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Fragment from a legal document, mentioning dirhams and a witness statement. (Information from CUDL)
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Affidavit of a loan by Berakhot b. Yosef to Peraḥyah b. Adayah signed by Judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. Peraḥyah owes Berakhot 480 dirhams, to be …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. A release/quitclaim given by ʿAmram b. Shelomo. (Information from FGP.)
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Involves two Jews, a man named [...] b. Ibrāhīm b. [...] b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān, and a woman …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower right corner). Bride: Mubāraka. Groom: David. Witnesses: Yefet b. Ṭoviyya; Seʿadya b. Ḥalfon.
Bottom of a legal document, mentioning an orphan and the name Hiba. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides? Signed by Yeḥiʾel b. Elyaqim (active 1213–33 …
Legal documentin the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), or maybe Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108). Involves Yiṣḥāq or [...] b. Yiṣḥaq and …
Verso: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Likely notes for drawing up a will. The testator is a woman …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Signed by [...] b. Eliyya ha-Dayyan.
Legal document recording the receipt by a woman of the inheritance due to her from the administrator of intestate succession in Tinnīs. Dated: 10 Rabīʿ …
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Decorated, torn, Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated on Thursday in 5566 AM but most of the date is lost to damage. The groom's name is …
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Long and narrow strip from a ketubah, probably under the jurisdiction of one of the Maimonidean negidim. The bride's father's name is Nadiv Halevi. Few …
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Hillel b. Eli (Date: 1066-1108)
Minute fragment of a medieval-era text in Hebrew script, probably a legal document. The name Yiṣḥaq appears at the opening of one of the lines.
Fragment of a legal document mentioning Moshe ha-Levi.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
Ketubba. Date: 1[.] Sivan 1420 Seleucid = 1109 CE. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Tamīm ha-Zaqen. Bride: Sitt al-B[ayt?], not her first marriage. Marriage payments: 5 + …
Bill of divorce from Jaffa. No image
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 …
Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1470 Seleucid, which is 1158/59 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. One of …
Pre-nuptial agreement, written following the betrothal and shortly before the marriage itself. The groom’s name is Shelomo. The marriage gift is 10 dinars. (Information from …
Ketubba, with a stipulation in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage document. Small fragment from a ketubba. All we have are the usual stipulations found in marriage contracts. Part of the bride’s name has survived: …
Deed of compensation from the court of Efrayim b. Shemarya and in his handwriting. Concerning people from Tyre and a partnership, starting with an Arabic …
Bill of divorce for Bayān b. Abu l-[...] and [...] bt. Sedaqa. Dated: 145[.] Seleucid = 1138–48 CE. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver and Mevorakh …
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions Tishrei 1520 Seleucid, which is 1208 CE. Abū l-ʿIzz acknowledges receipt …
Jottings of documents - needs examination.
Legal document relating to a dowry. On parchment. Mentions 100 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal or administrative document in Arabic script. Mentions 12(?) dinars. Needs examination.
P12 + P13: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves: silk merchandise, some of it in the form of …
Legal affidavit or court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Middle third of Shevat 1434 Seleucid, which is mid-January 1123 CE. But this dating is not certain, …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
Legal document. Minute fragment, from the bottom part of a legal document, might be a ketubah. Only partial names: Yefet, […] Halevi b. Bashar , …
Verso: minute fragment from the opening of a legal testimony.
Contract of a marriage agreement (shiddukhin) – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 206) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Might be sent to Avraham Maimonides. Regarding two partners who had quarreled regarding a certain …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. On parchment. The documents on both recto and verso concern Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār al-Sharīf(?). The document on recto may …
A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). Two months after a previous …
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 …
Minute fragment written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Verso: Legal formularies. In the margins of a literary text containing blessings.
Court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1140s CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Faḍl al-Kutnānī b. Hiba al-Iskandarānī claims that he …
Very damaged, small fragment from a legal deed regrading marriage of a freed slave girl. Few words from her dowry list are preserved.
Purchase of a half-share in a shop. Dated Thursday 7th Kislev, 5431 AM (1670 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography, scribe (Barukh Rofe), …
Ketubba for Mubāraka bt. Binyamin (מבארכה) and [...] b. Aharon. Witnessed by Yosef b. Shemuel, Shelomo b. Yosef, Avraham b. Menaḥem, ʿEli b. David, Yehuyda …
Formulary for legal deeds, with quotations from responsa (frequent quotations of Binyamin Zeʾev - 16th century) followed by or with full description of the deed. …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In which Aharon and Ḥayyim the sons of Yisraʾel b. …
Legal fragment. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shem[uel] and Ḥiyya b. Yeshuʿa. Little of the content remains. There are two separate documents on recto and verso.
Probably a legal formulary for drawing up a will.
Bottom of a ketubba. Bride: Munā (מונא). Groom: Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa. Witnessed by Avraham b. Natan b. Pinḥas he-Ḥaver (who also signed T-S 10J27.3, dated …