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Legal documentT-S 8J9.17
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2r: …
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LetterBodl. 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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LetterENA 2739.17
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a father to his sons, from India Book VII, 60 (unpublished). Note that Goitein calls this manuscript ENA 2739.16 in Letters …
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LetterT-S NS 321.23
Letter from an India trader, in ʿAydhāb, to his family or colleagues, presumably in Fustat. In Arabic script. There is a transcription in Goitein's attached …
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العجوز وتفتقدها في كل وقت وانني وصلت
الى عيذاب ولقيت من الفارسي كل خير في
الدنيا والاسعد فعل معنا خير بلا كتب ولمن
ودينا الكتاب اخذ حقه…
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LetterT-S 8J9.14 + T-S NS J136
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand, according to Goitein. Wide space between the lines. Dealing with various commodities related to the India trade, including ambergris, ʿūd, …
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LetterT-S NS J180
Letter fragment from an India trader, in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that all is well and that the first ships have arrived India, …
- לא עדמתהא ולא כלות מנהא
- ואמא אכבאר אלבלאד פאכבאר
- סארה ללה אלחמד ואלשכר עלי דלך
- כתירא כתירא וסטר אלממלוך הדה
- אלכדמה וקד וצל אול מראכב אלהנד
- ווצל מרכב…
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LetterT-S NS J182
Fragment of a mercantile letter, probably from Aden, concerning shipments of textiles, books, spices, and gems. (Information from Goitein notes linked below.)
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- אגתהאד אלממלוך פי ביעהם וקד תעוצת מן ק[ימתהם
- מא תצמנתה אלתדכרה וצדר פי אלכארם אלמבארך
- וכאן חי אלשיך אלמולא אבו אלפצאיל נפד לממלוכהא
- עאם אול ת…
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LetterT-S NS J23
Letter from an India trader, probably in Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic. He recently came from India (Kullam, recto margin l. 15) and intends to return to …
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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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Legal 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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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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Unknown typeT-S Misc.24.137.2
According to Goitein's index card, this is a document concerning the India trade and inheritance. But the shelfmark is incorrect.
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Legal documentT-S 13J14.4
Will of a merchant. Specifying that his assets be cashed for his infant daughter (who should marry before the completion of the year 500 AH …
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Legal documentT-S NS 292.10
Document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (left side). Concerning business in pepper in Yemen. Involves Seʿadya ha-Kohen, Abū l-Khayr, Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. …
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Unknown typeT-S AS 156.237
Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, Aden, after his return from a difficult voyage to the southern coast of India. Fragment only. Before its second arrival …
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LetterT-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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LetterENA NS 48.22
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 royal dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . "
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LetterENA 2558.2
Recto: Letter likely sent from Aden to Fustat. (The locations are not specified in the document; this is Goitein's assessment.) In Judaeo-Arabic, written in a …
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Legal documentT-S 8J5.14
Court ledger. Fol. 2v: First page of a document concerning pursuing and finding a debtor "beyond Qūṣ," i.e., in ʿAydhāb. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 27 …
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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 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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Legal 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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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 …
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LetterENA 1822a.8
Letter, India book VII66 (unpublished). Letter from South Arabia to Egypt giving order on a large gift to Maimonides. On verso an Arabic account of …
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- ] . . . ונפדתה צחבה אבו
- סעד וקד דפע אבו סעד אלגוזה ואלענבר אלי אל
- שיך מצמון פבאללה עליך לא תשגל אמה קלבהא
- חית לם יצל מנה כתאב וחק אלתורה מא הו…
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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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LetterT-S AS 156.238
Letter from the India trader ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, sent after a journey to Yemen, to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Full translation in Goitein, "Portrait of a …
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Legal documentT-S NS J46
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yešuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered goods from Yemen belonging to a …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 12/17
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. David b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Ṣafaṭ (? אלצפט) acknowledges receipt of a sum of money from Abū …
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Legal documentL-G Misc. 48
Legal deed. On parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In which Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī (aka Yefet b. Shemarya) appoints Makārim b. Shelomo …
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LetterT-S Ar.30.178
Business letter. Introduction in Hebrew, body in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the arrival of the Yemeni merchants (v3). Also mentions R. Shemuel Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf and someone …
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List or tableT-S 10J30.12
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Payment for customs in the Red Sea ports of ʿAydhāb, Bāḍiʿ, and Sawākin. Commodities include: lac; boxthorn; myrobalan; …
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List or tableMoss. VII,55
Inventory of what was found in the house of a certain Yiṣḥaq. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on textile (cotton?). Scribed by Avraham b. Ismāʿīl al-Maghribī. …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 103/39
Letter of recommendation for charity for the judge Avraham b. Yosef. The addressee is on a boat and about to set out for a voyage. …
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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 Jacob and the family of Bayt al-Baḥr …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.30.258
Text of the oath that Bū ʿImrān must swear to his brother Abū l-Maʿānī concerning his mercantile activities, the price of a house, and the …
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LetterT-S 8J13.6
Letter from a certain Maḥāsin, in ʿAydhāb, to his "brother" the cantor Abū Isḥāq b. al-Mumḥe, in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Munajjā …
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Legal documentT-S NS 224.40 + T-S NS 184.67
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Ṣāfī b. Yakhin appoints [Yaʿ]aqov(?) b. Yiṣḥaq(?) al-Sijilmāsī as his agent to collect aloe from another …
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Legal documentENA 4020.14
Bifolium from a court notebook. Dating: One entry is dated 1411 Seleucid, which is 1099/1100 CE. The four pages have four different cases recorded in …
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LetterT-S 20.173
Long letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm, in al-Juwwa (near Aden, Yemen), to the judge and parnas Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, in Fustat. Quoting Deuteronomy 32:43 …
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Legal documentENA 4010.2
Partnership agreement. Dated: 11 Sivan 1347 Seleucid, which is May/June 1036 CE. Gil identifies the handwriting as that of Sahlān b. Avraham. The contents are …
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LetterT-S 16.255
Enthusiastic letter by Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿyahu ha-Kohen, a leader of the Jews of Yemen, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, congratulating him on his appointment as Head …
- נז[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- מרע אדונינו ומ[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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Legal documentENA 4020.26
Legal testimony about the customs of the merchants of Fustat regarding partnerships. The testimony describes how partnerships are established. Dated: middle decade of Iyyar 1452 …
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Legal documentMoss. VII,77
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involving Abū l-Baqā' and the late Abū l-Riḍā, who had business dealings in Yemen. Needs further …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/21
Letter from a mother in Aden to her son in Egypt.
- בעד
- מן אלואלדה אלעזיזה תכץ חצרה אלולד אלעזיז אלמופק ופקה אלל : תע
- ואנא בטול בקאה וסהל סרעה לקאה עלי אסר חאל ואנעם
- באל במנה וכרמה ותנהי וצול כטך אלכר…
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LetterENA NS 22.14
Letter addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Concerning the India trade. Giving details about 15 or so spices …
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LetterT-S NS J62
Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning persons connected with the India trade, including Maḍmūn [b. Ḥasan]. Opens with a report and condolences about the death of …
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- וקד וצלת כתב מן ענד אלשיך [. . .
- צחבת אברהם אבן אלחדאדה ל[. . .
- וכדאלך אעלמה חרס אללה עזה [. . .
- תופת תאסע יום פי שהר אדר [. . .
- ולא תסאל מא …
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Legal documentT-S NS 321.12
Court register, fragment. Upper left corner of a legal record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1127–39, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. …
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Legal documentT-S Misc.28.44
Legal document. On parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves [...] b. Ṣadaqa ha-Zaqen and an Abū l-Riḍā. Mentions the port of ʿAkka …
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Legal documentT-S 10J15.22
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Shortly after 511 AH, which is 1117/18 CE. (This is in line 3.) Mentions three …
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LetterT-S Ar.54.93
Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in Fustat, to Abū Yūsuf Elʿazar b. Ismāʿīl, in Qūṣ. Dating: ca. 1030s CE. The address is probably identical with …
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- וצל כתאבך יאסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מע צאחב
- מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אדאם אללה נעמאה וטלב פי אלוקת גואבה
- פעלקת לך הדה אלאסטר ודכרת אן לם יצלך…
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