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Letter from Saadya Ha-Ḥaver, Hebron, to Evyatar Gaon, Fustat, beginning of 1082. The sender has been sick for two months, and "all the elders of …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to [...] Abū ʿImrān. Mentions the intercalation of the calendar and something the sender intended to do before he fell …
תעתוק אחד
Letter addressed to a "father." In Arabic script. The addressee's son is be sick (واما ما تريد علمه ان ولدك ضعيف). Somebody else (Qasīm?) is …
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 9 lines are preserved. The tone is urgent (...جواب الكتاب سرعة فيالله عليك...). Mentions that the boy Abū l-Wafāʾ has …
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Recto with address on verso (secondary use): Letter probably in the hand of of Abū Zikrī b. Eliyyahu. Opens with expressions of longing. Then conveys …
דיון אחד
Family letter, partly in Hebrew and partly in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting seems to be that of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan (possibly making this one …
Letter from Najm [...] al-Muʿallim the brother-in-law of Kamāl b. Yūsuf, in Fustat, to his 'brother' the cantor Musāfir ha-Bavli, in Alexandria. Spellings are eccentric. …
Mercantile letter, probably by a Maghribī trader of the 11th century, probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mawhūb b. ʿAmmār was present with …
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 …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. The writer excuses himself from attending in person on account of the illness of a female slave (ll. 7–8). Verso: …
Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning that the addressee recovered (naqahtu) from an illness. Also mentions Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm [al-Q?]ābisī.
Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is typical to the 13th century, and is probably that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Missing only the first couple lines. The writer mentions exchanges of goods (ll.2–3); he has sent a dinar for someone's …
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اسل الله قرب الاجتماع على الاحوال السارة بمنه ولطفه ومما اعلمك اطال الله بقاك ان قد انفذت [اليك
الثوب والشعير ربعهم(وبعتهم/…
2 תעתוקים
On verso there is a letter draft from Barakāt b. Bū l-Faraj = Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Maḥāsin, mentioning his sadness at hearing the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Business note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the arrival of the merchants and a request that the addressee write something in his …
Letter in which the writer complains about his financial state. The sender gives advice to the addressee about leaving some place and taking his childrens' …
Letter to [... b.] Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business issues, mentioning commodities such as gum and walnuts. Containing an order of Abbadani mats, which were …
Letter with a special request from the addressee to report about his illness. [An assumption that he was ill after not having heard from him …
Letter of Benayahu b. Musa, an Alexandrian from Maghribi origin, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The letter contains severe complaints on the local Alexandrian …
בשמך רחמ
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם סלאמתה
וסעאדתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר כאן קד בלגנא אן מולאי אלשיך לחקה וגע
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Letter sent from Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein describes it as a lovely family letter praising the town for its opportunities to make a living …
Letter from the future Gaon Daniel b. ʿAzarya, in al-Mahdiyya, to the leader of the Babylonian community Sahlān b. Ibrāhīm (aka Abū ʿAmr Sahlān b. …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Recto: letter to Maimonides with his handwritten reply on verso (see separate record). The writer states that he has acquired a rudimentary knowledge of philosophy …
Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid [Mevorakh] b. Saʿadya. Very faded. Refer to illnesses (amrāḍ. . . maraḍan. . .). Needs further examination. Reused on …
Note from a communal official probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides, requesting guidance regarding distribution of funds. Mentions the shammash, the gabbay, and the ḥazzan. Most …
Letter from someone, probably in Barqa, to his or her "father" the judge Mūsā b. ʿImrān (or else this Mūsā is simply mentioned in the …
Letter addressed to a sister. In Arabic script. The handwriting is quite beautiful and distinctive. It seems that a later scribe reused a lot of …
Letter/report in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a formal layout, with slightly widened space between the lines. This is the lower left corner of what must have …
Family letter in Arabic script. Mostly crossed out with copious squiggles. Mentions the illness of the addressee's daughter (ولا تسال ما على قلبنا من . …
Family letter, mentioning the addressee’s brothers and mother. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions numerous items of clothing and textiles. Written during an epidemic (wa-l-zamān zamān maraḍ, 3 lines from the bottom of recto). The …
Part of a letter with holiday greetings; writer describes his illness and explains that he is spending the holiday in the house of his brother’s …
Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Refers to someone's illness (r2), and evidently the sender was also sick because God sent him health …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a return from somewhere; Purim; the capitation tax (al-jāliya); a severe illness (marḍa shadīda); entering Fustat; Sammanūd; "my hand and …
Letter fragment (two pieces comprising the lower left corner). The sender mentions that he was sick with a fever and cold and nobody (or nobody …
Portion of a letter, or copy of a letter, written on a folio in the format of a literary text. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: …
Fragment from a private letter. On recto there is the end of a legal query concerning an alley and a qāʿa and a majlis. This …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The sender has been sick. Not much else is preserved.
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 …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mostly about personal/family matters but also some business issues. The letter is probably from a man to his brother …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy. Around 1063. The writer informs the addressee about Nahray b. Nissim’s illness. Seems …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתק[ר ל ] בקי מן אב יהפך
לשמחה כתמה אללה עלי מולאי באחסן כאת…
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Two fragments. Mentions Abū Ṭālib, a qāḍī with many concerns, and Manṣūr. The …
Letter from a certain Yehosef to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. Written on parchment in a crude Maghribī hand. In Judaeo-Arabic, with ~7 lines of possibly unrelated …