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Red ink (secondary use): Letter in Arabic script. The upper right corner of recto is preserved. Continues onto verso between the lines of the prior …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment from the beginning of a letter to a mother in Minyat al-Qāʾid. In Arabic script. Only the opening formula is preserved. A few words …
תעתוק אחד
Letter/petition from Moshe b. ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon he-Ḥaver to a highly placed courtier in Fustat titled Zaʿīm al-Mulk, in Fustat. The addressee may in fact …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Fragment from a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a small portion of the …
Letter addressed to Shelomo ha-Sar. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Asking him to disburse a sum of money to a …
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa the perfumer, in Ashqelon, to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣadaqa the perfumer, in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1116 CE. Written in …
דיון אחד
Letter from Toviyya b. Moshe, Jerusalem, to Perahya b. Muʾammal, Fustat, probably 1048.
Letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi from Gabes (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’akob b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer traveled to Qabes after visiting Barqa, Tripoli …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Business letter in Arabic script from the circle of Nahray b. Nissim, in Arabic script. Mentions the arrival of a certain Salmān, mentions al-Ashmunayn, Abū …
كتابي الى حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاك وادام
عزك وتاييدك وسعادتك وسلامتك ونعمتك وكبت
بالذل حسدتك واعداك …
2 תעתוקים
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Faraḥ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment addressed to Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when he was active in Egypt. There is a lengthy introduction, and …
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Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Repeatedly mentioning "our master the Nagid"; may also mention Tripoli on verso (כתבים מן טרא[ב]לס). Dating: looks late, perhaps ca. 15th …
Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Published and discussed in Friedman, "The Nagid, The Nasi and the …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is conveying a first-person narrative about leading prayer services on Rosh Hashana. On verso there is Hebrew alphabet practice.
Letter from Abū al-Riḍa, in Qūṣ, to Abū Zikrī, in Fustat, c/o the sugar factory (maṭbakh) of Abū al-Maʿānī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Letter from the community of Jerusalem to the gabbay and treasurer of כארכוך (=Kirkuk?). In Hebrew. Dated: Adar 5603 AM, which is 1843 CE. This …
Letter from the office of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat, to the community of Alexandria (נאמון). Dating: ca. 1220 CE. He instructs them …
Letter from Masliaḥ Gaʾon. Dating: ca. 1120 CE (unclear on what basis). Containing his genealogy at the beginning.
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Recto: piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Family letter, partly in Hebrew and partly in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting seems to be that of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan (possibly making this one …
Letter in Ladino regarding payment issues. Copious doodles in the white space. (Information from CUDL.)
Bottom part of a letter from the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham ha-Levi. In Hebrew. Dating: 12th century? Conveying gratitude to many people by name. See …
IB VII, 64. Enthusiastic letter by Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿyahu ha-Kohen, a leader of the Jews of Yemen, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, congratulating him on his …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya possibly to Yoshiyyahu b. ʿAzarayahu ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1055 CE (per Gil). Verso is covered with Arabic-script jottings …
Business letter from Khalaf b. Ḥammād(?) b. Hiba to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (?) b. [...]. In Arabic script. Mentions various sums in the hundreds of …
Letter from a certain Efrayim concerning consignments of wheat and sums of money, written in a very polite form with many Hebrew phrases, among them …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Letter of recommendation for charity, probably. Describing an unfortunate man. "... in this city... in all places, because... his condition... he was robbed (nuhiba) of …
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script, late. Dated 22 Ṣ[afar(?)] 1244 AH. The sender, Muḥammad al-Firqī(?) expresses his affection for the addressees Shimʿon Francis and Ishāq …
A letter to Yoashiyahu b. Yehuda
Letter or petition, probably. In Arabic script. Three lines are mostly preserved. Seems to be talking about assisting a group of people.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: פי הדא אלאסבוע . . . . חתי יגי אכוה . . …
Letter from Isma’il b. Ya’aqov al-andalusi, probably from Mahdiyya, to Yoshe’a b. Natan al-andalusi, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding goods that are being sent to the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from the judge Avraham b. Shabbetay of Minyat Zifta (active ca. 1091–1135 CE) to an unidentified addressee. In Hebrew. Fragment (left side of recto). …
Long letter from Yosef Troki to Eliyyahu Bashyachi
Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Letter from Akhlābū Kohen b. Aharon, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. In the handwriting of Ibrāhīm b. Faraḥ. Regarding one dinar …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי יאסירי ומול…
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning 12 dirhams and kohl.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. In the hand of Shemuel b. Seʿadya?
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mainly about business transactions with sugar (sukkar, qand). Mentions Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Thanāʾ, al-Muhadhdhab, and the sender's …
Complete letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He sent 23 dirhams with the bearer and gives instructions for …
Communal letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Mentions Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn. Edited by Elinoar Bareket. Awaiting fuller description.
Scribal exercises and copious jottings in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. In the margin of verso there is the draft of an informal note in …
Beginning of a letter to Shelomo ha-Sar ('ha-Sofer ha-Mahir'). The sender complains about difficult circumstances. Dating: 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter sent from Damascus to ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh al-Firnās al-Hārūnī (aka the parnas ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen), in Fustat. Reporting among many other matters that …
Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237 CE) on verso. Needs examination.
Opening of a letter to Shemuʾel ha-Dayyan- might be Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (1165-1203). The sender states that his purpose is to inform the addressee …
Letter from the cantor David b. ʿEli to the notable Ḥujayj (whose father's name is left blank). With a long Hebrew introduction followed by the …
Letter from the Alexandrian judge Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents: 1074–1101) to Abū l-Bishr Ibn al-Bustānī (? الابستاني) al-Makḥūl(?) Hiba b. al-[...] Sayyid al-Ahl(?). (This …