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Will of a silk-weaver named Abū l-Faḍl b. Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī, dividing his house, workshop, and other belongings to his four sons. In the hand …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the accounts on verso mention the ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan …
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Possibly legal formularies, or else a literary text ("... al-fulāniyya...").
Legal document (written by Yosef b. Shemuel. AA) . Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1194 and 1199. A deed of lease is …
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Legal document concerning an inheritance. Location: Fustat. Dated: first third of Iyyar, 1414 Seleucid, which is 1103 CE. Labwa b. Efrayim known as Ibn al-Malaṭī …
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Draft or beginning of a legal document. In Arabic script. "This is a release between me and Umm Abū Manṣūr regarding the dwelling in the …
Small fragment from the end of a ketubba in which the groom (ʿEli b. David) undertakes to support the two daughters of his bride (Ḥusn …
Legal letter. Written on parchment (14 lines). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He reports that he has come up with …
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Fragment from the end of a legal document, signed by Avraham ha-Levi b. Moshe ha-Levi and Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa (?).
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. The middle portions of ~11 lines are preserved from near the top of the document. The price of a …
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 …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Resolution of a dispute between Abū l-Surūr and someone else in a …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 988–1088 CE. Groom: ʿEli. Bride: Malka/Milka/Malika, a widow or divorcee. Marriage payments: 5 + …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions someone reaching maturity and taking possession of something from his mother, and quotes the verse 'لا …
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions 500 dirhams. Dating: Perhaps Ṣafar 1097 AH, which would be 1685/86 CE. But the year is faded, and this …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Decorated borders with criscrossing small letters and red dots. The wife …
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ṣedaqa the elder. Almost none of the substance is preserved. May mention neighbors (jīrān). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Thursday, 4 [...]n 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE. Under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Involves a woman …
Ketubba fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A circular piece has been cut out; this is part of the …
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah. The groom's name [...] b. Shemuel, and the bride's Jamila. Only part of the signatures have preserved: …
Deed of release, probably. Faded and rubbed. Shelomo b. [...] and Abū l-Faraj Yehuda make a declaration in favor of ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi (known …
Accounts, in Arabic script. The list is itemized each beginning with "ʿalā" indicating the dues of each person listed. The usage of the ق qurush …
Part of a leaf from a formulary (it refers to 'פלניתא בת פל and 'פל' בר פל). (Information from CUDL)
Recto: beginning of a Qaraite ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar 12[..] Seleucid = 889–988 CE. There is a small drawing in the header. Verso and …
Small fragment of a legal document probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions Abū l-Bishr.
Fragment of a deed of sale for a property in Fustat, in Maḥbas Bunāna. In Arabic script. Several geographical details and characteristics of the property …
Marriage document. Fragment from a ketubah, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108), from Fustat. Only part of the date is preserved: Tuesday, 19th of …
Small fragment of a ketubba, referring to ‘[.]5 gold dinars’. (Information from CUDL)
Fragmentary opening formula of a legal document written in Shīrābād (שיראבד). The fragment is labeled "L19" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts. …
Bill of sale for property. Dated: Jumādā al-Ūlā 394 [Feb.-March 1004]. Parchment ; 16 lines ; 250 x 300 mm. Upper edges mutilated and several …
Legal fragment, concerning the return of marriage payments and goods. Sums are quoted in bunduqi (בנדקי) (probably 16th century). (Information from CUDL)
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script involving Jewish silk traders (al-qazzāzīn al-isrāʾīliyyīn). Two signatures are preserved. Underneath, the tops of the letters are …
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Faḍl al-Muḥassin b. Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān, the merchant, buys part of a ruined house (which he already owns …
In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate.]
This is what Abū al-Faḍl al-Muḥassin ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān, the merchant, bought from Jum…
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: ʿAmmār b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Surūr bt. Yefet. A sum of 12.5 dinars is mentioned. The dowry is valued at …
Notebook of a marriage broker. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew with Coptic numerals. Dating: 1511/12 CE (1823 Seleucid). Enumerates the circumstances attending the marriage of certain …
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Legal document. This fragment describes a partnership in a dyeing business between Efrayim b. Yaaqov al-Mawṣilī and Abraham b. Hiba al-Dimashqī. Efrayim, the owner of …
Small fragment of a legal document; ‘this Joseph ha-Kohen’ is crossed out and replaced above the line with ‘Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen his father’. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of a gift of a house in the Darb al-Silsila, Mamṣūṣa quarter, Fustat, in Arabic. A Jewish physician gives a house newly erected by …
Legal fragments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Clockwise from upper right: (a) A scrap mentioning Musallam b. Ayyūb (appears …
Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Sitt al-Dār has appointed her husband Ṣedaqa as …
Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a judge and the Qaraites; "29.5 every month"; Maʿālī b. [...].
Legal document: testimony in the name of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad. Four signatures, one in Kufic script (!). Item 10 in DPUL; unclear what current folio …
Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Concerning the renting of an upper-storey apartment (ṭabaqa). One of the conditions specified is about the renter …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Very damaged. Probably a marriage contract. Mentions ʿAskar b. ʿAlī b. Faraj al-Maghribī in the first line. There are additional …
Minute fragment. Only few words including the name bar Yequti'el. Probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138), but there is limited text available.
Legal document concerning the lease of a house by ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Aḥmad the preacher, from Mūsā b. ʿAdī the Jew, in the district of …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad the prophet and his family and save them.
This is wha…
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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 …
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 …
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Adar 1441 Seleucid = March 1130 CE. Contains …