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LetterENA 3788.7
Business letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahim b. Bundār to Abū Zikrī Kohen (aka Yehuda b. Yosef Sijilmāsī). In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew, with the address …
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LetterT-S 13J8.17
Letter from the rabbinical court of Fustat to Madmun b. Ḥasan regarding the estate of Ibn Jumayhir. Fustat, 1146.
II, 70
- אנו בית דין חתומי מטה נועדנו במושב אדננו נגיד אל-ים בתוכינו נגידנו שמואל הנגיד
- יכון שמו לנצח להשתדל ולשקוד על עסק עזבון מר ורב חלפון בר שמריה…
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Legal 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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Legal 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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Legal 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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Legal 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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LetterT-S NS J117
Letter from an unidentifed merchant, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. He complains about the tribulations of getting pepper through customs. The qāḍī in Qūṣ apparently issued …
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LetterT-S NS J44
Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Aden, probably to Ibn Yijū, in India. Fragment, preserving the margins only. Mentions the customs tax (maks), various items …
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LetterT-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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LetterT-S NS J5 + T-S 13J7.13 + T-S K25.252
Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju. Dating: 1133–40 CE. This is the original in the hand of Maḍmūn. There is …
Verso - Hebrew-script address
- אלשיך אלאגל מולאי אברהם
- בן ישו חרס אללה נעמתה
- עבדה מצמון
- בן אלחסן בן בנדאר
Verso - Arabic-script address
- الشيخ الأج…
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LetterAIU VII.E.35
Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: first pick of merchandise for Bilal b. Jarir. Aden, between 1136-1138 or 1145-1149.
- בשמ רח
- וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה
- בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ועלאה ורפעתה
- וסנאה ותמכינה וכבת אעדאה פכאן אסר
- וארד ואבהג ואפד וקראתה ופהמת מצמונ…
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LetterT-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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LetterT-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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List 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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LetterT-S Ar.30.145
Letter (memo) from an unnamed India trader, probably in Aden, to Mufaḍḍal Ibn Abī Saʿd, in Qūṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First third of the 13th …
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- אללה חסבי
- אלדי סירה אלממלוך אלא ענד אלמולא //אלסיד מפצל אבן אבו סעד//
- אדאם אללה עזה
- צחבה אלשיך יחיה בן אבי אלקאסם
- אלסכאוי פי מטיה בן אלנפאך …
(To) M. Mufaddal Ibn Abi Sa'd ("Excellent, son of Fortunate"). God is sufficient for me.
These items have been sent by your servant to my lord—may Go…
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Credit 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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List 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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LetterCUL 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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LetterMoss. 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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LetterMoss. 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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LetterT-S 8J15.24
Letter from Mukhtar b. Yaʿaqov to Sa'id b. Naja describing Ḥasan b. Bundar's assistance. Aden, ca. 1100.
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- כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם
- עזה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה אעלמה שדה שוקי
- אליה וארתיאחי נחוה אסל מן אללה אן ימן באלאגתמאע
- עלי אפצל אלא…
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LetterT-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
- ב
- וקויי ייי יחליפו כח יעלו אבר וג
- ורבצת ואין מחריד וחלו פניך וג
- כאן קד תקדם כתאבי להדרת כגק מרנ ורבי סעדיה
- הזקן הנ פאר הסוחרים הממולא בכל מד…
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LetterT-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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- [ ]רש[ ] ותאבי
- [...] ען אדא אלשהאדה פאלבארי תעאלי חא[ס]בהם
- וקד קאל אלכתאב לא אמונה בגוים ואמא אכבארנא
- ומא טרא עלינא בעד ספרכם פהו שי יטול שרח…
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Literary 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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Credit 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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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 148.13a–c
Three orders of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen.
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LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/15
Letter from Shemu’el b. Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his brothers, Perahya and Moshe, in Alexandria or Fustat. Around 1156.
- שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך ואין למו מכשול
- אלי אכותי אל עזיזין עלי אדאם אללה בקאהם וצאנהם
- ווקאהם וכאן להם עוזר וסומך משען ומבטח
- אננא כתירין אל שוק אליכם ו…
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- In your letters,
- which arrived during the first ten days of Tammuz of the year (4)916,
- you mentioned that Moses had been captured. Th…
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LetterMoss. IV,73
Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to the well-known merchant Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early to mid-12th …
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS J178b
An Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of linseed oil.
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List or tableT-S NS 31.11
Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions the purchase of two silk cushions for 364 dinars (!?). On verso there is an order …
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LetterT-S 13J21.6
Letter from [...] 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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LetterT-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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Legal documentBL OR 5542.4
Legal document. Dated: Monday, 2 Iyyar 1398 Seleucid, which is 1087 CE. Location: Fustat. Moshe b. Elḥanan comes before the court and declares that he …
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LetterT-S 10J16.1
Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in Sindābūr (India), to his uncle and father-in-law ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fusṭāṭ,. In Judaeo-Arabic. He found a slow market …
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LetterT-S AS 158.83
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is very cursive and very hard to read (and seems familiar from other 11th- or 12th-century mercantile documents). Refers …
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K15.38
Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of lamp/linseed oil (zayt ḥār).
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LetterT-S NS J426
Mercantile letter, possibly sent from Aden to India. Reports that Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥalābū(?) was in a shipwreck at Dahlak, near ʿAydhāb, and that …
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- ] . . . . אלבראה אן שא אללה . . . . אקי צחבה . . . .
- ] ולא תאכד עלי עבדהא פי תאכרהם פוחק דין ישראל אן
- אד וצלני אלכתאב לם אלבת בל תאני יום וצול…
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Credit instrument or private receiptL-G Talm.II.15A
Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Munajjā is to give (the bearer?) 4 ounces of rose and lemon. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
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List or tableT-S Ar.54.19
Fol. 19: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. This is the sole fragment under this shelfmark that does not include an Abū Zikrī Kohen …
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Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. IV,69.2
Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
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Credit 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) …
- בשמ
- אלמסאול מן תפצל מולאי אלשיך אבו
- סעיד כבת אללה אעדאה יסלם למולאי אלשיך
- אבי אלחסן בן מסעוד תמן אלצרה אלבאן
- לאנה קד תפצל ועמל לי קליל יין ושלום
- עבד…
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Credit instrument or private receiptENA NS 17.1
Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Abū l-Surūr is to give the bearer 1/4 pound pulverized olibanum (lubān) and 1/4 pound …
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Credit 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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LetterMoss. II,125.2
Recto: part of a business letter. Conveying the prices of commodities such as pepper, cloves, and saffron and asking about their prices in Egypt/Fustat. (Information …
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Credit instrument or private receiptCUL Or.1081 J44
Verso: Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod should give the bearer 3 ounces of lemon-rose syrup and an ounce of chewy …
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS J243
Unusual order of payment of Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' and Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals in the upper margin. Moshe b. …
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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19
Fol. 5v: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy …
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LetterENA 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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Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.54.19
Fol. 6: Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: The addressee is to give the bearer lemon syrup (the left side of …
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LetterBodl. 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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