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Recto: Letter to Elʿazar he-Ḥasid Tifʾeret he-Ḥasidim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. The handwriting has Andalusī alephs, some words almost like the handwriting of a …
דיון אחד
Document in Arabic script. Probably a letter or petition given the opening اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك. There might be a person named Buṭrus named …
אין רשומות קשורות
Possibly a letter - needs examination.
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Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, in Sūsa, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1052 CE. The letter mentions the connections that Nahray …
כתאב[י יא]סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך ונעמתך
וכאן לך [ול]יא וחאפצא פי גמיע אמורך ואצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן סו…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Poetic letter, in honor of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya and his son Saʿadya, probably on the occasion of the latter's birth. (Information from CUDL …
Letter from Efrayim b. Sulaymān to [Abū] ʿAlī al-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. The text in Arabic on the verso may also be documentary requires further examination.
Letter from the leader of the Jewish community in a small town to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (1094–1111) complaining about trouble he has had …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Shelomo b. Netanʾel ha-Shulḥani (the moneychanger), in Fustat, to Ṣadoq b. Levi ha-Levi, president of the court. Dating: ca. 1030, according to Gil. …
תעתוק אחד
Business letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salāma (aka Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo) to his brother Shemuel b. Shelomo. The phrase "the Maghribī scribe" also appears in the …
Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Yefet b. Menashshe to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (it looks like Yefet's handwriting, and he greets Sitt …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender complains that no one except the addressee helps them. The addressee should help ʿAmmār Ibn Shamshūrī …
Copy of a letter in Ladino addressed to a consul, possibly from Avraham Girado(?). Mentions Avraham Talmid in l. 5. Dating: probably ca. early 16th …
Letter dated 25 Tishrei 1212 (4973) from Yehuda b. al-Ammani, a cantor, schoolmaster, and clerk in Alexandria, to Abu l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, a senior …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter describing two meetings with physicians. At least part of the letter is addressed to the sender's mother. The first meeting was a visit to …
2 תעתוקים
A long letter from Yosef b. Moshe
Recto: Brief letter to Abū Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning small sums of money and transactions in materia medica. Verso: A few lines in Arabic script, …
Two different text blocks in Arabic script, on a bifolio that looks like it was reused for a book binding. One of them opens with …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan. Dating: approximately 1020 (per Gil) which is supported by the lack of Gaonic honorifics in Shelomo …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. The sender says that even if his letters have lapsed, he has never stopped loving and praying for …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged.
Letter from Suhayl, in an unknown location, to his wife Umm Wuhayb and to his son, in Fustat. He asks in the most urgent terms …
Letter in Spanish with columns of numerical calculations at bottom that appears to be dated 5 Tamuz 5437 or July 5 1677CE (the "4" is …
Form of a recommendation letter to the emissaries of the lepers of Tiberias, probably 1025.
Letter mentioning a late ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Taharti probably from al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. ʿAwkal from Fustat. Dating: August 3, 1011. The writer expected to …
Business letter from ʿUmar b. ʿIwaḍ, in Qalyūb, to the notary and qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn, at the Dār al-Wakāla in Fustat. Discussing a shipment of …
God is the best of helpers.
Your servant Omar b. ʿIwaḍ serves the high seat of our master
and lord, my master Ṣadr al-Dīn, may God let h…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Two fragments from a late private letter. In (Maghribī?) Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions a woman who is in great distress. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Recto: part of a rhymed letter mentioning Yehoshuaʿ (אדוני אבי ריוח והחבר יהושוע). (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be from a cantor to a notable, conveying how he prays on his behalf (compare CUL Or.1080 …
Recto: Petition addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–39). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, beautifully written but with rudimentary spelling. From a woman who had been married …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Note in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe addressed to "al-Nezer" (Natan b. Shemuʾel) asking him to send a note to Abū l-[...] instructing him …
Letter to Yehuda b. Elya to Egypt (FGP). Image not available.
Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be'). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting (distinctive qofs) dealing with various financial matters. Refers to someone staying in a certain state for 5 months; …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to a certain Rabbenu Avraham "the diadem of [...]." Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter in Arabic. Mentions "it has now been a month and a half. . . and no news. . …
Letter from Abū l-Faraj to his paternal aunt's son Eliyya (probably Eliyyahu the Judge), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Extremely faded. …
Letter fragment. The opening lines are poetic Hebrew blessings and the continuation is in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions hiding something in a chest lest someone buy it, …
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking for the addressee's help in sending something to the writer with the bearer Abū l-Faraj.
Letter addressed to the judge R. Yeshuʿa in Fustat. The sender's name may be legible: [...] al-[Iskan?]darānī b. Ibrāhīm. The sender asks the addressee "to …