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Iqrār, though in some ways resembles a state document with fiscal content. In Arabic script. 16 full and 4 half lines on paper. Probably begins …
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Partnership agreement between Eliyyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Reqaḥ, and Merkado Ḥūba(?) (חובה), from Cairo, dated 1796 CE (Av 5556 AM). The main text of the document …
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Small fragment of a ketubba containing a portion of the trousseau list. (Information in part from CUDL)
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 …
Folio from a court notebook. Recto: Statement about the debt of a parnas. Dating: ca. 1151 CE, mentioning a timespan in 1462 Seleucid rather than …
Owed by the elder Abū Saʿd the parnās, b. Ḥātim to the Estate
of the Jerusalemites: from the beginning of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year
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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Draft of a Karaite betrothal contract, probably a formulary or model document from a bound collection. (the key operative word on the verso, l. 15, …
Bifolio from a court notebook, containing a trousseau list with typical trousseau items and values in Hebrew numerals. The hand is likely known. (Information from …
1 مناقشة
Minute fragment from a beginning of a document from Cairo. AA
Legal document in which a deposited estate is handed over to the heirs. Mentions people including al-Dhahabī, Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (called Zayn), and Ibn Ghazāl. In …
Verso: Addendum to the legal deed on recto. Location: Fustat. Dated: 22 Shevaṭ 1576 Seleucid = 9 February 1265 CE. Written and signed by ʿImmanuel …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) and a jeweler (al-jawharī)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Adar (אדר הנהדר) 1810 Seleucid = 20 February 1499 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Natan …
Bill of exchange pledged for the rental of river floodland in which the amount paid is to the Jewish owner of the land – 18 …
Legal document concerning payments of large sums of money, mentioning precious objects of pearls and gold. The parties are Shemuʾel b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen and Rabbenu …
One side: Legal document in Arabic script. Probably a deed of sale. Mentions [...] b. ʿUmar b. Muḥsin b. ʿAlī and the phrase "ʿalā iqrār …
Legal fragment. Dating: mentions Av 1486 of the Seleucid Era = July/August 1175 CE. Describing how after lengthy litigation it was determined that [...] known …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 18 Tammuz 5319 AM, which is 23 June 1559 CE. Partnership in a muqāṭaʿa (Ottoman Turkish: mukata’a) …
Verso: responsum in Judaeo-Arabic by ʿEli b. ʿAmram (11th century), regarding forbidden marriage. Recto: piyyuṭ in Hebrew that continues in the margin on verso. (Information …
Bill of debt issued in Cairo in 1509/10 CE (5270 AM) to be paid to David Di Medina and his brother Avraham in 10 Ducati …
Fragment of a late ketubba, with sums in muayyadis, including the stipulation that the husband will not take a second wife without the bride's consent. …
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Recto: Copy of a Bill of release with several validations by the court in Fustāt. The original deed was given by Avraham b. Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbi …
Verso (original use): Fragment of legal document(s) in Arabic script, though the hand resembles state documents. In the upper text block, mentions the end of …
Fragment from the beginning of a legal document in Arabic script. Involves [...] b. Muqābil(?) and Manṣūr b. Thābit al-Qazzāz.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Involves a certain Yefet; reference to a purchase; gaining merit by keeping a shop open; …
Legal document. Draft, probably. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? In Judaeo-Arabic. The wife of Yiftaḥ ha-Dayyan declares that she sold Abū l-Barakāt...
Recto: Acknowledgement of the payment of rent. Dated: 3 Rabīʿ I 607 AH, which is 25 August 1210 CE. Aḥmad b. al-Shaykh ʿAlī Ibn al-Akhḍar …
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.]
Aḥmad [ … ] ibn al-Shaykh ʿAlī ibn al-Akhḍar acknowledged
with a legal acknowledgemen…
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Right side of an informal note or order of payment in Arabic script. Its content is not preserved, only the opening phrases and the phrase …
Ketubba or prenuptial agreement in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Bride: Sitt al-Wafā b. Shela ha-Levi. Groom: Berakhot ha-Levi. …
Court ledger with records of approximately 15 distinct documents. Dated: Adar II 1600 – Elul 1601 Seleucid = 1289–90 CE. Several of the entries refer …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Draft or record of legal deed(s) in a court notebook. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership at the death of one of the partners. Names: …
Legal document. Acknowledgement of loan. Dating: February 1135, in (new) Cairo. Document recognizing a loan of 10 dinars from Yosef ha-Levi to Yefet b. Yaḥyā …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Recto is a portion of a deed of sale. No names preserved. …
Legal document, in an elegant hand, concerning a property transaction. In Arabic script. A woman named اخيوه bt. Saʿīd, the Rabbanite Jewish woman, who is …
Recto: Unidentified writings in Arabic script, maybe accounts or scribal practice. Verso: Fragment of a legal deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), involving a debt. The beginnings …
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 5500 AM = 2051 Seleucid, which is 1740 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Raḥel bt. …
Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1404 Seleucid, which is 1093 CE, under the authority of the Nasi …
Late. A fragmentary document dealing with excommunication and oath. Hebrew. Mentions R. Aharon al-Kurdi. AA/ASE
Verso: Note in a crude hand instructing Abū Naṣr b. Abū l-Maʿālī to immediately present before the court.
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Fragment from the upper left corner of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid = 1088–1188 CE. Mentions [...] b. Moshe. In the upper …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
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 …
Legal record (#11). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn Makḥūl and Abū ʿAlī b. Abū Saʿd attest that Sibāʿ …
Karaite bill of release. Date: 5 Iyyar 5452 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. Venue: Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Moshe b. Aharon Kohen, the wakīl of Masʿūda …
Small fragment from the end of an Arabic document, likely a legal document with a witness signature or possibly a letter.
Intriguing medieval multifragment in which at least two documents are fused together. One document on the verso is likely the lower portion of Jewish legal …