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Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah with partial signatures and a qiyyum - approval of the signatures. The groom name is Natan. Signed …
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Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Dated: Elul 143[.] Seleucid = 1119–28 CE. (Information in part from …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (= 1105 CE). Statement in which Shelomo b. Avraham al-ʿAssāl …
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IB V, 31. Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Av, year missing, under the authority of …
A letter begging for help from a distinguished addressee, in elegant and vocalized script. The writer intends to travel but lacks a covering. On verso …
Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Complete but very faded. Resembles a legal query: "What have our sages said concerning a man who died... [with] a mature …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Legal record (#5). Postponement of oath. Dated: Wednesday, 10 [Iyyar 1467 Seleucid]. Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen al-Tājir agrees to the postponement (imhāl) of the oath of …
Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is ʿAlāʾ bt. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿīd (Khan suggests this is …
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Monetary agreement between a newly married couple. Yehuda b. Simha married Sarah d. Elzafan, and her father took upon himself to pay her dowry in …
Recto: Document in Arabic script, probably legal. Mentions the district known as al-Ḥammūdiyya (or al-Maḥmūdiyya) in the [al-Buḥayriyya(?)] region. Mentions the date Jumādā II 520 …
Statement that a legal transaction (qinyan) was made by the Egyptian cheesemonger (al-jabbān al-miṣrī) Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿIwaḍ known as Ibn al-[...] that he commits …
Two fragments of a dowry list (taqwīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes a female slave named Waṣl ("Union") valued at 13 dinars. Delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar): 60 …
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Legal testimony. Small fragment.
Legal document. Ketubba. Dating: early 11th century. Bride: Dalāl. Early marriage payment: 30 dinars. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
Bifolio of a court notebook with legal and communal entries. (1) In which the goldsmith Bū l-Faraj b. Bū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī grants permission to …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Kislev 1461 (17 November 1149). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Deed of acknowledgement (iqrār). In Arabic script. Concerns a debt of 2 dinars contracted by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā, the Christian bath attendant (al-ḥammāmī) from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
Abū al-Ḥasan - this patronymic being his name - Ib…
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IB VII, 1. Partnership agreement. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1347 Seleucid = 8 June 1036 CE. Gil identifies the handwriting as that of Sahlān b. …
[אק] חצר ר שמואל בן סהלאן אלברקי [ושרט עלי נפסה]
[ברצאה בלא אונס] וקאל לנא אנה כאן אנפ[ד] מעי פראח
בן סהלון [מעי] מרגאן מן אלקירואן ווצלת…
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Legal document. An agreement between Shlomo b. Avraham and the mother of his daughter (probably divorced) regarding her support. The year is [1]403 (1092) in …
Fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-[...]. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from …
Karaite bill of sale for a shop in the coppersmith market of Cairo that also provides details on the prior terms of its ground rent …
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Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: Likely 10th century, based on handwriting. This fragment begins toward the end of the dowry list. Groom: Saʿīd. …
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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abu l-Majd is to give the …
Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of …
Ketubba, well-preserved with an ornate border. Location: Banhā, Egypt. Dated 8 Kislev 5_17 AM, with a value "שע" for the hundreds place that must be …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely related to a partnership between two people: ... אננא מקראן ענדכם . . …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to: a period of one year; an aforementioned document; "that I …
Late legal document recording a settlement, perhaps between business partners. Sums listed are in perahim.
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
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Deed of quittance stating that Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Būṣīrī (בוצירי from Būṣīr in Egypt) received what was owed him by his sister’s son, Yiṣḥaq b. …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Cairo (אלמעזיה אלקאהרה). Husband: Hillel b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. [...]. Dated: Tammuz 1[4]50 of the Seleucid era …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Looks literary at first glance, but mentions a kharājī year (or at least something "al-kharājiyya"), which suggests something to do …
Karaite engagement document. Dated: 14 Adar (Purim) 5525 AM, which is 7 March 1765 CE. (Note that the year is covered by a paper flap …
Deathbed declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138), comprising the right upper corner. An old woman, the widow of Abū ʿAlī Yefet …
Fragment (right side) of a legal document, perhaps a release, involving [...] al-Ṣabbāgh b. Ṣedaqa and Hiba. Invokes the authority of 'adonenu geʾonenu....' Dated: 1[..]2 …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top left - beginning of a legal document. Bottom right is also part …
Ketubba fragment. The part preserved mainly consists of the dowry list.
Verso: Two distinct documents. The one on the left is dated 19th Muḥarram 808 H, but the genre is difficult to make out. The document …
Unusual genre of legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), stating that Abū l-Karam must pay to the orphan Abū …
Recto: Legal testimony, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Barakāt. Perhaps related to verso.
Legal record (#28) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 27-29) Folio 7v
Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: …
Recto: legal document, mentioning the teacher Berakhot b. Ḥalfon and Elʿazar; signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon, a Kohen and [...] b. Yosef. Verso: note possibly …
Legal record (#34) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Incomplete Karaite betrothal agreement. Dated Wednesday 28 Tevet 5399 AM (1639 CE). Location: Cairo. The marriage will take place a year and a half after …
Legal record (#22) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 1 …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1108 CE(?), further context is needed for this estimate given that the document only lists a partial year 14[..] Seleucid. …
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Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …
Legal document concerning a sale of an enslaved person, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)