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Fragment from the end of a legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Also signed by Hillel b. Yosef. Concerning a …
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Small fragment from a ketubah.
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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 26 Av 1484 Seleucid = 7 August 1173 CE. Husband: Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿAlī. Wife: [Sitt …
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday night, 5 Av 1443, which is July 1132 CE. Connected with the …
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Formularies for legal documents. Late.
Part of a ketubba, with only a few words preserved. Part of the shemaʿ has been written between the lines in faded ink and a …
Fol. 7v: Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 15 Jumādā II 423 AH = 29 May 1032 CE if read correctly. it. Reused (a century …
Release given by Yakhin b. ʿEli to his brother Yeḥezqel. Dated: Friday, 7 Nisan 1409 Seleucid, which is 1098 CE. Likely in the handwriting of …
Legal record (#54) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 52-55) Folio 14v
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 8 Elul 5588 AM = 1243 AH, which is 1828 CE. Involves Nissim ha-Levi b. Yequtiel and Menashshe b. Yūsuf …
Lower part of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated 5 Jumādā I 556 AH = 2 May 1161 CE. Mentions Aḥmad the agent (al-wakīl); …
Recto: Legal document. Partnership record. Dated: February 1092. Location: Fustat. T-S 8J4.11 and T-S NS J6 are part of a record of a trading partnership …
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Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Concerning the renting of an upper-storey apartment (ṭabaqa). One of the conditions specified is about the renter …
Recto: Perhaps a letter or brief legal document? Very faded. Verso: A record of the amount of money (35 silver [medin]) received from Eliyyahu Nābī(?) …
Small fragment from the bottom of a l legal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1502 Seleucid = 1190/91 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Muharram 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.25. Mentions Da'ūd (?) …
Official record of some kind in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 742 AH ("לישמעאל"), which is 1341/42 CE. Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: [Fu]stat. Dated 4844 A.M. (1084 C.E.) (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 217-26) EMS
Fragment of a legal document. Spanish hand. concerning monetary issues between Isḥāq b. Asher (appears also in T-S 10J13.1 (PGPID 7878)) and Khallūf al-Fāsī. Dated: …
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era, based on the hand. Mentions Yūsuf b. Naṣṣār(?).
Court record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Minyat al-Sharīf. Dated: Monday, 5 Adar 4920 AM, which is 1160 CE, under the authority …
At the bottom of recto there are notes for a different legal document involving Moshe b. Ghālib ha-Kohen; Avraham; and somebody's wife.
Bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Moshe b. Nissim and Berakhot b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen. AA
Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Abū l-Faraj Natan b. Shelomo the beadle is marrying the daughter of …
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Small fragment of a legal document. Almost nothing preserved other than two partial witness signatures: [...] b. Aharon and Aharon [...].
Legal document mentioning a teacher, a sum of dinars and ‘the price of the garden’. The partial names [...] ha-Levi and [... b.] שאטי[..] ) …
Top part from a ketubah contains the ornamented blessings.
Legal document, ishhād, in Arabic, dated 1831 CE (18 Jumāda l-Awwal 1247 Hijri). Ibrāhim al-Yahūdī owes 700 Rūmī Kuruş and has to pay the Dīwān …
Contract of a lease. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the first 3 lines are preserved here. The tenant may be Ṣadaqa b. ʿAyyāsh.
Fragment of a deed of sale for a house. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE).
Ketubba, Aleppo, 1026–28 CE. The document omits the divorce clause, and the groom notably refers to himself and his bride as the "Jew" and the …
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Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Cairo. Dated: Last decade of Adar 1481 Seleucid, which is March 1170 CE, under the …
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Legal document dated 14[.]5 (Sel.), written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). This scribal association makes it possible to infer the …
Bill of divorce formulary or draft. Location: Fustat. Dateable perhaps to the eleventh or twelfth centuries. Line one was left incomplete and undated perhaps as …
Small and faded fragment from a ketubah.
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 10 Adar II 1537 (10 March 1226). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S …
Small fragment of an Arabic document, likely legal.
Recto: Small fragment from the top of a legal document, mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and al-Maḡribī. On parchment. Verso: alphabet, jottings. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Document in Arabic script mentioning the words al-waraq (paper) or more likely al-wariq (silver money), 28 dirhams, and a date, which looks like the …
Verso: responsum in Judaeo-Arabic by ʿEli b. ʿAmram (11th century), regarding forbidden marriage. Recto: piyyuṭ in Hebrew that continues in the margin on verso. (Information …
Legal document. Extremely faded. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion preserved here consists of the identification of the party or parties and …
Court record of a testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning a dispute among the heirs of a murdered woman …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday night, 25 Kislev 1444 Seleucid, which is 1133 …
There arranged a match before us, we the [under]signed [witnesses... X]
b. R. Japheth, (may his) e(nd be) g(ood), with Sitt al-Banāt daught…
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Verso: minute fragment from the opening of a legal testimony.
Folio from a court notebook. Recto: Statement about the debt of a parnas. Dating: ca. 1151 CE, mentioning a timespan in 1462 Seleucid rather than …
Owed by the elder Abū Saʿd the parnās, b. Ḥātim to the Estate
of the Jerusalemites: from the beginning of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year
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One party to this legal document sells to another party 9.5 qirat of a house and renounces right of preemption. The house was situated in …
Recto: Letter likely addressed to one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (14th or 15th century). The sender asks for permission to release a vow about …
Writ of agency written in Tripoli, Lebanon, May 1081.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in …