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  1. 651Legal documentPER H 89

    Will of a pregnant woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tishrei 1449 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. …

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    1. אלדי נעלמה אנו חתומי מטה ונחקה ונשהד בה אננא חצרנא ענד אלשיך אבו אלפרג מרור ישועה הזקן
    2. בר מרור יהודה הזקן הנכבד נע דידיע בן עצפורה וחצרת זוגתה …

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  2. 652Legal documentAIU VII.D.58

    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 …

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  3. 653Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 8v-9r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Tevet [5321] …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 8v (ll. 1-16 from Ben-Shammai's edition of record #20)

    1. ... מ]ן הבת[ים] ויבנו כל הבתים בשלימות ואחר שישלימו הבתים לראות כל ה…

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  4. 654Legal documentT-S AS 165.195 + T-S AS 165.196

    Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning legal matters. Mentions a half-mould of cheese; purchasing; Alexandria; and slander (tashnīʿ).

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  5. 655Legal documentT-S NS 226.61

    Minute fragment from the top of a legal document. Name: Elazar.

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  6. 656Legal documentT-S AS 151.47

    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). …

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  7. 657Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1561

    Court record issued by a Qaraite beit din at the Dar Simḥa Synagogue in Cairo. Dated: Monday, 4 Shevaṭ 5321 AM = 21 January 1561 …

    1. ב׳׳ה
    2. ל]מא כאן בתא׳ יום אלאתנין ראבע שבט סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳א׳ ליצירה חצר
    3. מושב בית דין פי דאר שמחה תב׳ ות׳ בעד דלך חצ'ר ע׳ אלגואד אלכהן 
    4. א׳ אלמר׳ פרג א׳ אלכהן…

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  8. 658Legal documentT-S NS J164

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Tammuz 1451 Seleucid = 25 June 1140 CE. …

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  9. 659Legal documentT-S 12.521

    The wife of Ṣedaqa b. ʿEzra gives to her husband reshut over a house (which was part of her ketubba from her father's inheritance) after …

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    1. ] בעלי צדקה שאם יזכיני הק[דוש
    2. ושלום [א]צא מן העולם בחייו בלא זרע יזכ[ה] הוא [
    3. גמורה ברורה דרורה שרירה מבלתי אנוסה ומ[
    4. והא . . . ורוח נכונה ו[נ…

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  10. 660Legal documentT-S AS 153.395

    Legal document mentioning ʿImrān al-Nafūsī and Moshe the elder and a partnership (commenda) contract (sheṭar al-muḍāraba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …

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  11. 661Legal documentJRL B 6770

    Trousseau list (taqwīm), small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso it is labeled as such and dated: 24 Heshvan 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125 CE. There …

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  12. 662Legal documentT-S NS 323.30

    Right side of a somewhat unusual court record. In Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. Maymūn, the husband of Malka bt. ʿUmayr, is suing a certain …

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    1. כך היה המעשה בפנינו אנו [
    2. בעל מלכה בת עומיר וטען וא[
    3. הרבה ובכלל תביעתי תובעו בר[
    4. שתשלחו אחריו כדי לשאול ול[
    5. אז שלחנו אחר מנצור זה [
    6. בחנות כי א…

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  13. 663Legal documentHalper 363

    A court record detailing an attack on a ḥazzan, his wife, and his children with a shoe (Information from Goitein’s index card) Upper part of …

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  14. 664Legal documentT-S AS 145.156

    Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed. On parchment. Only a few words and partial signatures preserved: Yaʿaqov, Nusayr, Yefet. Also possibly …

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  15. 665Legal documentT-S 8.134

    Part of a ketubba for Nathan ha-Levi (groom), referring to the dowry. (Information from CUDL)

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  16. 666Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#5) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Sivan [5320] …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 3r

    1. כתובה וכל זה על מנת שיהיו בלב שלם ובנפש חפצה ודרך ישרה וינהגו
    2. כמנהג בני מקרא השומרים את מועדי י׳׳י המקודשים על דאית הירח…

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  17. 667Legal documentT-S Ar.35.73

    Recto: Acknowledgement of the payment of rent. Dated: 3 Rabīʿ I 607 AH, which is 25 August 1210 CE. Aḥmad b. al-Shaykh ʿAlī Ibn al-Akhḍar …

    1. بسم الله الرحـ[ـمن الر[حيم ]
    2. اقر احـ[ـمد      ] بن الشيخ على بن الاخضـ[ـر]
    3. اقرارا شرعيا انه قبض من المزبد
    4. ابي الخير المتطبب جميع ما كان عليه من الاج…
    1. [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.]  

    2. Aḥmad [ … ] ibn al-Shaykh ʿAlī ibn al-Akhḍar acknowledged  

    3. with a legal acknowledgemen…

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  18. 668Legal documentT-S Ar.38.117

    Recto: Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 530 AH (= 1135/36 CE). (However, Goitein read the year 55[.] AH somewhere, which would be …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2.  [هذ]ا ما اشترى مكارم بن أبي الفرج بن يوسف الـ[ ]

    3. [ السمـ]ـرة واضح الجبهة وبها غضون مقرون خفي وبقرن جبهتيـ[ـه ] 

    4. …

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  

    2. This is what Makārim ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf the [ … ] bought  [ … ]  

    3. [ … brownness]…

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  19. 669Legal documentT-S NS 320.47

    Legal document. A very thorough release that involves Abū Zikrī al-Kohen. Unclear if any more details of the case are preserved. (NB: There may be …

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  20. 670Legal documentENA 2806.14

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Sivan 4895 AM, which is 1135 CE, under the authority of …

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  21. 671Legal documentT-S NS J152 + T-S NS J110

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). "A litigation concerning an inheritance. Two partners were operating a store and upon …

    T-S NS J110r

    1. [ ]ק[ ]
    2. [ ] דנן אלא בחכם צגר סנה ודפע[ ]
    3. [ ]צא פי דלך וגרי בינהמא אמור [ ]
    4. [ ]דא אכתרת ⟦דלךתעיד⟧אליאלק [ ]ד דלך פסך מא קד גרי מן אלח…

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  22. 672Legal documentT-S 8J6.17

    Recto: Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Ṭevet 1593 Seleucid, which is December 1281 CE, under the authority of David …

    1. שהדותא דהות קדמנא אנן שהדיא דחתימין למטה
    2. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאול מחדש טבת שנת אלפא וחמש
    3. מאה ותסעין ותלת שנין למניינא דרגילנא לממני ביה
    4. הכא בעיר אלקאה…

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  23. 673Legal documentT-S 12.555

    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 …

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    1. ( )לתזמת ( )
    2. ( )קצר אלשמע במ(א )
    3. ( )כתאב מן יומנא הדא ( )
    4. ( ) אליה כתאב אלשרי אלדי בידי מ ( )
    5. ( ) בחגה כל עיקר ולא אטלב מנה זאיד ע(ן )
    6. ( )ה סנ…

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  24. 674Legal documentENA NS 18.17b + ENA NS 18.17a

    Another fragment from ENA NS 18.17a, not a direct join Description from PGPID 15840: Quittance from Ulla b. Tahor (or Tahor b. Ulla - his …

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  25. 675Legal documentT-S AS 149.68

    Legal document mentioning Abū l-ʿAlā, Yaʾir, and Avraham and several sums of money in the currency dinar. (Information from CUDL)

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  26. 676Legal documentT-S 6J2.23

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].

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  27. 677Legal documentT-S 16.156

    Badly effaced legal document dealing with inheritance and a financial settlement - probably a deed of release. Mentions 40 dinars, Salāma bt. Mubārak, Khalfa b. …

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  28. 678Legal documentT-S 8.194

    Geṭ for Hilāla bat […] (הלאלה), dated 1 Elul 143[.] (= 1118-1128 CE) in Egypt. The witnesses’ names are repeated in a note on the …

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  29. 679Legal documentMoss. Ia,1.3

    Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1505 Seleucid (= 1193/94 CE), under the …

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  30. 680Legal documentT-S AS 41.221

    Probably part of a responsum, mentioning the name [...] b. A[b]ishai. (Information from CUDL)

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  31. 681Legal documentT-S NS 190.33

    A copy of a legal document about inheritance, probably the copy to be kept in court. Name mentioned: Shmuel

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  32. 682Legal documentT-S 8J6.14

    Verso: Deed of sale in which Sitt al-Ikhwa bt. Futūḥ known as Ibn Zabqala sells to her brother 1/8 of a house belonging to her …

    1. ⟦מה שהיה בפ⟧ מעידים אנחנו חתומי מטה מה שהיה בפנינו אן למא כאן פי
    2. אלעשר אלתאני מן חדש סיון שנת אלפא וחמש מאה וחמשין ותרתין שנין
    3. למנין שטרות אשר הורגל…

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    1. ⟦What took place befo⟧ We, the undersigned, testify to what took place before us: On 
    2. the second ten days of the month of Sivan 1552 (21-31 M…

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  33. 683Legal documentCod. hebr. 419 V.2

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. With the date left blank and the identifying names erased. Mentions fees for the …

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  34. 684Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#67) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 [El]ul 5324 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 22v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלכמיס כ׳׳ז שהר אלול המכו׳ סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ד ליצירה [[חצר]] תם אשהד
    2. /(margin) חצרו יצחק אלכהן אבן ושריכה / …

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  35. 685Legal documentT-S AS 146.201

    Legal jottings. Recto might be part of a dowry list.

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  36. 686Legal documentT-S 6J1.26

    Fragment of a legal document. Menahem b. Shemuel mentioned. Avraham b. Shemaya and Avraham b. Natan Av are signatories, which dates this to end of …

    1. דחתימין בחתמות [
    2. מא פי הדא אלכתא[ב
    3. ננ בסימוניהון ומ[
    4. בית דין יפת בר מ[
    5. ולן //חתמות ידיה דמ[// וחתמות ידיה [
    6. מר מנחם בר שמואל [
    7. בר יעקב נע אישרנו [
    8. ו…

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  37. 687Legal documentT-S 10J7.7

    Recto (secondary use): Record of testimony regarding a settlement according to which a debt is to be repaid in six monthly installments, concluded under the …

    1. בש רח
    2. יקול [[תאבת]] //יכין// בן אברהם //הנודע תאבת// אלצבאג אני חצרת
    3. בחצרה מרנו ורבנו מבורך החבר המעולה
    4. אלוף הבינות חכם הישיבה סנהדרא רבא
    5. ברב סעדיה …

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  38. 688Legal documentT-S 20.150

    Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. About a dozen signatures are preserved. Reused for medico-magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, on the uses and preparation …

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  39. 689Legal documentJRL L 20

    Engagement deed dated June 1760 CE (15 Tammuz 5520 AM). Moshe b. Avraham ha-Levi Caraso is engaged to Mlīḥa bt. Yosef Najjār. 100 arayōt (groom's …

    1. בסיימן טוב ובשעת ברכה והצלחה ששון ושמחה ו.תר הרוחה אד..(?) שדך
    2. הבחור נחמד וחשוב החתן המפואר כה׳׳ר משה הלוי ידיע קראסו יצ׳׳ו בן 
    3. המנוח כה׳׳ר אברהם הל…

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  40. 690Legal documentT-S 8J34.9

    Fragmentary legal record drafted in Fustat and including an incomplete date (Sivan 14[..] Seleucid). Involves Abū l-Surūr and Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon. Written and signed by …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] כתאב
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] יזכון…

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  41. 691Legal documentT-S NS 297.64

    Legal or official document(s) or drafts thereof. In Arabic script. There are numerous text blocks on each side. The inverse document on the recto is …

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  42. 692Legal documentT-S NS 224.119

    Minute fragment- opening words of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).

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  43. 693Legal documentT-S 16.115

    Legal document: deathbed declaration, made by a woman whose name is not preserved. The upper part of the document is missing, but the reconstruction, as …

    1. ומילולה נכ[ונים ולשונה סדור ומתוקן בפיה ושומעת ומדברת והיא יודעת]
    2. לישא וליתן [ודעתה מיושבת עליה כהוגן לשאול ולהשיב לומר על הן הן]
    3. ועל לאו לאו כשאר […

    Translated by Avi Steinhart.

    [We, the undersigned witnesses, observed the following incident on such-and-such a day, in the month of such-and-such, i…

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  44. 694Legal documentT-S NS 264.44

    Fragment of a Hebrew legal document from Cairo dated 1771/2 CE ([5]532 AM) certifying that Yaʿaqov Katāḥ (?) b. Avraham ______[lacuna] and Me'ir Saporte/Saporti b. …

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    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. בהיות שהבחור כמה׳׳ר יעקב כתאח(?) בכ׳׳ר אברהם [...
    3. מאיר שפורטי יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר אפידה יצ׳׳ו תושב מתא קו[סטנדינה(?) ...
    4. חפצים לו ולאנשי ביתו כמ…

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  45. 695Legal documentMoss. VII,41.1

    Legal testimony. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 12 Shevat 5321 AM = 29 January 1561 CE. Yosef ארוייויץ b. Yaʿaqov Toledano acknowledges that he owes his …

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  46. 696Legal documentT-S AS 169.61

    Bottom of an Arabic legal document. There are four witness statements stacked on top of each other. The document itself is missing. It may have …

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  47. 697Legal documentT-S NS 99.62

    Legal declaration in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Involves a story of Abū l-Bayān (the brother of one of the other parties) and Abū l-Baqāʾ and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal …

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  48. 698Legal documentENA NS 77.123

    Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Yefet ha-Levi.

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  49. 699Legal documentMoss. VII,194.2

    Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to trustworthiness (neʾemanut). The remnant of a very faded …

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  50. 700Legal documentENA 2607.5

    Table of contents of a responsa collection

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