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  1. 1LetterENA 4020.60b

    Letter from Avraham al-Muʿṭī and Yosef b. Ezra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Should be included in the addenda to India Book IV. Most of …

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  2. 2LetterT-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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  3. 3List or tableT-S Ar.35.220

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions debits and credits of people and entities such as Ismāʿīl, "the Indian," Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, dīwān al-R[...]. Needs examination.

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  4. 4LetterDK 353

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is probably Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, an India trader and shipowner (nākhudā) known from documents dating from 1131/32 to c.1150 CE. …

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    1. מ . []
    2. וארגע . . . . . []

    3. לאן אלממלוך יעאזי חואיג . . []

    4. כנת מסתריח אלסר בעץ שי []

    5. אלעטר יחתאג אלמכנה אן אלדורה ונרגו מן אל[לה]

    6. חמיד …

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  5. 5LetterT-S Ar.41.10

    Commercial letter in Arabic script. Long and damaged. Dating: likely 16th century, as it mentions the ashrafī (used from 1425 onward but replaced by other …

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  6. 6LetterT-S 13J18.13

    Letter from Moshe Yijū, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. Dating: ca. June 29, 1155. The writer ("Moshe son of his honor, …

    III, 47a Recto

    1. חמיד אדאב סיידיי אל שיכאן אל גלילאן אל כימאן
    2. אל פצילאן אל נבילאן אל שריפאן האחים הייקרים (!)
    3. כבוד מרנו ורבינו עלי וכבוד מרנו ורבנ' [[…

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  7. 7LetterCUL Or.1080 J38

    Letter from Perahya Yiju to his brother Shemuel. Written probably in al-Mahalla around the seventies or eighties of the twelfth century. Perhaya copies questions on …

    III, 55

    1. אכי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאה ואבקא לה בנו יחידו אלשיך אבי עמראן ושא//ה//דה
    2. תורתו וחופתו אלדי אעלם בה אלחצרה אלסאמיה אנני קד כתבת לך כתאב גמ…

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  8. 8LetterT-S 13J20.23

    Letter from a certain Shelomo to Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing blessings for the Gaon Maṣliaḥ and the India trader Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Lebdī. …

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  9. 9LetterT-S NS J298

    Letter sent from an unidentified man, in Alexandria, to his brother, in Shayzar (Syria). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has recently returned from a long visit …

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  10. 10Legal documentT-S NS J46

    Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered goods from Yemen belonging to a …

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  11. 11Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19

    Fol. 20r: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Sulaymān is to give the bearer, the cantor Abū Saʿīd, 15 (ounces?) of …

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  12. 12Legal 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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  13. 13Legal documentENA 4011.16

    ENA 4011.16b (lower fragment): A cheque of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār is to pay the bearer Dār Rayḥān (the wife of Rayḥān?) 2 …

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  14. 14Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J32

    Legal query to Avraham Maimonides regarding a man who takes a 200 dinar loan and appoints his parents as guarantors, providing them with a house …

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  15. 15List or tableENA 1822a.72

    List written by Abu Zikri Kohen, metioning names and amount of money, probably debts or payments. On verso a list in Arabic script.

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  16. 16LetterENA 2727.7b

    India Book III,10a: Letter (top fragment only) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Avraham b. Yiju. Salutation to Avraham b. Yiju and acknowledgment of receipt of …

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    1. והיה שדי בצריך וכסף תועפות לך
    2. והיה ראשיתך מצער ואחריתך תשגה מאד
    3. והיה זרעך כעשב הארך (!) ופרצתה (!) ימה וקדמה וגֹ
    4. לִיִקִרִ אִדִוִני ואור עיני מ…

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  17. 17LetterBL OR 5535.2

    Letter from Avraham b. Mu'ti Tilimsani, having arrived safely in Aydhab, to Abu Sa'd b. Azhar, in Fustat. He provides an update on a matter …

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  18. 18LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/61

    Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Meshullam, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, in inland Yemen, written around 1150-51.

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    1. תרום ידך על צריך וכל אויביך יכריתו
    2. והיה שדי בצריך וכסף תועפות לך
    3. וצל כתאב מולאי וסיידי אטאל אללה פי
    4. אלכיר בקאה ומן גמיע אלכיראת לא
    5. אכלאה וגע…

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    1. Your servant {lit., ‘the property of his hands’} took notice
    2. of your inquiry, my lord, about the
    3. news of the roads and the re…

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  19. 19LetterENA NS 4.13

    Letter from Perahya Yiju, in Egypt, to the Nagid complaining about Avraham Ibn Yiju, probably around 1156.

    1. אעלם סיידנא צאנה אלל[ה … אן כאן לי]
    2. עם פי אלהנד יסמא אברהם בר [פרחיה בן יגו ... וגא]
    3. אלי מצר ווצלת אליה כתב מן אל[ימן …]
    4. והו יקול לה פיהא קד וצלת אל…

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    1. I inform our lord—may God protect you!—[. . . that I have]
    2. an uncle [who had been] in India, named Abraham b. [Peraḥyā Ben Yijū, . . . who cam…

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  20. 20List or tableENA 3030.8

    Small piece of an account written by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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  21. 21LetterT-S 13J21.1

    Letter from Moshe b. Yefet to Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (apparently a merchant trading in the East). Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1421 Seleucid, which …

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  22. 22List or tableT-S NS 324.114

    India Book, III,24: Avraham Ibn Yiju's inventory of baggage for journey from India to the west. Written in India, probably in 1140 or 1149. Elizabeth …

    1. בשם יי מערפה עדד אלזנאביל
    2. ואלגואני ואלקנאני ואלפואתי
    3. ובקאיה אלדבש מן דלך ג[ו]ני]א
    4. כבירה רז וגוניה לטיפה רא...
    5. ואיצא ברסם אלזאד ארבעה גואני
    6. לטאף וזנב…

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  23. 23LetterENA NS 48.22

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " These were Yemeni …

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  24. 24Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 320.58

    Order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In which Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov asks Abū Saʿīd to give Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd the price of the bundle (ṣurra) …

    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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  25. 25List or tableHalper 405

    Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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  26. 26LetterT-S NS J5 + T-S 13J7.13 + T-S K25.252

    India Book II, 17, II, 18, and II, 19: Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju. Dating: 1133–40 CE. This is …

    T-S NS J5 verso, Hebrew address (IB II, 17)

    1. אלשיך אלאגל מולאי אברהם          עבדה מצמון
    2. בן ישו חרס אללה נעמתה              בן אלחסן בן בנדאר

    T-S NS…

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    1. The letter of my lord, the most illustrious elder, has arrived—may God make permanent 
    2. your well-being, may He guard your life and…

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  27. 27LetterT-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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  28. 28LetterHalper 384

    Business letter relating to the India trade. In Judaeo-Arabic. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. Goitein initially thought the handwriting was …

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  29. 29Legal 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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  30. 30LetterT-S 16.215

    Commercial letter related to the India trade. Dating: 1154–61. Mentions sprinkler bottles (qumqum) for rose water brought by the qāḍī Najm al-Dīn, and ‘pure’ (ṭahor) …

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  31. 31LetterT-S 16.308

    Letter from Daʿūd Fasī to the cloth merchant Abū l-Afraḥ ʿArus b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes below.

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  32. 32LetterT-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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  33. 33LetterT-S 8J20.25

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

    III, 53

    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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  34. 34Unknown typeT-S 8J23.20

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

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  35. 35Legal 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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  36. 36LetterT-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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  37. 37Legal 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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  38. 38Legal 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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  39. 39LetterT-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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  40. 40Legal 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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  41. 41Legal 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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  42. 42List 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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  43. 43LetterT-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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  44. 44Credit 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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  45. 45Credit 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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  46. 46List 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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  47. 47LetterCUL 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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  48. 48Legal 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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  49. 49Unknown typeL-G Ar. I.54–63

    Awaiting description

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  50. 50LetterMoss. 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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