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Exemplars of legal documents or instructions for how to write them. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal formulary with instructions in Judaeo-Arabic, including the template for a bill of divorce. On the last page contains the interesting stipulation that if you …
Trousseau list enumerating items of a dowry which amounts to 30 dinars and part of a house. Dated ca. 1090. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: …
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Early 12th century. Kali bt. Yisrael (קאלי בת …
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Legal document, probably. In Aramaic and Hebrew. Dating: Maybe 11th century if not earlier. Involves someone named Yoshiyya. Extremely faded. Needs examination.
Recto (secondary use): Another document is written in the lower margin, upside-down in relation to the list, in which Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi sues Mubārak …
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Ketubba fragment. Only a small portion of the overall document is included but a portion of the bride's name Fāʾiza is legible. The groom's name …
Legal document, probably. Faded/damaged. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sums of money, the paternal uncle of a wife, Abū l-Bahā' (or Abū l-Baqā'), and a teacher.
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …
Small strip of parchment with various notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Recto may be for a memorial list: …
Legal record (#40) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Document #40) Folio 10r
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Small fragment from the opening of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions ‘[...] the dear elder’ and someone inheriting something from his wife. (Information in …
Legal document in Hebrew and Aramaic, with some Judaeo-Arabic. An individual claims that his house was destroyed and that he rebuilt and renewed its interior …
Legal document. Looks like the handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Involves someone close to the government (יתעזז באלמלכות); someone who obtained a governmental …
Legal document in Arabic script, probably Ottoman-era based on handwriting and layout. (The date may appear explicitly.) With a huge ʿalāma at the top. There …
Debt contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE, as there is no …
Ketubba. Part of the decoration in the right upper margin is preserved. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 14 Adar II 5518 = 24 March 1758 CE. …
Part of a legal document in which the parties Mawhūb and ʿAllūn make a declaration. (Information from CUDL)
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Husband: [...] of Malīj. Wife: [...] bt. Yosef of Malīj.
Bill of divorce. Husband: Riḍā b. [...]. Wife: Ẓarīfa bt. Malik(?).
Minute fragment from a legal deed
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …
Two statements in Arabic characters about small sums owed by Jaʿfar b. Rajāʾ al-Jawdarī to Mubārak b. Avraham (also the addressee of the letter at …
Legal document dealing with the sale of a ruined house or building. Dated December 1719 CE (9 Tevet 5480 AM). Location: possibly Jerusalem, based on …
Legal document; marriage document. Three unrelated texts: Two contracts (ketubah and deed of sale) and a commentary on Genesis 12. Fol. 1: commentary on Genesis …
Legal fragment written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Deed of sale with provisions about the right to buy back a house …
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Upper part of a damaged court record, from the court of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Involves Yeshuʿa and someone's sister Milāḥ bt. Ḥalfon. Reused on recto …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: The year is effaced, but it looks Ottoman-era. There is a faded filing note in Judaeo-Arabic on verso. Involves …
Marriage contract mentioning in the dowry list, among other garments, a 'jukaniyya,' a garment covering body and head, made of 'white dabiqi'' and worth two …
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Legal document(s). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid = December 1080/January 1081 CE. (The first deposition is from 10 Ṭevet, the second is from 21 …
Legal approval between Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.66 (PGPID 24392)) and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī the ḍāmin of dyeing in Dam[...], …
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 …
Legal document, probably a bill of release. Fragment: lower left corner. Dating: Early 13th century. In which Shela b. Berakhot acknowledges that he has no …
Ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Sivan 4920 AM, which is 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanel ha-Levi. Groom: …
Fragment from the middle of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute between husband and wife, imposing …
Fragment of a marriage contract, most likely. Sets out conditions including a menstrual purity clause and therefore probably dating to no earlier than the late …
Fragment of a legal deed. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Probably a deed of a gift, involving Abū l-Jūd, Ṣedaqa, and …
Torn fragment of a legal deed.
Legal note, or less likely a letter. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There is no formal introduction. The document has …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Avr[aham] and there is probably enough text here to determine the genre …
Small fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a sum of 10 dinars and furnishings. Also mentions sums of 2 dinars and 11 dinars. …
Legal document. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 5509 AM, which is 1749 CE (not 1509 CE as catalogued). Reconciliation agreement between two partners, the goldsmiths Yūsuf …
Karaite partnership agreement in צנאעה אלשים, "silversmithing" (صناعة السيم). The term "sīm" is Ottoman Turkish for "silver." Dated Wednesday 15 Kislev 5523 AM (1762 CE). …
Fragment from a ketubba written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The bride’s name is Diyār. There is another minute fragment bound together …
Legal document. Location: Bilbays. Dated: First decade of Sivan, 1564 Seleucid, which is 1253 CE. Under the reshut of David I Maimonides. Concerning a settlement …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (lower right piece). Involves ʿAllun and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and possibly a business dispute. Needs further examination.
Attestation written by Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā in the name of Yārūkh (or possibly Bārūkh) b. Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) …
Jeremiah 31:35–36. Above and between the two verses remains of a (legal?) text in faded ink are visible that include the words פרוטה and י״ב …
Legal document(s). Probably a draft. Small and damaged fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Includes part of a partnership …
Legal record (#1) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 1r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew with some …