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Fragmentary record of communal dispute in which Shelomo ha-Kohen, Head of the the Yeshiva, became involved; written in Fustat.
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The end of a will, mentioning the names Yehoshuaʿ b. Nathan, Abū l-Surūr, [Abū] Kaṯīr b. Ezra, Abū Sahl b. Azhar and Menashshe al-Maghribī. It …
No Scholarship Records
End of a legal document written and signed by Elḥanan b. Shemarya. Verso is blank.
Recto: statement, dated 1466 of the Seleucid Era (= 1154/55 CE), concerning a debt which Saʿadya b. Yehuda owes to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā the doctor …
Ketubba. Dating: likely 11th century. Groom: ʿEli [b. ...]. Bride: Mubāraka bt. [...] ha-Levi, virgin. No further details preserved. Signed by Nissim b. Hillel, Harun …
Legal testimony, draft or abandoned. Needs examination.
Legal document regarding the appointment of Moshe Albotano "אלבוטאנו" as gabbay of the Maghrebi community in Cairo that also mentions the scribe Yaʿaqov b. Zimra. …
הודענו בשבטי ישר' נאמנה
מה שנת^ברר בפנינו הדבר
אשר נעשה לפ' בנן של
קדושי' ששלחו לה^ח' הנז'
ע"י הסופר הה"ר יעקב ן'
זמרה יצ"ו שאם ל…
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Legal document in Arabic script. Damaged. Needs examination for content. One of the parties may be named Salāma.
Legal formulary. Bifolium. One of the entries is headed, "The copy of the purchase of Abū l-A[frāḥ] of all of the Dār al-Dhahabī. The copy …
Minute fragment from a ketubah contains mostly part from the dowry list. AA
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving portions of a house, likely a deed of lease or sale. …
Legal document. Partnership record. Dating: 1085 (per Goitein's index cards). Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (probable, per Goitein). This document is the …
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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …
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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 …
Court record about a debt. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 6 Iyyar 4836 AM = 12 April 1076 CE. Yefet b. Yeshuʿa b. Qasāsa ha-Kohen declares …
שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא כדת [וכד]ין כן הוה חצר אלינא
[מך ור י]פת בר כלף נע אלמערוף בן עוכל והו פי צחה עקלה ובד[נה וגואז] אמ…
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Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sale; reneging; 2 years; and a deposit. …
Possibly a legal document about an engagement. Mentions R. Yehuda.
Legal document. Tiny fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active c.1181–1209).
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment from near the beginning. Probably regarding the rent of a house or its sale. The beneficiary is ʿAlī b. …
Legal/communal declaration. Location: Minyat Zifta Jawād. Dated: Middle third of Shevaṭ 1554 = January 1243 CE. The people making the declaration (whose names, probably originally …
Fragment of an ordinance (taqqana) concerning the Jerusalem community in Fustat. The community decides to choose ten men who will manage the community with Efrayim …
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Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Bū Naṣr b. Yūsuf. Seems to be an agreement regarding a partnership in a tax farm: …
Two or three fragments of a deed of sale in Arabic, on parchment, cut up and stitched into a different configuration.
Deed of sale in Arabic script. A Rabbanite Jew sells to a Qaraite Jew a house in Cairo in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood, in a …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a house named "Dār al-Nakhla" in Cairo, in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood, in a place called Raḥbat Surūr …
Legal document concerning the community in Alexandria sending a sum of money to help repair an old synagogue in Jerusalem. There are five signatures on …
Bifolium from a court register. Dated in several entries as Kislev 5496 AM (1735 CE). This reading of the final ligature as צו is confirmed …
:(Documents 1-4) Right side of bifolium
Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat …
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tevet 1444 Seleucid = December 1132 / January 1133 CE, under the …
Bill of divorce, Qaraite. In Hebrew. T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Husband: ʿAmmār al-Khāṭirī. Witnesses: …
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Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), mentions someone named Yisraʾel.
Few words from the end of a legal document
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Drawn up under the authority of the head of the yeshiva [Maṣliaḥ?] b. Shelomo. …
Communal ledger, late Ottoman, numerals in Arabic. Multiple pages, folded vertically and sewn.
Draft of the opening date of a legal document (probably a ketubah). AA
Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic of appointing a legal agent. Mentions Seʿadya and an exilarch, a sum of 10 dinars, and the number 15.
Legal document. Small fragment of a decorated ketubba. Fustat. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Fol. 2v: Entry in a court notebook detailing that Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Efrayim ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal ("the fairest of the fair"), the (ex-?)wife of Sason …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tamuz 14[60] Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). It is crucial to …
Secondary use: Inventory of possessions in Judaeo-Arabic, for legal purposes. The lists are arranged in columns on each side. Mentions "with his deceased brother." On …
Likely legal formularies. Faded and damaged.
Legal document in Arabic script (or a list/accounts?). Dating: 16th c?, the verso is dated in the month of Ramaḍān with a year that is …
Legal document concerning financial matters, an orphan, and Abū Isḥāq. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal record (#132) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 43r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 5 Tishrei [5329 …
Legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 9 Adar 5309 AM = 7 February 1549 CE. Loan contract between Avraham b. Masʿūd (creditor) and Avraham al-Ḥājj …
Much damaged fragment from a legal deed. On parchment. Mentions the number 34 (part of the year? a sum of money?). Refers to someone [...]ūb …
A damaged legal document in Hebrew. It seems to be dealing with the payment of the ketubah of a woman, who speaks in first person. …
Small fragment of a legal deed mentioning a kind of silk called כזאג. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE).