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Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Ḥeshvan 1465 Seleucid = November 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya. In …
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Part of a ketubba for Abū l-Munā Ṭiqva b. Berakhot (groom), who is remarrying his divorcee. Dated 14[..] (12th century CE) in Fusṭāṭ, invoking the …
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Legal fragment. In the late hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108) or the early hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [...] b. …
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Betrothal agreement fragment (contains some of the same formulaic language as that edited by Ashur—Bodl. MS heb. f.56/57—in "How to Identify Prenuptial Agreements," Jewish History, …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to two parties and a period of one year. May be …
Legal document, probably written by Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya, dated 1495 Seleucid = 1183/84 CE. A few words from the reshut formula can be read, probably …
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Fragment of a legal document (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1554 Seleucid = 1242/43 CE. Involves Faḍlallāh known as Shela b. Berakhot. AA.
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 …
Remains of a legal deed in Hebrew. AA
Beginning of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Iyar 1510–29 Seleucid = 1199–1218 CE. Left incomplete. On the other side there is a poetical letter …
Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The scribal hand may be known. Requires further examination.
Legal document. One of three copies (T-S 13J1.13 is another). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1368 Seleucid, which is February/March 1057 CE. In which Ṭoviyya b. …
A few words from the top part of a legal deed. No details preserved.
Legal deed, fragment. None of the main document is preserved, but two signatures are present: the cantor Yoshiyya b. Neḥemya and Sahlān b. Avraham. On …
Fragment from the top of a ketubah. from the date only [..]73 is preserved.
Fragment from the top of a large ketubba with an ornate heading of geometrical designs, blessings for the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300 CE), …
Document describing the four borders of a certain area, mentioning 'the alley of the poor' (zuqāq al-masākīn), the house of Muḥibb(?) al-Dawla, and the house …
Recto is a legal document concerning a compromise reached between a certain Saʿadya and a woman. Verso is in the same handwriting but is not …
IB VII, 17. Recto: Quittance given to the carriers of goods sent from Yemen by a husband, Abū Yaʿqūb [...] b. Efrayim to his wife …
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Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century based on hand and abbreviations (אלש[יך]). Mentions a bill of divorce (or …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 1465 Seleucid = September/October 1153 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Debt contract between Abū …
A small fragment from a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Upper fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. Involves Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. [...], Aharon …
Legal document. Bill of release after collection of a sum of money. No names or amounts preserved.
Recto: Fragments and/or copies of documents in both Arabic script and Hebrew script. The Hebrew-script text may be in the hand of Ḥillel b. ʿEli? …
Court record. Abū Saʿīd Khalaf/Ḥalfon (aka "Segulat ha-Nedivim" or simply "al-Segulat") received 18 dinars from Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel the trader, who had been guarantor on …
Legal document; marriage document. Three unrelated texts: Two contracts (ketubah and deed of sale) and a commentary on Genesis 12. Fol. 1: commentary on Genesis …
Small fragment. On recto probably a ketubah. On verso from liturgical text with Judeo Arabic instructions. AA
Probably a court record in Hebrew. Late. The verso bears a potential filing note regarding the "case of Raḥamīm גרגיס (surname), in the matter of …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: Tuesday, 17 Elul 16[29?] Seleucid, which would be 1318 CE. The first and final letter of the missing digits are clearly …
Recto: Legal deed. Location: Qalyūb. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Adar 1505 Seleucid, which is 1194 CE, under the authority of the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. In …
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IB VII, 29. Court ledger. Fol. 2v: First page of a document concerning pursuing and finding a debtor "beyond Qūṣ," i.e., in ʿAydhāb. Location: Fustat. …
Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almost all of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Goitein's index card.
Legal document from Thessaloniki, dated May 1722 CE (20 Iyyar 5482 AM). Shemuel Laros aka Bekhor (בכור) declares that a certain Raḥel does not owe …
Court proceedings (possibly in draft form) from January/February of 1182, involving Ibn Ibrahim and Abu Zikri b. Atiyya. The mention of 'lie' (line 6) and …
A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa …
Legal document. Dated: Tishrei 1483 Seleucid, which is 1171 CE, under the authority (reshut) of Maimonides. Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe, the widow of Abū l-Khayr …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Involves a sum of dinars and a certain Meshullam. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century; the …
Fragment of a long legal document settling business accounts, involving a Mūsā who has gone missing, Berekhya, Sulaymān b. Yaʿaqov, Abū l-Surūr b. Natan, Maṣliaḥ, …
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Recto: Otoman-era legal document in Persian, probably dealing with the sale (فروخت = "he/she sold" in l. 5) of a plot of land (قطعه زمین). …
Legal formulary. Late. Among the types of formulaic documents mentioned there are: (T-S AS 207.21 1r) [copy of ...] the bill of divorce from the …
This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. In the lower right corner of 'recto,' at 90 degrees to the other text blocks, there is …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give R. Yiftaḥ 10 dirhams to cover his support (mezonot) …
Legal document, quite faded. In which [...] Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] Daniʾel(?) "ha-sofer ha-mahir" acknowledges a debt of 287 dirhams to Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣedaqa …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Mentions 3 dinars. Two witness signatures. Dated Ṣafar 449 H, and the beneficiary is a descendant of the Abbasid …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلم على عبا[ده الذين اصطفى
اقر جعفر بن محمد بن جعفر بن الفضل بن الفرات[
في صحة عقله وبدنه وجواز امره وقد اشه…
Legal document(s). Dated: 8 Tammuz 5613 AM, which is 1853 CE. On one side there is an Arabic document witnessed by "Daniel" and on the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) mentioning trade in Yemen and the government. Mentions Maḥfūẓ and Ḥasana. Probably a …
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 21 December 1876 (5 Tevet 5637), with a handwritten note at the bottom, "this is the form …
Legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, whose signature is partially visible. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid, which is July/August 1102 CE. …
Fragment of a legal document (or documents). Dated: 1546 Seleucid = 1234/35 CE. The document on recto is granting someone permission to live in a …