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State document, Ayyubid period. Petition to an Ayyubid ruler regarding the appointment of military personnel: ʿUmar b. Masʿūd, leader of the archers in Alexandria of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك عمر بن مسعود مقدم الرماة
القوسية ثغر الاسكندرية المحروسـ[ـة]
يقبل الارض وين…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave ʿUmar ibn Masʿūd, the leader of the archers
in the frontier city of Alexandria,…
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (narrow strip from the middle). Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1088–1189 CE. Names mentioned include Yefet, …
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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 …
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Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 5417 AM = June/July 1657 CE. Concerning a disputed inheritance. Yaʿaqov Esperiel (אישפריל) made …
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A narrow strip probably from a dowry list in a ketubah.
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A legal note - the writer agree to pay to pay the mortgage for 'Old Egypt' without delay. In the opening lines Shaykh Muḥ[ammad] al-Ḥamawī …
Verso: legal record, unfinished. Concerning a dispute between Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Shelomo Ibn al-Tawwazī and his father-in-law Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Describing …
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Draft of a legal document, or of a letter containing a record of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Rabbenu Ḥalfon ha-Sar ha-Gadol. Concerning copies …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. On parchment. Mentions "her brother." (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions "I, Yefet" and a sum of "an eighth of the total" and a certain quantity …
Legal document concerned with a house and its seller the elder [...] b. Netanel ha-Levi. Probably a draft. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. …
Dowry deed from Fustat, October 1171 CE (17 Heshvan 1483 Seleucid). It was customary to bring together all the objects of the dowry and to …
Small fragment of a ketubba. The numbers 15 and 40 appear. The names Yefet and Sitt al-[...] may appear in the bottom line.
Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almost all of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Goitein's index card.
Marriage contract. On parchment. Fragment (lower left corner). Might be in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. Grand total of marriage payments: 350. Border …
Simha, daughter of Moshe b. Job, wife of Yosef al-Bali, sells a Pentateuch with gilded ornaments to Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Dated Iyyar 5159/April-May 1399. (Information …
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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Fragment of a legal document (bottom only) signed by Ṣedaqa b. Avraham ha-Kohen.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving conflict (shurūr wa-taʿab), two women who have been killed, a settlement of …
Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 12 Kislev, 1026, in the hand of Yefet ha-Hazan b. Daud, who signs alone. Sulayman b. Yusuf made …
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1649 Seleucid = 1337/38 CE. Concerning a partnership between [...] al-Levi al-Wajīh; his partner M[...]; a certain …
Marriage document. Fragment from a damaged ketubah. The groom is Ḥalfon ha-Kohen. The name of his father and bride are not preserved. Part of the …
Two damaged fragments from a ketubba. The groom is […] b. Mevasser. The first fragment mostly contains the dowry. On the bottom of the fragment, …
Legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Small vertical strip from the left side. On parchment. Possibly concerning the manumission and …
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, the section listing the outfit of the bride. ( E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 267, and from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably a deed of gift. Signed by [Abraham?], a descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon. …
Probably a fragment from a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#64) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 62-64) Folio 16v
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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Part of a ketubba from Egypt with no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Nissim and the bride is Esther known as Rachel (she is noted as a non-virgin, meaning …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 988–1088 CE. Groom: ʿEli. Bride: Malka/Milka/Malika, a widow or divorcee. Marriage payments: 5 + …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (left side only). In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]66 Seleucid, which is 1144/45 CE. Groom: Avraham …
Fragment of a partnership document (per FGP), involving R. Shemuel, Abū l-Faraj al-Yatom, Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan, Abū l-Bishr. Written by Mevorakh b. Natan, during the reign …
Ketubba fragment. The groom is named Ghālib.
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated: Kislev 5480 (1719 CE) Verso: sale of a one-year tax-farming partnership within the Ottoman customs house of Old …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly legal (ashhadanī...) but it is quite small and seems informally written. Needs examination.
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 20 Tevet 1771 Seleucid, which is 1459 CE. (1) Shemuel Faraj'el b. (2) Ḥananyahu Avraham b. (3) Shelomo …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a Nubian female slave named ʿAlam, but it is not a deed …
Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon and Nasi Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya in Jerusalem with regard to the goods of a merchant, Moshe b. Yehuda ha-Maʿaravi, …
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Bottom of a legal document, written in careful square letters.
Long and torn strip, only a couple words are preserved on each line, probably from a draft of a legal contract written by Halfon b. …
Probably a legal document, mentioning a certain Yaʿaqov and Reʾuven. (Information from CUDL)
Memo in Arabic script. Apparently about a check (ruqʿa) from Abū Naṣr for 200 dirhams that has gone missing: كنت قد تسلمت... كان الشيخ ابو …
Legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Describing a property, including its wind catcher and majlis.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerns someone ha-Zaqen ha-Levi titled Rosh ha-Qahal and someone's mother and sister.
Testimony stating that Abū al-Faḍl al-Ṣayrafī Maṣliah b. Meshullam informed Nahray b. Nissim that his wife had vacated the room on the floor (tabaqa) belonging …
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
Muslim marriage contract. (Information from Naïm Vanthieghem.)