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Verso: Record of the scribe Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr b. al-Mesos in which he testifies to having received from Shelomo ha-Nasi one Egyptian dinar. …
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Legal document. Damaged and faded. Location: the city of פלודס or פלורס(??). Dated: Sunday, 21 Av 4813 AM = 8 August 1053 CE. Power of …
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Legal record (#87) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Kislev 5325 …
Minute fragment from a late legal deed regarding marriage (or perhaps inheritance?): או תפתר משרה הנז׳ בחייב ... בעלה הנז׳ בחייה תהיה חזקת ה. Only …
Deathbed declaration of Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abī ʿUmar known as Ibn al-Aqtaʿ. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 1477 Seleucid = June 1166 …
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Legal document regarding two business partners and a debtor. Date: 10 Iyyar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo, Dār Simḥa Synagogue. The partners are Moshe …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Minute fragment. Refers to the sale of property, "the other half" of the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE), concerning a business partnership between Natan ha-Kohen and the doctor Mevorakh b. ʿOvadya …
Late legal document (fragment only) regarding amounts owed to each other by current or former partners, Moshe Ḥaddād and Moshe b. Yehudah. Someone named Yaʿīsh …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Wide space between the lines, in which someone has copied some of the text as writing practice. [...] bt. …
Early modern legal fragment in Hebrew. The paleography points to the likelihood that the document is c. 17th-19th-century. Based on the limited text available this …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly legal (ashhadanī...) but it is quite small and seems informally written. Needs examination.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Dated: Thursday, 1 Iyyar 1418/April 1107. Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan acknowledges that he will repay the parnas Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 21 Shevaṭ 1422 = 1 February 1111 CE. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (the Spaniard); also …
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Legal record (#135) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 44r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 20 Ḥeshvan 5329 …
Legal document. Dated: 1156. Partnership agreement. Abū al-Makārim b. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd partner in tax collection in three towns in the Fayyūm, …
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Part of a legal document; much of the date is lost. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The name Abū Saʿīd is …
Minute fragment. Opening words of a legal deed.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
There are several different entries, and each seems to involve rent payments for the qodesh of the Synagogue of the Mustaʿribim. Quite faded, merits further …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involves a supervisor of construction (al-mutawallī lil-ʿimāra); something valued …
Fragment of a ketubba. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. After 1176 based on the appearance of the Immersion stipulation.
Legal document written in Ṣoʿan (Fusṭāṭ), mentioning Shelomo b. Ḥalfon and (on verso in a different hand/document) Ibn Hamza. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In which [...] b. Yosef acknowledges receipt of a debt from [...] b. …
Settlement between Abū l-Munā ʿUlla b. Sibaʿ (known as Ibn al-Dihqān), and Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen. The latter owes a debt (figures of …
Drafts of two legal documents, the second (on the top of the verso) is a deathbed will by Yeshuʿa b. Avraham. He bequeaths to Sitt …
Fragment of a late ketubah. The groom is Nissim and the bride Najma.
Bottom part of a legal deed from Alexandria dated 487[.] to the creation = 1110-1119. Signed by Avraham b. Ya'aqov (who might well be Avraham …
Legal document. Declaration made by Peraḥya b. Natan for Ḥiyya b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen concerning potential claims of the latter against the orphan son of the …
Three court records dealing with the same conflict over bay windows of two confronting houses which were touching. Dated: Tuesday, last decade of Shevaṭ, 1419 …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to "his son Avraham b. Mevorakh" and various items of silver. Verso: Glossary to Halakhot Gedolot
Verso (original use): Ketubba fragment. Bride: the widow Jawhara bt. Salmān. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. Hosheaʿ. Dated: Thursday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1[3.]2 (ca. 11th century). Location: Fustat. …
נחשא טבא וסימנא מעלייא יבנו [ויצליחו
בחמ[שה בש]בה דהוא תל/י/סר יומין לירח מרחשון שנת אלפא [ות…
Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE, but this range can be narrowed by Goitein's scribal identification: hand of Hillel. …
Long piece from a deed of sale of an enslaved woman. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa ha-Levi sells an enslaved person named Jaḥūn(?) to Abū l-Riḍā. In …
Two pages of formularies for marriage-related documents, giving sample locations and dates such as Fustat and Cairo, 1707 CE (Tishrei 5468). The scribe uses parentheses …
Deed of sale for multiple properties in Cairo, explaining how they exchanged hands in a complex succession of guardianship procedures, inheritance, and a widow's ketubba …
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: 13th century. Location: Fustat. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: [...] bt. Yefet ha-Talmid. Marriage payments: 3 + 10 = 13. (Information from Goitein's …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving conflict (shurūr wa-taʿab), two women who have been killed, a settlement of …
Two legal records in a court register. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 14 Kislev 143[9] Seleucid, which is 1127 CE, under …
Many tiny fragments, some are from legal deeds.
Deed of release. Location: Cairo Dated: Friday, 9 Nisan 1[6]88 Seleucid = 20 March 1377 CE, under the authority of the Nagid ʿAmram. In which …
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Karaite deed of testimony that a husband has delivered a bill of divorce to his wife. Location: Baghdad (l. 7, פה בגדאד) Dated: 6 Iyyar …
Part of a ketubba for Nathan ha-Levi (groom), referring to the dowry. (Information from CUDL)
Upper section of a partnership agreement, the lower half of which remains as T-S 10J4.19 – PGPID 16113 (join: Matthew Dudley). Date: the end of …
:(JTS MS 9160, fol. 7) Upper Section of Join
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-38). Location: Fustat. This is probably the beginning of a power of attorney granted …
Karaite agreement between partners regarding the division of profit?
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper part only). In which Abū Saʿd al-Ḥarīrī Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq, the …
Fragment from the top of a ketubah. from the date only [..]73 is preserved.
Legal document in Arabic script. Involving Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Dated: 25(?) Jumādā II 6[..] AH. The rest of the date should be legible; the …