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Bottom of a large legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 979 AH = 1571/72 CE. Needs examination.
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Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Might join with PGPID 16507. Mentions a period of two years, …
Legal document (זכרון עדות). Dating: likely early 13th century. Involves Abū Manṣūr al-Shā[...], Ṭāhir b. [...], something being certified for a woman, and a sum …
Recto: bottom of a legal document Verso: bottom of a legal document dated 913AH - needs examination.
Fragment with three document entries, probably from a court register. Dated November 1719 (Kislev 5480). The first is marriage-related; the second is a betrothal document; …
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Agreement in which Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen and Nisim b. Ya'aqov, who bought half a house from Makki b. Abu Sahl for sixty dinars, rent …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 16th century. Yosef Ashraqī attests that he owes his wife 40 gold Venetian ducats. He will repay the total …
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Legal document or documents. The primary block of text on verso appears to be the original legal testimony, written in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The second …
Formulary for a bill of divorce. There is also Hebrew poetry (אופן(?) ליהודה הלוי זל).
Legal fragment. None of the body of the document is preserved. Witnesses: Zekharya b. Sar Shalom (see Bodl. MS heb. b 11/21 (PGPID 5336)); Natan …
One side: Legal formularies, including one for semikha for a slaughterer. The other side: Legal document (שטר עיסקא) or perhaps a formulary of one that …
Legal document. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February 1225 CE, under the …
We were present, we the witnesses, when the following, explained in this
record, transpired, and we signed (this record) on the bottom (of …
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Recto: Investment partnership between [Yaʿa]qov Raṣon, Avraham Yuʿbaṣ, and Shabbetay Skandarī and possibly one other person. The bottom is missing, along with the date. The …
Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …
Tiny fragment containing two words (ve-simḥa ve-ṣahala), probably from the upper margin of a ketubba.
Recto: Legal deed. Location: Qalyūb. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Adar 1505 Seleucid, which is 1194 CE, under the authority of the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. In …
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Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment describing that one-third of a house is given to a daughter upon marriage, on the condition that it would become her …
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Top of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108) or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Concerning arrangements upon somebody's death, probably …
Many tiny fragments, some are from legal deeds.
Recto: Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE, under the authority of the Nasi David b. Daniel. Describing …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 15 Shevat 5450 AM (1690 CE). Bride: Sulṭāna bt. Yosef ha-Rofe b. Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzan ha-Rofe. Groom: Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham …
One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). …
Short commentary on monetary issues. On verso there is a formula for a deed of loan and a short discussion on treatment of the poor …
Model of "a marriage contract" – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 149) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Legal document. It seems a bill of sale for a male slave (ghulām) possibly named Jarīr. A (low) sum of 6 dinars is named. The …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen (active early 13th century) and Shemuʾel b. Mevasser ha-Melammed. On verso an attestation that the …
Order of one pound of meat from al-muʿallim Ṣadaqa (cf. T-S AS 177.468).
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dating: First decade of the 19th century ([..]התק). Involving Shabbetay Skandarī and Yiṣḥaq Ḥanūn. Signed by Nissim Romano, Aharon …
Legal record (#132) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 43r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 5 Tishrei [5329 …
Contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: 2[.] Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid, which is 1040 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq b. Seʿadya al-Manbijī agrees to teach Fahd ha-Levi the liturgy …
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Legal testimony. Very fragmentary. The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved.
Recto: legal fragment in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). No names or details clearly preserved. Verso: unidentified document in Arabic script and …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: probably [4]82[.] AM = 1059–69 E. Husband: Yaʿaqov b. Yosef.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138).
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shemuʾel b. Nathan, dated Adar II 1456 Seleucid = February/March 1145 CE, under the authority of …
Legal document. Partnership release. Dated: 7 Shevat 1390. Location: Fustat. An olive-oil partnership is dissolved. This fragment contains two documents related to the same partnership …
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Legal testimony in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ramaḍān 545 AH, which is 25 December 1150 CE. "Lammā ḥaḍara ilā majlis ḥ[ukm X]..." Needs examination for …
Badly effaced legal document dealing with inheritance and a financial settlement - probably a deed of release. Mentions 40 dinars, Salāma bt. Mubārak, Khalfa b. …
Partnership agreement. 17th century (no date is written)
Certificate of kashrut. Location: Alexandria. Dated: First third of Tammuz 500[.] AM; the options are 5004, 5007, and 5009 (=1244, 1247, or 1249 CE). Abū …
Court record written and signed by Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Av 4889 AM, which is July/August 1129 CE, under …
Fragment from a legal document, possibly a trousseau list section of a ketuba. AA
IB VII, 2. Legal document. Dated: Monday, 2 Iyyar 1398 Seleucid, which is 1087 CE. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Location: Fustat. Moshe b. Elḥanan …
Bill of sale for a female slave. Written and signed by Moshe b. Elʿazar. Also signed by Avraham b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. Location: Cairo. …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is Murhaf b. Fāris al-Dawla Nushtakīn "one of the greats of the Ḥāfiẓī regiment" (احد الحافظية …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Tammuz 1451 Seleucid = 25 June 1140 CE. …
Receipt from the association of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – December 3 1950CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 202) – in French …
Torn at the top-right, but otherwise almost complete, but faded, Bill of divorce (get). The name of the bride is Turfa. The signatures are too …
Small fragment of a marriage document.
Fragment of an agreement for a planned engagement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The …