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Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era; the dates are given, but are faded and difficult to read. Recto and verso contain two distinct …
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Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 AM, which is 25 January 1807 CE. This is a more complete copy of the same …
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Legal record (#5). Postponement of oath. Dated: Wednesday, 10 [Iyyar 1467 Seleucid]. Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen al-Tājir agrees to the postponement (imhāl) of the oath of …
Middle fragment of a deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning …
Ketubba fragment. No names or dates. Ca. 1200 CE.See Goitein's index card for further information.
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Legal document of some kind. In Arabic script. Involving Ibrāhīm ʿAdda and Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya. Needs examination.
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains trustworthiness and release clauses. May be related to a partnership or power of attorney. Additional text on verso in a …
Legal document in Arabic script with traces of one attestation. Fragment (lower right corner). Needs further examination. Pinholes at the margin ~3–4mm apart.
Trousseau evaluation in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dated: not long before 28 Elul 1594 Seleucid = 21 September 1283 CE, which is set as the …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, maybe mercantile. Long, with a lot of content preserved, however the fragment is crumpled and in need of conservation. Dating: …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: [14]59 Seleucid = 1147/48 CE. The century digit is missing, but can be filled in based on the reference to …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Ḥeshvan 12[..] Seleucid, which is 888–987 CE. Bride: Zahra bt. ʿAlī. The groom's name is missing. Witnessed …
Writ of release signed by three witnesses and dated end of Av 1414/July-August 1103 (a word is missing between 'one thousand four hundrer and four' …
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Damaged and faded fragment, probably from a responsum. The text is too fragmentary, but it seems it is dealing with payment of damage. AA
Legal document. The elders of the community orchestrate a settlement concerning the companies of grave diggers (aḥzāb al-ḥaffārīn). One is led by Wusayd b. ʿUqayb …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Deathbed declaration of an old man, bringing his two sons before four witnesses and explaining …
Minute fragment. Two words from an opening of a legal deed
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 9 Adar 1373 Seleucid = 21 February 1062 CE (this appears on verso). Involving Hiba b. Avraham and his …
Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 …
Probably part of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Legal or official note. In Arabic script. Possibly concerning a debt (القرض).
Fragment from a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Involves a sum of money (המעות הנז), a certain Meʾir and a certain …
Minute fragment, bottom part of a legal deed. Only partial signature [...] b. Nathan, is preserved. AA
Digest of a marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: 14 Elul 1405 Seleucid, which is August 1094 CE. Groom: Yakhin the cantor. Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a …
Copy of three court records concerning a dispute over a wall between two houses. The latest one is dated to Nisan 1413 Sel. (March 1102 …
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 30 Nisan 5241 AM = 30 March 1481 CE. The leaders of the Alexandria community convene to deal with …
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Few words from the bottom of a legal deed signed by Menashshe Hakohen.
Verso: Legal document: agreement with the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1160. An agreement is concluded between a certain Ṣubḥ and his wife, and the qodesh, represented …
There were present (in court) Ṣubḥ and his wife and it was legally acquired from both of them that
they relinquish any claim to the 9 qīrā…
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Folio from a court notebook. Two records, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Recto: record of a legal dispute between Abū Naṣr b. …
A late ketubba. From the date only the end of the year-36- is preserved.The groom's name is Shemuʾel (l.11) and a sum of dinars is …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: 13th century. Location: Fustat. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: [...] bt. Yefet ha-Talmid. Marriage payments: 3 + 10 = 13. (Information from Goitein's …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He wrote this quickly, not with his careful handwriting. The text on …
Bottom of a legal document. Signed by: [...]q b. Netanel; Shelomo b. Yehuda; Sulaymān b. ʿO[...]. Validated by [Moshe b.] Ṣadoq and [...] b. Netanel.
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 …
Legal document. Small fragment. Mentions "9 and a ḥabba... the son of my sister... R. Moshe... Abū Saʿd b. [...]."
Legal declaration. Dating: refers to the year 4826 AM, which is 1065/66 CE. (The document itself may be later.) Concerning Nahray b. Nissim's occupancy of …
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Small piece of a marriage contract (ketubba) containing the diaspora custom.
Probably a legal query and responsum mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with business matters. Almost all the names are anonymized ("fulān"). Mentions counterfeit promissory notes (wa-l-ḥujaj …
Record of the activities of the qodesh at the end of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century, up to 1034 CE. …
Those who wrote their signatures at the end of this writing declare that we know and witness that all
the places here involved that are …
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Ketubbah formulary, mostly complete, Babylonian style. AA and RR
Qiyyum shetarot, formulary from Siddur R. Natan of Sijilmasa
Bottom of a Ketubbah, signed by Yeshuʿah b. [...] and Saʿadiah b. Solomon. We find here remnants of the immersion enactment issued by Maimonides in …
Bill of divorce. Calligraphic. Signed: Yeḥezqel b. Gavri[el?]; Shelomo b. Yaḥyā.
Ketubba, Rabbanite. (Refers to שטר כתובתא דא in the fifth line of the lower fragment.) Groom: ʿOvadya b. [...] Elishaʿ (spelled אליסע). Probably dated Elul …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also …
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Legal deed in Hebrew detailing a sarraflık partnership involving members in Cairo and Rashīd. Dated: Shevat 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. The shared purse …
Minute fragment, extremely damaged. Only few words can be read מגלימא דעל כת[פיה] so this is probably a fragment from a ketubah. The shape of …
Court record in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1541 Seleucid, which is 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. …
IB IV, 61a. Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
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Legal record (#75) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 26r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 18 Sivan 5325 …