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Tag: 19th c
246 records found
Ketubba dated the 9th of Tammuz, 1880 CE (2191 Seleucid) for Yos[ef] b. Sulayman b. Avraham al-Sabari and Ghina bt. Y[.]ya b. Yahya [...] al-Sabari, a widow. Merits futher examination. The names and place names are likely fully decipherable. Possibly Yemeni? Bears at least a superficial resemblance to Mosseri VII.19 (an 1899 Yemeni ketubba), see edition by Amir Ashur and Ben Outhwaite, "A Jewish marriage deed from nineteenth-century Yemen." ASE.
Bill of divorce (get) dated the 15th of Sivan 1865 CE (2176 Seleucid). Place: al-Malhah. Parties: Da'ūd b. Da'ūd and Ḥabība bt. Yaḥyā. Signed: Yūsuf b. Mūsā, ʿIwāḍ b. Avraham.
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 21 December 1876 (5637), with a handwritten note at the bottom, "this is the form of the ketubbot in the Maghreb according to the custom of the inhabitants..." ASE.
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 16 September 1891 (5651), with a note at the bottom, "this is the form of the ketubbot in the Maghreb according to the custom of the Castilian exiles."
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe ha-Levi known as ʿŪraybī and Sammūḥ bt. Yehuda Ḥaddād. Currency: medin. Dated: 7 October 1805 (14 Tishrei 5566), Cairo. See BL OR 5543.5 for the engagement agreement of Yiṣḥaq's sister ~8 years earlier. ASE
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Sara bt. Aharon Ḥedef (חידיף). Currency: esedi guruş. Dated 23 May 1831 (11 Sivan 5591), Cairo. ASE.
Ketubba for David Farāshī known as Kawuqji (?) b. Avraham and Esther bt. Yaʿaqov Medina (?). Currency: medin. Dated 2 April 1802 (29 Adar II 5562), Cairo. ASE.
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Eliyyahu b. Moshe de Man (?) of Manṣūra and Raḥel known as Kuḥla bt. Ḥassūn. Currency: real. Dated September 1803 CE (Tishrei 5564), Fustat. ASE.
Legal document dated April 1822 (beginning of Iyyar 5582), Fustat. Probably a partnership agreement between David Dayyan and Moshe אלפרון.
A magnificent illuminated certificate/amulet for a circumcision. Assuming we're meant to add up all the red numbers at the bottom to find the year, it is from 1847/8 CE ([5]608, but could also be 5 years earlier if one of the red "ה"s signifies 5000 rather than the black one). ASE.
Partnership agreement (?) for one month dated Av 1815 CE (5575), Mitzrayim. Between Khalifah (?) b. Hayyim and Habibah (?) bt. Hayyim Yosef.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 15 Sivan 5590 AM, which is 1820 CE. Mordechai Bialobos (בייאלובוס) attests that he has received a deposit of 700 esedi gurush ("arayot") from the widow of Shemuel Mella, which it seems he will use for investments and business, and a portion of the proceeds will go toward supporting the orphans of the deceased, Eliyyahu and Saʿd. Needs further examination. ASE. MCD.
Ketubba dated 15 September 1847 (5 Tishrei 5608) from Tangier for Ḥayyim Neḥemias b. Avraham b. Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Ordueña bt. Menaḥem b. Aharon. The currency used is אותייות. Scribed and witnessed by Masʿūd ha-Kohen. The groom also seems to have placed his name underneath. ASE.
Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.
Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.
Letter in Hebrew dated April/May 1807 CE (Nisan 567 = ונשמחה בכל ימנו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, specifically the head judge Yiṣḥaq Gallico (יצחק גאליקו), begging for financial aid. Their shaliaḥ is מרדכי אשיאו.
Flyleaf of a codex containing the Rosh to Gittin, labeled in a 19th century hand: "Purchased from Rabbi [Nachman Natan] Coronel May 15 1848. Price £5. On the Treatise Gittin a Talmudic Tract. by Asher Bar Jechiel." There is some additional writing and jotting. On verso are the remnants of glue.
Poem in elegant Arabic script followed by a curious note: (the poet and/or scribe?) "Mukhliṣ al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Hādī l-Islām Iyādi (?) was born in 1233H (1817/88 CE). 1263-30=1233." Presumably he was calculating his date of birth based on knowing that he was currently 30 and that the current year was 1847/48 CE.
From a diwan of Arabic poetry dating from 1847/48 CE.
The Arabic title page of the Quran with al-Zamakhsharī's commentary, edited by William Nassau Lees (وليم ناسو ليس الايرلندي), printed in Calcutta, 1856.
