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  1. 201List or tableT-S AS 145.241

    Accounting for an India trader, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions goods such as hyacinth and pepper, and their quantities, and many other …

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  2. 202LetterT-S AS 149.96

    Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov (active ca. 1131–50), either in Aden or in India, to (his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. …

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    1.  . . . . 

    2. ברסם פיצית?

    3. ואיצא ברסם

    4. אלשיך סלימאן

    5. אחיאה אללה

    6. עבד הנדי צגיר

    7. ומ . . . אלי [ . . . ]

    8. וברסם אלבית 

    9. . . …

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  3. 203LetterT-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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  4. 204LetterT-S AS 158.282 + T-S AS 158.279 + T-S AS 158.281

    Three fragments of a letter written by Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, belonging to the addenda to India Book II. AA/ASE

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  5. 205Unknown typeT-S AS 159.247

    Fragment in an Indian Devanāgarī script, in an as yet unidentified language, possibly a dialect of Gujarati. See Gideon Bohak, "T-S AS 159.248, T-S AS …

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  6. 206Unknown typeT-S AS 159.248

    Fragment in an Indian Devanāgarī script, in an as yet unidentified language, possibly a dialect of Gujarati. Possibly a letter. See Gideon Bohak, "T-S AS …

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  7. 207LetterT-S AS 183.110

    Letter in Arabic script. The writer is in Aden. He reports that something of the addressee's is safe in his keeping. "If his (or your?) …

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  8. 208Legal documentT-S Misc.34.42

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). Mentions "all that …

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  9. 209List or tableT-S NS 164.41

    Commercial list in two or three different hands in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. On verso there is a list of commodities sent with Abū l-Ḥasan …

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  10. 210LetterT-S NS 224.200

    Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May be in the hand of Abū l-Rabiʿ Sulaymān the son of Abū Zikrī Kohen (cf. ENA NS …

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  11. 211List or tableT-S NS 297.252

    Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (with the name of the month מרחשון written in Hebrew script three times). Written on cloth. The …

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  12. 212LetterT-S NS 305.169

    Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with a single word in Hebrew script (ניסן). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The preserved text is written at …

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  13. 213LetterT-S NS 313.6

    Letter in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). Almost complete. Unclear if Ḥalfon himself is the sender; could be written on …

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  14. 214Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 338.30

    Cheque signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen (to be added to the list of checks in India Book 5). Khalīl is to give the bearer 3 …

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  15. 215Legal 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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  16. 216LetterBL OR 10112B.16 + Moss. IV,53.2

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Two fragments from the upper left side. Mentions: female dyers …

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  17. 217Legal documentENA 4011.1

    Verso (original use): Legal or state document in Arabic script, in what looks like a chancery hand. Fragment from the bottom of the document (4 …

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  18. 218Legal documentENA 4011.62

    Recto: Bill of sale for a female slave. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel …

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  19. 219List or tableENA NS 50.6

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Dating: 12th century. Featuring Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel Al-Dimyāṭī, the brother of Ḥalfon b. Netanel, as well as Khalaf …

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    1. בן אלנאקד א אבו נצר ד
    2. אבו אלמנא ה אבו אלפצל //אלרפא// ב
    3. בשאר א אלאבל א
    4. אלפקאעי ב בן גליב ב
    5. בן אלעכי ב בן צדקה נץ
    6. אלטויל א אלרפא אברהים א
    7. בן אל…

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  20. 220Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.54

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of rose and lemon (preserve). (Information from CUDL)

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  21. 221Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.55

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and rose drink. (Information from CUDL)

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  22. 222Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.56

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out two ūqiyyas of rose and lemon preserve. (Information from CUDL)

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  23. 223Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.57

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out two ūqiyyas of rose (preserve) and two ūqiyyas of lemon …

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  24. 224Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.60

    Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and two ūqiyyas of sorrel. (Information …

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  25. 225Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Ar. I.61

    Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out two ūqiyyas of lemon and one ūqiyya (of lemon) …

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  26. 226LetterT-S 8J33.3

    Printed copy of a letter that purports to be from the tribes of Gad and Reuben, in the Holy Land, to the tribes of Judah …

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  27. 227LetterT-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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  28. 228LetterT-S AS 155.321

    Recto: Opening lines of a letter introduced by quotations such as Psalms 31:2. Verso: unusual note that does not seem to be a classic address; …

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  29. 229List or tableT-S AS 209.332 + T-S AS 209.334 + T-S AS 209.338 + T-S AS 209.346 + T-S AS 209.340 + T-S AS 209.353 + T-S AS 209.331 + T-S AS 209.336

    Tadkhira (business memorandum) regarding amounts of money and items such as saffron, probably written by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Addendum to the India Book.

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  30. 230LetterT-S Misc.28.190

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this …

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  31. 231LetterT-S NS 224.209

    Letter from Abū Zikrī to Abū Saʿīd Halfon b. Moshe, Trustee of the Yeshiva. This person is unknown and is not listed in Goitein's index …

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  32. 232LetterAIU XII.83

    Letter in Arabic from Ṣāʿid, probably a Jewish merchant, in ʿAydhāb, to his mother and brother in Fusṭāṭ. He reports that his party left Qūṣ …

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  33. 233Legal documentCUL Or.1080 1.88 + T-S NS 99.55

    Legal document. Quittance or bill of release (barāʾa) from Almeria, in al-Andalus, confirmed in Egypt. Individuals mentioned include […] b. al-Naḡara, Ḥalfon ha-Levi, Yiṣḥaq b. …

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  34. 234LetterDK 311 (alt: 3, 6)

    Business letter from Shelomo b. Avraham [. . .] Ruqqī to Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. Shelomo Ruqqī. "Abū l-Faraj Nissim, the recipient of this letter, …

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  35. 235Legal documentENA 2728.2

    Marriage agreement between a Rabbanite husband and a Qaraite wife, with a 30 dinar fine to the poor if one transgresses the religious practices of …

    1. אסתקר בחצרתנא אנו בית דין [
    2. אלרייס אבו עלי מר ור יפת הכהן [
    3. הכהן השר האדיר רוח ייי תניחנו [
    4. הכהן בר מר [. . . . .]ם [. ה]כהן הזקן [
    5. ימן הקרואה נאגיה…

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  36. 236LetterENA 2808.30

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Fragmentary (horizontal piece from the middle). Mentions a woman going up to Fustat and litigating …

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  37. 237State documentT-S 13J20.5

    Petition, draft, addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aka the vizier Ibn al-Salār), in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, asking that he release the estate …

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    1. ינהון אן ואלדהם סק[ט באלופאה ]

    2. צגאר ואן מתולי אלמע[ונה ]

    3. ואלדהם וואלדתהם ולמ יבקי אלמאל [ ]

    4. בה וכלף להם דוירה יסתקרון פיהא [ ]

    5. מן אלמ…

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    1. They report that their father has died [ leaving three] .

    2. small [children] and that the head of the police [ ]

    3. their father and their mo…

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  38. 238LetterT-S Ar.34.142

    Letter in Arabic script from Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Mentions going to Abū ʿAlī b. al-Dimyāṭī (=Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi) and borrowing …

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  39. 239LetterT-S Ar.38.88

    Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū ʿUmar, in Aden, addressed to Sitt Ghazāl and Umm Munajjā, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The identification of the …

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  40. 240LetterT-S AS 152.54

    Letter from Berakha, the wife of Marwān b. Zikrī/Zekharya, to her brother Avraham b. Peraḥya Mahdawī (Ben Yiju). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is unclear if this …

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  41. 241LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/50

    Business letter from the North African merchant Benāya b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Shelomo b. Mevorakh (Fustat), containing inter alia information about the movement of ships …

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    1. בשמך רחמ
    2. תקדמת כתבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה
    3. בקאה ואדאם סעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה ערפתה
    4. שדת שוקי אליה ומא אנא פיה מן וחשתה ומן תאכר
    5. כתבה ענ…

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  42. 242LetterENA 2727.21a + ENA 2964.27

    Letter in the hand of Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi, Ḥalfon's brother, while in Qalyūb. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Ḥasan who are known …

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    1. . . ללשיך אבו אלפצל . . . א מ[
    2. אלי אלטריק לישיר עלי במא [
    3. פי אי שגל אשתגל בה [
    4. ל . . אלמכאן (?) יקטע אלחריר [
    5. ואנא מקים פי קליוב מא | [א]תקלק…

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  43. 243LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/33

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu Ishaq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāharti, Būṣīr. Mentions pepper, caravans.

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאס[וא ענך] 
    2. ברחמתה מן מצר יום אלב' לו' בקין מן שבט כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך באחסן …

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  44. 244LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/33

    Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu Ishaq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāharti, Būṣīr. Mentions imports in the al-Qulzum region (or the village itself?): 400 …

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  45. 245LetterT-S 8J16.27

    Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Fustat, to his cousin Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen, in a smaller town, in which the writer refers to the …

    1. כתבת הדה אלאחרף אלי מולאי אלחבר נט רחמ
    2. ענד כתרה שוקנא לכתאבה אד קד אנקטע ענא
    3. מדה ארגו יכון לכיר וכאן קד וצלני כתאב אכוך
    4. רבי חייא שצ מע יוסף אלסקלי ו…

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  46. 246LetterT-S 10J7.12

    Fragment of a letter from Abū ʿAli b. al-Dimyāṭī to his brother Abu Saʿīd b. Hibat Allah (Ḥalfon b. Netanel). The writer mentions the silk …

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    1. באלחריר ואנא...
    2. פי אסרע וקת יאכי ומו[לאי]...
    3. אללה תבארך ותעאלי סרור יד[כל]...
    4. קלבי מן חאגתך ומסארעתי אלי קצאהא
    5. ואיצא מא דכל עלי קלבי מן אלפרח…

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  47. 247Legal documentT-S 16.22 + T-S 10J5.17

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, dated 1449 (= 1137/38 CE). A tax-farmer (ḍāmin), Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿUlla (known as …

    T-S 10J5.17 recto

    1. ( )ק( )
    2. (מנהמא על)י נפסה באלתזאמה לצאחבה גמיע ( )
    3. (ליס ל)ה רגוע ען שי מנה ולא פסך שי מנה ולא אעלאלה ( )
    4. כל עיקר ואן כל מנהמא קאבל …

    T-S 16.22 recto

    1. Testimony of what transpired before us, we, the witnesses whose signatures are below. It happened thus: there appeared before us the…

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  48. 248LetterT-S Ar.35.14

    Nearly complete letter in Arabic, written by a Muslim scribe (concludes with a ṣalwala - prayers for the prophet Muhammad), sent to somebody close to …

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  49. 249LetterT-S AS 148.9 + T-S AS 148.197

    India Book II, 49; Ḥ21 (ח21). Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel, in Bharuch, India (v14). Dating: ca. 1134 …

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    [...ות]מן פוטה ושראב[יתין ...]

    1. מסך אלקדח פיה י' מתאקיל מ[סך ...]
    2. מנה דינארין קימה מחבסין [...]
    3. ולחצרתך מחבסין אבאע דלך פי אלתמן [...]
    4. אלי דיאר…

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  50. 250LetterENA 3903.5

    Business letter. Probably from Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghribī al-Tūnisī (upper right of recto). In Arabic script, in an experienced hand. Dating: Possibly Mamluk-era. On …

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