to the community of Constantinople asking to help an orphan young lady. Written by Aharon b. Shelomo.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This small piece that survives includes a recommendation for the bearer (". . .the need, urgently urgently urgently. . .") and …
Letter sent to Abū ʿImrān Moshe ha-Kohen Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim dealing with a loan he had given to the congregation and some public affairs. Some persons …
Letter from Aharon b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen (ZL), in ʿAkkā, to his son Shemarya b. Aharon, in Fustat. The son should not be content to study …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Four lines preserved. Written in an elevated register; the sender abases himself and praises the addressee in rhymed prose. Reused for …
Cryptic note addressed to Amīn al-Dawla. Seems poetic, and might mention scorpions (עקארבה). Needs examination.
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef about a business matter. Reused on verso by ʿArūs for accounts.
Recto: Letter fragment from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides, in Fustat. Only the tarjama with Yehuda's name is preserved.
Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, in Ramle, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. "When, on a rainy day, the …
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Fragment from the beginning of a letter, probably from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen on behalf of the community of Alexandria to the community of Fustat …
Letter from a brother admonishing Sitt Ikhtiṣār and Sitt al-Wasṭāniyya to take good care of their mother and younger sister (by pawning something to send …
Recto: Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The context is difficult to make out, but the sender refers to a ḥadith, "al-jār bi …
Letter addressed to a parnas. On parchment. In Hebrew. Presumably written by a European or Byzantine Jew. Asking the addressee to increase the allotment of …
Verso: Brief letter or petition from Bū Saʿīd to Saniyy al-Dawla. In Arabic script. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. He asks that the addressee "listen …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for …
Left side fragment: Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Elyaqim, in Jerusalem, to the judge Shemuel b. Sīd, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Early 17th …
Probably a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: letter from Yaʿaqov b. Joseph b. Ismaʿīl al-Aṭrābulsī, in Ashkelon (ca. 1060 CE), concerning trade and sums of money owed by Abū Yaḥyā Nahray …
Magical recipes/spells in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script: (min nār al-[...] bi-l-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm . . . ).
Letter in Arabic script. Not immediately clear if official letter vs. mercantile (vs. both). Reused for Hebrew literary text on verso.
IB V, 13. Letter from Avraham b. Ḥabīb, in Alexandria, to Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's attached notes include discussions of how …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are also phrases from an earlier document in Arabic script: ما تسافر الى . . …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script about the sale of silk, flax, olive oil and other commodities. Alludes to "the calamities" which …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be from a provincial teacher. "...that which we were hoping for from benefiting the children... on Passover... he brought a …
Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew addressed to a scholar: פלפוליו בתלמוד סברים צהלו נא ורנו תל[מידיו?] קדמו פניו בתורה ושמרים רוציו אלי . …
Letter fragment addressed to the great prince (ha-Sar ha-Adir, Sar ha-ʿEda), in Cairo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written on the 21st of Ḥeshvan.