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  1. 1LetterBL OR 5535.2

    IB VI, 30. Letter from Avraham b. Mu'ti Tilimsānī, upon arriving safely in Aydhab, to Abu Saʿd b. Azhar, in Fustat. He provides an update …

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  2. 2LetterBodl. Ms Heb. d 66/137

    Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (aka Abū Zikrī Kohen). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half of the 12th …

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  3. 3LetterENA 2741.4

    IB VI, 53. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dating: mid-12th century. Apart from the introduction and address, only …

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  4. 4LetterENA 4020.8

    Letter from Makārim b. Mūsā Ibn Nufayʿ, in ʿAydhāb, to (his son-in-law?) the ḥaver Yeshuʿa b. Yoshiyya the descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon, in Fustat. In …

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  5. 5LetterENA NS 7.46

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: right side only. Dating: Possibly first half of the 12th century, based on the reference to the merchant Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī (see …

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  6. 6List or tableHalper 405

    Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  7. 7Legal documentJRL B B 7223 + T-S 16.23 + T-S AS 166.95

    Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. These two fragments are part of single document containing a …

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    1. בין בדיני ישראל בין בנימוסי אומות העולם אד לם יבק לנא ענדה ולא פי גהת[ה ...]
    2. פי גמיע מא סלף בינה ובין מר ור שלה מורתנא נע חק מן גמיע…

    T-S 16.23 Recto

    1. whether in Jewish law or gentile law, since nothing remains for us with him, nor to [his] credit […]
    2. in all that which proceeded bet…

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  8. 8LetterT-S 6J1.5

    Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains a request to …

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  9. 9LetterT-S 8.69

    India Book VI,22. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to an unknown recipient (the address is cut off). Dating: ca. 1134–35. Deals with the Indian Ocean …

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  10. 10Unknown typeT-S 8J23.20

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

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  11. 11LetterT-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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  12. 12LetterT-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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  13. 13Legal documentT-S 10J5.2

    Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Amat al-Qādir, widow of Shela, and her son Yefet (possibly …

    1. [............] ... גמיעה ודפ[ע ...............................]

    2. [...]א צחאחא מנהא מאית [...........] . מר יפת .. מאיה דינאר ....

    3. אנ. אמה אלקאדר…

    1. […] … in total and pa[id…]

    2. […] good … from which one hundred […] Mr. Japheth .. hundred dinars …

    3. … Amat al-Qādir concerning the judgment of tha…

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  14. 14LetterT-S 10J16.1

    IB VI, 11. Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in Sindabūr (India), to his uncle and father-in-law ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fusṭāṭ,. In Judaeo-Arabic. He found …

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  15. 15Legal documentT-S 12.53

    Power of attorney (שטר אורכתא). Mentions: Makhlūf Ibn ʿAyn Sārra; Yiṣḥaq [ha-Le]vi b. [...] al-ʿAjamī; Alexandria; 6 dinars; Moshe Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva (he may be the …

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  16. 16LetterT-S 12.216

    Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: Mid-12th century. In Hebrew (for the long, eloquent introduction) …

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  17. 17LetterT-S 13J18.2

    Letter from a Jewish trader in India to his partner in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Among many other matters, he mentions donations to pilgrimage sites in …

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  18. 18LetterT-S 13J21.1

    IB VI, 19. Letter from Moshe b. Yefet to Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (apparently a merchant trading in the East). Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I …

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  19. 19LetterT-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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  20. 20LetterT-S 13J24.22

    Letter from a woman named Najma, in Fustat/Cairo (l. 4), to her father Moshe Perdonel. Dating: ca. 16th century. There is a detailed summary in …

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  21. 21LetterT-S 16.262

    Letter from Moshe b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to the Head of the Jews of Egypt (Moshe b. Mevorakh) asking him to assist the son of …

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  22. 22LetterT-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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  23. 23LetterT-S 16.308

    IB VI, 7. Letter from Dāwūd Fāsī to the cloth merchant Abū l-Afraḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes attached to …

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  24. 24LetterT-S Ar.39.480

    Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Goitein notes that this …

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  25. 25List or tableT-S Ar.54.20.1–2

    Two bifolios from a ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  26. 26Legal 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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  27. 27LetterT-S AS 146.234

    Letter from Salāma b. Ibrāhīm (aka Shelomo b. Avraham) to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: end of 11th century. Only the opening and greetings …

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    1. כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך ונעמאך

    2. ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ושוק אליך שדיד

    3. קרב אללה אל…

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת אושרך
    2. ואל ימנע ממך את מיטב ההצלחה, מן הבית. שלומי טוב, אבל אנ…

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  28. 28LetterT-S AS 149.147

    Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the late Ḥārith; 'our master'; going into the synagogue; 'in the place of his father'; sadness about something; …

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    1. . . . [
    2. חארת ימצא ר[חמים
    3. אדונינו בטלוע [
    4. אלי דאכל אלהיכל [
    5. מן אסתחסן הד[א
    6. מוצע אבוה . . [
    7. אבנך [
    8. להם נש[
    9. כניסיה [
    10. גזל ומא תת[
    11. חזין עלי [
    12. נזל …

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  29. 29List or tableT-S K15.98

    Inventory of the estate of Nissim b. Yaʿqūb, a merchant who died in Sawākin (Suakin in present-day Sudan) on Monday, 7 Shaʿbān 503 AH (1 …

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  30. 30LetterT-S NS 264.1

    Letter fragment from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic …

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  31. 31Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 320.58

    IB VI, 20. Order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov asks Abū Saʿīd to give Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd the price of …

    1. בשמ
    2. אלמסאול מן תפצל מולאי אלשיך אבו
    3. סעיד כבת אללה אעדאה יסלם למולאי אלשיך
    4. אבי אלחסן בן מסעוד תמן אלצרה אלבאן
    5. לאנה קד תפצל ועמל לי קליל יין ושלום
    6. עבד…

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  32. 32LetterAIU 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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  33. 33LetterBL OR 5566D.6

    Letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān in ʿAydhāb to his son ʿAllān b. Nahray in Alexandria concerning shipments. Based on a letter from another India trader …

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  34. 34LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/19

    India Book VI, 37. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Ṣedaqa Ibn Nufayʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender sent previous letters with …

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  35. 35LetterBodl. MS heb. c 13/24

    Letter from a certain Yosef, in Aden, to Yosef Ibn Shanju, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Early 16th century, based on the greetings to Efrayim …

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  36. 36List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 98/71

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

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  37. 37LetterBodl. MS heb. e 98/71

    IB VI, 8. Letter from Yaḥyā b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, in Fustat, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (aka Avraham?) b. Yosef, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1080 …

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    1. כתאבי אלי מולאי וסידי [אטאל אללה באקה
    2. ואדאם תאיידה וסעא[דתה
    3. וגמיל צנעה וקד עלם אללה שדה שוקי אליה בחית לא
    4. אטיק וצפה קרב אללה אלגמע בה עלי אסר…

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    1. (1–3) אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי .... (ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים) ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת אושרך .... ונוי מעשיך. אלוהים הוא היודע מה עזים געגועי …

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  38. 38LetterCUL Or.1081 J1

    Letter from David Maimonides, in ʿAydhāb, to his brother Moses Maimonides, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1170 CE. This is the last letter David wrote before …

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    1. אלי אכי ואלעזיז עלי ר מש[ה ביר] מימון זצל
    2. דוד אכיך אלשאיק אליך גמע אללה בך עלי אסר חאל במנה
    3. כתבת אליך הדא אלכתאב מן עידאב ואנא עלי גמלה אלסלא…

    To my beloved brother R. Mos[es, son of R.] Maimōn, (may the) m(emory of the) r(ighteous be) b(lessed).

    David, your brother who is longing for you --…

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  39. 39LetterENA 2560.5

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef to a certain [son of] Natan he-haver. The letter mourns the passing of Madmun (the Nagid of Yemen) and is …

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  40. 40Legal 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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  41. 41LetterENA NS 2.29

    Business letter in Arabic script from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān b. Ḥassun, in Fustat. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام تاييده وعلاه ونعمته
    3. وسناه وتكمينه وكبت اعداه من عدن عن حال سلامة وعافي…

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  42. 42LetterENA NS 48.4

    India Book VI, 36. Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahīm to Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. …

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  43. 43Legal documentF 1908.44A

    Recto (written later): Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1428 Seleucid …

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  44. 44LetterJRL A 284

    Letter in what Goitein identifies as the handwriting and style of well-known India trader Abu Nasr Avraham informing recipient about events, apparently taking place in …

    1. ]פי דהלך [...............
    2. ]. פי אלגזר [.............
    3. ]בדהלך יח יומא ברי[ח
    4. ]אללה אן י..נא ריח אלסלאמה
    5. ] ואמא אלמ... פקד איסנא
    6. ]ארו. קע ווצל אנסאן מן …

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  45. 45LetterMoss. Ia,18

    India Book VI, 28. Business letter in the hand of Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār, in Aden, to ʿAydhāb, mentioning Yīṣḥaq al-Nafūsī and Hiba Ibn …

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  46. 46List or tableT-S 8K22.2

    IB VI, 20a. Karaite Nesiim. A memorial list.

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    1. דכרן טאב לניחא נפשתה לזיכר
    2. המשפחה המיוחשה משפחת בית
    3. דויד הנשיאים השרים הנכבדים
    4. עד כבוד גק מו נו וע רו יפת הנשיא
    5. הגדול וכגק מור נו וע …

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  47. 47Legal documentT-S AS 149.84

    Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen …

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  48. 48LetterT-S AS 219.131

    Recto: A mirror imprint of T-S AS 219.129, but much easier to read. Business letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Mentions people such …

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  49. 49Legal documentT-S NS 224.20

    Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …

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  50. 50List 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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