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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved. Mentions dirhams, a place, Umm Ibrāhīm, the term "taʿzīl" (a retreat as in T-S …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Very faded. Mentions Jerusalem and commercial goods.
Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, greeting a dignitary and his two sons, including Ḥayyim ha-Sar ha-Adir he-Ḥakham. Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning something …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a letter of appeal for charity.
Letter. Little preserved of content. Saffron, silk and copper mentioned.
תעתוק אחד
Scribal exercises and copious jottings in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. In the margin of verso there is the draft of an informal note in …
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning the arrival of a letter from the addressee. Probably a draft. Starting to complain about ill treatment by …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya to Nahray b. Nissim.
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך
מן דמסיס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך מן תניס סאלתך
תנצר בקיה מא תבקא לי…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter from Yehuda b. Saadya to the leader of the community of Sahrajt demanding that the case of a widow, the sister of a prominent …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
מכתב מאת יוסף בן עזרא ואברהם בן מֻעְטִי אל חלפון על כוח אויב המתקרב וסכנת הנסיעה תִלִמְסַאן, אחרי פורים [דתתצ"ח], שהוא 27 בפברואר 1138 גויטיין …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very neat hand. The writer complains about something (having to wander abroad?) because he writes that he counts whatever it is …
Letter in Ladino. Mentions a certain Shabbetay ha-Levi in l.8 on the right bifolium and in line 10 of the left bifolium. Long and well …
IB VI, 24. Letter from Makhlūf b. Musa, Alexandria, to Abu Yiṣḥaq Avraham b. Yahya Fasi, Fustat. The main part of the letter is an …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter fragment (upper right corner) in Arabic script. The addressee may be called "al-qāʾid" (l. 2). Mentions Umm Abū ʿAbdallāh (l. 3). Refers to purchasing …
Letter of recommendation for a needy widow with two children from Damascus who, on recommendation of a letter from the muqaddam of Ascalon, had received …
Openning of a letter to a notable. The name remains blank to be added later. AA
Letter concerning a request from a noble lady to lend the writer decorative hangings. The owner of the draperies is described as lending out curtains …
Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1065 CE. Fragment (right side only). Discusses: …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Informal note from ʿAbd al-Karīm to R. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps Mamluk-era; Yemeni hand? The sender asks the addressee to urgently send his grandmother …
לא תכליהא תקעד וכתבה
עבד אלכרים
Letter from Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi to Moshe 'the trustee of the merchants' (Neʾeman ha-Soḥarim). Goitein's index card indicates that the sender is not identical …
דיון אחד
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably mercantile. The name Mūsā appears in the address.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Mentions the owner of the boat (ṣāḥib al-markab) and Alexandria.
Petition from Muḥammad b. [...]. Small fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on the hand. Striking calligraphy.
Verso: Maimonides’ reply is gracious but firm: he is exhausted, frail, and ill, and has no time or energy to meet with the writer. He …
Verso (original use): Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (he signs Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān) to al-shaykh al-rashīd Abū l-Faḍl. In Arabic script, with the last line …
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 …
Letter from a man to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1238–52 CE, as it has to do with the removal of David I Maimonides …
Verso: Extremely faded letter in Hebrew, with wide line spacing. Portions of four lines preserved. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry for a wedding.
IB I, 32. Letter from Nahray b. Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to a certain Abū Saʿīd. Fragment (upper part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late …
[Introductory phrases.]
…I have received a letter from Sheikh
Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd Ibn al-Lebdi, who has also sent a memorandum.
I have …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Bottom of a letter addressed at least in part to a woman. In Arabic script. "... and I will come to Cairo. O Ḥidhq! Whtever …
Address of a letter sent to Fustat to Eliyyahu the judge (beginning of 13th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Daniel b. Ṭoviyya to a family member, possibly his elder brother (the Arabic address on verso mentions the name Abū l-Faḍl). In Judaeo-Arabic, …
Earlier document: Letter from a certain Abū Saʿd (aka Seʿadya) to three addressees: David, someone else (Avraham?), and someone called only al-Ḥasid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly making excuses for not having come to the addressee. On verso: "Fakhr al-Dawla," perhaps the addressee. In which case the …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or early 13th century. Referring to sums of dinars; somebody who bought goods, sold them all at a loss …
Letter from a nightwatchman (?) to a dignitary requesting help. He is still owed 1 1/4 dinar from the year that ended and is afraid …
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 by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Opens with blessings for Yom Kippur. He thanks Peraḥya for …