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Minute fragment from a legal deed probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138) mentioning Aharon Hakohen
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Karaite betrothal deed from the 1 Sivan 5347 AM. The groom Yisrael Hakohen b. Shemuel. The bride Esther d. Shemuel Ibn Yahya. The groom is …
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Formulary for a שטר מכירת חזקה. Late, probably belongs with Bodl. MS heb. d 66/100 and is therefore c.1750s.
Legal document. In Arabic script in a nice hand. Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm the Jew attests that he has received 15 rounds (aqrāṣ) of Levantine cheese …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragmentary (only the upper left corner is preserved). A portion of a date and several names are mentioned, including one …
Recto: Draft of a document confirming payment to the orphan ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Yiṣḥaq Levi by Esther bt. Moshe Rofe. The funds are somehow connected …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 …
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Marriage contract (ketubba) on parchment with an ornate border. The design is well-preserved and may have been rendered with watercolor paint. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, …
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Small piece of a legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Power of attorney. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia. Monday, 1 Av [4]833 AM, which is July 1073 CE. In which the Qaraite Abū Saʿd Isḥāq b. …
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Power of attorney granted in a divorce settlement. Dated to the 11th century (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Date: Not preserved, but it was drawn up under the authority of the Nagid David, probably more likely David I …
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Recto (secondary use): Legal agreement. Yosef b. Saʿadya al-Anṭākī stands security for Ibrāhīm b. Azhar. Mentions Nuṣayr b. Fahd. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
Small and faded fragment of a legal deed regarding a lawsuit by the 'great elder, the haver' Dosa b. [Yehoshuaʿ(?)] of a shipment of musk …
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…
Marriage document, small fragment.
Legal record (#58) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Adar I …
Long and narrow damaged fragment written by Efraim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Probably court records. Not much text has survived (two entries on recto, …
Bill of divorce. Witnesses are Saʿīd b. Aharon and Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Legal document in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
Marriage document. Small fragment. Mentions [...] ha-Levi b. Yeshuʿa al-Rayyis and [...] ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥarīra. The delayed marriage payment is 40 dinars. On …
Small and damaged fragment from a legal deed. Refers to Monday, the 19th or 29th of a month. The name Maḥāsin is preserved. Might also …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. On parchment. Large, but quite damaged. Verso refers to a buyer and a house and elements of the house, so …
Damaged minute fragment, barely legible, seems to be from a legal deed.
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary handwriting and spellings. The parties are Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen and Elʿazar. Also mentions a Manṣūr and may involve a …
Legal document. Fragment (bottom half only). Looks like a power of attorney in which a woman appoints a man as her agent. No names or …
Power of attorney. Location: probably al-Mahdiyya. Dated: 486[.] AM (Goitein read 4861). A certain Efrayim appoints Abūn as his agent (wakīl) for settling his affairs …
Legal deed, draft, regarding the estate of Avraham ha-Levi the teacher b. Yosef b. ʿAnan, which had been deposited by the Beit Din with ʿEli …
Deed of sale of a house. Large fragment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1467 Seleucid, which is 1155/56 CE, under the reshut …
Legal document, 13 lines, in Arabic script. Dated: 9 Ramaḍān 883 H, which is December 1478 CE. Mentions the Mālikī court (majlis al-ḥukm) in the …
Fragment of a marriage contract giving details of the remarriage of a divorced couple. Tishrei 137_ Selucid/1058-1067 CE. Marriage gift 1+5 [total of six is …
Legal document. Small fragment. Mentions "9 and a ḥabba... the son of my sister... R. Moshe... Abū Saʿd b. [...]."
Legal document (iqrār). Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script. Needs examination for content.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad [......]. Part of the date is visible Dhū l-Ḥijja xx4. Needs examination.
Fragment from a bill of release. Probably after payment of a debt owed to the orphans. Probably written by Natan b. Shelomo (active 1122–50 CE).
Recto: Long, calligraphic legal document in Arabic, referred to as a "ḥujja" in the Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Location: Cairo (مصر المحروسة). Dated October 1649 CE …
He [God] is the benefactor.
The matter is as it was recounted in it [the document]. The
poor one in need of [God…
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Legal document likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. Concerning a man and his wife who was the daughter of the late …
Very damaged legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mostly involving transactions relating to property. There is also imprinted …
Legal document(s) or draft documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in two different sections, with a gap in between. The lower section mentions Efrayim, a power of …
Partnership contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1428 Seleucid, which is 1116/17 CE (but this is not necessarily the date of …
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Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1188–1288 CE. Probably in the second half of this range, to judge by handwriting (which …
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 …
Four pages from a Rabbanite court ledger with copies of 17 different legal documents (witness names appear in the hand of the scribe). All are …
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Marriage contract, fragment. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1310–55 CE, based on the reshut clause naming the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (b. Avraham II Maimonides). Bride: Sitt al-Karam bt. …
Recto: Marriage document (ketubba) in Palestinian style. Dated: [47]40 AM = 979/80 CE. Groom: Efrayim b. [...]. Bride: Khuzayr bt. Ḥusayn. (Information from Friedman, Jewish …
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
Small fragment from a legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Only a few words remain. Probably a bill of release. Mentions the name Ṣedaqa/Ṣadaqa. On …
Minute fragment with few words from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menhashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Legal document in which Aharon b. Abū al-Riḍāʾ and his wife, Labwa (“Lioness”) bt. Abū Ghālib, release each other from all claims. Labwa releases Aharon …
The testimony which took place before us, we, the undersigned witnesses: On the middle ten days
of the month of Tammūz 1555AG (June 1244)
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Recto: Deed of a sale. Dated 145[.] Seleucid, which is 1138–48 CE, which is consistent with the reshut clause invoking the Nagid Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]. …