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Letter in Arabic script. Maybe from a parent to a son, with ethical exhortations. "Treat people as you would like (to be treated), and be …
אין רשומות קשורות
Business letter from Avraham b. Farah in Alexandria to Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhun al-Tāhartī in Fustat. The letter mentions a shipment of cosmetic oils, …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Yeḥezqel, unknown location, to Avraham ha-Melammed, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to find out from Abū l-Bahā' if …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
IB V, 16. Upper margin and address from a letter by Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Mentions a …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Mardūkh b. Mūsā in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. (c. July 1048 CE). Mardūkh expresses outrage as he reports on the …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: end of the 10th or beginning of the 11th century. From Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Abitur, in Spain (either Merida …
דיון אחד
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Letter fragment addressed to a certain ḥaver in al-Maḥalla. The surviving piece of the letter itself is in elegant Hebrew, and the address is in …
Fragment of a communal letter, maybe a circular sent by the Gaʾon ("Rosh ha-Yeshiva" is all that is legible on the front side). Part of …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Seems to be a private letter but is written in formal/deferential terms ("... jamaʿa al-shaml bi-khidmatih...") and most of the …
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תעתוק אחד
Family letter. In Arabic script. Likely from a woman. The sender and "the girl" (al-ṣaghīra) have arrived safely in the Fayyūm (l. 5). They are …
Faded letter from Eli b. 'Amram the cantor to a notable named Abu [...] b. Masliah, asking him to assist David b. Yeshu'a ha-Gizbar to …
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the last two lines in Arabic script. Elegant handwriting. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Fragment (right side only). Mentions …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with business matters. The market has ground to a halt (wāqif) in the writer's location, "neither coarse nor fine can …
Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Opens with discussing various transactions and orders, including for a kind of sugar (sukkar murammal), myrtle (marsīn), …
Letter of instruction to ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas to cash from Abū l-Faḍl Netanel Ibn ha-Shofeṭ 18 dinars due to one Seʿadya and to prepare '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 …
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya (in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1051 CE. He is worried for his status and thinks that people will prefer Yosef …
تاييده
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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 …
Draft of a note written on the back of a page of Hebrew poetry. Begins with the glyph. Then, "Know that from the day I …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to a certain Rabbenu Avraham "the diadem of [...]." Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that …
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Ḥakīm, the physician of the amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The writer seems to …
Small fragment from a letter addressed to a dignitary (תפ]ארת השרים [...]ת הנשיאות]). Seems to be in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Only a …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an 11th-century Maghribī commercial letter. The document is fully preserved including the address on verso, from [...]mūn b. [...] to Abū …
Extremely faded letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. The overall tone is distressed. When the content starts to …
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli. Quite faded. Contains the intriguing phrase "living between Muslims and Christians …
Recto: Two lines from an official letter. In Arabic script. Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Letters of recommendation, probably. For Barukh Löb (here also called Barukh Lion). Written in Mainz. Presumably the language is German. Dated: 30th and 31st August …
Letter from Kanz al-Dawla to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Introduces the bearer, "the qāʾid Ḥasan, son of the qāʾid Shujāʿ al-Dawla (Courage of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Recto: Fragment of a letter or letter draft in Arabic script. Might also be literary: اما بعد كان الذي . . . وما اعلمه ان …
Nearly complete letter from Muḥammad al-Jamāʿī(?) to Muḥammad ʿĀbidīn. Late. Needs examination.
Calligraphic letter by Mubarak b. Hillel to Abu Sa`id ibn al-`Afsi al-`Attar, dealing with business matters.
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Mahdiyya) to his nephew Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. Describes a dispute between the sender and another merchant, Abū Yaʿqūb. Mentions …
Verso, with address on recto (original use): Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel. NB: The joins were made by Moshe Yagur. Several additional fragments were …
Letter fragment in Arabic. Only the opening is preserved. The other fragment is literary.
Possibly a letter. Faded script underneath the top one - needs examination.
IB II, 4. Letter from Amram b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim requesting to forward a letter to Hassan b. Bundar. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Fragment of a petition addressed to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1544 Seleucid, which is 1232/33 CE. The names of four senders appear …
Begging letter to a cantor together with the refusal in reply, mentioning Abū l-Faḍāʾil. (Information from CUDL.) (This is not quite clear; it appears that …