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Draft, in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), of an addition to the last will of the parnas Eli ha-Kohen …
1 نسخ
Announcement of a threat of excommunication (ḥerem stam) against anyone in Fustat or Cairo or their environs who knows the whereabouts of Abū l-ʿAlā b. …
Fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-[...]. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal document. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. Statement that the claims about the immoral behavior of Ḥisāna bt. Asmāʾ, the wife of Hilāl …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "He left it under my hand..."
Will of Yaʿaqov b. Dunash b. Yehuda Resh Sidra, dealing mainly with expenses for his burial in Jerusalem. He appoints his brother-in-law Natan b. Shelomo …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions someone reaching maturity and taking possession of something from his mother, and quotes the verse 'لا …
Beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Someone named [...] b. Yefet makes a declaration. (Information …
Fragment from the top of a legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Adar II 1456 Seleucid = February/March 1145 CE. In …
1 مناقشة
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2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Elul 5[...] AM, probably ca. 15th or 16th century.
Court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (ca. 1066–1108). Dated: Tammuz 1387 Seleucid, which is 1076 CE. Location: Fustat. Record of a partnership …
2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان
Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …
Ketubba according to the Egyptian rite. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Nisan 1606 Seleucid = 31 March 1295 CE. Groom: Elʿazar b. Avraham (s't). Bride: Sara …
Partnership agreement. 17th century (no date is written)
Ottoman-era legal document or letter with legal import, in Arabic script. Probably demanding for a sum of money to be paid in dirhams. Needs examination.
Verso: Moshe Maimonides declares that he has received the money mentioned on recto. (Goitein, Palestinian Jewry, 316-318) VMR
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. In which someone acknowledges a debt of 100 dinars to another person. The. names …
Legal fragment. Dated: 1358 Seleucid, which is 1046/47 CE. Involves [...] b. Avraham b. Mukhtār; possibly his wife; and a girl under 11 years of …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment of an extremely faded legal document on verso. The only legible portions include a signature and a partial date of Adar II 5[...] AM. …
Court record, draft. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 6 Sivan 5252 AM (=ברן), which is 1492 CE. One of the matters is the inheritance of Maṣliaḥ …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Location: Yemen. Dated: Shawwāl 1177 AH = April/May 1764 CE. At least six witness clauses appear at the bottom.
Ketubba fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A circular piece has been cut out; this is part of the …
Recto: Bill of gift, in which a house in Qaṣr al-Šamʿ is given by [Isaa]c b. Abraham to his daughter Sittāna, the wife of Mevasser …
. [….]מאתים
2. [….]ם שעל נילוס
3. [….]אנה ל[..]שר
4. […ע]שרים וארב[ע]ה
5. [….]וע בקצר אדום
6. [….]ע[..]ד והיא החצר
7. [….]תה מצר מזרחי מגיע
8. [….]ת…
Verso: Fragment of a detailed report about the colors and development of crops, as part of a will. Relevant to Karaite law for intercalculating a …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a husband and wife, apparently a will making provisions for his death …
Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.
Damaged fragment from a legal deed of unidentified nature. There is a reference to appointing a proxy. Mentions Ḥusayn. Signed (in very rudimentary hands) by …
Legal document, small fragment. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Recto: Hebrew-Aramaic legal document, mentioning [...] b. Faraj and [...] b. ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥadīda. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script mentioning shipments and a …
Legal document in Arabic script. Brief debt contract, probably, mentioning the name [Man?]ṣūr b. Bū Saʿd.
Trousseau list. Written in huge letters. No numbers for the individual items, except in last line (perhaps 43 dinars). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Legal deed. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār the banker receives a testimony concerning a certain Isḥāq who died 3–4 days after he had made a declaration in …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Recto contains the lower left corner of a document, with perhaps the remnants of a witness signature at the bottom. …
Fragment with several different text blocks, chiefly a responsum attributed to the late Yaʿaqov Canpanton (d. before 1439 CE). Location: probably Spain. Dating: ca. second …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Court record concerning a grain dealer who promises to pay his former wife 4 dirhams every week for his five-year-old son, who was staying with …
On Monday, 24 Tishrei (1)364 AG (= 21 September 1052 CE), R. Joseph b. R. Ṣedaqa
the keeper of a grain store and his divorcee Gh[aniyya] b…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document, mentioning a certain Shela. Very damaged. Might be a deed of sale for a property.
Hardly readable.
Bill of divorce for Bayān b. Abu l-[...] and [...] bt. Sedaqa. Dated: 145[.] Seleucid = 1138–48 CE. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver and Mevorakh …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1108 CE(?), further context is needed for this estimate given that the document only lists a partial year 14[..] Seleucid. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Court record from the court of Shemarya b. Elhanan. Around 1000. A claim by Avraham b. Saʿda against his brother Ṣibyān, regarding trade in coral …
Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Recto: Short note about a court settlement from Fustat. An uncle allows his nephew to pay him back a sum of 10 dinars in 20 …
Legal document. Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1134. Abū Sa‘d and Abū Sahl form a partnership lasting 6.5 …
Legal record (#5) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f.1v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Dated 12 Shevat …
:(Documents 3-5) Folio 1v