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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dating: 11th century. Groom: [...] b. Ḥusayn. Bride: [...] bt. Yiṣḥaq. Marriage payments: 15 + 25. (Information from Goitein’s index …
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Fragment from the top of a deed of engagement (shiddukhin). Fiancee: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Mentions wine and pressing.
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Legal fragment regarding a partnership. Involves Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen; Minyat al-Qāʾid; 20 dinars; splitting shares equally; and Ṣedaqa Neʾeman [ha-Yeshiva].
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Fragment (lower left corner) of a medieval legal document including the names Aharon b. ʿAmram and the witnesses [...] ha-Kohen b. Saʿīd and [...] b. …
Small piece of a marriage-related legal document, mentioning gifts and "Naẓar the mother of this bride." (Information in part from CUDL)
Outline for a marriage-related document, probably. Groom: the cantor [Abū l-Ḥasan?] b. Naḥman the cantor. Bride: the widow [...] bt. Saʿadya. In the hand of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 624 H. Involves Abū l-Faraj b. Fāḍil(?) b. Khalaf al-Tājir and Bū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī b. …
A legal deed. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Ketubba, very damaged. Names and date are faded. At top is the reshut formula of one of Maimonides' descendants. The hand seems to be identical …
IB VII, 26. Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 …
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Debt contract. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Surūr b. ʿUlla owes 6 2/3 dinars to Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ṣedaqa and agrees to a schedule of repayments.
Debt contract. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid = September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
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Deed of manumission of a slave, dated 591H (?). Photo needs to be identified in DPUL.
Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabic on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …
Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
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 document in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part). On parchment. Probably a deed of sale. Dated: 450 AH = 1058/59 CE.
Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dated: Friday 21 [...] …
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. This is a small piece from the bottom (includes the phrase בנימוסי מלכותה). Signed by [...]n b. Yaʿaqov.
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). Dated: Thursday, 4 Ṭevet 1453 Seleucid = 4 December 1141 CE. In which Bishr b. Ibrāhīm sues …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Join: Amir Ashur. Recto: Document referring to a woman whose husband traveled to …
Draft for a document of appointment for a synagogue beadle. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: somewhere near Fustat. Dated: "such-and-such month" of the year 15[..] Seleucid = …
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Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Mentions 'all kinds of merchandise' (in the margin).
Recto: End of a legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved. Verso: Complete legal document in Arabic script. No witness signatures. …
IB VII, 7. Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1112 CE (based on T-S …
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Draft of a legal document. Mentioning the death of someone's son Abū l-ʿAlā; the late Nagid; and an orphan, Saʿadya b. Saʿadya. (Information in part …
Legal document date incomplete, mentioning ‘the period of a month’ and Abraham ha-Kohen and [...]fa b. Yefet. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan, 5578 AM, which is July 1818 CE. Apprentice contract for Avraham Fuerte, the student, and …
1. בע׳׳ה
2. בפעח׳׳מ באו היקר נשא ונע׳ יאודה בונאן יצ׳׳ו והבחור ונחמד אברהם פוירטי יצ׳׳ו והודו שניהם הודאה
3. גמו׳ …
Recto: Legal fragment in Arabic script. Iqrār. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Dated: 510 or 520 AH = 1116/17 or 1126/27 CE. Needs …
Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Friday, 20 Kislev 1457 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed by Ṣedaqa …
Possibly a legal document. Very faded. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl al-Maghribī, something ʿarabī (a hijrī date?), and possibly someone named Ḥananya.
One side: Legal formularies, including one for semikha for a slaughterer. The other side: Legal document (שטר עיסקא) or perhaps a formulary of one that …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: mentions 1438 Seleucid = 1126/27 CE. Possibly a debt acknowledgement mentioning a sum of …
Small fragment from an outline/digest of a prenuptial agreement, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom takes upon himself not to forbid …
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 …
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Moshe the cantor, Shelomo, a wālī, and "the father and his mother." The word קתל (kill/be killed) …
Bill of divorce between Khulla bt. Yefet and Ṣedaqa [b. Shelomo] (same as in T-S AS 146.53 (PGPID 21608)?). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon …
Verso: Legal document. Oath by Mevorakh b. Naḥum (or possibly Ibn Naḥḥās) concerning payment for a house, of which Abū ʿAlī retains the right to …
Small fragment of a legal document or documents. Mentions someone titled Peʾer ha-Qehilot, Sitt al-Nasab, Yeshuʿa, and Bū l-Faraj "the husband of her mother." Likely …
Legal fragment. Portions of 13 lines are preserved, but it's unclear if any details of the case or document type are preserved.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. The two columns are written in two different hands. The text on the left is extremely similar to the text …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving Abū Saʿīd Makhlūf ('al-Neʾeman'), [...] b. Moshe ha-Zaqen, and ʿAmram b. [...]. …
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride: Bahiyya bt. Yosef, a virgin. Early marriage payment: 20 dinars. Dating: ca. 1040 CE (per Goitein). There is a …
Entry in court notebook (#40). Note stating that a letter shall be written to Ibn al-Zurzūr(?) Bū l-Faraj ha-Ḥazzan informing him not to raise any …
Legal deed. Opening lines only; abandoned mid-way through the fifth line. Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 1539 Seleucid, which is 1228 CE, under the jurisdiction of …
Bill of divorce. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli ha-Kohen. Wife: Ẓāfira bt. Yefet. (Information from Goitein's index card on T-S 8J29.13 [PGPID 3771], probably the martial …
Arabic legal deed(s) on parchment. Might involve real estate.
Deed of release. Beautifully preserved. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 23 [...] 1329 Seleucid = 1017/18 CE. In which Shelomo b. Moshe b. Shelomo declares that …
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 …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Bottom part only. Dating: Ca. late 10th century based on the dates of the witnesses. Bride: Ṭova bt. Ḥusayn. Groom: Shelomo b. …