Beth din documents for settling the estate of Daʼud ibn Yiḥiya Ḳafiḥ, 7 Adar 2145 [18 March 1834].
מסמכי בית דין המסדרים את עזבונו של דאוד אבן יחיא קאפח

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Ḳafiḥ, Daʼud ibn Yiḥiya--divorce.

Divorce--Yemen--19th century.

Divorce.

Jews--Yemen (Republic)--Ibb (Province)--19th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Local Subjects:

Ḳafiḥ, Daʼud ibn Yiḥiya--divorce.

Genre:

receipts (financial records)

signatures (names)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), July 20, 2020 item 184.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 275 x 119 mm.

Place of Publication:

7 Adar 2145 [18 March 1834].

ז' אדר שני ב'קמה.

Language Note:

In Aramaic (document texts), with Hebrew words; second document has some Judeo-Arabic.

Summary:

This is a manuscript document written in Beth din for the amortisement by Daʼud ibn Yiḥiya Ḳafiḥ of his dues for ketubah of his wife; he was to give her a divorce document with her alottement promised in her Ketubah; the first document (written in 16 lines) is a receipt of payment, and the second (written in 11 lines) is a proof of Get (divorce document) given in court as well as absolvement of Daʼud of future alimony. Three witness signatures, place, and date below each document; item written in "אלמוקף קרית אראס", likely what was then Kharābat 'Arās (today in the Ibb Governate in the south of Yemen, which had a historical Jewish population). Written in a Yemeni semicursive script; item folded down, possibly originally accordian fold (now pressed flat).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Related Collections:

A divorce document formulary, also written in Yemen, in the Minyan shetarot (Seleucid Era count) chronology is written on f. 161v of UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 2081.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 581.

OCLC:

1350386315