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Legal testimonies embedded in a letter format. Testimonies made by Abū l-Khayr and Peraḥya about a physical argument between the leader Abū l-Bahā and Abū …
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Small fragment of a legal document or letter concerning a legal issue. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Mentions anklets (khalākhil) …
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Recto: legal document concerning debt. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Verso: probably a subsequent legal document in a different hand, mentioning Abū Yaʿaqov, 10 dinars, …
Probably a fragment of a get (bill of divorce) for a certain Yaḥyā.
Fragment of a marriage contract.
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Legal fragment. Dated: 1[.]64 Seleucid, probably 1364 = 1052/53 or 1464 = 1162/63. Mentions someone called Ibn Abī קויס or קוים (Quwayyis? Quwaym? Qawīm).
Fragment from a bill of release. Probably after payment of a debt owed to the orphans. Probably written by Natan b. Shelomo (active 1122–50 CE).
Court notebook. This page contains a record of divorce and a trousseau list from Cairo in the 1180s. Each of the two columns was written …
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Birth records. In Italian and Hebrew. Location: Venice. Probably non-Geniza. First document: Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 5536 AM, which is to 19 May 1776 CE. …
Legal document, bottom part only, plus qiyyum/validation. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]38 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Witnesses: Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaon; …
Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Torn fragment (lower right piece). The location, date, and husband's name are missing. The wife's name is [...] bt. Nisim. Signed …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Names: [...] b. Natan and …
Legal document draft laying out the terms for the division of a a house given to four brothers by their mother ʿAzīza bt. Elishʿa Levi …
Birth certificate – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 73) – in Turkish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …
Marriage contract (ketubba) possibly from Tyre that includes the list of goods in the dowry: a cloth, a curtain, a lamp, two dyeing vessels, two …
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Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Scribed and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Yiṣḥaq …
Page from a book of legal formulas of a marriage contract by a proxy probably from Siddur R. Nathan if Sijilmasa. Written by Shelomo b. …
P2: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a partnership, 'the religion of the rabbis (or Rabbanites?),' and …
Fragment of a decorated ketubba, possibly. Requires further examination.
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: Bill of sale for property. Dated: 396 (?). Parchment ; 19 lines ; 65 x 185 mm. and 215 x 230 mm. Some …
Recto: legal deed in which Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. […] ha-Kohen 'Sixth in the Academy' gives a house in New Cairo to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Kohen …
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Verso: Legal deed related to the ketubba on recto. Location: Fustat. Dated: 25 Tishrei 1607 Seleucid = 6 October 1295 CE. Muwaffaqa bt. Yirmiya ha-Levi …
Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: 1152. Location: Fustat. Under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Hiba al-Abzārī b. Abū Isḥaq al-Tawwazī and Abū …
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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). …
Halakhic text, possibly a responsum, concerning a man marrying a woman who then ‘hates’ (divorces) her. (Information from CUDL)
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Involves a certain Ṣedaqa.
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 deed: iqrār (deed of acknowledgment) in Arabic script for Sulaymān b. ?, right half only, sewing holes in the right margin. He may owe …
Image not available. According to Schwab Catalogue: A communal document mentions Abu Saad ibn Hassun. AA
Multiple documents sharing one bifolium. (1) There is a draft of a legal attestation that al-Shaykh al-Ḥakīm al-Muhadhdhab Abū Saʿīd b. Shela ha-Sar betrothed a …
Minute fragemnt from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (date: 1100-1138) concerning an agreement involving the wife of Abu Sulayman David. No …
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. This is a small piece from the bottom (includes the phrase בנימוסי מלכותה). Signed by [...]n b. Yaʿaqov.
Unidentified text in Arabic script, maybe legal or maybe literary about law (mentions nikāḥ). Reused for a book binding.
Deed of lease. Dating: The year-long lease begins on [Ṭevet] 1525 Seleucid = [Shaʿbān] 610 and ends on Kislev 15[26] Seleucid = Rajab 611 AH. …
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 …
See PGPID 24609: Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's …
Draft of a legal document written on a long vertical strip of parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing a …
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The following sale was effected with one hand clasp: 6 ⅔ out of 24 common, undivided shares in the old building consisting of t…
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Recto (original use): Legal document describing a gathering to assess a bride's dowry. Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of …
Header of a ketubba, with large colorful letters and fleurs-de-lis and micrography.
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Fragment (top part only). Involves: Abū Kathīr; Bahiyya bt. Ṣadaqa; [...] bt. Yosef …
Verso: Legal document, possibly. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era, based on the hand. Mentions various people including Yehuda b. Yaqar. Needs examination.
Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn …
Legal document. Location: Probably Minyat Zifta. Involves Abū l-Riḍā and his brother Ḥ[asan?] the sons of Khalaf ha-Levi. Signed by Sheʾerit b. Yakhin ha-Kohen; Yefet …
Marriage document. An ornamented ketubah from Cairo "[near] Fusṭāt Miṣrayīm on the river Nile." Despite the damage to the document, this locational formula can be …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dating: possibly 1131/2 CE(?), but very hard to read. On the back of …
Court record or draft of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 17 Sivan 1386 Seleucid = 4 June 1075 CE. ʿEli ha-Parnas ha-Neʾeman produces before the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Three fragments from the lower part of the document. Dated: Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid, which is December …
Bill of divorce. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Elul 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Location: Cairo. Husband: Elʿazar b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq.