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Beginning of an iqrār document, fragmentary. "اقر حسين بن علي".
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Legal document. A release granted by Sitt al-Maʿālī to Abū l-Ḥusayn. Involving sums of 2 dinars somehow related to Abū l-Ḥusayn's father and a total …
Fragment of an Arabic deed of sale on recto and Hebrew pen trials citing the Book of Esther. writing exercise on verso. (Wissem Gueddich in …
Karaite agreement between partners regarding the division of profit?
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 …
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Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The main document on recto mentions a roofed market (saqīfa) and numerous other landmarks. There are …
Recto: Probably a legal document involving the perfumer (ʿaṭṭār) Ṭāhir b. Maḥfuẓ al-Yahūdī and another individual. The text contains several dual participles. In the upper …
Recto (original use): Power of attorney. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Ḥeshvan 4835 AM = 9 November 1074 CE. A woman, Nājiya bt. Shelomo b. Hiba …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). One of the parties is [...] …
Fragment from a legal document, mentioning Abū l-Munā and perhaps a partnership. On verso refers to a sum collected by a gentile. (Information in part …
Legal document, needs examination for typology.
Court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1140s CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Faḍl al-Kutnānī b. Hiba al-Iskandarānī claims that he …
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Legal document fragment, perhaps 10th century, likely a release involving Shabbat b. Yeshaʿya and a certian Avraham. Verso contains jottings in Arabic and Hebrew characters.
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era; the dates are given, but are faded and difficult to read. Recto and verso contain two distinct …
Decorated, torn Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Yosef and the bride is Esther known as Karima d. Shlomo
Legal record (#66). Loan contract. Dated: Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Faḍā'il b. Abū l-Faraj b. Maʿrūf owes 1 dinar and 26.5 dirhams to Sālim al-Ṣayrafī b. …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions the execution of something with "riḍā"(agreement). Dating: Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era, but this should be checked. 11 fragmentary lines …
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Recto: Otoman-era legal document in Persian, probably dealing with the sale (فروخت = "he/she sold" in l. 5) of a plot of land (قطعه زمین). …
Legal fragment. Signed: ʿEli ha-Levi b. ʿAmra; Faraḥ b. [...].
Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Likely in the hand of Yefet b. David. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The delayed marriage payment is 20 …
Recto: Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 530 AH (= 1135/36 CE). (However, Goitein read the year 55[.] AH somewhere, which would be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[هذ]ا ما اشترى مكارم بن أبي الفرج بن يوسف الـ[ ]
[ السمـ]ـرة واضح الجبهة وبها غضون مقرون خفي وبقرن جبهتيـ[ـه ]
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Makārim ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf the [ … ] bought [ … ]
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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 record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
:Right side of bifolio 5v (Documents 37-38)
Deed of compensation from the court of Efrayim b. Shemarya and in his handwriting. Concerning people from Tyre and a partnership, starting with an Arabic …
Rental contract. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right piece). [..]ār b. Azhar rents from a Jewish woman named [...] bt. ʿAmmār a share in a …
Bifolium from a court ledger. The dates range from Adar II through Sivan of 1410 Seleucid, which is 1099 CE. At least one is in …
Partnership agreement between Eliyyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Reqaḥ, and Merkado Ḥūba(?) (חובה), from Cairo, dated 1796 CE (Av 5556 AM). The main text of the document …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions something that passed 'between the two of them'; the court in Fustat; a sum of dinars; Natan b. Shelomo. It …
Legal document. Court record. Dating: 8 Iyyar 1406 (16 April 1095) (Lieberman reads 1410, but it's fairly clear it's 1406; or could potentially be 1407). …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1151. Location: Minyat Ashna (near Fustat). Following appeals by his deceased brother Binyam's widow to the court, Kathīr b. Avraham …
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Probably a court record in Hebrew. Late. The verso bears a potential filing note regarding the "case of Raḥamīm גרגיס (surname), in the matter of …
Legal document; marriage document. Three unrelated texts: Two contracts (ketubah and deed of sale) and a commentary on Genesis 12. Fol. 1: commentary on Genesis …
Bottom part of Karaite ketubba, only partialy preserved. The groom is Yeshu'a and the bride Esther.
Legal document. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: 934, which seems that it should be read as a Hijri date, which would correspond to 1527/28 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (right side only). Apparently a deathbed will. No names are preserved. …
Damaged legal deeds. On recto a bill of compensation from 11th century Fustat, probably from a man to a woman. On verso another document, in …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.
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 …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Might be dated 760 AH = 1349/50 CE, but this needs to be checked.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Very small fragment. Groom: Avraham.
Legal document in Arabic script. Likely a deed of sale for real estate. The borders are specified, including the house of ʿAṭāʾ al-Anmāṭī and the …
Badly damaged and faded fragment from a legal deed mentioning Sitt al-Dar
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Groom: Natan b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿOvadya. One of the oldest and largest illuminated medieval ketubbot from the …
Ketubba, Aleppo, 1026–28 CE. The document omits the divorce clause, and the groom notably refers to himself and his bride as the "Jew" and the …
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Formulary. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 5537 AM, which is 1776/77 CE.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 458 AH = 1065/66 CE. Seems to be a deed of sale, but needs further examination …
Ketubba fragment (the beginning and the signatures are torn away). Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yehuda (his own name appears in l.16 and his father's name in …
Minute fragment from a ketubah, which can be dated to 1178 onwards thanks to the remains of the immersion clause which started to appear in …
Deathbed will of Khalaf b. Yeshu'a, the envoy of the lepers in Tiberias (and a leper himself), Elul 1345/August 1034.
A Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Moshe b. Ishaq b. Avraham Hakohen and the bride is Esther known as Muhaja d. Avraham b. …