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Legal record (#13) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 11-13) Folio 4r
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Fragmentary legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are two distinct main documents, one on recto and one on verso. In the right margin of recto, …
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Recto: End of a court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Monday, 25 Av 1423 Seleucid = 19 August 1112 CE. The …
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Legal document. On parchment. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1371 Seleucid = July 1060 CE. Vocalized, which is unusual. Abū Saʿd Mufarrij b. Iṣḥāq al-Ṣabbāgh known …
Fragment of a legal document. Verso mentions [Abū l-Fa]raj al-Kohen and his son. Recto mentions 100 of something.
Release. Fragment (lower left corner). Involves someone named Yeshuʿa. Signed by [Moshe b. Ṣadoq] Av Bet Din the descendant of Rabbenu ha-Qadosh. Probably drawn up …
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a date (Dhū l-Hijja 537 AH = June/July 1143 CE) in l. 6. Contains detailed summaries of business transactions …
Contract in which Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, a scholar known from a number of manuscripts dating to 1076–86 CE (e.g. T-S 20.110 (PGPID 1774)) gives 50 …
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Legal documents: contracts or deeds of sale mentioning fuṣūl intiqāl, with signatures of witnesses at the bottom. One of the signatures is dated 17 Rabīʿ …
Beginning of the ketubah of Avraham b. Yosef and Husn. Some of the dowry list is preserved. AA
A fragment from a ketubah containing part of the dowry list
specimens of כתובה דמירכסא and שטר מסירה, followed by the heading שרח הלכות מן יבמות. The hand might be of Halfon Hakohen b. Elazar, who …
Legal record (#34). Divorce settlement(?). Dated: 20 Sivan, 1467 Seleucid. Turfa bt. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭībān, the wife of Bū Naṣr known as Ibn al-Dayyān, …
Minute fragments, few from legal deeds.
Document in Arabic script, occupying one page of a bifolio. (The other pages have Hebrew poetry, including by Ibn Gabirol.) This is catalogued as a …
Ketubba, Qaraite. Groom: Marzūq b. Yefet. Bride: (Sitt al-)Furs bt. Simḥa. Location: Fustat. Dated: [13]75 Seleucid, which is 1063/64 CE. Ḥananya b. Elnatan (Abū l-Tāhir …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[.]61 Seleucid, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE. Zayn b. A[...] gives a release to Abū l-Barakāt Hibat …
Legal jottings. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Account of what is left from or has been done with a ketubba. …
Part of a legal document, dated the month of Shevaṭ 47[..] AM = 940–1039 CE. Witnessed by Menashshe b. Avraham b. Aharon nin Shuʿayb ha-Levi, …
Collection of short responsa concerning nidda (a menstruating woman). On recto there are a few lines from Saʿadya Gaʾon’s treatise on prayers, with a colophon. …
Draft of a legal document in Hebrew. Dated Ṭevet 5359 AM = December 1598 / January 1599 CE. Involves Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and [...] b. Natan …
Bottom of a large legal document in Arabic script. Contains some release formulae. Unclear if the date is preserved. Two signatures are partially preserved. Needs …
Witness clause from the bottom of an iqrār. The witness is Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh.
Unidentified text (likely a legal document) in Arabic. Reused on recto for seliḥot. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a deathbed declaration of Sedaqa b. Mevorakh for his sister and brother, signed by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). (Information from Goitein's index …
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
Legal document. On top: legal document in which an uncle gives his possessions in equal shares to his dead brother's sons and daughters and appoints …
Legal document, quite faded. In which [...] Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] Daniʾel(?) "ha-sofer ha-mahir" acknowledges a debt of 287 dirhams to Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣedaqa …
Fragment of a deed of sale for a property, probably. Dated: Ramaḍān 421 AH = September 1030 CE. Reused for Hebrew text (lower margin and …
Legal document, probably a bill of release. Fragment: lower left corner. Dating: Early 13th century. In which Shela b. Berakhot acknowledges that he has no …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side has four lines preserved; the first line refers to someone named Yūsuf b. Muḥammad. The other side has …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Sulaymān Dā'ūd. Signed by Moshe b. Yosef Nafūsī. See T-S AS …
Deathbed will. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 [Kislev] 1500 Seleucid, which is December 1188 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Testator: …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Shevaṭ 1404 Seleucid, which is January 1093 CE. Release agreement following the dissolution of a partnership ("shirka") between …
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Debt contract. Location: Fustat. Dating: First decade of Kislev 1462 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. According …
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Small fragment of a ketubba containing a portion of the trousseau list. (Information in part from CUDL)
Record of a deposition in court, written in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: ca. 1095 CE and, more broadly, 1066–1108 CE …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! etc.
Here is what happened: There appeared before us al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Surūr, our Master and Le…
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Recto: Legal document. Dated: 4976 AM, which is 1215/16 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involving a certain Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān and Shelomo ha-Levi …
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 …
Legal minutes (tadhkira) regarding the case of Mūsā b. Bishr aka Moshe b. Mevasser. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Adar II 1464 Seleucid = 1153 …
Legal document. Mutual release upon the dissolution of a partnership in a shop. Involves Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Shemuel. Needs further examination.
Legal document fragment probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Release from claims upon the completion of business dealings between Abū [...] …
Minute fragment. On verso remnant of a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). On verso liturgy. AA
Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almost all of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Goitein's index card.
Bottom part of a ketubah. No further details. AA
Ketubba. Dated: 1[.]4[.] Seleucid. Groom: Surūr b. Ḥayyim. Bride: Ṣubḥ bt. Yehuda. It is not her first marriage (dower of 12.5 dirhams). Sums of 5 …
Legal record (#119) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 39r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo. Dated: Av …
Legal document fragment involving בן שבארש (the same name appears in T-S 12.666) and R. Khallūf. Dating: probably 11th or possibly 10th century.
Recto: legal document in the hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Avraham and possibly a deposit for an orphan. Also possibly …
Non-Geniza. Legal document regarding the sale of a vineyard. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 19th century. Surrounded by sundry jottings including in Russian and Arabo-Hebrew.