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Fragment of a marriage contract. This portion contains part of the trousseau list. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Legal document referring to commercial transactions, mentioning commodities such as "100 and 1/6 of 100" of ammonia, a brocade mattress (martaba dībāj), two pillows, a …
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Verso (secondary use): Proclamation (taqqana) in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1522 Seleucid = 1210/11 CE. Few details preserved. The text is not identical with the taqqana from …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid = October 1133 CE, under the authority of …
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A draft of a Karaite marriage contract
Legal note in Arabic script mentioning "one of the elders of Islam" (شيخ مشائخ الاسلام) mawlānā al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṣadīqī (?) al-muʿallim, and a woman named …
Recto: Otoman-era legal document in Persian, probably dealing with the sale (فروخت = "he/she sold" in l. 5) of a plot of land (قطعه زمین). …
Few faded words, probably regarding a debt
Probably draft or template of a legal document, in which ‘Reuben’ claims from ‘Shimon’ certain perfume ingredients, such as camphor, costus etc. (Information from CUDL)
Legal contract concerning the synagogue of the Mustaʿrib congregation in 1544 CE (Sivan 5304 AM).
Three drafts of legal documents. (a) Recto: פוטיתי bt. Eliyya, the divorcee of Yosef b. Elʿazar and the mother-in-law of Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq appears before …
Small strip from a Ketubbah on vellum, contains mostly trousseau list mentioning ṭabaristān probably in connection with a garment. No further details preserved. AA
Acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century on paleographic grounds and based on the mention of the Dār Simḥa synagogue. A precise date …
Beginning of an engagement document for Shelomo b. Raḥamīm Khamīṣ/Ḥamīṣ(?) and the orphan Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf. Undated, but pre-1830/1831 CE based on Sarah's later …
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Minute fragment, probably from the middle part of a ketubah, based on the mention of דמיפטרא ביה (what that will make her divorce) which is …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …
Engagement document (shidukkhin) and dowry list: "The clothes and the nedunya and the contante [Italian for cash] of the widow Ms. Dona bt. Moshe Ptso/Ftso"). …
Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …
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Court record, probably a bill of release between a woman named Turfa and a man named Sayyid al-Kull. Signed by [...] b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen and …
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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Legal document(s). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Multiple entries, it seems all dealing with the estate of the late Menashshe. On …
Upper right corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In the name of Rafīq(?) b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad. Reused for accounts.
Possibly a late legal document in Hebrew. Mentioning R. Avraham.
Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Location: Alexandria or another coastal city. Dating: 11th century; it was written on a Monday, 18 Sivan; …
Pre-nuptial agreement, written following the betrothal and shortly before the marriage itself. The groom’s name is Shelomo. The marriage gift is 10 dinars. (Information from …
Deed of sale for the purchase by Ibrahim b. Mūsā b. Ṣaliḥ the Jew of two houses and irrigated land to the north of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وكفى وصلواته على عباده الذين اصطفی
هذا ما اشترى ابرهيم بن موسی بن صلح الاسرائيلي من [دا اود بن ازهر …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient for, and his blessings be upon, his [servants, whom] …
Small fragment from the end of a ketubah. One of the witnesses is Yehezkel. AA
Probably part of a court record. (Information from CUDL)
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated: Tuesday, 2 Heshvan 5324 AM = 19 October 1563 CE. Doña Masʿūda (the same Doña Masʿūda as …
Power of attorney. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia. Monday, 1 Av [4]833 AM, which is July 1073 CE. In which the Qaraite Abū Saʿd Isḥāq b. …
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Bottom part of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century based on the paleography. Very faded and damaged. Document of release after someone …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Signed by [...] Hakohen b. Halfon.
Trousseau list. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1140 CE or, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when Natan …
Recto: Legal fragment (or formulary or draft?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The larger text block contains phrases of release (ibrāʾ) possibly on the termination of a partnership. …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Cairo. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. Avraham ha-Kohen.
Top of a legal declaration drawn up in Fustat in the middle of Iyyar 15[..], under the authority of the Avraham Maimonides. One of the …
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 …
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Settlement agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan and Manṣūr, his brother-in-law. A document establishing some detail was made out for the sister with …
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Legal document. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved. Involves 3 dinars, a druggist, and someone named Ṭāhir.
Legal record (#99) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 33v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Tishrei 5327 …
Record of a deposition in court, written in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: ca. 1095 CE and, more broadly, 1066–1108 CE …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! etc.
Here is what happened: There appeared before us al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Surūr, our Master and Le…
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Record and validation of a deposition regarding a compound partly dedicated to the synagogues. The document bears two dates, 4 Iyyar [1]358 Sel. and 2 …
The witnesses named in this deed testify that they know that the compound
which is in the blind alley known as the Lane of the Poor in Q…
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Order. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sulaymān Kohen tells the addressee to give two ounces of lemon and rose (syrups?) to Abū l-Faraj. (This Sulaymān Kohen may be …
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...
Legal record (#59) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 58-59) Folio 15v
See PGPID 15834
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably a deed of gift. Signed by [Abraham?], a descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon. …
Recto: Deed of sale for an enslaved person. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1542 = 31 October 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 …