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Recto: Letter probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father-in-law al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (beginning only). The sender's wife is very sick. …
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal …
אין רשומות קשורות
Upper part of a letter from Musa b. Yusuf b. Nissim, possibly to Ishaq al-Nafusi (line 8), who had written regarding the wife of his …
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov the judge, whom he calls his son. He writes about some small business matters …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter sent from Fustat by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan to Sitt Rayhan, expressing concern about her health (r3–11, v20, address), dealing with a house of …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower part only). In lines 2–3 there is a report on the illness of a woman, who is now doing …
Letter addressed to al-shaykh Abū l-[...] al-Yahūdī in Fustat. From his family members (maybe a brother?) outside of the capital. They urge him to come …
Informal note addressed to 'the brother' R. Zekharya. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Is this Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writing to Abū Zikrī?) He asks him not to detain …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter from Yefet b. Shemuel to Moshe ha-Sar b. Peraḥya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding the affairs of scholars and inquiring about the needs of a little …
Letter sent from Alexandria by a father (Manṣūr b. Sālim) to his son, who had run away to the army, trying to bring him back. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Verso: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. He has arrived safely (presumably from Fustat to Qalyub). He tells the addressee to take …
Letter from ʿEli b. Hillel to his brother-in-law Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer opens with expressions of mourning for the death of a …
Letter to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee had left when she was ill (marīḍa). The writer mentions Sulaymān, whom they had not seen for …
Two fragments of a letter probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to the cantor Meʾir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th …
Recto, with address on verso: Letter from Saʿdān b. Ḥ[...] to his 'brother' Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Yiṣḥaq(?). The addressee had sent a letter reporting …
Recto: Letter from a teacher to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 11th or early 12th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Bishr …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Fragmentary (horizontal piece from the middle). Mentions a woman going up to Fustat and litigating …
Family letter in Hebrew. May be in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. The writer sends wishes for the recovery of a woman in …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic of a man to his social superior mentioning that a Nasi asked the writer's father to travel with him to Alexandria. The …
Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile. Mentions something coming from Gaza and possibly the commodity tartar (or Mongols? al-tatar). "As for the woman who came, …
Letter fragment probably from ʿEli b. Hillel to his brother-in-law Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (identification is tentative, based on comparison with T-S 13J19.5). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions …
Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Shemuel to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Sitt ʿAnbar is very sick, and she has developed a delusion …
Letter from Benaya b. Mūsā to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. The purpose of the letter is to explain why the writer never …
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script …
Letter of condolence from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe to his brother-in-law Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Hilāl (=ʿEli b. Hillel) al-Ḥazzan al-Baghdādī. Headed by 'בשמ' רחמ and …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. From a woman. Mentions expenses; "crazy" people (min nisāʾ wa-rijāl majānīn); the treasury (? bayt māl); being prostrated (inṭaraḥt) and "cut-off …
Letter from a man troubled with private and public disasters, including business concerns and his wife’s illness, leading him to write that "Could I find …
Letter previously thought to be from Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Najera, somewhere in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, likely in Lucena. Dating: likely August 1138 CE. …
2 תעתוקים
Letter from Umm Ismāʿīl to Eliyyahu the Judge. Asking him to send her any money left in the collection for the poor. On verso are …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyub, to family members in Fustat. He inquires briefly about commercial dealings before insisting that there is no …
Letter from a woman, probably in Alexandria, to her paternal uncle. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The writer's family, a family of merchants that …
Letter from the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (dated documents 1125-50), in Fustat, to his cousin Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl and his mother, perhaps in Fustat, to his father Abū Naṣr, in Asyūṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Much of the letter is in …
Letter of appeal addressed to a Jewish dignitary (ha-dayyan ha-maskil). The introduction is in Hebrew and the body is in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer prays that …
Letter fragment (lower part) probably from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi in Qalyub to his father in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses sundry small business dealings (in …
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גיר דא פאלפ/א/צל לכם ענדי מן תמן
גמלה אלחואיג אלדי בעתתוהא
לי פי הדי אלגמעה ב [[ונצף]] ולכם
ענדי דרהמין צאר …
Letter from Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, probably in the Levant, to his son Shemuel b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, in New Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Catalogued as …
Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his brother, the physician Abū Zikrī, written in an extremely cursive script. He informs Abū Zikrī that the turban …
Letter sent by a physician from Qalyub, who had opened an office in Fustat, inviting his wife (who is his paternal cousin) to join him …
Letter. From a woman (see lines 13–15), possibly in Bilbays, to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay. Dating: ca. 1240 CE. This letter was likely dictated. …
Recto: Letter from (or written on behalf of) a woman to her son Avraham ('Rabbenu'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 14th century, and …
Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the text block containing 8 …
Recto: Letter from a woman to her son Abū l-Faḍā'il al-Yahūdī al-Bawāridī ('the maker of cooling or cold vegetables') in al-Qamra, Alexandria. She describes a …
Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, Fustat, third page only (numbered at the top). Dated: Sunday, 5 Nisan 1453 Sel. (April …
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4 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter sent by Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen, writing from the countryside to his cousin, the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1122–50, based on the …
Family letter written by Abū l-Faraj to Abu ʿImran in Fustat at the time of R. Ḥananel (early 13th century). The writer reports that he …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a woman, maybe to her son. She mentions that she has been sick (כונת וגעה) and worried (משגולה אלקלב) because she …
Letter from Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, in Tripoli (Syria), to Nahray b. Nissim. The letter mentions Nahray's pilgrimage to Jerusalem and shipments of emblic myrobalan and …
Letter from Abū Yūsuf, unknown location, to Rabbi Elʿazar (body of the letter) who is likely identical with Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Muʿallima (address), presumably in …
Calligraphic letter sent to a notable, possibly the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya, asking him to help Natan ha-Kohen, the legal representative of the writer's family, …