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Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. Aslama b. ʿAbi Zayd (a dealer in dates) buys part of a shop …
[بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[هذا ما ا]شترى يحـ[ـيى و]يكنى أبا الحسين بن على بن اسلم بن أبي [زيد التمار من احمد بن ابرهيم بن محمد]
المزني …
In the name of God, the merciful [ and compassionate.]
This is what Yaḥyā, who has the patronymic Abū al-Ḥusayn, ibn ʿAlī ibn Aslama ibn Abī [Z…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment. In the (hurried) hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves someone of the Ibn Shamlaṣ(?) family (the same name appears …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 144[.] Seleucid, which is 1128–38 CE. Husband: Yosef [b. ʿEli]. Wife: [Sitt] al-Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo. (They may actually …
מטא לידה קמן אנן עיד[י
נתן הכהן בר שלמה [
חלפון הלוי ביר מנשה [
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document. In Hebrew. Mentions 10 peraḥim of gold. Dated: Possibly 5263 or 5267 AM, which would be 1502/03 CE or 1506/1507. One of the …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Abū l-Majd is to give a certain sum …
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
Legal document. Bottom part only. Someone releases Sitt al-Ḥusn from all claims. Signed: Mordekhay b. Moshe ha-Kohen.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Unusual format; may be quite early, 10th or 11th century? May be a deed of sale …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abu l-Majd is to give the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Little of the content is preserved except for the phrase "from the …
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The right page of verso has a block of text in Arabic, which may be a witness statement from a legal document with a name …
Legal document, probably a bill of release from a woman. Written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (fl. 1150-1181 CE) and signed by [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Melammed. …
Legal formularies.
Verso: Court record, written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), regarding a property in Qasr al-Sham'. One of the parties is a convert to …
Ketubba for Mikhal bat Sason b. Yefet and Saʿadya b. Nathan, in the hand of Nathan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Verso: part of another document …
Legal record(s). Dated: 1608 Seleucid = 1296/96 CE. The first involves Ḥayyim b. Ḥananʾel, (his wife?) Shamsiyya bt. Ṣadoq, and a delayed marriage payment of …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably a deed of sale for one half of a house (no prices …
Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dated: Friday 21 [...] …
Recto: Marriage document (ketubba) in Palestinian style. Dated: [47]40 AM = 979/80 CE. Groom: Efrayim b. [...]. Bride: Khuzayr bt. Ḥusayn. (Information from Friedman, Jewish …
Legal document. Mutual release from claims upon the dissolution of a partnership between Saʿīd b. Saʿadya and Shemuel b. Avraham. No details of the partnership …
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Recto: Legal document, probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. This can be deduced because a seller certifies that something is free of …
Bill of sale, probably, for an enslaved woman. Fragment (lower right piece). Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Buyer: Mevorakh. Seller: Yequtiʾel. Few details preserved. Signed …
Verso (original use): Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: Prior to 1144 CE. Groom: Tamīm b. Yefet ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Ṣemaḥ b. …
Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel Ha-Ḥaver, Fustat. Concerning marrying a second wife, and conditions with the first wife.
Margin of recto: Fragment of the Arabic portion of a marriage contract, discussing the groom's promises to the bride regarding her exemption from oaths; margin …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to "instructions/wills which we have ignored" (waṣāyā mimmā …
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Groom: Faraj. Bride: [...] bt. Farjūn, virgin. Witnesses: Tamīm ha-Kohen b. Shemuel, Ṣadaqa b. [...], Hiba b. Aharon, Hillel …
Legal document in Arabic script. With witness signatures. One of them is Mūsā b. ... b. Aḥmad. Needs examination for content.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic, small fragment. Mentions a thawb ʿattābī and some prices in dirhams. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment from the lower left corner. Dated: First decade of either Adar I or Adar …
Legal record (#106) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated [27 Kislev 5326 …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document written on parchment. Dated Ṣafar 261 AH = November/December 874 CE. This is therefore the oldest Arabic …
Recto: Legal document, possibly a court record. Regarding an engagement (shiddukhin). Fiance: Yefet b. Binyamin b. Refaʾel ha-Levi ha-Talmid. Fiancee: Fāḍila bt. Bū l-Khayr Binyamin …
Bottom part of a legal document signed by Levi kohen. Dating: probably ca. 16th century.
Partnership contract. Dated: Tammuz 1460 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Tamīm b. Natan receives from Abū …
Ketubba, likely from Cairo given the mention of the Nile (נילוס) in the locational clause in line four and the witness signature of Yeḥezqel Ḥefeṣ …
Deed of appointment for a kosher butcher Shemuel [surname lost]. Location: Cairo. Dated: [5]288 AM, which is 1527/28 CE. The term of the appointment is …
Ketubba dated 1821/2 CE (5582 AM) from Cairo, for Eliyyahu Amaryo b. Yaʿaqov. The total of the ketubba is 750 esedi gurush. There is extensive …
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: Sunday 8th Adar II, 5548 AM (1788 CE). Location: Cairo. Avraham b. Nissīm b. Yaʿaqov aka Ḥīna is the groom, Badra …
Legal document. Partnership record. Dating: 1085 (per Goitein's index cards). Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (probable, per Goitein). This document is the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal testimony, fragment. Mentions the young ʿEli b. Ḥalfon and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (but not in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1100–1138, based on the …
Marriage document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/1126 CE. The groom may be Peraḥya ha-Levi [b. …