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Letter fragment. Sent from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā al-Rayyis (probably Avraham Maimonides) several times. Also mentions a person named Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū l-Rabīʿ. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda very early in his public career, when he was Av Bet Din, to a notable in Fustat, ca. 1025. He …
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תעתוק אחד
Letter in Hebrew. Mainly complaining about the conduct of a group of wicked people. Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum. On verso there is a …
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Letter from ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yeḥezqel, Jerusalem, to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ḥayyim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060. The address says the letter should be delivered to …
מוסתהל אב האים יהפוך
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Fragment of either a mercantile letter (to judge by the phrase فقد كان ابيع في السنة الماضية, "Last year I was selling ...") or a …
Letter mainly in Arabic with several words in Hebrew script. The bearer of the letter (wa-mūṣil kitābī hādhā ilā ḥaḍratihi al-jalīla) is Ṣedeq b. Hilay …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unknown sender and addressee; likely one judge or communal official writing to another. The lower left corner is missing. Abū l-Faraj met …
Letter, in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script to the writer's father, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Shubbāṭ al-Siqillī. Only the opening greetings and the address are preserved. The writer …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). There are greetings for Ḥalfon's wife Sitt Naʿīm. …
Recto: Letter/petition fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Widened line spacing. Addressed to (or mentioning) someone associated with the Yeshiva (al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-mathībiyya). The sender mentions his difficulty …
Fragment from the top of a letter from Yoshiyyahu ha-Nasi.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the …
Non-Geniza. An appeal to the leaders of the community of Vilna from Ponibez (Panevėžys in Lithuania)
Letter from a certain Yehuda to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Highly calligraphic. The letter concerns people who were captured in Palermo and also …
דיון אחד
Letter to a dignitary, probably Abū Yefet Yosef b. Abū Sahl. In Hebrew and vocalized. Quite faded; the continuation on verso is almost too faded …
Hebrew letter consisting almost entirely of a panegyric poem, written by the cantor Aharon b. Efrayim for a man named Shelomo. (Information from Bareket, Shafrir …
Recto: Communal/administrative letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 1150–1250. Ordering payments to the usual people: Umm Nuṣayra the sister of Ḥayāʾ the wife of Yosef …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 18th or 19th century. Needs further examination.
Letter sent by a ḥaver to "al-Ḥemdat" Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi, complaining that he has been snubbed and persecuted by the latter's son-in-law. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso possibly poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter requesting help for a woman originally from Narbonne, sent from Muñó (מניו) in northern Spain and signed by a number of people (the names …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Sent to the qāʿa of ʿAbdallāh al-Damīrī, near the grave …
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (b. ca. 1310–d. 1355) to the community of Fustat asking them to arrange a charitable collection (Information from …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Business letter to Barhūn b. Mūsā. Reused for accounts (by Barhūn?). Long but very faded. Needs further examination for content. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from the future Gaon Daniel b. ʿAzarya, in al-Mahdiyya, to the leader of the Babylonian community Sahlān b. Ibrāhīm (aka Abū ʿAmr Sahlān b. …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Beginning of a letter to a Rayyis: [...] b. ʿAzarya (ZL) the head of the yeshiva (raʾs al-mathība). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …
Letter from the merchant Abū l-Riḍā ha-Kohen in Tiberias to his brother Seʿadya, in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address mainly in Arabic script on …
Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. David, Fustat. Dating: October 22, 1050 (Gil). Faraḥ is worried because …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ و ادام عزه وتاييده و سعادته و سلامته و حراسته و نعمته من الاسكندرية لثلث خلون من
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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter possibly from Abū Zikrī the physician to his father Eliyyahu the judge. Written in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Goitein comments, …
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) to be read in "the two synagogues," to help an old man named …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Possibly a letter fragment but too faded/damaged to read. ותנהג כמנהגותיה would fit with a letter of appeal for assistance.
Letter from ʿImrān b. Yehuda to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm/Avraham b. Natan he-ḥaver. The sender had heard that the addressee had had a child (mawlūd) and …
Letter mentioning 4,000 of something, 8 of something else, Abū ʿImrān, and two people with intriguing names: Abū l-Ḥasan Ṣadaqa Ibn al-Qārūs (“Son of the …
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 …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen B. Hayyim, Fustat, approximately 1060.
Letter to Abraham ‘the Great Rav’ (presumably Abraham Maimonides). (Information from CUDL)
Very faded and damaged letter, from Yosef b. Ya'aqov to Avraham b. Hasan(?)