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Short note to Muwaffaq, accompanied by quantities of “hindi” and “lādan” (labdanum), instructing the addressee to sell them. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
A letter from Avraham b. Levi to Shmuel b. Ishaq Luzki
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter in which a man who calls himself the father of the cantor who is "sick, poor, and naked" asks a prominent physician to arrange …
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Isḥāq b. Mubārak to (his brother?) Abū Naṣr [...] b. al-Mubārak al-jahbadh, in al-Maḥalla. A basmala and the opening four lines are preserved …
Verso: Upper part of a letter. The handwriting looks like that of Berakhot b. Shemuel. There are copious introductory blessings in Hebrew followed by the …
דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century. Mentions many greetings. Names include: Mūsā; Yehuda; Sulaymān al-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī; Abū Naṣr b. Sālim; Hārūn; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ …
Extremely fragmentary text, mentions "ilā l-Qāhira", probably part of a letter.
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תוכלת עלי אללה
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עיך ותאיידך וסעאדתך ונעמך
[מן] אלמסתקר מסתהל שהר אלול ערפך אללה ברכתה וימ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Likely a faded letter containing blessings for the addressee. Needs examination.
Fol. 4: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. One of the addressees is Abū l-Baqāʾ. Mentions Makārim and Abū Saʿ[d or Saʿīd]. Consists mainly of …
Strongly worded circular letter sent by Moses Maimonides (ca. 1168–1204 CE in Egypt) to the country-side community, soliciting them to contribute to the ransom of …
Fragment of an 11th-century Maghribī mercantile letter, or account, or letter containing an account. Mentions Ismāʿīl b. Jabbār, al-Mahdiyya, and a barqalū (a mid-size bale).
Small fragment of a letter or legal document. Mentioning "our master Shemuel," i.e., Shemuel b. Ḥananya (נגיד] עם ייי צבאות). Mentions ten daftars. (Information in …
Beginning of a letter with rhymed prose introduction. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic text, list?
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 the wife of Wahb, Tiberias, to her brother Khalfa b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭabīb b. al-Ṭabarī, Fustat, eleventh century. She dictated the letter to her …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Hebrew letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Zeraḥya known as Faryol (?), a physician, to Avraham Talmid (known from other letters, fl. ca.1600). The first part of …
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 …
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. The addressee is called [...] al-Muwaffaqī [...] al-Malikī(?). Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferent, asking for some sort …
Letter of appeal for assistance from a dignitary. Begins in Hebrew, including a Hebrew taqbīl (העבד מנשק . . . . ידיו ורגליו), and ends …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim.
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה פי אלכיר בקאך וכאן לך ומעך ולי וחאפץ פי גמיע
אמורך מן אלסכנדריה ליב כלון מן שהר טאבת ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכת מא
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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Formal note, in Arabic script. Probably in answer to a question "innaka saʾltanī". Mentions a strong vow "bi-akhaṣṣ al-yamīn".
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Refers to a decision of "the elders of the Jews." Legible phrases: لهما من . . . …
Trader's letter concerned with the sale of commodities, in which the addressee is asked to send 'the boy' to Abu l-Hasan. Judeo Arabic. Only part …
A letter of a man identified by Bareket as Sahlān b. Abraham to Segan ha-Yeshiva (Aaron the cantor), we read that “when the complaining of …
Letter from the judge Avraham b. [Mevorakh] ha-Kohen, the head of the Jewish community in al-Maḥalla, to the Nagid/Raʾīs al-Yahūd Mevorakh b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew …
The Rosh ha-Seder of the Yeshiva invites Saadya b. Khalaf to attend his sermon in the synagogue. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter from Abū Is[ḥāq?] to his 'father' Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), the addressee's …
Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Perahya b. Muʾammal, in Fustat, spring 1039.
Letter from Moshe Zussman, in Cairo, to his mother Rachel b. Avraham Zussman of Prague, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew and Yiddish.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. The second line is the most legible from the opening lines of the letter: ו]צול אל אחמאל סלמה וכאן. Part …
Recto: Letter from Abū Sahl Levi to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. He has sent: parchments (ruqūq), scissors (miqaṣṣ), a belt (zunnār), a razor …
Letter from the people of the Palestine Yeshiva to the community (qahal) of Fustat, mentioning Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1080 CE.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Official letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids addressed to "the community." Headed by an "emet" with a long …
Very faded and damaged Hebrew letter addressed to a community. Most of the text preserved contains poetic Hebrew verses. On verso only part of the …
Informal note addressed to a certain Bayān. In Arabic script, written in a crude hand (reminiscent of BL OR 5566B.1). It is a belligerent message …
Letter fragment? In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that some people say about someone "that he came to live among us to rule/preside over us" (וקאלו תקד . …
Verso (original use): Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Includes the phrase "anā al-ghāʾib wa-anta al-ḥāḍir." The sender set sail on a boat/ship (وكنت قد اقلعت …
Letter sent by Yaʿaqov b. Nissim to his brother Abu al-Khayr. The letter contains an account for raw Susa cloth, sent from Fustat to another …
Letter addressed to Sitt Shaʿl, in Dār al-Nāqa, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. …
Calligraphic letter sent by a young cantor, Avraham b. Nissim, possibly to his brother. The sender was away from home successfully seeking an appointment in …