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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company. A Yehezqel Ḥefeẓ is mentioned in the last couple lines.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Me'ir ben Naʿim to his son David ben Naʿim, dated 16 June 1820 (4 Tammuz 5580).

Fragment (lower part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, perhaps 11th-century, referring to business transactions and ʿAllūsh al-Gharbī. There is one line in Arabic at the bottom.

Late letter in Hebrew to Yeḥezqel Ḥefeẓ from Shabbetay ʿAdda, discussing a business partnership, 400 reals, Jerusalem, and people including Pini Lavan (?), Yosef ha-Levi, and Yiṣḥaq Karigal (?). Dates are given both according to the Hebrew calendar and "the Christian calendar."

Letter in Ladino to Efrayim [...] dated 1806/7 CE (5567).

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bazzal, in Mansurah, to his brother Yosef ha-Levi Iskandari, in Fustat/Cairo.

Letter in Ladino dated 27 December 1803 (12 Tevet 5564) from Moshe ha-Levi Karaso, Rashid, and Yaʿaqov ha-Levi to Yiṣḥaq de Curiel, Fustat/Cairo.

Family letter, likely from a father to a son. (Based on v13–16: "If only I had never been created so that people would not look at you and say 'this is the offspring of that wicked man, because if he were righteous, his children would be likewise.'") In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early 13th century, based on paleography. There seems to be a dispute over an inheritance of a house owned by the addressee's mother. The addressee has been blaming his mother, and the sender rebukes him for that. But then, "It is not your fault or his(?) fault, but rather everyone's fault. It was I who caused her the absence of your brother's wife that brought her and me all these misfortunes, from her and from him. If only there were peace between them, then it would be easier to bear her degradation. I was the one who made her secretly travel with you to where she could build you a house in our lifetime. But all this did not suffice for you, and you claim that she has mired you and cast you down. Where are you and your brother with regard to God [=where is your piety]?" Needs further examination to fully understand the situation. ASE

Letter in Ladino and Hebrew.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. Regarding shipments of goods, mainly beads, linen, and lead. Mentions trading with al-Andalus. Musa b. Abi al-Hayy doesn’t want to risk sending all the goods and money immediately. It seems that Marduk b. Musa also participated in the writing the letter. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #450) VMR

Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that remains, al-Muhadhdhab describes his distress on account of the tax he owes. 

Letter about an unexpected happy turn in a serious affair and about the farming out of a concession for bee-keeping (Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Naḥḥāl died and left behind him 300 hives). He also mentions in passing that he fell sick in Benha. Information from Goitein's note card.

Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: a letter from 1644 regarding the death of a judge. AA

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Nissim M[...] to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807/8 CE.

Late letters or drafts of letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Titles used are khawāja and effendi. Needs further examination.

Late letter or drafts or records of letters in Judaeo-Arabic, on lined paper. May be a continuation of the preceding shelfmark (both contain poetic lines ending in "-mo" and are signed by a certain Yaʿaqov).

Letter in Ladino from Mordechai Mir to Avraham Crespin (or Krispin) in Cairo. Dated 15 Cheshvan [5]550 or 4 November 1789CE. A number of other individuals are mentioned, including: Fransis de Costa, Yiṣḥaq Tilio (Tiglio?), and someone with the surname Aghion whose first name is not mentioned (l. 8-10r). This is a brief letter in which the author is mentioning a variety of other correspondnence in connection with these individuals and the recipient Avraham Crespin. MCD.

Letter or letters. In Ladino. Dated: 29 Tishrei 5548 AM, which is 11 October 1787 CE. There are two blocks of text in two different hands. The first is from Mordekhay (or Martin?) b. Mir(?) to Carmen(?) de Curiel. The second mentions shipments of goods to Thessaloniki, Izmir, and France (l. 20f).

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Nissim M[...] to Karo y Frances & Company.