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  1. 651Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 145.76

    Order of one raṭl of olive oil (zayt ṭayyib) by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  2. 652LetterT-S AS 145.81 + T-S 13J23.18

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, to Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Mentions Abū Ibrāhīm (Isḥāq) b. Khalaf, who had written to tell al-Tāhartī that he …

    Recto, main region, above rip

    1. [כת]אבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאד[תך וא]תם נעמ[תך]
    2. מן אלמהדיה סלך שבט ען סלאמה פי אלגסם נחמד אלל…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך וישלים את חסדו לך,
    2. ממהדייה, באחרון בשבט. שלומי טוב בג…

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  3. 653Legal documentT-S AS 145.228 + ENA 2806.16

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Probably a bill of release between Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi and his brother Abū …

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  4. 654List or tableT-S AS 145.241

    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 …

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  5. 655LetterT-S AS 146.6

    India Book (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 …

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    1. וסמוהא וארתקאהא [ו]כִבִתִ [חסדתה ...]
    2. במא אנא גני ען אעאדתה        ועלקת הדין [אלחרפין]
    3. לאנהי אליהא אן רבנו יהודה הלוי יזכר באלפי שלומות
    4. אקלע …

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    1. ועליונותו וגדולתו ויכניע את [מקנאיו – המכיל את]
    2. מה שפוטר אותי מלחזור עליו. ורשמתי את [השורות] המועטות הללו,
    3. כדי להודיע לו שרבנו יהודה הלוי, יז…

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  6. 656Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 146.16

    An Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque. 15 dirhams are credited to Abū l-Surūr.

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  7. 657LetterT-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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  8. 658LetterT-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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  9. 659Legal documentT-S AS 146.219

    Probably a partnership agreement, less likely a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Mentions the names Shaʾul Ibn al-Najera and his son Yosef b. Shaʾul, …

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  10. 660LetterT-S AS 146.234

    Letter from Salāma b. Ibrāhīm (aka Shelomo b. Avraham) to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: end of 11th century. Only the opening and greetings …

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    1. כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך ונעמאך

    2. ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ושוק אליך שדיד

    3. קרב אללה אל…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת אושרך
    2. ואל ימנע ממך את מיטב ההצלחה, מן הבית. שלומי טוב, אבל אנ…

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  11. 661LetterT-S AS 146.366

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning several ships and bundles of letters. Related to the India trade based on the reference to a nākhudhā; …

    1. אלשיך [
    2. אן אלכתאב אל[
    3. תדכרת אלחק . [
    4. אלמרכב מן קל . [
    5. אלדי פיהא . [
    6. אקצר פי אלכת[
    7. חזמה כתב פי [
    8. וחזמה כתב . [
    9. פי מרכב אלנ . [
    10. מרכב אלנאכד[א
    11. משאיך אל…

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  12. 662LetterT-S AS 146.386

    Letter fragment (part of a few lines of recto and verso). Legible phrases include "May God 'write' his health. . . . Forgive me. I …

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  13. 663List or tableT-S AS 147.205

    List of names, including Abū l-Munā, Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Ḥajar, Abū ʿAlī b. Saʿāda, Abū ʿAlī b. Makḥūl, Ibn al-Marjānī and Abū Zikrī al-Kohen, probably …

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  14. 664LetterT-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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  15. 665Legal documentT-S AS 148.4

    Recto (secondary use): India Book I,40. Legal document in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (identification by M. A. Friedman). Location: Fustat. Dating: before 1237 CE. …

    1. אקנינא אנו חתומי מטה מן אלשיך נבא אבן אלשיך

    2. אבו אלברכאת אלסכרי נ''ע אלמערוף באבן אללבדי אנה

    3. קד והב פלאן ופלאן ארבע אמות קרקע מחלקו שבארץ

    4. ישרא…

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  16. 666LetterT-S AS 148.9 + T-S AS 148.197

    India Book II, 49 (ח21). Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel, in Bharuch, India (see v14). Dating: ca. 1134 …

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    [...ות]מן פוטה ושראב[יתין ...]

    1. מסך אלקדח פיה י' מתאקיל מ[סך ...]
    2. מנה דינארין קימה מחבסין [...]
    3. ולחצרתך מחבסין אבאע דלך פי אלתמן [...]
    4. אלי דיאר…

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    [... ומ]חיר 'פוטה' ושתי 'שראב[יות' …] 

    1. [...] מושק, הגביע ובו י' מת'קאלים מ[ושק...]
    2. ממנו שני דינרים, מחיר שני 'מחבסים' [...]
    3. ולזכות הדרתך שני '…

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  17. 667Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 148.13a

    Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay the bearer of the note one dinar and a carat. Dated Adar …

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  18. 668Legal 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 …

    T-S 10J15.22 recto

    1. [ ]ק
    2. אביעת [ רב]ע בעד אלטרח
    3. סער עשרה דנאניר ונצף ורבע אלמאיה אלתמן אתנין ועשרון דינארא וקיראט ווצל מנה
    4. איצא פי שהור סנה אחדי עשר …

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  19. 669Legal 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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  20. 670List 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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  21. 671LetterT-S AS 149.3

    Letter from an India trader in Quṣ. Dating: late 11th–early 12th century (Goitein). The writer departed sick (wajiʿ) and arrived healthy in Qūṣ after a …

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  22. 672Legal documentT-S AS 149.84

    Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm …

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  23. 673LetterT-S AS 149.96

    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. …

    Recto, right margin

    1.  . . . . 

    2. ברסם פיצית?

    3. ואיצא ברסם

    4. אלשיך סלימאן

    5. אחיאה אללה

    6. עבד הנדי צגיר

    7. ומ . . . אלי [ . . . ]

    8. וברסם אלבית 

    9. . . …

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  24. 674LetterT-S AS 149.119

    Letter from Ibn al-Naj[era] to [Ḥalfon b.] Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1138 CE, as it seems to belong with documents 32ח to 34ח …

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  25. 675LetterT-S AS 149.147

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the late Ḥārith; 'our master'; going into the synagogue; 'in the place of his father'; sadness about something; …

    Recto:

    1. . . . [
    2. חארת ימצא ר[חמים
    3. אדונינו בטלוע [
    4. אלי דאכל אלהיכל [
    5. מן אסתחסן הד[א
    6. מוצע אבוה . . [
    7. אבנך [
    8. להם נש[
    9. כניסיה [
    10. גזל ומא תת[
    11. חזין עלי [
    12. נזל …

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  26. 676LetterT-S AS 149.184 + T-S AS 146.12 + T-S NS J181 + T-S 10J12.5

    India Book III,4–6a: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham b. Yiju, reconstructed from four fragments (the last, discovered after the publication of the English …

    T-S AS 149.184, recto (III,6a)

    1. וצלאח חאל[...]
    2. תפצל בה [...]
    3. היל קימה [...]
    4. אללה גזאה [...]
    5. אלמחדת אלדי לחצרתה פקד קבצה אלש[יך ...]
    6. דפע לכל רגל רחלה …

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    1. this year in the ship of ⟦Nbrdwy {or read: Nbyrwy}⟧ Fidyār. I sent with him {alt. tr.: wrote and sent with him} a letter of proxy,

    2. {which I…

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  27. 677LetterT-S AS 149.206

    Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cut diagonally across the text to make a rectangle. Mentions a dinar and a sixth, the price …

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  28. 678LetterT-S AS 151.89

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be match for one of the Spanish or Maghribī hands from India Book IV — like Ibn Ezra in H37, …

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  29. 679LetterT-S AS 151.161

    Personal letter to the writer’s father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper half only). Same sender as many other letters, such as T-S 10J7.3, T-S 13J21.13, and …

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  30. 680Legal documentT-S AS 151.188

    One or more entries in a court register from Fusṭāṭ, dated Thursday, 28 Adar [1]409 of the Seleucid Era (= 4 March 1098 CE), mentioning …

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  31. 681Legal 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. 682Legal 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. 683Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 152.5

    Receipt issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Surūr for 3.75 dirhams.

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  34. 684LetterT-S AS 152.54

    Letter from Berakha, the wife of Marwān b. Zikrī/Zekharya, to her brother Avraham b. Peraḥya Mahdawī (Ben Yiju). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is unclear if this …

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  35. 685LetterT-S AS 152.102

    Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Moses, trustee of the Yeshiva. (Information from CUDL). Should be added to India Book V. …

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  36. 686LetterT-S AS 152.191

    Fragment from a letter/petition from Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muʿallima to Maḍmūn b. [Ḥasan] the Nagid of Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with long introductory formulae in Hebrew. …

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  37. 687LetterT-S AS 152.204

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. Mentions legal opponents (khuṣūm). Needs examination, ideally with multispectral imaging. (Information in part from CUDL.) Possibly in the hand of …

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  38. 688Legal documentT-S AS 152.232

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Nagid ha-Gola, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Yemen. (Information in part from …

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  39. 689Legal 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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  40. 690Legal 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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  41. 691LetterT-S AS 153.163 + T-S AS 153.160 + JRL B 6028

    India Book I, 13a. Letter fragment from Yosef b. David Lebdi to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Bundār, the representative of the merchants in Aden, written …

    JRL SERIES B 6028 1 / 1 leaf recto (I, 13a)

    1. [... אטאל א]ללה בקאה ו[אדאם עזה ...]
    2. וכבת אעדאה [ע]רפתה אן כאן אלשיך אב[ו ... ואלשיך אבו יעקוב יקותיאל]

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  42. 692Legal documentT-S AS 153.183

    Legal fragment. Power of attorney mentioning Ibn al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Kuwayyis (see PGPID 9675), Abū l-Munajjā, Ibn Sālim al-Ṣayrafī the perfumer (al-ʿAṭṭār) in zuqāq al-qanādīl, Abū …

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  43. 693Legal 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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  44. 694LetterT-S AS 154.116 + T-S 24.66

    India Book (IB) II, 16: Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju. Dating: 1133–40 CE. This is the scribe's copy of …

    T-S 24.66 recto (IB II, 16)

    1. ברחמתה ואנתהית אלי מא דכרה
    2. פי כתאבה אלעזיז מן אנפאדה פי
    3. מרכב אלנאכדא ראמשת מן אלפלפל
    4. אתני עשר בהאר באלצגיר וקד וצל
    5. דלך ו…

    recto

    1. ...] in His mercy. I noted that you mentioned
    2. in your esteemed letter
    3. that you had sent some pepper in the ship of the nākhudā Rāmisht
    4. —twelve…

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  45. 695Legal documentT-S AS 154.515

    Legal fragment. On parchment. Looks like the handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel. Acknowledgment made by Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen (perhaps the same trader as in ENA 1822A.75 …

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  46. 696LetterT-S AS 155.101

    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 …

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  47. 697LetterT-S AS 155.259

    Verso (original use): Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥāsan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yijū, in India. Mentioning Bama and Abū l-Khayr (probably Ibn Yijū's maternal …

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  48. 698List or tableT-S AS 155.259

    Recto (secondary use): Business accounts in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū mentioning Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq. Refers to a Barbarī slave (i.e., from Berbera, Somalia) …

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  49. 699LetterT-S AS 155.307

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the …

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  50. 700LetterT-S AS 155.321

    Recto: Opening lines of a letter introduced by quotations such as Psalms 31:2. Verso: unusual note that does not seem to be a classic address; …

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