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Damaged letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed 'to our Nagid' (Gotein suggests Mevorakh b. Saʿadya) according to the internal address, but "from Fustat to the …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Arabic script. From a son to his father Abū Thābit(?) in Malīj. Damaged and difficult to read. Reused for Hebrew text on recto. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. To Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-faqīh(?) ʿAbdallāh. Little of the content of the …
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Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, the muqaddam of Sunbāṭ (see T-S 24.25v, dated 1149 CE), to the Nagid. Yiṣḥaq reports that the chief cantor died …
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 …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Business/family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Abū ʿImrān. T-S NS J533 and Moss. II,176.2 appear to be in the same hand and …
Business letter from Shelomo b. Avraham [. . .] Ruqqī to Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. Shelomo Ruqqī. "Abū l-Faraj Nissim, the recipient of this letter, …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter addressed to two judges. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about people who are interfering with …
Verso (original use): Letter from Mūsā, probably addressed to Shelomo. Asking the addressee's help in doing something on Sunday. Recto (secondary use): Letter from Shelomo …
Letter sent from Sandūr (in Kurdistan) to Yaʿaqov Binyamin, in Jerusalem. Late and non-Geniza. Dated: 5462 AM = 1701/02 CE. The sender devotes a lot …
IB II, 54. Letter from the Yeshiva in Egypt to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. Avraham in Aden. Cairo, ca. 1132.
תעתוק אחד
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a notable, referring to ‘perishing from the strength of the cold.' (CUDL/AA/ASE)
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …
למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין
יי' אורי וישעי וג' מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין
His son Solomon b. Elijah, (may) G(od) b(e) h(is helper).
It happened that on Monday, the twenty-fifth -
God is my light an…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Draft of a formal letter or petition in Arabic to 'al-rayyis al-jalīl.' This side was reused for a document or composition that appears to be …
Letter in Arabic script. Large fragment, missing the beginning and the address (though there is some writing in Arabic script on verso). May be an …
Fragments of a letter. T-S AS 147.106: From the upper part of recto. Flowery blessings for the addressee. ". . . . with sayyidnā al-Rayyis …
Ladino letters or copies of letters from 1788 CE (Shevat 5548 AM). One is addresed to a Martinelli.
Short letter from Bū l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), Fustat, to Bū l-Futūḥ (Yehuda b. al-ʿAmmānī), Alexandria. Meir reports that he received the letter containing the …
Letter from the judge Menashshe to the Cairene judge Avraham b. Natan regarding a personal and communal affair in the small town of Sumbutya (Sunbāṭ), …
Letter sent from Aleppo to Egypt whose sender is reporting of the arrival of cargo – 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 26) …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only a few words are preserved, including 'khaṭṭ mawlāy.'
Fragment of a business letter in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved. Mentions quantities of dirhams and 3 irdabbs of barley to be sold.
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 …
דיון אחד
Drafts of letters on a strip of parchment. In one, a teacher is reminded to send Abū l-Ḥasan quickly (בשמ רחמ ינעם מולי אלמלמד עלי …
Letter: draft(s) in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), in Fusṭāṭ, probably to the Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem (r. 1025–1051 …
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 …
Letter written by Mevorakh b. Natan (fl. 1150-1181) and signed in full by the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi (r. 1170/71, 1173-95). Dating: c. 1170-1181 CE, …
Part of a rhymed Hebrew letter, probably by a Palestinian Gaon (info from FGP)
Note with instructions to draw up a draft of a marriage contract leaving out the names of the bride and groom. (Information from Goitein's index …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions somebody "prostrated on the bed (firāsh)," meaning someone who is very sick. Also mentions the Jews, justice, and …
Recto: Letter from Ṭurfa, in Fustat, to her sister Esther in the house of Subayʿ (?), unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1422 …
Fragment of a letter addressed to Sayyid al-Kull, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Thin strip from the middle. Mentions a ḥaver, and perhaps a wedding on …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, small fragment. Refers to a 'big man' (shakhṣ kabīr) and a great favor (עטימה ותפצל עלי). On verso there are jottings in …
Fol. 7: Text in Hebrew listing the names of various Nasis, e.g., Ḥizqiyya ha-Nasi and Shelomo ha-Nasi b. David ha-Nasi Rosh ha-Gola. Containing phrases typical …
Letter to a certain Abū Saʿd ('the dear boy') likely from his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century (paleographic dating). Contains inter alia a …
Small fragment from the upper part of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides, in the hand of his clerk and bearing his ʿalāma.
Beginning of a letter, mentioning (and is probably addressed to) a Nasi. The ending formulae are curious ומן תחוטה אלדאר באפצל אלסלאם (instead of the …
IB III, 32. Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Meshullam, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, in inland Yemen, written around 1150-51.
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letter from Toviyya b. Moshe, Jerusalem, to Perahya b. Muʾammal, Fustat, probably 1048.
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly from Khiḍr. He calls the addressee Shams al-Riyāsa. He reports that from the time he left Cairo he has been …
Recto: Letter from Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel to a certain Shela (and/or David he-Ḥaver?). The opening greetings include a complaint about lack of letters and mention …
Letter mentioning Damascus and possibly Ramla (though Goitein subsequently read this word differently). Very faded. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)
Subsequent use: Letter from Ḥassūn b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā, to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. [...]. Mentions people such as Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa. …
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: November 28, 1062 (Udovitch). The writer recently returned …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, preserving only some of the closing greetings ([al-salām] al-jazīl wa-atammuhū).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Full of glimpses of interesting subjects. The writer complains about the heavy rain this winter; he mentions the customs tax (maks); the …