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Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer urges the addressee to help him again with money for rent for the qāʿa where he lives, because his …
אין רשומות קשורות
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the …
Letter from הדוד(?) addressed to a certain Ṭahor. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1220 CE, based on the mention of Eliyyahu the Judge and Avraham Maimonides …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment from the right side of recto. The scribe has a distinctive notched ב. Mentions Muslims; many worries; and greetings …
Recto: Communal/official letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely from the office of the head of the Jews to a local leader. Only scattered words and phrases are …
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דיון אחד
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a certain Elʿazar in honor of his wedding. With a long Hebrew introduction of blessings and praises. The sender …
Letter fragment concerning delayed news and communications from a high-ranking addressee, probably a lower state official. The writer expresses concern for the addressee’s safety and …
תעתוק אחד
Begging letter from a certain Yosef to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, asking him to help him buy clothes. Complains of the cold. On verso there are accounts …
תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Letter from an unidentified man, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 15th century. The sender reports that he …
Description from NLI 577.10/1: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century; this range can probably be narrowed based on the …
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefeẓ to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Elul (Raḥamim) 5569 AM, which is 1809 CE. Needs …
Narrative report in Arabic script. Letter, legal query, or literary? Mentions a Jewish man, perhaps named Yūsuf, who came before a governor (wālī). Then refers …
Business letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen Sijilmāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Wafiyy al-Dawla, Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Farrāsh; Abū l-Maʿālī; the addressee's …
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda in a time of distress, approximately 1030.
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Letter from Bū l-Khayr to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. About the sending of garments and an artisan and other matters. (Information in part from …
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Safed, to Mordekhay Ibn ʿAjla, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Greets numerous …
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 …
Recto (secondary use): Note probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Trying to pawn some books for 20 dirhams so that he can buy …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from the cantor Abū l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to his brother Abū l-Najm Hilāl, presumably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th …
Letter containing a note of congratulations for a marriage contract and wishing the new husband a fertile union, citing the biblical blessing conferred on Ruth …
Small fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be asking for a remedy to administer to a sick person (בשי אן אמן …
Epistolary templates in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mostly various types of letters of condolence (and one side of the folio is headed "taʿziya"). There are also …
Letter from Avraham b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding ships movement from Alexandria to Sicily and back. Mentions several …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה ליב
כלון מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Very damaged small fragment of a letter probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi. Hardly readable.
Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-Ḥusayn Ṣedaqa b. Nissim al-Mukallifī (אלמכלפי ?) in Alexandria. The letter is written on a fragment torn from …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: the cantor Elʿazar b. Yakhin; someone …
Letter fragment in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Mentions: papers (awrāq), riqāʿ, the judge Menaḥem and the son of the judge (Ibn al-Dayyan); dodder …
Letter/petition to a notable in Judaeo-Arabic. Begins with a taqbīl clause in the name of a woman (al-mamlūka tuqabbil al-arḍ) but the inhāʾ is masculine …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic asking politely for some [water?] to drink. Written on a reused Arabic legal document (upper right corner only). There are also pen …
Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides in which he instructs Fakhr al-Dawla regarding a sum of money, nine dinars, still owed, and what to …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Ismaʿīl, in Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1060 CE. Awaiting further description - see Goitein's transcription linked …
2 תעתוקים
Recto: Letter draft in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing his trademark phrase "when I had turned toward health." He says many …
Note in Arabic script. Mentions a maqṭaʿ cloth, but maybe also materia medica such as tamarind. Needs further examination. Information in part from Goitein's note …
Letter in Arabic script. From a (Muslim) spiritual authority who is firing a would-be disciple. The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left lower piece). Mentions Abū l-Najm. Goitein's index card says "perhaps to Nahray (b. Nissim)" but it's unclear on what basis. …
Poetical opening of a letter to the Nagid Mevorakh (Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, 1079-1111 CE). (Information from CUDL) On verso there are jottings in Arabic script …