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Legal document. Small fragment. Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
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A legal deed from Yevpatoriya, Ukraine. Likely non-geniza. Dated 22 Sivan 5535 AM (1775 CE). The document details the division of the possessions of the …
Legal record (#43) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 42-44) Folio 11r
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Recto: part of a legal document containing the attestation of the Bet Din, in the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). One …
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Recto: Very damaged and faded fragment from the top of a court record. Mentions [...] ha-Melammed and Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq. Someone has copied their names …
Possibly part of a ketubba, containing a dowry list. But very faded, and this is only a piece from the left side. If a ketubba, …
Document, mentioning a wife. Possibly a legal formulary (the פ could be פלאן). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Will in which a dyer setting out for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem makes provisions for his wife and children in the event that something should …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa.
Fragment from the beginning of a legal document. Dating: probably ca. 16th–17th century. Mentions names such as Shemuel ערילה(?), the family name Krispin, and Yehuda.
Legal document. Fragment from the bottom of it. Dated: Iyyar 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Goitein concluded that the document on the other side …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (upper part only). Damaged and difficult to read. Seems to be an acknowledgment by [...] b. Ismāʿīl …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. The same block of text seems to be copied at least three times, followed by witness statements. At the far …
Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī …
Verso: Probably the header of a large ornamented ketubba. Recto contains an alphabetical list (of piyyuṭim?).
Document in Persian. Nastaʿlīq, diagonally oriented text blocks. Containing at least 3 records dated Safar 1218 AH, Rajab 1218 AH, and Shaʿbān 1221 AH (1803, …
Fragment from a Karaite betrothal deed, preserving only the introductory lines with biblical quotations. Ca. late 10th or early 11th century. (Information from CUDL)
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Instructions for how to write a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba, probably. Groom: [...] b. Yehuda. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Signed by [...] b. ha-Ḥazzan and Yisrael b. Shelomo.
Bifolio with legal records. One record is preserved on recto, and probably two separate records on verso. Different hands on recto and verso. Dating: recto …
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride is a virgin. Marriage payments: 5 + 10. Dated: 1453 Seleucid, which is 1141/42 CE, under the authority of …
Legal deed. Bill of sale for a female slave named Nisrīn for 20 dinars. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1459 Seleucid = March/April 1148 CE. Seller: …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. May mention a Rabbanite Jew in line 6. There is at one witness signature preserved at the bottom.
.Marriage document. Minute fragment, damaged and creased from a ketubah. Only a few words from the dowry list are preserved. Judeo-Arabic. AA. Needs preservation.
Legal document on parchment, probably a deed of sale. Concerning Abū l-Barakāt and a blind woman (al-mara al-kafīfa) and a sale. Also a woman named …
Bottom of a legal document containing one signature in a crude hand (ʿEli b. Shel[omo]). The beginning of the qiyyum also appears, possibly signed by …
Three unsigned court depositions. Location: Damascus. Dating: July 1094 CE and March 1095 CE. They have to do with properties owned by the Zawbaʿa ("Tempest") …
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Fragment of a legal document or possibly an account. In Arabic script. Five lines are partially preserved. The first line mentions a date in Rabīʿ …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Mentions "497" which is likely referring to a hijrī year, in which case this would date to ca. 1103/04 …
Recto: Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Groom: Ṣedaqa b. Berakhot. Signed by Natan ha-Kohen b. Av[raham] and Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. [Menashshe]. …
Contract in which Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, a scholar known from a number of manuscripts dating to 1076–86 CE (e.g. T-S 20.110 (PGPID 1774)) gives 50 …
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Contract of debt. Location: Fustat. Dated: [157]6 Seleucid = 1264/65 CE, and prior to 9 February 1265 CE (the date of verso). In which the …
Legal document, tiny fragment. Marriage-related?
Legal formulary.
Few faded words, probably regarding a debt
Legal fragment. No names preserved. Refers to collecting rent.
A very damaged fragment. The upper text block is the end of a legal query probably written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (active in the first …
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment, containing the last couple lines and at least one witness statement.
Legal document or documents. The primary block of text on verso appears to be the original legal testimony, written in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The second …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Draft, based on the corrections and annotations in the margin. Involves Yosef b. …
Legal fragment. On parchment. Looks like the handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel. Acknowledgment made by Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen (perhaps the same trader as in ENA 1822A.75 …
Loan document: Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar Ibn Zabqala receives a loan from Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Karmī Ibn Shabīb. Same case as T-S NS 321.79 (PGPID …
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 10 Kislev 14[..] Seleucid, so 1088–1187 CE. Involves [...] ha-Levi.
Recto: Fragment from a marriage document, probably a ketubba, for Sitt al-Kull, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). BL OR …
Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …
Receipt for the rent of a residence valued at 88 qirsh in the waqf of Deir el Moukhalles in Cairo – 1 March 1947CE – …
Possibly legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic.
Marriage document. Fragment from a ketubah. No names or dates are preserved. Contains a few words from the monogamy clause. Hebrew and Aramaic. AA
End of a partnership agreement. On parchment. Witness: Tamīm b. N[atan?]. AA/ASE
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Sulaymān Dā'ūd. Signed by Moshe b. Yosef Nafūsī. See T-S AS …