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Poetry copied in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, including a previously unknown poem by Yehuda ha-Levi. Discovered by Amir Ashur and Shulamit Elizur; …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Bundār b. Ḥasan (compare AIU VII.E.35 (PGPID 5404), India Book II,12). Little remains. …
Legal query addressed to Mevorakh b. Saadya, with his responsum. Concerning a trader who shipped 100 silk fūṭas from Alexandria to his partner in Tyre, …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Ṣāʿid b. Saʿīd, in Mirbāṭ (in present-day Oman), to Abū l-Surur Faraḥ b. ʿAbbās al-ʿAsqalānī. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th …
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Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. The sender's name appears in the upper left corner but is very faded (Khalfūn?). He mentions having left …
Letter from [...] Sulaymān Kohen to [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Raḍiyy; the purchase of an ʿarḍī cloth from Fustat; 'the prices of …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably relating to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim convoy and whether something …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. For pepper, lac, etc., bought and sold in Fustat (the two sides are headed by מערפה שרא אלרחל and שרח מא אשתרי …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved. Recommends the bearer for charity and probably asks the addressee to intervene on his behalf …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for …
Small fragment of a letter to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. From one of the Spanish merchants in his circle, resembling the documents of India Book …
Legal document: acknowledgment (ʾiqrār) written for or by Avraham Ibn Yijū. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ I 548 AH (17 June 1153 CE), after his return to …
. . . . . . . . . .] . . . . . ا . . . له بني ادم له ما لهم وعليه ما عليهم لم يشترط عليه مالا ولم يجتعل عـليه
جعلا واقر ان اخاه بو البشر بن بو ا…
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen the descendant of Yehosef ha-Kohen Bet Din. Mentions a suftaja; 30 dinars; possibly …
Fragment of a letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... Sunday the day of my departure from Granada (אגרנאטה) . . …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed and well-preserved. People named: Ibn al-Maqāniʿī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī; Zikrī b. Yaḥyā; Yūsuf b. A[...]; Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār (perhaps the same …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Sefaradi-influenced hand. Dating: likely 12th century. Mentions not being able to send something until now; a letter for Ibn S[...]; possibly …
Small fragment of a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Dating: 12th century. Mentions [...] …
Fol. 2: Deed of sale, probably an Iqrār in Arabic script. The text on verso seems to be in a different hand and it is …
Receipt mainly in Arabic script issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen (وكتب يهودا بن يوسف). The name ʿAlī b. Khālid appears in Hebrew characters in the …
One side: four fragments of a letter, in an official looking hand, in Arabic script. Mentions 300 dīnārs. Needs examination.
Recto: Draft of a letter. In the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Probably addressed to Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, and related to T-S 8J40.1 (PGPID …
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Bin[yamin] to the Nagid Maḍmūn b. Yefet (d. 1151). In Hebrew and Aramaic(!). Only the first few lines on recto and …
A commercial letter from Abu al-Hasan b. al-Iraqi to Abu Sai’d b. al-‘Afasi (עפצי). These figures are familiar from India Book II, so this fragment …
Legal document, concerning the will of [Avraham] b. Peraḥya [Yiju]. Dating: probably 1160–65 or 1160–69 CE, as it was drawn up under the authority of …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Two fragments from the right side. Concerning a release granted by a creditor to Abū …
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Release document in which three partners release their fourth partner, Abū l-Waḥsh b. Saʿadya, (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a certain Avraham, c/o the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣā'igh, in Fustat. The sender asks the addressee to send …
Letter to Yiṣḥaq b. ʿOvadya in Granada, Spain, from Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Ezra (Toledo, Spain). "I believe Mar Joseph is traveling to your place …
Poems by Yehuda ha-Levi, copied by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yijū. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card)
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …
Bifolium from a halakhic treatise. Likely in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel.
Legal testimony in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Before 1146 CE. Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham ha-Zaqen Ibn al-Amshāṭī testifies that the letter is his letter and written …
Letter in Arabic script, with one phrase in Hebrew script. From the medieval India trade. Dating: likely second half of the 12th century (mentions Ibn …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Probably a bill of release between Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi and his brother Abū …
Letter fragment (part of a few lines of recto and verso). Legible phrases include "May God 'write' his health. . . . Forgive me. I …
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 …
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cut diagonally across the text to make a rectangle. Mentions a dinar and a sixth, the price …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be match for one of the Spanish or Maghribī hands from India Book IV — like Ibn Ezra in H37, …
One or more entries in a court register from Fusṭāṭ, dated Thursday, 28 Adar [1]409 of the Seleucid Era (= 4 March 1098 CE), mentioning …
Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Moses, trustee of the Yeshiva. (Information from CUDL). Should be added to India Book V. …
Fragment from a letter/petition from Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muʿallima to Maḍmūn b. [Ḥasan] the Nagid of Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with long introductory formulae in Hebrew. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. Mentions legal opponents (khuṣūm). Needs examination, ideally with multispectral imaging. (Information in part from CUDL.) Possibly in the hand of …
Legal fragment. Power of attorney mentioning Ibn al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Kuwayyis (see PGPID 9675), Abū l-Munajjā, Ibn Sālim al-Ṣayrafī the perfumer (al-ʿAṭṭār) in zuqāq al-qanādīl, Abū …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is very cursive and very hard to read (and seems familiar from other 11th- or 12th-century mercantile documents). Refers …
Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov, unknown location, to an unidentified addressee, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Same writer …
Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Cf. PGPID 5479 and PGPID 38566. ASE
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. The section preserved here opens with asking for a favor from the addressee involving conciliating someone else. Goes …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. May be a second copy of ENA …