Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. About business matters. The sender's tone is agitated. Hard to figure out any specifics: אלא ממלוכה וחק אלשריעה אן מן וקת . …
אין רשומות קשורות
Left side of a letter of appeal for charity, from Shaul ha-Levi. What is preserved seems to contain learned discussion of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Meḥmed Çavuş (Muḥammad Jāwīsh) to an unidentified Jewish tax farmer (ʿāmil) in Old Cairo. In Arabic script. Dating: late sixteenth or early seventeenth …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
None
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer describes the event when the customs officers chased …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה וכבודה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה
ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין ושוק אל…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Between judges or communal leaders, dealing with at least two ongoing legal cases. The first concerns a lawsuit between al-ʿAmmānī and …
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much is preserved. Mentions "we are worried" (naḥnu masghūlīn)...
Report from a man called only "al-nāʾib" (the deputy), in Malīj, to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (in office 1140–59), in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning …
דיון אחד
Letter addressed to Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. It has a typically sephardi layout (cf. the letters …
Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of …
Letter, neatly written, in which the writer, Ṣedaqa b. Yehuda, being financially dependent on the recipient, expresses his disappointment. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1065.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Possibly a letter (needs examination)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a Maghribī business letter of the 11th century. Fragment (lower half of recto). Mentions the qāḍī Ibn al-[...] and someone called …
Small fragment of an unidentified text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a letter. Includes many biblical citations and refers to the prophet (al-sayyid) Eliyyahu. (Information …
Letter from an unidentified man in the Rīf to someone important in Fustat. Dating: 1112–ca. 1126, as it mentions the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh. In …
Letter from someone in ʿAsqalān/Ashqelon to Abū l-Faḍl [...] al-ʿAsqalānī, in Cairo. In Hebrew and/or Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Only a few …
Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham to Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Ibn Bunyām failed to deliver the large jar (zīr) which the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions going out of the house and a turban. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso, continuing onto recto between the lines (secondary use): Letter describing a requisition (muṣādara) carried out against a whole town, in which Muslims, Christians, Samaritans …
Letter to the head of the Academy Avraham b. Mazhir, from [Natan] b. Shemuel ha-Haver. Dated Marheshvan 1453 Sel. (October 1141 CE). Includes a reference …
Letter from an anonymous writer in Jerusalem to a certain Elʿazar, probably 16th century. The writer seems to genuinely yearn to travel to the addressee's …
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. . . . תע מא בקי מא נתטלע אליה סואה . . . וצלו אלפיג דפעתין ולם . . .
Opening of a letter/petition to a Jewish dignitary: ימלטהו ייי . . . אלגלילה ויבקיהא לישראל . . . דהא ויוצל איאמהא . . . …
Recto: probably a medical recipe, involving raisins. Verso: mercantile letter, mentioning Būṣīr and raisins. (Information in part from CUDL)
Addendum to a letter. The sender had already written the original letter when Abū l-Faḍl b. Barakāt known as Abū l-Faraj brought two letters from …
Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community. (Information from Mediterranean …
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic to a dignitary. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions Wuhayb b. Avraham and Saʿīd b. [...]. Fragment.
Letter in the hand of Daniel b. Azarya (Gil) to ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Daniel b. Azarya refers to notebooks of responsa (including some by Samuel …
A long letter from the communities of Poland and Lithuania to Shlumiel b. Shmuel.
Letter from a woman named Archondou, in Alexandria, to her son Fuḍayl, in Fustat. Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants …
[ ]ומו'ת'[ ]ת' [ ] ובות' משוכן
ער'בות אל'[ ]י יחידי' ידידי מ'
פודאיל' מ[ ] א'מ'ך' ארכודו ומבעלי'
מ' אליה קבל …
[Blessings etc. ?] from Him who dwells
in the heavenly expanse. To [my son?] my beloved only son Mar
Fudhail, from me, your mother Ar…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Upper part of a letter to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the resolution of a dispute, and then after two years something involving someone's …
Letter. Strongly-worded admonition to a Muqaddam to deal with the estate of a widow and her daughter, in accordance with instructions by the Nagid. (Information …
Verso: Draft of a letter apparently written in Edessa (al-Ruhā). In Judaeo-Arabic. In a different hand from the letter on recto (one of the Mosul …
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
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a business letter; mentions goods (al-baḍā'iʿ) and something being sent to Alexandria (irsāluhu ilā thaghr al-Skandariyya). Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era.
Letter/petition concerning a legal affair involving the allocation of the estate of the late Bayān. (Same hand as Moss. VII,131 (PGPID 6955)?) Repeatedly mentions a …
Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan. The writer's full name is difficult to read (ʿĀ___ __rdī[?]) as is the …
Badly effaced letter to a business friend describing his dire situation and lack of wheat and asking the addressee for assistance. (Information from Goitein's index …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaakov, probably from Tripoli (Libya) to Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. A complaint about a person Ibn Masis. Mentions …
[אטאל אללה יסידי] בקאך ואעזך ואכרמך ואידך ואסעדך ואתם נעמתה עליך כתאבי אליך ען סלאמה ונעמה
[ללה] אלשכר דלך בטול בקא אלקאיד סידנא וצל כתאבך…
The beginning of a letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the judge to Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār, in Alexandria. Five short lines preface the …