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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). It seems that somebody submitted an account of liabilities (ḥujaj), apparently to be paid …
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Legal settlement in the hand of the addressee, written between the end of the letter and the address. The senior partner Khallūf b. Mūsā the …
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Legal document involving exchange of commodities and money between Avraham b. Ṣūr and Shalom de Leon and Yiṣḥaq de Herrera and David Disqawi (?), dated …
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Legal document. Tiny fragment. Apparently dealing with the marriage of a freedwoman (meshuḥrarta kalta).
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Legal document. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). "Another woman, Mubāraka bt. Maḥfūẓ, already separated for over four years from her …
Legal document in Arabic script. Appears to contain the phrase "al-ḥāḍir al-ghāʾib" (the present, the absent"). Needs examination for content.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Upper piece: The names of the parties are deliberately erased. Mentions a sum …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: middle third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid = April 1103 CE. Unsigned but complete …
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Fragment of an account containing names and amounts of money in dinars and dirhams. Probably part of a court record, based on the presence of …
Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.
Recto: Upper part of a will. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid = 8 May 1241 CE. Written in the same hand as verso. The …
Legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1425 Seleucid, which is 1113/14 CE. Sitt al-Kull bt. [...] makes a declaration of some …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly legal (ashhadanī...) but it is quite small and seems informally written. Needs examination.
A few words regarding bill of divorce, probably halakhic.
F. 2r: Betrothal contract between Ṣedaqa b. M[oses?] and Wazīra bt. Mūsā b. Isaac. Dated Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 CE), and …
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Court record in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1541 Seleucid, which is 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. …
Small fragment from the top of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) made by ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī (cf. T-S NS 297.58).
Legal document. Will from 1527 CE (1 Shevat 5287 AM) drawn up by Shul or Sol (Sul, Shol = שול), the wife of R. Shelomo …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Kislev 1461 (17 November 1149). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Court record concerning a sum that a husband owes his wife as part of a divorce payment. (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes …
Litigation in court between the two partners, Farah and Yosef, concerning a business deal for merchandise that was apparently imported from Buna (Bone, Algieria) to …
Legal document in Hebrew, FGP lists as a שטר תנאים. The remnant of an ornamental border may be visible along the bottom.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Avraham b. Nissim gives part of a house to the wife of Shelomo, …
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Legal document. Deed of acknowledgment dated 449/1058. Ṣadaqa b. Ṭayyib al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī receives from Ḥasan b. Ishaq al-Isrāʾīlī al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī a loan of 150 dirhams. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone.
Ṣadaqa ibn Ṭayyib al-Ramlī, the maker of waistcloths, who is a youn…
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Legal fragment, probably, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Mneashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very few words are preserved: bi-danānīr... ḥisābunā... raʾs al-māl...
Verso: Formula for a validation by the court in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108), including an interesting addition. (Information from Goitein's index …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 21 December 1876 (5 Tevet 5637), with a handwritten note at the bottom, "this is the form …
Recto: Deed of sale in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1308 Seleucid = August/September 997 CE. “A bride's mother wrote in an interesting detailed Hebrew …
Two pages from the ketubah of Yosef and Esther
Legal formularies for marriage contracts. In large, square script.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, two of the witness statements are preserved.
Legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Wide space between the lines. Mentions [...] b. HIba, "from her …
Legal document. Probably a power of attorney, in which a woman appoints someone to collect what is due to her from ‘my husband’ Thābit b. …
Fragment of a letter or legal document describing how in the presence of 'the community' two people testified concerning the cantor Hilāl, who apparently neglected …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …
Legal document concerning a nasty financial quarrel between Shemarya b. Ḥalfon and his son Eli, detailing that Eli initially took their dispute to a shari‘a …
Small fragment from a ketubah containing few items from the dowry list. AA
Small fragment of a legal document, probably. None of the content is preserved.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal. Dating: Ottoman-era. Mentions three qinṭārs of something. Reused on verso for accounts. Merits further examination.
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(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī was which first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Recto: tiny fragment from a legal document. Verso: unidentified. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment from the upper left corner, preserving part of the decorative header. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/34 CE. Bill of release between a woman, [..]ma bt. Abū …
Legal document. Bill of divorce. Dated: 143[.] Seleucid. Fragment (the upper left corner is missing). Husband: [...] b. Tamīm. Wife: [...] bt. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. The …
Legal document: bill of sale in which Makhlūf b. Jābir b. Nāṣir buys a house in al-Muʿizziyya (Cairo) from […] b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. …
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Fragment of a dowry list probably in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. On recto a list of items, mainly garments (maʿraqa) and textiles. …
Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed. AA
Fragment of a partnership agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)