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Note or legal document mentioning a young man who is sick, a tailor, various kinds of textiles and garments and a certain Yosef Ibn al-Maqdisī. …
תעתוק אחד
Tiny fragment of a legal document mentioning Ḥiyya ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Ṣūr. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 16th century, based on hand, language, and surname (there is a well known Avraham ben Ṣūr …
Alms list in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly women, children, and/or sick people. JRL SERIES A 293 mentions the sister of Abū l-Faraj b. al-Munajjim; al-ʿAkkāwiyya; the ḥazzab …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Includes learned legalistic discussions. After the beginning of a citation of a legal document, it refers to the death of Abū …
Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) with a 1/4 dinar and gives all …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
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 …
דיון אחד
Fragment of a letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The recipient was ill when the writer departed Fustat.
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: …
Family letter, mentioning the addressee’s brothers and mother. (Information from CUDL)
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 …
Recto: Geomancy castings. May be related to AIU VII.F.32. Includes two questions about the illness of David b. Esther: Is it earthly or from God? …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness (maraḍ) and aṣḥābunā.
Letter from an unidentified man, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 15th century. The sender reports that he …
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 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 to [... b.] Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business issues, mentioning commodities such as gum and walnuts. Containing an order of Abbadani mats, which were …
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 …
Legal document. It seems a bill of sale for a male slave (ghulām) possibly named Jarīr. A (low) sum of 6 dinars is named. The …
Medical recipes for the treatment of liver diseases and stroke.
Letter mainly consisting of business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Tripoli and Cairo. Concludes with a note, "how shall we divide it? Perhaps .... because I …
Letter fragment. Late. In Hebrew. "In this city, nothing is cheap except for bread. . . . 3 ounces of "Ẓefat" are here worth two …
Letter from Eli b. Yakhin, probably from Alexandria, to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Aaron, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding money and payments, including a debt of 50 …
בשרח
כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה סלאמתה וסעאדתה ונעמאה
וכבת באלדל אעדאה ומן אחסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה וכאן לה ומעה ולייא
ונאצרא…
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 in Judaeo-Arabic. Neither sender nor addressee are named. The first half consists of good wishes for the addressee's recovery from illness and the writer's …
2 תעתוקים
Cheque / order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 10 Kislev 1530 Seleucid, which is December 1218 CE. The beadle Abū l-Ṭāhir is to pay the …
Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in slightly broken …
Letter in Arabic script. Likely sent from Jerusalem (since it refers to people "coming up" from al-Ramla this week). Addressed to a woman. The sender …
Formulary or draft of a get-well-soon card. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Very florid.
List of persons on payroll of the community, headed by Sayyiduna al-Nasi, referring, it seems, to the head of the Jews David b. Daniel (ca. …
Note of a person confined to his house owing to illness this evening, requesting a friend to lend him the Book of Creation by Saadya. …
Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Khuḍayr to his brother-in-law in the Fayyūm. Possibly the same handwriting as ENA NS 35.2. The writer has been …
Letter addressed to Eliyya b. Mishaʾel ha-Levi. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "the mighty prince" (ha-Sar ha-Adir) and his father is called …
Recipe for an amulet, beginning with 6 word-triangles based on angel names (תקפיאל, רחמיאל, etc), followed by (in Aramaic) 'You holy names... Heal NN (1b)... …
Fragmentary letter (on vellum) from Tunisia by Manashe b. Ammar to Joseph b. Salman b. Ya'ish, expressing the wish to give up the hard "service …
Informal note addressed to a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is a draft of recto. The addressee is asked to go to the sender's …
Letter from Pinḥas al-Ṣāʾigh to R. Shūʿa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The sender opens with a complaint about his arthritis and a request for medicine. Mentions …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The sender has been sick. Not much else is preserved.
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
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 …
Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid [Mevorakh] b. Saʿadya. Very faded. Refer to illnesses (amrāḍ. . . maraḍan. . .). Needs further examination. Reused on …
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 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 דיון אחד
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 …
Recto: Mentions a hypothetical cantor or reader of the Torah who went mad and stole something and was caught. Verso: From a halakhic discussion on …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Family letter, partly in Hebrew and partly in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting seems to be that of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: End of Ṭevet …
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 …