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ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
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Damaged fragment with an unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe a prayer or a letter, but hard to be sure. Contains phrases like רב טוב ורב …
Fragment from a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Involves a sum of money (המעות הנז), a certain Meʾir and a certain …
Minute fragment containing part of a signature (Natan ha-Kohen).
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Adar 1810 Seleucid, which is 1499 CE. Groom: Elazar. Bride: Esther Sutayta bt. Yosef ha-Levi. Quite faded and damaged, …
Legal document. Fragment (bottom part). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Berakhot and Ḥasān(?). Dated: 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE, under the …
A fragment, probably of a court notebook. Two partial legal deeds, in the handwriting of Ḥalfōn b. Menashe (active 1100-1138 CE). On recto is mentioned …
Ketubba according to the Palestinian style. Dated: 4810 AM = 1049/50 CE. In the hand of Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, when he was either reviʿi …
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Recto (secondary use): Legal document according to which a debtor Khalaf must pay to Faḍāʾil only one half of the sum stipulated in the Muslim …
(d) Legal testimony. Crossed out. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 1494 Seleucid, which is 1183 CE, under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Ghulayb b. Ṣadaqa …
Court register. Recto: Partnership agreement, probably for the tax farming of silk dyeing in Upper Egypt (פי צמאן באב אלחריר ב[אלצעיד . . . אל]עליא …
Small fragment. Both verso and recto containing legal documents, each written by a different scribe. On recto marriage and betrothal are mentioned, but only little …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.
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Fragment of a deed of lease. The property is in Qaṣr al-Rūm (the Jewish quarter of Fusṭāṭ), in or related to Dār al-Qubba. A sum …
Ottoman-era rental receipt, in Arabic script. The 'khwājā' Shukrī(?) has paid 40 Kuruş Rūmī towards the rent of his shop for the month of Muḥarram …
Legal record describing a husband trying to seize property, and declaring that his father-in-law’s accusations are false, even though the latter presented the court with …
IB V, 47a. Legal record (#60). Deposition in court. Dated: Av 1467 Seleucid. Concerning repairs of a dilapidated wall belonging to two houses. Sitt al-Khāṣṣa …
Small strip from the left side of a legal deed of an unknown nature. One of the anonymous parties if referred as 'the great minister'. …
Bill of release in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1400 Seleucid = 28 August 1089 CE. Release given …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: ca. 1090 CE. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). One ʿUlla and one Yaḥyā release one …
אן יסלם אליי מ[.. גמיע ]מא ענדה [...................................]
ביננא אלמעאמלה ודאך אננא נשתרך גמ[יענא........................מאיה]
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 17 Iyyar 5316 AM, which is 27 April 1556 CE. May be a copy or a version of a document …
Fragment of a late legal document involving Shelomo b. Elʿazar Skanda (?) and Yehuda Marājī (?). The third line features a phrase with at least …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1440 Seleucid, which is 1129 CE. About the valuable goods (aʿlāq) from …
Legal document relating to the return of half of the dowry of a woman.
Recto: Document in Arabic script recording the settling of a business account (wafāʾ), perhaps what al-Thiqa owed to Barakāt b. Salāma. Dated: 12 Muḥaram '47 …
Testimony concerning the death of a man and his son. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 427/1 August 1036. The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The witnesses named in this document, all of them knowing Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn ibn al-Da…
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Ketubba, probably. Small fragment. Very damaged. Reused for an alphabetical (divination?) table on verso.
Fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release from a wife to her husband Abū Sahl Menashshe. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Legal deeds, two, written in Efraim b. Shemarya's difficult hand (fl. 1007–1055 CE). The first involves a testimony of a certain Yehoshu'a to a certain …
Verso: Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1564 Seleucid, which is 1252/53 CE. Husband: Nissim b. Sar Shalom ha-Levi of Damascus, the same husband from …
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Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …
Fragment of a legal document. Verso mentions [Abū l-Fa]raj al-Kohen and his son. Recto mentions 100 of something.
Draft of a legal document written on a long vertical strip of parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing a …
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The following sale was effected with one hand clasp: 6 ⅔ out of 24 common, undivided shares in the old building consisting of t…
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Tiny and damaged fragment from a ketubah containing an immersion stipulation, so can be dated from 1176 onward. AA
Probably from an Halakhic monograph relates to marriage. On verso a draft of a ketubah which contains the immersion clause, so can be dated after …
Damaged fragment from a ketubah.
Legal document in Hebrew on parchment. Involving [...]DYA known as Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (spelled בן אצבג); the mother of Yefet b. S[...]; Yefet's father, who was …
Legal document from the time of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to here with the title "Nagid" therefore, post-1213 CE. The fragment comprises a few …
Recto (secondary use): Another document is written in the lower margin, upside-down in relation to the list, in which Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi sues Mubārak …
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Letter fragment, 20 lines, well preserved. The writer at the beginning of the letter mentions a sale that did not reap any profits (lam yūlij …
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. ـعه اليه ووجهي منه يسقط حيا{ء} لانه يعلم كيف جرى امره في ابتياعها
وانه لم يولج في شي منها حبة واحدة وبالله لو…
Legal document. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Iyyar 1484 Seleucid, which is 1173 CE, under the authority …
Various jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script including ad raft of a legal declaration (aqūl wa-anā...) in Judaeo-Arabic, made by [...]r ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu [... …
Very damaged and faded marriage agreement written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (active c. 1150-1181 CE). Some lines from the dowry list is visible, and also …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 29 Tammuz 1590 Seleucid = 11 July 1279 CE. Written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active …
Legal document (iqrār). Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script. Needs examination for content.
Fragment from a legal deed regarding a house belong to Maḥfūẓa, also mentioning Abū Kathīr. The same two persons are the subject of T-S NS …
Legal document, mentioning Yehoshuaʿ the Parnas, a dispute between siblings over an inheritance, and Ḥalfon. Signed by Berakhot b. Peraḥya, Shela b. Yefet and Yiṣḥaq …
Legal document: three legal documents on a single rotulus. Dating (based on record #2): 27 Iyyar 4846 AM (14 May 1086). All the cases concern …
Small fragment, likely from a legal document. Mentions Avraham b. Farrāḥ. Might join with ENA NS 18.16 (PGPID 11103).
Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~15 lines are preserved. Mentions Shemarya ha-Zaqen.