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Debenture bond / promissory note (ورقة سند). An adorned printed template states that this is "a debenture bond for the sum of less than 100 …
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Top of a legal document. Location: M[inyat Zif]ta Jawād. Dated: Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid = 11 November 1316 CE, under the authority (reshut) of …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday night, 23 Tammuz 1538 Seleucid = 9 July 1227 CE. ʿIbād and her sister, the daughters of Abū l-Majd, …
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Ketubba fragment (right lower corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Groom: Yefet ha-Zaqen b. [...] ba-Ḥavura. Witnesses: Peraḥya b. Araḥ; Yefet b. Ṣadaqa. …
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Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Ḥassān, bearing the patronymic Abū ʿAlī, ibn [Ibrāhīm ibn Azhar], the…
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Recto: Upper part of a will. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid = 8 May 1241 CE. Written in the same hand as verso. The …
Power of attorney. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1336 Seleucid, which is 1024/25 CE. In which Ḥusnā bt. Yeḥezqel b. Masʿūd al-ʿAqrabānī, appoints …
Marriage contract (ketubba) appearing to be between two relatively poor families, as evident by the small marriage gift of 14 dinars. Dowry provided by the …
Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 11v-12r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
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Responsum draft about Reuben who gave Shimon checks to deiver to Baghdad and also lend him money. Shimon pawned jewelry as a guarantee for Reuben …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Kislev 1390 Seleucid = 26 November 1078 CE. Ghālib b. Avraham comes before the court with a power …
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). With a reference to the exilarch in the header. There are symmetric rows of perforation at the top and the …
Legal document in Arabic script. May be a deed of sale (hādhā mā ishtarā....). One of the parties is Jewish. Reused in the upper margins …
Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, his blessings and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet and his family.
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Quittance granted by [...] bt. ʿAbdallāh al-Rummānī to Abū l-Faraj Sulaymān b. Hārūn al-Khaybarī known as Ibn al-Sulūkī (?), an official in the treasury (kātib …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Netanel b. Avraham. Bride: and Ṣabiyya bt. [...]. The dignitary Neḥemya b. Avraham he-Ḥaver is mentioned. Dated: 1345 Seleucid, which is …
Legal record from the early thirteenth century explicating a communal conflict. The sermon of local Jewish judge describes accusations concerning women in the city lending …
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An agreement for cancelation of engagement. Dating: probably 16th century (looks like the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya).The two parties declares they have no …
Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Av 5579 AM = 23 July 1819 CE. Between Gedalya Mujnājī and Shabbetay Vidal. The partnership is to begin …
Legal document in Arabic script, central portion of either a contract or a deed of sale. Dating: Likely Mamluk or Ottoman era. The name of …
Recto looks like a draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso contains jottings as well as accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mentions Wednesday, 23 Nisan …
A court decree made in the last decade of the month of Iyyar in 1543 (1232 in the Julian calendar), banning the use of synagogue …
Badly damaged and faded fragment from a legal deed mentioning Sitt al-Dar
Legal deed for the purchase of a house by a descendant of the Ṭabāṭabā family. Dating: early 5th/11th century. See also T-S Ar. 38127 (early …
Ketubba on vellum, badly damaged. Location: Cairo ([...] ha-semukhah le-Fustat Miṣrayim in opening lines), and פה מצרים in the penultimate line. Dating: 13 Av 55[..] …
Left lower corner of a will from Fustat. The elder daughter is in charge of the partitioning of the house. The dying man says that …
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner). Very faded.
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 …
Fragment from a Karaite ketubba, preserving only the trousseau list. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:378) dates the script to the early 11th century. (Information from CUDL)
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Dowry list of a wealthy bride. The sums given at the bottom are: muqaddam 20, muʾakhkhar 30 and everything 676 (reading uncertain), meaning that the …
Ketubba. Small fragment (upper right piece. Location: probably Cairo (דסמיכא לפסטאט מצרים). A certain deceased Berakhot (the bride's or groom's father) is mentioned. AA
Draft of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Abū al-[Man]ṣūr al-Kohen purchases a female slave named Ṭ[...] for the price of 25 dinars.
Recto: part of a large letter to the courtier Avraham b. Yashar (Abraham b. Sahl Tustari). The writer wishes him recovery from his illness, and …
Trousseau list. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Arye b. Yehuda. Bride: Karīma bt. ʿAmmār. Marriage payments: 10 + 15. The latter …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashse (1100–38 CE). Dated: 1444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Yakhin b. Netanʾel Rosh ha-Qehillot gives a gift …
Legal deed in Hebrew. Dating: probably 16th century (based on the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya). Ḥayyim b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn Ḥakīm and …
Fragment from a bill of divorce (get) from Fustat. The husband's name is Ya'aqov.
Page containing some formulas of deeds of sale and release.
Marriage document. An ornamented ketubah from Cairo "[near] Fusṭāt Miṣrayīm on the river Nile." Despite the damage to the document, this locational formula can be …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Nearly completely preserved. In Arabic. Dated: 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 AH = 2 June 1143 CE. The declaration is made by …
Informal note of the court, likely in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to write out the will that has …
Upper right fragment: Legal document in Arabic script. Needs further examination. There are three more unrelated documents in Arabic script under the same shelfmark; all …
Beginning of a legal document dated 9 Tammuz 1602 Seleucid = 8 June 1291 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid David I Maimonides and …
Ketubba. Groom: Meʾir b. Yakhin (a well-known cantor and communal official). Bride: Muʿazzaza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. Location: Fustat. Dating: the 4th of a month, …
Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Mentions a period beginning Iyyar 1542 Seleucid, which is April 1231 …
Document in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE) concerning Zikri b. Ḥalfon, who received 50 dinars from funds belonging to …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated: Sunday 25 Tevet 5409. Location: Cairo. Bride: Ḥanūna bt. Efrayīm b. Aharon. Groom: ʿOvadiah b. Shemuʾel b. ʿOvadiah. The groom commits …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj Netanel, who dies; the sister of Shela ha-Kohen; Hiba Ibn al-Shāmī; …
Legal deed. Bill of sale for a female slave named Nisrīn for 20 dinars. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1459 Seleucid = March/April 1148 CE. Seller: …
Legal document mentioning a sum of money and ‘the price (or: eighth) of the house’. (Information from CUDL)