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T-S 12.114

Letter from a merchant from South Italy, now probably in Alexandria. Around mid-11th century. The writer describes a disaster in the sea. The writer started his journey with two friends, against his parents will. They arrived in Amalfi and Palermo, and continued on a big ship with 400 passengers to Alexandria. The ship was forced to return to the land after a storm started but on the way back they got stuck after hitting a shoal. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #815) VMR

Library: CUL

Type: Letter

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string$	Matches the text at the end of the string
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a*	Matches the sequence of zero or more of the specified character
a+	Matches the sequence of one or more of the specified character
a?	Matches zero or one occurrence of the specified character
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מולאנא מולאי	Search for rows that contain either of two words by simply typing them consecutively. In this case, the search will find documents that contain either מולאי or מולאנא.
כתאבי +מולאי+	Use a + sign before word to search for rows that contain all of them (in this case the words כתאבי and מולאי)
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

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