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Legal document. Agreements on prepayment of rent ca. 1180-81. Twenty years after agreements on repairs to be made jointly were signed between the qodesh and …
... the whole of the above-mentioned .... Also, the decision to let him take a part of the rent of the above-mentioned estate for repairs i…
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Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Signed: Natan ha-Sofer b. Avraham.
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 1467 Seleucid = 10 October 1155 CE. Groom: Peraḥya b. Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. Avraham. Signed by …
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Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 5 dinars. Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
Legal record (#21). Extension of a loan. Bū l-Murajjā Sālim attests that Abū Isḥāq b. ʿAlī agrees to an extension of the period of repayment …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning trade and Yemen; someone appoints an agent. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a legal testimony. Written in an early square hand. Location: Unknown. Dated: 4761–68 AM = 999–1008 CE (it cannot be 4716 AM or …
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Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.
Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of …
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Legal document(s), damaged. Mentions Yehuda. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: Extract from Ruth 1. Verso: Fragment of a deed signed by Moshe ben Maymun, Damascus, late tenth century. The document includes a description of …
Ketubba fragment. Dating: 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Possibly this could be narrowed based on the reshut clause naming ha-Nagid ha-Gadol (Shemuel b. Ḥananya?). …
Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …
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India Book VII, 11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). David b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Ṣafaṭ (? אלצפט) acknowledges receipt …
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Recto: Leviticus 13:1-2. Verso: indistinct text, probably part of the same legal document as T-S AS 28.170. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document (bottom). On parchment. Signed by Mevorakh ha-Kohen b. [Yefe?]t; Yefet b. Ṭoviyya; and Avraham b. El[ʿaz?]ar
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 …
IB I, 36. The engagement contract of Abu Mansur, Semah b. Yefet, to Sitt al-Khassa in Fustat, 1146. Sitt al-Khassa was the daughter of Abu …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Surūr(?) b. Ibrāhīm the Jew. Might be dated 578 AH. Signatures at the …
Lower part of a court record concerning a sum of money (150 dinars) and a house. Dated: Ṣafar 523 AH (= January/February 1129 CE). (Information …
Legal document in Arabic script. Appears to contain the phrase "al-ḥāḍir al-ghāʾib" (the present, the absent"). Needs examination for content.
Recto: document, mentioning names such as Yosef, Abū ʿAlī and Shemuel. Verso: Arabic document with Judaeo-Arabic jottings. (Information from CUDL.)
Very faded bill of release from Bū Isḥāq b. Bū l-Karam Ibn al-Dayyān, for Bū l-Maʿānī (or Bū l-Maʿālī) and Bū Naṣr the sons of …
Partnership agreement between Moshe and Yiṣḥaq, specifying each party's liabilities. Written in Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Friday, 19 Av 5330 AM = 21 July 1570 …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Somewhat crude hand. Unclear if any details of the case are preserved.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (right side only). Dating: Unclear if this is the date of the document itself, but the document mentions the …
Upper left fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi known as Sayyid al-Kull. Mutual release or …
Fragment with two different legal documents in two different hands, one on each side. Recto: Mentions raisins and [...] b. Manṣūr. Verso: Mentions indigo, Yosef, …
Recto: Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One is for a document involving Sitt al-Ahl bt. Avraham ha-Levi and …
Legal document. Dated: Wednesday, 30 Nisan 1456 Seleucid = 25 April 1145 CE. The document describes how ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar the widow of Abū l-Khayr …
Legal proceedings that took place before us, the court and those undersigned with us on this deed:
In the month of Nissan, year 1456 AG (=…
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Upper part of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The name and the city of the person making the acknowledgment are given. Needs …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In which Abū l-Waḥsh makes a declaration about a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. …
Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 8v-9r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Tevet [5321] …
Very damaged and faded, hardly legible, probably from a legal deed.
Record of the activities of the qodesh at the end of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century, up to 1034 CE. …
Those who wrote their signatures at the end of this writing declare that we know and witness that all
the places here involved that are …
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Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions Hibatallāh b. Ṣadaqa. Also refers to a period of time ending on the 10th of [...].
Power of attorney (שטר אורכתא). Mentions: Makhlūf Ibn ʿAyn Sārra; Yiṣḥaq [ha-Le]vi b. [...] al-ʿAjamī; Alexandria; 6 dinars; Moshe Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva (he may be the …
Recto: short note in Hebrew written by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq and Menaḥem b. Shemuʾel Kohen regarding the writing of a geṭ and the tearing of …
Beginning of a legal document. First line only, no details preserved. Probably 12th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bill of divorce (get). On vellum. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: Monday, 10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 1143 CE. Husband: Abū Naṣr b. Dinar(??). Wife: …
Legal document from al-Mahalla mentioning ha-zaqen b. R. Pinhas. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 614) …
Recto: Legal document, possibly a court record. Regarding an engagement (shiddukhin). Fiance: Yefet b. Binyamin b. Refaʾel ha-Levi ha-Talmid. Fiancee: Fāḍila bt. Bū l-Khayr Binyamin …
Entry in court notebook (#40). Note stating that a letter shall be written to Ibn al-Zurzūr(?) Bū l-Faraj ha-Ḥazzan informing him not to raise any …
One line from an incomplete court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Legal document, an ishhād, in Arabic script. Regarding agricultural land in faddāns. Mentions the land is in a bad condition (ʾarḍ lā yuntafaʿ bihi). Needs …
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions 24 silver pieces; Menaḥem al-Yahūdī known as Rūfīl (? روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an …
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū Isḥāq probably relating to a marriage agreement. The monogamy clause is included. The bride was probably …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 11 Ṣafar 916 AH = 20 May 1510 CE.
Torn fragment from the top of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). No details preserved.
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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