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Legal record (#3). Loan contract. Crossed out with four vertical lines. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn al-Makḥūl (joine later by …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Sivan 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. Groom: …
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A formula of bill of release from levirate marriage. Belong to a book of legal deeds, Another page in T-S J3.19
Beginning of a will in the handwriting of Hillel b. Eli (but this is worth checking against Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's earliest documents). Testator: Hillel b. …
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Legal deed. Location: Damietta. Dated: 4840 AM = 1079/80 CE. Peraḥya b. Yona ha-Kohen and Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi appoint Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli as their …
Marriage document. Fragment from a ketubah. No names or dates are preserved. Contains a few words from the monogamy clause. Hebrew and Aramaic. AA
Probably an Arabic legal document. On parchment. Portions of ~8 lines are preserved on recto. Twice mentions the term mutaṣaddiq (once as mutaṣaddiqīn). Needs further …
Recto: bottom line of a court record, (written and?) signed by [Avraham] b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver, [Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel] the Spaniard, Menashshe b. Shemuel, Ḥalfon b. …
Legal record (#19). Engagement contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Goitein notes that both fiance and fiancee must be very poor; neither has a …
Order. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sulaymān Kohen tells the addressee to give two ounces of lemon and rose (syrups?) to Abū l-Faraj. (This Sulaymān Kohen may be …
Ketubba. 16 lines preserved. Dating: Probably 13th century. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
Fragment of a long legal document settling business accounts, involving a Mūsā who has gone missing, Berekhya, Sulaymān b. Yaʿaqov, Abū l-Surūr b. Natan, Maṣliaḥ, …
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Legal document. Fragmentary (left side). May be a contract of debt for 140 dirhams. Mentions a house, Abū Isḥāq, Sitt al-Nās, and her husband.
Legal record (#58) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Adar I …
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Dowry list written on vellum
There are several unrelated fragments sharing this shelfmark, of which the only documentary one is fol. 5. Fol. 5r: Legal document written and signed by …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions the execution of something with "riḍā"(agreement). Dating: Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era, but this should be checked. 11 fragmentary lines …
Legal document, probably some kind of testimony, signed by [...] b. Yefet, ʿOvadya b. Ṭahor and [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, followed by another legal document, …
Sitt al-Baha bt. Eliyya, the bride of Abu l-Ḥasan, receives on the day of her qiddushin from Abu Kathir b. Yahya 18 1/2 dinars deposited …
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Letter fragment, 20 lines, well preserved. The writer at the beginning of the letter mentions a sale that did not reap any profits (lam yūlij …
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. ـعه اليه ووجهي منه يسقط حيا{ء} لانه يعلم كيف جرى امره في ابتياعها
وانه لم يولج في شي منها حبة واحدة وبالله لو…
Torn fragments from a court record regarding a dispute over an inheritance of 31 dinars from a brother named Ḥasūn, between Ḥasūna and her cousin …
Verso: halakhic text, possibly part of a responsum, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), dealing with excommunication and repentance. (Information in part from …
Decorated Karaite ketubah. The groom is taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, but if his wife will become childless he …
Legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, whose signature is partially visible. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid, which is July/August 1102 CE. …
Rental contract. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right piece). [..]ār b. Azhar rents from a Jewish woman named [...] bt. ʿAmmār a share in a …
Recto: Left side of a letter addressed to a notable certifying the kashrut of the large molds (qawālib kibār) of כיאסי cheese and rennets (manāfīḥ) …
Karaite bill of release of a debt related to inheritance. Not dated but probably 18th century
Prenuptial agreement. Dating: end of the 13th century. Fiancee: Shamsūn bt. Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshaʿya ha-Levi, the ex-wife of Avraham. Goitein describes it as …
Marriage contract (ketubba) of a divorcee. The grand total of the marriage gift and dowry is 39 dinars. Dated ca. 1000. (Information from Mediterranean Society, …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. Mentions Meshullam. Witnesses: Moshe b. Shela; Mevorakh b. [...].
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Calligraphically written and on parchment. Likely a deed of sale specifying landmarks, but it needs further examination. Mentions a …
Minute fragment of a legal deed, only few words, mostly cut into half.
Verso: Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning a purse of 77 dinars bearing the name of Yaʿaqov b. …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions something that passed 'between the two of them'; the court in Fustat; a sum of dinars; Natan b. Shelomo. It …
Legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Small vertical strip from the left side. On parchment. Possibly concerning the manumission and …
Legal deeds, templates from of a manual. A copy of deeds of legal interest in the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (documents …
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Fragment of a deed of sale for 12 out of 24 shares of a house. In Arabic script.
Account of repairs of a house, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A previous version of this shelfmark description listed the date range …
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Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
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Karaite betrothal document. Date: 26 Adar 5487 AM (1727 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Najma bt. Yeshūʿa bt. Moshe and the groom …
Ketubba fragment. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century (Goitein just writes "old.") Vertical strip from the middle. The dowry list mentions a bed of shisham/sheesham …
Recto: Qaraite betrothal (erusin) document. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 11 Kislev 1360 = 20 November 1048 CE. Groom: Maḥfūẓ b. Menaḥem. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Avraham …
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Fragment of a legal document. Describing the boundaries of a property. Mentioning Ibn al-Tabbān (‘the straw trader’). Mentions Ibn al-Tabbān (‘the straw trader’); the Canal …
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[.] …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Little of the content is preserved except for the phrase "from the …
Marriage contract. Dating: first half of the 13th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting is similar to that of ʿImanuel b. Yeḥiel (also compare T-S …
Marriage-related document. Includes a menstrual purity clause, so no earlier than late 12th century. The handwriting is probably known.
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …
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Ketubba (marriage contract). Fragment (last few lines only). The groom is named Yosef. Signed by: ʿEli b. ʿAmram ha-Levi (active 1049–66, not to be confused …