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Dowry list (taqwīm). No names No muqaddam or me'uḥar. Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part …
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Testimony regarding Mubāraka, a freed female slave formerly belonging to Abū l-Faraj b. Hilāl al-Miṣrī, whom he betrothed to a kohen, Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh al-Bardārī. Location: …
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Legal declaration, probably the concluding page of a deposition, signed by Shem Ṭov al-Ḥāmī. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Late. Shem Ṭov declares that he …
Legal document, minute fragment. Dark (presumably burned) and nearly illegible. Includes the phrase "אם חס ושלום" and mentions Sicily or Palermo (אלסקליה). AA. ASE.
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Possibly a document of sale "البيع المذكور بينهما على". In Arabic script. Involves the amīr Hilāl and a sum of money. Needs examination.
Possibly legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). On parchment. involving Abū ʿAlī [Ye]fet b. Avraham and …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper part only). In which Abū Saʿd al-Ḥarīrī Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq, the …
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Part of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Ṭoviyya. Groom: [...]a b. Abra[ham]. Date and location not preserved. Witnessed by ‘the lesser’ Netanʾel b. Yefet b. …
Legal document. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 5509 AM, which is 1749 CE (not 1509 CE as catalogued). Reconciliation agreement between two partners, the goldsmiths Yūsuf …
Legal fragment. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shem[uel] and Ḥiyya b. Yeshuʿa. Little of the content remains. There are two separate documents on recto and verso.
Legal document dated [...] Sivan […], in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#62) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 60-62) Folio 16r
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1431 Seleucid, which is April 1120 CE. Settlement between …
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Text with citations from halakhic sources, possibly a responsum, mentioning an orphan. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document, draft. Left side only. No witnesses. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1542 Seleucid, which is 1231 CE. Features a freed muwallad slave (al-ghulām al-maʿtūq... …
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Late. Involving David al-Granati (אלגראנאטי) a resident of Rhodes (תושב רודוס); a sum of reals (ריאליס); an orphan; …
Legal document written and signed by Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu (muqaddam of Bilbays, active ca. 1170s–1220). Regarding the welfare of orphans and mentioning Cairo. Also signed …
Verso: Extremely faded legal document or legal notes. In which Karīma bt. Avraham appoints her uncle Efrayim as her agent, it seems to sue [...] …
Ketubba. Only some signatures are preserved together with the validation (qiyyum) of the ketubba. The witnesses of the main document are: ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi; …
Legal document (iqrār). Receipt of payment in new monies in copper paid to Sayf al-Dīn Ṭūghān by his wife Fāṭimah, dated 29 Ramaḍān 815 [1413]. …
Betrothal deed. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Sivan 1471 Seleucid (31 May 1160 CE), under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Bride: …
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Legal deed. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Elul 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi (the famous kabbalist) sells 8 1/3 …
Legal document, perhaps a deed of release. In Hebrew, in a striking square script. Dating: Probably 10th or early 11th century. Involves Mevorakh b. Shabbat …
Two fragments from the bottom of a legal document (or draft) in Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Contains release …
Acknowledgement of debt between David b. Elʿazar Kandiote (קאנדייוטי) and Shabbetay ʿAdda (עדה). Dated Kislev 5527 AM (= 1766 CE) and signed by Ezekiel Ḥefeṣ, …
Legal document in which an old woman, appointed by the court as guardian of her grandchildren, receives cash and items left by her son for …
Marriage contract. On parchment. Fragment (lower left corner). Might be in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. Grand total of marriage payments: 350. Border …
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 …
Fragment from the beginning of a kettuba. The bride's father's name is Munajjā ha-Parnas (ZL) and the groom is Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. There is a later …
Legal record (#23). Divorce settlement. Dated: Same as previous record (Monday, 14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid). Salīm al-Munādī ('the crier') agrees that he owes his daughter-in-law …
Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 12 Kislev, 1026, in the hand of Yefet ha-Hazan b. Daud, who signs alone. Sulayman b. Yusuf made …
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Involves a certain Ṣedaqa.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on typical names and titles. Needs further examination. Pinholes, but in conservation …
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Segment of a prenuptial agreement, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).
Beautiful calligraphic fragment of deed of sale of a bathhouse in Zawilat al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya, by one Jew to another. The seller describes the bath and …
An incomplete deed of a sale of one quarter of a house by a public leader, Ibn al-ʿAjamī, to the wife of a money assayer …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
Quittance, large but faded, from Yakhin b. Mevorakh ha-Levi. Seven signatures, mostly faded or fragmentary. 11th century.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: [53]52 AM, which is 1591/92 CE. Concerning the division of an inheritance between a dead man's widow and …
Recto: bottom line of a court record, (written and?) signed by [Avraham] b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver, [Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel] the Spaniard, Menashshe b. Shemuel, Ḥalfon b. …
Recto: draft of a legal document involving business, mentioning coral, and Menaḥem Abū l-Saʿd. In Hebrew. Dating: late. A partial date is preserved on verso; …
Legal document. Involving Abū Saʿīd Dāʾūd Ibn Shaʿya, Zekharya b. Tammām, Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan, and a house. Quite faded.
Legal document. Location: Sammanūd. Dated: 1445 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ. Names [...] ha-Kohen ha-Zariz b. Yosef ha-Kohen. The …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Signed by Avraham b. Shemarya nin Shemaʿyahu Ga'on (אברהם ברבי שמעיה החבר נבתויא נין …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Monday, 3 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid, which is 1214 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involves Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Manṣūr …
Agreement between Yiṣḥaq b. Yefet ha-Kohen and his divorcee al-Ḥasana bt. Moshe ha-Kohen, from Tinnīs. She releases him from something. Signed by A[...] and Yaʾir …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Tishrei 1351 Seleucid (October 1039 CE). Ṭoviyya b. Yefet ha-Levi and ʿAllūn b. Faraj testify that on the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large fragment but almost all is formulaic. (Information in part from CUDL)
Birth records. In Italian. Dated: 1721 CE through 1743 CE.