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Confirmation of a former deed of sale in which Yosef and Maymūn sons of Yaʿaqov al-Ghallāq (? אלגלאק) are interested. The document in question was …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal proceedings. Maʿālī ha-Kohen, the agent of Yosef b. Ṣedaqa he-Ḥaver, appeared before the court and declared that—unless granted explicit permission by the court—he would …
Bottom part of a ketubah, signed by Hananya b. Elnathan, Avraham b. Ho[...], Maryut Hakohen. AA
Ketubba fragment (upper right corner). Location: Cairo. Groom: Hillel the elder. Bride: a widow [...] bt. Elʿazar ha-Kohen. Payments: 7 + 30 = 37 dinars. …
1 مناقشة
Karaite engagement deed. Dated on the night of Purim 14 Adar I, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yiṣhaq b. Aharon Ḥakīm engages the previously unmarried Qamr …
1 نسخ
Very damaged, small fragment from a legal deed regrading marriage of a freed slave girl. Few words from her dowry list are preserved.
Bottom of a legal document. Dating: first half of the 11th century. Only signatures are preserved: [...]ram ha-Shofeṭ; Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan; Efrayim b. Shemarya; Yefet …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script (very neatly written, with diacritics). Concerning al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm and Isḥāq and a house. Dating: Probably late Mamluk …
Part of a ketubba for [...] bt. Yosef ha-Levi and an unnamed groom in Fusṭāṭ (date not preserved). Witnessed by the parnas Yehuda b. ʿA[...] …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the middle of the top. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE, …
Legal document. Extremely faded. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion preserved here consists of the identification of the party or parties and …
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: First decade of Rabīʿ I 486 AH = April 1093 CE. Apparently concerning some confusion over shipments of produce …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ا]لـشـــــكر لله دائــــــــــماً
[يقول الشيخ الـ]ـدولة وموفقها ابي محمد ثروة بن …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Mentions a ketubba and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. Refers to the tearing up of the ketubba and …
Debenture bond / promissory note (ورقة سند). An adorned printed template states that this is "a debenture bond for the sum of less than 100 …
Legal deed. Dated: 4757 AM (996–97 CE). Ghulayb ha-Levi b. Shelomo, known as Salmān al-Tabīb, receives a loan from his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Salāma al-Ṭabīb …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Upper right corner of an acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr is Mūsā b. Yehuda al-Yahūdī(?) al-Ḥarīrī(?). Much of what remains is his physical …
Lease document, in Arabic script, for a house in Alexandria. The leasee may be Yuḥanna (needs further examination). On fols. 1v–2r and margins, there is …
Validation (qiyyum) from a legal document, signed (and probably written) by Efrayim b. Shemarya. Also signed by Avraham b. Mevasser and perhaps [Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen] ha-Parnas …
Recto: Digest of a legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: November 1076. Manṣūr b. Khalaf al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) will partner with Yefet b. Avraham and Shelomo …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Ṭevet 1462 Seleucid = December 1150 / January 1151 CE. Location: Fustat. Written in the jurisdiction of Shemuel b. Ḥananya …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document, signed by Yefet b. Netanʾel ha-Mumḥe. Dated: 1413 Seleucid = 1101/02 CE.
Legal formulary. For a deed of sale. In the lower margin of verso, there is an unidentified text block in a different hand (magical?). (Information …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 24 Tammuz 1439 Seleucid = 24 June 1128 CE. Husband: Sheʾerit b. Ḥalfon. Wife: Turfa bt. Avraham. …
End of a legal document concerning the sale of flax, signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq, and Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe. (Information in …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerns Abū l-Faḍāʾil and his wife ("amḍā la-hā al-taṣarruf fī jamīʿihā"). No details preserved. Dated: Elul …
Barely legible, probably a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Part of a deed, in which Yefet b. Aharon confirms that he has received the sum of 8 3/4 dinars from persons, including Avraham and …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 15[.]4 Seleucid, probably 1554 = 1242/43 CE or 1544 = 1232/33 CE. …
Halakhic text, possibly a responsum, concerning a man marrying a woman who then ‘hates’ (divorces) her. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r
Legal testimony about a commercial dispute. In Arabic script. One party is al-Ṭūsī. Someone died suddenly, and the merchants sealed his shop and the inspectors …
Bill of release from a partnership, after the death of one of the partners. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Middle decade …
Small fragment probably from a legal deed.
Small fragment of a dowry list, probably from a ketubah. AA
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century. Wuḥūd bt. Ḥalfon declares that a coex of the Torah along with other copper vessels and a …
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Goitein's notes and the NLI catalogue both give 1459 CE. The tens digit is very faded, but the …
Legal document in Arabic script. Involves a head of cattle (al-raʾs al-baqr). Needs examination.
Two deeds of sale for houses, written by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel. They were erroneously combined under one shelfmark. Fol. 2r: Location: Fustat. Dated: 8 Adar …
Legal fragment (upper part). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involves the glazier (zajjāj) Elʿazar/Manṣūr b. Meshullam/Muslim/Musallam. Also involves [Abū l-]Faḍl al-ʿAsqalānī, a …
A legal deed. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel, who also signed the validation (qiyyum). Dating: ca. 1145 CE (but it is not clear where …
Legal document. An agreement between Shlomo b. Avraham and the mother of his daughter (probably divorced) regarding her support. The year is [1]403 (1092) in …
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Yehuda and the bride is Esther known as 'Aziza d. Aharon. Dated 29 Kislev 5405 AM …
Draft of the beginning of a legal document, mentioning a certain Abū ʿAlī known as בן אלמכבה. The scribe appears to have written אלטחין in …
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 …
Karaite bill of sale for a shop in the coppersmith market of Cairo that also provides details on the prior terms of its ground rent …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A woman gives to a man a gift consisting of two objects delivered to him in …
Verso: legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). Does not seem to be the Arabic script hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya, which we know …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Wardūnya, a suburb of Baghdad (ורדוניא דבגדד), on the Tigris river (דגלת). Dated: 13 Nisan 13[..] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range …
Ketubba, Rabbanite. Dated: [13]56 Seleucid, which is 1044/45 CE.Groom: Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: [...] bt. Abu l-Faraj (based on the filing note on verso). Mentions …