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Type: Letter
10477 records found
Fragment of a letter - needs examination.
Letter - needs examination.
Few lines from a letter - needs examination.
Part of a document/letter - needs examination.
A letter in Arabic. On verso a list in Arabic and few verses from the Book of Esther in Hebrew - needs examination.
Commonplace book in Arabic script. In a childlike hand with numerous misspellings. There are several pages of poetry and several more pages of drafts or copies of deferential letters to dignitaries (transcribed below). One addresses a vizier (al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī); one conveys blessings for the caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 1101–30); and some are directed at amirs, one of whom is titled Nāhiḍ al-Dawla.
Fragment of a letter - needs examination.
Small fragment of a letter - needs examination.
On recto damaged letter asking for approval from sayyidna. On verso list and some Arabic text - needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn" followed by a prayer: allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā l-umma al-ṭāḥira al-maʿṣūma... Needs further examination.
Letter in Arabic script. On verso there are separate jottings (accounts?) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Well preserved and neatly written. Much of recto consists of formulaic expressions of longing. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter - needs examination.
Letter - needs examination.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. 8 lines are preserved. Written in a narrow column. Mentions "everyone knows what you have with the banker." Needs further examination.
Verso: Letter from Yosef b. Nadiv ha-Ḥazzan(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh Asad on Sunday, sums of 10 and 3 dirhams, and a request of the addressee, perhaps involving the sender's wife (or just his house). Regards to Berakhot ha-Talmid.
Part of a letter (?) referring to spices (saffron) - needs examination. (Info from FGP)
Letter - needs examination.
On recto ab Arabic account? On verso remains of an address of a letter sent to Sa'adya b. Halfon - needs examination.
A piyyut on recto. Fragment of an Arabic letter on verso - needs examination.
