Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
Letter from Shemu’el b. Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his brothers, Perahya and Moshe, in Alexandria or Fustat. Around 1156.
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Meshullam, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, in inland Yemen, written around 1150-51.
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation
India Book III,30: Letter from Perahya b. Yosef in Mazara, Sicily, to Avraham b. Eliyyahu in al-Mahdiyya, inquiring about Perahya's uncle, Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: …
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations
Letter from Perahya Yiju to his brother Shemuel. Written probably in al-Mahalla around the seventies or eighties of the twelfth century. Perhaya copies questions on …
Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov in Dhu Jibla, Yemen, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, then in Aden, 1150.
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Letter from Perahya Yiju, in Egypt, to the Nagid complaining about Avraham Ibn Yiju, probably around 1156.
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
India Book III,16: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Mangalore, dated July-August 1148. The letter contains information about their …
2 Transcriptions 3 Translations
Fragment of a letter from Perahya Yiju to Abu al-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshati. Written in al-Mahalla, ca. 1161-72.
Letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Fustat, to his brother, Yosef, in Mazara, Sicily. Dating: September 1153 (Goitein) or 1152 (Friedman). It appears that Ibn …
Letter (draft) from one community leader to another with an appeal for support for refugees from Christian persecution and cursing on anyone informing against converts …
1 Translation 1 Discussion
Letter from Moshe Yijū, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. Dating: ca. June 29, 1155. The writer ("Moshe son of his honor, …
India Book III,12: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in India, probably from 1146. Corrected copy of IB III,13-14 (T-S …
India Book, III,24: Avraham Ibn Yiju's inventory of baggage for journey from India to the west. Written in India, probably in 1140 or 1149. Elizabeth …
Liturgical poem (piyyūṭ) by the Andalusī Jewish poet Yiṣḥaq b. Ghiyāt (1038–89), copied by Avraham Ibn Yijū on the back of a letter sent to …
India Book III,13 and III,14: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, India, mainly about shipwrecked goods. Dating: almost certainly 1146. This …
India Book III,56: Letter whose author might be Perahya b. Yosef Ibn Yiju, probably in Fustat, to the author's wife, the daughter of the judge …
Memorial list for the family of Yosef b. Perahya Yiju, Egypt, early thirteenth century.
India Book III,10a: Letter (top fragment only) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Avraham b. Yiju. Salutation to Avraham b. Yiju and acknowledgment of receipt of …
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions
India Book III,30a: Rental contract for an apartment in Sicily for 40 years, paid in advance, rented by a Jewish woman named Umm al-ʿIzz bt. …
India Book III, 59: Magical text copied by Ibn Yiju, probably in Yemen around 1135. The text begins with a magical square (cf. sudoku) of …
[ח] [א] [ו]
Letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Aydhab, probably around 1152, while on his way to Egypt. The letter reveals the distrust between associates and the …
Letter of Perahya b. Yosef Yiju to his father in Mazara Sicily, probably June 1154. (India Book III, 45)
India Book III,29: Letter written by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yiju after his arrival in Aden, to his brothers and sisters in al-Mahdiyya or …
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion
Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov, in Dhu Jibla, Yemen, to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the renting of a house. Around 1150-51.
1 Transcription
Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr b. Avraham the perfumer/pharmacist. …
India Book III,9: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham in Aden to Avraham b. Yiju. Goitein thought that the letter was sent to Zabīd, a coastal …
India Book III,1: Business letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, on the Malabar coast of India. Dating: ca. 1137–40. The …
In Your name, O Merciful.
The letter of your excellency, the illustrious elder, my master, has arrived. It was the most pleasant letter tha…
Prayer written by Ibn Yiju on fabric in India.
Two medical prescriptions in Arabic script, written on cloth on the back of a court record or deposition in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yiju …
No Scholarship Records
India Book, II,21 (T-S NS J241) and II,21c (T-S AS 158.393). Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135 …
The settlement with Makhlūf, the son (of the man) ‘with the gladdening eyes,’ The Orphan,
with regard to what you owed h…
3 Transcriptions 1 Translation
India Book III, 15: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yijū in Jurbattan (Srikandapuram), dated Elul 1458 Sel. (August 1147). Written …
You will walk, without breaking stride; when you run, you will not stumble.
And Shaddai be your treasure, and p…
3 Transcriptions 2 Translations
India Book III,29a: Poem by Avraham Ben Yiju in honor of Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Labrāt Ibn Sughmār. Location: Yemen. Dating: ca. 1140 CE.
India Book, III,8: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham Ibn Yiju. The whereabouts of Yosef and Ibn Yiju are unclear. Goitein thought that Ibn …
India Book III,21: Two accounts of Ibn Yiju written in Aden c. 1140–45 about transactions with the nakhūdā Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Katāʾib,. This is …
Letter from Perahya b. Yosef Yiju to his brother Shemuel in Fustat, complaining of his failure to procure a responsum (see III, 55). Perahya also …
Letter from Yeshua b. Yaʿaqov to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the death of Madmun b. Yefet, Dhu Jibla, 1151.
India Book III,3: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135–38 CE. The address is on the second fragment, …
Calendar for September 1153-September 1156 for Avraham Ibn Yiju's private synagogue.
India Book III, 26: Calendar written by Ibn Yiju for the year September 1149–September 1150, when he was in Yemen. The document seems to indicate …
1 Transcription 2 Translations
India Book III,7: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, ca. 1147 or 1148. The letter discusses business matters and mentions the …
Letter of request, addressed apparently to Madmun b. Yefet, by a person in inland Yemen, for help against Ibn Yiju, involving a shipment of five …
India Book, III,22: Statements by two Yemenite merchants about consignments that Ibn Yiju had sent from India and were mostly lost. The first statement is …
2 Transcriptions
India Book, III,11: Letter (large but fragmentary) from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, to Ibn Yiju, India. Dating: 1140 [1139]. Written in the hand of Shemuel …
Note from a certain Ḥajjāj to Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, Sicily. In Judaeo-Arabic. Informing him about a consignment sent to him by one of his …
India Book III,36: Court record, or deposition of witnesses. Written on cloth by Avraham ben Yiju. Location: India, perhaps Mangalore. Dating: 1132–39 or 1145–49 CE, …
India Book III,4–6a: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham b. Yiju, reconstructed from four fragments (the last discovered after the publication of the English …
this year in the ship of ⟦Nbrdwy {or read: Nbyrwy}⟧ Fidyār. I sent with him {alt. tr.: wrote and sent with him} a letter of proxy,
{which I…
6 Transcriptions 2 Translations 2 Discussions
Detailed accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in India. Dating: 1132–39, 1145–49.
Account by Avraham Ibn Yiju of Indian products sold for another merchant, Aden, ca. 1141-44.
List of Ibn Yiju's deposits and expenditures after arriving in the Egyptian capital.
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
India Book III,25: Account written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in Yemen around 1149–52 detailing a compensation in kind to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. …