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Short business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. With a request to send a reply with the same mail courier (fayj) and mentioning …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment containing praise for a notable: אבירי וטפסרי וראשי . . . עטרת ראשינו . . . הצור . . . אמיריה נקצצה . …
אין רשומות קשורות
Informal note written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to 'al-Kohen.' The addressee must not hand over the garment that 'the Jew' bought from …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th century. The name of the addressee may be Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Saʿd …
letter to a R. Shabbetai, from R. Abraham from Narbona.
A hybrid letter/account beginning, "My master, may God extend your life, you asked me for a 'noble' account (ḥisāb karīm) but I could not find …
Letter from Ibrāhīm, Yosef b. Hillel, and Moshe to Yehuda ha-Rav. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 13th century. Asking to have some produce sent …
תעתוק אחד
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to 'mawlāy al-dayyān Abū [...].' Mentions Fustat and selling something.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with a remnant of the address (mentioning Fustat) and other notations in Arabic script on verso ("the messenger shall be paid 3 …
Letter to Avraham (judging by the formulae, most likely Avraham Maimonides). (Information from the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit via FGP).
Letter from Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Algiers (ארגיל), to Daniel Cafsuto (דניאל קאפסוטו) and perhaps his son (? the word looks like ומשרתו) Shemuel Cafsuto. In …
Letter rom ‘your servant Seʿadya’; mostly consisting of a long Hebrew introduction, with some Judaeo-Arabic in the margin. On verso there is Psalms 78:62–65: (Information …
Letter fragment addressed "to the esteemed members of the holy community who live in [...]." The paper is almost entirely preserved, but the text is …
דיון אחד
The main text is a long list of greetings, probably originally appended to a letter: Recto, left side: Rabbenu Moshe (this is Maimonides); his brother …
Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa …
Business letter sent from Tripoli, Lebanon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions terrible economic depression in the Levant and asks the addressee to send …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as Gaʾon.
Letter from Yosef Binyamin, in Rashīd, to Shemuel Samḥūn(?), in Fustat/Cairo. A certain Yiṣḥaq adds a postscript with his greetings. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 18th …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing mainly with business matters. The sender is sorting through accounts (e.g., "I checked my ledger (daftarī) and did not find anything."). …
Letter, probably. Content unclear. Three lines are preserved, and a few words in the margin.
'תבוא יד ותקחני בציצת ראשי': מכתב מחורז מאת חלפון אל הר"י אבן מיגש ספרד [כנראה חודש תמוז או אב, שנת 1138] זהו שריד גדול של …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, fragment containing right margin (angle parking) and right part of some lines. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions clove (qurunful). Greetings to …
Recto: Formulary for an elegant letter of condolence in Hebrew upon the death of a woman (described as a model wife, citing verses from Proverbs …
Letters dealing with communal matters surrounding the dispute between Shelomo b. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, glued together and reused for the epistle of Sherira …
Letter from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Sulaymān to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm al-Amshāṭī al-ʿAṭṭar, in the perfumers' market, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The top of …
Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef, Avraham Ibn Yijū’s nephew, to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Introduced with Hebrew citations from Psalms 122:1-2 and 133:1 (mid-12th …
Correspondence of Moshe Gaster. There is a set of learned queries from Israel Isbitsky, 23 Lucas St, Commercial Rd, dated 1908 CE. There is a …
Small fragment from a letter, probably. The hand looks like that of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions the purchase of a censer with …
Late commercial letter from Yaʿaqov Za..a(?) to Isaac regarding the shipping of goat wool. Mentions a number of individuals, including Cosimo (קוזמו), Simon (סימון), Moshe …
Letter from Khalaf b. Nāṣir to Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu). In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting that he send quickly the pair of anklets (al-zawj …
כלף בן נאצר
בשמ' רחמ'
כתאבי אלי סידי ומולאי אלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל
אללה בקאך …
May (this) come to Baraka't son of the judge, from the one grateful to him
Khalaf b. Na's'ir.
In your n(ame), Oh Mercif(ul).
My letter…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Possibly a fragment of a late letter in Hebrew, and maybe some Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "woolen clothing", possibly being sent aboard "a ship of Venice" but …
Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Business letter to Zikrī, mentioning Ibrahim Ibn al-Fawsalī (אלפוסלי) (?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th or 15th century. Asks the addressee to obtain something …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic, likely the end of a letter (refers to וחסן עאקבתה).
Large fragment of an interesting family letter in the handwriting of Toviyya b. Eli addressed to Avraham b. Saadya and another recipient. Mentions a tax-farmer …
Hebrew document(s) of some kind, dated Adar 5579 AM = 1819 CE. Probably epistolary writing exercises.
Letter of appeal for charity. A needy man from Qayrawan had applied for assistance from his relative, the esteemed Ifrīqiyyan merchant and scholar, Nahray b. …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
One of two drafts (the other is Moss. Ia,7) of a curious and obsequious letter from a man whose handwriting is known, apparently to a …
Verso: Letter of appeal for charity from Umm Abū l-Khayr to R. Yiṣḥaq (probably Yiṣḥaq b. Sason). (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). Provides updates on receipt of prior letters; mentions 'al-dār al-saʿīda' and a qāḍī. Greetings to …
Beginning of a letter sent to Nahray b. Nissim. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that his cousin (ibn khālatī) Berakhot has arrived and conveyed the news that the addressee came down with …
Letter of appeal from an unknown man, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The writer had lived with Eliyyahu's …