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Probably a letter fragment in Arabic.
אין רשומות קשורות
Two fragments of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Quite faded. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Letter to Moshe ben Hini ‘the lesser’, mentioning business affairs and people including Abraham Leon (c. 17th century). (Information from CUDL)
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תעתוק אחד
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks Abu l-Ḥasan to give the (medicinal) syrup that he kindly cooked to the young boy for delivery. (Information from Goitein's index …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Shemuel b. Ibrahīm, in Fustat, to his father Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Shabbetay (aka Shubbāṭ), in Palermo. Fragment: upper part of the letter …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Too faded to understand any of the content. (Information in part from CUDL)
Note reporting on commercial activities. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions oil (zayt) and spices (? asqāṭ) and three ships soon to set sail for Sicily, "and you …
12369.7 and 8 are drafts of several Judaeo-Arabic letters and documents by Yisrael al-Gevili (אלגוילי) writing in Cairo it seems circa 1755/6 CE (the lower …
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Large, well-preserved, and essentially unstudied. Sender and addressee are unidentified; the sender is probably writing from Ifrīqiyya. …
דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is probably Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, an India trader and shipowner (nākhudā) known from documents dating from 1131/32 to c.1150 CE. …
וארגע . . . . . []
לאן אלממלוך יעאזי חואיג . . []
כנת מסתריח אלסר בעץ שי []
אלעטר יחתאג אלמכנה אן אלדורה ונרגו מן אל[לה]
חמיד…
Family and/or business letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 12th or early 13th century. The sender is sick and throws up …
Mainly copious pen trials. Verso also has drafts of phrases from a letter written in an elevated register.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, mentioning various commodities including flax. Dating: ca. 1064 CE. Also mentions a …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender cites his debts in Fustat as an excuse for his delay. Refers to Abū Zikrī ha-Kohen (perhaps the well-known trader …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on linguistic features. Deals with various logistics of comings and goings of letters and people. Mentions Rashīd/Rosetta.
Beginning and address of a letter from Tahor b. Avraham to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Ṭāhir. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Fragment (top part only). Mostly formulaic expressions of deference (taqbīl) …
Letter or petition, probably. Small fragment. The text on verso is in a different hand and is written at 90 degrees and might be a …
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue fragment of a letter from Saadya the Head of the Court from Egypt to Shlomo Abusa'ada in Zafet, …
Late letter in Hebrew with multiple signatures including Matitya b. Binyamin Zeʾev Ashkenazi, Yaʿacov Mizraḥī, addressed to the congregation of upper and lower Amadiya (in …
Letter/petition addressed to Fakhr al-Dawla. Fragment (upper right corner). Begins يخدم مجلس الحضرة السامية الاجلية العالية . . . ينهي الى جلالها . . . …
Informal note addressed to a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is a draft of recto. The addressee is asked to go to the sender's …
Letter in Arabic addressed to Ibrahim ʿAdda/ʿĀdāh in Cairo, from Yūsuf and Fransīs Zakkār. Dated 14 December 1802 (18 Sha'ban 1217). See AIU XII.82, another …
To his excellency, our dear friend, the most noble Muʿallim Ibrāhīm ʿĀdāh the revered, may God the exalted preserve and keep him.
After …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Recto: Remnants of an Arabic-script document. Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly asking the addressee to do something because the writer cannot. Begins "waṣala al-amr …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Fustat, ca. 1025. This letter describes a difficult and very brief visit to Jerusalem …
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Faded fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The first letters of ~16 lines are preserved along with the one-line …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, no earlier than ca. 14th century. Mentions the name Yaʿaqov. On verso reused for accounts. Also reused for various …
Small fragment of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions being preoccupied, then, "your mother went to convey your greetings to the wife of Sibāʿ, and …
Verso (original use): Lower part of a family letter in Arabic script, with greetings to several qāḍīs (ʿImād al-Dīn, Zayn al-Dīn, and Tāj al-Dīn), al-Ḥājj …
Fol. 2: Letter in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209) addressed to [...] b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen, a member of …
Letter fragment sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer tried 2 or 3 times to travel, but it was impossible owing to the …
Small fragment of a poetic letter or panegyric addressed to a notable who is also a kohen.
Un-conserved. Fragment of a letter contains personal and business issues. Probably 13th century.
Lower part of a letter, in which members of a local community object to a muqaddam imposed on them. (Information from Goitein's typed texts.)
Small, darkened piece of parchment, with phrases both from a letter (top) and from a legal document (bottom).
Draft of a letter/petition in Arabic script appealing for help from "mawlāy al-rayyis" on behalf of a "cut-off woman" (mara munqaṭiʿa) whose husband left her …
Letter of introduction, signed by Shemuel b. Avraham, in an unknown location, on behalf of Yosef b. Ḥelbo, addressed to a Jewish community (לכבודכם, although …
Letter from Ṣuriel Dayyan, in Tripolis (Greece? or Libya?), to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Romance words. Dating: Last quarter of …
Letter by a father to his son, complaining about the son's failure to visit the family, urging him to visit, and requesting a blanket and …
One side: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter to "my brother," mentioning [al-]Mahdiyya. Other side: Probably the original letter or the response in a different …