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Note detailing instructions for performing a wedding ceremony.
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps late 12th or early 13th century, based on the handwriting. The writer accuses her of …
דיון אחד
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The sender conveys distress about the addressee's distance from his children and over …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter or letters. Dating: Probably 19th century. The first page is entirely in Hebrew. Mentions Alexandria, a certain Pinkerli, and includes the line, "If you …
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Verso (original use): Letter/petition in Arabic script. Asking the addressee to bring this letter to Tāj al-Dīn and obtain employment for the sender, so that …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter mentioning a judge and Faraḥ b. Faḍāʾil. Seems to be addressed to Yaʿaqov, in Bilbays, though the address is in a different hand. The …
Lower fragment: Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), whose partial name is visible in …
Recto: Letter from Bū Zikrī (b. Eliyyahu the Judge?) to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening is preserved and a couple words from …
Fragment of a family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. Mentions: a wālī; business dealings and losses; small sums of money between 3–10 dirhams; …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Calligraphic family letter, sent from Giza, containing many names and detailed instructions. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, 423, and from …
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic reporting a conversation--likely a disagreement. The writer mentions a warrāq, the fact that he doesn't trust something/someone, and a legal …
Recto: Letter in which a prominent person (al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Yeshaʿya) is politely asked to pay his debt. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: Accounts in Arabic …
Commercial letter from Mūsā b. Shahriyār to the three Tustarī brothers, Abū al-Faḍl Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf and Abū Sahl Saʿīd, in Fusṭāt. The letter …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Note addressed to a judge called Nezer ha-Maskilim (Natan b. Shemuel?). Asking him to summon Ibn al-Bahja, the half brother of Ibn Samʿān (same mother), …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much is preserved. Mentions "we are worried" (naḥnu masghūlīn)...
Letter from Hilāl b. Yosef to ʿArūs b. Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to …
Letter fragment. Probably addressed to Abū Ṭāhir Shemuel al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat (sent to "al-murabbaʿa"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner of recto and part …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Portions of ~14 lines are preserved, but too damaged to understand much of the content.
Official letter addressed to the congregation of Minyat Zifta.
Business letter from Aḥmad Abū l-ʿAṭar, in Manṣūra, to Avraham Ḥaqīm, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century. For another letter between the …
Narrative report in Arabic script. Letter, legal query, or literary? Mentions a Jewish man, perhaps named Yūsuf, who came before a governor (wālī). Then refers …
Letter in which a physician traveling from Cairo to Damascus describes how he was honored by the Jewish judge of Bilbays. The addressee is Shemuel …
Circular letter from Avraham b. Shabbetay, in Minyat Zifta, to various communities of Lower Egypt. Certifying that Yoshiyyahu b. Moshe makes kosher cheese. (Eliyahu Ashtor, …
IB VII, 65. Long letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm, in al-Juwwa (near Aden, Yemen), to the judge and parnas Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, in Fustat. …
2 תעתוקים
Letter in Hebrew from Yosef, a scholar with minimal assets and now in a perilous situation because of debts, dependents, and sureties on his behalf. …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 36
Letter from a father, unknown location, to his son Abū l-Barakāt Shemuel, in Fustat. The father rebukes the son for failing to write and informs …
Fragment of a letter (written by Ṣedaqa Nes), to the head of the exile, Natan ha-Kohen Sholal (d. 1502) in Cairo (the penultimate Nagid), concerning …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
Possibly Arabic letter or a document . Barely visible
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Evyatar (b. Eliyyahu) dating to before 1083 CE when he became the Gaʾon (as he is still addressed …
Letters. Among the small handful of Judaeo-Arabic papyri. Labeled "papyrus XI" (for recto) and "papyrus XII" (for verso) in the classification of Blau and Hopkins. …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
באלכסנדריה הייתה נהוגה קופת צדקה שחולקו ממנה כיכרות לחם לנזקקים. כותב מכתב זה היה 'מֻפרק אלקופה', כלומר המנהל האחראי על חלוקת הכיכרות. המכתב מופנה א…
Recto: Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhāni to a notable named Moshe (Moshe ha-Sar... ha-dayyan ha-mesūyyan... al-Shaykh al-Sadīd...). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Meʾir asks the addressee …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
A letter to Moshe b. Ya'aqov from Ya'aqov Shalom b. Yosef.
IB II, 74. Letter from Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. Alexandria, probably 1214-1215. Yosef's brother Futūḥ had died recently on a ship on …
אלממלוך יוסף בן עואץ
אלאסכנדרי
יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי
ר' חננאל החכם והנבון בר כבוד גדולת קדושת מר
ור' שמואל…
In God’s name. His servant Joseph b. ʿAllān {read: ʿIwāḍ}, the Alexandrian kisses the earth before the lofty seat of his illustrious lordshi…
2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, but too faded to read. Phrases: פי אלסבת . . . עלי הדה אלמדינה . . . פלמא . . …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a complete and well-preserved letter, which is rare …
Letter on parchment from a woman to her husband, Shelomo ha-Bavli, complaining that he has left her with no money while she is eight months …
Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …