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Join: CUL Add.3418 + CUL Add.3421
CUL Add.3418
Recto/verso:
Section:
India Book I, 1–2: Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. Dated: Monday, 2 Kislev 1409 Seleucid, which is 9 November 1097 CE. The document lists their commercial dealings and contains much information on trade of textiles, silverware and corals. The document is written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Note that the lower part of CUL Add.3421 is Doc. I, 4 in the India Book (see separate record).
Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/4C.1.7%20India%20Book_%20Final%20Chapter%20I_%201-44%20%28Libdi%29/CUL%20Add.%203421.2%20%28PGPID%209160%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/4C.1.7%20India%20Book_%20Final%20Chapter%20I_%201-44%20%28Libdi%29/CUL%20Add.%203418%20%28PGPID%205388%29.pdf.
Type: Legal document
CUL Add.3421
Recto/verso:
Section:
India Book I, 4–5: Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. After five months, the court in Fustat reconvened to discuss the litigation begun in India Book I, 1-2. Apparently the two sides waited for their merchandise to arrive from Aden, but when it failed to arrive, the legal proceedings were continuEd. The document is written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli and is dated April 8, 1098. The document begins with the lower half of CUL Add.3421 and continues in Bodl. MS heb. d 66/64v. The upper half of CUL Add.3421 is I, 2 in the India Book. I, 4: CUL Add.3421 (lower half) I, 5: Bodl. MS heb. d 66/64
Ed. and trans. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (2008), vol. 1 https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-india-traders/I-4-5.pdf.
Type: Legal document
