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Legal documentT-S AS 152.232
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2018
PGP ID
16545
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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LetterENA 3505.15
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2017
PGP ID
12062
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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Legal documentENA NS 46.1
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2017
PGP ID
11486
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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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 32/51
Document date
24 Av 2044 Seleucid (5 August, 1733 CE)
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2019
PGP ID
19486
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 …
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Legal documentBL OR 10578H.25
Document date
Shawwāl 1177 Hijrī (3 April, 1764 – 1 May, 1764 CE)
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2020
PGP ID
19061
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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LetterBL OR 10578H.25
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2021
PGP ID
33708
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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LetterT-S AS 146.113
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2018
PGP ID
17348
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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Legal documentDK AS 3
Document date
194[.] Seleucid (1628 – 1638 CE)
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2019
PGP ID
19628
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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Legal documentT-S AS 149.84
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2018
PGP ID
18611
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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List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 32/50
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2019
PGP ID
19485
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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Legal documentT-S AS 121.31 + T-S AS 121.32
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2018
PGP ID
16270
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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List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 32/52
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2019
PGP ID
19487
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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- numismatic dating
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Legal documentT-S AS 220.77
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2019
PGP ID
22928
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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LetterENA 2425.17
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2017
PGP ID
11608
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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- 19th c
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LetterT-S 16.95 + T-S 10J25.8 + AIU VII.E.23
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2018
PGP ID
5563
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 …
recto left (?) column
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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Legal documentENA NS 52.2
Document date
29 Tishrei 2023 Seleucid (12 October, 1711 CE)
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2017
PGP ID
11096
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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Legal documentHalper 373
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2020
PGP ID
19653
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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Literary textNLI 8 420
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1988
PGP ID
849
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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Legal documentAIU VII.A.38.2
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2021
PGP ID
33706
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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LetterT-S 12.825
In PGP since
2017
PGP ID
7351
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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Legal documentHalper 374
Document date
Friday, 19 Adar 2203 Seleucid (18 March, 1892 CE)
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2020
PGP ID
19654
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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List or tableT-S AS 186.206
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2024
PGP ID
39946
List of items, one is Socotran aloe (صبر سقطري). Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
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Legal documentT-S NS J351
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2004
PGP ID
4323
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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- 11th or 12th c
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LetterBL OR 5561B.24
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2020
PGP ID
19243
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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Legal documentENA NS 50.2
Document date
4 Nisan 2151 Seleucid (7 April, 1840 CE)
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2017
PGP ID
12883
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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Legal documentENA NS 54.19
Document date
Shevaṭ 2005 Seleucid (27 January, 1694 – 25 February, 1694 CE)
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2017
PGP ID
12884
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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LetterT-S 10J25.8 + AIU VII.E.23 + T-S 16.95
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2017
PGP ID
5821
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 …
verso left column
2. והיינו מדמים [
3. הרבה שנים ושנה אחרי שנה אנחנו גדולנו וזק[ננו
4. לקהל חשוב וזריז ומי שיש בו מעשים טובים [
5. [ …
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LetterT-S AS 155.321
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2019
PGP ID
22349
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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LetterT-S 28.11
Document date
17 Tammuz 1513 Seleucid (1202 CE)
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2004
PGP ID
5459
Letter from Madmun b. David: Murder of the 'Caliph' and return of Jewish life to normalcy. Aden, 1202.
II, 67
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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Legal documentSassoon 1055b
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1988
PGP ID
912
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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List or tableHUC 1005
In PGP since
2024
PGP ID
39239
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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LetterENA 3698.10
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2017
PGP ID
12072
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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Legal documentT-S 24.20
Document date
Middle decade of Adar I 1426 Seleucid (1115 CE)
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2017
PGP ID
7563
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 …
Recto
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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LetterENA NS 63.6
Document date
Iyyar 2150 Seleucid (15 April, 1839 – 13 May, 1839 CE)
In PGP since
2017
PGP ID
12306
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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Paraliterary textT-S NS 338.78
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2019
PGP ID
25965
Summary of the extraction and medicinal uses of myrrh gum (from "a type of tree in Yemen"). In Judaeo-Arabic.
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Legal documentSassoon 1055g
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1988
PGP ID
913
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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LetterT-S 8J28.11
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2017
PGP ID
9256
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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Legal documentT-S 12.585
In PGP since
2017
PGP ID
7278
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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State documentT-S Ar.30.273
Document date
516/521 Hijrī (1123 – 1127 CE)
In PGP since
2017
PGP ID
9235
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 …
Recto
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…
Recto
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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LetterBL OR 5566B.10
In PGP since
2017
PGP ID
6260
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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Legal documentBL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8
Document date
1131 CE
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1988
PGP ID
491
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 …
א
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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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/20
Document date
12 Nissan 1409 Seleucid (17 March, 1098 CE)
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2017
PGP ID
9253
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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Legal documentT-S 12.546
Document date
Sivan 5495 Anno Mundi (22 May, 1735 – 20 June, 1735 CE)
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2020
PGP ID
20008
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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- 18th c
- business
- hebron
- late heb
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J2
In PGP since
2017
PGP ID
9266
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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- betel nut
- cardamom
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 360
Document date
1182 – 1197 CE
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2021
PGP ID
33055
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 …
Recto
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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- aden
- ayyubid
- india book (arabic)
- india book unedited
- petition
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Paraliterary textT-S Misc.35.22
In PGP since
2018
PGP ID
9780
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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- ib7
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Legal documentT-S 8J5.23
Document date
Av 1480 Seleucid (1169 CE)
In PGP since
1990
PGP ID
2150
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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- conditional divorce
- divorce
- get
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J109
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2017
PGP ID
8886
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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- damietta
- garments
- honey
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LetterT-S Ar.48.270
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1987
PGP ID
1261
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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- aydhab
- business
- halfon b. netanel
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J225
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2017
PGP ID
9046
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Natanʾel in al-Ghuwwa, Yemen, ca. summer 1131, concerning the controversy over the reshut of Maṣliaḥ gaʾon …
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1. בש̇מ
2. שלום מעולה / וברכה כפולה / וחן וחסד וחמלה / ורווח והצלה / ומילו[י]
3. כל שאלה / וקיבול כל תפילה / וישור כל מסילה / יאיתיון נצח סלה
4. מלפני שוכ…
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Literary textNLI 8 420

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List or tableT-S AS 186.206

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