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Fragment of a deed of sale of a property, here describing the property.
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Legal document written in the court of Ḥananya Av Bet Din b. Yosef Gaʾon. Dated: Sunday, end of Elul 1318 Seleucid = 14 September 1007 …
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Legal document. Testimony certifying that the groom-to-be had received the trousseau estimate (taqwim) that the bride was going to bring into the marriage. It was …
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Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) …
Top of a legal deed probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Moderately wide line spacing. Dated: 1425 Seleucid = 1113/14 CE.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Tevet 5416 AM, which is 1655/56 CE. Marḥaba the widow of Elʿazar(?) leases the large līwān …
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Ketubbah of [...] b. Solomon (groom). Dated [...] Sel. in Fusṭāṭ. Written by Emmanuel b. Yeḥiel, Middle of 13th century. Probably under the reign of …
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r
Legal fragment. In Aramaic. The hand is known (Natan b. Shemuel?). Probably a deed of sale of property, based on the formulae preserved. Mentions the …
Probably a fragment of a legal draft in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Kathīr (cf. Moss. VII,104.1 (PGPID 26997)). …
Legal record (#100) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 33v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 18 Elul 5324 …
Employee identification card in the name of ʿEzra Mūsā Dayyan – April 20 1939CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 194) – in Arabic. …
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Testimony or narrative about events in Florence (פירנצה). Dated: 17 Tevet 5609 AM (January 1849). A man who was known as an impious alcoholic fell …
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Small piece of a Palestinian-style marriage contract (ketubba), preserving part of the volition formula and the statement of the wife's obligations. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Concerning rental arrangements. On verso there is Hebrew piyyut.
Deed of sale. Dated: Last decade of Rabīʿ I 512 AH, which is June 1118 CE. Sale of a one-fourth of a new portion of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
هذا ما اشترى على بن [محمد بن احمد المعروف بابن الصيني المتصرف بباب] الجفار بمصر من حسين بن شباب الاسرائيلي اشترى منه…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what ʿ Alī ibn [Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, known as ibn al-Ṣīnī, the money-changer…
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Legal document in Hebrew, perhaps a draft or beginning of a copy. In a which a woman, possibly Jawhara bt. Maḥfūẓ (whose name appears at …
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script, probably a deed of sale. Mentions other landmarks including the house of Bū ʿAlī al-Urjuwānī and that of Fāris …
Bill of sale for an eslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Not a join with …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: [14]41 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE. The parties are Abū l-Munā and his agent Faraj …
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Part of a Qaraite ketubba for a bride Rayyisa and an unnamed groom, preserving the bride’s trousseau list. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:349-51) dates it to the 11th …
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Acknowledgment of payment following the loss of a prior debt acknowledgment document. Dated Tuesday 3 Nissan 5443 AM (1683 CE). ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Yaʿaqov al-Ṣaghīr, …
Legal record (#44) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo, based on …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a release. Someone, possibly an orphan, agrees to release his paternal uncle from any claims. Mentions a sum of either …
Legal document, fragmentary, probably dating to the classical Geniza period. The preserved text reads as " kulluhu zūr wa-bāṭil wa-ẓulm".
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Few details preserved.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Outline of a deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Ibtidāʾ. Seller: Sitt al-Banīn …
A damaged bill of divorce (get). The top part is missing. The woman is Hilala d. Nathan. Signed by […] b. Avraham ha-haver, […] b. …
Legal document, draft. In Hebrew. Crossed out. Attesting that Yiṣḥaq Jibālī owes Avraham Khamīs 1000 Venetian ducats (peraḥim zahav banādiqa). There are several signatures including …
Recto (secondary use): Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment, left side only. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1361 Seleucid = 1049/50 CE. Signed [...] ha-Levi b. Yiṣḥaq and …
Court record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). A litigant named Moshe has claimed that his loan of 50.5 dinars to …
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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209). Mentions Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sukkarī. Signed on verso …
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 …
Legal testimony from June/July 1225 CE (Tammuz 1536 in the Seleucid calendar) written under the auspices of Avraham Maimonides (1186-1237). A certain 'daughter of Abu …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Damsīs, Egypt. Dated: Nisan 4843 AM = 1083 CE. Groom: ʿEli b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Bride: Ḥisān b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq …
Ketubba, nearly complete. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 10 Kislev 5583 AM = 24 November 1822 CE. Between Hayyim b. Shelomo Ḥazzāq and Esther b. Eliyyahu …
Legal document (ḥujja) issued by the chief qadi court of Ottoman Cairo, al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī. Non-Geniza. Dated 19 Jumādā II 1051 AH (1641 CE). The document …
حي الله وك.ي
..را فية عنه …إليه سبحانه
عثمان بن احمد المنهاج(؟) الحنبلي
(seal)
بالباب العالي اعلاه الله تعالى وشرفه بالقاهرة المحروسة…
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū l-ʿIzz and 22 dinars (בעד אבאעה . . . דינאר וחואליה . . . וטלבה פעסר עלי . . …
Small fragment of a legal document. None of the substance is preserved.
Deed of sale of one half of a house in the al-Musasa quarter in Fustat, in which one owner sells his half to the other …
Image not available. According to Schwab Catalogue: A communal document mentions Abu Saad ibn Hassun. AA
Bifolio with legal records. One record is preserved on recto, and probably two separate records on verso. Different hands on recto and verso. Dating: recto …
A fragment of a dowry list. Location: al-Maḥalla. Bride: Milāḥ (מלאח). On verso a colophon: a collection of Biblical verses for 9th Av, by Zakkāy …
Contract of debt. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: The case came before the court in the last decade of Kislev …
Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’ and Sitt al-Hanāʾ (cf. T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)). Dating: Likely early …
Verso: Statute in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 11th century. Condemning and prohibiting all the …
Qaraite ketubba formulary (FGP)
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …