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  1. 51

    Legal documentPER H 21 + Moss. VII,39

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Dating: 1120–38 CE, based on the involvement of Yakhin b. …

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  2. 52

    Legal documentT-S AS 148.47 + T-S 10J15.22

    Description from T-S AS 148.47: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions a will (אלצואה אלמדכורה); Abū l-Barakāt; Yaʿqūb …

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  3. 53

    LetterT-S NS J62

    Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning persons connected with the India trade, including Maḍmūn [b. Ḥasan]. Opens with a report and condolences about the death of …

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    1. וקד וצלת כתב מן ענד אלשיך [. . .
    2. צחבת אברהם אבן אלחדאדה ל[. . .
    3. וכדאלך אעלמה חרס אללה עזה [. . .
    4. תופת תאסע יום פי שהר אדר [. . .
    5. ולא תסאל מא …

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  4. 54

    LetterT-S 8J28.11

    Letter with a legal purpose. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. From an unidentified sender to a certain parnas, trustee of the court. The …

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  5. 55

    Legal documentT-S 12.585

    Recto: Legal document. On parchment. In the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan. In which Bū Saʿd Moshe b. Yefet the head Parnas leaves to his …

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  6. 56

    Legal documentT-S 12.627

    Note on a deposition in court about a sending of oriental goods carried by two merchants killed in the East African port ʿAydhāb. Location: Fustat. …

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  7. 57

    List or tableT-S Ar.43.71

    Memorandum (tadhkira) for a trader named Mufliḥ b. Binyamin Ibn Ahwāzī. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which he orders a scarf (radda) with his son’s name (Yaʿaqov …

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  8. 58

    LetterT-S Ar.54.93

    Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Elʿazar b. Ismāʿīl, in Qūṣ. Dating: ca. 1030s CE. The address is probably identical with …

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    1. וצל כתאבך יאסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מע צאחב
    2. מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה נעמאה וטלב פי אלוקת גואבה
    3. פעלקת לך הדה אלאסטר ודכרת אן לם יצלך…

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  9. 59

    Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/20

    Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī and …

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  10. 60

    Legal documentL-G Misc. 113

    Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their children: (1) Yosef …

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    1. ] שהאד[תה וכ]ט ידה אכר הדא [אלשטר] אן חצר בין ידינא ר יוסף בר יצחק נע לדא. אלפאסי והו פי צחה
    2. עקלה] וגואז אמרה טאיע גיר כארה לא [מגבור] ולא מק…

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  11. 61

    Legal documentT-S NS J11 + T-S 10J4.16 + T-S 16.158 + T-S 10J4.17

    Legal document. Agency agreement. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. T-S 10J4.16: agreement granting Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo b. Mevorakh power of …

    TS NS J 11

    1. […] … ten, and five hundred and fifty and a half Almoravid dinars
    2. … silver weighing eighty-two dirhams, and a linen Tūnī cloak with a bor…

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  12. 62

    Legal documentT-S Misc.27.3.2 + ENA 4020.41

    Legal query to Avraham Maimonides about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, and reportedly drowned in Fanṣūr, a …

    1. מא תקול הדרת יקרת צפיר|ת תפארת מרנו ורבנו אברהם הרב המובהק
    2. הפטיש החזק נר המע|רבי דגל הרבני יחיד הדור אור העולם ירום הודו
    3. פי אנסאן מסאפר אלי בל|אד אל…

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  13. 63

    LetterCUL Or.1081 J2

    Mercantile letter sent possibly from Aden to India. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part of recto). The sender received a basket (zanbīl) of pepper which he …

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  14. 64

    LetterT-S 8.32

    Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his brother, probably in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender urges him to return quickly; their mother fasts out …

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    1. קלובנא מן אלשוק ולוחשה [
    2. ובלעני מא טרא עליך ובקינא פי חאל אלא יעלמה
    3. אלא אללה תעאלי מן נכד אלעיש וציק אלצדר ולם
    4. נקעד פי דכאן חתי לטף אללה תעאלי…

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  15. 65

    LetterT-S AS 149.3

    Letter from an India trader in Quṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably end of 11th or early 12th century, based on Goitein's assessment. The writer departed …

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  16. 66

    Legal documentT-S 12.582

    Legal document detailing how Ṣāfī, the slave (ghulām) and agent of the Jewish Academy in Fustat, insulted a notable in ʿAydhāb, Ibn Jamāhīr, in the …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה. חצרנא פי
    2. עידאב וכאן יום אלתלאתה אלחאדי ואלעשרין מן חדש טבת שנת דכל אבו סעיד
    3. בן מחפוט אלמערוף ב…

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  17. 67

    Legal documentT-S Ar.40.96

    Legal query probably addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult. In Arabic script. Concerning a Jewish woman whose husband converted to Islam and later traveled to India, …

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  18. 68

    Paraliterary textT-S Misc.35.22

    Maqāma-like work in rhymed Hebrew prose by a certain Shelomo b. Yehuda (not the 11th-century gaʾon, as this fragment is probably 12th–13th century), describing how …

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  19. 69

    Legal documentT-S 8J5.23

    Conditional bill of divorce. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Av 1480 Seleucid, which is 1169 CE. The trader Bū Saʿd Moshe b. …

    1. בחד בשבה דהוא ש[
    2. אב דשנת אלפא וא[
    3. לשטרות באלמ[
    4. לפסטאט מצר [
    5. אנא משה בר [
    6. וחניכא דאית [
    7. אניסנא ות [
    8. ליכי אנתי פכ [
    9. וחניכא דאית [
    10. דנה וכדן תר [
    11. רשאה ו…

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  20. 70

    LetterCUL Or.1080 J109

    Letter from a certain ʿEli, unknown location, to the cantor Isḥāq, in Damietta. Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic with …

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  21. 71

    Legal documentT-S Ar.30.42

    Draft of a court record dated 623 (1226) written on a very small piece of paper (4 x 2.5 in) regarding the testimony of Abū …

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  22. 72

    Legal documentENA 4020.2

    Page of the record book of the rabbinical court of Fustat, in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (or possibly Ḥalfon b. Menashshe). Trimmed at …

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