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Letter from David I Maimonides to R. Yiṣḥaq. Dating ca. 1237–1300 CE based on the years of service of David I Maimonides as Nagid. Involving …
דיון אחד
None
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Avraham ha-Kohen to the community of Damsīs (לסאדתי ושיוכי אלקהל אלגליל קהל דמסיס). Mentioning the arrival of a letter with instructions from the …
This manuscript contains two different documents. One is a letter to Yehuda b. Moshe Migas. The other is a receipt by Zekharya b. Gershon from …
fragment of letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions kohl.
A letter to Shlomo b. Nahmo Yerushalmi (his name is written in acrostic on the write column) asking for financial support. The writer residing in …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Informal note in Arabic script, may also be in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Mentions that he searched for what the addressee had …
Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with respectful greetings for the addressee named David, possibly David I b. Avraham Maimonides. At any …
Minute fragment from a Judaeo-Arabic letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter to Nahray b. Nissim in which the writer mentions a letter received from Nahray from his brother, and that Nahray had visited Caesarea. He …
וסעאדתה
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Der'i to Mevorakh b. Saadya. A new governor arrives at the city and is received by the leaders of the …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script.
Detailed commercial account connected to the flax trade network of Yosef ibn ʿAwkal. Dated: Shaʿbān 429H (May–June 1038). Ibn ʿAwkal has distributed bales of flax …
וארבע מאיה עלי יז עדלא סקט פקד קבץ מני גמיע מא
כאן עלי דלך מן אלחמולה וכדלך אלמכזנין אלדי בידה וזנת
לה ענהא אגרה מא תקדם מן אלסכנה אלי נ…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
A late letter from a mother to her son Yosef b. Ghunaym (may appear also in T-S 28.10). Among other news she informs him that …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With substandard orthography (CUDL), "in a known script with known atrocious spelling" (Goitein), mentioning people including Avraham and Abū l-Ḥusayn. Mentions arriving …
Fragment of a letter, probably 14th century or later. greetings to shaykh al-Asʿad Abū [...] and shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn. The sender or scribe is Hārūn. …
Letter from Umm Khalaf, in Sunbāṭ, to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat. About small debts owed to her by her cousin. She has not …
בשמ' רחמ
כתאבי [אלי] אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלדשיך אלגליל ואדאם
עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ועאפיתה
ען שוק אליה שדיד גמע אללה ביננא עלי אס…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Private letter almost entirely in Aramaic, with a few phrases in Hebrew. (It is rare for a letter to have this much Aramaic.) Dating: maybe …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the circle of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis. Extremely faded. The beginning and ending are missing. All of recto and part of …
(1-5) . . . and in the sukka. . . the conflict broke out, and they erected mangonels against the city. On the day of Simḥat Tora they took the…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 13th century. Mentions al-Kohen al-Maghribī who was with Ṣāfī the Alexandrian; an embroidered robe (malḥafa marqūma); selling something …
Letter concerning business issues in which the writer discusses the price of silk and references a previous conversation between Abu al-Tahur and the addressee. Abu …
תעתוק אחד
Letter of gratitude. In Arabic script. Full of expressions of patronage and no specific details. The sender's name may be Zayn and the addressee's name …
Letter of recommendation for a poor man from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides.
Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov (active ca. 1131–50), either in Aden or in India, to (his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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ברסם פיצית?
ואיצא ברסם
אלשיך סלימאן
אחיאה אללה
עבד הנדי צגיר
ומ . . . אלי [ . . . ]
וברסם אלבית
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Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt al-Isrāʾīlī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Sahl, in the perfumers' market in Fustat. On recto only the upper left …
Letter in both Ladino and Spanish. Dating: possibly 15th or 16th century. The addressee is likely Señor Don Elyaqim, though there is also another name …
Letter, in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 13th century, based on the hand, the use of the abbreviation ממ[לוך], and the typical names of the period. The …
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Bahāʾ. In Arabic script. In which the sender apparently insists half a dozen times that he has fulfilled his promise …
Small fragment from the top of a letter, from Manṣūr b. [...].
Letter from Yehoshuaʿ he-Ḥaver b. Eli, Caesarea (Ḥaṣor), to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: ca. 1098. Apparently written after the Fatimids had reconquered Palestine. …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Janūn to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and his son Yosef. Concerns shipments of wax and honey, as well as textiles. …
Short business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. With a request to send a reply with the same mail courier (fayj) and mentioning …
Petition from a woman to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Concerning a debt of 25 dinars owed to her by Ṣedaqa al-Ḥalabī, of which he …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The handwriting and the layout resemble those of Ḥalfon b. Netanel's Spanish correspondents (see India Book IV)—but none …
Letter of appeal for help, mentioning a recent death, apparently of a husband, leaving the writer (the widow) without livelihood and unable to live with …
2 תעתוקים
IB V, 13. Letter from Avraham b. Ḥabīb, in Alexandria, to Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's attached notes include discussions of how …
4 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Yehuda b. Avraham b. al-Faraj, possibly in Ṣahrajt, to ʿEli b. ʿAmram (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Muʿammar), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060s …
Letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva, probably Fusṭāṭ, to the cantor Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Damsīs. Much of the letter has to do with Avraham …
Recto: probably a begging letter, but the text is very damaged. On verso Hebrew piyyut and possibly an Arabic account - needs further examination.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Written (unusually) on a bifolio. Mentions in the beginning that 'the owner of the myrobalan' (ṣāḥib al-halīlaj) came …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively long vertical strip. Mentions a dyer (al-ṣabbāgh).