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Recto: contract between two dyers (Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Bahā and Abū Saʿd b. Ibrahim) about the sale of half of a house. The seller …
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Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew detailing financial transactions. Mentions 181 peraḥim that were detained with the consul; a certain Hayyim; a total …
No Scholarship Records
Verso: A woman pawns pieces of her trousseau against loans. The date 26 May 1050 CE appears in lines 4–5. Information from Goitein's note cards. …
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Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Apparently nearly complete, with only the first few lines missing. Dated: Wednesday, [..] Rajab 1163 AH = June/July 1750 …
A Karaite ketubah. The groom is Yosef b Aharon Hakohen. The bride is Esther.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1553 Seleucid = 1241/42 CE. The content is mostly missing, but some of it may be decipherable. Mentions the scholar …
Fragment of a ketubba. Qaraite? In Aramaic and Hebrew (no Judaeo-Arabic). The signatures of the witnesses have been scratched out. On verso there is a …
Damaged fragment of a legal deed regarding monetary issues of marriage. Writing on both sides. Involves Salmān(?) b. [...]; the interesting phrase "samāwī aw sulṭānī" …
Deed of betrothal (erusin). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]45 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. …
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Deed of a gift or gifts, willed by an old man to be collected after his death. Dated: 1122 CE. The testator is the Tripolitan …
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Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a man and his cousin (ibn ʿamm); 51 dinars; and something granted …
Legal formulary. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 12th or 13th century, but unclear on what basis.
Legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. Dating: 1100-1138. Left side of inquiry with regard to an inheritance of a quarter of a house. …
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Recto: Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Ṭevet 1593 Seleucid, which is December 1281 CE, under the authority of David …
Legal record (#14). Deposition in court. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faḍl al-Mustaʿmal b. Natan testifies that Hilāl al-Mustaʿmal b. al-Raṣṣāṣ said to …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 624 H. Involves Abū l-Faraj b. Fāḍil(?) b. Khalaf al-Tājir and Bū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī b. …
Legal document. Court record (draft). This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. Avraham …
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Small fragment of a legal document, probably a ketubba. On parchment. Crumpled and in need of flattening and conservation. Involves [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen; someone …
Legal document: Qaraite ketubba from Ramla, part only. Yaʿaqov b. David al-Shulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). Location: Ramla. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Elul …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, first five …
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a passageway belonging to Efrayim the elder and his wife (?). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …
Arabic legal deed confirming the sale of half of a house from a father to his son, and the son's daughter. The sale was made …
Writ of agency (אביזאריה). Location: Tripoli (Syria). Dated: Monday, 9 Sivan 4839 = 13 May 1079. Between ʿUlla ha-Levi and Yeshuʿa "Pride of the Communities." …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew, with one signature in both Hebrew and Latin script. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 5624 AM in the month of Shevat which is …
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Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Decision of the court on repairs in a compound partly owned by the Qodesh. Dated: …
(1-2) .... and if it is not carried out, and if …. not
…. and his children in a grave danger of ….
assessment, (in which) he proposed…
A notary's draft concerning three houses and two ruins forming the object of a settlement. Among the most detailed description of houses in Cairo. Description …
Her name is both Sitt al-Rutab and Sitt al-Fakhr. He releases Sitt [al-Rutab] from all claims and concedes to her…
Small strip from a bill of release by a woman to her husband Sason in relating to her ketubah. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely related to a partnership between two people: ... אננא מקראן ענדכם . . …
Legal document, record of testimony (?)
Legal notes, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Describing features of a house (al-dār... al-bāb... al-qāʿa...) and …
Legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Signed by Pinḥas b. Sheʾerit ha-Kohen. Dating: probably Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February …
Court record dealing with a loan of one dinar that, according to Ya'ish ha-Kohen b. Avraham, was given by him to Yosef b. Avraham. Yosef …
List of legal documents, including: (1) For the purchase of a female slave. (2) "A copy of it" for the Rayyis Abū l-Karam. (3) Lease …
Part of a ketubba. Dating: ca. late 11th or early 12th century. Bride: [...] bt. Muvḥar ha-Levi. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. Date and location …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 3 Kislev 1391 Seleucid = 31 October 1079 CE. Husband: Shelomo b. Avraham. Wife: Yamān bt. Avraham. Signed …
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 …
Legal document concerning a husband who wanted to travel to see his mother and relatives and his wife took him to court for it. He …
Legal document (debt settlement) issued by a qāḍī court in the Musallamiyya madrasa of Damietta. In Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Dated: 10 …
Praise be to God.
In the law court referenced on the re…
Minute fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Minute fragment from the beginning of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] b. [...] ha-Nikhbad and …
Legal document (iqrār). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Abū Isḥ[āq]; half of a profit; entering Fustat; and more.
Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. …
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Location: Ibwān, al-Ashmūnayn. Dated: First decade of Ramaḍān 495 AH, which is June 1102 CE. Settlement between Durrī b. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
لما كان فى العشر الأول من شهر رمضان سنة خمس وتسعين واربع ماية حضر درى بن
{بن} عسكر القريطى وزوجته مغربية مولاة يحي…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
In the first ten days of the month of Ramaḍān, in the year four-hundred and ninety-five, D…
Legal deed for the purchase of a house by a descendant of the Ṭabāṭabā family. Dating: early 5th/11th century. See also T-S Ar. 38127 (early …
Letter consisting entirely of instructions to a notary for drawing up a legal document. Dated: Sunday, 28 Muḥarram 547 AH = 5 May 1152 CE. …
Legal record (#78) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 27r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Av 5325 …
Two fragments of a dowry list (taqwīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes a female slave named Waṣl ("Union") valued at 13 dinars. Delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar): 60 …
Recto: Legal document(s). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Sivan 5547 AM, which is 1787 CE. ʿIsqa agreement in the "negotiation/brokerage business" = עסק המשא ומתן (ll. …
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1421 Seleucid = March/April 1110 CE. One of the parties is Hibatallāh …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Torn off. Giving a detailed account about teachers of orphans and parnasim.