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  1. 1LetterAIU XII.50

    Letter from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-[...] to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm al-Amshāṭī (probably Abū l-Fakhr Seʿadya b. Avraham, active 1140–72), in Fustat, the square …

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  2. 2List or tableBL OR 5549.5

    Verso: Contributors list. Dating: ca. 1140s CE. Giving 2: Abū l-Makārim b. Nissim; Amīn al-Dawla. Giving 1: Abū Subḥī(?) b. Ghulayb; Abū Naṣr b. Faḍlān; …

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  3. 3Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/104

    Legal testimony with some unusual formulae and a high proportion of Aramaic (e.g., מהודענא in l. 2). Fragment: only the left side is preserved. Location: …

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  4. 4LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/113

    Letter from Ṭahor b. Avraham to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. Dating: First half of the 13th century. Very similar to T-S NS 321.101 (same writer, same …

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  5. 5LetterDK 353

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is probably Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, an India trader and shipowner (nākhudā) known from documents dating from 1131/32 to c.1150 CE. …

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    1. מ . []
    2. וארגע . . . . . []

    3. לאן אלממלוך יעאזי חואיג . . []

    4. כנת מסתריח אלסר בעץ שי []

    5. אלעטר יחתאג אלמכנה אן אלדורה ונרגו מן אל[לה]

    6. חמיד …

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  6. 6List or tableENA 3700.2

    Upper fragment: Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto, left side: Mentions paying a bribe for coral (וכנת וזנת עלי אלמרגן …

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  7. 7LetterENA 3767.7

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-12th century. Probably from an India trader. Mentions numerous business transactions, Maḥrūz, and Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Baghdādī (who also appears …

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  8. 8List or tableENA 4011.4

    Recto: Unidentified document (accounts?) in Arabic script. Written in the form of a list, in a neat (chancery?) hand. Needs examination.

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  9. 9List or tableENA 4011.16

    ENA 4011.16a (upper fragment): Communal accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. Very faded. There are at least two distinct entries. …

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  10. 10LetterENA NS 2.36

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand and layout suggest that this is a letter from Avraham b. Farah. the letter is addressed to a certain …

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  11. 11LetterENA NS 45.6

    Letter from Abū l-Faraj b. Sāl[im] to Abū l-Fuḍayl Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Not a great deal of the content remains. It seems that the …

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    1. בש רח
    2. חצרה מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
    3. וכבת חאסדתה ואעדאה ומן חסן תופיקה [לא אכלאה
    4. גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וכר[מה
    5. ואמא גיר …

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  12. 12Legal documentENA NS 76.47

    Small fragment of a legal deed or legal query in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to two people (business partners?), …

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  13. 13LetterENA NS I.38

    Letter from [Yiṣḥa?]q b. Yosef to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Related to the India trade. The addressee may …

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    1. ממלוכהא . . . ק
    2. אבן יוסף
    3. ב
    4. וצל כתאב חצרה סיידנא אלשיך
    5. אלאגל מולאי ומאלכי אטאל אללה פי
    6. אלעז אלדאים בקאה ואדאם עזה
    7. ונעמאה וכבת באלדל אלמהין חסדת…

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  14. 14Legal documentJRL A 337

    Draft of a release from legal obligations in a business relationship, mentioning one Abū Naṣr, possibly an India trader, as the epithet is very common …

    1. .........................].. בדלך
    2. ..........] כאן אסתכראג מנה
    3. ]יראה תפ[...] .]נא איצא מן אלשיך אבו נצר
    4. בקנין ג]מור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו מעכשו
    5. ...…

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  15. 15LetterJRL A 1254

    16 small fragments. Fol. 1 (1–2) + Fol. 4 (7–8): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning [...] al-Amshāṭī. Also mentions, "I have asked the bearer..."; and "until …

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  16. 16LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 531

    Small fragment of a letter. In Arabic script. Refers to someone in distress and to a nākhūdha (ship-owner) named Hilāl al-Iskandarā[nī]

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  17. 17LetterMoss. IV,76.1

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. In the hand of Saʿid b. Marḥab. Refers to the addressee as "adonenu" and mentions bibles (maṣāḥif). Dated: Ṭevet [1]498 Seleucid …

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  18. 18Paraliterary textT-S 16.31

    Verso: Medical list in Arabic script. One of the columns is headed, "[For] ear pains." The material is cloth. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index …

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  19. 19LetterT-S 16.63

    Recto: Letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya in Fustat. Discussed in various publications by M. A. Friedman. …

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  20. 20Legal documentT-S 20.187

    Power of attorney. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia. Monday, 1 Av [4]833 AM, which is July 1073 CE. In which the Qaraite Abū Saʿd Isḥāq b. …

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  21. 21List or tableT-S Ar.29.34

    Bifolio in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Verso is a neatly organized calendar beginning with Purim of the 15th year of maḥzor 257, i.e., …

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  22. 22List or tableT-S Ar.35.220

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions debits and credits of people and entities such as Ismāʿīl, "the Indian," Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, dīwān al-R[...]. Needs examination.

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  23. 23List or tableT-S Ar.35.252

    Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Cf. T-S Ar.30.219 (PGPID 9212).

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  24. 24LetterT-S Ar.41.10

    Commercial letter in Arabic script. Long and damaged. Dating: likely 16th century, as it mentions the ashrafī (used from 1425 onward but replaced by other …

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  25. 25Literary textT-S AS 42.280 + T-S NS 310.55

    Another version of Ibn Yijū's poem in praise of Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies (India Book II, 39), in the hand of the same scribe …

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  26. 26LetterT-S AS 146.89 + T-S NS 99.56

    Letter from an India trader, possibly in Aden, to an associate, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. mid-12th-century. Two fragments of the letter are …

    1.  [...] אכד מני [. . . . . . . . ]
    2.  ענד אלבדאיה פאנהם כאנ.
    3.  [...]א.. אן שא אללה תעאלי 
    4. [...]סר ואנפד לה בה אמא . .  
    5. ארכה באכבאר אלשיך אבו אלכיר //אל…

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  27. 27LetterT-S AS 146.109

    Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlī al-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and …

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  28. 28LetterT-S AS 147.233

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mention Yosef, Shubayl (who had ophthalmia, "kāna ramid"), Zayn, and Abū l-M[...]. Mentions 3/4 dinar and rose. Might be connected to …

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  29. 29Legal documentT-S AS 148.150

    Top of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108) or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Concerning arrangements upon somebody's death, probably …

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  30. 30List or tableT-S AS 148.217

    Memorial list, naming Avraham ha-Dayyan (ZL), 'the boy Moshe,' and Peraḥya ha-Dayyan (ZL), and his brother Shemuel ha-Melammed. Are the last three the sons of …

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  31. 31Legal documentT-S AS 151.257

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Concerning a financial settlement, mentioning various sums of money: 26 Malikī dinars (used in Yemen) …

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  32. 32Legal documentT-S AS 151.263

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in …

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  33. 33Legal documentT-S AS 152.254

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning trade and Yemen; someone appoints an agent. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  34. 34Legal documentT-S AS 152.367

    Legal document (witness statement), mentioning the elder Abū l-S[urūr] Peraḥya who traveled to Yemen twice. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 …

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S AS 153.343

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment? Mentions 450 dinars, possibly with the term "Malikī" after, which would …

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  36. 36LetterT-S AS 159.172

    One side: A brief letter to Abu l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān consisting of greetings and blessings. (A man by the same name is known from India Book …

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  37. 37Legal documentT-S AS 160.171

    Two or three different documents stuck together. One of the larger pieces is a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …

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  38. 38Legal documentT-S AS 168.279

    Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38). Involves Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd, [...] al-ʿAdanī "his partner in the …

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  39. 39List or tableT-S AS 176.264

    Mercantile account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century, potentially related to the India Book documents. Neatly written and well preserved. …

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  40. 40LetterT-S AS 178.152

    Letter from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Sulaymān to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm al-Amshāṭī al-ʿAṭṭar, in the perfumers' market, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The top of …

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  41. 41List or tableT-S AS 184.129

    Bifolio of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Distinctive hand and format. Refers to the nākhūdha ʿAlī (recto left side, l. 3), suggesting a connection …

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  42. 42LetterT-S AS 200.308

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 18th century, probably. Mentions: Moshe; a Cypriot commodity (? קוברסי); Yehuda al-Ashqar(?); "your maternal uncle Yaʿaqov ben Hini" (someone …

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  43. 43List or tableT-S AS 210.102

    Probably list of donors. Some of the names are familiar from TS K15.6 - a list of contribution to the poor from 1178 (See Goitein …

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  44. 44Legal documentT-S NS 192.126

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) mentioning trade in Yemen and the government. Mentions Maḥfūẓ and Ḥasana. Probably a …

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  45. 45LetterT-S NS 226.116 + T-S NS 226.114

    Two small fragments from a business letter. Worth noticing the term [tashtarī] bi-mā qasama Alāhu wa-razaqa , literally ‘purchase for whatever price God apportions and …

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  46. 46LetterT-S NS 297.201

    Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Might be about provincial administration: "wa-yudabbir amūr al-nāḥiya. . . wa-anna katabū kitāb ilā l-qāḍī. . ." …

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  47. 47LetterT-S NS 305.82

    Verso, with the address on recto: Letter in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1140 CE, based on the date of the earlier document sharing this fragment. …

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  48. 48LetterT-S NS 324.142

    Letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dated: Kislev 1497 Seleucid, which is 1185 CE. With a …

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  49. 49LetterBL OR 5542.23

    Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju to Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya [b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī]. In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). This …

    1. אלממלוך אבי סעיד יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמולא
    2. אלשיך אלרצי אללה תעאלי יוסע רזקך ויתבת סעאדתך
    3. ויקים גאהך ויחבס עליך ולדך ולא יקטע בך יא מולאי
    4. לולא יעלם א…

    Your servant Abī Saʾīd kisses the ground before my lord, the elder al Rāṣūy. May God increase your income, stabilize your success and enhance your ho…

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  50. 50List or tableENA 1822a.72

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Presumably related to recto and also by Abū Zikrī Kohen. The header says "in the name of …

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