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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Mentions Mūsā al-Ṣay[rafī?], Sayyidnā, "not sleeping at night," and Cairo. (Information in part from …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter fragment concerning disbursement of funds to members of the Yeshiva.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
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Letter from a member of the Ibn Nufayʿ family, in Malīj, to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Avraham, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Almost none of …
Fragment, Arabic script, four lines in a chancery hand. Starts with a basmala and ḥamdala and mentions al-Najm al-Yahūdī. " بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد …
Letter, or possibly an outline of a legal document, containing instructions concerning a trousseau list. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, …
Small letter fragment in Arabic. Excerpts: معهم واخرج جملة . . . ها الف و . . . . بذلك حتى كانه حاصل . . …
Letter addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq by way of Binyamin ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Repeating a request that a cantor leave the capital for the writer's village …
Very damaged and faded fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
ח34 מכתב מאת אבן ברוך אל חלפון על התשלום האחרון בעד יהודה הלוי והזמנת ספר 'הערוך' אלמַרִיַّה, כנראה סוף הקיץ שנת 1138 המכתב, והחליף את …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter probably from Abū l-Surūr al-Shāmī to Umm Abū l-Faraj, in Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions …
Letter in flowery Hebrew from Yiṣḥaq b. Benveniste of Narbonne, in Dimyāṭ (Damietta), who visited Egypt around 1105, writing to Yehoshuaʿ b. Dosa in Fustat …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from the people of the Palestine Yeshiva to the community (qahal) of Fustat, mentioning Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1080 CE.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
IB II, 28 + 29. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: safe conduct and assistance for brother. Aden, ca. 1145. Join: M. …
עבדה
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
תעתוק אחד
Petition from Yefet ha-Melammed the schoolmaster to Avraham Maimonides; the latter's answer is on verso, lines 18–26. Yefet writes that he is ill and losing …
Fragment of a letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal in Fustat. Mentions some information about the Sultan …
Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender might be Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (the usual correspondent of Yehuda …
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic letter with phonetic spellings and rudimentary hanwriting. Abū l-ʿAlā' writes to Maḥāsin al-Ḍāmin (the tax farmer) in אביר (=Abyār?) to inform him that …
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…
DK 184a: Copy of a letter from Sharira b. Hananya, while he was a judge (Av Beit Din) in the yeshiva of Pumbedita, to the …
Letter addressed to Rabbenu Ḥayyim (מרנו ורבנו חיים הרב הגדול בישראל). Letter of recommendation for the bearer, the nephew of the Kohen Abū l-ʿIzz(?). Small …
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines from near the beginning are preserved, along with a few phrases in the margin. Not a lot …
Letter from a Jerusalem pilgrim writing from Alexandria, admonishing his relatives, who were staying in his house in Fustat, to exercise utmost consideration towards “the …
Fragment of an Arabic letter or official report. Expressing a desire for somebody to sign something or issue a rescript (laʿalla annahū yuwaqqiʿahū).
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Maybe from ʿAbdallāh b. al-Ḥasan to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reused on verso for Hebrew jottings.
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 …
Petition to a Gaʾon by ʿa lonely orphan girl’, who had been married for ten years to a man who had taken her earnings, given …
Fragment of a letter/petition addressed to "Rabbenu ha-Rav ha-Gadol." In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning "the disaster which occurred on the day of [...]," when Abū Yaʿqūb known …
Recto: Upper part of a letter addressed to the Nasi Amaṣyahu Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder? The addressee is known …
Fol. 1: Letter in Arabic script. The addressee is called "al-ṣabiyy(?) al-akram... al-jamālī jamāl al-dunyā wa-l-dīn..." The text is quite faded and difficult to read. …
Letter to the cantor Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) about the bad behavior of his son Abu al-Ḥasan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
A letter from Mordechai b. Nisan to Shalom and Moshe
Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100-1138). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has sent the two documents (kitābayn) concerning the consignment of musk …
Probably a letter, in Hebrew. Late. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on format. Opens with greetings to various people including Umm Muḥammad and 'al-ḥājja al-dādā'(?). In the margin …
Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare …
Your slave Yaḥyā the Alexandrian
b. ʿAmmār
In (your) name O M[e]rc(iful)
“Happy is he who is thoughtful of the wretched; in bad times…
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 …
IB VII, 63. Letter of recommendation for charity for the judge Avraham b. Yosef. The addressee is on a boat and about to set out …
2 תעתוקים
Letter from Yosef b. Yehuda b. Simḥa (Alexandria) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. The writer mentions a number of deals in …
אטאל אללה יא[שיכי] וסידי וריסי בקאך וצאנך בנפסך ואמואלך וא[ ]ך ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאך [ ]
נעלמך אן וצלת אלי רקעתך ווגדת פיהא ראחה כ…
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as Bodl. MS heb. c 13/13 (PGPID 19316). Addressed to a cousin (yā ibn ʿammī). Conveying various pieces of …
Letter from a son to his father. He complains about difficult circumstances. To make matters worse, ʿIwāḍ al-Bazzāz (the clothier) died owing the sender 60 …
Letter from a certain Ibrāhīm concerning business matters in which the writer mentions silk and asks the addressee for further trade-related instructions to be sent …
Letter from a person who asks for a loan to pay his capitation tax. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. Also mentions Abū l-ʿIzz. Dating: ca. late …