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Yemeni family genealogical log, 1860?-1935.
יוחסין של משפחה תימנית 1860?-1935.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 633
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Yemen (Republic)--19th century--History--Sources.
- Jews.
- Jews--Yemen (Republic)--20th century--History--Sources.
- Yemen (Republic)--Religious life and customs.
- Yemen (Republic).
- Genre:
- epithalamia.
- genealogies (histories)
- logs (records)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina (former call number MLC 020); purchased by Colker from Kaniel, Jerusalem, in 1979 (Christie's).
- Sold by Christie's London, Online auction 21173 (November 28, 2022) as part of the collection of Marvin L. Colker.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 180 x 115 mm.
- Other Title:
- caption on recto : Ha-adah al khurasah
- caption on recto : האדה ﭏ כוראסה
- חתן נעים עלה בתוך עם.
- Place of Publication:
- 1860?-1935.
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew; caption in Judeo-Arabic (recto).
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript leaf which was probably separated from a manuscript codex or printed book, inscribed in sequence of children born to an unnamed Yemeni family. The earliest inscription is verses in praise of a groom (opening חתן נעים עלה בתוך עם), composed for the summons to the synagogue Torah reading on the week the wedding was to take place ("קום חתן לקרא בתורה קום מהרה", eleventh line); below is an inscription of the birth of the scribe's son Yiḥiya, on Friday, eve of Yom Kippur 623 (3 October 1863; recto); successional births of males listed in succession, and names filled in a blue ink (ranging between 1919 and 1935): Saʻid, Yiḥiya, Yeshʻaya, Yosef, and Daṿid. Written in a Yemeni square script (recto, and one inscription on verso) and a Yemeni cursive script (verso).
- Cited as:
- Yemeni family genealogical log. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 633). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Ḥatan naʻim ʻaleh be-tokh ʻam.
- חתן נעים עלה בתוך עם.
- OCLC:
- 1378165550
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review (housed in flat lying box under Island 2).
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