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  1. 101Literary textT-S H11.4

    Draft of a poem for a circumcision composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū, containing the acrostic with his name (אברהמ חזק). With praises for …

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  2. 102Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79.7 + T-S Misc.28.79.11

    P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …

    T-S Misc.28.79 7r

    1. פיהא אלתלת כחסב מא גרת בה [
    2. הקהלות דנן אלתלתי ואשרט[..] לה עלי נפסי אנני א[
    3. כלטה דרהם ואחד לא[. .]פקד שי מן שי וגמיע מ[
    4. פאידתה כלט…

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  3. 103Literary textT-S NS 108.78 + T-S H11.37 + T-S NS 96.54

    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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  4. 104Literary textT-S NS 130.54

    Piyyuṭ in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Identified by Amir Ashur.

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  5. 105LetterT-S NS 163.47 + T-S NS 324.53

    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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    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]על.לם .[. . . . . .
    2. בושת פנים ו. .[. . . . . . . . .]אלכלק ולא נקדר . . .
    3. עליך סאעה אן נבצרך ידבק [. .…

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  6. 106Legal documentT-S NS 184.97

    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 …

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  7. 107LetterT-S NS 225.110

    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 …

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  8. 108Legal documentT-S NS 320.50c

    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. …

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  9. 109Legal documentT-S NS 320.67

    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 …

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  10. 110Legal documentT-S NS 321.76

    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. …

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  11. 111LetterT-S NS 321.87

    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 …

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    1. יצל אלי ולדי ואלעזיז עלי
    2. זין בר יוסף נע לבדי
    3. מן [
    4. אה[

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    1. ] . רוחה ומוגיה וכלאצה [
    2. חיא תלף אללה כל שי דון אלרוח [
    3. אלדי נכתב לך נ…

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  12. 112List or tableT-S NS 324.111 + T-S AS 146.92

    Primary use (probably): Business accounts in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. Concerning transactions conducted in Jurbattan in betel nut, cardamom, coins, and copper and …

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  13. 113LetterT-S NS 327.101

    Business letter in Arabic script, 11th century, to do with the India trade, including pepper and lac. Name of sender and recipient missing. Aodeh: "difficult …

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  14. 114Literary textT-S NS J21

    Liturgical poem (piyyūṭ) by the Andalusī Jewish poet Yiṣḥaq b. Ghiyāth (1038–89), copied by Avraham Ibn Yijū on the back of a letter sent to …

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  15. 115LetterT-S NS J339

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Mentions Alexandria; business negotiations with Abū Naṣr, concluding with a purchase for only 30 dinars; refers to …

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  16. 116LetterT-S NS J369

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The handwriting and the layout resemble those of Ḥalfon b. Netanel's Spanish correspondents (see India Book IV)—but none …

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  17. 117List or tableAIU VII.A.38.2

    This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. Much of it consists of extensive business accounts of an India trader. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning many items …

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  18. 118LetterAIU VII.E.9

    Fragment (lower left of recto and of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter involving money owed between various parties. People named are: Makīn; al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rashīd …

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    1. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
    2. ד]פעתו לה פיהם סבעה מא פעל וקד
    3. ] אלדי תבקא לכם ענדי והו ארבעה
    4. ]ם מעי אחדי עשר דרהם אלא
    5. ] מן אלמוהתין(…

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  19. 119LetterAIU VII.E.173

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand appears to be that of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Possibly a draft, …

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  20. 120List or tableBodl. MS heb. d 65/36

    Business accounts, mentioning goods from India, myrobalan, and pepper, among many other things. On recto: Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. …

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  21. 121LetterBodl. MS heb. d 65/36

    Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mūsā Majjānī. (The names are very difficult to read; these may be not exactly right.) …

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  22. 122List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 98/71

    Verso: Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  23. 123LetterBodl. MS heb. f 106/64

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century, based on handwriting. Mentions red sulfur (kibrīt aḥmar), the estate of the addressee's dead brother, and perhaps …

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    1. אלכברית אלאחמר אלדי באעני [
    2. אחמר ואמא מא דכרת אן אלמרוחם
    3. יוסף אכוך ימצא רחמים אן קד כלף שי
    4. והו תחת אלחוטה פהדא שי אן בעיד עלי
    5. . . . . . . . כא…

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  24. 124LetterENA 2160.50

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing mainly with business matters. The sender is sorting through accounts (e.g., "I checked my ledger (daftarī) and did not find anything."). …

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  25. 125LetterENA 2575.7 + ENA 2575.8

    Letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the …

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    1. [...]ם אכוך
    2. [...]ב אמארה כל

    3. [...]לה וגרם אלף וכמס מאיה

    4. דרהם ומן גהה אלעבד מבארך פשעיה פי אסכנדריא

    5. ואכדה אלמחתסב בלאש מא סלם פיה שי וגרם…

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  26. 126Legal documentENA 2712.10 + T-S NS 320.111

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. Seems to be the resolution/settlement of a …

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  27. 127Legal documentENA 2742.3

    Legal note, unsigned, beginning "Yaqūlu...": "ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn says that Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī has a note (ruqʿa) of [...] under the name of Abū ʿImrān …

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  28. 128Literary textENA 3252.19–20

    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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  29. 129LetterENA 3270.5

    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. …

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  30. 130Legal query or responsumENA 3725.9

    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, …

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  31. 131LetterENA 3921.1

    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 …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ وادام عزه وتاييده وسعادته وسلامته ونعماه وبركته(؟) وكبت اعداه
    3. من مرباط عن سلامة وشوق اليه شدي…

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  32. 132Paraliterary textENA 3925.8

    Medical prescription. Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān …

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  33. 133LetterENA 4020.60b

    Letter from Avraham al-Muʿṭī and Yosef b. Ezra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Most of the substance of the message is lost.

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  34. 134LetterENA NS 30.6

    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 …

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  35. 135LetterENA NS 33.16

    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 …

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  36. 136LetterENA NS 36.25

    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 …

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  37. 137List or tableENA NS 48.5

    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 …

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  38. 138LetterENA NS 64.4

    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 …

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  39. 139LetterENA NS 67.6

    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 …

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    1. ואן דלך אלשכץ אקאם פי אלבלד כמסה
    2. איאם ותוגה אלי עדן אעלמת מולאי
    3. בדלך ובאללה עליך יא מולאי אן אחוגת
    4. עבדך אן יבטל אלדכאן אלי אן נסאפר
    5. למצר לאנך …

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  40. 140LetterENA NS 77.58

    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 …

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  41. 141Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 83.338

    Order or receipt in Arabic script with Judaeo-Arabic annotations for 2 dinars for [...] Makkī(?) al-Khabbāz from Yehuda b. Yosef (presumably this is Abū Zikrī …

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  42. 142Legal documentHalper 472

    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 …

    1. . . . . . . . . . .] . . . . . ا . . . له بني ادم له ما لهم وعليه ما عليهم لم يشترط عليه مالا ولم يجتعل عـليه

    2. جعلا واقر ان اخاه بو البشر بن بو ا…

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  43. 143Credit instrument or private receiptJRL B 3088

    An Abu Zikri Kohen cheque. Sibāʿ is to pay the bearer three [...].

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  44. 144LetterJRL B 3097

    Fragment of a letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... Sunday the day of my departure from Granada (אגרנאטה) . . …

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  45. 145Credit instrument or private receiptJRL B 4066

    Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) to pay the bearer …

    1. אמת
    2. בשמ
    3. ידפע אלשיך אבן אלחסן //אלהוד// למוצלהא נצף רטל
    4. שראב ורד לא גיר
    5. אבו זכרי כהן

    { Below, upside down, and in a different hand. }

    1. .............…

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  46. 146List or tableJRL B 5061

    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 …

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  47. 147LetterJRL B 5758

    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 …

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  48. 148LetterJRL B 6427

    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 [...] …

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  49. 149LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/14

    Lower fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with a poem in Hebrew mourning separation and praising the addressee (אהה עלי אחים אשר היו אגודה והפרידם זמן …

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  50. 150Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/4

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large and well preserved. Release granted by Yaḥyā ha-Kohen to Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ, …

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