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IB IV, 75 (ח80). Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dating: February 1141 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. This was …
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IB III, 1. Business letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, on the Malabar coast of India. Dating: ca. 1137–40. The …
In Your name, O Merciful.
The letter of your excellency, the illustrious elder, my master, has arrived. It was the most pleasant letter tha…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
IB III, 40c. Letter (draft) from one community leader to another with an appeal for support for refugees from Christian persecution and cursing on anyone …
2 مناقشتان
IB IV, 26-27 (ח26). Partnership or investment (ʿisqa) agreement. Probably from a court notebook. Between Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi and Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Shuʿayb …
IV,26
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
IB I, 22. Draft of an oath to be taken by Yosef Lebdi in which he enumerates his assets. Due to the litigation between Yosef …
Joseph b. David—may he rest in Eden!—will swear, on behalf of David, the son of his brother Solomon—may he rest in Eden!—
that he never ch…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
IB II, 70. Fustat, 1146. The draft of a letter from the rabbinical court of Fustat to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan regarding the estate of Ḥalfon …
אנו בית דין חתומי מטה נועדנו במושב אדננו נגיד אל־ים בתוכנו נגידנו שמואל הנגיד,
יכון שמו לנצח, להשתדל ולשקוד על עסק עזבון מר' ורב' חלפון בר שמריה…
We, members of the court, assembled in the presence of our lord, the prince of God in our midst, our Nagid, Samuel the Nagid—
may his name be est…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
India Book (IB) IV,54 (ח59). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: after 22 Tevet = December …
IB VI, 33 (ח86). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, probably in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, probably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1142–45 CE. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
IB IV, 24 (ח34). Letter from Ibn Barukh, in Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: Probably end of summer 1138 CE.
IB IV, 35 (ח44). Letter from the physician Yaʿaqov, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
IB IV, 41 (ח55). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after 1 Nisan 1139 …
IB IV, 3 (ח13). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel (here called Abū Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh al-Dimyāṭī), which opens / …
IB VI, 27 (ח18). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Bharuch, northwest India, probably to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan/Yefet, in Aden. Dating: 1134 CE. The …
IB IV, 44 (ח46). Letter from a certain Yaʿaqov, probably in Lucena, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Cordoba. Yaʿaqov, who is otherwise unknown, writes …
IB V, 1 (ח15). Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dated: Monday, 1 Shevaṭ 1444 Seleucid, which is 9 January …
IB VII, 64. Enthusiastic letter by Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿyahu ha-Kohen, a leader of the Jews of Yemen, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, congratulating him on his …
IB VI, 26 (ח16). Deed of release. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Location: Probably Bharuch, India. Dating: First third of Ṭevet 1445 …
2 نسخين
IB II, 20. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Aden, 1132.
[The letter of my lord, the most illustrious sheikh, arrived—may God make permanent your honored position, etc…and bestow upon you] all the g…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
IB VII, 8. Legal document. Record of release. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I, 1426 Seleucid. One of …
IB IV, 52 (ח52). Fragment of a letter, written somewhere in Spain, to Abū l-Saʿd ha-Levi (i.e., Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi). Written in a typical, …
IB VII, 39. Business letter. Introduction in Hebrew, body in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of the Yemeni merchants (v3). Also mentions R. Shemuel Ismāʿīl b. …
IB VII, 34. Text of the oath that Bū ʿImrān must swear to his brother Abū l-Maʿānī concerning his mercantile activities, the price of a …
IB V, 22. Business letter in Arabic script to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, representative of the merchants, from an anonymous correspondent in Alexandria. …
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IB V, 37, folio 7v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl of …
IB V, 37, folio 5r. Letter fragment related to the India trade. Mentions the Kārim convoy, worrying news, and someone named Abū l-Saddād.
IB V, 37, folio 7r. Note in Arabic script. "Send us. . . lemon. . . ḥalāwa. . . obtain for me pomegranate syrup."
IB IV, 2 (ח4). Legal document detailing an agreement between Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi and his partner Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Khayr. During the upcoming …
IB IV, 77 (ח82). Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with several lines in Arabic script on verso. Dated: 11 Sivan …
IB I, 40. Legal document (secondary use) in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (identification by M. A. Friedman). Location: Fustat. Dating: before 1237 CE. Nabaʾ …
אקנינא אנו חתומי מטה מן אלשיך נבא אבן אלשיך
אבו אלברכאת אלסכרי נ''ע אלמערוף באבן אללבדי אנה
קד והב פלאן ופלאן ארבע אמות קרקע מחלקו שבארץ
ישרא…
IB I, 13a. Letter fragment from Yosef b. David Lebdi to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Bundār, the representative of the merchants in Aden, written in …
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IB III, 15. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yijū in Jurbattan (Srikandapuram), dated Elul 1458 Sel. (August 1147). Written in …
You will walk, without breaking stride; when you run, you will not stumble.
And Shaddai be your treasure, and p…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
IB II, 65. Letter from an unknown sender in Aden to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Hibat Allah (?) in Lawāmanda (?), possibly an island off the …
IB I, 34b. Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yosef Lebdī and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya ha-Levi b. Binyamin/Binyām. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
IB VII, 14. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Ṣāfī b. Yakhin appoints [Yaʿ]aqov(?) b. Yiṣḥaq(?) al-Sijilmāsī as his …
IB IV, 8 (ח9). Legal testimony. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. summer 1131 CE. Fragment (upper right corner). The handwriting is very similar to that of …
IB VII, 43. Letter from an India trader, in ʿAydhāb, to his family or colleagues, presumably in Fustat. Goitein comments that "al-Asʿad is the tax …
العجوز وتفتقدها في كل وقت وانني وصلت
الى عيذاب ولقيت من الفارسي كل خير في
الدنيا والاسعد فعل معنا خير بلا كتب ولمن
ودينا الكتاب اخذ حقه…
IB II, 63. Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose from Ḥalfon b. Madmun to Saadya b. Avraham, an Egyptian teacher. Aden, 1154.
IB I, 29. Court proceedings in which the two brothers, Abū l-Faḍl Shela (for this identification, see T-S 10J21.11 | PGPID 2956) and Maʿālī, the …
IB III, 8. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham Ibn Yiju. The whereabouts of Yosef and Ibn Yiju are unclear. Goitein thought that Ibn …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
IB IV, 60 (ח70). Letter from Yeḥezqel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon in Alexandria. Dated/dating: Iyar 1140. Yeḥezqel complains rather winningly and at …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
IB V, 3 (ח24). Deed of release. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Shevaṭ 1447 Seleucid, which is …
IB VII, 56. Letter from an India trader, probably in Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic. He recently came from Kullam in Malabar (recto margin l. 15) and …
IB IV, 71 (ח87). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥalfon. Alexandria; probably about 1143-1145. ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq sends Ḥalfon a short greeting for Purim. …
IB V, 39b (previously V, 34f). An Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of linseed oil.
India Book (IB), II, 73. Quittance by the rabbinical court of Fustat for the sum of 173 and 7/24 mithqāl dinars, sent by Maḍmūn II …
למא כאן יום אלאתנין תאני ע[שר] חדש ניסן ש[נת ...]
בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה [רשותיה ראדוננו אברהם ...]
הפטיש החזק נר המערבי דגל הרבנים…
On Monday, 12 Nisan [...]
in Fustat Egypt, situated on the Nile river, [in the jurisdiction of our lord Abraham . . .]
the strong hammer, the w…
IB V, 45. Legal record (#7). Alimony received. Dated: End of Iyyar 1456 Seleucid (or shortly thereafter). Concerning the maintenance/alimony (mezonot) that the late Abū …
IB I, 37. Legal record (#9). Deposition in court. Bū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn Mukhtār, Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār ('the perfumer in the alley of the candles'), Abū …
IB V, 4. Letter fragment. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen (according to Goitein's notes). Mentions Sayyidnā, al-Shaykh Maḍmūn, Ismāʿīl al-Majjānī; the kārim convoy …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
IB VI, 39. Letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān in ʿAydhāb to his son ʿAllān b. Nahray in Alexandria concerning shipments. Based on a letter from …
IB VI, 45. Description from BL OR 10578B.1: Letter from Maʿānī, in an unknown location, to his brother Mūsā, in Fustat. The letter is in …
3 نسخ