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Muslim marriage contract. In Arabic script. Dating: Unknown. Written in a calligraphic hand, in pairs of two lines separated by moderately wide spaces. For other …
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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 …
Legal document. Draft, probably. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? In Judaeo-Arabic. The wife of Yiftaḥ ha-Dayyan declares that she sold Abū l-Barakāt...
Legal record (#83) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 17 Elul 5325 …
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Copy of a power of attorney in the name of David b. ʿAmmār b. ʿAzrūn Madīnī. Location: the document itself was drawn up in Fustat, …
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Religious rulings – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 177) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079.
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Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated: Kislev 5480 (1719 CE) Verso: sale of a one-year tax-farming partnership within the Ottoman customs house of Old …
Damaged bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). In which [...] b. Ḥusayn al-ʿAṭṭār releases his maternal uncle Abū Isḥāq …
Recto: legal document in the hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Avraham and possibly a deposit for an orphan. Also possibly …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Damaged, difficult to extract much. (Information in part from …
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (fl. 1150–1181 CE). Two brothers confirm in a Cairene court under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment? Mentions 450 dinars, possibly with the term "Malikī" after, which would …
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto and verso are distinct documents, but related. They concern a rent agreement between Sitt al-Nās …
Court record or draft of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 17 Sivan 1386 Seleucid = 4 June 1075 CE. ʿEli ha-Parnas ha-Neʾeman produces before the …
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Marriage contract. Groom: Munā b. Shelomo. Bride: Mubāraka bt. Avraham. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Tishrei 1406 Seleucid = 26 September 1094 CE. The couple is …
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Legal documents (one each on recto and verso). Recto: Involves a certain Seʿadya and Sitt al-Tujjār bt. Peraḥya b. Zuwayn. It might be the sale …
Court record in the record book of Fustat dealing with the remains of an inheritance in Qayrawan. Dated Adar 1345/March 1034.
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One phrase from the first line of a legal document.
Legal record (one large piece and 5 smaller pieces) mentioning a wālī and a girl. Very damaged and difficult to figure out the story. Some …
Contract of a lease. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the first 3 lines are preserved here. The tenant may be Ṣadaqa b. ʿAyyāsh.
Bottom of a legal document. None of the content is preserved. About 20 signatures are preserved.
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138)
Recto: Formulary for a legal testimony. Verso might be more of the same; there is additional text written between the lines at 180 degrees.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Perhaps a deed of sale. Mentions (l. 6) the mound known as Kawm Dīnār in the vicinity of Birkat Ramīs …
Probably a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, late. Mentions an Amīr Yūsuf [...] and "all the demands and all the debts. . . " incumbent on …
Legal fragment. Small piece from the upper right corner. Possibly a ketubba? Opens with the date (a Wednesday in the year [..]18). Location: Fustat. Not …
A notary's draft concerning three houses and two ruins forming the object of a settlement. Among the most detailed description of houses in Cairo. Description …
Her name is both Sitt al-Rutab and Sitt al-Fakhr. He releases Sitt [al-Rutab] from all claims and concedes to her…
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Fragment of a partnership contract regarding the sale of wine. Upper, lower, and right side are torn away and no signatures are extant. (Information from …
Recto (original use): Trousseau list, small fragment, possibly from a ketubba.
Ketubba. Fragment (first few lines only). Dated: 27 Shevat 1282 Seleucid, which is January 971 CE. (Information from Moshe Yagur.)
Pen trials in various hands, including signatures, biblical phrases and a note dated Tevet 1397 (= 1085 CE) with the names Mevorakh b. Mufarrij ha-Kohen …
Small official document of some kind. Resembles ENA NS 83.222.1 + ENA NS 83.222. Needs examination.
Contract of debt. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: The case came before the court in the last decade of Kislev …
Legal document. Concerning a woman, a vow, and a delayed marriage payment. Reused on recto for technical instructions in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, maybe magical.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (lower left piece). Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David. Also signed by Shemuel b. Avraham. The location, …
Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of …
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dividing up a store. No names mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index …
Court notebook from the Qaraite court of Cairo that was based in the Dar Simḥa synagogue. Spanning the dates 1560–75 CE. 69 pages. Contains 190 …
Legal document concerning a deceased person (perhaps related to a dispute over the inheritance) and making reference to an orphan, a widow, and a mother. …
Recto: legal document mainly in Hebrew, detailing the financial arrangements between the woman Sitt al-Bayt b. Aharon al-Tājir (the merchant), her husband Yūsuf/Yosef al-Najjār (the …
Testimony stating that Abū al-Faḍl al-Ṣayrafī Maṣliah b. Meshullam informed Nahray b. Nissim that his wife had vacated the room on the floor (tabaqa) belonging …
A legal deed regarding division of money between partners involved in the silk industry (אלקזאזה ואסתעמאל אלתיאב). There is an agent named Elʿazar; [...] b. …
Legal document. Fragment (bottom part). Location: Sunbāṭ (a town in the Delta). Dated: Elul 1460 Seleucid = August/September 1149 CE, under the authority of the …
Receipt written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, documenting that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār received from the court 19 triple-weave (muthallath) garments, as set forth …
Court notebook, probably. Bifolium. Entries in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably pertaining to the Qaraite court that convened in the Dar Simḥa synagogue (here called Dār Ibn Sameaḥ). …
Legal record (#18) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 1 …
:Left side of bifolio 2v (Documents 18-19)
Legal fragment.
Legal testimony, fragment. In Hebrew, with some unusual formulae. Muʿammar and Aharon the sons of Bāqī(?) came to the court complaining about a matter of …
Document of the qodesh (pious foundation). In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (aka Ḥusayn Ibn Shekhanya). Dated: Jumādā I 434 AH, which …