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  1. 51LetterENA NS 22.14

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Concerning the India trade. Giving details about 15 or so spices …

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  2. 52Legal documentT-S NS 321.50

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1112 CE (based on T-S Misc.28.263). Goitein records that this fragment …

    Recto

    1. ]..חסן .........................[
    2. ]דלך ומנא מן כתב באסמאינא גמיעא וכדלך פעל[
    3. ]פעלה צאחבה גמיעאנא מתפק אן וניתנא מסתקימה[
    4. ]א יד... .ל. מא .. מן…

    Recto

    1. […] good … […]
    2. […] that, and those of us who wrote our names together. Likewise …[…]
    3. […] his fellow enacted, agreeing with all of us, our intenti…

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  3. 53LetterT-S 10J18.10

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a trader in India to his cousin, who was also his brother-in-law, in Egypt. The writer had apparently been in India and for …

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  4. 54LetterT-S NS J62

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning persons connected with the India trade, including Maḍmūn [b. Ḥasan]. Opens with a report and condolences about the death of …

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    1. וקד וצלת כתב מן ענד אלשיך [. . .
    2. צחבת אברהם אבן אלחדאדה ל[. . .
    3. וכדאלך אעלמה חרס אללה עזה [. . .
    4. תופת תאסע יום פי שהר אדר [. . .
    5. ולא תסאל מא …

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  5. 55Legal documentT-S AS 148.47 + T-S 10J15.22

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Description from T-S AS 148.47: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions a will (אלצואה אלמדכורה); Abū l-Barakāt; Yaʿqūb …

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  6. 56Legal documentPER H 21 + Moss. VII,39

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Dating: 1120–38 CE, based on the involvement of Yakhin b. …

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  7. 57Legal documentENA 4010.2

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Partnership agreement. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1347 Seleucid = 8 June 1036 CE. Gil identifies the handwriting as that of Sahlān b. Avraham. The contents …

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    1. [אק] חצר ר שמואל בן סהלאן אלברקי [ושרט עלי נפסה]

    2. [ברצאה בלא אונס] וקאל לנא אנה כאן אנפ[ד] מעי פראח

    3. בן סהלון [מעי] מרגאן מן אלקירואן ווצלת…

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  8. 58Legal documentT-S 12.627

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Note on a deposition in court about a sending of oriental goods carried by two merchants killed in the East African port ʿAydhāb. Location: Fustat. …

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  9. 59Legal documentT-S 12.585

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Legal document. On parchment. In the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan. In which Bū Saʿd Moshe b. Yefet the head Parnas leaves to his …

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  10. 60LetterT-S 8J28.11

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter with a legal purpose. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. From an unidentified sender to a certain parnas, trustee of the court. The …

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  11. 61LetterT-S Ar.54.93

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Elʿazar b. Ismāʿīl, in Qūṣ. Dating: ca. 1030s CE. The address is probably identical with …

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    1. וצל כתאבך יאסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מע צאחב
    2. מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה נעמאה וטלב פי אלוקת גואבה
    3. פעלקת לך הדה אלאסטר ודכרת אן לם יצלך…

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  12. 62List or tableT-S Ar.43.71

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    Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

    Memorandum (tadhkira) for a trader named Mufliḥ b. Binyamin Ibn Ahwāzī. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which he orders a scarf (radda) with his son’s name (Yaʿaqov …

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  13. 63Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/20

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    Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī and …

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  14. 64Legal documentT-S NS J11 + T-S 10J4.16 + T-S 16.158 + T-S 10J4.17

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. Agency agreement. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. T-S 10J4.16: agreement granting Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo b. Mevorakh power of …

    T-S 10J4.16 Recto

    1. ונשתרי פי טריקנא מן אלצעיד באלעין מא אתפק לנא מן אלבצאיע ונביע דלך גמיעה
    2. פי דיאר אלימן וגירהא מן אלבלאד אלדי יתפק לנא אלממר אליהא …

    TS NS J 11

    1. …
    2. […] … ten, and five hundred and fifty and a half Almoravid dinars
    3. … silver weighing eighty-two dirhams, and a linen Tūnī cloak with a bor…
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  15. 65Legal documentL-G Misc. 113

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their children: (1) Yosef …

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    1. ] שהאד[תה וכ]ט ידה אכר הדא [אלשטר] אן חצר בין ידינא ר יוסף בר יצחק נע לדא. אלפאסי והו פי צחה
    2. עקלה] וגואז אמרה טאיע גיר כארה לא [מגבור] ולא מק…

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  16. 66Legal documentT-S Misc.27.3.2 + ENA 4020.41

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal query to Avraham Maimonides about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, and reportedly drowned in Fanṣūr, a …

    1. מא תקול הדרת יקרת צפיר|ת תפארת מרנו ורבנו אברהם הרב המובהק
    2. הפטיש החזק נר המע|רבי דגל הרבני יחיד הדור אור העולם ירום הודו
    3. פי אנסאן מסאפר אלי בל|אד אל…

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  17. 67LetterCUL Or.1081 J2

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Mercantile letter sent possibly from Aden to India. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part of recto). The sender received a basket (zanbīl) of pepper which he …

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  18. 68Legal documentT-S Ar.40.96

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    Arabic

    Legal query probably addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult. In Arabic script. Concerning a Jewish woman whose husband converted to Islam and later traveled to India, …

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  19. 69Legal documentT-S 12.582

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document detailing how Ṣāfī, the slave (ghulām) and agent of the Jewish Academy in Fustat, insulted a notable in ʿAydhāb, Ibn Jamāhīr, in the …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה. חצרנא פי
    2. עידאב וכאן יום אלתלאתה אלחאדי ואלעשרין מן חדש טבת שנת דכל אבו סעיד
    3. בן מחפוט אלמערוף ב…

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  20. 70LetterT-S AS 149.3

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from an India trader in Quṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably end of 11th or early 12th century, based on Goitein's assessment. The writer departed …

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  21. 71LetterT-S 8.32

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his brother, probably in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender urges him to return quickly; their mother fasts out …

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    1. קלובנא מן אלשוק ולוחשה [
    2. ובלעני מא טרא עליך ובקינא פי חאל אלא יעלמה
    3. אלא אללה תעאלי מן נכד אלעיש וציק אלצדר ולם
    4. נקעד פי דכאן חתי לטף אללה תעאלי…

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  22. 72Legal documentT-S 8J5.23

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    Aramaic

    Conditional bill of divorce. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Av 1480 Seleucid, which is 1169 CE. The trader Bū Saʿd Moshe b. …

    1. בחד בשבה דהוא ש[
    2. אב דשנת אלפא וא[
    3. לשטרות באלמ[
    4. לפסטאט מצר [
    5. אנא משה בר [
    6. וחניכא דאית [
    7. אניסנא ות [
    8. ליכי אנתי פכ [
    9. וחניכא דאית [
    10. דנה וכדן תר [
    11. רשאה ו…

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  23. 73LetterCUL Or.1080 J109

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a certain ʿEli, unknown location, to the cantor Isḥāq, in Damietta. Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic with …

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  24. 74Paraliterary textT-S Misc.35.22

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    Hebrew

    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 century), describing how …

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  25. 75Legal documentT-S Ar.30.42

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Draft of a court record dated 623 (1226) written on a very small piece of paper (4 x 2.5 in) regarding the testimony of Abū …

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    1. חצר אלינא אנו בית דין
    2. החתומים למטה פי
    3. מושב בית דין במצר
    4. יום אלתלתא עאשר
    5. תמוז אתקלז לשטרות
    6. אלמואפק לעאשר רגב
    7. סנה תלת ועשרין וסת
    8. מאיה 〚אבו אלחסי…

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    1. There came before us, we, the members of the court
    2. who have signed below, 
    3. (in) a session of the court in Fustat
    4. on Tuesday, 10
    5. Tammuz 1537 of…

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  26. 76Legal documentENA 4020.2

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Page of the record book of the rabbinical court of Fustat, in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (or possibly Ḥalfon b. Menashshe). Trimmed at …

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