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Late legal document in Hebrew regarding the arrangements following somebody's death and the expenses of the mourners including an Esther and an ʿAzīza.
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Formulary for legal deeds, with quotations from responsa (frequent quotations of Binyamin Zeʾev - 16th century) followed by or with full description of the deed. …
Legal document on parchment. Mentioning a ketubba, a woman, Elʿazar traveling to Bilbays, "my son Saʿadya." Refers to a property that is "leased" (muḥtakara); the …
Legal document, Qaraite. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 24 Kislev 5553 AM = Rabīʿ al-Thānī 1207 AH, which is December 1792 CE. Avraham Levi Ḥazzan b. …
Legal agreement from Fustat, written by the hand of Avraham b. Aharon Ha-Mumkhe.
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Part of a ketubba, for Shemarya ha-Kohen (groom) and Sitt al-Bayt (bride). (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–1138 CE). Draft. In the crossed out portion: "our master the Nezer (=Natan b. Shemuel, …
Deed of gift (ahdā...). No signatures. Al-Sadīd ʿUmar b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān gifts something to Makārim b. Isḥāq b. Makārim al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (the Jewish …
Settlement between Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yosef and her husband Ṣedaqa b. Hillel who had been separated from her for 18 years (mutasaḥḥib ʿanhā). For the …
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Legal document. Small fragment. Involves someone named Efrayim, a woman, and al-Sammanūdī; also involves a debt and a document that was lost.
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid = October 1126 CE. This was before the …
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Legal document from Alexandria (מדינת אכסנדריה ). Dated: [..]69 AM, probably 4869 AM = 1108/09 CE, but 4769 or 4969 are also possible. (Information in …
Legal record (#71) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: 6 Kislev 5324 …
Testimony of woman, Sittuna bt. Hayyim, about her husband, Faraḥ b. Bānūqa, who left her "a widow in his lifetime" (ʿaguna). She is indigent because …
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Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Likely a release of a debt for Abū …
Legal document: power of attorney in which Shelomo b. Ḥātim appoints Menaḥem b. Shelomo to pursue his claims against Ḥasan b. Avraham and Shemuʾel b. …
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Document in Arabic script. Possibly legal (ashhadanī...) but it is quite small and seems informally written. Needs examination.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: [14]41 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE. The parties are Abū l-Munā and his agent Faraj …
Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/46r: Deed of gift. Dated: First decade of Nisan 1493 Seleucid = March 1182 CE. Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar b. …
Legal testimony, Qaraite. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Heshvan 5472 AM, which is 1711 CE. It has to do with the floor (ṭabaqa) that is …
Small fragment of a legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan [...]. Location: Somewhere on the sea (כיף ימא רבה), i.e., not Fustat or Cairo– "on the shore …
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: [...] b. Elʿazar. Bride: Farjiyya bt. Mukht[ār]. Signed be: [...] b. Aharon; Mevorakh b. Saʿīd.
Two contrary depositions in court concerning a sum of 47 dinars, a female slave, and an apartment. Mentions Abū al-Munajja Thiqat al-Mulk Sulaymān b. Sahl …
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Confirmation from the Jewish hospital of in Cairo acknowledging that the patient will pay the cost of the free treatment if it is found that …
CUL Add.3414 (c?). Noted and copied by Baneth. Goitein looked for this document in 1965 and could not find it; speculated that perhaps it was …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed from Fustat. Hand of Yefet b. David? The name or phrase מקויים בר מן יוסף appears …
Small fragment of a legal document. Refers to "his wife Sitt al-Maʿānī."
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Writing on both sides. A settlement concerning arrangements for the dowry items of …
Legal query, probably to Avraham Maimonides and possibly in Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliyyahu's hand.
Recto is a legal document concerning a compromise reached between a certain Saʿadya and a woman. Verso is in the same handwriting but is not …
Legal deed in Arabic script. In which Hiba b. ʿAlī b. […], the carpenter, leases a shop from al-Ḥasan b. Makkī b. Abī al-Ḥadīd, who …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Hiba ibn ʿAlī ibn [ ], the carpenter, leased from al-Ḥasan ibn Makkī ibn Abī al-Ḥadī…
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Replacement of the original contract of marriage between Abū Manṣūr Elazar and his wife Sitt al-Sāda daughter of Abū Karām Nadīv, by a new one, …
Recto: Instruction for payment. In Arabic script. Abū Saʿd is to pay the bearer the rent/wage for the previous month (Jumādā II), including an ounce …
Legal document: testimony that Ya[ḥ]yā b. [ ] (?) is a Jew from Khaybar, and thus exempt from the capitation tax. Dated: middle decade of …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Prayers of God and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and upon his family.
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Marriage contract. Location: Barqa (Libya). Dated: Thursday 5 Elul 4750 AM, which is 28 August 990 CE. The contract explicitly states that it follows the …
Collection of halakhic rulings, concerning legal deeds and marriage. The scribe is well known from other collections of geʾonic responsa, from the beginning of the …
Fol. 1v: Legal record (deed of release). In the hand of the cantor Yefet b. David. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar I 1339 Seleucid, which is …
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A late ketubba. From the date only the end of the year-36- is preserved.The groom's name is Shemuʾel (l.11) and a sum of dinars is …
Bottom fragment of a legal document in Arabic.
Marriage agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1459 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. The document is in need of conservation, and several names and words are …
Legal fragment involving a certain Avraham, a woman named Sutayt, and 50 dirhams. Dating: first part of the 13th century. In the hand of Yehuda …
Page from a book of legal formulas of a marriage contract by a proxy probably from Siddur R. Nathan if Sijilmasa. Written by Shelomo b. …
Fragmentary record of sale; the script suggests that this was written in the Ottoman period, probably between the 17th-18th centuries. The document deals with a …
Small fragment from a list of legal documents. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). One of the entries refers to a document dated …
Upper part of recto: Legal query probably in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi, addressed to Moshe Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE (based on the dates when …
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1188–93 CE based on the Seleucid …
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document (iqrār) in Arabic scirpt. Dated: Rabiʿ II 448 AH = June/July 1056 CE. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. …
Recto: Legal document. Fragment of a shīmmūsh, or court ledger. Mentions Sar Shalom; possibly [...] b. Sālim. In the hand of Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya? Verso: …
Verso: Draft of a legal document in Hebrew from Cairo (Miṣrayim) Dated Tishrei 5583 AM (= September/October 1822 CE). Concerning a guardian appointed for a …
Damaged legal deed, probably a settlement, in which a man (Manṣ[ūr]?) accepts a number of stipulations upon himself concerning a house and household goods. He …