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  1. 51LetterT-S 16.298

    Commercial letter sent from Isaac and Joseph (probably in Babylonia) to Judah ha-Sar, mentioning a voyage to India and commodities including gold and silver slag …

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  2. 52LetterT-S 18J5.5

    Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to a merchant in Egypt: Attack on Aden by the King of Kish. Aden, ca. 1135-6.

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    1. [ ]רש[ ] ותאבי
    2. [...] ען אדא אלשהאדה פאלבארי תעאלי חא[ס]בהם
    3. וקד קאל אלכתאב לא אמונה בגוים ואמא אכבארנא
    4. ומא טרא עלינא בעד ספרכם פהו שי יטול שרח…

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  3. 53LetterT-S 8J20.25

    Fragment of a letter from Perahya Yiju to Abu al-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshati. Written in al-Mahalla, ca. 1161-72.

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    1. ב
    2. וקויי ייי יחליפו כח יעלו אבר וג
    3. ורבצת ואין מחריד וחלו פניך וג
    4. כאן קד תקדם כתאבי להדרת כגק מרנ ורבי סעדיה
    5. הזקן הנ פאר הסוחרים הממולא בכל מד…

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  4. 54Unknown typeT-S 8J23.20

    Judge Elijah orders a white "burda", some handwriting exercises at the bottom

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  5. 55Legal 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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  6. 56LetterT-S 10J29.3

    Letter, written by a trader before leaving Aden for Nahrawāra, mentioning Abū l-Waḥš, Abū Saʿd, Abū Naṣr, Abū Yaʿqūb and the family of Bayt al-Baḥr …

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  7. 57Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  8. 58Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  9. 59LetterT-S 8Ja1.4

    Letter from an unknown writer in Qūṣ to an unknown addressee in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. The writer reports that the children and …

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  10. 60Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  11. 61Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …

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  12. 62List 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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  13. 63LetterT-S 24.47

    Letter probably from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, probably in Fustat, to Yehuda ha-Levi. Dating: September 1140 CE. India Book 4 (Hebrew description below; full English to …

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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 לִית…

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  14. 64Credit 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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  15. 65LetterF 1908.44U

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn Ezra, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: before Nisan, probably of 1139 CE (Goitein and Friedman), or less …

    1. יאמולאי וסידי אדאם אללה עזّך ואטאל מדתך כתבתה ליל̈ה אלאחד
    2. ען שוק לא יעלמה גיר אללה תעלי וח̇צרתני סכאפה פי דלך אלשכץ
    3. אלדי פי עלמך אי̇צא ולעמרך פקד קצ…

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  16. 66Credit 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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  17. 67List 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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  18. 68LetterCUL Or.1080 J30

    Letter. Letter concerning a girl who had been regarded as being a Muslim and when she appeared before the Qāḍī, declared she was Jewish, whereupon …

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  19. 69Legal documentENA 2727.15c

    Recto: Quittance given to the carriers of goods sent from Yemen by a husband, Abū Yaʿqūb [...] b. Efrayim to his wife (or rather seems …

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  20. 70Unknown typeL-G Ar. I.54–63

    Awaiting description

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  21. 71LetterMoss. IV,61.4

    Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Sulaymān. In Judaeo-Arabic. Less a letter—there are no opening or closing pleasantries—and more an order of various items with …

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  22. 72LetterMoss. II,190

    Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around the spring of 1080. Musa is traveling and asks the writer …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה

    2. וסעאדתה ונעמתה [ען] שוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגתמאע [בה] עלי אפצל

    3. חאל בעד וצול כתאב…

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  23. 73LetterMoss. VII,192.1

    Letter fragment, preserving only the opening line, seven lines from the top margin and, on verso, the address. The letter is addressed to Abū Zikrī …

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  24. 74LetterMoss. VII,178.2

    Letter from Bū Naṣr to Abū Zikrī Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Fragment: only the upper margin and the address are preserved. Mentions Abū Saʿd b. …

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  25. 75LetterT-S AS 146.386

    Letter fragment (part of a few lines of recto and verso). Legible phrases include "May God 'write' his health. . . . Forgive me. I …

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  26. 76LetterT-S 13J21.6

    Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions commodities such …

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  27. 77Literary textT-S Ar.41.10

    Business letter in Arabic script. Very long. Incomplete. Mentions someone's brother who has not returned from India as expected (seven lines from the bottom of …

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  28. 78LetterNLI 577.3/6

    India Book III,16: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Mangalore, dated July-August 1148. The letter contains information about their …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי ומאלכי
    3. חרס אללה נעמתה וסרמד גבטתה ומכן
    4. בסטתה ואעלי כלמתה ורפע פי אלדארין דרגתה
    5. וכבת אעדאה וחסדתה ומא ד…

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    1. In Your name, O Merciful.
    2. The letter of his excellence, the most illustrious shaykh, my master and lord, has arrived.
    3. May God preserve your pr…

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  29. 79LetterT-S 13J18.19

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after 1 Nisan 1139 CE. India Book 4 …

    1. יא מולאי וסידי ורב אלנעמה קבלי ..[... אטאל אללה בקא]ה וקרב עִלִ[י] אלמרִג[וב]
    2. לקאה במנה כתבתה יא מולאי ואנא [... שוק ו]תִוק אלי ח̇צרה מולאי אלעזיזה

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  30. 80Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 148.13a–c

    Three orders of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen.

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  31. 81Credit 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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  32. 82Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. II,125.2

    Verso: order of payment for half a raṭl of honey, issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Sibāʿ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  33. 83LetterT-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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  34. 84Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 292.5

    Order of delivery for one raṭl of olive oil (zayt ṭayyib). From Abū Zikrī Kohen to al-Shaykh Khalīl (or Khalaf?).

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  35. 85Legal documentT-S 13J8.9

    Testimony of Abū Zikrī Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yehosef ha-Kohen releasing Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yaʿaqov ha-Zaken in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen, signed …

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  36. 86LetterBodl. MS heb. b 3/26

    Letter from Alexandria to a merchant in Fustat. Around 1065. The letter contains a list of different goods’ prices. Mentions collecting debt in Adan, and …

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  37. 87Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.29

    Legal record (#65). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Middle of Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. "One of a series of documents from 1156 about an inheritance dispute between Abū …

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  38. 88Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.19

    Legal record (#46). Discharge of debt. The court ordered Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān al-Kohen to purchase 1/8 of a house for 50 dinars for the unmarried …

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  39. 89Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.23v–24r

    Legal record (#60). Deposition in court. Dated: Av 1467 Seleucid. Concerning repairs of a dilapidated wall belonging to two houses. Sitt al-Khāṣṣa and Sitt al-Riḍā, …

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  40. 90Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.3

    Legal record (#4). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Thursday, 11 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. "In one of a series of documents resolving an argument over the inheritance of …

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  41. 91Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.6

    Legal record (#9). Deposition in court. Bū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn Mukhtār, Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār ('the perfumer in the alley of the candles'), Abū l-Riḍā al-ʿAṭṭār Ibn …

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    1. חצרו אלינא נחן בית דין אלשיך בו נצר אלכהן הזקן היקר
    2. ידיע בן מכתאר ואלשיך יוסף אלעטאר בזקאק אלקנאדיל
    3. ואלשיך אבו אלרצא אלעטאר ידיע בן אללבדי ואל…

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  42. 92LetterT-S NS J21 + T-S 8.19

    India Book III,13 and III,14: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, India, mainly about shipwrecked goods. Dating: almost certainly 1146. This …

    1. בשמֹ רחמֹ
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי אטאל אללה בקאהא
    3. ואדאם עזהא ועלאהא ורפעתהא וסנאהא ועלוהא וארתקאהא
    4. ולא עטל מן גמיע אלכיראת סאחתהא ופנאהא וכב…

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  43. 93LetterT-S 8.69

    Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Dealing with the India trade. Dating: Mid-12th century. Mentions names such as Zikrī b. Sar Shalom; Maḥrūz; Ben Yiju; Ibn …

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  44. 94LetterT-S 8J40.1

    Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel Dimyāṭī. Accusing him and Abū Naṣr b. Elishaʿ of conspiring to cheat him out …

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  45. 95LetterCUL Or.1080 J180

    Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fustat, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān b. al-Shāmī, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṭevet 1452 Seleucid = December …

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    1. ב
    2. תקדמת כתבי אלי מולאי אלשיך
    3. אלאגל אטאל אללה פי אלכיר בקאהא ואדאם
    4. תאיידהא וסעאדתהא וסלאמתהא ונעמתהא
    5. ורפעתהא ותמכינהא וסנאהא וכבת באלדל
    6. אלמהין…

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    1. I(n your name)
    2. I previously sent letters to my lord, the most glorious
    3. elder — may God prolong his existence in health and make eternal
    4. his su…

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  46. 96List or tableT-S NS 321.7a

    Abū Zikrī Kohen, representative of merchants in Fustat, settles accounts with his banker Khiyār b. Nissim. Dating: 1134 CE. The two had concluded a partnership …

    Column 1 (verso, left): Payments to the banker in cash

    1. The Elder Khiyār b. Nissīm
    2. Balance to his debit after all
    3. accounts
    4. to 10
    5. Shaʿbān
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  47. 97LetterT-S 13J25.13

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Makhlūf al-Nafūsī, in Broach, northwest India, probably to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan/Yefet, in Aden. Dating: 1134 CE. The addressee is a dignitary …

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    1. ב̇שר̇ח
    2. קד עלם אלקדיס ̇גל ̇תَנَאَה מא י̇גדה עבד אלח̇צרה אלסאמיה אלריّיסיה אלא̇גליّה אלעאליה
    3. אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עלוהא ועזהא ורפעתהא וסמוהא וס…

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  48. 98Literary textT-S NS J21

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

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  49. 99LetterT-S 18J4.18

    India Book III,12: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in India, probably from 1146. Corrected copy of T-S NS J21 …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי אטאל אללה בקאהא
    3. ואדאם עזהא ועלאהא ורפעתהא וסנאהא ועלוהא וארתקאהא
    4. ולא עטל מן גמיע אלכיראת סאחתהא ופנאהא…

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  50. 100Credit 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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