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Lower right corner of a legal document in Arabic script. One of the witnesses is ʿAlī b. Hibatallāh.
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Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Likely a release of a debt for Abū …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentioning Abū l-Futūḥ.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 5 Ṣafar 520 AH = 2 March 1126 CE. Sayyid al-Kull b. Jaʿfar, a clothier in Fustat …
Legal document issued by Natan b. Avraham's court, in connection with trade between Egypt, North Africa and Sicily. Fustat, February-March 1040.
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Small fragment of a legal document or draft in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Writing on both sides.
Legal document; release. Bottom part only. Dated: 14[.]7 Seleucid, probably 1407 Seleucid, which is 1095/96 CE. Signed by Ghālib b. Ḥalfon in massive letters.
Legal document, fragment. Involves a will; [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi; and Avraham. Signed: Saʿadya b. Yehuda (active ca. 1300 CE).
Fragment (upper right piece) of a partnership agreement in Hebrew between Avraham al-Akhṭar and a certain Shem Tov. Dating: probably 16th century (the hand is …
Legal document, small fragment. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Portions of 10 lines are preserved. Quite damaged.
Small fragment of a legal document, mentioning a pair (zawj) of something and a mantle (milḥafa). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Small fragment from a ketubah.
Bottom part of an illuminated ketubba. Location: Rashid (Rosetta), l. 2. Dating: late 18th century based on the presence of Aharon Ṭawīl's signature, where he …
Legal document or possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and …
A court record written and signed by Avraham b. Nathan Av, at the year 1420 Era of documents (= 1109) regarding a quarrel over a …
Verso (original use): Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The basmala and the beginnings of five lines are preserved. The lessee …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Apparently a settling of accounts between merchants. Mentions: a sum of 16 + …
Recto: legal query concerning robbery, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Looks like the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Verso: part of an official document in Arabic: …
Legal record (#108) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 26 Tevet 5326 …
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 document concerning a husband who wanted to travel to see his mother and relatives and his wife took him to court for it. He …
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Minute fragment from a bill, probably regarding a payment, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Power of attorney. In Hebrew. Dated: Location: Aleppo. Dated: Thursday, 16 [...] [13]48 Seleucid = 1036/37 CE. Ḥaggay appoints Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov to collect 1,750 …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Mentions a sum of 30-some dinars. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Court order. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on the assessment of Avraham David. Anyone who has knowledge of the whereabouts …
Bottom of a legal document, written in careful square letters.
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 3 Kislev 1391 Seleucid = 31 October 1079 CE. Husband: Shelomo b. Avraham. Wife: Yamān bt. Avraham. Signed …
Ketubbah of Meshullam ha-Kohen (groom). Few words from the beginning of travel stipulation survived. No further details are preserved. AA
Legal record (#87) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Kislev 5325 …
Dowry list. Bride: Jamīla bt. Meʾir. Groom: Netanʾel b. Moshe. The early marriage gift is 10 dinars. Dated: 1169 CE(?).
Recto is the beginning of a siddur. Verso contains legal jottings. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions Sālim b. [...] al-Ḥalabī; Sālim b. Avraham; Asyūṭ …
Legal document. Involves a sum of 5 dinars and people including Wahbān and Abū Isḥāq b. Yūsuf and [...] al-Ṣayrafī. The details of the case …
Legal document. Debt contract. Tamīm b. Berakhot known as Wafāʾ al-Sabbāk acknowledges owing a sum owed to Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen.
Legal fragment In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ṣedaqa the elder. Almost none of the substance is preserved. May mention neighbors (jīrān). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic. Dating: probably Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. A large fragment is preserved. The main text mostly has clauses of the form "wa-lā …
Court record, calligraphically written, from a lawsuit about changing the configuration of the main hall of a house. During the dispute a Muslim judge was …
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Legal document. Palestinian ketubba. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079. Preserves the full name of the groom, Thābit b. ʿEli, and a notable phrase for the promise of …
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Bill of appointment to deliver a get (bill of divorce).
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a shop (ḥānūt), dyeing, and a period of 6 months (a lease?).
Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) in which the community of Safed appoints Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyīm Mordechai Būnan as their sheliḥim. See previous shelfmark. There …
Recto: legal query in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Upper right corner, containing only the greetings for מרנו ורבנו א[. . .] הרב המוהבק הפטיש הח[זק]. Verso: …
Court document dated 15 Kislev 1469/26 November 1157 acknowledging that the court had heard the testimony of the wife of the addressee, the Shaykh Abu …
Verso: Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive large hand with loops on the ends of the lameds. The witnesses attest "that we know …
Debt contract. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 27 Kislev 5346 AM, which is December 1585 CE. Venue: the Dār al-Khāzin synagogue (which makes it possible to infer …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Signed by […] b. Nisan ha-Haver.
Collection of halakhic rulings, concerning legal deeds and marriage. The scribe is well known from other collections of geʾonic responsa, from the beginning of the …