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  1. 1Legal documentT-S 8J8.6

    A qiyyum (approval of a legal deed) signed by [Moshe Sofer] b. Yiṣḥaq Ḥaver and Eli Ḥaver b. Amram and others.

    1. ] אלקנין אלמדכור פי הדא דמושב בדין
    2. ]חצר פי הדא אלחכם בחצרה רבנא
    3. ] בר שצ וחלף איצא מטאלבה באהיה
    4. ]ה אנה לא חאכמה אלא בחצרה ר אפרים
    5. ]דא או פי מגלס רבנו…

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  2. 2Legal documentT-S NS 224.48

    Narrow strip from the left side of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1434 Seleucid = 1122/23 CE. Disposing …

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  3. 3Legal documentJRL A 1044

    Legal document from 1818 CE (5578) as per Shmuel Glick's FGP transcription—regarding an investment partnership involving Yaʿaqov ha-Levi aka ʿAkūbas and Eliyyahu b. Ṣahal.

    Transcription from FGP Metadata (with minor emendations by Matthew Dudley)

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    1. ...]ו הוו עלי ע׳׳נ. וקנו מיד[ו] קגו׳׳מ במדל׳׳ב בלשון מעכשיו כתחז׳׳ל…

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  4. 4Legal documentDK 314

    Legal document, in Arabic script. The two Christians Barzūq b. Mufriḥ and Zurayn b. Makhlūf jointly lease (=shares) a vegetable garden (arḍ al-baqla) on the …

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    In the name of God, the All-merciful. And may God pray for our lord Muhammad, his prophet, and his family, and greet them with peace. 

    Marzūq b…

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  5. 5Legal documentT-S 13J22.7

    Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The writer inquires …

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    1. אעלם אלחצרה אלסאמיה
    2. אלאגליה אלמתפצ'לה מרנו

    3. ורבינו אליה הדיין המשכיל

    4. החכם והבון(!) ש'צ' וגיר דלך

    5. אן כאדמתך זוגה אלסדיד

    6. אנפצלת מן בין י…

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    1. I (would like to) inform the august,

    2. exalted and gracious presence of our master

    3. and teacher Elijah the enlightened,

    4. wise and understan…

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  6. 6Legal documentNLI 577.1/72

    Fragment from the bottom of a document in Arabic script, probably legal. Dated probably 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 863 H.

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  7. 7Legal documentT-S 8.223

    Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Concerns an agreement reached between a husband and …

    1. [...]אהא מנהא פכאן חאצר מן דכל בינהמ[א ...]
    2. ותסלמתה בין ידינא ובאנת מנה ותכלץ מן י[מינה ...]
    3. וכרקנא אלגט וגדדנא אלקנין מנה עלי גמיע מ[א אשתמל עליה ב…

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  8. 8Legal documentT-S AS 151.18

    Long and narrow strip from a ketubah, probably under the jurisdiction of one of the Maimonidean negidim. The bride's father's name is Nadiv Halevi. Few …

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  9. 9Legal documentT-S AS 148.200 + T-S AS 148.199

    Receipt or affidavit signed by Shelomo ha-Rofe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century. Attesting that Meʾir and his son Yehuda Abū Shaʿra rented …

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  10. 10Legal documentPER H 88

    Legal deed: testimony dated 1195. For further information and edition, see D. Z. Baneth, "Te'udot min haggeniza lehayye haqqehillot bemizraim" (Geniza documents on Jewish communal …

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  11. 11Legal documentF 1908.44QQ

    Settlement between Shelomo b. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, ending the four-year schism of the geonut. Drawn up in Jerusalem. In the hand of Ẓadoq …

    1. נוסכה אלמוא>פ<קה < אשמעה מה ידבר האל וג
    2. דכר מא תקרר בין אלמתיבה ובין מ ור נתן אב בן אברהם ננ פי מא ראתוה אלמתיבה ושיוך
    3. אלאומה ונשיאינו מן אלתקדם פי …

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  12. 12Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 94/25

    Jayyida, wife of a scholarly grape-presser, gives two-thirds of a house in the Hudayji street, which was her share, as a collateral against a loan …

    1. פאגבנא סואלהא ומצינא [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ואגלקת עלינא גמיענא ומצת אחצרת מ דויד אלמדכור וגלסת
    3. הי והו לציק אלגאב אלדי נחנ…

    Med. Soc. III, p. 329

    We responded to her request and went. She locked us all in, brought the above-mentioned Mr. David and seated him and herself cl…

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  13. 13Legal documentT-S 8.280

    Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. On parchment. Mentions "her brother." (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  14. 14Legal documentMoss. VII,97.2

    Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Sitt al-Dār has appointed her husband Ṣedaqa as …

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  15. 15Legal documentYevr. II K 20

    Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Aharon b. Moshe b. Ya'aqov. The bride is Esther d. Elisha the physician. AA

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  16. 16Legal documentENA NS 7.56

    Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish-influenced hand. Partnership contract between Bū Yūsuf and Ismāʿīl. Mentions the date Adar I 834, perhaps [4]834 AH = 1073 CE. …

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  17. 17Legal documentT-S AS 168.202

    Small fragment of a legal document. Mentions someone's father titled Yesod ha-Nesiʾut.

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  18. 18Legal documentT-S NS 306.247

    Bottom part of a legal document in Arabic script. Cut into the shape of a circle. Deed of sale (refers to iqrār al-bāʾiʿ). Dated: 486 …

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  19. 19Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 86

    An elaborate list of accounts on both sides, in Arabic script. Mentions sums of money and names. Needs examination.

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  20. 20Legal documentENA NS 31.22

    Marriage document. Small fragment from the top of a ketubah, as is evident from the large, decorative phrases opening with בשם אל עולם, commonly found …

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    1. בשם אל עולם
    2. וי'י אשר לא יספר
    3. טובים השנים
    4. כי כאשה עזובה

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    1. In the name of the Everlasting God
    2. And the Lord who cannot be counted (Jer. 33: 22)
    3. Two are better (Koh. 4: 9)
    4. Because like an abandoned woman…

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S 13J2.1

    Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בחמשה בשבה
    2. דהוא עשרין ותלתה יומי בירח כסלו דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחד שנין
    3. למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפס…

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S AS 202.364

    Legal document, probably. Fragment (upper right corner). Faded and damaged. Opens with a date: Adar II 17[..] Seleucid = 1389–1488 CE (though it is strange …

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  23. 23Legal documentT-S 20.23

    Recto: Bill of release. Dated: 10 Nisan 1360 Seleucid = 16 March 1049 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Avraham b. Ṣedaqa b. Eliyya b. Yehoshuaʿ …

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  24. 24Legal documentENA 3743.15

    Legal document. Concerning a woman, a vow, and a delayed marriage payment. Reused on recto for technical instructions in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, maybe magical.

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  25. 25Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 2/1

    Fragment of a ketubba. Dated: 24 Sivan 1313 Seleucid = 7 June 1002 CE. Groom: ʿAmram b. Maymūn. Bride: Zahra bt. Elishamaʿ. This fragment was …

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  26. 26Legal documentT-S 13J6.25

    Recto: Acknowledgment of debt of seventy dinars Abū l-Thanāʾ al-Sukkarī (the sugar seller) b. Abū l-Barakāt the perfumer by Abū Isḥāq b. Aharon ha-Kohen the …

    1. ]ת כ[ ]ן [
    2. אלכהן אלעטאר בר כגק מר ור אהרן הכהן הזקן הנכבד
    3. וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו מני בגמיע אלאלפאט אלמחכמה
    4. ואלמעאני אלמאכדה ובכל לישאני דזכואתא וס…

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  27. 27Legal documentCUL Or.1080 8.6

    Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only. Signed by David b. Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm.

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  28. 28Legal documentT-S 8J35.5

    Court record. Dated: Monday, 14 Adar I 1464 Seleucid = 10 February 1153 CE. The cantor Yosef b. Mikhaʾel sells a little house in Fustat, …

    1. בר קציה יוסף . . אט

    בנוע אלמלך

    1. למא כאן פי יום אלאתנין אלראבע עשר מחדש
    2. אדר ראשון אתסד חצר ר יוסף החזן בר מיכאל
    3. שצ ואקנינא אנן חתומי מטה מן ר יוסף
    4. ה…

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  29. 29Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.14

    Legal record (#30). Trousseau list. Groom: Bū l-Barakāt al-ʿAṭṭār. Bride: Sitt at-Dār bt. Yefet ha-Kohen b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. …

    1. ברכות בר טוביה
    2. תקוים אלש בו אלשרכאת אלעטאר
    3. סת אל [[ימן]] דאר בת יפת הכהן בר מנשה הדיין החבר
    4. ואלשרוט
    5. זוג אבר דהב אהליה מכללה בלולוג>
    6. זוג אבר נשאשיב ד…

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  30. 30Legal documentENA 3942.4

    Legal document in Arabic script, fragment, 7 lines. Dating: Ottoman or possibly late Mamluk era. Mentions people such as Niʿmat (or Nūr?) al-Dīn, [...] b. …

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  31. 31Legal documentT-S NS 220.32

    Notes for the drawing up of legal documents. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto is for a deed involving something "being handed …

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  32. 32Legal documentT-S Misc.28.189

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment. Involves a tenant named Ḥusna, Abū l-Fakhr, and a property.

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    1 ( )א בזיאדה ו(לא )

    2 ( ) איאהא אלתי אולהא תש( )

    3 ( )מיעא בדלך ואלתזמא בה ואקנינא ( )

    4 ( ) ומנסוב אליה מן דלך בעד צחה אלמערפה בחסנה

    5 ( ) ושה…

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  33. 33Legal documentT-S Ar.35.387

    Fragment from the middle section of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination for content.

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  34. 34Legal documentT-S 13J3.4

    Court record regulating the inheritance of the estate left behind by a Jewish merchant who drowned at sea near Alexandria. His estate was transferred to …

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    1. [ ] דחתימין [ ]ש לתחתא בכתבא דנן ען ה[ ]
    2. למא וצל אלתוקיע אלעאל זאדה אללה שרפא ועלוא פי מא תכץ בתרכה יוסף בר שמואל דיד[יע].
    3. בן צבאח אלדי גרק פי…

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S Ar.42.107

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, likely 16th or 17th century. Concerning the estate of the late Shemuel b. Dan, a Portuguese Jew. His …

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  36. 36Legal documentT-S 12.576

    Marriage document. Groom: [...] b. Yefet, probably. Bride: Qā'ida bt. [...]. Signed by: Yefet b. David ha-Ḥazzan; Yeshuʿa b. Yosef; Yosef b. Yefet; Zekharya b. …

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  37. 37Legal documentMoss. VIII,482

    Bill of divorce from Jaffa. No image

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  38. 38Legal documentENA NS 54.19

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Wādī al-Sirr (ואדי אלסר), Yemen. Dated: Shevat 2005 Seleucid = January/February 1694 CE. Groom: Dā'ūd b. Yosef al-Ḥamāmī (or al-Ḥammāmī) al-Ḥaḍrī. …

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  39. 39Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1553

    Karaite bill of debt, incorrectly listed as a ketubba in Ktiv. Dated 4 Iyyar 5421 AM (1661 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the signature …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלכמיס אלמבארך ארבעה פי חדש אייר סנה ה׳ת׳א׳כ׳ ליצירה
    2. חצ'ר אלאך ר׳ ישועה לוי יצ׳׳ו אבן אלאך ר׳ משה לוי קים יצ׳׳ו ואשהד עלי נפסה ו…

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  40. 40Legal documentMIAC 286

    Birth certificate – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 286) – in Turkish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …

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  41. 41Legal documentT-S NS 31.29

    Notes for a legal query or responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. Regarding Reuven who willed a house to his grandson. After …

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  42. 42Legal documentENA NS 3.8

    Legal document. Fragment of a ketubba. Groom: Avraham b. Ṣedaqa. The bride is a widow. Dating: early 11th century. Marriage payments: 2 + 13 = …

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  43. 43Legal documentYevr. III B 655

    Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated [..]24 Seleucid. Bride: [...] bt. S[...], virgin. It is a very small strip.

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  44. 44Legal documentT-S 12.627

    IB VII, 69. Draft of a deposition about a shipment of Indian Ocean merchandise carried by two merchants named Faraḥ and Abū Naṣr who were …

    1. חצ̇רא אלשיך אבו אלפרג נ̇ט̇ ואלשיך ⟦אבו אסח⟧

    2. אבו אסחק נ̇ט̇ ואדעא מ̇ ישוע מ̇ ישועה עלי ⟦עלי⟧

    3. ר̇ אברהם דנן אנה כאן אבעת מע פרח ואבו נצר 

    4. נ̇ע̇ אל…

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  45. 45Legal documentT-S Misc.10.238

    Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew detailing financial transactions. Mentions 181 peraḥim that were detained with the consul; a certain Hayyim; a total …

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  46. 46Legal documentENA 3965.11

    Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …

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  47. 47Legal documentT-S 8.156

    Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Yumn. Known handwriting. (Information from CUDL)

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  48. 48Legal documentT-S 8J39.13

    Fragmentary legal testimony in Hebrew. In which Yeshuʿa b. Manṣūr ha-Kohen declares that his wife owes no debts to him.

    1. ] . . .ל ישועה הכהן בר מנצור
    2. ] .ת ששה עשר יום לחדש סיון שנת
    3. ] מה למנין שאנו רגילין למנות בו
    4. ] . . מושבה וראינו את ישועה
    5. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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  49. 49Legal documentT-S NS J409

    Dowry list (taqwīm). No names No muqaddam or me'uḥar. Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part …

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  50. 50Legal documentT-S AS 147.151

    Legal document dated but much of the date is lost. Mentions Mukarram al-Kohen (on verso, not part of the document itself). (Information in part from …

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