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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Riḍā, Abū l-Faraj(?), and …
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Fragment of a legal document mentioning a divorce and Mawlāy al-Nezer.
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Ḥeshvan 1465 Seleucid = November 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya. In …
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Court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper left piece). Regarding 20 dinars and involving Peraḥya the elder, Avraham b. …
Recto: Marriage document (ketubba) in Palestinian style. Dated: [47]40 AM = 979/80 CE. Groom: Efrayim b. [...]. Bride: Khuzayr bt. Ḥusayn. (Information from Friedman, Jewish …
Small fragment of a legal document involving Petaḥya and customs (maks).
Bottom of a legal document. Needs examination.
Legal document dealing with property sale, mentioning the name Saqina ibn Yuḥannis. Buljusuq (Fayyum), Rabīʻ al-Awwal 407 [Aug.-Sept. 1016]. Parchment ; 22 lines ; 360 …
Fragment from the center of a ketubba. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
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Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dealing with the settlement of accounts. Involves Hiba b. Moshe …
Legal document dealing with the sale of a ruined house or building. Dated December 1719 CE (9 Tevet 5480 AM). Location: possibly Jerusalem, based on …
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Legal declaration or promissory note. In which the faqīh Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Abū ʿAlī acknowledges that he owes a debt of [...] to …
Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA
Recto: Bottom of a note from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a shipment of pearls. Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomo …
Bill of divorce, probably. Very small fragment. Location: Fustat. Husband: David ha-Levi b. Natan.
A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of …
Small fragment from a court record. Regarding a the settlement of a debt. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' …
Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
Legal document in Arabic script. ولما طالب خصمه المذكور بالقيام له بدليل عمل الى . . . . Unusual format for a legal document, with …
Most likely a legal document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Contains a date (l.3) Dhū al-Ḥijja 442. Needs examination.
Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Thursday, 25 Tishri 1339 (September 1027). Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Yefet b. David. Bishr b. Efrayim apprentices …
On Thursday, the 25th of Tishri of the year 1339 according to the Era of the Documents there appeared before the court in the Synagogue of the …
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Fragment of a late ketubba, with sums in muayyadis, including the stipulation that the husband will not take a second wife without the bride's consent. …
Small fragment of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very little content remains. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Faḍl …
Marriage document. Small fragment from a ketubba. All we have are the usual stipulations found in marriage contracts. Part of the bride’s name has survived: …
One phrase from the first line of a legal document.
Legal fragment. Mentions Mubārak b. Avraham and a street in Ḥārat Zuwayla. Probably continues onto verso, where Shelomo b. Kalev ha-Levi is mentioned (the same …
Deathbed declaration of Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abī ʿUmar known as Ibn al-Aqtaʿ. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 1477 Seleucid = June 1166 …
Karaite prenuptial agreement. Date: 28 Heshvan 5506 AM (1746 CE). The groom is listed solely as Yosef, therefore one of the witnesses' names may contain …
Legal case from 1100. Shemuel b. Natan he-haver - a well known figure in the Jewish court - now appears as a litigant and sues …
Fragment of an extremely faded legal document on verso. The only legible portions include a signature and a partial date of Adar II 5[...] AM. …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also …
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Digest of a deed of sale for a house. Mostly written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) in his worst cursive hand. The …
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First decade of Iyyar 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Little of …
Court record(s). Dated: 1341 Seleucid = 1029/30 CE. Needs examination.
Divorce agreement, Qaraite. Dated: Wednesday, 25 Nisan 5488 AM, which is 1728 CE. This does not seem to be a ketubba, per Ktiv, but rather …
Legal document, probably some kind of testimony, signed by [...] b. Yefet, ʿOvadya b. Ṭahor and [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, followed by another legal document, …
Legal record (#93) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 31v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: possibly 11th century. Involves David ha-Kohen b. [...] (l. 9). Someone makes a statement regarding …
Legal document: bill of sale in which Makhlūf b. Jābir b. Nāṣir buys a house in al-Muʿizziyya (Cairo) from […] b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. …
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Iqrār.
Bill of divorce. Witnesses are […] b. Yūsuf and Yoseff b. Yeshuʿa. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Lower fragment: Letter. In Hebrew. Late. Only the address is preserved: to 'my brother' Yehoshuaʿ Zam[...].
Legal document in Arabic script. Describing the borders of a house or property. Perhaps a document of sale. Mentions a house known by the name …
Fragment from the bottom of a power of attorney. May mention Aden (first line). Mentions the date 5 Ṣafar 584 AH = 5 April 1188 …
Geṭ. Location: Egypt, somewhere on the Nile. Dated: probably Ṭevet [13]4[.] Seleucid = 1029–39 CE. The father of one of the parties is Ḥusayn. Signed …
Probably legal document. Tiny fragment. Mentions Yaḥyā ha-[...] and perhaps [ha]-Sar ha-A[dir]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Extremely faded legal document or legal notes. In which Karīma bt. Avraham appoints her uncle Efrayim as her agent, it seems to sue [...] …
Recto: Fragment of a large ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). "The primary purpose of providing a woman with real …
Court notebook. Two entries, each dated 7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid = 9 October 1331 CE. Recto: Record of a divorce. (Sitt al-)ʿArab bt. ʿAbdallāh received …
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Legal fragment. Marriage contract. Dated: 29 Nisan 1458 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …