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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the financial arrangements upon the divorce of Mansūba and Avraham. Needs further examination.
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Recto: Probably a legal query. Verso: The responsum? A discussion based on rabbinic literature. Damaged
Legal document. Location: Ṣahrajt. Dated: Monday, 11 Kislev 1372 Seleucid, which is 1060 CE. Ḥarīza b. Abraham appoints Mevorakh b. Abraham (most likely her brother) …
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Ketubba for Yosef ha-Levi b. ʿOvadya and Bayda bt. Qaʿarṭī (קערטי) Bibas. Currency: real. Dated 1792 CE (16 Sivan 5552), Cairo. The final lines of …
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Legal document. David b. Shekhanya renews his ketubba with Mubāraka bt. Mawhūb whom he had married several years earlier. Mentions 35 dinars of which 25 …
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Verso: Inventory of garments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Goitein identifies this as a trousseau list, though in that case …
Accounts of some sort. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 11th century, based on the handwriting and the names (e.g. Barhūn). Also mentions Avraham Ibn al-Iskandarānī; Abū …
Legal record (#5) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f.1v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Dated 12 Shevat …
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IB V, 44. Legal record (#4). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Thursday, 11 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. "In one of a series of documents resolving an argument over …
Bottom part of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century based on the paleography. Very faded and damaged. Document of release after someone …
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Contains the phrases ״שקולים ברצון״ and ״אלא בלב שלם ובדעת״. Compare T-S 16.142.
Testimony regarding bridal consent to marriage. Two manuscripts that deal with the marriage of a bride named Karam. The two manuscripts contain the bride's consent …
Ketubba for Mubāraka bt. Binyamin (מבארכה) and [...] b. Aharon. Witnessed by Yosef b. Shemuel, Shelomo b. Yosef, Avraham b. Menaḥem, ʿEli b. David, Yehuyda …
Fragment of a Palestinian-style ketubba. Location: Possibly Tyre. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Groom: ʿEli b. Sahlān (possibly identical with ʿEli b. Sahlawayh). …
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Bifolium with seven legal document entries, likely from a court register. Dated in several entries as Tishrei 5491AM (September/October 1730 CE). (1) The first document …
Marriage contract, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Bride: [...] bt. Avraham. In Aramaic.
Jeremiah 31:35–36. Above and between the two verses remains of a (legal?) text in faded ink are visible that include the words פרוטה and י״ב …
Legal fragment. In Aramaic. The hand is known (Natan b. Shemuel?). Probably a deed of sale of property, based on the formulae preserved. Mentions the …
Two fragments of a legal deed regarding a debt of Abū l-Karam Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār, written and signed by Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca. 1180–1211). …
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 (?) …
Legal document dealing with a widow in a small town who died, leaving a girl of three and a small house. The judge, among other …
Fragment of a bill of sale for a slave (based on the term ולשחרורי). The seller (המוכר) is named Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document (iqrār) in Arabic scirpt. Dated: Rabiʿ II 448 AH = June/July 1056 CE. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. …
Fol. 2: Legal document. Location: Damsīs. Little remains except for the date: Tevet 1424 Seleucid = 1112/13 CE. One of the witnesses is Aharon b. …
Small fragment from a list of court records written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (or 146[.]?). The protagonists are Abū l-Fakhr and Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman. The witnesses state that …
Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of …
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid (1089–1188 CE). The day of the month was left blank, so this is presumably a draft. In the hand of …
Three fragments from a deed of betrothal (erusin). Probably (but not necessarily) Qaraite. The groom is Yefet, and the bride Sirwa (or perhaps Surūr[a]). There …
Verso: Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: Late 13th century CE according to Lieberman, but in fact probably closer to 1230 CE (the date of recto). …
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Recto: Legal document, in Arabic script. Fragment (the right halves of ~7 lines) of a marriage contract. Mentions the mahr (dower). Needs examination.
Incomplete late legal document in which Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ acknowledges that Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm (fl. 1785-1825 CE) has invested 2000 medins with him.
Legal document for a investment partnership to benefit the communal fund for study of the Sefer Zohar in Old Cairo (Fusṭāt). Avraham Mosseri receives money …
בע׳׳ה
בהיות שנכתב שטר עסקא כהוגן וכשורה וענינו שהיקר נשא ונעלה כמה׳׳ר אברהם מוצירי יצ׳׳ו בן לאותו
צדיק החכם…
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Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 11th century. Involves a woman named [...] bt. Sulaymān b. Yosef; Avraham b. Maṣliaḥ; Muʿizzī dinars; [...] b. Yosef …
Verso (original use): Seems to be a legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. May involve Pinḥas: ועוד אמר פנחס דנן דעו רבותי וחיי . . …
Various jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script including ad raft of a legal declaration (aqūl wa-anā...) in Judaeo-Arabic, made by [...]r ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu [... …
Letter consisting entirely of instructions to a notary for drawing up a legal document. Dated: Sunday, 28 Muḥarram 547 AH = 5 May 1152 CE. …
Tiny fragment containing a few words in Hebrew script. Verso mentions the Nile in the typical formulation of a legal document.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. Seems to be the resolution/settlement of a …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Date: Not preserved, but it was drawn up under the authority of the Nagid David, probably more likely David I …
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Marriage contract, probably. Fragment. Contains a warning to the wife concerning menstrual purity. (See Eve Krakowski, "Maimonides’ Menstrual Reform in Egypt," JQR 110, No. 2 …
Legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Wide space between the lines. Mentions [...] b. HIba, "from her …
Fragment from a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Fragment of a marriage contract between ʿEzra b. Menahem and Jawhara bt. [...], a virgin. Dating: mid-11th century, since ʿEzra b. Menaḥem signed T-S 10J28.2 …
Legal testimony (קבלת עדות). Location: the testimony was collected in Sunbāṭ and the document was drawn up three months later in Minyat Ashna. Dated: Middle …
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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 …
Legal document. Small fragment. Involves someone named Efrayim, a woman, and al-Sammanūdī; also involves a debt and a document that was lost.
Draft of a legal document, or of a letter containing a record of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Rabbenu Ḥalfon ha-Sar ha-Gadol. Concerning copies …