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  1. 701LetterT-S AS 156.237 + T-S AS 156.238

    IB VII, 70. Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, Aden, after his return from a difficult voyage to the southern coast of India, to ʿArūs b. …

    T-S AS 156.237 recto

    1. [Your servant took notice of... and your yearning] for him, a feeling shared by me. [May God ordain that]

    2. prosperity and he…

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  2. 702LetterT-S AS 158.83

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is very cursive and very hard to read (and seems familiar from other 11th- or 12th-century mercantile documents). Refers …

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  3. 703LetterT-S AS 158.282 + T-S AS 158.279 + T-S AS 158.281

    Three fragments of a letter written by Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, belonging to the addenda to India Book II. AA/ASE

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  4. 704LetterT-S AS 158.393 + T-S NS J241

    India Book, II,21 (T-S NS J241) and II,21c (T-S AS 158.393). Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 …

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    1. מכלוף בן עינין סרה אליתים מצאלחה
    2. ען מא כאן לה מעה בעד אלפתנה ואלתעב
    3. תלאת מאיה דינ וביד סידאן ק מתקאלא
    4. מצרייה אלתמן דתכ דינ וקימה בהאר
    5. ונצף דרכ…

    II,21: T-S NS J241 recto

    1. The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,

    2. with regard to what you owed h…

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  5. 705LetterT-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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  6. 706Unknown typeT-S AS 159.247

    Fragment in an Indian Devanāgarī script, in an as yet unidentified language, possibly a dialect of Gujarati. See Gideon Bohak, "T-S AS 159.248, T-S AS …

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  7. 707Unknown typeT-S AS 159.248

    Fragment in an Indian Devanāgarī script, in an as yet unidentified language, possibly a dialect of Gujarati. Possibly a letter. See Gideon Bohak, "T-S AS …

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  8. 708Legal 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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  9. 709LetterT-S AS 164.89

    Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with pepper, clove, and lac. Instructing the addressee to sell goods in Fustat. Possibly in the handwriting of Avraham …

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  10. 710Legal documentT-S AS 165.190

    India Book (IB) I, 31b. Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly …

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    1. כן הוה [... חצר אלי בית דין אבו אלברכאת בן מר' ור' יוסף] 
    2. הידוע אללבדי נ''ע וקאל לנא אשה [דו עלי ואקנו מני מעכשיו ואכתבו ואכתמו עלי בג'מיע אלא…
    1. This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]

    2. known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…

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  11. 711LetterT-S AS 166.174

    Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov, unknown location, to an unidentified addressee, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Same writer …

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  12. 712Legal documentT-S AS 167.178

    Top of a legal deed. In which Abū l-Fakhr [Saʿadya] b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī acknowledges receipt of a sum from a certain Abū l-Ḥasan.

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  13. 713Legal 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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  14. 714Legal documentT-S AS 170.7

    Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: …

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  15. 715Legal query or responsumT-S AS 172.68

    India Book (IB) ח96. Copied in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, a very small section of a gaonic responsum in Hebrew and Aramaic containing …

    TS AS 172.68

    1. אין מִצטרפין [עד שיראו שניהם כאחד ̇ר יהושע בן קרחה]
    2. או̇מ אפילו בזהִ [אחר זה ...]
    3. במטלטלין דאמרי [נהרדעי בין הודאה אחר הודאה ובין הודאה …

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  16. 716LetterT-S AS 173.57

    Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Cf. PGPID 5479 and PGPID 38566. ASE

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  17. 717LetterT-S AS 173.209 + T-S AS 153.293

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. The section preserved here opens with asking for a favor from the addressee involving conciliating someone else. Goes …

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  18. 718LetterT-S AS 173.380 + T-S AS 152.242

    Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. May be a second copy of ENA …

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  19. 719LetterT-S AS 175.147

    India Book (IB) ח95. Small fragment of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat or Cairo, to his brother Yeḥezqel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No …

    TS AS 175.147

    1 לא אע[...]

    2 תעא[...]

    3 חאל [...]

    4 ענד [...]

    5 ודמ.[...]

    6 יכון [...]

    7 כת[...]

    [שוליים]

    (1) עלי.[...] (2) אן את.[...] (3) באלכאץ ול…

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  20. 720LetterT-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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  21. 721LetterT-S AS 179.63

    Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Pertaining to the India trade of the first half of the 12th century. The sender mentions Isḥāq al-Nafūsī and al-Shaykh …

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  22. 722LetterT-S AS 183.110

    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?) …

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  23. 723LetterT-S AS 183.204

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Twelfth-century Spanish hand, similar to several documents from India Book IV (e.g., ח44 and ח45). Only a few phrases …

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  24. 724List 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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  25. 725LetterT-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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  26. 726List or tableT-S AS 206.223

    Memorandum (tadhkira) of goods sent, written probably by Abū Zikrī Kohen. In line 1 we might be able to complete [Abū l-Khay]r [b. M]ūsā al-Barqī, …

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  27. 727List or tableT-S AS 209.332 + T-S AS 209.334 + T-S AS 209.338 + T-S AS 209.346 + T-S AS 209.340 + T-S AS 209.353 + T-S AS 209.336 + T-S AS 209.331

    Tadkhira (business memorandum) regarding amounts of money and items such as saffron, probably written by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Addendum to the India Book.

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  28. 728List 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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  29. 729LetterT-S AS 219.131

    Recto: A mirror imprint of T-S AS 219.129, but much easier to read. Business letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Mentions people such …

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  30. 730Legal documentT-S AS 220.77

    Small fragment from a legal deed relating to Abū l-Faraj al-Jubayli, and his trip to Yemen. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  31. 731LetterT-S G1.61

    IB VI, 42. Letter from Abū l-Faḍl Shela, in Alexandria, to his son Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid al-Yahūdī, in Aden. Probably dictated to his son Yosef b. …

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  32. 732Legal query or responsumT-S G2.59

    India Book III,29b: Responsa in Avraham Ibn Yiju's hand: legitimacy of a manumitted female slave's marriage and status of her children, Yemen, ca. 1140.

    III, 29b

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. הדה אל רואיה קד גאת ען מר יהודאי גאון זצל קאל פי שומרת
    3. יבם שנשאת בלא חליצה אן אלדי תזוגהא אן כאן לם יולדהא
    4. כאן עליה אן יטלקהא ואן י…

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  33. 733Literary textT-S G2.59

    Verso: Poems written by Avraham Ibn Yijū in honor of Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan (another draft of II, 40 = IOM D 55.10 (PGPID 4742)) and …

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  34. 734LetterT-S H2.133

    Letter in Arabic script, beautifully written in a chancery-esque hand with diacritical marks and dots. Dating: Fatimid period based on paleography and the ending formula. …

    1. سيما الروم الذي لا يقبلوا العذر ولا[

    2. وقد سمعنا من جماعة من التجار الواصلين من مصر[

    3. ان وصل كثيرا من الحمل الواصل من اليمن ويحيـ[

    4. ان يبتاع منه …

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  35. 735Literary textT-S H11.4

    Draft of a poem for a circumcision composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū, containing the acrostic with his name (אברהמ חזק). With praises for …

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  36. 736List or tableT-S J1.53

    India Book (IB) IV,1 (ח22). Account of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, written for Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Bharuch, and the only account that survived in …

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    1. חסאב מולאי אלשיך אבו סעיד חלפון בר נתנאל נ''ע
    2. לה קימה ח' כוארג וח' אתואב מקצור קצ''ח דינאר וי''ד קיראט
    3. ולה קימה 〚מחאבס זיאדִ〛עשרה כוארג מחאבס …

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    1. חשבון אדוני השיך אבו סעיד חלפון בר נתנאל נ"ע.
    2. לזכותו דמי ח' כורגות וח' יחידות תוב של בד כבוס: קצ"ח דינר וי"ד קיראט
    3. ולזכותו דמי ⟦מעטים ועוד⟧ עש…

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  37. 737List or tableT-S K2.32

    Account of Barhūn b. Sāliḥ ha-Tāhartī, 1055. Three bifolios (six pages) with two binding-holes on either side of each centerfold. Contains details about commodities such …

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    1. ברכת יי היא תעשיר

    2. שרח מא בקי לנא במצר ענד אבי יחיי סלמה אללה

    3. ממא הו לכאצה אבי אלפרג ישועה זוג שקאק כאם

    4. וממא הו ללכלטה א…

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    1. (2−1) פירוט מה שנותר לזכותנו בפסטאט אצל אבו יחיא, ייתן לו אלוהים שלום.
    2. מה שלחשבונו הפרטי של אבו אלפרג' ישועה: זוג יריעות (אריג) …

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  38. 738List or tableT-S K15.6

    India Book (IB) I, 38. List of donors of wheat and/or cash for the poor. Dated: Av 1489 Seleucid = July/August 1178 CE. The occasion …

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  39. 739Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K15.38

    Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of lamp/linseed oil (zayt ḥār).

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  40. 740List or tableT-S K15.98

    Inventory of the estate of Nissim b. Yaʿqūb, a merchant who died in Sawākin (Suakin in present-day Sudan) on Monday, 7 Shaʿbān 503 AH (1 …

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  41. 741LetterT-S K25.106

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is reminiscent of some of the 12th-century India traders, but it awaits proper identification. This is a large section from …

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  42. 742List or tableT-S K25.250

    Verso: draft of a register of shipments of goods by Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1050. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #353) VMR

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    1. לנא פי מרכב בן אלבר קפתין קזדיר פיהא ל לסאן כלטה יעקוב ונסים אולאד בן בניא //וקבץ בן אלבר כרא אלקפתין דינארין וקיראטין// מא פצל מן אלקזדיר ה …

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    1. יש לנו באוניית בן אלבר שני סלי בדיל ובהם ל' לשונות, בשותפות של יעקוב ונסים בניו של בן בניה; בן אלבר קיבל את השכירות בעד שני הסלים, שני דיגרים …

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  43. 743Legal query or responsumT-S K25.285

    India Book III,29c: Responsa in Avraham Ibn Yiju's hand: legitimacy of a manumitted female slave's marriage and status of her children, Yemen, ca. 1140. When …

    III, 29c

    1. נתכלם בעון אללה פי הדה אלורקה עלי אלמסאלה
    2. בעינהא בגיר קיאס שי אלי שי ולא מטאבקה שי אלי
    3. שי ולא מגאנסה שי אלי שי אלא נקל אלמסטרה כלמה
    4. כלמה וב…

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  44. 744LetterT-S Misc.8.103

    Detailed account of monthly sales of products from the east in Sicily, especially spices and flax, covering the period from August 1064 to October 1065, …

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    1. אוביע בעד אקלאע אלמראכב פי אל[            ] מן אלול פי אלתאריך

    2. עטיה בן אלעלאש נג רטלא נ דינ [ ] אלנפוסי כו רטלא ונצ ה דנא

    3. צאחבה יג רטל ור…

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    1. (2-1) ….נמכר לאחר שהפליגו האוניות ב.... באלול, באותו תאריך. עטיה בן אלעלאש, נ"ג רטלים, נ' דינר ; …. אלנפוסי, כ"ו רטלים וחצי, ה' דינרים;
    2. שותפ…

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  45. 745LetterT-S Misc.20.225

    Nearly complete family and business letter from a father Mawhūb b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-[...] to his son. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …

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  46. 746Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  47. 747Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  48. 748Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  49. 749Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  50. 750Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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