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Recto: Legal document. Dated: Adar 1448 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, and signed by himself and Natan b. …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Lower right corner. Signed by Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo ha-Levi.
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1427 Seleucid, which is 1115/16 CE. Ghāliya bt. Shelomo the divorcee …
Writ of agency (אביזאריה). Location: Tripoli (Syria). Dated: Monday, 9 Sivan 4839 = 13 May 1079. Between ʿUlla ha-Levi and Yeshuʿa "Pride of the Communities." …
A narrow strip probably from a dowry list in a ketubah.
List of 19 items in a marriage gift. The groom is Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, the bride is Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham. Written by Ḥalfon b. …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Made by Q[...] b. Mūsā al-[...], "one of the captains of the victorious fleets" (aḥad quwwād al-asāṭīl al-manṣūra). …
List of commodities, such as dishes and veils, probably part of a trousseau list. Includes a white head scarf, black and white cloth, embroidered sleeves, …
Legal document mentioning ʿImrān al-Nafūsī and Moshe the elder and a partnership (commenda) contract (sheṭar al-muḍāraba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …
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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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 …
Legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38 CE). Very damaged. Might be details of the execution of a will. Parties include …
Clockwise from upper left: (c) Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Almost everything preserved is formulary.
Court notebook, probably. There are three legal records on this folio, each one in a different hand. Record #1: Recto contains a detailed narrative concerning …
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Release document from Saʿadya b. Yeshuʿa in favour of his son-in-law Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Yosef for everything he owed in the marriage contract of …
Court record. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid, which is December 1105 CE. Location: Fustat. Describing a married woman—Mudallala aka Sitt Baghdād—depositing part of …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including a book list, including al-Faṣīḥ fī l-Lugha, Masāʾīl Ṭibbiyya, and Leviticus in Arabic. Verso: Draft or copy of a legal …
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Legal query. In Arabic script. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ al-ajillāʾ." Regarding a woman who sold a property; what happened next is not entirely clear. Mentions …
Deed of sale or gift of property. Damaged. Location: not preserved. Dating: not preserved, but 11th century seems likely, based on the uncommon formulae and …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Ibrāhīm b. Jaʿfar الحوفي and Salām b. Manṣur. Needs further examination.
Legal testimony in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Before 1146 CE. Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham ha-Zaqen Ibn al-Amshāṭī testifies that the letter is his letter and written …
Partnership agreement, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, involving a certain [...] b. Sulaymān known as al-Ashyāfī (seller of ophthalmics) and …
Legal document mentioning [Abū] Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Avraham, possibly in the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Might be setting out conditions for a partnership. Includes …
Damaged and torn, only a few words remain, but seems to be from a ketubbah. AA
Legal document. Dating: Refers to a period of 5 years and then to the end of Iyyār of either 153[.] or 1503 Seleucid. So this …
Renewal of a marriage contract (ketubba) after an earlier ketubba was destroyed or lost, or perhaps after the husband (the blind man Yaḥyā b. Shela …
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Record of the testimony of Tiqva, known as Raja' (רגא, ‘hope') b. 'Azariah the cantor, concerning someone from Damascus whose name is only partially preserved …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated 1066 CE (Sivan, 1377 Seleucid). Husband: Ṣadaqa b. Moshe. Written and witnessed by Aharon ha-Mumḥe b. Efr[ayim]. Blank verso.
Declaration in front of witnesses in which Ḥalfon b. Moshe states that he sold some property and acquitted the sellers from the sales price.
Legal document, a שטר סילוק (bill of release of a debt) per FGP, involving Avraham Malkhi (מלכי) and his (ex?)-wife Esther. Mentioning שעבוד כתובה Hebrew. …
Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: 1115. Location: Al-Maḥalla. ʿOvadya b. Efrayim ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal empowers 'ḥemdat ha-yeshiva' Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi to money owed …
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Legal affidavit or court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Middle third of Shevat 1434 Seleucid, which is mid-January 1123 CE. But this dating is not certain, …
Settlement after marital dispute between husband and wife, safeguarding her freedom of movement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Agreement between Ẓāfira b. …
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a passageway belonging to Efrayim the elder and his wife (?). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …
Formulary of an oath to be given by the mother of Abū l-Ḥasan to him, concerning a female slave and other possessions, especially spices; oath …
Legal agreement from Fustat, written by the hand of Avraham b. Aharon Ha-Mumkhe.
Debt acknowledgement for five dinar to be repaid in monthly installments. Written by Hillel b. Eli in Kislev 1402/October 1090. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …
Fragment of a ketubah. The immersion clause is partily preserved, so we can date it accordingly to 1178 onwards, when Maimonides' enactment on this subject …
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 …
Very damaged legal deed by the court appointed by the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (1112–26). ʿAmram b. Aharon ha-Kohen appears in court, but the actual …
Legal document, probably a prenuptial or engagement document. Groom: Maymūn b. Yosef. Bride: Sitt al-Dalāl. There are conditions about financial support, place of residence, and …
Minute fragment, two words from the end of a legal deed.
Contract for the lease of a shop belonging to a waqf (pious foundation) established by Sīdī Sulṭān Shāh. The shop is leased to the pharmacist/perfumer …
Legal document(s), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing the features of a house. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: …
The slaves report the death of so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, the Jew, on such-and-such a day of such-and-such a month,
in such-and-such a year…
Fragment of a prenuptial agreement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Few details preserved.
Court record. Fragment (lower part only). In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In which Abū l-Ghayth al-Sabbāk ("the caster") and his son Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarīrī …
Fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-[...]. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from …
Ketubba for Yosef ha-Levi b. ʿOvadya and Bayda bt. Qaʿarṭī (קערטי) Bibas. Currency: real. Dated 1792 CE (16 Sivan 5552), Cairo. The final lines of …
Legal fragment. Ending only. Signed: Yosef b. Shelomo. Late. There are pen trials and some Latin script below.