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Fragment, not very legible script. Accounts with niṣfs and mentioning of graves (qubūr) and a Jewish woman "Ilhāna"[?] is named in line 1: "المراه اليهودية …
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Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Involves a wife and husband ("... li-zawjatī...") and mentions the transfer of a …
IB IV, 2 (ח4). Legal document detailing an agreement between Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi and his partner Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Khayr. During the upcoming …
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List of books found in the estate of Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, the local judge (nāʾib) of Sunbāṭ, in Lower Egypt. Dated: Jumāḍā II 545 AH, …
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Certificate for a Jew indicating that he is elderly and unemployed and that he desires to receive lunch supplies for free – undated – Museum …
Top of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In the name of al-Ḥājj ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Maḥmūd known as al-Shāʿir (the poet). Several more names …
Draft of a legal document related to a divorce. Dated: Thursday 12 Tammuz 5537 AM, which is 1777 CE. Husband: Raḥamim Levi Ḥazzan b. Naḥum …
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C1: Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 26 Kislev 1338 Seleucid (December 1026 CE). unsigned, because only one witness appeared, Eli ha-Kohen b. Yefet. …
Mamlūk era legal document. Sale contract of a (horse?) stable. Fragmented from the top and left but otherwise legible.
Bottom of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Yaʿaqov. Bride: Nasāba bt. Hiba, a virgin. There …
Dowry list. Bride: Jamīla bt. Meʾir. Groom: Netanʾel b. Moshe. The early marriage gift is 10 dinars. Dated: 1169 CE(?).
Legal notes, including the claims of a woman that her husband was impotent. Handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shemuel, ca. 1140 CE according to …
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Rental contract. Location; Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 2 Av 1461 Seleucid, which is 27 July 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …
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Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated: Tuesday, 2 Heshvan 5324 AM = 19 October 1563 CE. Doña Masʿūda (the same Doña Masʿūda as …
Legal letter. Written on parchment (14 lines). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He reports that he has come up with …
Surveyor's plan for a building and parcel of land on the street of the French school in the neighborhood known as Qaṣr al-Dūbāra – Museum …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fictive sale (bayʿ ṭāliq) of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for …
Legal document regulating the share of profit and loss to a traveling party of four to Syria after one of them is prevented from traveling …
Formulary for a marriage-related legal document.
Ketubba for Sittūna bt. [...] and Yaʿir b. Khalaf, dated Nisan 13[..] of the Seleucid Era (= 989–1089 CE) in Egypt. Total dower: 100 dinars …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. Dating: 1127–38 CE, in light of …
Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. This section contains only the witness signatures: Yefet ha-Ḥazzan b. ʿAmram ha-Ḥazzan; Yosef ha-Levi b. Yefet; ʿOvadya b. Aharon …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The address lists Muḥammad Effendi as the recipient and the opening line of the document mentions Aḥmad Effendi. Mentions "al-majlis …
Contract of debt in which Mufaḍḍal b. [...] ha-Kohen acknowledges that he owes a sum of money to someone. (Dating: 13th century. Probably written by …
Recto: Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Perhaps a rental contract for Abū Muḥammad b. Abī l-ʿIzz. Appears to be dated 694 AH, which …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-M[...]ī. The content is unclear. Seems to be a deed of sale …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Only a few partial signatures are preserved: [...] b. Shemarya; Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa; Avraham b. Natan …
Legal document, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Names [...] b. Efrayim; Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen ha-Nikhbad; Isḥāq al-Nafūsī. Also …
Ketubbah for [...] b. Eleazar (bride). Dated 28th Elul 15[.. Sel.], in the time of R. Abraham (possibly Maimonides?). Might be by the hand of …
Recto: Fragment from a Judaeo-Arabic deed of sale for a property, describing its boundaries and including a partial date. Mentions the name Abū l-Qāsim b. …
Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to …
Marriage document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). Fragment from a left side of ketubba de-irkesa (כתובה דארכסא), a ketubba written as …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1229. Location: Fustat. In a document written in Hebrew emerging from the court of Abraham Maimonides, Abū al-‘Alā b. Joseph …
A Muslim court deed documenting the endowment of private property for communal purposes. The owner dedicating the property is Shemuʾel b. Shaʿbān al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī, known …
Verso (original use): Legal fragment in Arabic script. Only a portion of the last two lines and two witness signatures are preserved. It is dated …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE. Mostly in Arabic script with a few words in Hebrew. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm is …
Testimony in the hand of Shelomo, dated 1 Tevet 1540 Seleucid which is December 6 1228, about the dissolution of a partnership.
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 50
Three fragments from a deed of betrothal (erusin). Probably (but not necessarily) Qaraite. The groom is Yefet, and the bride Sirwa (or perhaps Surūr[a]). There …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated Shevaṭ 1356 Seleucid = December 1044 / January 1045 CE. In which 3 sisters, Badr (בדר), Ḍiyāʾ (ציא) and Sittūna …
Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 …
Fragment of a deed of sale for real estate. In Arabic script. One of the landmarks is Ḥammām al-Dīk. Also mentions common features such as …
End of a legal document signed by Shlomo b. Yishay the Nasi (mid-13th century) and probably written by him. One of the parties is [...] …
Last lines of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Notes in Judaeo-Arabic concerning halakhic rulings. Recto looks more like jottings/exercises, while verso is a distinct note; all are in the same hand. Verso is …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: New Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 11 Ḥeshvan 1409 Seleucid = 20 October 1097 CE. Husband: Ṭahor b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Wife: Banāt …
Minute fragment, probably from a top of a legal deed. Ketubba? AA
Legal document dated Monday 14th Iyyar (no year but probably late 12th or early 13th century), about the gift of half a house which Khibāʾ …
Fragment of a power of attorney in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)