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Letter from Harun b. Yosef [al-Ghazal?], Alexandria, to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Awkal and to his sons. CUDL description: Fragment of a letter …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic, elevated register. Small fragment only. Mentions the government. (Information in part from CUDL)
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter to a court clerk or judge. "Please draw up a power of attorney for Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Avraham Segulat ha-Yeshiva my sister.... for Abū …
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Fragment of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Very colloquial, with constructions like minshān/מיןשן ("so that") and הוני (for "here"). The sender has purchased some …
Draft of a note written on the back of a page of Hebrew poetry. Begins with the glyph. Then, "Know that from the day I …
תעתוק אחד
Informal note addressed to "Rabbenu" asking him to pay Abū l-Faḍl the maintenance payments (mezonot) for the Shabbat of parshat Toldot.
Note addressed to Yaʿaqov Abū l-Munā. The sender, a scribe, already sent with Abū Manṣūr the cantor what he needed to send, and asks the …
דיון אחד
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half). Dating: early to mid-12th century. Mentions ṭabarī cushions, Abū Kathīr, something 'narjisiyya,' and a silver zabdiyya (a kind …
Letter from Abū ʿUmar b. Abū l-Riḍā to the mint supplier (al-mūrid) Abū l-Faḍl b. Tamīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 12th to early 13th century. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef (Yiju) to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Almost nothing remains apart from the opening verses and the …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around the spring of 1080. Musa is traveling and asks the writer …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
וסעאדתה ונעמתה [ען] שוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגתמאע [בה] עלי אפצל
חאל בעד וצול כתא…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter in Ladino dated 19 November 1790 (12 Kislev 5551) from Av_[?] Segre[?] in Alexandria to David Mili in the Bulaq neighborhood of Cairo. In …
Letter addressed to a dignitary (ha-rav ha-gadol, ha-maʿoz ha-migdol—a title usually reserved for Maimonides or his son). The handwriting is distinctive (especially the curly זs). …
Recto: Letter from Futūḥ the cantor to Shemuel and Hayyim and Nasir and their cousins Sadaqa and Yiṣḥaq, congratulating them on their safe return and …
ח55 מכתב מאת אבן עזרא אל חלפון ספרד, אחרי ראש חודש ניסן, כנראה 1139 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 16.9 x 25.1 ס"מ. פורסם אצל גיל …
Letter from Sedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning small business transactions. Mentions people including Abū Saʿīd Khalīfa; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions a deposit (wadīʿa); goods for a …
Letter from Barhun Levi b. Ishaq concerning a deceased man, a debt, and power of attorney. He informs the addressee, whose name is lost, that …
Informal note. Mercantile. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Asking the addressee to arrange for one of the writer's representatives or colleagues in Alexandria or …
Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script: المولا الشيخ الاجل . . . .
Letter. Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from the Yeshiva to a Jewish community outside Jerusalem.
Letter in a Romance language; requires examination.
Fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script.
Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) …
Letter from Isḥāq b. ʿAlī al-Majjānī, probably in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Around 1040. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with disagreements …
[יאסידי וריי]סי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלא[מתך]
[ ] אד כרגת יאכי ולם תעלמני בכרוגך פשק עלי דלך עטים אסל [אללה]
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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Late letter (or letters?) in Judaeo-Arabic from Ya'aqov Bibas in Cairo (פה מצרים) to Shimʿon Frances in Alexandria (נאאמון). Based on the people referenced, this …
Fragment of a business letter to ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn announcing the arrival of a large ship from Spain and two other ships from Mahdiyya and …
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
(1-2) Proceedings that took place in our presence, etc. Whereas there came to our attention the state of affairs in our beloved and…
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto opens in the middle of an interesting story: "Six Venetian ships arrived, bearing great bounties (niʿam ʿaẓīma), and all of …
Recto: Letter of recommendation written by Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaon (r. 1025–1051 CE) on a Friday, late in the afternoon, 4 Sivan, probably 1048. Verso: …
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Letter from Barakāt b. Hibatallāh al-Jaʿfarī to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā (ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the parnas in Fustat). Complete letter containing personal and …
Short letter of appeal for charity from a poor and sick man
Letter in Arabic script. Mercantile. Addressed to multiple people (mawālayya l-awlād). Mentions large sums of money (in the hundreds of dinars). The main crux of …
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script, possibly a letter or account. Needs further examination. On recto: Hebrew poetry on astronomical (and/or mystical?) themes.
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: From Elijah the judge, Damietta. AA
Address of a letter/petition/report (khidma) to the faqīh Jamāl al-Dīn, or else a pen trial. If it was originally attached to a larger document, that …
Two fragments of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Quite faded. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with business matters. The market has ground to a halt (wāqif) in the writer's location, "neither coarse nor fine can …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script to Sitt Nadd, probably from her husband. The writer rejoiced at the news of her deliverance (khalāṣ) (childbirth? or from …