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Type: Letter
10477 records found
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Regards are sent to Abū l-ʿAlā and Abū Isḥāq.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on a legal dispute in a provincial town involving the redemption (fakāk) of something and a qumāsh and some cotton. Protagonists include Yiṣḥaq Nafūsī, the judge ("who was completely worn out"), Abū l-Najm, Abū l-ʿIzz, and Abū Manṣūr b. [...]. In the margin, the judge is forbidding somebody from slaughtering, and al-Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen, the town slaughterer says something.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a sheṭar matana and witnesses.
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ requesting that he urgently send the writer 5 dinars with the bearer. Also mentions sending it with the jāriya (female slave?). Verso: "We will pay you by Sunday at the latest"; the handwriting is different than that of recto, and it is unclear if this is a postscript (promising repayment) or the response to the request on recto.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter of appeal from Yefet, a foreigner, to R. Shela. In calligraphic Hebrew.
Letter fragment in Hebrew.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Essentially unreadable without special imaging.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script on verso. Lovely handwriting. Mentions the addressee's father, the neighbors, and going up to see the Rayyis.
Tiny fragment in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about isolation (al-wiḥda wa-l-inqiṭāʿ) and is anxious for the addressee to give an update about something.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Too faded to read.
Four minute fragments from a letter in Judeo Arabic. Only few words survived on each piece. Fustat and Alexandria are mentioned on fol. 1. 13th century. AA
Letter from the cantor [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to his maternal uncle Bū Ibrāhīm(?), in Shubrā Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dated: 1439 Seleucid = 1127/28 CE. The surviving text of the letter suggests that it is a letter of condolence, possibly upon the death of a woman (הגבירה). Mentions a cantor (al-ḥazzan al-sh[...]) and another cantor the son of Avraham ha-Kohen. AA. ASE.
Small fragment of a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions [...] b. Jabbāra and a report that ʿAbdallāh traveled from Zanjbār/Zanzibar to Mirbāṭ. Few other specifics are preserved. AA. ASE.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains, "I suffer from this city and its inhabitants unspeakable suffering. May God for the sake of His great name see fit to deliver me from it speedily." He then reports that a man named R. Shemuel has arrived from the land of the Franks. Information in part from Friedman, Dictionary, p. 751 (ضجر).
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th century. Mentions a bill of divorce (possibly); a gentile; and some commodities and prices.
Order of payment. In Arabic script (one line) and Judaeo-Arabic (three lines). The addressee is to give the bearer a sum of money.
