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End of a legal deed from Cairo. Only the partial date and one signature are preserved. Dated: 1 Sh[evat] 5295= 1534/1535. Signed by the scribe …
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Legal record (#4) 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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Document of release concerning Avraham b. Shemuel and Saʿdān b. Saʿīd, witnessed by Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also BL OR 5550.1 …
Monetary sales papers from the Nadā, Ḥalfūn, and Partners Bank in Cairo for Kẖawaja Elli Kohen in al-Ẓāhir in Cairo – February 24 1940CE – …
Verso: Will of Maymun b. Khalfa. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 Tammuz 1383 Seleucid, which is 5 July 1072 CE. Witnessed by Yosef b. Elʿazar …
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Legal record (#82) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 29 Av 5325 …
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Drafts of a legal document (on top) and of a letter (on bottom). On parchment. The beginning of the legal document is dated Monday, 17 …
Very damaged betrothal deed, probably between Rabbinate bride and Karaite groom (See Ashur, Engagement and Betrothals, p, 69). It is the bride's second marriage and …
Late marriage document between Yiṣḥaq [...] b. Aharon and the widow Simḥah bt. Ḥananyah Kohen. The currency used is בינטו עין (?). Yiṣḥaq commits not …
The image doesn't fit with the description. Karaite ketuba from Cairo.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Large and fairly well-preserved, but missing the beginning. Possibly a conditional divorce if the event …
Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment). In Arabic script. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. In which al-Muʿallim Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh acknowledges having received a sum of …
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Document of release concerning the estate of Berakhot ha-Levi’s deceased wife Ghāliya, mentioning Farjiyya the mother of Gh[āliya] and the daughter of her sister specifically. …
Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 1046/47 CE. From the bottom of a bill of compensation, from [Ḥusn] bt. Yaḥyā to Abū Naṣr b. Saʿadya and Shelomo …
A damaged Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Saadya b. Shmeul b. Saadya. The bride name is Esther.
Marriage contract (ketubba), fragment.
Statement in Arabic script ("aqūlu wa-anā...") made and signed by Hiba b. Mufaḍḍal al-Mutaṭabbib. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 628 AH = 19 August 1231 CE. It …
IB VII, 4 (4a). Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. …
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Leaf from a court ledger, with records in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). Recto: Deals with the sale of a house …
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Court record of three sessions concerning the same case dealing with two merchants, Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Saadya and Saadya b. Ishaq. Shelomo had sued Saadya …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Mentioning Ḥasana bt. Shel[omo] and 1 1/3 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bill of release from Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiʾel b. Moshe ha-Rofeʾ, the representative of the merchants, to the cantor Avraham b. Neḥemya. Also mentions Shemarya b. …
Recto: Legal fragment in Arabic script. Involves a trader (al-tājir), a miller (al-ṭaḥḥān) named Nuṣayr b. Abī l-Maʿālī b. Ḥasan, Avraham Maimonides (Abū l-[Munā] Ibrāhīm …
end of a legal document signed by: [...] Mevorakh, Hillel b. Zadoq, Hiyya b. Ishaq, Frihuna b. Yeshu'a Probably from 1150–1160.
Copy or record of a legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th century, based on the presence of the witness Ṣāliḥ b. Yivḥar, who …
Karaite partnership agreement in צנאעה אלשים, "silversmithing" (صناعة السيم). The term "sīm" is Ottoman Turkish for "silver." Dated Wednesday 15 Kislev 5523 AM (1762 CE). …
Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 4850 AM (8 January 1090 CE). Given by ʿAmram b. Yosef of Tyre to Shelomo b. …
Marriage document. A large damaged piece from a ketubah, from the 12th century, 1127 onward, based on the title יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון עולם, …
Bottom part of a legal deed written under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (Date: 1127-1139)
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Tammuz 1358 Seleucid = 21 July 1047 CE. Faraj b. Sulaymān known as Ibn al-Muqashshir was asked about …
Legal record (#24). Alimony owed. Dated: "Monday" (=14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid). Bū l-Faraj Ibn al-Shofeṭ declares that he has mortgaged his quarter-house (which is owned …
In a short note, a letter brought by Tiqva b. 'Amram from Farah b. 'Ayyash is presented to the court in Cairo. The letter was …
Documentary per FGP - communal enactment concerning the division of property. Not digitized?
Legal deed. On parchment. Particularly old. Dated: Monday, 6 Shevaṭ 4716 AM = 21 January 956 CE. Signed by at least thirteen witnesses, all in …
Document, possibly of sale. Verso: Jottings. Needs examination.
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment that begins with the clause setting forth the wife’s obligations (to serve, etc.) and concludes with a dowry list. A minimum …
Fragment of a will. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). "No wailing women; and of garments in which I shall be …
Legal record(s) in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl 1066–1108 CE). The one on recto involves a dispute over wood (akhshāb) and someone named …
Deed of sale in which a father sells to his son a quarter of the apartment belonging to him in a house in the al- …
Probably a court register with multiple distinct legal entries. Many of them have to do with partnerships. There is also a section with a letter …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Recto: betrothal (erusin) deed. Groom: [...] b. ʿEli known as Ibn Ḥunayn. Bride: …
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Deed of release. Dating: ca. 1232 CE, as the same Elʿazar b. Karmī appears in T-S NS 321.79 + T-S 13J4.5 and T-S Misc.25.2. The …
Receipt or affidavit signed by Shelomo ha-Rofe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century. Attesting that Meʾir and his son Yehuda Abū Shaʿra rented …
Tiny fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1[.]5[.] Seleucid. Very little else is preserved.
Legal deed. In Hebrew, with some Babylonian vocalization. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 4787 AM = November/December 1026 CE. Maymūn b. Efrayim receives a loan of …
Formularies for legal documents. The documents on the recto deal with the appointment of an agent to receive a get. Although the names in the …
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Dated: second half of Adar II 1366 (= March 1055 CE), mentioning [...] b. Bahlūl and Yosef …
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 44.
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Some legible bits: ḥaḍrat sayyidnā al-sharīf(?) al-[...] al-mukhliṣ [...] al-mulk; someone renting something from someone; Cairo; trade (tijāra); al-ḥāmī; …
Plenary meeting of the Jewish community in the Ismaʿilī Synagogue in Cairo on the opportunity for founding a company and kosher restaurant – April 25 …