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A letter to Yoesf b. Moshe Luzki to from David b. Moshe Kokizov 1803-1813

A letter from Ishaq b. Shalom to Shmuel b. Shlomo

A letter from Yosef b. Eliyyahu Qaraj to Yosef b. Ishaq

Copies of letters from Troki

A letter to Yosef b. Ishaq from Simha b. Ya'aqov Qubtzani

Letter of condolence from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo ha-Maskil to the brothers Binyamin and Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 14 Heshvan 5571 AM, which is 1810 CE. Locations unclear, though possibly named on the page containing the address. This document may not be from the Cairo Geniza.

Yevr. II A 458/2a: Letter from Eliezer, in Castoria (קסטורייא), to his wife. In Hebrew. Dating: Ottoman era. Mentions Moscow. Currency: levanim (= silver akçe).Yevr. II A 458/2b: Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late. From "your brother Shimʿon."Yevr. II A 458/4: Literary letter. Copy of a letter from Yosef ha-Levi to the sages of Narbonne. In Hebrew.

There are 4 documents sharing this shelfmark. 538/1: Ownership notes for a copy of the legal code Aderet Eliyyahu by the Qaraite hakham Eliyyahu Bashyazi (d. 1490). There are also jottings in Latin script ("Mog Bog Moy Pan" etc.). 538/2: Non-Geniza. Catalogued as correspondence between לוצקי and the Qaraites of הליץ. The date 1751 appears in one of the letters. 538/3: Hebrew poem in honor of a certain Shelomo.538/4: Letter or letters in Ladino.

There are ~10 documents sharing this shelfmark. 546/9: Letter from the Qaraite community of Damascus (specifically Yosef ha-Kohen Khāṭir) to the Qaraite community of Fustat/Cairo (specifically Yaʿaqov Ṣāliḥ). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century.

Diwan of Anatoly b. Yosef and epistles of Shemuel b. ʿEli. See S. M. Stern, "A Twelfth-century circle of Hebrew poets in Sicily: Anatoli ben Yosef the Judge and his friends," JJS 5 (1954): 60–79 (pp. 62-63, 65) and Simḥa Assaf, "קובץ של אגרות ר' שמואל בן עלי ובני דורו," Tarbiz 1 (1930), p. 112 and 3 (1932) p. 346.

Letter from the trader Salmān, in Spain, to Abū Saʿīd (likely Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi). Dating: Perhaps Fall 1138 CE. Sent from Spain. Some of the names mentioned are known from the circle of Yehuda ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.) NB: this fragment was previously known as Antonin 1105 (similar to all the other Yevr. III B shelfmarks).

Epistle of the gaon Shemuel b. ʿEli of Baghdad. There is a colophon. This copy was completed Tishrei [1]473 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. "In it [this copy] there is a shahāda of R. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef." There is an addendum dated Tammuz 1486(?) Seleucid (which would be 1175 CE if this is the correct reading), added in Aleppo. Joins with T-S 8J2 and ENA 4011.74.

Letter fragment addressed to 'sayyidnā.' In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about a certain person who drinks and defrauds the poor(?). He wouldn't have said anything if he thought the man would repent on his own. He presents as the proof of his judgment something (some sort of fight?) that he witnessed on Purim between this man and R. Yehuda al-Zaqen al-Bilbaysī al-Kohen and Abū Naṣr the mohel. If the addressee wishes to verify this story, he can make his own inquiries.

Letter fragment from Seʿadya b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan to Shemuel ha-Sar. What remains is in Hebrew. Only the opening and address are preserved. The same sender wrote CUL Or.1080 J118.

Letter, apparently by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel to the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Originally published by Mann. See M. A. Friedman's article on Zuta (p. 483) for analysis.

Business letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq to Abū Yiṣḥaq Avraham b. Dā'ūd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions people such as: Yūsuf al-Andalusī. Mentions goods such as: ginger; myrobalan; flax.

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Tripoli.

Formulary for a letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. It is a formulary because about 11 lines from the bottom, it asks the addressees to help "so-and-so from the city of such-and-such." (The description on Ktiv differs: "Letter to Ramle; Abraham ben Isaac, Ibn Al-baḳrah, active 11th century.")

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 (takhayyul fāsid) regarding the addressee, namely, that he must be sick as well. Yeḥezqel asks him to come back or write back quickly with news of his health to alleviate her suffering. He also wants the addressee to ask Abū l-Majd the son of the judge whether Abū l-ʿIzz left the writer's copy of the commentary on the Mishna (of Maimonides?) with him, and if so, to obtain it and return it to him. ASE

Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Beẓalel b. Ḥayyim to David I Maimonides (b. Avraham b. Moshe). In Hebrew. Defending the Guide for the Perplexed. Verso: Alongside the address of the letter on recto, there are three lines of calligraphic Arabic script, probably a draft of the beginning of a petition, with a taqbīl clause and various titles (al-kabīrī al-ajallī al-sayyidī).