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Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Approximately 4 lines are preserved. Seems to be from the beginning of an iqrār, preserving the physical …
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Damaged and faded fragment, probably from a responsum. The text is too fragmentary, but it seems it is dealing with payment of damage. AA
Damaged fragment from a formula of a legal deed.
Two government officials named Abu al-Makarim the scribe and Abu al-Bishr make a loan of 54 dinars belonging to them in equal shares to Yosef …
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Formularies of legal documents, mentioning Rav Hayya. (Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.)
Parts of documents - needs examination.
Betrothal agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fiance: Yahaboy. Fiancee: Malīḥa. There is no payment of a first installment of the additional marriage …
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Fragment of a legal deed (or less likely from a halakhic discussion): ...jamīʿ mā... wa-min kull ḥaqq... shimmush wa-shahida fī... wa-qad istaqarra... qawl al-Mishna, "ʿEved..." …
Bill of sale, probably, for an enslaved woman. Fragment (lower right piece). Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Buyer: Mevorakh. Seller: Yequtiʾel. Few details preserved. Signed …
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Ketubbah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 203) – in Hebrew and Aramaic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: Sunday, 21 Adar 1408 Seleucid (March 1097 CE). Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. This document …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment.
Left fragment: Court record. Very faded and damaged. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Settlement of a martial dispute after the …
Small fragment from the top of a legal document relating to an engagement or betrothal. ...אללה תעאלי אסבאב אלוצלה בין אבו אל . . . …
Legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1484 Seleucid = October/November 1172 CE. Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī …
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Bill of release in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1400 Seleucid = 28 August 1089 CE. Release given …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …
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Court record, draft. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 6 Sivan 5252 AM (=ברן), which is 1492 CE. One of the matters is the inheritance of Maṣliaḥ …
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Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Heshvan, 5562 AM = October/November 1801 CE. Meʾir Ben-Naʿim invests 100 reales (1 real = 90 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fictive sale (bayʿ ṭāliq) of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for …
Verso: Legal note in Arabic script. The one who appoints the agent: Abū l-Faraj Shūʿā b. [...]. The agent: Zuhayr b. Ibrāhīm. Purpose: the sale …
Part of a ketubba from Egypt with no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …
Legal document, in Arabic script. A very long but fragmentary waqf document, probably Ottoman era. Also contains a bold monumental script in the middle, probably …
IB I, 23. Draft or notes of court proceedings (legal document) regarding a sale of half a house for 300 dinars. Abu Sahl, Menashshe b. …
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 …
Ketubba, probably. Small fragment. Very damaged. Reused for an alphabetical (divination?) table on verso.
Recto: Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. On parchment. Referring to an agreement between [... b.] Meshullam and his wife Maymūna, possibly concerning …
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Eliyahu Halevi b. Avraham. The previously married bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Eliyahu. Dated 27 Shevat …
Divorce agreement, Qaraite. Dated: Wednesday, 25 Nisan 5488 AM, which is 1728 CE. This does not seem to be a ketubba, per Ktiv, but rather …
Deposition in the Jewish Court of Tyre, ca. 1028. The rent of a compound in Aleppo has been dedicated by its owner, Hilla b. Joseph, …
To the mighty of the country and its dukes. The ones chosen of that which is the Choice, and mingled in It. The troops of Gaba and Its redeem…
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Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic (not a letter as catalogued). Involves a partnership between Yeshuʿa and Salmān; 37 dinars; business in 'the west' and perhaps in …
Instruction to Abū l-Bishr to deliver to ʿOvadya b. Shelomo ha-Kohen all that had been deposited with the court for him, after his 3 elder …
Legal fragment. Mentions a debt of 50 dinars.
Recto: Legal document. In the hand of Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dating: 1160–65 or 1160–69 CE, as it was …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Yiftaḥ. Ten dinars are mentioned, and this seems to be the entire obligation. Dated: 24 Adar II 1551 Seleucid, which is …
Inventory of various kinds of building materials and wood (probably after the dismantling of a house), followed by "we saw the house and nothing remained …
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Recto: deed of sale in Hebrew for a compound in Damascus (a large and small house) at the Market of the Jews, for 280 ʿAzīzī …
Investment partnership in which Shemuʾel Leon receives 4,000 medin from Mercada (מרקאדה) bt. Yaʿaqov Arubaṣ (ארובץ) to invest in his business. Dated Tammuz 5561 (= …
Legal deed concerning the payment in monthly installments of the remaining five dinars minus one sixth of a debt of a total of seven dinars. …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a deed of sale for half of a house, describing its boundaries. Mentions Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Groom: Natan b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿOvadya. One of the oldest and largest illuminated medieval ketubbot from the …
An order from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of linseed oil (zayt ḥār). Cf. T-S NS 31.11.
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 …
Legal document related to real estate property in the "Samaritan Quarter" of Cairo, which remained as an urban placename despite the unexplained disappearance of the …
Bill to a company dealing in salt and sodium carbonate – 1932CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 152) – in French. (information from …
Legal record. In the hand of Mevorkah b. Natan? Abū l-Munajjā Shelomo b. Saʿadya leaves to each of his three minor daughters — Mudallala, Naẓar, …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Ramla ("the city adjacent to Lod"). Dated: 4775 AM, which is 1014/15 CE. Faded and fragmentary (upper left corner only). …
Two fragments of a deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Last decade of Iyyar 1431 Seleucid, which is 1120 CE. In …
Page from the record book of the law court of the Yeshiva, perhaps Yoshiyahhu Gaʾon. From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and …