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Letter from Avraham b. Saadya to Moshe b. Avraham (Barhun) al-Taharti in Fustat, who is about to sail from Qayrawan to Jerusalem. The writer wants …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably in Jerusalem or Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: 13 Kislev [4803 AM] = 29 November …
תעתוק אחד
Document in Arabic script. Probably a letter or petition given the opening اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك. There might be a person named Buṭrus named …
אין רשומות קשורות
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic letter with phonetic spellings and rudimentary hanwriting. Abū l-ʿAlā' writes to Maḥāsin al-Ḍāmin (the tax farmer) in אביר (=Abyār?) to inform him that …
Letter to Masliah ha-Kohen Gaon from a woman, the daughter of Abraham the cantor and the wife of Abu 'l-Ma`ali Khalaf b. Harun, describing her …
Recto (secondary use): Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone called "al-ʿozer" (cf. T-S 12.215 (PGPID 3104)); someone's son; notebooks (dafātir); Yaʿqūb; …
Letter recording commodity transactions, including the purchase of wheat. Mentions a food shortage and rise in prices "and we are in a massive crisis because …
Letter from Yosef b. David b. Yeshaʿyahu mentioning a suftaja that he had received from Nahray b. Nissim, which he reports as follows: "I received …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr M[...] b. Saʿīd. In Arabic script. Mentions children being healthy. Quite faded. Needs examination.
Letter covering family matters – [dated June 29 1923] – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 170) – in Hebrew. (information translated from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter to a certain Berakhot. The hand looks familiar from the circle of Eliyyahu the Judge (early 13th …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). There are greetings for Ḥalfon's wife Sitt Naʿīm. …
Address of a letter to Meʾir Ben-Naʿim (fl. 1785-1825 CE) in Cairo, from someone in Damietta (קפוטקיא). One line is also preserved on verso.
Fragment (top) of a letter to [...] b. Menaḥem ha-Levi ‘Av Bet Din of the House of Meeting (שלבית הועד).' On parchment. (Information from CUDL …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter to the community of Qalyūb. Written and signed by Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim (active 1213–38 CE). The whole paper is preserved, but the text is …
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script.
Letter in Ladino from Sidon from Joseph b. Joyya and Masʿūd Bunan to Abraham Monson and Judah Aseo in Cairo concerning community financial matters. Dated …
A letter testifies that the marriage payment was returned to the bride's family and she is now permitted to marry another and the divorce is …
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A 'thank you' letter to Ezra the Karaite
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyub, to Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Hebrew. After a poem in praise in the Gaon …
Letter of condolence addressed to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ (1127–39).
Letter, poetic, contains mostly blessings, ending 'to our fourth (= fourth of the yeshiva) rabbi son [of ...],' that is, Masliah Gaon. ENA 2806.5–7 are …
Letter from Shemuel b. Eli Gaʾon, Baghdad, addressing community members and asking them to welcome Shemuel b. Shelomo ha-Kohen from Ashkenaz, who was forced to …
Informal note. In the name of the wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī. Instructing Abū l-ʿAlāʾ to meet with Eliyyahu the Judge and deal with the sale …
IB II, 71. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid al-Kull), in …
[lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]
Your distinguished letter, my lord, arri…
An appeal to the Karaite community of 'New City' (עיר חדשה) which is likely "Nowe Miasto" in modern-day Poland. This fragment's provenance ties back to …
Letter of appeal for charity from Avraham b. Yitro of Damascus (al-Dimashqī). He opens with lengthy Hebrew blessings, then describes his sufferings (poverty, dependents, capitation …
Fragment of a letter in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh concerning the disagreement about the Jewish community's leadership in Ashkelon. Describes how a …
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 …
Mostly effaced note specifying sums of money. Accounts on verso. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter from 'Ayyash b. Sadaqa in Fustat to Barhun b. Moshe Tāhartī of Qayrawan in Alexandria. Dating: 11th century.
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וגלילי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן מצר מסתהל מרחשון כתמה אללה עלינא ועל…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a basket or container (qafaṣ), 550 dirhams, and balances (mawāzīn). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter from Iṣḥaq b. David b. Sughmār to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, mid 11th century. The writer asks Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī to purchase for …
A letter to Shmuel the teacher
Small fragment, maybe from a letter. Yemeni hand. Probably recycled in a bookbinding. Mentions Yosef b. Yehuda al-Kohen and at least one other name.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. Mentions [Kāti]b al-ʿArab; a matter that was only resolved by bribing one of the eunuchs; the Nagid's …
Recto: the ending of a letter, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, likely to the Nagid Avraham (Maimonides) (see verso margin), mentioning R. Yehuda …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Many of the phrases are legible but the overall content is obscure. Mentions Abū ʿAlī Ṣemaḥ (ابو علي صمح) several …
Letter from Hassun b. Yiṣḥaq in Alexandria to Yahya b. Ismail in Fustat. The sender inquires about a shipment of tin sent to the addressee. …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1822 CE (the 36th day of Matmonim = the counting of the Omer, Iyyar 5582) from Moshe ben Naʿim to …