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Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (with the name of the month מרחשון written in Hebrew script three times). Written on cloth. The …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in Arabic script. Tall and skinny. Damaged at the beginning. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. The sender is evidently a merchant en route to India: …
Fragment of a bill of acknowledgement of a debt by Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi to Abu l-ʿAlā. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138). …
Secondary use (probably): Calendar in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū for the years 1463–68 Seleucid (=1151–57 CE). Resembling Ibn Yijū's other calendars but with …
Talmudic Commentaries: Might be by the hand of Halfon b. Netan'el Halevi. Needs further examination
Business letter in Arabic script containing an order for lac and pepper. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Ṣārifī, Masʿūd, and ʿAbd al-Karīm. Also requests …
1 نسخ
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel (identification provided by Amir Ashur). It looks like there are portions of at least three …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. Relatively large (the bottom 22 lines are preserved + 4 lines in the margin + remnants of …
Order of payment of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer a half pound of soap (ṣābūn), an eighth of lye (ghāsūl), and …
Letter from a certain Khalaf b. Isḥāq to someone whose name includes Shemaʿya, sent to the house of Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Qudsī, in Fustat. In …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mainly concerning transactions with Abū l-Surūr Ibn Yijū; this must be the father (rather than …
List of debts. In the first line Abū Saʿīd al-Dimyāṭī (= Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi) is mentioned as owing a debt of 20 dinars. Should …
1 مناقشة
Two pages containing an end of a responsa, a legal query and the beginning of the responsa. AA .
Verso: Legal document (bill of sale?) involving a Nubian female slave and the daughter of R. Yosef and someone's wife. Very faded. Dated: 1 Elul …
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
List in large, beautiful Arabic script (perhaps of the judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi?), containing about 55 names, followed by a column in Hebrew characters …
2 نسخين
Letter from Hārūn b. Binyām to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Same sender and addressee as T-S AS 153.193 (PGPID 17823). He states that …
Legal query written by Halfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi sent to Elʿazar al-Qasabi. Addendum to India Book IV. AA
Letters of thanks, drafts, mostly in rhymed prose, to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and his cousin Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, for their gifts and loyalty to …
1 ترجمة
Recto: Bill of sale for a female slave. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel …
Letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the …
Letter fragment by a certain Yaʿaqov recounting the episode that led him to break off his partnership with others in a wine press. While he …
Letter fragment from Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century. Reused for business accounts on verso. On …
Court ledger in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment of a bifolio; three columns of text are partially preserved. Recto: …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen the descendant of Yehosef ha-Kohen Bet Din. Mentions a suftaja; 30 dinars; possibly …
Letter from Allush ('Lamb') b. Makhlūf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Yaʿaqov. Dating: 1130s or 1140s. Business letter concerning payments involving and owed to various merchants, …
Responsum of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237). Autograph. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioned in India Book I, p. 276.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only a thin vertical sliver is preserved. Mentions Fustat (or Egypt) four lines from the end and Almeria three lines from …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon drink. (Information from CUDL)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out a raṭl of lemon juice and three dirhams. (Information from …
Recto and verso (secondary use): Letter recounting a dispute. In the hand of Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi (compare T-S 13J19.13 (PGPID 9120)). The sender is …
Letter from Perahya b. Yosef, the learned nephew of the India trader Avraham Ibn Yiju, beginning with Bible verses, including Job 23:28. (S. D. Goitein, …
Letter from Zekharya b. Ḥayyim, in Palermo ("al-Madīna"), to Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. Avraham (Ibn al-Amshāṭī), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Elul (4)932 …
Recommendation letter in the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef, mentioning Abū l-Makārim, Avraham and his brother Ḥananʾel, Abū Isḥāq, Moshe (Maimonides), Rabbenu al-Maskil, and Sitt …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Poems by Yehuda ha-Levi, copied by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yijū. Written on cloth (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card)
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria.
Recto: (1) Recipe in Arabic script in a Spanish hand, beginning with the basmala four times. The recipe uses marrubium juice, ginger-water, honey and cinnamon-water. …
11 minute fragments (paper), of which two are parts of an order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, mentioning Abū l-Faraj (row 1, nos 2-3), …
Booklist (business accounts). In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably written by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Mentions some volumes of the Talmud.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Accounting for an India trader, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions goods such as hyacinth and pepper, and their quantities, and many other …
Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov (active ca. 1131–50), either in Aden or in India, to (his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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ברסם פיצית?
ואיצא ברסם
אלשיך סלימאן
אחיאה אללה
עבד הנדי צגיר
ומ . . . אלי [ . . . ]
וברסם אלבית
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Order of payment for Abū l-Surūr’s wages (6 dirhams), signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
An Abū Zikrī Kohen order. Abū l-Faraj is to give the bearer 2 ounces of oxymel (sakanjabīn) and rose. On verso there are Arabic and …
Mercantile letter. Very faded. Mentions Aden in l. 7 and ʿAydhāb in l. 10. Later (l. 18) reports that Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī traveled this year to …
Three fragments of a letter written by Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, belonging to the addenda to India Book II. AA/ASE
Letter in Arabic script. The writer is in Aden. He reports that something of the addressee's is safe in his keeping. "If his (or your?) …
Order of payment signed by Abu Zikri Kohen for olive oil. Requires further examination.
Tadkhira (business memorandum) regarding amounts of money and items such as saffron, probably written by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Addendum to the India Book.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). …
Order of payment by Abu Zikri Kohen to Kalil for 1 ratl of oil.