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Recto is a letter in Arabic script. The lower part is very faded. Unclear if the multiple text blocks on the verso are related; some …
אין רשומות קשורות
Family letter probably addressed to a woman ("... wa-lā tajlisī..."). The sender apparently wouldn't have traveled if (s)he had known something (...fa-mā kuntu sāfartu wa-lā …
Small fragment of a Hebrew letter, probably. Faded. Narrow vertical strip from the middle.
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Letter in Hebrew between brothers discussing the travel of the sender's son to Mandatory Palestine and request for sixty pounds (ששים פונט). Based on the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Two lines from near the beginning are nearly completely preserved, and a few words in the margin. Almost all formulaic: …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Damaged and fragmentary. Verso: Text in Arabic script in a different hand, which sounds like a state document: "al-marsūm bi-l-amr …
A cantor orders a religious poem in which each stanza concludes with a biblical quotation which has as its last word "God," such as Numbers …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
My letter to you, my beloved brother and master, may God prolong your life and maintain your benefaction and shield you fr…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Informal note in Arabic script. Begins, "The slave reports (=I report) that the aforementioned shipment/bale (ḥaml) is still with me, and if you order me …
Letter/petition from Umm Bū l-Munā to a notable. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She asks/reminds him to send a letter on her behalf with the bearer …
Fragment of a letter from Muvḥar b. Yefet to Natan b. Shemuel ha-Kohen. Greetings to the sender's maternal aunt and her husband, and to Avraham …
IB II, 30. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: mutual assistance. Aden, ca. 1136.
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Verso (original use): Letter fragment. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. This is from the end of the letter. Tells the addressee to …
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 …
IB III, 38. Letter from Yeshua b. Yaʿaqov to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the death of Madmun b. Yefet, Dhu Jibla, 1151.
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to a certain Rabbenu Avraham "the diadem of [...]." Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that …
Recto: letter, in which the writer acknowledges the arrival of 80 dirhams from the addressee. Mentions a previous letter concerning the capitation tax of the …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051 CE), in the hand of Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon.
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תעתוק אחד
Letter from a certain Yehuda to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Highly calligraphic. The letter concerns people who were captured in Palermo and also …
דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, fragment containing right margin (angle parking) and right part of some lines. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions clove (qurunful). Greetings to …
Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Mentions Rabbenu Hillel ha-M[...]; yearning for the addressee; greetings to the addressee's mother; and the sale of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe(?) Goren to Barakha Goren. Dated 20 Nissan 5571 AM (April 1811 CE). The letter sender and recipient were likely brothers …
Letter, official-looking, in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. Central part of …
المملوك المظفري
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يقبل الارض وينهي بعد استمرارة على الادعية الصالحة
فلـ[..]عىه [ ]
تقبل…
IB II, 53. Letter of thanks from Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq. Fustat. Dating: ca. 1120s or, more broadly, ca. 1100-1138 CE …
בשמ' רחמ'
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Letters (or letterbook?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter on verso is dated Heshvan 5548 AM and the letter on recto is dated 1 Tevet 5548 AM, …
Small fragment of a document in Hebrew, maybe a letter. Mentions the name Shemaʿya.
Letter of appeal or recommendation for charity, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a large square script in a crude hand. Confusingly, there are two addresses. …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Includes details about the agreement between Daniel b. ʿAzarya and the brothers Yosef and …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160s CE). On the back there is a draft of a piyyut.
Letter/petition from a certain Yiṣḥaq to the Nagid David I Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 10 Sivan [4]999 AM, which is 1239 CE. (Someone, perhaps Elkan …
Fragment of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Six lines, fragmentary, difficult to read. Some words read as lil-haṣr(?), thaman(?), ʿadlhā wa-ṣadaqāthā (appealing to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed at least in part to R. Yaʿaqov; also mentions Meʾir, Yiṣḥaq, Yosef, and Shemuel. Fragment (middle part). Dating: Late, likely 14th–16th …
Letter. Quite faded. In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Addressed to a dignitary. The sender complains about his poverty and illness. Mentions people who have helped …
Letter from ʿEli ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
Poetic epistle addressed to the poet and man of letters Yehuda ha-Levi, who was also a well-to-do physician and devoted time to public welfare and …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a letter in Arabic script. Ends with some petition-like language: عزه بدوام(؟) علائه(؟). . . وقد . . . اعادها …
Letter from a father, probably in Fustat, to his son Isḥāq b. Saʿīd, probably in the Rīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century. The handwriting …
Letter fragment, seems to be in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Announcement from the council of teachers of the Jews of Cairo to parents on the matters of the beginning of the school year in 1954/55 …
Recto: Circular letter in the name of Moshe Maimonides to the congregations in Egypt (ca. 1168–1204 CE). The recto preserves only an eloquent introduction. Verso …