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Legal document. Very damaged. Location: Probably Cairo; only ''אל" is clearly legible of the location's name, but only three common locations begin with "al" (al-Qāhira, …
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Small legal fragment, probably a contract of debt. Mentions al-ʿAlāqma, a town in the area of Bilbays. The debtor is Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū [...]. …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed.
Legal or administrative document in Arabic script. Mentions 12(?) dinars. Needs examination.
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138)
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Goitein's notes and the NLI catalogue both give 1459 CE. The tens digit is very faded, but the …
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A damaged leaf from a book of legal documents or monograph.
Fragment from the middle of a legal document in Arabic script. Involving a deceased father. Mentions the "majlis al-ḥukm" of "our master [...]." Needs further …
Legal document (iqrār). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Abū Isḥ[āq]; half of a profit; entering Fustat; and more.
Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: 1115. Location: Al-Maḥalla. ʿOvadya b. Efrayim ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal empowers 'ḥemdat ha-yeshiva' Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi to money owed …
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Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involving the will of a deceased man; a woman, …
Recto: legal document concerning debt, referring to Ibn Mardūk, Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen b. Mordekhay […] b. Saʿadya. Verso: unidentified Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Legal formulary. Fragment from a book of legal formulae containing a few types of deeds, among them a bill of release of a slave (גט …
Legal document, fragment. Refers to a power of attorney; Eliyyahu; Simḥa ha-Zaqen; and someone's wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Fragment of an illuminated frame, probably for a ketubba that was never filled in.
Bill of release. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Monday, 23 Ṭevet 4864 AM, which is 24 December 1103 CE. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen had sent with …
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Recto: Deed of sale for a Nubian female slave. Her name is missing. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Seller: Hiba/Netanʾel. Buyer: Moshe ha-Talmid. Price: unclear …
Legal document, in Arabic script. A rental agreement regarding a property in Fusṭāṭ between Bū l-Faraj al-Ḥanīzī (?) and Bū Naṣr b. Khalaf al-Isrāʾīlī. The …
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 …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). On parchment. Bill of compromise. No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …
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Legal document. Court ruling. Dated: July 1084. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Location: Fustat. Yaḥyā b. Samuel sues Amram b. Abraham for …
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Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Involves someone named Shelomo and various sums of money. Signed by Mevorakh b. David, Khalaf b. Seʿadya, and Thābit b. …
Bifolio. One page (the right side of recto) contains a draft or copy of an Aramaic deed of gift given to a woman named Karīma.
Get (bill of divorce). Location: Damsīs. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevat 4810 AM = 16 January 1050 CE. Husband: Menahem b. Yefet. Wife: Riḍā bt. Avraham. …
Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: [14]81 Seleucid = 1169/70 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …
Rough draft of a ketubba (marriage contract), with instructions to the scribe for drawing up the final version. Possibly written by the judge Ḥayyim known …
Legal document listing funds from the estate of a deceased man. Dated 9 Av 5523 AM (1763 CE). The estate is connected to the income …
Legal fragment (upper right corner). Dated: Ṭevet 157[.] Seleucid, which corresponds to 1259–68 CE, under the authority of David I Maimonides.
Legal document, iqrār, in Arabic script. More than two-thirds of the document is preserved except for some tear on the top and left corner. Khalīfa …
Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Verso: A scrawled record of a property lease dated 23 Nisan 1539 Seleucid = 1228 CE. The renter is …
A late ketubba. From the date only the end of the year-36- is preserved.The groom's name is Shemuʾel (l.11) and a sum of dinars is …
A father Netanʾel b. Yefet ha-Levi stands security for the income from 14/24 shares in a house which he had given to his daughter at …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. This portion contains mostly a trousseau list.
Legal fragment, either a will or something to do with the disposition of the property of a certain Ibn al-Raqyan (בן אלרקיין) who is now …
Prenuptial agreement. Dating: end of the 13th century. Fiancee: Shamsūn bt. Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshaʿya ha-Levi, the ex-wife of Avraham. Goitein describes it as …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, two of the witness statements are preserved.
Am uncomplete bill of divorce (get) from Fustat 1366 to the Era of Documents (1055 CE). The husbands name is Nasir b. Ya'aqov. The wife's …
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated: Kislev 5480 (1719 CE) Verso: sale of a one-year tax-farming partnership within the Ottoman customs house of Old …
Legal document, שטר פצוי (indemnity), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The principals are Shemuʾel and Elʿazar. (Information from CUDL)
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 …
Bifolium from a rabbinic work dealing with ritual slaughter, possibly a responsum, quoting Exodus 12:6. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script, probably legal. On parchment. There are two lines of very large calligraphic text, including the name of a woman, Zaynab bt. …
Bottom of a legal document. On parchment. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unclear if any specifics are preserved; someone is …
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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Marriage contract of Hayyim b. Moshe and Aziza b. Shelomo. Dated July 1492 (24 Tammuz 5252 AM). (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 450)
Torn fragment from the top of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). No details preserved.
Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabics on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …
Order, probably. For 3 ounces of almond oil.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Sitt al-Kull.