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IB III, 4 + 5 + 6 + 6a. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham b. Yiju, reconstructed from four fragments (the last, discovered …
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,
{which I…
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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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Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment referring to 1 raṭl of flax oil; signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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, …
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay two dinars to the carrier of the note on the account of …
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 …
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 …
Fragment of a letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab. Containing the beginnings of 11 lines. Widened line spacing. Written in his usual style …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Mentions names including Abū l-Faraj, Ibn Ḥamīd, Abu ʿUthmān and Yosef, and government officials (al-amīr, al-sulṭān, al-dāʿī). …
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) …
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 …
IB V, 42d. Receipt issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Surūr for 3.75 dirhams.
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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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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. …
Order of payment written by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr to pay money to the bearer of the note. Dated Tammuz 1451 Seleucid era …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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)
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 …
Order of payment for Abū l-Surūr’s wages (6 dirhams), signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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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An Abū Zikrī Kohen order. Abū l-Faraj is to give the bearer 2 ounces of oxymel (sakanjabīn) and rose. On verso there are Arabic and …
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 …
Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer a half raṭl of soap, a raṭl of oil, and an eighth …
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 …
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 Maḍmūn's original …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū Naṣr b. Ibrāhīm, concerning both the India trade and commerce with the western Mediterranean. The writer reports prices and …
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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; …
Cheque signed by Abu Zikri
Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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. …
[Your servant took notice of... and your yearning] for him, a feeling shared by me. [May God ordain that]
prosperity and he…
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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 …
Three fragments of a letter written by Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, belonging to the addenda to India Book II. AA/ASE
IB II, 21 + 21c. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. Fragments of four or five …
The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,
with regard to what you owed h…
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 of legal …
This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]
known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…
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 …
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.
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 …
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: …