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| ^string | Matches the text at the beginning of the string |
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| . | Matches any single character (including special characters) |
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Boolean Search
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| כתאבי AND מולאי כתאבי OR מולאי | The keyword AND indicates that both search terms must be present in the results. OR matches either search term. |
| כתאב –כתאבה | Use a - sign to exclude a term from your results (in this case, the search will include כתאב but exclude כתאבה) |
| *כתאב ?כתאב |
Use an asterisk or a question mark as a wildcard. An asterix matches any number of characters. A question mark matches any single character |
Join: T-S AS 148.9 + T-S AS 148.197
T-S AS 148.9
Recto/verso:
Section:
Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel, in Bharuch, India (v14). Dating: ca. 1134 CE. Damaged and missing the ends of the lines. The letter mainly deals with business, much of it in pepper and textiles. It mentions that a ship capsized at the entrance to the city [in fact, the join clarifies that it was a man named Yarbaḥ who drowned] (r15); that Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan did not send any merchandise to Egypt this year [in fact, that he did not sell any pepper this year] (r17–18); various Jewish merchants who reached Aden from Egypt this year, including Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-ʿAkkāwī, the son of Ibn al-ʿAfṣī, the son of Sibāʿ, [...] al-Mahdawī, and Ismāʿīl al-Maghribī, who brought good news about relations with the sultan (or government, r22–25); the arrival of two ships from India (r32); and Khalaf's six-month illness, from Tevet to Sivan (v8–10). Greetings are extended to colleagues in al-Qaṣṣ and Bharuch. Information in part from Goitein and Friedman. (Goitein initially identified the addressee as Avraham ben Yijū.) Join by Amir Ashur. ASE.
Aden; 1134
Ed. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Ḥalfon the Traveling Merchant Scholar : Cairo Geniza Documents (in Hebrew) (2013), vol. 4; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5B.1.2%20India%20Book-%20trade%20docs%20291-end/T-S%20AS%20148.9%20%28PGPID%209062%29.pdf.
Type: Letter
