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Recto: legal document, mentioning Surūr, Abū l-Ghayth and [...] b. Yiṣḥaq; dated Nissan 15[..] of the Seleucid Era (12th–13th century, probably second half of that …
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Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and groom from Qalyūb. Date and names of witnesses are not preserved. The last 3 lines are …
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Small fragment(s) of legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Three distinct documents in Arabic script, chopped in half vertically and then probably glued together into a rotulus in order to be reused for the …
Beautiful calligraphic fragment of deed of sale of a bathhouse in Zawilat al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya, by one Jew to another. The seller describes the bath and …
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Draft of the beginning of a legal record. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Location: Fustat. Dated: 9 Elul 1533 Seleucid = 18 August 1222 CE, …
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Receipt or affidavit signed by Shelomo ha-Rofe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century. Attesting that Meʾir and his son Yehuda Abū Shaʿra rented …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves an engagement (qiddushin). The title "peʾer ha-qehilot" and the name yaʿaqov are …
Note/order addressed to Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing him to collect four dirhams from the bearer, the 'boy' (ṣabiyy) of the sender. The note …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely related to a partnership between two people: ... אננא מקראן ענדכם . . …
Recto: part of a ketubba for Ḥusnā bat [...] and Khalaf b. Hiba ha-Levi (ליואה). Dated Thursday, 27 Shevaṭ 1[..]6 (c. 11th century CE?). Location: …
Small fragment of a legal deed. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel? Dated: [14]56 Seleucid = 1144/45 CE. Involves Berakhot ha-Kohen, Abū l-Faraj b. Menaḥem, and …
Small strip of parchment with various notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Recto may be for a memorial list: …
Marriage document, small fragment.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Unclear if any of the substance is preserved.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Decorated borders with criscrossing small letters and red dots. The wife …
Court notebook with four distinct records. (I) See PGPID 40206 (II) See PGPID 40207 (III) See PGPID 40208 (IV) Entry enumerating what left (or what …
Folio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Recto: Dated Thursday, 23 Av 1400 = 2 August 1089 CE, …
Two forms for legal documents in Hebrew. On the other side is a grammatical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.
Draft of a dowry list on the verso of a letter dated May 1802 CE (the 17th of matmonim i.e. the Omer = 2 Iyyar …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Riḍā, Abū l-Faraj(?), and …
Small fragment of a ketubba, referring to ‘[.]5 gold dinars’. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a ketubba of a second marriage (or at least for a non-virgin bride, based on the ʿiqqar ketubba payment of 12(.5) silver coins). …
Fragment of a deed of sale. Dated: Adar II 1413 Seleucid, which is 1102 CE. for Abū(?) Yaʿaqov. Signed by [...] b. Shemuʾel and Yosef …
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1188–93 CE based on the Seleucid …
Bill of appointment to deliver a get (bill of divorce).
Two pieces of one ketubba. Bride: Umm al-Faraj, the virgin. Groom: Toviah b. ___. The dowry list includes a gold drop choker (worth 5 dinars), …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Recto mentions: two orphans, the release of a buyer, a guarantee, Sitt al-Ḥusn, Sitt al-Nasab, …
Minute fragment from a legal document, mentioning the name Abū l-Surūr and nothing else. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document(s). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid = December 1080/January 1081 CE. (The first deposition is from 10 Ṭevet, the second is from 21 …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: A Monday in the last decade of Tammuz 1[4]34 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. In …
Kashrut certification document in Hebrew. Dated 25 Tammuz 5524 AM (1765 CE). Location: issued in Carpentras, France (קארפינטראץ). The signatures of two kosher butchers appear …
IB I, 24a-24b. Copy of three court proceedings involving the sale of a house. Nājiya, the wife of Yefet b. Avraham, 'the Pride of the …
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Marriage contract in which a widow contributes one sixth of a house from a previous marriage and stands surety for her husband in case he …
Probably a legal document, mentioning a certain Yefet. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Eliyyahu b. Zekharya and Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram. Dating: Avraham Maimonides is called Nagid, so 1213–37 CE. Quite faded. Quittance …
Legal document, partnership sarraflık business venture. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 5580 AM, which is 1819/20 CE. On verso there are sums. One of …
Legal document. Mentions something or someone small (הקטנה) and possibly a name. Hard to discern any specific details of the case. Mentions the year 146[.] …
Marriage document. A badly torn fragment from the top part of an ornamented ketubah, written on vellum, contains only Biblical verses. There are several ketubahs …
Fol. 2: Deed fragment in which 'the people of Haifa's fortress' are mentioned, 11th century. CUDL description: Recto: the very beginning of a legal document …
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Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script mentioning a power of attorney (wakāla).
Fragment of a ketubba (שטר פרנא). Location: Likely Tyre. Dating: ca. 1090s. The handwriting of the scribe seems to be identical with T-S 16.198, T-S …
IB IV, 6-7 (ח7). Copy of a court record from Aden. Dating: Summer 1131 CE. Concerning a controversy over Jewish communal leadership in Yemen. Goitein …
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Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Someone says "I no longer have any livelihood here" (לאן מא בקי לי ההנא מעאש) and someone responds to that and …
Legal document in the hand of and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-ʿIrāq. (Information in part …
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 …
Ketubba, beginning only. The scribe interrupted the draft after the date in the seventh line, probably because the day in the month is mistaken: 17 …
בסימן יפה לנו ולכל ישראל
בשעה יפה בין כאן בין . פה
במזל גבוה יהיה לנו ולכל
ישראל כין הוה במעלי
Recto and verso: Court record(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. One side (record #1) consists of a lengthy list of valuable commodities and luxury items, including books and …