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  1. 5001Legal documentENA 2558.20

    Acknowledgement of debt in Judaeo-Arabic from Fustat October 1230 CE. Yosef b. Avraham, known as son of the poet, acknowledges a debt of 600 nuqra …

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  2. 5002Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1398

    Acknowledgment of payment for a residential qāʿa. Dated Thursday, 29th Tammuz 5417 AM (1657 CE) Venue: Dar Simha Synagogue (Cairo). Ṣadaqa b. Ya'aqov Qayyim and …

    1. למא כאן בתאריך לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלכ'מיס תסעה ועשרין פי חדש
    2. תמוז יא׳׳ל סנה התי׳׳ז לליצירה חצ'ר אלאך ר׳ משה לוי יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר יצחק קדסי יצ׳׳ו פי
    3. …

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  3. 5003Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1413

    Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …

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    1. סבב תסטיר האדה אלאחירף(!) ומוג'ב תחרירה בחצרה כל מן כמוה׳׳ר הח׳ הש׳ יום טוב
    2. יצ׳׳ו ידיע ברכה ס׳׳ט וכה׳׳רר אלישע חזן ידיע צעיר יצ׳׳ו ס׳׳ט וכה׳׳…

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  4. 5004Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 61/9

    Leaf from the court notebook. Recto: Legal record of the court of Fustat. Dated: before the middle of Nisan 1411 Seleucid = March 1100 CE. …

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    1. אקר בחצרתנא בבי דינא יוסף בן יוסף
    2. אללבאן אן פי [[מא]] מאלה ופי דמתה
    3. דינאר ללעניים פאן קד והב דלך ללעניים
    4. אבו אלרצה בן אכי אלפרנס נע פאלתזם יוס…

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  5. 5005Legal documentMoss. V,389.2

    Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Moshe and his father Ḥayyim. Concerns real estate and living arrangements (penultimate line: “or if he should …

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  6. 5006Legal documentT-S AS 152.255

    Small fragment from a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Possibly a will, or simply a debt contract, as …

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  7. 5007Legal documentT-S 13J2.2

    Court record concerning the posthumous settlement of the affairs of a merchant who had sold partnership goods from Tripoli, Lebanon, in the various 'houses of …

    1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרין ושיתה יומין בירח תמוז דשנת
    2. [אלף] וארבע מאה וחמש שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט //בבית דין הקבוע בפסטאט מצרים מפי//
    3. מצרים דעל…

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  8. 5008Legal documentMoss. II,121.3

    Probably legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions partial names including Rosh ha-Nedivim; Peraḥya Ibn al-ʿAmʿaṭ; someone's father; Yehuda …

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  9. 5009Legal documentT-S 6J8.10 + T-S 6J2.22

    Two fragments of a legal document concerning the rent for a property located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. The lessor is al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. The lessee (al-mustaʾjir) is …

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  10. 5010Legal documentT-S AS 172.136

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The parties are Avraham and a certain …

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  11. 5011Legal documentENA 2727.47 + Halper 368

    Legal document. Partnership agreement in a press (maʿṣara). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 4 Tamuz 5275 AM, which is 1515 CE. Currencies: Peraḥim. The …

    1. אנו בית דין חתומי מטה מכה המסור [בידינו מאת א]רבעה שותפים שהם
    2. כר׳ אברהם תלמיד וכר׳ יוסף שביליה וכר׳ שלמה אגילאר וכר׳ דוד אלפנדרי
    3. שכל מה שיראה לנו בד…

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  12. 5012Legal documentMIAC 30

    Contract of a commercial sale – 192_CE [digit missing] – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 30) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …

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  13. 5013Legal documentT-S NS 225.27

    Verso: Fragment of a legal deed, in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Probably an agreement between a husband and wife after a fight; …

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  14. 5014Legal documentT-S 6J4.7

    Halakhic discussion, might be from a responsum, written by Samuel b. Yaaqov, the French Rabbi who was active during Abraham Maimonudes' period. It appears to …

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  15. 5015Legal documentT-S NS 100.59

    Monograph, Rabbinica. Fol. 1r-1v: specimen writ of divorce, with a few instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. There are two witness names listed: Reʾuven b. Yaʿaqov and Gilʿad …

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  16. 5016Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/1

    Copy of a power of attorney in the name of David b. ʿAmmār b. ʿAzrūn Madīnī. Location: the document itself was drawn up in Fustat, …

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    1. נחן אלשהוד אלמסמון אספל הד'א אלכתאב חצר אלינא ר' דויד
    2. בר עמאר נ'ע' בן עזרון נ'ע' וקאל לנא והו פי צחה' עקלה ובדנה
    3. וגואז אמרה אשהדו עלי ואקנו מנ…

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    1. ....אנחנו, העדים החתומים למטה בכתב זה, (אומרים כי) בא אלינו ר' דויד
    2. בר עמאר נ"ע בן עזרון נ"ע ואמר לנו, והוא בריא בשכלו ובגופו
    3. ובגמר דעתו: היו …

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  17. 5017Legal documentT-S AS 154.491

    Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Verso: drawings of a spear-armed man hunting on horseback, with what …

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  18. 5018Legal documentMIAC 58

    Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …

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  19. 5019Legal documentT-S 8J6.21

    Legal deed. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: 17 Tevet 5318 AM = 8 December 1557 CE. Settling debts between Shelomo, Rahamim and Reʾuven. Signed by Avraham …

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    1. הששים זהב הנשארים בתנאי ואופן הנז׳ בשטר שבין…

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  20. 5020Legal documentENA NS 77.316

    Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. A copper item is mentioned, perhaps part of a dowry. Requires further examination.

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  21. 5021Legal documentT-S AS 165.184

    Legal fragment. Mentions [...] b. Avraham; another Avraham; merchandise which someone left with someone.

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  22. 5022Legal documentHalper 359

    Legal document (debt settlement) issued by a qāḍī court in the Musallamiyya madrasa of Damietta. In Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Dated: 10 …

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    1. الحمد لله وهو حسبي هلك حساده
    2. كتبه [؟] الفقير عبد الرحمن الاقصراي الحنبلي
    3. المولى قضا دمياط وخلافتها

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    1. باس…

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    1. Praise to God ... until his Day of Judgement.

    Verso, left, main text

    1. Praise be to God.

    2. In the law court referenced on the re…

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  23. 5023Legal documentJRL P 40

    Legal fragment. Very faded. Involves various sums/transfers of money.

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  24. 5024Legal documentT-S AS 147.262

    Small and faded fragment from a ketubah.

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  25. 5025Legal documentT-S 13J1.13

    Legal document. One of three copies (T-S 12.580 is another). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1368 Seleucid, which is February/March 1057 CE. In which Ṭoviyya b. …

    נעשו כאן השלמות עניניות אחדות. בעשר השורות הראשונות נקרעה המחצית

    השמאלית.

    [עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו החתומים על הכתב]

    1. הזה איך טוביה הלוי בר סה[ל קאל לנא…

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  26. 5026Legal documentJRL B 7207

    Opening of a legal document. The hand may be known. In which Yaḥyā b. [...] makes a declaration.

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  27. 5027Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1644

    Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.

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  28. 5028Legal documentENA NS 83.332

    Legal document in Arabic script.

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  29. 5029Legal documentT-S 20.86

    Beginning of a ketubba.Location: Fusṭāṭ. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Moshe, a widow. Groom: Sason. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE), and …

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  30. 5030Legal documentT-S 8J32.8

    Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: March 1029. Location: Fustat. This document, emerging from the court of Abraham b. Sahlān, records the dissolution of a partnership …

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    1. ום אלכמיס ד מן ניסן שנת שמ
    2. חצר אסחקק בן אליה הידוע בן אלקשאש
    3. ואקר לסמחון בן תמים בסתה דנא גיאד
    4. ואתקיים ידפעהא אליה סוף חדש תשרי
    5. שנת שמא ויבריה…

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    1. Thursday 4 Nisan of the year (1)340
    2. Isḥaq b. Elijah known as “(I)bn al-Kashshāsh” came
    3. and atttested for Samḥūn b. Tamīm to the six excellent din…

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  31. 5031Legal documentT-S NS 338.25

    Legal document. Perhaps an inventory of an estate. Refers to witnesses going to somebody's house, and lists numerous valuable items. Mentions Barakāt al-Katnānī (? אלכתנאני).

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  32. 5032Legal documentT-S 18J1.23

    Verso: A man who possessed five-eighths of a house gives one-eighth to his wife and her son as lodgings 'belonging to them forever.' Dated Shevat …

    1. חצר אלינא אנן חתומי מטה אלשיך
    2. אבו אלחסן בן כגק מ ור נתנאל ראש
    3. הקהילות וקאל לנא והו פי צחה
    4. עקלה וגואז אמרה טאיע מן גיר
    5. קהר ולא גבר אשהדו עליי
    6. ואקנו מ…

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  33. 5033Legal documentAIU XII.125

    Large fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Difficult hand. There is a section in the middle with the formula "wa-lā X wa-lā Y …

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  34. 5034Legal documentT-S Ar.39.16

    Power of attorney. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. A woman appoints the Jewish dyer Abū Saʿd b. Nājī b. Bū Naṣr as …

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    1. ابو سعد اليهودي بن ناجي بن بو نصر اليهودي الصباغ و حليته

    2. دون الاعتدال رقيق السمــــ[ــــــر]ة واضح الجبــــ[ــــهـــــ]ــــة بها اسارير خفي…

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    1. 'Abū Saʿd, the Jew, son of Nājī ibn Bū Naṣr, the Jewish dyer, who has the  following physical features:  
    2. less than average stature, pure brow…

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  35. 5035Legal documentT-S AS 153.162

    Recto: document, probably notes for a legal document. Verso: accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  36. 5036Legal documentT-S AS 185.394

    Multifragment. Several dozen scraps appear under this shelfmark including several documentary fragments. The most substantive is the fourth from the right in the second row. …

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  37. 5037Legal documentJTS MS 8254.18

    Legal document from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The members of the court are listed in a neat table: Ḥananel b. Shemuel, Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim, …

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  38. 5038Legal documentENA NS 20.2

    Notes from a lesson given by Maimonides. There is a fingerprint. See analysis and edition in Friedman, "Notes by a Disciple in Maimonides' Academy Pertaining …

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  39. 5039Legal documentT-S Ar.50.88

    Fragment from the end of a legal document in calligraphic Arabic script. Dated: 594 AH = 1197/98 CE. On verso there are some lines in …

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  40. 5040Legal documentT-S 8J8.6

    A qiyyum (approval of a legal deed) signed by [Moshe Sofer] b. Yiṣḥaq Ḥaver and Eli Ḥaver b. Amram and others.

    1. ] אלקנין אלמדכור פי הדא דמושב בדין
    2. ]חצר פי הדא אלחכם בחצרה רבנא
    3. ] בר שצ וחלף איצא מטאלבה באהיה
    4. ]ה אנה לא חאכמה אלא בחצרה ר אפרים
    5. ]דא או פי מגלס רבנו…

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  41. 5041Legal documentT-S 12.143

    Fragment of a ketubba, with menstrual purity conditions. The husband also accepts that he will not take a second wife. Dating: Probably late 12th or …

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  42. 5042Legal documentL-G Misc. 124

    Power of attorney. Location: Probably Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1030s CE. Dealing with a debt of 74 dinars owed by Salmān b. Sahlūn to Yosef b. …

    1. ]שלטתיו ע[. . . . . . .
    2. ]ממון שיש לי ושימצא
    3. ] בידו עד הפרעו מהם
    4. ] כן ממני כן מן הבא מכוחי
    5. ] התרינו במר סלמאן בר סהלון
    6. ]קב זה בפני עדים פרע אותם
    7. ]ל ג…

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  43. 5043Legal documentT-S AS 148.32

    Ketubba. Fragment (first few lines only). Dated: 27 Shevat 1282 Seleucid, which is January 971 CE. (Information from Moshe Yagur.)

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    1. בנחשא טאבא וסימנא מעליא
    2. [בחמשה] בשבת דהוא עשרון ושבעה יומי בירח שבט
    3. [בשנת] אלפא ומאתן ותמנן ותרתין שנין למניינא דרגיליננא 
    4. [למנות בו] בפוס[טאט

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  44. 5044Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#58) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 58-59) Folio 15v

    1. [ב]היות שהיקר ונעלה כה׳׳ר משה די סורייא יצ׳׳ו היה לו ביד האחים היקרים ומעולים כה׳׳ר יאודה ן׳ יקר יצ׳׳ו וכה׳׳ר דוד…

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  45. 5045Legal documentNLI 577.9/2

    Minute fragment from a ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?

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  46. 5046Legal documentT-S AS 150.220

    Fragment from the top of a legal document. Dated: Tammuz 1464 Seleucid = June/July 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …

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  47. 5047Legal documentT-S NS 325.56c

    Palestinian-style marriage contract. Late tenth or early eleventh century. Mentions Shemarya b. Yshuʿa. In a darker ink and different hand, someone has added Elʿazar ha-Levi …

    1. [...] ית בעליהון בדכיו ובנקיו כדת בא[הבה ...]
    2. [... ש]מריה כהנא בר ישועה ננ בר [...]
    3. [...] מהרא בינהון חמשין דינרין מנה[ון ...]
    4. [...]............ א מ…
    1. [...] their husbands in purity and cleanness, according to the law, in l[ove ...]  
    2. [... She]marya the kohen b. Yeshuʿa (whose)s(oul is at) r(est) b…

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  48. 5048Legal documentT-S Ar.34.76

    First three lines of a legal document in Arabic script, likely a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Zayn b. Barakāt the Jewish banker.

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  49. 5049Legal documentJRL B 7535

    Small fragment of a legal document. The first words of the first six lines are preserved.

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  50. 5050Legal documentT-S 12.162

    Fragment of a Karaite ketubba, 11th-century Fustat. Information from FGP.

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    1. בשם אל עלם הצליחו האל[הים] …
    2. אז ימלא שחוק הגדיל יי' [לעשות] …
    3. ביום אחד בשבת בתשעה י[מים] …
    4. וישיב כבדו להדומו ויק[בץ פזורי עמו] …
    5. לשאריתם במהרה…

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    1. In the name of the Everlasting God, God made him prosper (II Chron. 26: 5) …
    2. Then [our mouth] shall be filled with laughter. The Lord has done…

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