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Document in Arabic script, occupying one page of a bifolio. (The other pages have Hebrew poetry, including by Ibn Gabirol.) This is catalogued as a …
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Legal document concerning a partnership, mentioning Ṣedaqa and Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Basūṭī (?); signed by Abraham b. Saʿadya, Shelomo b. ʿAdaya, Shemuʾel b. Judah and …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Mentions Sunday, 15 Tammuz 1428 Seleucid = 17 June 1117 CE. Concerning Avraham b. Yakhin …
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Two words from an opening of a ketubah
Leaf from the court notebook. Recto: Legal record of the court of Fustat. Dated: before the middle of Nisan 1411 Seleucid = March 1100 CE. …
Ketubba with a valuable dowry listing gold jewellery, pearls, rubies, and turquoise, second half of the 15th century. (Corrected by comparison with photocopy of MS …
Verso: Legal fragment in what looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions [...] b. Bishāra, Abū l-Ḥusayn, and [...] b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen. Recto: …
Recto: Document in Arabic script, likely legal or official. Verso: A different document in Arabic script, followed by a liturgical note in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment of a ketubba. Reused on recto, in a different hand, for a literary text about the book of Jonah.
Legal document mentioning a certain Nadīv and Menashshe b. ʿOvadya. Signed by [Eliyyahu] b. ʿEli ha-Meʿulle, whose name is surrounded by little characters spelling יגדל …
Legal document, probably a waqf or a will. Big ʿalāma beginning with a ḥamdala in the upper left corner, and probably three testimonies at the …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract for a second wife. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1165–66 CE, as the reshut clause invokes the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160–66) and the …
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Bill of divorce (get) from Rashid, for Shemuel b. Avraham and Diamante bt. Yosef, dated 6 September 1751 CE (16 Elul 5511 AM).
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Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Faḍl al-Muḥassin b. Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān, the merchant, buys part of a ruined house (which he already owns …
In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate.]
This is what Abū al-Faḍl al-Muḥassin ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān, the merchant, bought from Jum…
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Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Moshe declares that Abu al-Ala Mevorakh b. Avraham al-Safuri, owed him 1/3 and to his brother Aharon 2/3 of a sum of …
Parts of documents - needs examination.
Recto: legal document, or letter concerning a legal affair. There is a list of witnesses' names on verso: Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dayyān, Abū Saʿd b. …
Verso: Ketubba fragment on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century, with a partial year visible, [13]46 or [13]76 Seleucid. The dowry list is partially preserved with …
Deathbed declaration of a physician who includes in his will a gift to his wife in addition to the money owed to her as written …
Tiny fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1[.]5[.] Seleucid. Very little else is preserved.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Someone says "I no longer have any livelihood here" (לאן מא בקי לי ההנא מעאש) and someone responds to that and …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Upper piece: The names of the parties are deliberately erased. Mentions a sum …
Legal document. Court record (copy). This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. Avraham …
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Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Very neat handwriting. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Mentions a broker in the …
Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: …
Deathbed declaration of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿEli b. Yefet. Mentioning merchandise and silk, and his cousin (ibn ʿamm). Dated: Adar 14[..] Seleucid. Remnants of signatures are …
Incomplete Karaite betrothal agreement. Dated Wednesday 28 Tevet 5399 AM (1639 CE). Location: Cairo. The marriage will take place a year and a half after …
Fragment of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. Declaration made by al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār al-Sukkarī. None …
Order, probably. For 3 ounces of almond oil.
Legal document mentioning a sum of money and ‘the price (or: eighth) of the house’. (Information from CUDL)
Deathbed will of Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last third of Tammuz [1469] Seleucid = June 1158 CE. (The year in l. …
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid (1089–1188 CE). The day of the month was left blank, so this is presumably a draft. In the hand of …
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Draft of deed of attorney written in Tyre, which includes an accounting between partners after the death of one of them, Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq, and …
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Recto: Marriage contract between Riḍwān b. ʿAṭiyya and Bint Muṭṭalib in front of the qāḍī ʿImād al-Dawla Abū l-Faḍāʾil al-Ḥasan b. al-Khiyār b. ʿAlī, judge …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله [ ] . سلم تسليـ[ـما]
هذا ما اصدق رضوان …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, his pr…
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Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment). In Arabic script. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. In which al-Muʿallim Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh acknowledges having received a sum of …
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Rental contract. Looks like the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Abū l-Ghayth Yeshuʿa leases half of a shop owned by his wife to Abū Isḥāq …
A moral acceptance to keep the Torah
Part of a legal document; much of the date is lost. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The name Abū Saʿīd is …
Power of attorney. Mainly in Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar 1539 Seleucid, which is 1228 CE, under the jurisdiction of Avraham Maimonides. The physician Elʿazar …
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F. 1r: Betrothal contract between Moses b. Shelomo and Muwaffaqa bint Shemuʾel b. Moses. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 …
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Debt contract. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid = September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Narrow vertical strip of paper. Instructions to a scribe according to Goitein's index card, but seems more likely to be an inventory of existing documents …
Legal testimony. Mentions Evyatar ha-Shelishi; Eliyyahu ha-Kohen Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov; and the estate of Avraham Ibn al-Zayyāt(?).
Legal record (#12). Claim of money owed. Dated: Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān brings a claim on behalf of …
Small fragment of a marriage-related legal document. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Excerpts: אפילו מגל[ימא] . . . [וקביל על]והי נמי שתהא …
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1421 Seleucid = March/April 1110 CE. One of the parties is Hibatallāh …
Possibly a court record. Containing a list of names. (Information from CUDL.) Needs examination.
End of a legal document, under the authority of Nethanel (Halevi. Active 1160-1165). Signed by Menashshe b. Yosef and [Mevurakh] b. Nathan ha-Haver.
Fragment of a deed of sale for real estate. In Arabic script. One of the landmarks is Ḥammām al-Dīk. Also mentions common features such as …