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  1. 1LetterT-S AS 146.113

    Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: having no option except to travel to Yemen; Alexandria; and trade in silk. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  2. 2LetterBL OR 10578H.25

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1764 CE. Mentions numerous names: Yaḥyā b. Hādī, ʿAlī and his brother Ṣāliḥ, ʿAlī Ḥusayn, ʿAzīz b. Sinān, Yūsuf al-ʿAzīzī, …

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  3. 3Legal documentBL OR 10578H.25

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Location: Yemen. Dated: Shawwāl 1177 AH = April/May 1764 CE. At least six witness clauses appear at the bottom.

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  4. 4Legal documentENA NS 46.1

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew or Aramaic phrases. Dating: Unknown. Location: Yemen, probably, based on the handwriting and dialect words and names of …

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  5. 5LetterENA 3505.15

    Mercantile letter from Sālim to his relative Yosef b. Yehuda Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni. Dating: No earlier than 15th century based on currencies mentioned (muʾayyadī, …

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  6. 6Legal documentT-S AS 152.232

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions Nagid ha-Gola, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Yemen. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  7. 7List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 32/50

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. There are several dozen names and strings of numbers (in Hebrew characters) of varying lengths after each name. Names include: …

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  8. 8Legal documentT-S AS 149.84

    Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen …

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  9. 9Legal documentT-S AS 121.31 + T-S AS 121.32

    Two fragments from the top of a court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions Abū ʿAlī, Aharon, Meshullam a.k.a. Musallam, Shela known …

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  10. 10Legal documentDK AS 3

    One folio cut widthwise into two halves. Written by various Yemenite hands. As 3\1 One side (ab) of the folio, slightly missing from one edge. …

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S NS J351

    Recto: Legal document dated 1089–1188 CE, describing a son whose father, before traveling to Yemen, had given him, as ẓedaqa, two houses. The father then …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] דיאר אלימן וכתב לי בהמא כתאב צדקה באלעדים אשה[דהם
    2. . . . . . .]ה . . . קד געלתהמא במתנה לאחר מותי לואלדתי תתצרף פיהמא בע…

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  12. 12List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 32/52

    Accounts of Yaḥyā Ḥajabī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. Currencies used are gurush and zolota (a silver coin minted by the Ottomans to replace the Polish-Lithuanian …

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  13. 13LetterENA 2425.17

    Letter from an unknown writer in Jerusalem addressed to R. Maʿūẓa and his sons Sālim and Yaḥyā. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 19th century, as …

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  14. 14Legal documentENA NS 52.2

    Bill of divorce (get). Location: Al-Saʿdiyya, which is probably in Yemen, based on the handwriting and names. Dated: 29 Tishrei 2023 Seleucid = 12 October …

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  15. 15Legal documentT-S AS 220.77

    Small fragment from a legal deed relating to Abū l-Faraj al-Jubayli, and his trip to Yemen. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.

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  16. 16LetterT-S 16.95 + T-S 10J25.8 + AIU VII.E.23

    A booklet containing copies of eight letters by Rav Sherira Gaon and one letter by Rav Hayye Gaon. End of the 10th century. The letter …

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    1. לנקוב בשם טוב המתחזק עם החכמים להחנותם בכל יכלו הידוע במעשים 
    2. טובים הנדיב המשובח פל' שלום רב ועצם הברכות וכל הטובות יהיו לך [ …

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  17. 17List or tableT-S AS 186.206

    List of items, one is Socotran aloe (صبر سقطري). Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

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  18. 18LetterT-S 12.825

    Recto: Letter from Moshe b. Ḥalfon b. Y[...], probably in Yemen, to a judge (who had a son named Netanel), probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. …

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  19. 19Literary textNLI 8 420

    Story (ספר חסות) from Yemen about the relationships between the Jewish community and the Muslims. Describes the protection that the Jews received from Muhammad, concerning …

    והאדה כתאב אלדמה אלדי אדם אלנבי מחמד עלא בני אסראיל ע"אל ורחמת אללה

    וברכאתה.

    1. פלמא כאן פי אלזמאן אלקדים כאלפו אלכפאר עלא אלנבי מחמד ע"אל פנצרה אללה ע…

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  20. 20Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 32/51

    Deed of sale. Location: Ḥamida/Ḥamuda, Yemen. Dated: 24 Av במ״ד, which is likely 2044 Seleucid = 5 August 1733 CE. The parties include [..] and …

    1. אקרו ואעתרפו וצאדקו אלד'י הם ע.[...
    2. ן׳ יוסף וסעיד אכ'יה באן קד אבאעו ר׳
    3. אברהם אכיהם הד'י אלברך אלד'י הו -
    4. ארבעה ועשרים באמל במא צאר - 
    5. מבלג'הו ארבעה…

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S 13J4.22

    Recto: Legal document in Hebrew. Unsigned. Mentioning the following individuals: Jacob Bonsenior (בונשיניור), Nissim Noah and his brother-in-law Raḥamim b. Avraham Noah. Nissim bought books …

    1. בפנינו עדים חותמי מטה הודו, החכם המרומם כמה“ר יעקב בונשינייר יצ”ו והגביר נשא ונעלה הגבאי המפואר ראש
    2. משמרה כמה“ר נסים נוח יצ”ו וגיסו הכה“ר רחמים נוח …

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  22. 22Legal documentHalper 374

    Ketubba. Dated: Friday, 19 Adar 2203 Seleucid = 18 March 1892 CE. Location: Al-Maḥābisha in northwest Yemen, also known as Quzayyiz, near the lake or …

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  23. 23Legal documentHalper 373

    Ketubba from Yemen. Date unknown. The first two lines, which included the date and the place, are now missing. The city Ṣanʿā' is mentioned in …

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  24. 24Legal documentAIU VII.A.38.2

    This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. In the lower right corner of 'recto,' at 90 degrees to the other text blocks, there is …

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  25. 25LetterT-S 10J25.8 + AIU VII.E.23 + T-S 16.95

    A booklet containing copies of eight letters by Rav Sherira Gaon and one letter by Rav Hayye Gaon. End of the 10th century. The letter …

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    1.                והיינו מדמים [ 
    2. הרבה שנים ושנה אחרי שנה אנחנו גדולנו וזק[ננו 
    3. לקהל חשוב וזריז ומי שיש בו מעשים טובים [ 
    4. [        …

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  26. 26LetterT-S AS 155.321

    Recto: Opening lines of a letter introduced by quotations such as Psalms 31:2. Verso: unusual note that does not seem to be a classic address; …

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  27. 27Legal documentENA NS 50.2

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Yūd ʿImrān on Bīr al-Ḥā'it, Yemen. Dated: 4 Nisan 2151 Seleucid = 7 April 1840 CE. Groom: Hārūn b. Sālim al-Thalā'ī(?). …

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  28. 28Legal documentENA NS 54.19

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Wādī al-Sirr (ואדי אלסר), Yemen. Dated: Shevat 2005 Seleucid = January/February 1694 CE. Groom: Dā'ūd b. Yosef al-Ḥamāmī (or al-Ḥammāmī) al-Ḥaḍrī. …

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  29. 29LetterENA 3698.10

    Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 18th or 19th century. Mentions Jerusalem. From a certain Mordekhay al-Baḥrī[?] to Merkada and Brahem Diyalo[?] (דייאלו). Possibly a North …

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  30. 30LetterBL OR 5561B.24

    Letter of recommendation. Late. In Hebrew, with some Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic. The bearer Saʿīd b. Manṣūr the Yemeni is from a good family and has …

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  31. 31Legal documentT-S 24.20

    Legal document. Record of release. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I, 1426 Seleucid. One of two copies of …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן חתמי מטה כן הוה חצרא עלינא אלשיך אבו אלכרם מר ור נדיב הלוי בר מר ור
    2. סעדיה הלוי נע ואלשיך אבו אלסרור מר ור פרחיה בר מר ו…

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    1. Testimony which took place before us—we, the undersigned. Thus: the Elder Abū al-Karam (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Nadiv ha-Levi b. (our) tea(…

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  32. 32LetterENA NS 63.6

    Letter in Hebrew and some Judaeo-Arabic in a Yemenite scribal hand, perhaps issued by a beit din in Ṣanaʿa. Dated [21]50 Seleucid which is 1839 …

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  33. 33List or tableHUC 1005

    Secondary use: Memorial lists in Hebrew. The most noteworthy section is the middle one with a portion of the Yiju family tree together with a …

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  34. 34LetterT-S 28.11

    Letter from Madmun b. David: Murder of the 'Caliph' and return of Jewish life to normalcy. Aden, 1202.

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    1. בשם רחמן
    2. כץ אלחצרה אלעאליה אלסאמיה אלשיכיה אלאגליה אלמאלכה
    3. אלמנעמה אלמתפצלה אלמופקה אלסעידה אלאמינה
    4. אדאם אללה עזהא וגדד סעדהא ובלגהא מן
    5. אלזמן…

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  35. 35Legal documentSassoon 1055b

    Document that is a continuation of Sassoon 1055A. Aharon al-Araki, who received a part of a house in Sana'a, sells his part to his brother …

    1. בתרין בשבא דהוא תשעה יומין לירח כסלו שנת אלפא ותשע מאה ושבעין ותמני שנין לשטרי [במדינת
    2. צנעא דעל בירין דמין נבעין מותבה ביומא דנן אתא לקדמנא אנן סהדי…

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  36. 36Paraliterary textT-S NS 338.78

    Summary of the extraction and medicinal uses of myrrh gum (from "a type of tree in Yemen"). In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  37. 37Legal documentSassoon 1055g

    A testimony of a person who received 47.5 harf (each of them equal to 40 baqsha silver coins) for selling his part of a house …

    1. [במדינת צנעא דעל נהרא דמיא אלמרבכי מותבא ביומא דנן אתא לקדמנא אנן סהדי דחתימין]
    2. לתתא סלימאן בן יוסף בן אלמעלם אבואלסעוד מרגז וחיניד נטק וקאל אשהדו ע…

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  38. 38State documentT-S Ar.30.273

    Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with …

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    1. العبد المملوك

    2. موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا

    5. وسيد…

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    1. The servant and slave
    2. Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.

    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    4. The benedictions of God a…

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  39. 39Legal documentT-S 12.585

    Recto: Legal document. On parchment. In the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan. In which Bū Saʿd Moshe b. Yefet the head Parnas leaves to his …

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  40. 40LetterT-S 8J28.11

    Letter with a legal purpose. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. From an unidentified sender to a certain parnas, trustee of the court. The …

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  41. 41Legal documentBL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8

    Copy of a court record from Aden. Dating: Summer 1131 CE. Concerning a controversy over Jewish communal leadership in Yemen. Goitein thought that this copy …

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    1. ולמא כאן יום אלסבת תאני יום אלכלאם אשתמעו גמיע אצחאבנא
    2. אלגרבא וגאו אלי ענד אלשיך אבו סעיד וקאלו לה אש עולת
    3. אן תפעל פקאל להום לאני וחדי מא יגי מני …

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  42. 42LetterBL OR 5566B.10

    Letter of condolence on the death of a woman. From an unidentified sender, probably in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Karam and his son Abū Isḥāq b. …

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  43. 43Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/20

    Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī and …

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  44. 44Legal documentT-S 12.546

    Partnership agreement dated Sivan 1735 CE (5495), to last for eight years, it seems for a business venture dealing in etrogim. The six partners are …

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  45. 45LetterCUL Or.1081 J2

    Mercantile letter sent possibly from Aden to India. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part of recto). The sender received a basket (zanbīl) of pepper which he …

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  46. 46State documentJRL Gaster ar. 360

    Draft of copy of a petition in Arabic script addressed to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Sayf al-Islām Ṭughtakīn, the second Ayyubid amir of Yemen (and brother of …

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    1. الى ديار اليمن
    2. نسخة المنشو[ر](؟) الـ . . . . . . .
    3. ىىسور(؟) يقدم بالمقام الاجل الملك العزيز //[سـ]ـيف الاسلام//
    4. الاوحد المقدم الامير . . . . .…

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  47. 47Legal documentT-S 8J5.23

    Conditional bill of divorce. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Av 1480 Seleucid, which is 1169 CE. The trader Bū Saʿd Moshe b. …

    1. בחד בשבה דהוא ש[
    2. אב דשנת אלפא וא[
    3. לשטרות באלמ[
    4. לפסטאט מצר [
    5. אנא משה בר [
    6. וחניכא דאית [
    7. אניסנא ות [
    8. ליכי אנתי פכ [
    9. וחניכא דאית [
    10. דנה וכדן תר [
    11. רשאה ו…

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  48. 48LetterCUL Or.1080 J109

    Letter from a certain ʿEli, unknown location, to the cantor Isḥāq, in Damietta. Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic with …

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  49. 49Paraliterary textT-S Misc.35.22

    Maqāma-like work in rhymed Hebrew prose by a certain Shelomo b. Yehuda (not the 11th-century gaʾon, as this fragment is probably 12th–13th century), describing how …

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  50. 50LetterT-S Ar.48.270

    Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, ‘Aydhab, to his brother ʿElī b. Netanʾel, Fustat, 1132 (Gil) or end of summer or fall 1131 (Goitein/Friedman). Ḥalfon is …

    1. עלקת למולאי אכי הדה אלאחרף מכת[ובה עלי חפז]
    2. לסרעה מסיר חאמלהא אעלמה פיהא תבת [א]לִ[לה]
    3. מגדהא אנני בחמד אללה ופ̇צלה וצלת עידאב עלי
    4. גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעא…

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