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IB V, 29. Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions the purchase of two silk cushions for 364 dinars (!?). On verso there …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
India Book (none) (H100). 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, …
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, …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Might be about provincial administration: "wa-yudabbir amūr al-nāḥiya. . . wa-anna katabū kitāb ilā l-qāḍī. . ." …
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 …
Abū Zikrī Kohen, representative of merchants in Fustat, settles accounts with his banker Khiyār b. Nissim. Dating: 1134 CE. The two had concluded a partnership …
IB VII, 19. Court register, fragment. Upper left corner of a legal record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Dating: 1127-38, …
IB VII, 43. Letter from an India trader, in ʿAydhāb, to his family or colleagues, presumably in Fustat. Goitein comments that "al-Asʿad is the tax …
العجوز وتفتقدها في كل وقت وانني وصلت
الى عيذاب ولقيت من الفارسي كل خير في
الدنيا والاسعد فعل معنا خير بلا كتب ولمن
ودينا الكتاب اخذ حقه…
IB VII, 7. Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1112 CE (based on T-S …
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Fragment from the bottom part of a bill of guarantee of Ishaq ha-Levi b. Netanel (see India Book IV/A p. 26n43) written by Halfon b. …
Letter in the hand of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār but possibly written on behalf of somebody else, possibly from Aden, to Zayn b. Yosef …