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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Two of the parties are Ḥalfon and Shelomo. Mentions …
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Small fragment of a legal document, bottom left corner. Extant torn sigantures include those of the two judges of Fustāt during the early 12th century …
Fragment of a marriage contract giving details of the remarriage of a divorced couple. Tishrei 137_ Selucid/1058-1067 CE. Marriage gift 1+5 [total of six is …
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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 …
Bill – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 147) – in English. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 14 Tammuz 1335 Seleucid, which is 24 June 1024 CE. Husband: ʿAmram b. Khalaf b. Aharon Ibn Asqawī ha-Levi. …
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Ketubba fragment. Opening only. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[4]31 Seleucid = 1119/20 CE. Bride: Ḥusna/Ḥasana bt. Tiqva.
Bottom of a legal document. Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Dated in the month of Rajab but the year is missing.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (right side only). Apparently a deathbed will. No names are preserved. …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1395 Seleucid, which is 9 May 1084 CE. Husband: Kathīr b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Mawʿā bt. Moshe. …
Verso: Legal document involving al-Rayyis Abū l-Bayān (Moshe) b. Mevorakh. Many names are mentioned. Needs examination.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 13 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 = May/June 1143 CE. It seems certifying a loan or payment of …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Ṭevet 5561 AM, which is 17–26 December 1800 CE. Moneychanging (sarraflık) partnership agreement between three …
Karaite betrothal document with faded ornamental designs along the upper border. Date: 14 Adar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is …
Fragmentary record of sale; the script suggests that this was written in the Ottoman period, probably between the 17th-18th centuries. The document deals with a …
Release document from Saʿadya b. Yeshuʿa in favour of his son-in-law Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Yosef for everything he owed in the marriage contract of …
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 …
Fragment of an unfinished marriage contract. Groom: [...] b. Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the …
Bill of divorce. Dated: 7th Tishrei 1421 Seleucid, which is September 1109 CE. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. Husband: Ḥasan b. …
Ketubba fragment (perhaps Palestinian) mentioning a payment of 12 zuz (in keeping with the Palestinian tradition). Signed by Elʿazar b. Yosef. Not mentioned in the …
Small and torn fragment from a bill of gift from husband named Abū l-Majd to his wife, probably [...] bt. Saʿadya. AA
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Also signed by Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Location: Fustat. Dated: 23 Sivan 1436 …
Bottom of a ketubba. Groom: Yosef. Bride: Ḥaziyya (חזייה). Signed by חטר(?) b. Shalem and Yosef b. Avraham. Looks Yemeni and potentially late.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions the inspection of a lower apartment and two wood beams. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Part of a pre-nuptial agreement. Written by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel. Dated 13th Elul 1[...], in Fusṭāṭ. Issued under the authority of David I Maimonides (1237–1300). …
End of a legal declaration, written and signed by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid and also signed by ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen (both signed other documents …
Legal document. Left part from a late legal document, in which שלמה [...] כ"ר תשובה בדוסי take upon himself to deliver the remains of five …
This very fragmentary legal document mentions a community leader with the Hebrew honorific 'Sar ha-Sarim' ('Prince of Princes'); on the application of this title, first …
Lower fragment: Legal document. Location: Tinnīs ("the island of Ḥanes"). Dated: Tuesday, 8 Ṭevet 4861 AM, which is 11 December 1100 CE. Ṭayyib b. Faraj …
Legal document in which Moshe Ḥakim (חכים) receives money from Yaʿaqov, to invest in his business. The latter partner's surname may be Kohen, based on …
Damaged and torn, only a few words remain, but seems to be from a ketubbah. AA
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1392 Seleucid, which is 1081 CE. Husband: Ṣedaqa b. Avraham. Wife: Rashīda bt. Yeshuʿa. Witnesses: Mevorakh …
Engagement deed and trousseau list dated 25 June 1789 CE (1 Tammuz 5549 AM) between Yaʿaqov Rosano b. Avraham Rosano and the widow Miryam bt. …
Legal document. Dated: 1488 Seleucid, which is 1176/77 CE. Mentions Berakhot ha-Ḥazzan, Yefet, and Yosef ha-Melammed. Refers to money changing hands. Some signatures are here, …
Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Chesvan 1373 (5 November 1061). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Ketubbah of Meshullam ha-Kohen (groom). Few words from the beginning of travel stipulation survived. No further details are preserved. AA
Legal document dealing with a loan granted by Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Karmī Ibn Shabīb to Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar Ibn Zabqala. Dated: Tammuz 1543 Seleucid, …
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Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b. Yiṣḥaq(?) a certain sum …
Bill of sale for an eslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Not a join with …
Legal record (#65) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 16 Tammuz 5324 …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document on parchment. Faded and damaged. Probably a ketubba, dating to the 13th century or later, based on …
Collection of legal or official records of some kind. Receipts? On parchment. One of the entries on verso mentions Isḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Yahūdī and the …
Legal document involving Abū l-Faḍl al-Parnas, Abū Saʿd, and payments in installments. The margins and verso are filled with accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic …
Verso: A man who possessed five-eighths of a house gives one-eighth to his wife and her son as lodgings 'belonging to them forever.' Dated Shevat …
Bill of release. Dated: Sunday, 12 Adar II 4826 = 12 March 1066 CE. Goitein describes it as the end of an enormous deed containing …
One side: lower left corner of a deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: Ramaḍān [...]. The other side: upper left corner of a letter …
Fragment of a will, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), in which the donor, an old man being in good health, specifies the …
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated Kislev 5480 AM in one entry, which is 1719 CE. (the dating info in FGP is incorrect). Verso: …