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Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tishrei 1424 Seleucid = September/October 1112 CE. Same case as T-S …
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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. …
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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). …
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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 …
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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, 29. Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions the purchase of two silk cushions for 364 dinars (!?). On verso there …
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). …
Hebrew poetry copied in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. The handwriting of T-S NS 108.78 was identified by Amir Ashur and the joins were …
Piyyuṭ in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Identified by Amir Ashur.
Order of payment by Abu Zikri Kohen to Kalil for 1 ratl of oil.
Order of payment by Abu Zikri Kohen to Kalil for 1 ratl of oil and ounce of soap.
Two fragments from a letter, which is still not complete. Mentions setting sail from Alexandria. Involves the shipment of 100 jars of oil from Alexandria, …
Commercial list in two or three different hands in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. On verso there is a list of commodities sent with Abū l-Ḥasan …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand? Very damaged and faded. Dating: 12th century. Some of the names mentioned are related to India Book II, such as …
IB II, 60. Bill of sale for the purchase of a house by Maḥrūz. Constructed from three fragments: T-S NS 184 52, T-S NS 184 …
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IB I, 34a. Legal proceedings whereby two friends of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq testify to the court of how Avraham betrothed his cousin, Sitt al-Ahl b. …
מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים ומאן דחתים עימנא
לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבו אסחק מר' | ור' אברה…
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Fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1127–38 CE, due to the fact that we find part …
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 …
Verso: note of a merchant reporting his sale of commodities in ʿAydhāb in the month of Adar II 1440 Seleucid = February/March 1129 CE. Commodities …
IB I, 34b. Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yosef Lebdī and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya ha-Levi b. Binyamin/Binyām. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. …
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IB 99ח. Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, al-Andalus, to Yosef ha-Levi b. Meʾir Ibn Migash. Dating: probably Tammuz or Av 1138. Written on the fragment …
Order of commodities in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe related to the India trade. Mentions various items measured in cubits and four brass springs (? lawālib).
Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …
IB VII, 14. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Ṣāfī b. Yakhin appoints [Yaʿ]aqov(?) b. Yiṣḥaq(?) al-Sijilmāsī as his …
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Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May be in the hand of Abū l-Rabiʿ Sulaymān the son of Abū Zikrī Kohen (cf. ENA NS …
Letter from Abū Zikrī to Abū Saʿīd Halfon b. Moshe, Trustee of the Yeshiva. This person is unknown and is not listed in Goitein's index …
Mercantile letter. On parchment. Dating: Early 11th century. The address is only partially legible and written in a confusing way. The sender appears to be …
Letter from an unidentified merchant to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports on a shipment that he has sent with Jaʿfar: 62 wax …
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. …
Two small fragments from business letters. Unclear if they are a join or not. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. It is …
IB ח102. Notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanel regarding a sugya in Bava Metzia. Very possibly written during his stay in Lucena, Spain, …
IB VI, 52. Letter fragment from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Hebrew (for the …
IB ח100. Letter from Maʿālī b. Abū l-Khayr al-Dimashqī, in Fez, to his father Abū l-Khayr b. Maʿālī al-Dimashqī, in Almeria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
IB V, 41f. Order of delivery for one raṭl of olive oil (zayt ṭayyib). From Abū Zikrī Kohen to al-Shaykh Khalīl (or Khalaf?).
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IB VII, 20. Document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (left side). Concerning business in pepper in Yemen. Involves Seʿadya ha-Kohen, Abū l-Khayr, …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Headed with a basmala followed by "in the hand of Abū Naṣr." Listing mainly fabrics and garments (mandīl, niṣāfī, …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning materia medica (Indian myrobalan, Kirmānī cumin), minerals (sulfur / kibrīt), labdanum, etc.
Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (with the name of the month מרחשון written in Hebrew script three times). Written on cloth. The …
Letter in Arabic script. Tall and skinny. Damaged at the beginning. Dating: Perhaps 12th century. The sender is evidently a merchant en route to India: …
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. …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with a single word in Hebrew script (ניסן). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The preserved text is written at …
Business letter from Musa b. Ishaq b. Hisda to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ibn Awkal. This letter is a response to a letter sent by the …
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IB ח94 (דף ב). Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, perhaps in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. …
Verso: End of a court record. Unrelated to the entry on recto Written and signed by Avraham b. Natan Av. Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …
Letter in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Almost complete. Unclear if Ḥalfon himself is the sender; could be written on …
IB IV, 8 (ח9). Legal testimony. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. summer 1131 CE. Fragment (upper right corner). The handwriting is very similar to that of …
Deed of sale for a female slave (jāriya waṣīfa). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid, which is 24 October 1143 CE. Buyer: Pinḥas b. …
IB IV, 61a. Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
IB VI, 20. Order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov asks Abū Saʿīd to give Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd the price of …
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Legal document. Dated: [...]8 Seleucid, which can be improved to 14[.]8 Seleucid, based on the 12th-century people who are mentioned, but the decade is still …