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LetterENA 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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Legal 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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List 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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Legal 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 …
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LetterBL 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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Legal 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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Legal 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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Legal 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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Legal 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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LetterT-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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Legal 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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Legal 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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List 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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LetterENA 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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Legal 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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LetterT-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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Legal 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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Legal 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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Legal 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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Legal 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 …
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] דיאר אלימן וכתב לי בהמא כתאב צדקה באלעדים אשה[דהם
- . . . . . .]ה . . . קד געלתהמא במתנה לאחר מותי לואלדתי תתצרף פיהמא בע…
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LetterT-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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Literary 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.
- פלמא כאן פי אלזמאן אלקדים כאלפו אלכפאר עלא אלנבי מחמד ע"אל פנצרה אללה ע…
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LetterBL 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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Legal documentENA NS 54.19
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Yemen. Dated: Shevat 2005 Seleucid, which is 1694 CE. Groom: Dā'ūd b. Yosef al-Ḥamāmī (or al-Ḥammāmī) al-Ḥaḍrī. Bride: Simḥa, a virgin.
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LetterT-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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- בשם רחמן
- כץ אלחצרה אלעאליה אלסאמיה אלשיכיה אלאגליה אלמאלכה
- אלמנעמה אלמתפצלה אלמופקה אלסעידה אלאמינה
- אדאם אללה עזהא וגדד סעדהא ובלגהא מן
- אלזמן…
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LetterT-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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LetterT-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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Legal 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 …
- בתרין בשבא דהוא תשעה יומין לירח כסלו שנת אלפא ותשע מאה ושבעין ותמני שנין לשטרי [במדינת
- צנעא דעל בירין דמין נבעין מותבה ביומא דנן אתא לקדמנא אנן סהדי…
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Legal 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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LetterBL 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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Paraliterary 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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Legal 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 …
- [במדינת צנעא דעל נהרא דמיא אלמרבכי מותבא ביומא דנן אתא לקדמנא אנן סהדי דחתימין]
- לתתא סלימאן בן יוסף בן אלמעלם אבואלסעוד מרגז וחיניד נטק וקאל אשהדו ע…
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LetterT-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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Legal 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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State 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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العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
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Legal 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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- ולמא כאן יום אלסבת תאני יום אלכלאם אשתמעו גמיע אצחאבנא
- אלגרבא וגאו אלי ענד אלשיך אבו סעיד וקאלו לה אש עולת
- אן תפעל פקאל להום לאני וחדי מא יגי מני …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/20
Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dating: 1098. Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī and ʿUlla ha-Levi b. Yosef ha-Levi …
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Legal 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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LetterT-S Ar.48.270
Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel from ‘Aydhab to his brother Ali b. Netanel, 1132. Ḥalfon is on his way back to Egypt after an unsuccessful …
- עלקת למולאי אכי הדה אלאחרף מכ[תובה ]
- לסרעה מסיר חאמלהא אעלמה פיהא תב[ת ? תע]
- מגדהא אנני בחמד אללה ופצלה וצלת עידאב עלי
- גמלה אלסלאמה ואלעאפיה יודו לא…
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LetterCUL 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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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 360
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 Saladin), r. …
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Paraliterary 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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Legal 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. …
- בחד בשבה דהוא ש[
- אב דשנת אלפא וא[
- לשטרות באלמ[
- לפסטאט מצר [
- אנא משה בר [
- וחניכא דאית [
- אניסנא ות [
- ליכי אנתי פכ [
- וחניכא דאית [
- דנה וכדן תר [
- רשאה ו…
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LetterCUL 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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LetterCUL Or.1080 J225
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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- בש̇מ
- שלום מעולה / וברכה כפולה / וחן וחסד וחמלה / ורווח והצלה / ומילו[י]
- כל שאלה / וקיבול כל תפילה / וישור כל מסילה / יאיתיון נצח סלה
- מלפני שוכ…
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