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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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IB ח95. Small fragment of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat or Cairo, to his brother Yeḥezqel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No later January …
1 לא אע[...]
2 תעא[...]
3 חאל [...]
4 ענד [...]
5 ודמ.[...]
6 יכון [...]
7 כת[...]
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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. …
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 …
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 …
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?) …
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 …
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 …
Order of payment signed by Abu Zikri Kohen for olive oil. Requires further examination.
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 …
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, …
Debt acknowledgment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen for three awāqi of soap (צאבון) owed to Sibāʿ. The document lacks the common invocation attested in other …
Tadkhira (business memorandum) regarding amounts of money and items such as saffron, probably written by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Addendum to the India Book.
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 …
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 …
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).
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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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 …
IB 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.
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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. …
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 …
Letter to a dignitary, probably Abū Yefet Yosef b. Abū Sahl. In Hebrew and vocalized. Quite faded; the continuation on verso is almost too faded …
IB IV, 1 (ח22). Account of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, written for Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Bharuch, and the only account that survived in the …
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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 …
ברכת יי היא תעשיר
שרח מא בקי לנא במצר ענד אבי יחיי סלמה אללה
ממא הו לכאצה אבי אלפרג ישועה זוג שקאק כאם
וממא הו ללכלטה א…
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IB I, 38. List of donors of wheat and/or cash for the poor. Dated: Av 1489 Seleucid = July/August 1178 CE. The occasion was probably …
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IB V, 39a. Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of lamp/linseed oil (zayt ḥār).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. Quite faded in places. Dating: most likely 1149–51 CE during Ibn Yijū's last stay in …
IB VI, 16. Inventory of the estate of Nissim b. Yaʿqūb, a merchant who died in Sawākin (Suakin in present-day Sudan) on Monday, 7 Shaʿbān …
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 …
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
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 …
IB 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 …
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, …
אוביע בעד אקלאע אלמראכב פי אל[ ] מן אלול פי אלתאריך
עטיה בן אלעלאש נג רטלא נ דינ [ ] אלנפוסי כו רטלא ונצ ה דנא
צאחבה יג רטל ור…
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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. …
IB VII, 6. A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and …
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IB III, 15. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yijū in Jurbattan (Srikandapuram), dated Elul 1458 Sel. (August 1147). Written in …
In Your name, O Merciful.
You will walk, without breaking stride; when you run, you will not stumble.
And Shaddai be your treasure, and p…
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IB VII, 33. Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, …
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Letter/petition from Umm Bū l-Munā to a notable. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She asks/reminds him to send a letter on her behalf with the bearer …
IB VI, 43. Letter probably sent from a man in Alexandria to his brother in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely second half of the 12th …
Letter from Yehuda b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī, Sicily, to Nissim b. ʿAyyāsh, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060. Mentions a shipment of shelled almonds and lāsīn silk sent …
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IB VII, 13. Legal document. On parchment. Cairo. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: ca. 1100-1138 CE, based on the dates when Ḥalfon …
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P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …
Business letter to Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the margins of verso (the first page), there is a price list for commodities …
IB II, 65. Letter from an unknown sender in Aden to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Hibat Allah (?) in Lawāmanda (?), possibly an island off the …
Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this …
Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Yehuda b. Menashshe, in Fustat. Dating: May 12, 1069. Regarding shipments of gold and exchange of dinars …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה
מן אסכנדריה ליח כלאת מן איאר כתמה <אללה> עליך באחסן כאתמה וערפך ברכת …
IB III, 29a. Poem composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū in honor of Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Labrāt Ibn Sughmār. Location: Yemen. Dating: ca. …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). …
IB VII, 61. Maqāma-like work in rhymed Hebrew prose by a certain Shelomo b. Yehuda (not the 11th-century gaʾon, as this fragment is probably 12th–13th …
IB ח91. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Ibn Ghyyāth, in al-Andalus, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1138/39 CE. The letter mostly consists of …
IB V, 39e (previously V, 39d). An order from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of linseed oil (zayt ḥār). …