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  1. 1Legal documentT-S 6J2.1

    Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn …

    1. למא כאן יום אלגמעה והו יום עשרין מחדש
    2. סיון משנת קסד אקנינא מן זין אלדאר ברת
    3. זכריה הזקן הנכבד נע אלמנת יפת בר שלה מקדסי נע
    4. באנהא וכלת מאיר הבחור היקר…

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  2. 2Legal documentT-S AS 152.356

    Minute fragment, seems to be from the top of a legal deed, but too little text remains. AA

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  3. 3Legal documentT-S AS 153.434

    Legal document mentioning the seat of the Bet Din. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragmentary but some of the …

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  4. 4Legal documentT-S 18J1.20

    Legal document concerning a wife agreement to the reduction of her delayed marriage gift from 70 to 20 dinars and renounces the title of trustworthiness …

    1. כאן סאלנא נחן אלשהוד אלמתבתון כטוטנא .[. . . . . .] מ ור שר שלום ש[מרו
    2. צור בן כ מ ור ישועה נע אלחצור אלדארה במחצר מן זוגתה [.]מאל[. . . .
    3. בת כגק מ ו…

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    1. (1-2) His H(onor), Mr. Sar Shalom, may the Rock [preserve him] b. his H(onor), Mr. Yeshuʿa m(ay he rest in) E(den), asked us, the witness und…

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  5. 5Legal documentT-S 6J2.5 + T-S 6J1.22

    Fragment of a legal document preserving one signature, Saadya b. Mevorakh (likely the son of the Nagid, Mevorakh b. Saadya, d. 1111), with the court's …

    1. ]. . . .אול. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. ]אלמאל [. . .]. הג. . . . .מ. . . . . .
    3. ].ל. . .[. . .]. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    4. ]. . לך . . . .מ. . . . . …

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  6. 6Legal documentENA 2772.1

    Testimony (shahada) written in Jerusalem during the gaonate of Daniel b. Azarya (1051–62), October 1057. Draft.

    ENA 2772, f. 1, ed. Gil, Palestine, Pt. 2, pp. 720-721 (Doc. #393), C.T., 6-30-86 (P) Draft of a shahada (testimony) written in Jerusalem in the days…

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  7. 7Legal documentENA 4020.55

    Quittance (bottom part only) written and signed by Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, also signed by Elʿazar b. Avraham. Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script …

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  8. 8Legal documentENA 3958.5

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 16 Rabīʿ I 911 AH, which is August 1505 CE. Starts with a basmala, authorizing a trade (bayʿ) of …

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  9. 9Legal documentENA NS 16.3

    Legal document. Minute fragment. Opening line of a legal deed, probably written by Hillel b. Eli. Aramaic. AA

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  10. 10Legal documentT-S AS 177.427

    Legal document or account. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ottoman era. Mentioning a purchase made by Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī al-Dajājī.

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S NS J185c + T-S NS J185d

    Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1432 Seleucid, which is September-October 1120 CE. Court record concerning a father’s will. Abū …

    T-S NS J185d 1 recto

    1. [ ] ה פק[אלת לה]ם אן כאן פי שרב [ ]זאגיי פקאלו לי מא תם נביד בל הי ח[ ]
    2. [ ] וגדתהם מגתמעין יכאטבוה ען אבנתה סתונה דא פקאל לי ול…

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  12. 12Legal documentMoss. VII,161

    Verso (original use): Fragment of legal document(s) in Arabic script, though the hand resembles state documents. In the upper text block, mentions the end of …

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  13. 13Legal documentENA 3936.6

    Jottings of accounts and calendrical notations in a mixture of Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. …

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  14. 14Legal documentT-S NS 327.157

    Fragment of a deed of sale for real estate, in Arabic script. Needs examination. On verso and between the lines of recto there is biblical …

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  15. 15Legal documentT-S AS 86.219 + T-S NS 264.89 + T-S NS 264.90

    Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's house; a deceased …

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  16. 16Legal documentT-S AS 152.351

    Fragment from the bottom of a bill of release. Only a few letters from the signatures are preserved, including the name Tamīm. AA

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  17. 17Legal documentMoss. V,393.3

    Legal document(s) or draft documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in two different sections, with a gap in between. The lower section mentions Efrayim, a power of …

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  18. 18Legal documentT-S AS 15.92

    Top line from a ketubah contains blessings.

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  19. 19Legal documentENA NS 77.219

    Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to sums of money; pounds of silk; …

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  20. 20Legal documentT-S AS 151.204

    Legal document, probably a draft as it appears incomplete at the bottom. Consisting mainly of an inventory of goods and their values, likely for an …

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S NS 226.43

    Minute fragment, contains only the the names of Sitt al-Thanāʾ and Berakhot b. Sayyid [...] ha-Kohen, probably to be married. (There is a Barakāt b. …

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S AS 147.24

    Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 4975 AM = 9 October 1214 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. A Sicilian trader, …

    1. חצר אלינא נחן אלכאתמון באכרה אלשיך פראגי אלכהן ברבי יוסף הכהן
    2. צקלי נע אחד אלתגאר אלצקלין אלמתרדדין אלי אלתגר ואכברנא אנה
    3. אבאע לבו אלפרג בן ברכאת בן …

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  23. 23Legal documentT-S 12.494

    Marriage contract in which the bridegroom promises to feed and clothe the son of his future wife, a divorcee, to let him learn a craft, …

    1. והצלח]ה לחתן ולכלה ולאדונינו
    2. מ]ע[לה מאה] ולכל הקהלה יבנו
    3. ]ויצליחו
    4. בעשרי]ם//וארבע//יומין לירח אב שנת אלפא וארבע מיאה וחד ועש]רין
    5. ב]מוניה זפתא הסמוכה …

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  24. 24Legal documentCUL Or.1080 3.10

    Legal document. Palestinian ketubba. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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  25. 25Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1394

    Draft debt acknowledgment. Dated 8 Tishrei 5351 AM (1590 CE). Involves a variety of shareholders in connection with a sum held by a certain Mordekhay, …

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    1.                            ב׳
    2. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה יספר צבאחה נהאר אלאחד תאמן שהר תש[רי]
    3. המב׳ סנה ה׳נ׳ש׳א׳ ליצירה ואלף ץ׳צ׳ב׳ לשטרות חצ'רו לואצ'ע…

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  26. 26Legal documentT-S 16.370

    Deed of release in Hebrew. Location: Damascus. Dated: Sunday, 13 Nisan 4755 AM = 17 March 995 CE. Yaḥya b. Zekharya the judge and Zūrʿa …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]אפ[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

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  27. 27Legal documentENA NS 83.365

    Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has traced over every word.

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  28. 28Legal documentENA 2160.62

    Will in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dating: Unknown. The writer specifies his wishes for his grave and shroud (for which he has also supplicated …

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  29. 29Legal documentT-S 8J34.2

    Fragment (upper right corner) of a legal document written under the authority of Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Dated: 1546 Seleucid = 1234/35 CE. A certain Zakkay …

    1. מעידים אנחנו חתומי מטה. . . [
    2. בשנת אתקמו לשטרות למניננו א [
    3. אשר על נהר נילוס היא יושבת ר [
    4. אברהם הרב המובהק דגל הרב [
    5. אשר אמר לנו מרנ ורבנ זכאי ה[

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  30. 30Legal documentT-S NS 324.64

    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 …

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  31. 31Legal documentT-S NS 226.48

    Legal document. Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Halfon b. Menashse ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38) between a Rabbanite husband named Natan ha-Levi and a Qaraite wife, …

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  32. 32Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1599

    Karaite document corroborating (יאייד=يؤيد) the terms an earlier legal deed that had been issued in the beit din at the Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Dated 2 …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלכמיס תאני חדש ניסן המכובד סנה הת׳׳ו ליצירה חצ'ר כה׳׳ר אברהם לוי קדסי יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר יעקב
    2. לוי קיים נ׳׳ע פי מנזל כה׳׳ר אליה לוי יצ׳…

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  33. 33Legal documentT-S NS 321.50

    IB VII, 7. Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1112 CE (based on T-S …

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    1. ]..חסן .........................[
    2. ]דלך ומנא מן כתב באסמאינא גמיעא וכדלך פעל[
    3. ]פעלה צאחבה גמיעאנא מתפק אן וניתנא מסתקימה[
    4. ]א יד... .ל. מא .. מן…

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    1. […] good … […]
    2. […] that, and those of us who wrote our names together. Likewise …[…]
    3. […] his fellow enacted, agreeing with all of us, our intenti…

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  34. 34Legal documentENA 2808.64

    Legal documents, drafts recto and verso, in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Concerning a gift given to a young woman named …

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S NS 38a.48

    Legal document. Fragment (bottom half only). Looks like a power of attorney in which a woman appoints a man as her agent. No names or …

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  36. 36Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 108/62

    Letter with legal content in Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Aharon b. Avraham and Avraham b. Mevorakh. Probably addressed to the Nagid (al-ḥaḍra al-rayyisiyya, raʾs al-mathība). It …

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  37. 37Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79.7 + T-S Misc.28.79.11

    P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …

    T-S Misc.28.79 7r

    1. פיהא אלתלת כחסב מא גרת בה [
    2. הקהלות דנן אלתלתי ואשרט[..] לה עלי נפסי אנני א[
    3. כלטה דרהם ואחד לא[. .]פקד שי מן שי וגמיע מ[
    4. פאידתה כלט…

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  38. 38Legal documentT-S 18J1.21

    Witness statement. Dated 25 Tevet 1438 Seleucid (1127 CE). Concerning a young man named Sedaqa the Meshorer b. Semah, an agent in a business venture …

    1. שהדותא דהוה באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא כק
    2. מ ור צדקה הבחור היקר המשורר בר כק מ ור צמח הזקן נע פי יום אלסבת
    3. מן חדש כסליו מן סנ…

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  39. 39Legal documentT-S 8J6.18

    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. …

    1. חצר פי בית דין פי יום אלכמיס לסיתה ועשרין יום בחודש
    2. כסלוי (!) שנת אשלח לשטרות במצרים עלי הכהן בר יפת
    3. ודכר אנה אקני מן מוהובה בת יוסף הידוע בן בכאר
    4. א…

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  40. 40Legal documentT-S AS 170.204

    Small fragment containing an order, maybe for 2.5 dirhams' worth of meat.

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  41. 41Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/43

    Legal document. On parchment. Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states …

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  42. 42Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/13 + Bodl. MS heb. f 56/15

    Original use: Two fragments of a legal document in Arabic script. ~8 partial lines preserved. Tight line spacing, stylized dhālika ذلك in l. 2, stylized …

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  43. 43Legal documentT-S NS 259.152

    Deed of sale of a property. Involving Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. This document describes the boundaries of the property. …

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  44. 44Legal documentNLI 577.4/41

    Verso: Drafts of legal notes from a court. Some of the text may have been erased. The entries do not appear to be related to …

    1. סרור כרם בת
    2. בן יצחק יִפִתִ
    3. למא כאן יום אלאחד אלראבע אלחודש ניסן דשנת אלפא וחמש מאה
    4. וחמשין ותרתין שנין למניאן שטרות ח̇צרא סרור בן
    5. אלאסכנדראני ואלדי ו…

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  45. 45Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 739

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Concerning a house (... مشاعا غير مقسوم ... الدار المجاورة لها ...). Perhaps a deed of sale. Only four lines …

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  46. 46Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/62

    Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid, which is January 1185 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …

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  47. 47Legal documentENA 4011.56

    Recto: Partnership agreement. Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Tammuz 1436 Seleucid = June/July 1125 CE. Settlement of a dispute of two …

    1. חצר אלי בית דין מוסי
    2. בן בשר אל[.] אל ואדעא עלי
    3. הבה אנה כאן שריכה פי עמל
    4. [[אלכבז]] אלכבז ואן כאן מעהם
    5. ד דנאניר לבן אלרצא אלשומר
    6. ותעישו בהא ואנהא גרקת

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  48. 48Legal documentENA NS 47.29

    Recto and verso: Court record(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. One side (record #1) consists of a lengthy list of valuable commodities and luxury items, including books and …

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  49. 49Legal documentT-S AS 171.86

    Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that Maḥāsin Ibn al-Rabbāṭ agrees to stand surety for his mother in a case involving inheritance and the government. See …

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  50. 50Legal documentENA NS 77.74

    Small fragment of a legal document. Mentions entering the bath and an illness.

    1. ]הא מע[
    2. ] . ת להא איצא . . [
    3. ] . י אלי אלחמאם פי אל[
    4. ]תק . ה ערצא פא[
    5. ] . מא וא . א . . מא . [
    6. ]קדותא דא . . . . [
    7. ד]ליהוי בידיה לזכו ולר[איה
    8. אלעשר]…

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