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  1. 1LetterENA NS 48.2

    Copy of a letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: 1136–39 or 1145–49. Written by one of Maḍmūn's clerks, in …

    1. אלספר ביומין [...]
    2. גריב עלי ידה וע[לי ...]
    3. לצאחב דהלך פיה לשיך [...]
    4. בלאל בן גריר עלי אלרגל אל[די באע]
    5. אלדרכי אשתראה מנה לנפס[ה]
    6. וליס יקדר אחד יטלב …

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  2. 2Legal documentPER H 21 + Moss. VII,39

    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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  3. 3LetterT-S 28.22

    India Book I, 14: Letter from Yosef Lebdi to Ḥasan b. Bundar, 'the representative of the merchants' in Aden, written in the hand of Hillel …

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    1. [... מר]פע וגטא [זנה ע''ח ונצף מגסל ...]
    2. [וזנה אתנין וכ]מסין דרהמא ורבע [...] 
    3. [וזן אלכל תל]ת מאיה ותסעה וכמסין דרהמ[א ...] 
    4. [אבי יעקוב אלחכים…
    1. I asked my lord to grant me an advance on fifty bahārs pepper; you agr[eed and divided the amount]
    2. between the boat of al-Qummī and th…

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  4. 4LetterT-S 12.392

    Letter from a novice India trader in a Red Sea Port to his brother, Libya. Dating: 1103. Complains in rhyme about the hardships of travel. …

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    1.  אנה] ולי דלך ואלקאדר עליה אן שא אללה
    2.  א]כי בל סיידי יום אלב לכד יומא כלון
    3.  [מן שהר] חשון סנה תתסד ערפנא אללה בר[כאת]       
    4. [לנא ולכל] ישראל …

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    1. … for he is master of this and has power over it, if God wills.
    2. … on Monday 24
    3. Ḥeshvan, (4)864, may God acquaint us with blessings 
    4.  for us an…

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