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Deed of lease. In difficult Arabic script. The lessee is [...] b. ʿĪsā b. ʿĀzif(?), a government employee (al-mustakhdam). Dated: 17 Rajab 531(?) AH = …
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Legal document in the form of a letter. Fragment (bottom part only). Refers to various legal conditions, might mention sugar, and specifies a fine of …
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Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Involves Avraham b. Faraj/Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbī who is known from several other documents from the late 11th …
IB IV, 61a. Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal document, draft. Left side only. No witnesses. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1542 Seleucid, which is 1231 CE. Features a freed muwallad slave (al-ghulām al-maʿtūq... …
An agreement for cancelation of engagement. Dating: probably 16th century (looks like the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya).The two parties declares they have no …
IB I, 23. Draft or notes of court proceedings (legal document) regarding a sale of half a house for 300 dinars. Abu Sahl, Menashshe b. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment of a document preserving the beginning of an appeal by a plaintiff who feeling himself unjustly treated is exercising his right to interrupt public …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal record (#59) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 Adar II …
1 نسخ
Order. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sulaymān Kohen tells the addressee to give two ounces of lemon and rose (syrups?) to Abū l-Faraj. (This Sulaymān Kohen may be …
Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Writing on both sides. (Information from CUDL)
Upper part of a damaged court record, from the court of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Involves Yeshuʿa and someone's sister Milāḥ bt. Ḥalfon. Reused on recto …
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Few details preserved. Involves a woman. (Information in part from CUDL)
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 48
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Formularies copied from court records in Lucena, Spain, during the early 1020s (among the earliest Spanish documents in the Geniza). The formularies reflect aspects of …
Query addressed to R. Yosef 'the Rav' concerning a case of inheritance. Headed by the unusual בשמ רחמ וחנינא. Involves several brothers, one minor. Quite …
Responsa, Miscellaneous; recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; verso: geonic responsum concerning a bailee who attempts to cheat the depositors heirs (Hebrew + Aramaic). (Info from FGP)
IB I, 8. Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' …
Rental contract (hādhā mā istaʾjara . . .). Lessee: ʿAbdallāh b. [...] al-Dawla [...] al-Tājir. Lessor: Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb (Moshe b. Yaʿaqov) al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir. Dated: …
1 مناقشة
Verso: Beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr seems to be called al-Sharīf al-Mahdawī (i.e., from al-Mahdiyya), and his name …
A declaration by the community of Qal'a
Recto: Court record dealing with inheritance. In the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1430 Seleucid = 1118/19 CE. Abū l-Barakāt b. …
Folio from a court notebook. Two records, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Recto: record of a legal dispute between Abū Naṣr b. …
Legal document. Dating: Approximately 15 weeks prior to Ḥeshvan 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139 CE. Concerning a debt of 90 dirhams to be paid in …
Legal record (one large piece and 5 smaller pieces) mentioning a wālī and a girl. Very damaged and difficult to figure out the story. Some …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. "A suit was filed in court (ll. 1–2, 12) by the two sons of the late …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Legal document on parchment. Damaged. Fragment (upper right piece). Referring to [...] ha-Levi; his travel to al-Andalus; 20 dinars; a half dinar; going with him …
Summary of a power of attorney. Levi b. Ibrāhīm appointed Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh to obtain for him the implements of a silk weaving workshop …
Berakhot b. Saadya receives in December 1126 from Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Sason al-Mahalli, the perfumer, a loan of 32 dinars to be paid back …
End of a legal document. Involves Dalāl bt. Yaʿaqov. Signed by David b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen and Elʿazar b. Saʿadya. The qiyyum is written and signed …
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script, likely an iqrār. Complete. One witness statement at the bottom. Verso: Columns of numbers which are added up. (Polliack …
Recto: Marriage contract (ketubba), with an ornate heading. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also signed as a witness. Location: Fustat. The date …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات
Legal record (#28) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
Legal record (#102) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 34v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 19 Kislev 5326 …
Deed of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (piece from the right side). The buyer …
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Mentions 'my brother R. Moshe,' the dīwān, the dīwān taking a payment of over 3,000 of …
Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Thursday, 2 Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. Shemarya. Wife: Esther bt. Namir. …
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Abū l-Faḍl; someone's brother in al-Maḥalla; a woman named [...]l …
Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 25-27) Folio 7r
Partnership agreement between Yom Ṭov אלאלוו and Ṣemaḥ b. David אלגג. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Shevaṭ 5329 AM, which is 1569 CE. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Written by …
Draft of a request addressed to Sayyidnā. Written in an unusual combination of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script: ينعم سيدنا يعرفني ما בקי ללשיך …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from a bill of release regarding a shipment of tamarind to …
Large legal document. Fragment (right side only). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions a codex; a partnership (sharika); payments in installments. Names listed …