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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
Legal document, or letter with legal content. Reporting to a group of people (ישמרכם צור ישראל) that the will of Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal document. Probably a bill of release connected to a will. The deceased is Moshe b. Yefet, and he left behind a minor son Hibatallāh. …
Left lower corner of a will from Fustat. The elder daughter is in charge of the partitioning of the house. The dying man says that …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
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Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: Monday, last decade of Shevaṭ 1461 Seleucid, which is January 1150 CE, under the authority of the …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Recto: draft of a letter from Yosef b. Saʿīd, to his brother Moshe. In Hebrew. Late. Greetings are offered to his father and (another) brother. …
Legal record. In the hand of Mevorkah b. Natan? Abū l-Munajjā Shelomo b. Saʿadya leaves to each of his three minor daughters — Mudallala, Naẓar, …
Recto: Draft of a will. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (this should be checked). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1561 Seleucid = …
Recto: Upper part of a will. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid = 8 May 1241 CE. Written in the same hand as verso. The …
Will of Na’ima bt. Yaʿaqov stating that one-half of a house with a store in Malij that she bought from her son for six dinars, …
צוואת נאעמה בת יעקוב בעיר מליג
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Margins of recto and verso: Will, presumably a draft, concerning gold for a man's daughter Karīma. Mentions various other family members, such as her maternal …
1 نسخ
Will in Hebrew, magnificently written. Location: unknown. Dated: Sunday, 18 Ḥeshvan 1318 Seleucid = 13 October 1006 CE. In which a rich man, Maṣliaḥ b. …
Copy of a will of Mahara bat Avraham ha-Kohen that had been made and dated in Alexandria in January 1143, issued at the request of …
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dividing up a store. No names mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index …
Will in which a woman donates a house in the Qālūs neighborhood for religious and charitable purposes with a stipulation that she will stay in …
Fragment of a will in which a gift is given to Abū l-Faraj, the brother, and to Abū Saʿd, of a part of a house …
Beginning of a will in the handwriting of Hillel b. Eli. Testator: Hillel b. Menashshe ha-Kohen known as Ṣāḥib Ibn al-Sukkarī. Dated: 27 Kislev 1411 …
1 مناقشة
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised …
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "sayyidnā al-shelishi" regarding a man who died and left his entire estate to one of his two cousins, but …
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139) in which a man …
Fragment of a will, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), in which the donor, an old man being in good health, specifies the …
Will of Moshe b. Adiyya who declares that his wife did not owe him anything, but that not all she was owed in her marriage …
Guardianship document from the court of Daniel b. Azarya, Jerusalem. An unknown person b. Ezra appoints Ishaq b. Abraham to be the guardian and get …
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 29 Kislev 1448 Seleucid = 25 November 1136 CE. The testator is owed 2/3 dinars …
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Location: Fustat. Dated: First third of …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Will of a pregnant woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tishrei 1449 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
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 …
Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and …
Will, in Arabic. Containing the testator's profession of faith in Islam. See also T-S NS 297.58 (PGPID 35099). Both of these wills are torn before …
Deathbed will of Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last third of Tammuz [1469] Seleucid = June 1158 CE. (The year in l. …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Draft of the will of the teacher (al-muʿallima) Sittūna bt. Avraham the …
Will of a silk-weaver named Abū l-Faḍl b. Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī, dividing his house, workshop, and other belongings to his four sons. In the hand …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Deathbed will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother …
Legal document: will, fragmentary, of the Qaraite mother of two girls, before delivering another child. Concerns in particular her valuable jewelry. Goitein surmised that the …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. With a copy of the will of Wuhsha the broker, detailing various items …
Main Points of the Will
of Wuḥsha, the Broker.
To my brother shall be given one hundred dinars
from the objects given to me as securit…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Recto: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, which partly consists of a deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 24 …
Beginning of a court record (last will and testament?) for Shela b. Yefet the silk tax-farmer in Sammanud.
Leaf from a court ledger. On recto, written at 90 degrees to the other text blocks: Draft of the deathbed will of Abū l-Ḥasan. Dating: …
Will (waṣiyya), in Arabic. For a Sicilian named ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī/al-Siqillī al-Anṣārī. Lines 6–15 consist of his profession of faith in the tenets of …
Will. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. "No wailing women; and of garments in which I shall be buried, no more than these: two …
Will of a wealthy man in favor of his wife, concerning twenty-seven assets and liabilities. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[5]31 Seleucid = 1219/20 CE, under the …
Will, in which the testator grants a lot of valuable property to various people in his family, including a kānūn sharābiyya (a syrup-maker's brazier?) and …
Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Deathbed will of the wife of a scholar, ca. probably 1151. A personal record of an anonymous writer, apparently a member of the …
On Saturday, the 15th
Siwan, together with "the Diadem" (of the Scholars) R. Nathan b. R. Samuel, the ḥāvēr,
of blessed memory, while the…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Copy of the will of Khulla bt. Shabbat in which she lists her assets (three different dārs held in partnership with her two sisters and …
Recto: Legal document. Abū Manṣūr Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh appoints Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Shaʿyā, known as Ibn Tawwazī, to investigate accounts relating to the estate …