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Legal document (wakkāla) concerning payment to Fāṭimah. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "Procuration officielle de Fatma a Sefi Togan ibn Abdalla el Allani" …
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IB VII, 10e. Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered …
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Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 AM, which is 25 January 1807 CE. This is a more complete copy of the same …
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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 …
Fragment bearing the mirror imprint of a legal deed probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe. The year seems to be 1432 Seleucid (1120/21 CE).
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Both sides contain formulary for documents relating to the sale of an enslaved …
Legal record (#22). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. People: Bū ʿAlī b. al-Ṣalṣalī owes 9 dinars to Maḥfūẓ the Qaraite. He will …
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Adar II [1]440 Seleucid = February/March 1129 CE, under the …
Fragment of a legal document.
Partnership/investment agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[.]4, probably 1384 Seleucid, which would be 1072/73 CE. (1334 and 1394 Seleucid are also technically possible; the decade word …
Recto: Legal document in which Esther grants power of attorney to her betrothed, ʿEli b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, to collect money due from her brother Natan. …
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Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions 24 silver pieces; Menaḥem al-Yahūdī known as Rūfīl (? روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an …
Bottom of a marriage contract. Dating: ca. late 10th century based on the dates of the witnesses. The dowry is 75 dinars. Signed by: Efrayim …
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Settlement of a marital dispute. Made after problems between [...] bt. Shabbetay and her husband Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, and also …
When there appeared before us, we the undersigned, [ son of ], (may he) r(est in) E(den), and [his] wif[e] wh[o ]
Is now married t…
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Ibrāhīm b. Siwār b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz acknowledges that he owes wheat. Needs examination.
Document (b), written in the blank space underneath the book list, at 90 degrees: Draft or copy of a legal document. Looks like the same …
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Legal fragment. Marriage contract. Dated: 29 Nisan 1458 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
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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, …
Recto: Legal document. Partnership record. Dated: February 1092. Location: Fustat. T-S 8J4.11 and T-S NS J6 are part of a record of a trading partnership …
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Legal document. In Arabic script in a nice hand. Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm the Jew attests that he has received 15 rounds (aqrāṣ) of Levantine cheese …
Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a judge and the Qaraites; "29.5 every month"; Maʿālī b. [...].
Will of a dyer, before going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar, 4975 AM = 1526 Seleucid, which …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Repurposed for a tax receipt. The document is a fragmentary marriage contract, and mentions the dower (ṣadāq), and some standard …
Legal record (#60) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …
Late certificate in Hebrew, probably issued in Cairo, attesting that R. Yiṣḥaq known as Hoja (?) Shtiwi, who has since moved to Alexandria, has been …
Fragment from a formula of bill of divorce (get)
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
IB VII, 6. A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad b. Jamīl b. Mūsā. Missing two edges but otherwise legible, needs examination.
Fragment of a trousseau list, comprising the upper right corner of the document. Medieval-era. Some of the items include two jukāniyya garments, a handkerchief, two …
Legal record (#127) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 2 Elul [5329 …
Legal document drawn up in Qayrawān. Dated: 4815 AM = 1054/55 CE. Consisting of copies of several other documents, drawn up at the request of …
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Ketubba, Aleppo, 1026–28 CE. The document omits the divorce clause, and the groom notably refers to himself and his bride as the "Jew" and the …
Legal fragment. Mentions [...] b. Avraham; another Avraham; merchandise which someone left with someone.
Legal record (#28 in the court register). Quittance, drawn up in outline as an addendum to the previous record in the same court notebook. Stating …
Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1769 Seleucid, which is 1458 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Yehosef. Location: Cairo. ʿAbd …
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(d) Legal testimony. Crossed out. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 1494 Seleucid, which is 1183 CE, under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Ghulayb b. Ṣadaqa …
Kitāb al-Sheṭarot (the book of legal formularies) of Hayya Ga'on b. Sherira Ga'on. Per the Bodleian catalog, the copyist or owner is Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel …
Probably a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Legal document. Dated: Friday 12 Shevat 5407 AM, which is 1647 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman named Khāṣṣ bt. Shelomo Levi Somekh, the widow of …
Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Likely in the hand of Yefet b. David. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The delayed marriage payment is 20 …
Legal document, bottom part only, plus qiyyum/validation. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]38 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Witnesses: Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaon; …
Fragment of a ketubah, containing the dowry. On recto few words in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Possibly a formulary for an elaborate bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE. Both recto and verso are covered …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Recto mentions: two orphans, the release of a buyer, a guarantee, Sitt al-Ḥusn, Sitt al-Nasab, …
Legal or state document in Arabic script. Perhaps an IOU or a receipt. Mentions ʿAbdallāh and various numbers. Needs examination.
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed from the year [144]5 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of Masliah Gaon, and written …
Order in Arabic script. Ṣadaqa is to give the bearer two raṭls of meat. Cf. T-S As 177.466.
Deposition (modaʿ) in court made by one Abū Saʿd. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tammuz/Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid …