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Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter in which a notable to whom Abu al-'Izz b. Imran owed about 60 dirhams proposes, as a charitable act, to let him work off …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Recto: Letter from Natan, a foreigner from Jerba (the island off the coast of Ifrīqiyya), who claims that he has been unjustly placed under house …
Badly damaged letter in Ottoman Turkish concerning shipments of firewood. Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman …
[ ] peder-i ʿazīzim //el-Ḥāc Muḥammed// ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-i şerīflerine
[ ] selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñr…
[ ] To my most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father //al-Ḥājj Muḥammad//,
[ ] ...after offering greetings and sincere p…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Recto: Upper part of a letter to a dignitary referred to as Sar ha-Teʿuda. The preserved portion (~33 lines) consists entirely of panegyric poems in …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter or petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (lower part only). Probably a business letter (...al-taṣarruf fī l-mawḍiʿ...), but with quite a deferential tone (...fa-yatafaḍḍal ka-mā …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably mercantile. Moderately wide space between the lines. Too faded to read much. Mentions sending something with Abū …
Upper fragment: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: . . . יקרצני . . . מנהם פאן כאן חרצכם מן אעטיה נסיכאתי ואשהד עליי …
Recto: note from Khalīfa Ḥasan. Verso: letter by Meʿir Ben-Naʿīm (fl. 1785-1825 CE) to Khalīfa Ḥasan concerning business matters. 18th-19th century. (MCD with information from …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Bottom of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to a more important person, begging him to do some sort of favor ("wa-yubayyiḍ al-mawlā wajh al-shafāʿa fī dhālik") …
Note by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ (in the note) or Abū l-Barakāt (in the address on verso). Accompanying payment for rose marmalade. …
My patron the elder Abu'l-Rabi', may
God on high preserve you (forever). Collect from the bearer
the charges for the rose marmalade. I a…
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl and his mother, perhaps in Fustat, to his father Abū Naṣr, in Asyūṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Much of the letter is in …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic between family members. Interesting orthography: אלשעאר for אלצגאר. Mentions "the water in the khalīj (canal)."
Letter(s) in Arabic script. Dating: uncertain, probably 11th–13th century. Recto includes the phrase "as soon as this letter arrives" (fa-sāʿat wusūl hādhā l-kitāb). Verso appears …
Letter fragments. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words in vocalized Hebrew. Addressed to 'my son.' The sender reports that the late ḥaver (mawlāy al-ḥaver, may …
Family letter addressed to Bū l-Ṭāḥir. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender plans to leave for al-Maḥalla after the holiday to retrieve some money from a dyer. …
Verso: writing exercises in Hebrew and Arabic, and the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic jotting in the upper margin is in …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi to Ḥayyim. In Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman-era. Concerning business. The writer conveys a tale of underhanded dealings and bribes involving a çavuş, …
Fragment of a beginning of a letter. Addressed to Abū l-Wafāʾ, in al-Maḥalla.
Letter written by a woman, introduced by Psalms 41:2, asking for assistance in a legal battle concerning the rights to a house. Both fragments at …
Fragment from the beginning of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment of a letter. Deferential tone, referring to the great station and the many preoccupations of the addressees (בכתיר אשגאלכם . . . ועטים …
Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …
Letter of appeal to the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi from a person newly arrived in Fustat requesting some food by way of charity.
Fragment of a letter from [Abū l-Ḥasan?] b. Abū l-Faḍl to [.........] al-Shāmī. The addressee's name is given both in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic but is …
Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef b. Simha, Alexandria, to the Taharti brothers (Ismāʿīl and Ṣāliḥ b. Barhun), Fustat. The writer is aboard a ship in …
Petition appealing for help from Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59). A woman asks him for help paying the capitation tax for her husband, who is in detention …
Fragment of a mercantile letter addressed to [Abū] Zikrī b. Ḥananʾel, probably in the town of al-Ṣaffayn. Dealing with various business transactions. There was also …
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Mentions a period of 16 days (a sea voyage?); winter at sea; the …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is in Sammanūd. On recto, there are greetings and expressions of longing, "We have not enjoyed a day of …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning commodities such as spikenard (sunbul) and cardamom (al-hāl al-qāqullī), and moringa (al-bān). Mentions Jamāl al-Dīn Abū l-Jāj[...] …
Letter of business from Yosef Ḥakīm to Mikha'el Yiṣḥaq מייארה. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions Tunis (right page, three lines from bottom).
Fragment of a letter. In Hebrew. Late. Only the address is preserved: to [...] Ashqar. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Petition from Abū ʿImrān, probably in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. The document concerns Abū l-ʿIzz al-Qazzāz and Hibatallāh and a convoluted case …
Very long letter dated ca. 1100, issued by the two judges of the capital in the name of the Nagid Mevorakh, in which a circuit …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Upper right piece. The sender seems to be rebuking the addressee. Headed by Proverbs 1:7 (יראת ייי ראשית דעת …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a Maghribī mercantile letter of the 11th century. The sender congratulates the addressee on the occasion of the marriage of …
Letter from an unidentified Nagid to R. Abraham regarding an insubordinate cantor. Given this shelfmark's prior identification as late and Dotan Arad's attribution of the …
Probably a draft of a petition. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: likely no earlier than 13th century based on handwriting. The text is written …
Fragment of three lines with wide line spacing from a letter in Hebrew to a notable. On verso mentions the name Evyatar ha-Kohen in the …
Letter, probably. Damaged and rubbed. One line reads كل احد شغله والمملوك ما يستطيع(؟).
Business letter to Abū l-[...]. Little of the substance is preserved. Dating: 11th or 12th century. (Information in part from CUDL)