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Informal note in Arabic, or maybe a credit instrument. Headed "[...] Dar al-Jawhar," the house of gems, an institution associated with Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. The …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of a letter, probably from a son to his father in Fusṭāṭ. Probably from ʿEli b. Hillel to his father Hillel b. ʿEli. He …
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Bottom of a letter in Ladino from Damascus to Cairo, addressed to Yosef Pisho (?) the student of Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (very possibly Isaac Luria). The …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon.
תעתוק אחד
Commercial letter from Pinto & Suarez to Eliyya Saʿd and Yaʿaqov Shalom, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an "IS" logo in Latin script next to …
Bottom of a communal letter in Hebrew. Written in Alexandria ca. 1030 CE (according to M. A. Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, p. 380 note …
Verso (original use): Official-looking letter/report in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved: يعلم ان ال . . . يخلصهم من جميع ذلك …
Letter addressed to Avraham b. Natan Av Beit Din. In Hebrew. The first 28 lines of the introduction are preserved. Written in an elegant style. …
דיון אחד
Letter draft probably from Efrayim b. Shemarya probably to the Palestinian Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda. (Identifications are according to Bareket.) In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender defends …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 35.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Very little substance preserved.
Letter fragment on parchment. Probably a letter of appeal for assistance, written in a flowery style in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Most of …
Letter of appeal for charity from a Byzantine man named Mosqos (=Μόσχος). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. The scribe, also a Byzantine, has been identified by …
Fragment of a letter mentioning [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. The letter contains details about shipments of coins, including coins that …
קד אסתכרת אללה גל תנאיה וחמלת למא קבל מולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה וסעאדתה
עלי יד מוצל רקעתי הדה צרה דנ מכסרה אלוזן צ דינ יכון תמנהא …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Yefet b. Menashshe to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (it looks like Yefet's handwriting, and he greets Sitt …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender received Frankish kohl (kuḥl ifrānjī) from the addressee but does not know its price. There are also standard expressions …
Family letter in Arabic script. It seems the sender is congratulating his father on his move to New Cairo, together with the sender's mother and …
Two fragments of a communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Resembles the hand of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, and headed by their motto הנה אל …
Part of a poorly preserved letter, written with widely-spaced lines in an elegant square hand and ornate language, probably the work of a Palestinian gaʾon. …
Letter from David Kohen to the Nagid R. Natan Sholal, the penultimate Nagid of Egypt. Dating: end of the 15th century.
Small fragment. Recto: Few words from opening of a vocalized letter to ‘our Nagid David’. Verso: letter, informing sayyidna about an halakhic issue. AA
Letter. Second leaf of a long letter relating what happened to the writer's brother, Abū Naṣr, on an adventurous business voyage on the Nile. Abu …
Letter from Yosef b. Faraḥ in Būṣīr to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, c. 1055 CE (Gil).
[לא ] ען סידי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמאה אלא אתר אלתכפיף ען קלבה לכתרה אשגאלה פלמא
כל[ ] בקי אלאסטור [ ] אבי עמראן ומא כפי ענך…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from a physician to a Kohen expressing thanks for condolences. At the end he writes a prescription for the growing of hair on skin …
Letter, asking for a swift reply and mentioning a certain Ibrahim. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL.) Excerpts: אללה תע …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). He reports that …
Part of a letter(?) in Arabic script. On verso there is a liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Letter on graph paper written by a scribe on behalf of someone else. Signature has holes and is written in a shakier hand. Mentions the …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. The sender owes capitation tax (jizya) payments for himself and for his son. …
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to a high dignitary. Sent from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo. The sender reports that he arrived safely in Alexandria on Thursday …
Letter possibly sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Arabic script. Fragment (right side of recto). Written on parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. The address is …
The writer addressing his first cousin, a woman, who probably was his in-law, expresses the wish that the extended family may be reunited in one …
Letter to a dignitary ("the head of the Yeshiva of the Torah") in Judaeo-Arabic, reporting that Yosef Ibn al-Salamantī(?) came to al-muʿallim Farajallāh complaining to …
Business letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj (Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb?) Ibn ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. This document appears to have been overlooked by past Ibn ʿAwkal scholars. …
Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter with wide line spacing, with praises for the addressee and good wishes for Purim. Verso: Likely a distinct document, …
Letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay from the town of Bilbays containing local news and sending greetings to the Nagid David b. Avraham …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Right fragment: Letter addressed to Eliyyahu b. Zekharya the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the introductory blessings are preserved here. Handwriting of Ṭahor b. Avraham.