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Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Pertaining to the India trade of the first half of the 12th century. The sender mentions Isḥāq al-Nafūsī and al-Shaykh …
אין רשומות קשורות
Debt acknowledgment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen for three awāqi of soap (צאבון) owed to Sibāʿ. The document lacks the common invocation attested in other …
Letter in Arabic script, beautifully written in a chancery-esque hand with diacritical marks and dots. Dating: Fatimid period based on paleography and the ending formula. …
תעתוק אחד
Draft of a poem for a circumcision composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū, containing the acrostic with his name (אברהמ חזק). With praises for …
P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …
Hebrew poetry copied in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. The handwriting of T-S NS 108.78 was identified by Amir Ashur and the joins were …
Piyyuṭ in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Identified by Amir Ashur.
Two fragments from a letter, which is still not complete. Mentions setting sail from Alexandria. Involves the shipment of 100 jars of oil from Alexandria, …
Fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1127–38 CE, due to the fact that we find part …
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 …
Deed of sale for a female slave (jāriya waṣīfa). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid, which is 24 October 1143 CE. Buyer: Pinḥas b. …
Legal document. Dated: [...]8 Seleucid, which can be improved to 14[.]8 Seleucid, based on the 12th-century people who are mentioned, but the decade is still …
Fragment from the bottom part of a bill of guarantee of Ishaq ha-Levi b. Netanel (see India Book IV/A p. 26n43) written by Halfon b. …
Letter in the hand of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār but possibly written on behalf of somebody else, possibly from Aden, to Zayn b. Yosef …
Primary use (probably): Business accounts in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. Concerning transactions conducted in Jurbattan in betel nut, cardamom, coins, and copper and …
Letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dated: Kislev 1497 Seleucid, which is 1185 CE. With a …
דיון אחד
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 …
Liturgical poem (piyyūṭ) by the Andalusī Jewish poet Yiṣḥaq b. Ghiyāth (1038–89), copied by Avraham Ibn Yijū on the back of a letter sent to …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Mentions Alexandria; business negotiations with Abū Naṣr, concluding with a purchase for only 30 dinars; refers to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). The handwriting and the layout resemble those of Ḥalfon b. Netanel's Spanish correspondents (see India Book IV)—but none …
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 …
Fragment (lower left of recto and of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter involving money owed between various parties. People named are: Makīn; al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rashīd …
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, …
Business accounts, mentioning goods from India, myrobalan, and pepper, among many other things. On recto: Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. …
Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mūsā Majjānī. (The names are very difficult to read; these may be not exactly right.) …
Verso: Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century, based on handwriting. Mentions red sulfur (kibrīt aḥmar), the estate of the addressee's dead brother, and perhaps …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Presumably related to recto and also by Abū Zikrī Kohen. The header says "in the name of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing mainly with business matters. The sender is sorting through accounts (e.g., "I checked my ledger (daftarī) and did not find anything."). …
Letter reporting the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea, dating probably from the 14th century or later based on the mention of the …
[...]ב אמארה כל
[...]לה וגרם אלף וכמס מאיה
דרהם ומן גהה אלעבד מבארך פשעיה פי אסכנדריא
ואכדה אלמחתסב בלאש מא סלם פיה שי וגר…
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. Seems to be the resolution/settlement of a …
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 …
Poetry copied in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, including a previously unknown poem by Yehuda ha-Levi. Discovered by Amir Ashur and Shulamit Elizur; …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Bundār b. Ḥasan (compare AIU VII.E.35 (PGPID 5404), India Book II,12). Little remains. …
Legal query addressed to Mevorakh b. Saadya, with his responsum. Concerning a trader who shipped 100 silk fūṭas from Alexandria to his partner in Tyre, …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Ṣāʿid b. Saʿīd, in Mirbāṭ (in present-day Oman), to Abū l-Surur Faraḥ b. ʿAbbās al-ʿAsqalānī. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th …
Medical prescription. Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān …
Letter from Avraham al-Muʿṭī and Yosef b. Ezra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Most of the substance of the message is lost.
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. The sender's name appears in the upper left corner but is very faded (Khalfūn?). He mentions having left …
Letter from [...] Sulaymān Kohen to [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Raḍiyy; the purchase of an ʿarḍī cloth from Fustat; 'the prices of …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably relating to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim convoy and whether something …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. For pepper, lac, etc., bought and sold in Fustat (the two sides are headed by מערפה שרא אלרחל and שרח מא אשתרי …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved. Recommends the bearer for charity and probably asks the addressee to intervene on his behalf …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for …
Small fragment of a letter to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. From one of the Spanish merchants in his circle, resembling the documents of India Book …
Order or receipt in Arabic script with Judaeo-Arabic annotations for 2 dinars for [...] Makkī(?) al-Khabbāz from Yehuda b. Yosef (presumably this is Abū Zikrī …
Legal document: acknowledgment (ʾiqrār) written for or by Avraham Ibn Yijū. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ I 548 AH (17 June 1153 CE), after his return to …
. . . . . . . . . .] . . . . . ا . . . له بني ادم له ما لهم وعليه ما عليهم لم يشترط عليه مالا ولم يجتعل عـليه
جعلا واقر ان اخاه بو البشر بن بو …
An Abu Zikri Kohen cheque. Sibāʿ is to pay the bearer three [...].
Fragment of a letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... Sunday the day of my departure from Granada (אגרנאטה) . . …
Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) to pay the bearer …