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  1. 51LetterT-S 13J25.13

    India Book VI, 27 (ח18): Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Bharuch, northwest India, probably to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan/Yefet, in Aden. Dating: 1134 CE. …

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    1. ב̇שר̇ח
    2. קד עלם אלקדים ̇גל ̇תَנَאَה מא י̇גדה עבד אלח̇צרה אלסאמיה אלריّיסיה אלא̇גליّה אלעאליה
    3. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא ועזהא ורפעתהא וסמוהא וס…

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  2. 52Legal documentT-S 20.63

    India Book VI, 26 (ח16): Deed of release. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Location: Probably Bharuch, India. Dating: First third of Ṭevet …

    1. [...] מא ̈מ̈א כאן לה ענד אלשיךִ [בר]כאת בן מוסי אלחלבי והו מא כאן סלמה אליה
    2. [עלי יד אלשיך אל]א̇גל אלנאכדאًה מ̇צמון בן אִ[ל]חִסִן יזכר בטוב והו מתבות…

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  3. 53Legal documentT-S AS 149.84

    Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm …

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  4. 54LetterT-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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  5. 55Legal documentT-S NS 224.20

    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 …

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  6. 56LetterBL OR 5566D.6

    India Book VI, 39: Letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān in ʿAydhāb to his son ʿAllān b. Nahray in Alexandria concerning shipments. Based on a letter …

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  7. 57LetterBL OR 10578B.1 + T-S 8J15.28

    India Book VI, 45. Description from BL OR 10578B.1: Letter from Maʿānī, in an unknown location, to his brother Mūsā, in Fustat. The letter is …

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    1. אכוה מעאני
    2. لے
    3. אלדי אערף בה אכי אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה
    4. וגמע שמלי בה קריב אן שא אללה וסוא דלך
    5. בחק אללבן אלדי אתראצענאה ואלבטן
    6. אלדי חמלנא ובחק . ב…

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  8. 58LetterBodl. MS heb. e 98/72

    Letter from a certain Khalaf b. Isḥāq to someone whose name includes Shemaʿya, sent to the house of Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Qudsī, in Fustat. In …

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  9. 59LetterCUL Or.1080 J178

    India Book VI, 9. Letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a shipment of tartar and a report about the …

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  10. 60LetterENA 3363.2

    Letters of thanks, drafts, mostly in rhymed prose, to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and his cousin Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, for their gifts and loyalty to …

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  11. 61LetterENA NS 20.5

    Letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the …

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  12. 62LetterT-S 8J17.16

    India Book VI, 22b. Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a …

    1. צדרת כתבי לחצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
    2. אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ונעמאה וכבט
    3. אעדאה ולם ארי לאחדהא גואב ואעלמה אנני
    4. אנפדת אליה מע אלשיך אבו אלוליד יונס…

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  13. 63List or tableT-S 16.308

    Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria.

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  14. 64LetterT-S Ar.41.108

    India Book VI, 6. Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Hillel, Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf on the conclusion of the latter’s second or third voyage to …

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  15. 65LetterT-S AS 155.101

    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 …

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  16. 66Legal documentT-S Misc.34.42

    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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  17. 67Legal documentAIU VII.A.38.2

    This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. In the lower right corner of 'recto,' at 90 degrees to the other text blocks, there is …

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  18. 68Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J137

    India Book VI, 46: Legal document. Partnership. Dated: 1215-1216 CE. This fragment emerged from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The partners ʿImrān Moshe al-Iskandarī b. …

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    1. ש]נת אלפא וחמש מאה ועשרין ושבע[ שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא
    2. [מו]תבה רשותיה דאדוננו נגידנו אב[רהם הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק נר 
    3. [המע]רב…

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    1. [the y]ear one thousand five hundred and twenty-seven [years (of the Era) of Documents, in Fusṭāṭ Egypt,]
    2. [si]tuated [on the Nile River,] jurisd…

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  19. 69LetterT-S 8J17.15

    India Book VI, 15: Letter possibly from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in ʿAydhāb, to his sons (addressed to Fustat "to the house of ʿArūs b. Yosef"), …

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    This my letter is for you, my children, so dear to me and with [me, may] God [prolong] your life and make your honoured position, wel[fare]…

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  20. 70State documentT-S Ar.30.273

    India Book VI, 35: Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from …

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    1. العبد المملوك

    2. موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا

    5. وسيد…

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    1. The servant and slave
    2. Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.

    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    4. The benedictions of God a…

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  21. 71LetterT-S AS 155.307

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the …

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  22. 72LetterT-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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  23. 73LetterENA 4020.25

    IB VI, 31 (ח71). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, in ʿAydhāb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: 25 Iyyar [4900] AM, which is 14 May …

    1. וצל כתאב מולאי וסידי אלחכם אל[... מ̇ר ור̇ב חלפון]
    2. הלוי בר כבוד מ̇̇ר ורבנא נתנאל הל[וי החכם והנבון]
    3. ̇ת̇נ̇צ̇ב̇ה א̇גל אלכתב ואעלאהא אדאם אללה עזהא
    4. וסעא…

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  24. 74LetterHalper 405

    India Book VI, 34: Business letter (fragment) from Iṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī (Fustat) to Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef (Alexandria), ca. 1080. Iṣḥaq b. Aharon reports …

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    1. סידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך

    2. ותאידך ונעמאך ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך נעלמך

    3. סלמך אללה אן וזנת ענך פי אלדיואן ד דנ> וח קראריט

    4. ו…

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    1. אדוני היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך,
    2. ואת עזרתו ואת חסדיו לך, ואל ימנע ממך את מיטב ההצלחה. אודיעך,
    3. ייתן לך אלוהים שלום, …

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  25. 75LetterT-S 12.7

    India Book VI, 13: Letter from [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Neʾeman. In Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script (verso; the …

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  26. 76LetterT-S 24.78

    India Book VI, 25: Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the …

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    1. בש רח
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללא בקא חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    3. ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ורפעתה וסנאה ותמכינה
    4. וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה אעלמה אן לו רמת אלי
    5. שרח אליסיר ממא גר…

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    1. In your name, O merciful.
    2. I am writing to you my lord, the most illustrious elder —
    3. may God prolong the life of your excellency and make perma…

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  27. 77LetterT-S Misc.28.33

    India Book VI, 43: Letter probably sent from a man in Alexandria to his brother in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely second half of the …

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  28. 78LetterT-S 12.392

    India Book VI, 1: Letter from a novice India trader in a Red Sea Port to his brother, Libya. Dating: 1103. Complains in rhyme about …

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    1.  אנה] ולי דלך ואלקאדר עליה אן שא אללה
    2.  א]כי בל סיידי יום אלב לכד יומא כלון
    3.  [מן שהר] חשון סנה תתסד ערפנא אללה בר[כאת]       
    4. [לנא ולכל] ישראל …

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    1. … for he is master of this and has power over it, if God wills.
    2. … on Monday 24
    3. Ḥeshvan, (4)864, may God acquaint us with blessings 
    4.  for us an…

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  29. 79LetterT-S NS 225.3

    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 …

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  30. 80LetterENA 2558.30a

    India Book VI, 50: Letter from an unidentified sender in India to an unidentified addressee in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. The fragment …

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  31. 81LetterT-S 10J14.11

    India Book VI, 24: Letter from Makhlūf b. Musa, Alexandria, to Abu Yiṣḥaq Avraham b. Yahya Fasi, Fustat. The main part of the letter is …

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    1. ק]ד עלם אללה סבחאנה מא עז עלי ספר חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
    2. א]טאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וכבת חסדתה ואעדאה
    3. אלדי לם] נגתמע בה וסבבה אני מן אלמ…

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  32. 82LetterDK 238.3 (alt: X)

    Letter (likely a draft) dictated by the wife and written by the son (Zayn al-Dār) of the India trader ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, beseeching him to …

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    1. בשמך רחמנה
    2. וצלת כתב חצרה מולי אלאגל אלואלד געלני אללה פדאה
    3. מן כל סו וופקה וגמע שמלי בה בפצלה ורחמתה
    4. אן שא אללה ואלדי תריד עלמה יא מולי אן נחן…

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  33. 83LetterT-S 13J28.15 + Bodl. MS heb. d 66/14

    IB VI, 44. Letter from a certain Yosef, in Alexandria, to his brother, an India trader. Mentions Aden (verso, right margin, l. 15) and people …

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    1. תאני
    2. בש רח
    3. אלדי תריד עלמה יא אכי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ועלאך ומן
    4. אלתופיק לא אכלך גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וגודה
    5. אן שא אללה וגיר דלך …

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  34. 84LetterF 1908.44i

    IB VI, 41. Part of a cluster of letters (IB VI, 41-45) pertaining to Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid, whom Goitein describes as a "low-class India trader from …

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    1. בש רח
    2. כתאבי אליך יא אכי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    3. עזך ועלאך ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאך גמע אללה ביננא
    4. עלי אסר חאל במנה וכפי לטפה אן…

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