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Legal fragment. On parchment. Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions collaterals; a period of 10.5 months beginning in Tishrei; granting somebody permission …
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Confirmation of the payment of a loan of 22 'half silvers' (muʾayyadīs), from Yosef, followed by an instruction to return the pledged copy of the …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. A deal between an investor, possibly named Ibrahim, and three unnamed indigo dyers opening a workshop in Damietta. The active partners …
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Recto: part of a dowry list (bedding and copper section). Verso: copy of a ketubba, probably not related to dowry list on the recto as …
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Mysterious document. In Hebrew. Late, probably 17th century, after the death of ʿAzarya Ze'evi. The document itself is extremely faded and nearly imposible to read …
Recto (secondary use): Draft of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involves Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo; a little house; …
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. Groom: Ghālib b. Shelomo. Bride: Jamīla bt. ʿEli. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Probably a deed of sale, since most …
Small fragment of a marriage contract. Big blocky letters. Containing the beginning of a dowry list.
Ketubba or marital dispute resolution involving a Rabbanite wife and Karaite husband (Sarah bt. Efrayim and Yosef b. Avraham). Location: Fustat. Dated 24 Kislev 1364 …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Settlement of a marital dispute between Elʿazar and his wife.
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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 …
Legal document mentioning [...] ha-Levi the elder. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Court notebook. This page contains a record of divorce and a trousseau list from Cairo in the 1180s. Each of the two columns was written …
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Power of attorney. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia. Monday, 1 Av [4]833 AM, which is July 1073 CE. In which the Qaraite Abū Saʿd Isḥāq b. …
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Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1440 Sel. (1129 CE), written under the authority of the gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. Mentions Abū l-Maʿālī b. …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138), but these identifications …
Verso: Statute for tenants of the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1215 (according to Gil, but his handwriting comparison may not be sound, and this document could …
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Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very long and quite damaged. Involves Shela, his paternal uncle and father-in-law Ḥalfon b. Shelomo, and his deceased wife, who …
Legal document. A trousseau list likely in the hand of Moshe ha-Levi b. Dovid of Cairo, Fusṭāṭ. Dating: 1110. A detailed trousseau list labeled as …
Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Cairo. Dated: Last decade of Adar 1481 Seleucid, which is March 1170 CE, under the …
Legal entries in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Entry at upper right: mentions the 17th of Jumādā, the name of a witness …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Seems to be an acknowledgment by the Rabbanite Jew named [ʿUmar?] b. Ibrāhīm known as Shams …
Fragment (bottom part) of a power of attorney. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. In which al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār …
Legal fragment. Court records. In Hebrew. Dating: 11th century, based on Goitein's assessment and perhaps based on the reference to the higher authority of the …
Legal document, probably. Small fragment. In Arabic script. The end of the basmala is visible and the name ʿAlī b. al-Khiḍr(?) in l. 3. It …
Legal testimony. Dating; 13th century. Involves Faḍā'il the cantor, R. Ye[ḥi]el, Bū Naṣr b. al-[...], and Makhlūf. There is a dispute over the kosher butchering …
Small fragment from the top part of a legal deed, with a prolonged introduction with praises for Mevorakh b. Saʿadya and his son Moshe (ca. …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: 1 Kislev 1[4]12 Seleucid (1100 CE). Signed by Ḥillel b. ʿEli and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Husband: Shela b. Yehuda. Wife: …
Minute fragment. From the bottom part of a late legal document. Signed by Yaaqiv […] and Avraham Sarfati. AA
A letter containing a court ruling demanding the return of a deposit.
Probably a legal document, mentioning the bridal gift and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo. (Information from CUDL)
F. 1r: Betrothal contract between Moses b. Shelomo and Muwaffaqa bint Shemuʾel b. Moses. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Appointment of a judge, listing all of his prerogatives. The handwriting is very familiar; late 12th or early 13th …
Part of a ketubba, mentioning a certain Yefet. Goitein (1978: 404) dates it to c. 1250 CE and says to see T-S 8.127, for another …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [Sitt al-Sāda bt.?] Evyatar ha-Kohen and [Shelomo b. Abū] al-Riḍā al-Wakīl and Sālim …
Bottom of a large legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 979 AH = 1571/72 CE. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Signed by Avraham b. Shemarya nin Shemaʿyahu Ga'on (אברהם ברבי שמעיה החבר נבתויא נין …
Minute fragment from a court record involving Avraham b. Nathan. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Non-Geniza. Legal document. Agreement between the Qaraite and Rabbanite congregations in Lithuania (specifically Samogitia?) concerning taxation. Dated: 1654 CE.
Legal document. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). "Another woman, Mubāraka bt. Maḥfūẓ, already separated for over four years from her …
Fol. 1: Recto contains two names, perhaps Avraham ha-Rav ha-Gadol Yesod ha-Yeshiva b. Natan Av Bet Din she-le-Kol Yisrael and Ḥiyya b. Meshullam, perhaps witnesses …
Lower fragment: Bill of divorce. Written by Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Sunday, 25 Shevaṭ 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE. Husband: Makārim b. Moshe. Wife: …
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. The price includes the transfer tax and the broker's commission (fīhā al-naql wa-l-jaʿāla, l. 3). (Information from Khan, ALAD, …
Recto: Deed of sale, probably. In Arabic script. Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties: [muʿtadi]l al-qāma asmar al-lawn wāḍiḥ al-jabha …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The case involves Nissim b. Avraham and Nāṣir b. מגלי. May have to …
IB VII, 14. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Ṣāfī b. Yakhin appoints [Yaʿ]aqov(?) b. Yiṣḥaq(?) al-Sijilmāsī as his …
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Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almost all of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Goitein's index card.
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (or 146[.]?). The protagonists are Abū l-Fakhr and Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman. The witnesses state that …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)