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  1. 101LetterT-S 24.47

    Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, probably in Fustat, to Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria. Extremely faded and damaged. Dating: September 1140 CE. Written shortly after the …

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    1. מגדל עוז שם יי וג'
    2. יאמולאי ומאלך נפסי וגאיה אמלי ומנאי אִןִ ..לִלִ.....אה יִגִדהא פי חאלה
    3. ואחואל לא יצלח לה ולא יתפק לִיתקִ[ן] מִכא[טבה ...] ה…

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  2. 102List or tableT-S Ar.30.142

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. See Goitein's attached notes for further information.

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  3. 103LetterT-S Ar.30.145

    India Book VII, 50. Letter (memo) from an unnamed India trader, probably in Aden, to Mufaḍḍal Ibn Abī Saʿd, in Qūṣ. Dating: first third of …

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    1. אללה חסבי
    2. אלדי סירה אלממלוך אלא ענד אלמולא //אלסיד מפצל אבן אבו סעד//
    3. אדאם אללה עזה
    4. צחבה אלשיך יחיה בן אבי אלקאסם
    5. אלסכאוי פי מטיה…

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    1. (To) M. Mufaḍḍal Ibn Abī Saʿd ("Excellent, son of Fortunate"). God is sufficient for me.
    2. These items have been sent by your serva…

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  4. 104Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.30.184

    20 orders of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen. See individual PGPIDs (18979 through 18998). See also Goitein's attached notes.

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  5. 105List or tableT-S Ar.30.219

    Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. See Goitein's notes for further information andt ranscription.

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  6. 106List or tableT-S Ar.35.220

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions debits and credits of people and entities such as Ismāʿīl, "the Indian," Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, dīwān al-R[...]. Needs examination.

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  7. 107LetterT-S Ar.39.480

    Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Goitein notes that this …

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  8. 108LetterT-S Ar.40.56

    India Book (IB) II, 64. Letter from Bū ʿAlī b. Bū ʿUmar, in Upper Egypt, to his family (his son or possibly nephew Abū l-Maḥāsin …

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    1. شاكر اياديه
    2. بو على بن بو عمر
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. كتابي اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاى الشيخ الاجل السيد وادام
    5. تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها ومن …

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    1. Thankful of his kindnesses,
    2. Bū ʿAlī b. Bū ʿUmar. 

    3. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.

    4. My letter (to you)—may …

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  9. 109LetterT-S Ar.41.10

    Commercial letter in Arabic script. Long and damaged. Dating: likely 16th century, as it mentions the ashrafī (used from 1425 onward but replaced by other …

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  10. 110Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 20r: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Sulaymān is to give the bearer, the cantor Abū Saʿīd, 15 (ounces?) of …

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  11. 111List or tableT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 19: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. This is the sole fragment under this shelfmark that does not include an Abū Zikrī Kohen …

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  12. 112Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 5v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy …

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  13. 113Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 3r: Remnants of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Fol. 3v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan …

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  14. 114Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 8r: Remnant of a letter or possibly state document in Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved: ...لعبك من الخاصة... Fol. 8v: …

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  15. 115Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 4: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy …

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  16. 116Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 9: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 3 ounces of lemon and …

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  17. 117Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 1: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod should give the bearer 3 ounces of apple syrup.

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  18. 118Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 2: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl of oxymel.

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  19. 119Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 13: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy …

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  20. 120LetterT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 10r: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The first few lines and the upper margin are preserved. Muslim/Musallam sends his regards. Almost all the content preserved …

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  21. 121Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 10v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer lemon and rose [syrup].

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  22. 122Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 11: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy …

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  23. 123Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 12: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy …

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  24. 124Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 15v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces of pomegranate oxymel.

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  25. 125Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 16: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of oxymel.

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  26. 126LetterT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 14r: Lower part of a petition in Arabic script: "...to your slave my son Faḍāʾil, and please bestow favor on me with this great …

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  27. 127Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 18: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces of chewy candy …

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  28. 128Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 17: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces of oxymel syrup.

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  29. 129Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 14v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1/2 raṭl of oxymel.

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  30. 130Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 20v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy …

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  31. 131Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 21: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces of some kind …

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  32. 132Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 6: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: The addressee is to give the bearer lemon syrup (the left side of …

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  33. 133List or tableT-S Ar.54.20.1–2

    Two bifolios from a ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  34. 134Legal documentT-S Ar.54.20.3

    Fol. 3: Legal document. Left side of an agreement with a wife that she would receive the rent from the middle story of a house, …

    1. ]ע וכיל אלשיך אסחק אלנפוסי בר מכלוף
    2. ]ן נע עלי גמלה כרי אלדאר גמיעהא ויחאסב
    3. ] ללבדי אגרה אלטבקה אלוסטאניה אלדי געלהא להא
    4. עא]ם אול שנת אתלז ממא בקי ענ…

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  35. 135LetterT-S Ar.54.39

    India Book (IB) IV,9 (ח6). Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanʾel, writing from Aden. This is the preliminary draft of a letter, …

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    1. אלי חאלהא תום מן אול
    2. אלדכול יקצד אלמגאלטה
    3. פי כתב אלגמיע ויקאל
    4. אן מא וצל מעי כתאב
    5. בל הי תצל מע ג'ירי
    6. חתי כתב יוסף וכלף
    7. ואלגמיע וכתאב ר' י…

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    1. [...] אל מצבה. ועוד מתחילת
    2. בואנו היה מתכוון למעשה מרמה
    3. בדבר מכתבי הכול. ויש לומר
    4. לא הבאתי מכתב,
    5. אלא מישהו אחר יביא אותם
    6. אפילו מכתבי יוסף…

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  36. 136LetterT-S AS 145.14

    Upper margin and address from a letter by Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Mentions a box containing coral …

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  37. 137Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 145.76

    Order of one raṭl of olive oil (zayt ṭayyib) by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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  38. 138Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 146.16

    An Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque. 15 dirhams are credited to Abū l-Surūr.

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  39. 139Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 148.13a–c

    Three orders of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen.

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  40. 140Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 152.5

    Receipt issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Surūr for 3.75 dirhams.

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  41. 141LetterT-S AS 154.116 + T-S 24.66

    India Book (IB) II, 16: Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju. Dating: 1133–40 CE. This is the scribe's copy of …

    T-S 24.66 recto (IB II, 16)

    1. ברחמתה ואנתהית אלי מא דכרה
    2. פי כתאבה אלעזיז מן אנפאדה פי
    3. מרכב אלנאכדא ראמשת מן אלפלפל
    4. אתני עשר בהאר באלצגיר וקד וצל
    5. דלך ו…

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    1. ...] in His mercy. I noted that you mentioned
    2. in your esteemed letter
    3. that you had sent some pepper in the ship of the nākhudā Rāmisht
    4. —twelve…

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  42. 142LetterT-S AS 156.237 + T-S AS 156.238

    IB VII, 70. Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, Aden, after his return from a difficult voyage to the southern coast of India, to ʿArūs b. …

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    1. [Your servant took notice of... and your yearning] for him, a feeling shared by me. [May God ordain that]

    2. prosperity and he…

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  43. 143LetterT-S AS 158.393 + T-S NS J241

    India Book, II,21 (T-S NS J241) and II,21c (T-S AS 158.393). Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 …

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    1. מכלוף בן עינין סרה אליתים מצאלחה
    2. ען מא כאן לה מעה בעד אלפתנה ואלתעב
    3. תלאת מאיה דינ וביד סידאן ק מתקאלא
    4. מצרייה אלתמן דתכ דינ וקימה בהאר
    5. ונצף דרכ…

    II,21: T-S NS J241 recto

    1. The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,

    2. with regard to what you owed h…

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  44. 144Legal documentT-S AS 165.190

    India Book (IB) I, 31b. Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly …

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    1. כן הוה [... חצר אלי בית דין אבו אלברכאת בן מר' ור' יוסף] 
    2. הידוע אללבדי נ''ע וקאל לנא אשה [דו עלי ואקנו מני מעכשיו ואכתבו ואכתמו עלי בג'מיע אלא…
    1. This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]

    2. known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…

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  45. 145Legal query or responsumT-S AS 172.68

    Copied in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, a very small section of a gaonic responsum in Hebrew and Aramaic containing a discussion of Babylonian …

    TS AS 172.68

    1. אין מִצטרפין [עד שיראו שניהם כאחד ̇ר יהושע בן קרחה]
    2. או̇מ אפילו בזהִ [אחר זה ...]
    3. במטלטלין דאמרי [נהרדעי בין הודאה אחר הודאה ובין הודאה …

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  46. 146LetterT-S AS 175.147

    Small fragment of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat or Cairo, to his brother Yeḥezqel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No later January 1136 CE, …

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    1 לא אע[...]

    2 תעא[...]

    3 חאל [...]

    4 ענד [...]

    5 ודמ.[...]

    6 יכון [...]

    7 כת[...]

    [שוליים]

    (1) עלי.[...] (2) אן את.[...] (3) באלכאץ ול…

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  47. 147List or tableT-S J1.53

    India Book (IB) IV,1 (ח22). Account of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, written for Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Bharuch, and the only account that survived in …

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    1. חסאב מולאי אלשיך אבו סעיד חלפון בר נתנאל נ''ע
    2. לה קימה ח' כוארג וח' אתואב מקצור קצ''ח דינאר וי''ד קיראט
    3. ולה קימה 〚מחאבס זיאדִ〛עשרה כוארג מחאבס …

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    1. חשבון אדוני השיך אבו סעיד חלפון בר נתנאל נ"ע.
    2. לזכותו דמי ח' כורגות וח' יחידות תוב של בד כבוס: קצ"ח דינר וי"ד קיראט
    3. ולזכותו דמי ⟦מעטים ועוד⟧ עש…

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  48. 148List or tableT-S K15.6

    India Book (IB) I, 38. List of donors of wheat and/or cash for the poor. Dated: Av 1489 Seleucid = July/August 1178 CE. The occasion …

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  49. 149Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K15.38

    Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of lamp/linseed oil (zayt ḥār).

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  50. 150List or tableT-S K15.98

    Inventory of the estate of Nissim b. Yaʿqūb, a merchant who died in Sawākin (Suakin in present-day Sudan) on Monday, 7 Shaʿbān 503 AH (1 …

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