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Legal document. Elʿazar b. Yefet sells to Shelomo b. Ṣedaqa his female slave named Ṭāʾūs ('Peacock') and her 10 year old son, named Mubārak ('The …
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Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving …
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Court records, all concerning the same persons. Recto: Sason b. Natan sues Moshe b. Moshe ha-Levi known as Ibn Majjān concerning a dispute over the …
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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Al-Ḥazzan al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to …
Recto: Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Shaʿbān 1280 AH, which is 4 February 1864 CE. There is one signature in Hebrew script: הצעיר …
IB I, 10–11. Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' …
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Deed of lease in Arabic script. Probably for property (mentions a ṭabaqa). Needs examination.
Legal document from 1725 CE (1 Tevet 5486) from Cairo formalizing a reconciliation between husband, Yosef Mizraḥi known as Khumays, and wife, Nujūm the daughter …
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Two fragments from a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Mentions 1.5 qintars of something, a man named Yaḥyā b. …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Natan and Berakhot b. Yeḥezqel and a debt …
Bill of divorce, Qaraite. In Hebrew. T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, …
Bifolium of legal records, one of which is dated 1519 CE (Sivan 1830 Seleucid).
Legal document, probably. In Aramaic. Calligraphic. Avraham b. Yosef b. Ḥasān(?) from Toledo is named in the text block at the bottom, then the next …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to "instructions/wills which we have ignored" (waṣāyā mimmā …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Legal document, probably. Summarizing a dispute involving a young man who demands 3,500 dirhams from his father’s(?) estate (inheritance?). Mentions 'the ledger of his brother'; …
Either legal document(s) or a letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a Sefaradi hand. Refers to firewood, arrangements of labor, and an agreement.
Bottom of a legal document. No details preserved. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
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Fragment of a decorated ketubba, possibly. Requires further examination.
Fragment of a marriage contract stipulating a total of 20 dinars as a marriage gift at the conclusion of the contract in the event of …
Middle fragment of a deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning …
The right page of verso has a block of text in Arabic, which may be a witness statement from a legal document with a name …
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Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
Fragmentary court record, apparently settling or recording accounts between partners. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 20 Tammuz 1404 = 17 July 1093 CE. Mentioning the title …
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Legal records from a court register. Section (I): Marriage authorization from the legal court that there is no legal hindrance to the marriage between Karam …
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Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment, and verso is blank, suggesting that it is a legal document. The first line preserved …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic (not a letter as catalogued). Involves a partnership between Yeshuʿa and Salmān; 37 dinars; business in 'the west' and perhaps in …
Probably a draft of a deed of sale. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? The document contains a very long description of a house. …
Fragment of a marriage contract, the section listing the outfit of the bride. ( E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 267, and from Goitein's index cards)
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 Sivan 1442 = 22 June 1131 CE. Husband: Zekharya b. [...]. Wife: Khulla bt. Maʿālī. Signed …
Recto: Two fragmentary legal records or drafts, perhaps from a court notebook. The lower one refers to Abū l-Maḥāsin [...] b. Abū l-Riḍā [...] and …
Court record of a testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning a dispute among the heirs of a murdered woman …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Karam b. Ismāʿīl in the first line. Needs examination.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE, under the authority …
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed. The name [...] b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen is mentioned. AA/ASE
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed with the Reshut formula for a Nagid, probably from Maimonides family, based on the titles that …
Monograph; Saadia's formulary of legal documents - sections pertaining to divorce and halisah; published, with translation, by Ben-Sasson, 'Fragments from Saadya's Sefer Ha-Edut ve'Ha-Shetarot' in …
Legal document dealing with a loan granted by Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Karmī Ibn Shabīb to Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar Ibn Zabqala. Dated: Tammuz 1543 Seleucid, …
F. 2r: Betrothal contract between Ṣedaqa b. M[oses?] and Wazīra bt. Mūsā b. Isaac. Dated Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 CE), and …
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Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …
Verso: Legal document written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: end of Kislev 1441 Seleucid = December 1129 CE (the date appears both …
Recto: geṭ for [...] b. Menaḥem (husband), Dated 1 Iyyar [...]3 in Egypt. It might be possible to calculate an exact date for this document …
Rental contract (هذا ما استاجر) on parchment, mentioning titles of high state officials (e.g. qāḍī al-quḍāt wa-dāʿī [al-duʿāt]) and with a long ʿalāma at the …
Deed of sale of a house, dated to " the second in the month of Av (may it turn) joyful", 1545 Sel. (29.6.1234 CE) . …
Legal document, draft. Left side only. No witnesses. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1542 Seleucid, which is 1231 CE. Features a freed muwallad slave (al-ghulām al-maʿtūq... …
Small fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. One of the witnesses may have Ḥātim in his name.
Fragment from a deed of partnership. Handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli? No names or details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragments of legal document(s) in Hebrew. The document on Page 2 is dated April 1818 (Nisan 5578). The first legal fragment only retains some of …
Possibly a legal document. In Arabic script.