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Language Judeo-Arabic Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

251. EAP025/1/396

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/396
Title:
letter
Scope & Content:
Recto: business letter (c. 1100 CE) from Ibn al-Ḥasan b. Hūlayf Iskanderānī to the prominent purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Joseph al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic address of the letter; accounts by ʿArūs.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

252. EAP025/1/397

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/397
Title:
letter
Scope & Content:
Recto: business letter from Ismaʿīl b. Salāma in Bahnasa to the famous merchant Nahray b. Nissim, with greetings to Abū l-Surūr. Verso: the lower half of an Arabic business letter, inverted in relation to recto.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

253. EAP025/1/398

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/398
Title:
Letter; receipt
Scope & Content:
Recto: fragment of a letter concerning lemons. Verso: receipt for one and a half ūqiyya of rose water and an ūqiyya of lemon, probably in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

254. EAP025/1/399

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/399
Title:
Letter
Scope & Content:
Carefully written begging letter from a woman to the Nagid David b. Abraham b. Maimonides. She lives on charity with her children in a house with no roof, and winter has just begun. Refers to a sum of 30 dinars.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

255. EAP025/1/401

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/401
Title:
Piyyut
Scope & Content:
A collection of piyyuṭim, including part of כתיבתך מהודרת from Samuel ha-Nagid’s Diwan; היש עשוק כבוכה מכאבו; חטאתי כמו ארץ רחבה by Isaac ibn Ḵalfun.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

256. EAP025/1/402

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/402
Title:
Piyyut
Scope & Content:
A collection of poems including הירהב הזמן ברבי ורבא.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

257. EAP025/1/403

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/403
Title:
Piyyut
Scope & Content:
A collection of poems from the Diwan of Solomon ibn Gabirol, including part of מי זאת כמו שחר עולה ונשקפת and יגון חשק ואבבת נעורים.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

258. EAP025/1/405

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/405
Title:
Poetry
Scope & Content:
Recto: a secular poem with a concluding verse in Judaeo-Arabic; the poem begins דמעה מלבד עזרי כי צירי נדוד חלו על גבב משתולל. Verso: pen trials in Arabic and Hebrew script.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

259. EAP025/1/406

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/406
Title:
Poetry
Scope & Content:
A collection of elegies: all appear to be by the same author, including an elegy for a Gaʾon, צפע רוש הלעיטני, and for a woman. ‘Nathan b. Samuel חזק’ is spelt in acrostic. Part of the same manuscript as Mosseri II.215.1.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

260. EAP025/1/407

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/407
Title:
Piyyut
Scope & Content:
Part of הענק by Solomon ibn Gabirol. Part of the same manuscript as Mosseri II.214
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images