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Either a letter describing a legal issue, or a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions terms such as iʿtiqāl (arrest) and tarsīm (usually payment for house …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions, presumably sarcastically, that "I am grateful to him for how he insults me... I don't know what I've ever done …
Letter from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to the trustee of a Yeshiva in an unidentified place, approximately 1055.
תעתוק אחד
Verso, with the address at the top of recto: Family letter addressed to 'my child, Rivqa.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 14th century. Likely sent from …
Business letter from Avraham b. Farrāh, in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (and his sons Abū l-Ḥusayn Yūsuf and Abū Saʿīd Ibrāhīm), in Fustat. The …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Natan b. Nahray (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1065. Mentions a silk cloak ordered by Nahray and shoes that were sent …
וקד מצית אליה וכאטבתה וקאל לי דפעתה לאנסאן והו ברשיד
ואלסעה לעל תכאטבה עלי ידי גירי ואלתדכרה אלדי קד
אנפדת מעה יתפצל ינצר מא פיהא ולא יג…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). Possibly a literary letter.
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דיון אחד
Letter fragment. Only scattered phrases are preserved. Mentions "this month, there remains for me in..."
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The ends of 10 lines are preserved. Some phrases: ידכרני . . . ואלי יומנא . . . פלא יקסי . …
A letter to Shmuel b. Yosef
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq [...], in Istanbul, to Efrayim ʿAdda (עדה) and Eliyyahu Aylion (אאיליון), in Fustat/Cairo. In Ladino. There is an "AI" in Latin …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. Recommending the bearer for assistance. The bearer had a partnership in a commodity with Bū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥakīm known …
Letter addressing a communal leader, a certain ʿOvadya. Other names mentioned are Yaʿaqov b. Aba Mari Moshe, and [...] b. David the judge. There is …
Opening of a late letter addressed to "dear Avraham." The name "Julia" (גולייה) may also appear in the opening lines before the body of the …
Letter of recommendation from a judge in Aleppo (צובה) on behalf of Binyamin Mizraḥi. In Hebrew. Late. There is a postscript in a different hand …
Letter of recommendation. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on behalf of the bearer, Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū Saʿīd. Apart from the conventional material, we learn that the …
Small fragment from a letter. Mentions young men (ṣibyān) and livelihood (maʿīsha).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Avraham he-Ḥasid to a disciple with pietistic instructions. Ed. Fenton, "A Pietist Letter from the Genizah" HAR 9 (1985).
Letter from Hayyim b. 'Ammar (Gil) or Zakkar b. 'Ammar (Ben-Sasson), Palermo, to Yūsuf b. Mūsā Tāhartī in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1069 (Gil).The writer writes …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Calligraphic letter from (thecantor Thabit Ibn al-Munajjim to Maṣliaḥ Gaon begging for charity, complaining about poverty and his dependents. (Information from Goitein's note card.) Same …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Address of a letter. Addressed to Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)
Informal note from Munajjā to Abū l-Riḍā. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Written on verso of a page of accounts in Arabic script …
Short letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Busir. Dating: February 8, 1053 (Gil). Nahray asks Barhun, who is in Busir and …
IB II, 21 + 21c. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. Fragments of four or five …
The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,
with regard to what you owed …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, probably to Barhūn b. Isḥāq, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer mentions details concerning goods from the Maghreb and …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי [אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך [
וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא [ו] צר[ף אלא]סוא [ענך] ברחמתה מן ס[כנדרי]א נצף תמוז [ען ח…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Mūsā. The writer is not the same person as the …
Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the name Moshe. Instructing the (male) addressee not to neglect washing another man's clothes and fulfilling his …
Letter from Moshe ha-Levi to a group of unknown individuals. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 8 Elul 1743 (אתרקמג) Seleucid = 6 August 1432 CE. The …
Business letter addressed to a certain Abu Saʿd. The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be …
Letter in Hebrew mentioning Avraham b. ʿAllūn, 20 gold coins, a deposit and a lawsuit. Dating: Might be 11th century. Elevated style, partially rhymed, with …
Letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Opens with blessings for Yom Kippur. He thanks Peraḥya for …
Top of a petition from a Damascene woman. Only the tarjama is preserved: al-mamlūka al-ṣaghīra al-dimashqiyya al-[...].
Letter from a certain Khalaf b. Isḥāq to someone whose name includes Shemaʿya, sent to the house of Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Qudsī, in Fustat. In …
Business letter from Rahamim b. 'Imran in Tinnis to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dated ca. 1055.
כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ו[אדאם תאידה…וכאן לה וליא וחאפטא]
פי גמיע אמרה מן תניס ליב כליו מן [
נעלמך יאמולאי אן וצלת אלי תניס יו…
Recto: Lower left piece of a letter in calligraphic Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on the hand and the names. Mentions al-Ḥājj Yūsuf and …
Minute fragment of a letter, probably. Mentions ויהודה הזקן ומנשה in the margin. On verso there appear to be jottings in Arabic script.
Mercantile letter. Dating: 11th century. Addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov [Ibn ʿAwkal?]. Mentions people including Mūsā b. Barhūn, Ibn Jashmard (a Persian? בן גשמרד), and …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Dated: Elul 498[.] AM, which is the 1220s CE. In the portion preserved before the concluding greetings, …
Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Damietta, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. The writer signs only his first name on this letter, …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
IB II, 61. Letter from Ḥalfon and Bundār b. Maḍmūn, in Aden, to Sulaymān b. Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. In …
Your two servants took note of
what you …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Copy of a letter attributed to Yehuda ha-Levi (l. 9) to the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (l. 1) "when he was in a ship [awaiting …
A private letter/petition for charity in Arabic script.
Small fragment of a business letter, probably. In Hebrew.
Letter in Hebrew. Extremely faded. Late. Seems to be addressing someone important and requesting help. Mentions a shop and maybe a dispute. The names Avraham …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Alexandria is influenced by the declining value of dirhams. The writer …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאך
מן אלמסתקר לו בקי מן שבט כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה בעד וצול כ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד