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Marriage document. Fragment from a left side of ketubah de'irkasa כתובה דארכסא, that is a ketubah written as a replacement for a lost ketubah (see …
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Record of the activities of the qodesh at the end of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century, up to 1034 CE. …
Those who wrote their signatures at the end of this writing declare that we know and witness that all
the places here involved that are …
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IB VII, 1. Partnership agreement. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 1347 Seleucid = 8 June 1036 CE. Gil identifies the handwriting as that of Sahlān b. …
[אק] חצר ר שמואל בן סהלאן אלברקי [ושרט עלי נפסה]
[ברצאה בלא אונס] וקאל לנא אנה כאן אנפ[ד] מעי פראח
בן סהלון [מעי] מרגאן מן אלקירואן ווצלת…
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Model of a legal document in which a mother gives her daughter the upper story of a building as a gift. (Information from Goitein's index …
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Recto: deed of partnership between Aharon b. Baqāʾ and a certain Saʿadya. Dating: likely 11th century. Verso: jottings including an ownership note with the name …
Recto: Deed of sale for a female slave (the term waṣifa appears in ll. 2 and 6). In Arabic script. Dating: probably 11th or 12th …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (top part and bottom part are missing). Mentions a woman and her husband Tamīm(?) (l. 2); Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Aswad …
Draft of a deathbed declaration of Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿAdiyya Ibn Maṭrūḥ, who had sold his daughter, Sitt al-Sāda, and her son two-thirds of …
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Recto: Small fragment of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The one making the acknowledgment may be named Salmūn b. Isḥāq al-Māwardī.
Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Likely in the hand of Yefet b. David. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The delayed marriage payment is 20 …
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Verso: Small fragment of an Arabic document. The beginnings of 2 lines are preserved: fī kull shahr... ḥisāban fī al-[...]... Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Legal document in Hebrew On Parchment. Involving [...]DYA known as Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (spelled בן אצבג); the mother of Yefet b. S[...]; Yefet's father, who was …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Groom: Menaḥem b. Hillel. Bride: Sutūt bt. Shelomo. Dated: Tuesday (date …
Legal document (likely a contract of sale) dated Muḥarram 446 AH. The document is damaged at the top. Three of the witnesses come from the …
Legal record (#33) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 …
Deed of sale for a portion of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1468 Seleucid, which is 1156/57 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. …
Small fragment from the end of an Arabic document, likely a legal document with a witness signature or possibly a letter.
Fragment covered with dense jottings and pen trials. there may also be a block of a legal document in Arabic script on recto. The last …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Both sides contain formulary for documents relating to the sale of an enslaved …
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Concerning sale of a property or a dispute related to it. Mentions the benefactor's daughter, the clause "during his …
Fragment from a legal agreement or court record. A power of attorney is given by a woman regarding her divorce procedures and collection of her …
Small fragment from the end of a legal document.
Legal record (#47) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 16v-17r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo, based on …
Remarriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Dating: Under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39), so …
Dowry list and the beginning of a pre nuptial agreement - needs examination. Image not available?
End of damaged legal document on parchment from 11th century Fustat. Involving [...] known as al-Ṣāʾigh. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef and a certain Yefet …
Letter with legal content, signed by Shelomo b. Nisan ha-Kohen and [...] b.Yehuda, to multiple addressees. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerns the oil merchant (al-zayyāt) Yūsuf b. …
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 …
IB III, 54. Legal record (#64). Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju. Bride: Sitt al-Dār ('Mistress of the House'), the daughter of Peraḥya's …
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Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Av 1559 Seleucid, which is 1248 CE. Husband: Avraham b. Yishmaʿel, from Cairo. Wife: Ḥana bt. Netanel, …
Attestation written by Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā in the name of Yārūkh (or possibly Bārūkh) b. Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) …
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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Legal document. Not signed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning Shelomo b. Shabīb ha-Kohen and Yosef b. Khalfa; the latter is trustworthy (to handle the mercantile …
Small fragment of a legal document, likely in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Partial transcription: ... בידיה לזכו ולראיה וכאן דלך ... …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic, with part of a witness clause preserved.
Many minute fragments, one seems to be by the hand of Shelomo b. Yosef. Some are in Arabic script.
Legal document in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Fragment (right side only). Aharon b. Fuhayd ha-Levi sues [...] b. Yiṣḥaq. There …
Legal document. Minute fragment from a legal document. Hebrew. AA
Several small fragments. The first is the end of an extremely faded legal document; the singatures of several witnesses are preserved.
Minute fragment from a legal document, mentioning the name Abū l-Surūr and nothing else. (Information from CUDL)
Damaged minute fragment, barely legible, seems to be from a legal deed.
Legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dating: 1100–38). The context is unclear. A house is mentioned and 6 legal deeds, 4 of which …
Notes for the drawing up of legal documents. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto is for a deed involving something "being handed …
Legal document. Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: February 1084. Power of attorney from Moshe b. Avraham to ʿAmram b. Yosef ha-Ḥasid, to act on …
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Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower right corner). Concerning a divorce. Mentions something (the bill of divorce? the ketubba payment?) …
Digest of a deed of sale for a house. Mostly written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) in his worst cursive hand. The …
Registration certificate for an Egyptian Jew in the schedule of the elections – December 1930CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 45) – in …
Fragment from a ketubba. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Muʿizzī dinars. The bride's father is named Ḥubaysh. Reused for various jottings on verso.
Legal document in which a deposited estate is handed over to the heirs. Mentions people including al-Dhahabī, Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (called Zayn), and Ibn Ghazāl. In …