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Legal document. Record of court proceedings. The hand of the scribe is probably known. With an unusual opening formula (חצר אלי מושב בתי דינין instead …
1 نسخ
Fragment of a ketubba. Qaraite? In Aramaic and Hebrew (no Judaeo-Arabic). The signatures of the witnesses have been scratched out. On verso there is a …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Testimony concerning the death of a man and his son. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 427/1 August 1036. The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The witnesses named in this document, all of them knowing Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn ibn al-Da…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Legal document written in Ṣoʿan (Fusṭāṭ), mentioning Shelomo b. Ḥalfon and (on verso in a different hand/document) Ibn Hamza. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document. Fragmentary (lower left corner). Mentions a shop and a sum of 55[.] (dirhams? dinars?). Perhaps in the hand of [Shelomo] b. Eliyyahu whose …
Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Maʿālī Shelomo al-Dhahabī. The witnesses to the declaration are ʿEli he-Ḥaver and Araḥ Ibn Kokhav (or Kawkab), and the judge is …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a legal document. Location: Bilbays. Drawn up under the authority of David Sar ha-Sarim (=David I Maimonides?). Mentions half of a house. On …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). …
Legal record (#6). Divorce settlement. Dated: Monday, 20 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Abū Saʿd al-Zayyāt b. Khalīl attests, acting as agent for his sister Sitt al-Fakhr, …
IB I, 3. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …
[Date, place, and parties.]
…Mr. Jekuthiel claimed
that he had sold to Joseph indigo from
the House of Raisins against clearing a…
Legal fragment. Only a few words remain from the end of the document, and then 11 signatures. Location: Jubayl (probably Byblos in Lebanon, but there …
Draft of a contract for a 2-year partnership in a drug store (dukkān al-ʿiṭr). Faded. Names: [...] ha-Kohen; Abū Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b. Abū Munā(?). …
IB VII, 3. Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#62) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 60-62) Folio 16r
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Portions of 10 lines are preserved. Quite damaged.
Mysterious document with multiple text blocks, all quite faded. It may begin on verso and continue onto recto. At the top of verso there is …
Recto and verso seem to be two copies of the same document or related documents, one in Judaeo-Arabic and the other in Arabic script. Begins …
Lower right corner of a legal document, possibly marital. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Signed ʿEli ha-Kohen [...]
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Regarding the sale of an enslaved woman. Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān is the buyer. Fragment (upper right corner). …
Communal ledger, late Ottoman, numerals in Arabic. Multiple pages, folded vertically and sewn.
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Fragment of a bill of release. Granted by David b. Menashshe to a woman and her husband. May be related to a gift which he …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to sums of money; pounds of silk; …
Fragment of a legal document concerning the ketubba of Karīma and her husband Nadiv. Also mentions a certain Shelomo. In the hand of Natan b. …
Legal document in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
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., …
Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ II 504 or 540 AH. Maybe a partnership agreement. Describing an arrangement between two men …
1 مناقشة
Recto: Document in Arabic script, likely legal or official. Verso: A different document in Arabic script, followed by a liturgical note in Judaeo-Arabic.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: [Fu]stat. Dated 4844 A.M. (1084 C.E.) (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 217-26) EMS
Legal document. On parchment. Mainly in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I [15]43 Seleucid = January/February 1232 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham …
Legal document. Dated: Probably [16]11 Seleucid, which is 1299/1300 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham (II) Maimonides. Location: Fustat. (Avraham I served 1204–37, …
Query from Nadiv b. Yiṣḥaq, “the son of the brother of Umm Nadiv,” asking whether a woman who was deserted by her husband with whom …
Legal documents, drafts or records. In Hebrew. Dating: Late. The year is given on the righthand page, line 8, but is tricky to read. Perhaps …
Secondary use: Inventory of possessions in Judaeo-Arabic, for legal purposes. The lists are arranged in columns on each side. Mentions "with his deceased brother." On …
Receipt from the committee of Jewish pious endowments in Egypt for the value of rent on a residence in the qodesh of the Jewish quarter …
Apprenticeship agreement between David Dayyan (the instructor) and an apprentice whose name is badly damaged but his surname can be inferred as Karo because his …
Bottom of some sort of declaration, in Hebrew. Late. The undersigned seem to be pledging allegiance to a certain authority and agreeing to whatever he …
Legal record (#69) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1151. Location: Minyat Ashna (near Fustat). Following appeals by his deceased brother Binyam's widow to the court, Kathīr b. Avraham …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Fragment of an agreement between Sayyid al-Ahl and Berakhot ha-Levi regarding rental of stores located in the sugarmakers' quarter, for the sum of 200 dirhams …