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Early modern legal fragment in Hebrew. The paleography points to the likelihood that the document is c. 17th-19th-century. Based on the limited text available this …
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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1455 Seleucid = 15 May 1144 CE. No attestation on verso that she received the …
Legal document with testimony from al-Sitt bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram and her mother Jamīla bt. Yaʿqūb describing that Yosef (the former’s father and latter’s husband) …
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Legal record (#12). Claim of money owed. Dated: Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān brings a claim on behalf of …
Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Concerning the renting of an upper-storey apartment (ṭabaqa). One of the conditions specified is about the renter …
In Hebrew. Appointment of a cantor. Late. AA
Legal record. Dated Friday, 3 Av or July 4, 1231. Scribal notes for a draft of a partnership contract. The notes state that Abū Sa‘d …
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Legal document. Deed of compensation / bill of release. Dated: 1337 Seleucid = 1025–26 CE. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Avraham, son of …
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Lower left corner of a ketubba for a divorced woman, possibly named Sayyida. Signed by Yosef b. Shemuel.
Small fragment of a legal document, probably. Very little preserved.
Legal document. Written and signed by Mevasser b. Avraham ha-Kohen. Signed by at least four others including Avraham b. Moshe ha-Melammed, Avraham b. Natan, and …
Long and narrow damaged fragment written by Efraim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Probably court records. Not much text has survived (two entries on recto, …
IB V, 3 (ח24). Deed of release. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Shevaṭ 1447 Seleucid, which is …
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Legal document fragment, mentioning the elder Abū [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: 16th century. Debt contract in which Masʿūd acknowledges a debt of 23 ducats (peraḥim zahav dīwānī). Also mentions …
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Three testimonies about a quarrel between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan. The deponents are …
Fragment from the middle of a legal document in Arabic script. Involving a deceased father. Mentions the "majlis al-ḥukm" of "our master [...]." Needs further …
Recto: Bottom of a note from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a shipment of pearls. Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomo …
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Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15 Adar II [...], under the authority of the Nagid Avraham (Maimonides). The year is difficult to read but Avraham …
Legal document or documents. In Hebrew. Mentions the city of Fez (verso, line 2). Involves a woman and her husband Yiṣḥaq. Mentions the dowry (nedunya) …
Recto: legal document in the hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Avraham and possibly a deposit for an orphan. Also possibly …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment from the end. Essentially no details are preserved. Unfinished (the …
Court record dealing with a loan of one dinar that, according to Ya'ish ha-Kohen b. Avraham, was given by him to Yosef b. Avraham. Yosef …
Legal document fragment involving בן שבארש (the same name appears in T-S 12.666) and R. Khallūf. Dating: probably 11th or possibly 10th century.
Marriage contract (ketubba), fragment.
Recto: Fragments and/or copies of documents in both Arabic script and Hebrew script. The Hebrew-script text may be in the hand of Ḥillel b. ʿEli? …
A legal deed 1180. NO IMAGE. (data from FGP)
Legal document. Palestinian ketubba. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Tishrei 5440 AM, which is 1679 CE. Concerning Yaʿaqov Re'uven who had employed Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ b. …
Very damaged and faded. Hardly legible, but seems to contain a dowry list.
Legal record (#6) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (spanning ff. 2r-3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Tuesday, 25 Tammuz 1693 Seleucid = פֿדֿןֿ Hijri (this is confusing notation: perhaps 584 + an implied 200?). In any …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Part of a decorated ketubba. Location: Aleppo. Bride: [...] bt. Menaḥem. Groom: unnamed. Dated: probably [13]19 Seleucid = 1107/08 CE. Witnessed by Yoshiyya b. Yivḥar. …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: [14]41 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE. The parties are Abū l-Munā and his agent Faraj …
Verso: Partnership contract. In Hebrew. Dated: Thursday, 24 Tammuz 1298 Seleucid, which is 23 June 987 CE. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov and ʿEli b. Qimoy each …
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Legal deed in Arabic script. In which Hiba b. ʿAlī b. […], the carpenter, leases a shop from al-Ḥasan b. Makkī b. Abī al-Ḥadīd, who …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Hiba ibn ʿAlī ibn [ ], the carpenter, leased from al-Ḥasan ibn Makkī ibn Abī al-Ḥadī…
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Legal document (or 2 documents) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The one on the right involves a marriage. The one …
Formulary for a legal document of ḥaliẓa (rejection of levirate marriage). On vellum.
Marriage contract (ketubba), fragment. Includes a portion of a dowry list. Signed: Ḥalfon b. Mevasser; Elʿazar ha-Mumḥe; Mevorakh b. Avraham. On verso there are a …
Legal document (refers to itself as a modaʿ/מדע) concerning the sale of wood. The parties are Ṭahor b. [...] and Meʾir ha-Sar the doctor b. …
Legal document or account. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ottoman era. Mentioning a purchase made by Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī al-Dajājī.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Describes various architectural elements of a house: the living room (majlis), the guesthouse (dār al-ḍiyāfa), the wind catcher (al-bādhanj). Signed …
Legal document. Debt contract. Date not preserved. The names of debtor and creditor are very effaced. The sum of money is given in Kāmilī dirhams, …
Legal document concerning the divorce of a woman Sitt al-Dār, who refused to receive her bill of divorce. The procedure was supervised by “sayyidnā al-nagid" …
Fragment of a legal document, likely a dowry list related to a marriage agreement. In a rudimentary hand, likely Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (though …
The poetic introduction of a "Yemenite Ketubba" dated Nisan 1368 (=1057 CE?), see BL OR 10653.8 for transcription.
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …
Minute fragment from a legal deed, probably bill of release of sixth dinar. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
The wife of Ṣedaqa b. ʿEzra gives to her husband reshut over a house (which was part of her ketubba from her father's inheritance) after …