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Small fragment of a legal document, mentioning a pair (zawj) of something and a mantle (milḥafa). (Information in part from CUDL.)
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: ca. 1090 CE. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). One ʿUlla and one Yaḥyā release one …
אן יסלם אליי מ[.. גמיע ]מא ענדה [...................................]
ביננא אלמעאמלה ודאך אננא נשתרך גמ[יענא........................מאיה]
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Fragment of a marriage contract between ʿEzra b. Menahem and Jawhara bt. [...], a virgin. Dating: mid-11th century, since ʿEzra b. Menaḥem signed T-S 10J28.2 …
Deed of sale of one half of a house in the al-Musasa quarter in Fustat, in which one owner sells his half to the other …
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions 24 silver pieces; Menaḥem al-Yahūdī known as Rūfīl (? روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an …
Bill of sale for a female slave. Dating: Perhaps second half of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century, based on the hand. …
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Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 5 dinars. Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment) on verso. Poem on recto.
Court testimony. Dating: 13th century. Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. ʿAbdallāh b. Shemuel attests that the estate, consisting of cloths, textiles and other things, of the late …
Legal record (#70) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: 5324 or early …
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs. This is probably …
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Something involving a woman and her father; profit; half of a house. Dated: Monday, 18 …
Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Legal document. Record of release. Dating: March 1097. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. This fragment seems to be the continuation a document, …
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Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Digest of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Tawfīq, a minor. Seller: …
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Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Torn off. Giving a detailed account about teachers of orphans and parnasim.
Legal document dealing with inheritance issues (a gift followed by a release). The parties are Eliyya b. Shelaḥya and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Shelomo ha-Levi. …
Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only. Signed by David b. Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm.
Minute fragment from a ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Legal formulary. In Hebrew.
Deed of sale of an enslaved woman. Recto describes her sale to Sitt al-Munā bt. Natan/Hibatallāh, the widow of Nahray b. Nissim, in late 1108, …
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Damaged fragment from a ketubah. The groom named Yosef.
Recto: see PGPID 1305. Verso: distinct document, also in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, dealing with a business partnership between Saʿadya al-Nīlī, Abū Isḥāq …
From a book of collection of legal deeds, contains ketubah, bill of divorce, Bill of divorce from levirate marriage, bill of loan. (Data from FGP …
P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …
Legal document. Location: Damietta. Dated: Monday, 7 Nisan 1452 Seleucid = 17 March 1141 CE. In a matter of inheritance, ʿAmmār b. Makhlūf had been …
Ketubba, Qaraite. The date and location are not preserved but the town is next to a ‘salty sea’ (possibly the Mediterranean or the Dead Sea). …
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Ketubbah for [...] b. Eleazar (bride). Dated 28th Elul 15[.. Sel.], in the time of R. Abraham (possibly Maimonides?). Might be by the hand of …
Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.
Certificate from a charitable institution and the committee declaring the intent of assistance in the circumstances of the student – undated – Museum of Islamic …
Late document in Hebrew, probably a legal declaration, in which the writer seeks to absolve himself from the complaints against him from Shemuel and Avraham …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1432 Seleucid, which is September-October 1120 CE. Court record concerning a father’s will. Abū …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Concerning a financial settlement, mentioning various sums of money: 26 Malikī dinars (used in Yemen) …
Ketubba dated 1551 Seleucid (= 1239/40 CE), for […] bt. Ṣedaqa the elder. Witnessed by Saʿadya b. Shelomo ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Yefet b. Avraham and a party whose name …
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Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Eliyahu Halevi b. Avraham. The previously married bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Eliyahu. Dated 27 Shevat …
Writ of agency written in Tyre, approximately 1025. Description from PGPID 22171: A Karaite legal deed in which the bride, Dhukhr, who is in Tyre, …
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Receipt from the committee of Jewish pious endowments in Egypt for the value of rent on a residence in the qodesh of the Jewish quarter …
Fragment of an illuminated frame, probably for a ketubba that was never filled in.
Legal document. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. Statement that the claims about the immoral behavior of Ḥisāna bt. Asmāʾ, the wife of Hilāl …
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (upper part). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 1503 Seleucid Era …
Deed regarding the endowment of a small house in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Babylonian synagogue. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient His blessings be upon his servants, whom he has cho…
Recto: legal fragment in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). No names or details clearly preserved. Verso: unidentified document in Arabic script and …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
Testimony by Avraham b. Kabir about the receipt of a shipment belonging to a person who had died, Qayrawan, 978. Avraham b. Kabīr asks for …
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Bill of release. Dated: 15 Kislev 1525 Seleucid = 29 November 1213 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides (with the title "Nagid"). Abū ʿImrān …
Deathbed declaration of a physician who includes in his will a gift to his wife in addition to the money owed to her as written …
Copy of a legal case that was inserted into a 'legal file' that was kept in the court, December 1027. Documents describing unique or interesting …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Witness signatures partially preserved (including ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh).
Deed of sale bearing many signatures. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel (dated documents: 1128–64). A few words from the reshut formula are preserved, …