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Letter T-S Ar.7.18
  1. Bibliographic citation
    S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book 3: Abraham Ben Yijū, India Trader and Manufacturer: Cairo Geniza Documents‎ (in Hebrew) (Ben-Zvi Institute, 2010).
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  2. Bibliographic citation
    S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (Brill, 2008), vol. 1.
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    S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85).
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T-S Ar.7.18 1r

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1r
S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book 3: Abraham Ben Yijū, India Trader and Manufacturer: Cairo Geniza Documents‎ (in Hebrew) (Ben-Zvi Institute, 2010).
  1. סיידי אלשיך אלאגֹל אטאל אללה בקאה אלדי אעלמךֹ
  2. בה באן אולאדך בכיר פי עאפיא (!) וקד אנפדו
  3. לך מעי שי ואוצאני באן נקסמו עליך פי גֹ
  4. כראת ואסעי נחב אן תערפני מע מן ננפד לך
  5. ומא תחתאגֹ וצאיא ונעלמך באן אנחלת פי
  6. דרהם ואחד ואלסלאם אלגֹזיל אלחפיל עליך
S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (Brill, 2008), vol. 1.

recto

  1. My lord, the most illustrious Sheikh—may God prolong your life!— this is to inform you 
  2. that your sons are well and in good health. They sent
  3. for you with me something and instructed me to divide it for you into three
  4. installments. Now, I beg you to inform me with whom I should send it to you,
  5. and you need no instructions. For your information: the unpacking cost
  6. one dirhem. Profuse greetings to you.

T-S Ar.7.18 1v

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1v

Verso, address:

 

  1. אלי אלשיך אלחזן
  2. אכי מבשר אל
  3. מערוף אבן יגוֹ     מן חגֹאגֹ

verso, address

  1. To the Sheikh, the cantor,
  2. Mevassēr’s brother,
  3. known as Ibn Yijū.
  4. From Ḥajjāj.
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