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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1455 Seleucid = 15 May 1144 CE. No attestation on verso that she received the …
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Minute fragment, very faded, only few words are readable but most probab;y from a legal deed.
Late legal documents in Hebrew from Cairo, probably drafts of what resulted in a single legal deed. This seems to be the case because the …
Fragment of a ketubba. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38), from the period of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Bride: [...] bt. Natan. On …
Recto: fragment from a Karaite ketubba for Ghāliyya bt. Yosef b. Abraham and Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. The bride’s father acts as her agent. Dating: ca. …
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Draft of a court record involving Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yeshuʿa b. Yefet (Information from CUDL). No details about the content of the qinyan survive.
Legal document concerning the appointment by the court of an agent for orphans, who will collect what is due them from their mother when they …
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IB VII, 16. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving Abū l-Baqā' and the late Abū l-Riḍā, who …
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Legal records or notes for the drawing up of a document, or perhaps from a book of formularies and legal procedures. The hand seems very …
A formula of bill of partnership.
Legal record of the same case on the recto, which offers us an alternative vantage point against which we may evaluate the narrative imposed on …
4 bi-folios from a book of legal formulas
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 …
Recto: Legal fragment in Arabic script. Iqrār. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Dated: 510 or 520 AH = 1116/17 or 1126/27 CE. Needs …
Deed of sale for a female slave (jāriya waṣīfa). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid, which is 24 October 1143 CE. Buyer: Pinḥas b. …
Legal document. Dated: Av 1452 Seleucid = July/August 1141 CE (month based on the phrase יהפך לשמחה). Involves 16 dinars; possibly silk which was purchased; …
Legal document or letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Minute fragment. Some partial names have survived: al-Jubaylī, the in-law of Yaʿqūb b. [...]. AA
Legal fragment regarding a partnership. Involves Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen; Minyat al-Qāʾid; 20 dinars; splitting shares equally; and Ṣedaqa Neʾeman [ha-Yeshiva].
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Verso: Bottom of an iqrār, dated 457 or 459 AH in the first line of the verso (1064/65 or 1066/67 CE). Witness is Hibatallāh b. …
Recto: Fragment of a ketubba. End of the 13th century. Payments: 10 + 40. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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A legal deed from Yevpatoriya, Ukraine. Likely non-geniza. Dated 22 Sivan 5535 AM (1775 CE). The document details the division of the possessions of the …
Jottings of documents - needs examination.
Thin strip from a court record, or formularies or a treatise about legal procedure. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a marriage contract giving details of the remarriage of a divorced couple. Tishrei 137_ Selucid/1058-1067 CE. Marriage gift 1+5 [total of six is …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108) or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Concerning arrangements upon somebody's death, probably …
Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: November 1050. Location: Fustat. An unsigned assignment of power of attorney from Eleazar Manṣūr ("Head of the Congregations") b. …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (bottom only). Wife: Naʿama bt. Menashshe(?). Signed by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq and ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen.
Legal document fragment probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Release from claims upon the completion of business dealings between Abū [...] …
Fragment from a Babylonian ketubah. No further information is available. AA
Legal records in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
Legal record (#55) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 19v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Shevat 5323 AM …
Legal document, record of testimony (?)
End of a ketubba for the bride [...] bat Hillel ha-Levi. Witnessed by Judah ha-Kohen b. Yefet, Ṣedaqa b. Baqā, Hārūn b. Judah, Aaron [...] …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Recto: Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Perhaps a rental contract for Abū Muḥammad b. Abī l-ʿIzz. Appears to be dated 694 AH, which …
Probably a legal document on parchment. Extremely damaged and fragmentary. The first line could read as 514 H.
Marriage document. Small fragment. Mentions [...] ha-Levi b. Yeshuʿa al-Rayyis and [...] ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥarīra. The delayed marriage payment is 40 dinars. On …
Legal document. Probably a power of attorney, in which a woman appoints someone to collect what is due to her from ‘my husband’ Thābit b. …
Fragment from a trousseau list, mentioning a ketubba and the bridal gift, and typical trousseau items such as a head scarf and several sums of …
Agreement regarding a marital match. Location: Malīj. Dated: Thursday, 6 Iyyar 1803 Seleucid = 3 May 1492 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Natan …
Karaite betrothal deed from Cairo. Dated 15 Sivan 5519 AM (1759). The betrothal involves the groom Yosef b. Gedalya b. Aharon aka Ṣaʿīr and the …
Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-16 on f. 14v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 …
Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Complete but very faded. Resembles a legal query: "What have our sages said concerning a man who died... [with] a mature …
Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom. One of the parties is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. …
Damaged fragment written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE), probably from a court ledger, as this was originally a bifolio. Remnants of Arabic …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on a dispute that happened in the Kanīsat al-Shāmiyyīn on Monday the 20th of Shevaṭ at the Minḥa prayer. Reporting …
Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon and Nasi Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya in Jerusalem with regard to the goods of a merchant, Moshe b. Yehuda ha-Maʿaravi, …
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IB VII, 10e. Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered …
Legal record (#13) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on ff. 1v, 5r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated …
A copy of a legal document about inheritance, probably the copy to be kept in court. Name mentioned: Shmuel